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CISM Certified Information Security Manager Acronyms

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. Source lines of code






2. Recovery point objective






3. Mandatory Access Control






4. Critical success factor






5. Enterprise architecture






6. Direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)






7. Hypertext Transmission Protocol






8. Mean time to repair






9. Access control list






10. Common gateway interface






11. Multiprotocol label switching






12. The SANS Institute






13. Computer-assisted audit technique






14. Management information system






15. Fibre channels






16. Open Shortest Path First






17. American Standard Code for Information Interchange






18. IP Security






19. Securities and Exchange Commission (USA)






20. Carrier-sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection






21. Control Objectives for Information and related Technology






22. Asynchronous time division multiplexing






23. Intrusion detection system






24. Binary digit






25. Distributed Component Object Model (Microsoft)






26. Entity relationship diagram






27. Incident response management






28. Mean time between failures






29. Voice-over Internet Protocol






30. Bill of materials processor






31. Kilobit






32. International Telecommunications Union






33. Enterprise resource planning






34. Trivial File Transport Protocol






35. Public relations






36. IS disaster recovery planning






37. Relational database management system






38. IT Governance Institute






39. Name Server Protocol or Network service provider






40. Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol






41. Data terminal equipment






42. Single point of contact






43. Personal area network






44. Business continuity planning






45. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks






46. Federal Information Processing Standards






47. Equal-error rate






48. Tape management system






49. Technical report






50. Structured Query Language