Question 1. 1. (TCO 1) Information security is a process that protects all of the following except _____. (Points : 5)
Question 1. 1. (TCO 1) Information security is a process that protects all of the following except _____. (Points : 5)
personal privacy payroll integrity service availability readiness hardware integrity
Question 2. 2. (TCO 2) The _____ of the 17 NIST control _____ can be placed into the 10 IISSCC _____ comprising the common body of knowledge for information security. (Points : 5)
technologies, domains, families controls, families, domains domains, families, technologies principles, domains, families controls, domains, principles
Question 3. 3. (TCO 2) What are the classes of security controls? (Points : 5)
Detection, prevention, and response Management, technical, and operational Administrative, technical, and physical Administrative, technical, and procedural
Question 4. 4. (TCO 3) Security policies, regardless of level, should ensure that _____ of assets is distinguished, _____ of people is maintained, and that _____ is managed because that is the enemy of security. (Points : 5)
sensitivity, separation of duties, technology labels, responsibility, complexity labels, accountability, technology organization, accountability, complexity sensitivity, separation of duties, complexity
Question 5. 5. (TCO 4) Privacy legislation is written to protect _____. (Points : 5)
companies managers citizens employees All of the above
Question 6. 6. (TCO 5) Ideas can be evaluated using _____, which are _____ that are not meant to be _____. (Points : 5)
models, controls, solutions controls, abstractions, solutions models, abstractions, solutions solutions, controls, abstractions models, controls, abstractions
Question 7. 7. (TCO 6) Many believe that the most important physical security control is _____. (Points : 5)
closed-circuit television a good security plan an educated workforce certified security staff resources
Question 8. 8. (TCO 7) The security principle that says that each user should have access to exactly the information resources needed to do his/her job–no more and no less–is called _____. (Points : 5)
separation of duties need to know least privilege minimal access least common mechanism
Question 9. 9. (TCO 8) Security recovery strategies should always seek to restore _____. (Points : 5)
system files application data user access networks supporting the IT infrastructure the known good state
Question 10. 10. (TCO 9) Access controls manage the use of _____ by _____ in an information system. (Points : 5)
files, people information resources, programs objects, subjects computer time, people computer cycles, applications
Question 11. 11. (TCO 10) As a generalization, symmetric cryptography is used to encrypt _____, and asymmetric cryptography is used to encrypt _____. (Points : 5)
messages, identities data, identities data, signatures data, messages messages, signatures
Question 12. 12. (TCO 10) In a given city, there are a group of people who wish to communicate through the use of asymmetric cryptography. They do not wish to work with any type of certificate authority. Given this information, how would this be accomplished? (Points : 5)
Internal certificate authority Private extranet Public VPN provider IPSec tunnels Utilize PGP
Question 13. 13. (TCO 11) A firewall that disconnects an internal network from an external network is called a(n) _____. (Points : 5)
packet-filtering router circuit-level gateway application-level gateway stateful inspection firewall bridge firewall
Question 14. 14. (TCO 12) In addition to normal functional and assurance bugs, intrusion detection is subject to two kinds of errors called _____ and _____. (Points : 5)
type a, type b false positive, false negative hardware, software functional, assurance performance, availability
Question 15. 15. (TCO 13) Identify the SDLC phase in which business stakeholders and project team members should refer to company information security policies? (Points : 5)
System requirements System design Detailed design Coding Project inception
Question 1. 1. (TCO 1) Explain what is wrong with this policy clause, and show how you could fix it. People shall obey corporate policies. (Points : 15)
Question 2. 2. (TCO 2) The three effects of security controls are prevention, detection, and recovery. Briefly explain how these effects are related to the known good state. (Points : 15)
Question 3. 3. (TCO 3) Briefly explain the “principle” that states that security = risk management. (Points : 15)
Question 4. 4. (TCO 4) Briefly explain what needs to be accomplished before your company monitors the activities of authorized users of your company systems, and then explain what should be accomplished to legally monitor the activities of a hacker (unauthorized user) of your system. (Points : 15)
Question 5. 5. (TCO 5) Explain why the Bell-LaPadula model and the Biba model are called dual models. (Points : 15)
Question 6. 6. (TCO 6) Briefly explain why good physical security is critical to good information security. (Points : 15)
Question 7. 7. (TCO 7) Explain what media disposition means. (Points : 15)
Question 8. 8. (TCO 8) Explain the term cold site. (Points : 15)
1. (TCO 9) Explain the advantage of role-based access controls. (Points : 15)
Question 2. 2. (TCO 10) Name the two uses of a private key in asymmetric cryptography. (Points : 15)
Question 3. 3. (TCO 11) Explain how a demilitarized zone might be used to protect critical resources that are not to be shared outside of an organization. (Points : 15)
Question 4. 4. (TCO 11) What is often another term for a bastion host? (Points : 15)
Question 5. 5. (TCO 12) Explain why intrusion detection is necessary in terms of the known good state. (Points : 15)
Question 6. 6. (TCO 12) Summarize the benefits of application-level gateways. (Points : 15)
Question 7. 7. (TCO 13) Explain what a virus is, pointing out how it is different from a worm. (Points : 15)
