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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur






2. Plan and Organize - Acquire and Implement - Deliver and Support - Monitor and Evaluate






3. IT governance at the operational level






4. Derived from the COSO framework






5. Strategic - tactical and operational planning






6. FRAP






7. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations






8. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server






9. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach






10. Expected or predetermined performance level - developed from policy - performance - requirements






11. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting






12. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards






13. ISM Standard






14. Used to predict changes based on trends - detect deviations - and watch events across multiple system components






15. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)






16. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited






17. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)






18. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage






19. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure






20. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate






21. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs






22. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.






23. Corporate governance at the strategic level






24. A tool that monitors network traffic - shows data and protocols in use - also known as a packet sniffer (i.e wireshark - TCPDump - Microsoft Network Monitor - Carnivore)






25. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management






26. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems






27. Potential danger to information or systems






28. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners






29. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard






30. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error






31. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt






32. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control






33. CSO






34. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs






35. FMEA






36. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs






37. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond






38. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)






39. Midterm goals






40. A plan of action to deal with risks defined in the risk assessment - may remediate or transfer risk






41. ____________ can discover network devices / application - check password strength - measure internal / external access - analyze vulnerabilities in NOS - test response to DOS attacks






42. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled






43. SLE x ARO - (ALE)






44. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals






45. A tool that maps weaknesses of systems / networks by scanning for ports - checking for applications - determining OS and patch level - and attempting exploits






46. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment






47. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities






48. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems






49. 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






50. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files