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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach
due care
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
performance baseline
IRM
2. Provides a cost/benefit comparision
security program
countermeasure
confidentiality
risk analysis
3. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)
annualized loss expectancy
FMEA
threat
john the ripper
4. An instance of being exposed to losses from a threat
OCTAVE
exposure
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
5. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
CISO
performance baseline
security program
6. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)
exposure factor
security program
CobiT
AS/NZS 4360
7. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards
COSO
administrative
risk analysis
mappers
8. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
blueprints
COSO
CobiT
9. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
ISO/IEC 27005
ITIL
COSO
OCTAVE
10. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs
protocol analyzer
privilege
fault tree analysis
security governanace
11. IRM
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
Information risk management
ISO/IEC 27799
corporate security officer
12. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs
performance monitor
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
availability
CobiT
13. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error
ISO 17799
AS/NZS 4360
risk catagories
administrative
14. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited
vulnerability
CobiT
risk analysis
chief information security officer
15. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals
Information risk management
protocol analyzer
CobiT
availability
16. Information security managment measurements
protocol analyzer
delayed
ISO/IEC 27004
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
17. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
network mapping
security program
OVAL
operational
18. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
CISO
operational
single loss expectancy
FMEA
19. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server
COSO
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
vulnerability
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
20. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information
COSO
ITIL
countermeasure
ISO/IEC 27799
21. CobiT
exposure
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
risk analysis
security program
22. A plan of action to deal with risks defined in the risk assessment - may remediate or transfer risk
threat
planning horizon
risk mitigation
exposure factor
23. CSO
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
risk
corporate security officer
vulnerability
24. Controls that implement access control - password mangement - identification and authentication methods - configuration
technical
risk analysis
CobiT
port scanner
25. FMEA
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
ISO/IEC 27001
strategic
administrative
26. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage
FRAP
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
firewall
technical
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
administrative
data owner
firewall
COSO
28. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard
annualized loss expectancy
BS7799
elcomsoft
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
29. 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
ISO/IEC 27005
L0phtCrack
ISO 17799
security program
30. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
AS/NZS 4360
ISO/IEC 27799
chief information security officer
protocol analyzer
31. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________
security officer
chief information security officer
mappers
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
32. SLE x ARO - (ALE)
annualized loss expectancy
risk anlysis
tactical
CobiT
33. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners
vulnerability
exposure
fault tree analysis
technical
34. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes
ISO/IEC 27799
due care
ISO 17799
physical
35. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats
risk analysis
fault tree analysis
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
36. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment
CobiT
COSO
vulnerability
qualitative
37. ISM Standard
risk
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
annualized rate of occurrence
Information Security Management
38. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
ISO/IEC 27002
privilege
CobiT
fault tree analysis
39. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
vulnerability
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
Information Security Management
network mapping
40. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external
penetration
CISO
threat
CobiT
41. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
chief information security officer
administrative
escalation
delayed
42. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
FRAP
confidentiality
exposure
administrative
43. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental
physical
planning horizon
CobiT
usage
44. Type of audit that checks information classification and change control procedures
network mapping
firewall
FMEA
administrative
45. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering
corporate security officer
mappers
FMEA
administrative
46. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.
qualitative
network mapping
risk anlysis
IRM
47. IT governance at the operational level
CobiT
single loss expectancy
delayed
ISO/IEC 27004
48. Mitigates a potential risk
countermeasure
port scanner
john the ripper
COSO
49. Derived from the COSO framework
Information Security Management
tactical
CobiT
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
50. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately
usage
exposure
CISO
risk