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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. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled
mappers
ISO 17799
countermeasure
security officer
2. Strategic - tactical and operational planning
risk
port scanner
COSO
planning horizon
3. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
ISO/IEC 27004
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
ITIL
operational
4. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
administrative
escalation
elcomsoft
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
5. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers
strategic
annualized loss expectancy
FRAP
ISO 17799
6. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server
security program
data owner
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
7. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited
threat
availability
ISO/IEC 27005
vulnerability
8. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
COSO
Information risk management
AS/NZS 4360
risk
9. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned
ISO/IEC 27005
performance baseline
technical
privilege
10. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information
CISO
qualitative
administrative
ISO/IEC 27799
11. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach
chief information security officer
annualized loss expectancy
privilege
due care
12. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company
threat
vulnerability
ISO/IEC 27004
OCTAVE
13. Corporate governance at the strategic level
ISO/IEC 27005
COSO
ISO/IEC 27001
CobiT
14. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
FMEA
security governanace
confidentiality
security officer
15. Controls that implement access control - password mangement - identification and authentication methods - configuration
COSO
integrity
technical
ITIL
16. Plan and Organize - Acquire and Implement - Deliver and Support - Monitor and Evaluate
ISO 17799
security program
CobiT
security officer
17. A commercial password cracker that can test password strength and recover passwords; and perform dictionary and brute force attacks
CobiT
elcomsoft
risk anlysis
security officer
18. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)
risk analysis
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
ISO/IEC 27799
port scanner
19. Used to predict changes based on trends - detect deviations - and watch events across multiple system components
performance monitor
elcomsoft
exposure
ISO/IEC 27005
20. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
firewall
operational
FMEA
escalation
21. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost
exposure
privilege
security officer
risk anlysis
22. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs
risk analysis
blueprints
vulnerability
risk anlysis
23. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)
exposure factor
vulnerability
strategic
annualized rate of occurrence
24. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage
network mapping
firewall
countermeasure
chief information security officer
25. 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
ISO 17799
delayed
Information risk management
data owner
26. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards
security governanace
risk analysis
risk
Information Security Management
27. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.
ISO/IEC 27799
qualitative
IRM
escalation
28. Derived from the COSO framework
CobiT
annualized loss expectancy
network mapping
data owner
29. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)
security governanace
penetration
blueprints
single loss expectancy
30. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs
security governanace
AS/NZS 4360
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
ITIL
31. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
security officer
network mapping
annualized loss expectancy
security program
32. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error
threat
risk catagories
ISO/IEC 27799
vulnerability scanner
33. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential
COSO
risk
administrative
threat
34. Expected or predetermined performance level - developed from policy - performance - requirements
single loss expectancy
exposure factor
performance baseline
mappers
35. FMEA
elcomsoft
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
risk mitigation
physical
36. OCTAVE
administrative
penetration
BS7799
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
37. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems
penetration
confidentiality
availability
OVAL
38. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond
ISO/IEC 27005
john the ripper
COSO
FRAP
39. Provides a cost/benefit comparision
corporate security officer
integrity
ITIL
risk analysis
40. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach
corporate security officer
exposure
ISO/IEC 27005
protocol analyzer
41. 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)
performance baseline
network mapping
risk
protocol analyzer
42. IT governance at the operational level
tactical
chief information security officer
CobiT
Information Security Management
43. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion
qualitative
CobiT
risk
ISO 17799
44. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
ITIL
annualized loss expectancy
operational
ISO/IEC 27001
45. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis
FRAP
COSO
risk catagories
delayed
46. SLE x ARO - (ALE)
annualized loss expectancy
network mapping
risk analysis
qualitative
47. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
ISO/IEC 27005
ISO/IEC 27799
security officer
CISO
48. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________
network mapping
mappers
security program
risk analysis
49. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
operational
ISO 17799
FRAP
ISO/IEC 27001
50. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external
penetration
CISO
CobiT
qualitative