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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. The job of the information security officer on a management team is to ___________________.






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






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






4. 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.






5. Ultimately responsible for all that happens in the organization. The others are not individually liable for failures of security in the organization.






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






7. 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






8. Provides an additional security mechanism over and above that provided by passwords alone. This is frequently used by mobile users needing to establish connectivity to a corporate network.






9. Would reduce the possibility of an individual accidentally pressing the power button on a device - thereby turning off the device.






10. Using public key infrastructure (PKI) is currently accepted as the most secure method to _____________.






11. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






12. 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.






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






14. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.






15. Accesses a computer or network illegally






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






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






18. 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.






19. Will prevent unauthorized access to the laptop even when the laptop is lost or stolen.






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






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






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






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






24. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.






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






26. 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 -






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






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






29. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






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






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






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






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






34. Occurs when the incoming level






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






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






37. May show the performance result of the security related activities; however - the result is interpreted in terms of money and extends to multiple facets of security initiatives.






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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. A key indicator of performance measurement.






44. From a security standpoint - _______________________ is one of the most important topics that should be included in the contract with third-party service provider.

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






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






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






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






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






50. The MOST important element of the request for proposal (RFP) ro assess the maturity level of the organization's information security management is _______________________.