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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. Inject malformed input.






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






3. Responsible for securing the information.






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






5. Accesses a computer or network illegally






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. The MOST effective way to ensure network users are aware of their responsibilities to comply with an organization's security requirements is - ______________ would appear every time the user logs on - and the user would be required to read and agree






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






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






12. btaining senior management support for establishing a warm site can BEST be accomplished by ____________________ - including a cost-benefit analysis - will be most persuasive to management. A risk assessment may be included in the business case - but






13. Someone who uses email as a vehicle for extortion; send company threatening emails indicating they will expose confidential information - exploit security launch - etc.






14. The best measure and will involve reviewing the entire source code to detect all instances of back doors.






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






16. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






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






18. Can be a standalone driver for an information security governance measure. No further analysis nor justification is required since the entity has no choice in the regulatory requirements.






19. 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 _____________.






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






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






22. 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






23. The MOST useful way to describe the objectives in the information security strategy is through ______________________.

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






25. When considering the value of assets ______________________ would give the information security manager the MOST objective basis for measurement of value delivery in information security governance






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






27. Can be used to detect an external attack but would not help in authenticating a user attempting to connect.






28. 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 -






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






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






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






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






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






34. Has to be integrated into the requirements of every software application's design.






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






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






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






38. Provides process needs but not impact.






39. 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






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






41. 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.






42. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






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






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. Provides strong online authentication.






47. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






48. Effective and efficient in large user communities because it controls system access by the roles defined for groups of users. Users are assigned to the various roles and the system controls the access based on those roles.






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






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