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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. Midterm goals






2. Corporate governance at the strategic level






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






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






5. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers






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






7. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information






8. CSO






9. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion






10. IT governance at the operational level






11. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental






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






13. NIST risk management methodology






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






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






16. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled






17. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering






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






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






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






21. OCTAVE






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






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






24. Mitigates a potential risk






25. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company






26. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately






27. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur






28. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________






29. 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






30. Strategic - tactical and operational planning






31. Responsible for information classification and protection






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






33. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)






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






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






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






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






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






40. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats






41. Type of audit that checks information classification and change control procedures






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






43. Collection of controls an organization must have in place






44. 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)






45. IRM






46. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes






47. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis






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






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






50. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems