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






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






3. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.






4. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






5. _______________ of the organization have the responsibility of ensuring information systems security this can include indirect personnel such as physical security personnel.






6. 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 _____________.






7. The most important characteristic of good security policies is that they be ____________________.






8. It is easier to manage and control a _________________.






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






14. New security ulnerabilities should be managed through a ________________.






15. 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.






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






17. Addresses strengths - weaknesses - opportunities and threats. Although useful - a SWOT analysis is not as effective a tool.






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






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






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






21. The MOST important element of an information security strategy.






22. Attackers who exploit flawed ___________________________________ can sniff network traffic and crack keys to gain unauthorized access to information.






23. To determine sensitivity of assets in terms of risk to the business operation so that proportional countermeasures can be effectively implemented.






24. 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.






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






26. Scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and financial information






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






28. 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.






29. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.






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






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






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






33. Because past performance is a strong predictor of future performance - _______________________ best prevents attacks from originating within an organization.






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






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






36. 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 -






37. 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






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






39. When reporting an incident to senior management - the initial information to be communicated should include an explanation of _____________________ A summary of security logs would be too technical to report to senior management. An analysis of the i






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. If the firewall allows source routing - any outsider can carry out _________________ by stealing the internal (private) IP addresses of the organization.






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






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






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






49. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






50. Cannot be minimized