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






2. Strategic - tactical and operational planning






3. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs






4. Provides a cost/benefit comparision






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






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






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






8. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate






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






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






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






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






13. Responsible for information classification and protection






14. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled






15. Information security managment measurements






16. CISO






17. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information






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






19. COSO






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






21. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential






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






23. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________






24. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error






25. NIST risk management methodology






26. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited






27. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond






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






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






30. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems






31. Midterm goals






32. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs






33. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards






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






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






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






37. A tool that monitors network traffic - shows data and protocols in use - also known as a packet sniffer (i.e wireshark - TCPDump - Microsoft Network Monitor - Carnivore)






38. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate






39. IT governance at the operational level






40. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion






41. A commercial password cracker that can test password strength and recover passwords; and perform dictionary and brute force attacks






42. Used to predict changes based on trends - detect deviations - and watch events across multiple system components






43. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately






44. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis






45. Potential danger to information or systems






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






47. Mitigates a potential risk






48. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)






49. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental






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