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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Logging as well as monitoring - measuring - auditing - detecting viruses and intrusion.






2. Has full responsibility over data.






3. When the ________________ is more than the cost of the risk - the risk should be accepted.






4. A key indicator of performance measurement.






5. Ensure that transmitted information can be attributed to the named sender.






6. A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of the orgs. memory






7. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.






8. Company or person you believe will not send a virus-infect file knowingly






9. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.






10. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge






11. The primary role of the information security manager in the process of information classification within the organization.






12. The _____________________is a severe omission and will greatly increase information security risk. Presents the GREATEST information security risk for an organization with multiple - but small - domestic processing locations






13. The most critical process for deciding which part of the information system/business process should be given prioritization in case of a security incident.It provides results - such as impact from a security incident and required response times.






14. An organization without any formal information security program should start with _______________________ because the implementation should be based on those security requirements.






15. Lists only the threats that the information asset is exposed to. It does not consider the value of the asset and impact of the threat on the value.






16. Also required to guarantee fulfillment of laws and regulations of the organization and - therefore - the information security manager will be obligated to comply with the law.






17. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.






18. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.






19. The MOST important component of a privacy policy is: A Privacy policies must contain _______________; they are a high-level management statement of direction. They do not necessarily address warranties - liabilities or geographic coverage - which are






20. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail






21. The starting point for driving management's attention to information security. All other choices will follow the risk assessment.






22. The MOST effective approach to address issues that arise between IT management - business units and security management when implementing a new security strategy is for the information security manager to ____________________ with any security recomm






23. In order to highlight to management the importance of network security - the security manager should FIRST _______________.






24. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations






25. A Successful risk management should lead to a ________________.






26. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.






27. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.






28. Most effective in protecting classified data that have been encrypted to prevent disclosure and transmission outside the organization's network.






29. Most effective in providing reasonable assurance of physical access compliance to an unmanned server room controlled with biometric devices.






30. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.






31. Attackers who exploit weak application authentication controls can ___________________ and this has little to do with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.






32. The security manager would be most concerned with whether _____________________ than the cost of adding additional controls.






33. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.






34. Residual risk is unmanaged - i.e. - inherent risk which remains uncontrolled. This is key to the organization's _____________ and is the amount of residual risk that a business is living with that affects its viability.






35. On a company's e-commerce web site - a good legal statement regarding data privacy should include a statement regarding what the company will ___________________.






36. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






37. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program






38. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.






39. A trusted third party that attests to the identity of the signatory - and reliance will be a function of the level of trust afforded the CA.






40. A tool to be used in internal control assessment. KRI setup presents a threshold to alert management when controls are being compromised in business processes. This is a control tool rather than a maturity model support tool.






41. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






42. The information security manager needs to prioritize the controls based on ________________________.






43. Utility program that detects and protects a personal computer from unauthorized intrusions






44. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.






45. Determined by the business risk - i.e. - the potential impact on the business of the loss - corruption or disclosure of information. It must be applied to information in all forms - both electronic and physical (paper) - and should be applied by the






46. The risk that controls may not prevent/detect an incident with a measure of control effectiveness.






47. There is a time lag between the time when a security vulnerability is first published - and the time when a patch is delivered. - The best protection is to _____________________ until a patch is installed.






48. Accesses a computer or network illegally






49. Are not infallible. When tuning the solution - one has to adjust the sensitivity level to give preference either to false reject rate (type I error rate) where the system will be more prone to err denying access to a valid user or erring and allowing






50. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability