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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Type of audit that checks information classification and change control procedures
IRM
CISO
administrative
tactical
2. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
network mapping
chief information security officer
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
performance monitor
3. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage
Information risk management
threat
OVAL
firewall
4. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server
COSO
ISO/IEC 27004
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
port scanner
5. Mitigates a potential risk
administrative
countermeasure
delayed
security program
6. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes
firewall
COSO
ISO 17799
annualized rate of occurrence
7. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files
COSO
risk mitigation
john the ripper
CobiT
8. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
privilege
CobiT
john the ripper
confidentiality
9. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled
AS/NZS 4360
blueprints
security officer
data owner
10. COSO
Information risk management
annualized loss expectancy
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
ISO/IEC 27799
11. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited
COSO
annualized rate of occurrence
CobiT
vulnerability
12. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
confidentiality
administrative
SP 800-30
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
13. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
risk mitigation
CISO
network mapping
port scanner
14. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned
privilege
FRAP
Information Security Management
elcomsoft
15. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats
fault tree analysis
COSO
OCTAVE
firewall
16. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)
annualized rate of occurrence
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
integrity
administrative
17. IRM
performance baseline
CobiT
tactical
Information risk management
18. CISO
chief information security officer
elcomsoft
ISO/IEC 27004
single loss expectancy
19. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error
administrative
risk catagories
threat
single loss expectancy
20. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company
performance baseline
chief information security officer
OCTAVE
exposure factor
21. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)
vulnerability
FMEA
CISO
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
22. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential
risk
blueprints
availability
countermeasure
23. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate
network mapping
CobiT
security program
availability
24. CobiT
john the ripper
annualized loss expectancy
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
integrity
25. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
availability
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
OVAL
26. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs
CobiT
escalation
annualized loss expectancy
ISO 17799
27. Used to predict changes based on trends - detect deviations - and watch events across multiple system components
exposure
strategic
delayed
performance monitor
28. IT governance at the operational level
data owner
usage
CobiT
port scanner
29. Potential danger to information or systems
SP 800-30
risk catagories
OCTAVE
threat
30. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur
CISO
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
risk
annualized loss expectancy
31. An password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - rainbow tables - can test password strength and recover passwords - was originally free - but now a commercial product
ISO/IEC 27005
mappers
L0phtCrack
risk analysis
32. Strategic - tactical and operational planning
vulnerability
SP 800-30
planning horizon
qualitative
33. An instance of being exposed to losses from a threat
exposure
CobiT
AS/NZS 4360
ISO/IEC 27002
34. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)
risk analysis
risk
port scanner
blueprints
35. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics
network mapping
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
security governanace
CISO
36. FMEA
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
AS/NZS 4360
chief information security officer
L0phtCrack
37. Controls that implement access control - password mangement - identification and authentication methods - configuration
technical
ITIL
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
risk
38. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
operational
ISO/IEC 27004
security program
39. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs
corporate security officer
john the ripper
security governanace
firewall
40. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
CobiT
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
technical
ISO/IEC 27001
41. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards
elcomsoft
ISO/IEC 27002
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
risk analysis
42. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)
vulnerability scanner
exposure
single loss expectancy
security officer
43. FRAP
OVAL
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
physical
AS/NZS 4360
44. Security policy - map business objectives to security - Security infrastructure - security officer - reviews - Assest classification/control - inventory - Personnel security - screening - training - roles - Physical security - Communication/operation
FMEA
risk anlysis
ISO 17799
data owner
45. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
BS7799
performance monitor
risk catagories
escalation
46. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach
qualitative
firewall
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
due care
47. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach
ISO/IEC 27005
CISO
ISO/IEC 27004
john the ripper
48. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
security program
vulnerability
usage
ISO/IEC 27004
49. A plan of action to deal with risks defined in the risk assessment - may remediate or transfer risk
risk mitigation
security program
security program
annualized rate of occurrence
50. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis
due care
security officer
BS7799
FRAP