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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. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond
SP 800-30
CISO
security program
COSO
2. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)
COSO
exposure factor
countermeasure
delayed
3. Controls that implement access control - password mangement - identification and authentication methods - configuration
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
network mapping
technical
penetration
4. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting
physical
technical
OCTAVE
COSO
5. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)
elcomsoft
single loss expectancy
FMEA
vulnerability
6. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
annualized loss expectancy
risk
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
ISO/IEC 27001
7. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach
administrative
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27005
ISO/IEC 27002
8. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment
vulnerability
OVAL
john the ripper
availability
9. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
strategic
confidentiality
technical
delayed
10. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential
integrity
CobiT
risk
network mapping
11. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
escalation
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
Information Security Management
vulnerability
12. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
network mapping
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
threat
firewall
13. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
AS/NZS 4360
protocol analyzer
tactical
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
14. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers
CISO
CobiT
strategic
FMEA
15. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)
risk analysis
annualized rate of occurrence
john the ripper
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
16. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
vulnerability
operational
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
blueprints
17. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
CobiT
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
18. Information security managment measurements
risk
penetration
OCTAVE
ISO/IEC 27004
19. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost
risk anlysis
mappers
vulnerability
security governanace
20. Responsible for information classification and protection
operational
ISO/IEC 27799
threat
data owner
21. 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)
protocol analyzer
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
exposure
mappers
22. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited
BS7799
CISO
delayed
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
23. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
security officer
ISO/IEC 27002
exposure factor
annualized loss expectancy
24. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental
physical
risk mitigation
security program
ISO/IEC 27005
25. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion
single loss expectancy
qualitative
data owner
CobiT
26. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals
tactical
due care
exposure factor
availability
27. Midterm goals
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
threat
tactical
penetration
28. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files
blueprints
tactical
john the ripper
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
29. Expected or predetermined performance level - developed from policy - performance - requirements
protocol analyzer
performance baseline
COSO
risk
30. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
FRAP
CISO
OVAL
operational
31. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________
administrative
risk
mappers
operational
32. IRM
vulnerability scanner
performance baseline
FMEA
Information risk management
33. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
vulnerability
ITIL
CISO
due care
34. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external
FMEA
fault tree analysis
penetration
CobiT
35. Type of audit that checks information classification and change control procedures
COSO
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
risk catagories
administrative
36. CISO
ISO 17799
exposure factor
chief information security officer
ISO/IEC 27799
37. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard
blueprints
john the ripper
single loss expectancy
BS7799
38. ____________ can discover network devices / application - check password strength - measure internal / external access - analyze vulnerabilities in NOS - test response to DOS attacks
performance baseline
risk catagories
network mapping
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
39. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards
availability
blueprints
john the ripper
risk analysis
40. COSO
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
IRM
administrative
corporate security officer
41. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs
risk
security governanace
qualitative
vulnerability
42. A tool that maps weaknesses of systems / networks by scanning for ports - checking for applications - determining OS and patch level - and attempting exploits
vulnerability
vulnerability scanner
performance monitor
qualitative
43. 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
vulnerability scanner
risk
CISO
ISO 17799
44. Mitigates a potential risk
delayed
IRM
countermeasure
administrative
45. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats
ISO/IEC 27004
fault tree analysis
ISO/IEC 27001
performance monitor
46. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs
protocol analyzer
blueprints
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
CobiT
47. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error
network mapping
confidentiality
risk catagories
COSO
48. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company
ISO/IEC 27002
OVAL
OCTAVE
risk
49. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners
exposure
ISO 17799
annualized rate of occurrence
vulnerability
50. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics
firewall
CISO
vulnerability
ISO 17799