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CISSP Security Architecture And Design

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






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






3. Discretionary access control is based on individuals and/or groups. It requires a separation of users and information and identification and authentication of individual entities






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






5. A subject at a given clearance may not read an object at a higher classification






6. Based on the Bell-LaPadula Security model - and evidence of reference monitor enforcement must be available.






7. Used by Windows systems to reserve the "Swap Space"






8. The Biba Model is not concerned with security levels and confidentiality. It uses _________________.






9. The process of Evaluating the security stance of the software or system against a selected set of standards or policies. This may precede accreditation but is not a required precursor.






10. As per FDA data should be ______________________________.






11. Documentation must be provided - including test - design - and specification document - user guides and manuals






12. All users have a clearance for and a formal need to know about - all data processed with the system.






13. Includes the security kernel as well as other security-related system functions that are within the boundary of the trusted computing base. System elements that are outside of the security perimeter need not be trusted.






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






15. If an operating system permits executable objects to be used sequentially by multiple users without a refresh of the objects - what security problem is most likely to exist?






16. Mandatory Access requires that _____________ be attached to all objects.






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






18. The Biba Model - ______________: A subject cannot request service (invoke) to subjects of higher integrity






19. Contains the ending address






20. Ssoftware that is stored within ROM (Read-Only Memory) - (ROM is nonvolatile)






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






22. Bell-LaPadula Model -______________: A subject in a given security level can NOT WRITE information to a LOWER security level.






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






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






25. Minimal Security






26. A form of ROM(Read-Only Memory) that can be modified after it has been manufactured. It can only be programmed only one time.






27. What does the Clark-Wilson security model focus on






28. In the Bell-LaPadula Model the Subject's Label contains ___________________.






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






30. In ______________ the subject must have: Need to Know for ALL the information contained within the system.






31. Applications and user activity






32. What access control technique is also known as multilevel security?






33. Users are trusted but a certain level of accountability is required. C2 over is seen as the most reasonable class for commmercial applications - but the level of protection is still relatively weak.






34. Permits a database to have two records that are identical except for Their classifications






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






36. What model use an access control triples and requires that the system maintain separation of duty ?






37. There is only only one class in Division D. Reserved for systems that have been evaluated but fail to meet the criteria and requirements of the higher divisions.






38. A portion of a process. When the thread is generated - it shares the same domain(resources) as its process.






39. Bell-LaPadula Model - ______________: A subject that has read and write capabilities can only perform those functions at the same security level - nothing higher and nothing lower.






40. The Bell-LaPadula model Subjects and Objects are ___________.






41. A Policy based control. All objects and systems have a sensitivity level assigned to them






42. The Security Model Incorporates the ____________ that should be enforced in the system.






43. What is called the formal acceptance of the adequacy of a system's overall security by management?






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






45. The combination of RAM - Cache and the Processor Registers






46. Succesfully Evaluated products are placed on?






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






48. The Security Kernel is the Core of The TCB and is the _____________ to building trusted computing systems.






49. Which TCSEC level first addresses object reuse?






50. The centerpiece of the DoD Rainbow Series publications.Developed by the National Computer Security Center (NCSC)?