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CISSP Security Architecture And Design

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1. What are the components of an object's sensitivity label?






2. Which increases the performance in a computer by overlapping the steps of different instructions?






3. Requires more stringent authentication mechanisms and well-defined interfaces among layers.






4. In the Orange Book - functionality and assurance are NOT _____________ as they are in the ITSEC and the Common Criteria.






5. Which Orange Book evaluation level is described as "Verified Design"?






6. Security Policies that prevent information from flowing from a higher security level to a lower security level are called ____________.






7. Developed after the Bell-LaPadula model. Its a state machine model and is very similar to the Bell-LaPadula Model.






8. When a computer spends more time moving data from one small portion of memory to another THAN Actually processing the data






9. The TCB is the ________________ within a computer system that work together to enforce a security policy.






10. The total(sum)combination of protection mechanisms within a computer system. The TCB includes hardware - software - and firmware.






11. TCSEC provides a means to evaluate ______________________.






12. In which users are processing information at the same sensitivity level; thus - strict access control and auditing measures are not required. It would be a trusted envirnment with low security concerns.






13. Buffer overflows occurs when a program or process tries to store more data in a _____________ than it was intended to hold.






14. Each data object must contain a classification label and each subject must have a clearance label.






15. Access control labels must be associated properly with objects.






16. The *-Property rule is refered to as ____________.






17. A system uses the Reference Monitor to ___________________ of a subject and an object?






18. Mandatory access control is enfored by the use of security labels.






19. Security Labels are not required until __________; thus C2 does not require security labels but B1 does






20. Which evaluation class of the Trusted Network Interpretation (TNI) offers security domains?






21. This type of environment is highly secured environment that processes very sensitive information. It requires systems that are highly resistant to penetration.






22. n this class more granularity is provided in each protection mechanism - and the programming code that is not necessary to support the security policy is excluded.






23. What is defined as the hardware - firmware and software elements of a trusted computing base that implement the reference monitor concept?






24. An abstract machine which must mediate all access to subjects to objects - be protected from modification - be verifiable as correct - and is always invoked






25. The Biba Model - ______________: A Subject cannot write data to an object at a higher integrity level (No write Up)






26. A domain of trust that shares a single security policy and single management






27. Bell-LaPadula Model - ____________ : A subject at a given security level can NOT READ data that reside at a higher security level.






28. In B2 Subjects and devices requre labels and the system must NOT allow ________. No Trapdoors exists.






29. Trusted facility management is an assurance requirement only for ________________.






30. For rhe type of environment that processes sensitive data that require a higher degree of security. It requires systems that are relatively resistant to peneration and compromise






31. A type of memory used for High-speed writing and reading activities.






32. According to the Orange Book - which security level is the first to require a system to protect against covert timing channels?






33. A is a form of EPROM - but its data storage can be erased and modified electrically by onboard programming circuitry and signals.






34. Bell-LaPadula - ______________: This rule is based on named subjects and objects. It specifies that specific permissions allow a subject to pass on permissions to pass on permissions at its own discretion. These permissions are stored in an access ma






35. A1 is also called "Verified Design" and requires formal verification of the design and specifications.






36. The type of environment that would require A1 systems is the most secure of secure environments. It deals with top-secret information and cannot adequately trust anyone using the systems without strict authentication - restrictions and auditing.






37. Operating System Kernel






38. The hardware - firmware and software elements of a trusted computing base that implement the reference monitor concept.






39. The Orange book does NOT Cover ________________ - And Database management systems






40. An imaginary line that separates the trusted components of the TCB from those elements that are NOT trusted?






41. Security is made up of: System administration - ________ - installation and configuration mechanisms within the environment - and other security issues.






42. Commonly referred to as The Big Mess Because of its lack of structure. MS-DOS is an example of a monolithic operation system






43. When the contents of the address defined in the program's instruction is added to that of an index register.






44. What prevents a process from accessing another process' data?






45. Data in Cache can be accessed much more quickly than Data






46. Which is an ISO standard product evaluation criteria that supersedes several different criteria






47. Which can be used as a covert channel?






48. In the Bell-LaPadula Model the Object's Label contains ___________________.






49. The Bell-LaPaula Model's main goal was to ___________________ in an unauthorized manner. (Developed by the US gov)






50. The group that oversees the processes of evaluation within TCSEC is?