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






2. Whenever personal data are transferred across national boundaries; ________________________ are required.






3. Should be performed to identify the risk and determine needed controls.






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






5. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






6. Allows you to use field security personnel as security missionaries or ambassadors to spread the security awareness message. It allows security administrators to be more responsive.






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






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






9. Ultimately responsible for all that happens in the organization. The others are not individually liable for failures of security in the organization.






10. Identification and _______________ of business risk enables project managers to address areas with most significance.






11. When developing an information security program _________________ would help identify the available resources - any gaps and the training requirements for developing resources.






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






13. 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






14. An internal review of a web-based application system finds the ability to gain access to all employees' accounts by changing the employee's ID on the URL used for accessing the account. It means _____________.






15. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.






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






17. 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.






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






19. Has full responsibility over data.






20. Risk assessment is a very important process for the ___________________. Risk assessment provides information on the likelihood of occurrence of security incidence and assists in the selection of countermeasures - but not in the prioritization.






21. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






22. 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






23. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






24. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.






25. Senior management commitment and support for information security can BEST be obtained through presentations that ____________________.






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






27. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






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






29. Change management controls the _____________________. This is often the point at which a weakness will be introduced.






30. Only valid if assets have first been identified and appropriately valued.






31. Would protect against spoofing an internal address but would not provide strong authentication.






32. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






33. Responsible for assigning user entitlements and approving access to the systems for which they are responsible.






34. Information security architecture should always be _______________________. Alignment with IT plans or industry and security best practices is secondary by comparison.






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






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






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






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






39. Used to understand the flow of one process into another.






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






41. Involves the correction of software weaknesses and would necessarily follow change management procedures.






42. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.






43. While useful for identifying the difference between the current state and the desired future state - e.g. organization has to comply with recently published industry regulatory requirements compliance that potentially has high implementation costs -






44. 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






45. The weakest link in security implementation - and awareness would reduce this risk. Through security awareness and training programs - individual employees can be informed and sensitized on various security policies and other security topics - thus e






46. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.






47. Logging as well as monitoring - measuring - auditing - detecting viruses and intrusion.






48. The best strategy for risk management is to ___________________- as this will take into account the organization's appetite for risk and the fact that it would not be practical to eliminate all risk.






49. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






50. The risk that has been assumed by a third party and may not necessarily be equal to the minimal form of residual risk.