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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. When mobile equipment is lost or stolen - the ______________________ matters most in determining the impact of the loss.






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






3. 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.






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






5. provides the most effective protection of data on mobile devices.






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






7. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






8. 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.






9. An information security manager has to impress upon the human resources department the need for _____________________.






10. The most relevant piece of information to include in a cost-benefit analysis of a two-factor authentication system - it would establish a cost baseline and it must be considered for the full life cycle of the control. .






11. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






12. Provide metrics to which outsourcing firms can be held accountable.






13. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






14. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.






15. A key indicator of performance measurement.






16. 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.






17. Provide minimum recommended settings and do not prevent introduction of control weaknesses.'






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. Someone who uses the internet or network to destroy or damage computers for political reasons






24. Lists only the vulnerabilities inherent in the information asset that can attract threats. It does not consider the value of the asset and the impact of perceived threats on the value.






25. Culture has a significant impact on how information security will be implemented in a ______________________.






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






27. To improve the security governance framework and achieve a higher level of maturity _____________________ is most important.






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






29. Should PRIMARILY be based on regulatory and legal requirements.






30. By definition are not previously known and therefore are undetectable.






31. The best measure for preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.






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






33. A notice that guarantees a user or a web site is legitimate






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






35. Are expensive - so they have to be used in areas where the risk is at its greatest level. These areas are the ones with high impact and high frequency of occurrence.






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






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






38. Risk should be reduced to a level that an organization _____________.






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






40. Awareness training would most likely result in any attempted ____________ being challenged by the authorized employee






41. n a _________________________ - the annual cost of safeguards is compared with the expected cost of loss. This can then be used to justify a specific control measure.






42. Useful but only with regard to specific technical skills.






43. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






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






45. Program that copies itself repeatedly - using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network






46. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.






47. 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






48. Requires a process to verify that the control process worked as intended. Examples such as dual-control or dual-entry bookkeeping provide verification and assurance that the process operated as intended.






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






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