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CISSP Physical Security
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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. This is a proximity identification device that does not require action by the user. The reader transmits signals to the device - and the device responds with an access code.
Fire Extinguisher
May have adverse affects on computer hardware
Manual Iris Lens
Transponder
2. This is when unauthorized access is achieved to a facility via another individual's legitimate access - and is a common concern with physical security.
High security fence
Power Transient Noise
Piggybacking
Electronic Access Control (EAC)
3. Type of IDS that emits a measurable magnetic field and detects changes in capacitance. This allows it to detect when something/someone comes within a certain range of an object. Usually used to protect specific objects (artwork - cabinets - or a safe
4 foot fence
Shielded Lines
Construction materials and structure composition
Electrostatic IDS - aka proximity detector - or capacitance detector.
4. These controls help minimize the resulting damage and speed the recovery process
Security Guards
Short focal length
Electronic Access Control (EAC)
Automated environmental controls
5. These can be user activated (action needs to be taken by a user) or system sensing (no action needs to be taken by the user)
175 degrees F
Manual controls
Proximity Identification
Continuous lighting
6. Type of window that contains glass that was heated and cooled to improve integrity and strength?
Plenum Space
People working inside the facility.
Short focal length
Tempered windows
7. What documentation should be readily available and periodically reviewed and updated.
Emergency Procedure Documentation
Automatic Iris Lens
Top guard fence
HVAC
8. Type of iris lens that would be used in an area of fixed lighting.
May have adverse affects on computer hardware
Shielded Lines
Brownouts
Manual Iris Lens
9. What system should maintain the appropriate temperature and humidity levels and provide closed-loop recirculating air-conditioning and positive pressurization and ventilation.
Cipher Lock
Electrostatic IDS - aka proximity detector - or capacitance detector.
HVAC
CCTV
10. Prolonged high voltage power loss
Surge
Fail-Secure Mode
Exterior Fencing
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
11. This type of noise is disturbance imposed on a power line that causes electrical interference.
Piggybacking
Shielded Lines
Tumbler Lock
Power Transient Noise
12. Class of fire that is electrical (electrical equipment - wires). Suppressed with gas - CO2 - dry powders.
Class C
Wet Pipe - aka Closed Head Systems
Wave-pattern Motion Detector
Water - stream - and gas lines
13. This type of interference can be caused by lightning - motors - and the current difference between wires.
Polycarbonate acrylic windows
Uninterpretable Power Supply (UPS)
Tumbler Lock
Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
14. This gas is no longer available because it depletes the ozone. Becomes toxic in temperatures greater than 900 degrees F in concentrations greater than 10%. Existing fire extinguishers can be refilled with FM-200 - NAF-S-III - CEA-410 - FE-13 - Water
Extremely high security fence
Construction materials and structure composition
Halon
Proximity Systems
15. What is the more important than protecting a facility or the assets it contains?
Proximity Systems
Tumbler Lock
Human Life
Water
16. Type of IDS that detects changes or breaks in a circuit. Examples are window strips;vibration detectors on walls - screens - ceilings - etc; pressure pads under a rug.
Electromechanical system
175 degrees F
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
17. Type of light that is activated when a motion sensor (or some other IDS) is activated?
Responsive Area - aka Trip lighting
Class C
Blackout
Surge
18. Momentary power outage
Proximity Identification
Manual Iris Lens
Intrusion Detection Devices
Fault
19. Tokens used in physical security to authentication subjects?
Piggybacking
Electronic Access Control (EAC)
Halon
Glare Protection
20. Type of fence that will deter a casual intruder?
4 foot fence
Class K
Smoke Detectors
8 foot fence
21. These are threats to what? Interruption of services - theft - physical damage - unauthorized disclosure - and loss of system integrity.
Tumbler Lock
Physical Security
Class A
Water - stream - and gas lines
22. This type of lock is programmable and uses a keypad. Can contain a specific code that will open the door and initiate a remote alarm if an employee is under duress.
Cipher Lock
Human Life
Extremely high security fence
CCTV
23. These are usually planned and implemented by power companies when they are experiencing high demand.
Intrusion Detection Devices
Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
High temperature - oxygen - and fuel.
Brownouts
24. This concept combines the physical environment and sociology issues that surround it to reduce crime rates and the fear of crime.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
Class B
Water
4 foot fence
25. These should go all the way up to the true ceiling. Otherwise - an intruded can remove a ceiling tile and climb over this into a critical portion of the facility.
Administrative Controls
Interior Partition
Cipher Lock
Automatic Iris Lens
26. This focal length provides wide-angle views.
2 foot candles
Spike
Exterior Fencing
Short focal length
27. These use battery packs that range in size and capacity to provide power backup and protection. These factors should be reviewed: size of the electrical load it can support - the speed with which it can assume the load when the primary source fails -
Construction materials and structure composition
Class A
Hydrometer
Uninterpretable Power Supply (UPS)
28. This type of lock has more pieces and parts that a warded lock. It uses spring-loaded pins that need to be in the right position to open the lock.
Tumbler Lock
Manual controls
Shielded Lines
Class B
29. Type of window that is the strongest window available today. Resistant to breakage - chemicals - fires - and abrasions. They are also extremely expensive.
Physical Security
Automatic Iris Lens
Glass-clad polycarbonate windows
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
30. This should be protected from destruction - modification - theft - unauthorized copying - and disclosure.
Deluge System
Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
Water
Media
31. Type of light that is programmed to turn on and off a predetermined times?
May have adverse affects on computer hardware
Exterior Fencing
Standby lighting
4 foot fence
32. This is a colorless - odorless - and potentially lethal substance because it removes oxygen from the air in order to suppress fires.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Hydrometer
Wet Pipe - aka Closed Head Systems
Class K
33. What is used to measure humidity levels?
Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
Hydrometer
Passive Infrared System (PIR)
Automated environmental controls
34. These reduce the accidental discharge of water because the water does not enter the pipes until an automatic fire sensor indicates there is an actual fire. Should be used in location with freezing temperatures.
Dry Pipe Systems
When looking for locations for an office
High security fence
High temperature - oxygen - and fuel.
35. These controls can be time consuming and error prone and and require constant attention.
Electromagnetic interference (EMI)
Manual controls
Low Humidity
Mantrap
36. Fire suppressant that reduces the temperature of the fire?
Deluge System
Top guard fence
Water
CO2
37. This type of water system delays the water release similar to a dry pipe system. However - the water is not released until a thermal-fusible link on the sprinkler head has melted. Typically used in only in data processing environments rather than a w
Standby lighting
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
Cable Trap
Pre-action Pipe System
38. Items that a fire needs to burn? To suppress it - one of them should be reduced or eliminated.
Floors - ceilings - and walls
High temperature - oxygen - and fuel.
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
Wave-pattern Motion Detector
39. These should be located on and above suspended ceilings - below raised floors - and in air ducts to provide maximum fire detection.
Smoke Detectors
Brownouts
Electromechanical system
Warded Lock
40. What should dust and other air contaminants be kept to an appropriate level?
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
Emergency Procedure Documentation
Power Noise
May have adverse affects on computer hardware
41. If an electrical supply fails and a door defaults to closed and unlocked - which mode is this?
Automatic Iris Lens
Photoelectric Fire Alarm
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Fail-Safe Mode
42. Fire suppressant that modifies that chemical combustion elements of a fire?
Gases
Physical Security
Polycarbonate acrylic windows
Power Regulators
43. The first line of defense against environmental risks and unpredictable human behavior
Physical security
Responsive Area - aka Trip lighting
When looking for locations for an office
Photoelectric Fire Alarm
44. Type of IDS that detects changes in a light beam. Can only be used in windowless rooms.
Spike
Photoelectric System
Long focal length
Acoustical Detection System - aka seismic - or vibrational detection
45. Enhanced boundary fencing with motion detectors. Used at facilities that require a high level of protection.
Perimeter Intrusion Detection and Assessment Systems (PIDAS)
Fail-Secure Mode
Construction materials and structure composition
Plenum Space
46. These types of lines protect from electrical and magnetic induction - which causes interference to the power voltage.
Fire Extinguisher
Perimeter Protection
Continuous lighting
Shielded Lines
47. This focal length provides a narrower view.
Long focal length
Tumbler Lock
Shielded Lines
Security Guards
48. This power source is used in day-to-day operations.
Responsive Area - aka Trip lighting
Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
Primary Power Source
Photoelectric System
49. The following are examples of what type of control? Drills and exercises of emergency procedures - simulation testing - documentation - inspections and reports - pre-screening of employees - post-employment procedures - delegation of responsibility a
Administrative Controls
Media
Transponder
Gases that interfere with the chemical reaction of a fire.
50. These need to be able to hold the necessary load and provide the required fire rating.
Electrostatic IDS - aka proximity detector - or capacitance detector.
Spike
Glass-clad polycarbonate windows
Floors - ceilings - and walls