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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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1. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






2. A repository of historical data organized by subject to support decision makers in the org






3. Information security governance models are highly dependent on the _____________________.






4. Results in greater uniformity and better adherence to security policies. It is generally less expensive to administer due to the economies of scale. However - turnaround can be slower due to the lack of alignment with business units.






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






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






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






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






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






10. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






11. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






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






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






14. Will associate data access with the role performed by an individual - thus restricting access to data required to perform the individual's tasks.






15. 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.






16. Potentially damaging computer program that affects - or infects a computer negatively by altering the way the computer works






17. A method for analyzing and reducing a relational database to its most streamlined form






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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.






22. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






24. In biometric systems where the possibility of false rejects is a problem - it may be necessary to reduce sensitivity and thereby increase the number of false accepts.






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






26. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






27. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.






28. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. It is more efficient to establish a ___________________for locations that must meet specific requirements.






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






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






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






40. The _____________________ should be the person with the decision-making power in the department deriving the most benefit from the asset.






41. Cannot be minimized






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






43. Carries out the technical administration.






44. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.






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






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






47. 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






48. Uses security metrics to measure the performance of the information security program.






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






50. Has full responsibility over data.