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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities






2. Corporate governance at the strategic level






3. Security policy - map business objectives to security - Security infrastructure - security officer - reviews - Assest classification/control - inventory - Personnel security - screening - training - roles - Physical security - Communication/operation






4. NIST risk management methodology






5. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard






6. Information security managment measurements






7. Mitigates a potential risk






8. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage






9. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security






10. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners






11. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control






12. Plan and Organize - Acquire and Implement - Deliver and Support - Monitor and Evaluate






13. IRM






14. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.






15. FRAP






16. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company






17. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management






18. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers






19. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics






20. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files






21. CobiT






22. Expected or predetermined performance level - developed from policy - performance - requirements






23. Provides a cost/benefit comparision






24. FMEA






25. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations






26. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering






27. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems






28. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach






29. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server






30. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned






31. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats






32. CISO






33. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)






34. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)






35. COSO






36. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt






37. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)






38. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting






39. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost






40. ____________ can discover network devices / application - check password strength - measure internal / external access - analyze vulnerabilities in NOS - test response to DOS attacks






41. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems






42. A plan of action to deal with risks defined in the risk assessment - may remediate or transfer risk






43. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)






44. IT governance at the operational level






45. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes






46. Potential danger to information or systems






47. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external






48. Collection of controls an organization must have in place






49. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs






50. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information