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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. CISO






9. 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






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






11. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems






12. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information






13. ISM Standard






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






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






16. CSO






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






18. FMEA






19. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers






20. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur






21. FRAP






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






23. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential






24. SLE x ARO - (ALE)






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






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






27. NIST risk management methodology






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






29. OCTAVE






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






31. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)






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






33. IRM






34. 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)






35. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure






36. Derived from the COSO framework






37. Midterm goals






38. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited






39. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)






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






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






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






43. IT governance at the operational level






44. CobiT






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






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






47. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment






48. An password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - rainbow tables - can test password strength and recover passwords - was originally free - but now a commercial product






49. Responsible for information classification and protection






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