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






2. 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






3. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.






4. 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.






5. The job of the information security officer on a management team is to ___________________.






6. In assessing the degree to which an organization may be affected by new privacy legislation - information security management should first _____________________.






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






8. The most critical process for deciding which part of the information system/business process should be given prioritization in case of a security incident.It provides results - such as impact from a security incident and required response times.






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Has full responsibility over data.






14. 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.






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






16. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






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






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






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






20. 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






21. The BEST justification to convince management to invest in an information security program is that doing so would _________________.






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






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






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






25. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






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. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






28. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.






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






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






31. A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of the orgs. memory






32. A key indicator of performance measurement.






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






39. Provides strong online authentication.






40. Inject malformed input.






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. An effective tool but primarily focuses on malicious code from external sources - and only for those applications that are online.






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






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






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