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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. NIST risk management methodology
privilege
risk analysis
CobiT
SP 800-30
2. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
Information risk management
privilege
fault tree analysis
administrative
3. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost
annualized rate of occurrence
risk anlysis
FMEA
administrative
4. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files
countermeasure
risk mitigation
john the ripper
ISO 17799
5. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately
AS/NZS 4360
usage
COSO
elcomsoft
6. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________
ITIL
usage
security program
mappers
7. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards
risk analysis
Information risk management
planning horizon
blueprints
8. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs
confidentiality
CobiT
protocol analyzer
administrative
9. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
FRAP
qualitative
CISO
FMEA
10. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals
CobiT
CISO
protocol analyzer
availability
11. CSO
corporate security officer
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
port scanner
threat
12. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting
chief information security officer
COSO
ISO/IEC 27001
privilege
13. Mitigates a potential risk
CISO
BS7799
countermeasure
administrative
14. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
vulnerability
risk analysis
ITIL
performance baseline
15. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information
network mapping
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
ISO/IEC 27799
risk catagories
16. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
risk
administrative
network mapping
planning horizon
17. COSO
usage
integrity
delayed
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
18. ISM Standard
ISO/IEC 27004
SP 800-30
Information Security Management
COSO
19. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis
FRAP
corporate security officer
integrity
fault tree analysis
20. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned
privilege
escalation
vulnerability
delayed
21. Strategic - tactical and operational planning
exposure
strategic
planning horizon
BS7799
22. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems
vulnerability
CobiT
physical
OVAL
23. CobiT
ISO/IEC 27001
CISO
exposure
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
24. Provides a cost/benefit comparision
risk analysis
qualitative
OCTAVE
operational
25. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach
usage
ISO/IEC 27002
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27005
26. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.
risk mitigation
due care
CobiT
IRM
27. IT governance at the operational level
annualized rate of occurrence
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
availability
CobiT
28. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental
security program
ISO 17799
risk mitigation
physical
29. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited
COSO
ISO/IEC 27001
Information Security Management
vulnerability
30. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
security program
administrative
CISO
vulnerability
31. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate
ISO/IEC 27002
security program
CobiT
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
32. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)
tactical
CISO
single loss expectancy
escalation
33. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard
escalation
COSO
BS7799
ITIL
34. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur
annualized rate of occurrence
risk
operational
usage
35. IRM
vulnerability
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
ISO 17799
Information risk management
36. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners
ISO 17799
CobiT
threat
vulnerability
37. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)
port scanner
risk analysis
due care
availability
38. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)
CISO
due care
FMEA
CobiT
39. FMEA
CobiT
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
single loss expectancy
network mapping
40. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond
CobiT
COSO
ISO/IEC 27004
performance baseline
41. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
port scanner
performance monitor
ISO/IEC 27002
FMEA
42. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited
COSO
delayed
data owner
security officer
43. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
risk analysis
integrity
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
44. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
operational
security program
OVAL
performance monitor
45. Controls that implement access control - password mangement - identification and authentication methods - configuration
protocol analyzer
ISO 17799
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
technical
46. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering
due care
administrative
FMEA
ISO 17799
47. Corporate governance at the strategic level
strategic
COSO
risk
OCTAVE
48. Expected or predetermined performance level - developed from policy - performance - requirements
CISO
administrative
ISO/IEC 27001
performance baseline
49. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled
Information Security Management
security officer
confidentiality
network mapping
50. A commercial password cracker that can test password strength and recover passwords; and perform dictionary and brute force attacks
annualized rate of occurrence
ISO/IEC 27001
usage
elcomsoft