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Which of the following is a signature-based intrusion detection system (IDS) ?
A. RealSecure
B. StealthWatch
C. Tripwire
D. Snort
The National Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (NIACAP) is the minimum standard process for the certification and accreditation of computer and telecommunications systems that handle U.S. national security information. Which of the following participants are required in a NIACAP security assessment? Each correct answer represents a part of the solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Certification agent
B. Designated Approving Authority
C. IS program manager
D. Information Assurance Manager
E. User representative
The Phase 4 of DITSCAP C&A is known as Post Accreditation. This phase starts after the system has been accredited in Phase 3. What are the process activities of this phase? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Security operations
B. Maintenance of the SSAA
C. Compliance validation
D. Change management
E. System operations
F. Continue to review and refine the SSAA
In which of the following architecture styles does a device receive input from connectors and generate transformed outputs?
A. N-tiered
B. Heterogeneous
C. Pipes and filters
D. Layered
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are working on a project and the management wants a rapid and cost-effective means for establishing priorities for planning risk responses in your project. Which risk management process can satisfy management's objective for your project?
A. Qualitative risk analysis
B. Historical information
C. Rolling wave planning
D. Quantitative analysis
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a logical process used by programmers to develop software. Which of the following SDLC phases meets the audit objectives defined below: System and data are validated. System meets all user requirements. System meets all control requirements.
A. Evaluation and acceptance
B. Programming and training
C. Definition
D. Initiation
Numerous information security standards promote good security practices and define frameworks or systems to structure the analysis and design for managing information security controls. Which of the following are the international information security standards? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. AU audit and accountability
B. Human resources security
C. Organization of information security
D. Risk assessment and treatment
The organization level is the Tier 1 and it addresses risks from an organizational perspective. What are the various Tier 1 activities? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. The organization plans to use the degree and type of oversight, to ensure that the risk management strategy is being effectively carried out.
B. The level of risk tolerance.
C. The techniques and methodologies an organization plans to employ, to evaluate information system-related security risks.
D. The RMF primarily operates at Tier 1.
A Web-based credit card company had collected financial and personal details of Mark before issuing him a credit card. The company has now provided Mark's financial and personal details to another company. Which of the following Internet laws has the credit card issuing company violated?
A. Trademark law
B. Security law
C. Privacy law
D. Copyright law
In which of the following testing methodologies do assessors use all available documentation and work under no constraints, and attempt to circumvent the security features of an information system?
A. Full operational test
B. Penetration test
C. Paper test
D. Walk-through test
Which of the following methods can be helpful to eliminate social engineering threat? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose three.
A. Password policies
B. Data classification
C. Data encryption
D. Vulnerability assessments
The Software Configuration Management (SCM) process defines the need to trace changes, and the ability to verify that the final delivered software has all of the planned enhancements that are supposed to be included in the release. What are the procedures that must be defined for each software project to ensure that a sound SCM process is implemented? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Configuration status accounting
B. Configuration change control
C. Configuration identification
D. Configuration audits
E. Configuration implementation
F. Configuration deployment
Martha registers a domain named Microsoft.in. She tries to sell it to Microsoft Corporation. The infringement of which of the following has she made?
A. Copyright
B. Trademark
C. Patent
D. Intellectual property
Continuous Monitoring is the fourth phase of the security certification and accreditation process. What activities are performed in the Continuous Monitoring process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Security accreditation decision
B. Security control monitoring and impact analyses of changes to the information system
C. Security accreditation documentation
D. Configuration management and control
E. Status reporting and documentation
You work as a security manager for BlueWell Inc. You are going through the NIST SP 800-37 C&A methodology, which is based on four well defined phases. In which of the following phases of NIST SP 800-37 C&A methodology does the security categorization occur?
A. Security Accreditation
B. Security Certification
C. Continuous Monitoring
D. Initiation
Which of the following areas of information system, as separated by Information Assurance Framework, is a collection of local computing devices, regardless of physical location, that are interconnected via local area networks (LANs) and governed by a single security policy?
A. Local Computing Environments
B. Networks and Infrastructures
C. Supporting Infrastructures
D. Enclave Boundaries
Which of the following is the process of finding weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms and obtaining the plaintext or key from the ciphertext?
A. Cryptographer
B. Cryptography
C. Kerberos
D. Cryptanalysis
Which of the following actions does the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology take when an agent detects a policy violation for data of all states? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. It creates an alert.
B. It quarantines the file to a secure location.
C. It reconstructs the session.
D. It blocks the transmission of content.
You work as a Security Manager for Tech Perfect Inc. In the organization, Syslog is used for computer system management and security auditing, as well as for generalized informational, analysis, and debugging messages. You want to prevent a denial of service (DoS) for the Syslog server and the loss of Syslog messages from other sources. What will you do to accomplish the task?
A. Use a different message format other than Syslog in order to accept data.
B. Enable the storage of log entries in both traditional Syslog files and a database.
C. Limit the number of Syslog messages or TCP connections from a specific source for a certain time period.
D. Encrypt rotated log files automatically using third-party or OS mechanisms.
Which of the following statements best describes the difference between the role of a data owner and the role of a data custodian?
A. The custodian makes the initial information classification assignments, and the operations manager implements the scheme.
B. The data owner implements the information classification scheme after the initial assignment by the custodian.
C. The custodian implements the information classification scheme after the initial assignment by the operations manager.
D. The data custodian implements the information classification scheme after the initial assignment by the data owner.
Stella works as a system engineer for BlueWell Inc. She wants to identify the performance thresholds of each build. Which of the following tests will help Stella to achieve her task?
A. Reliability test
B. Performance test
C. Regression test
D. Functional test
Which of the following statements about the availability concept of Information security management is true?
A. It ensures that modifications are not made to data by unauthorized personnel or processes.
B. It determines actions and behaviors of a single individual within a system.
C. It ensures reliable and timely access to resources.
D. It ensures that unauthorized modifications are not made to data by authorized personnel or processes.
Which of the following testing methods verifies the interfaces between components against a software design?
A. Regression testing
B. Integration testing
C. Black-box testing
D. Unit testing
Microsoft software security expert Michael Howard defines some heuristics for determining code review in "A Process for Performing Security Code Reviews". Which of the following heuristics increase the application's attack surface? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Code written in C/C++/assembly language
B. Code listening on a globally accessible network interface
C. Code that changes frequently
D. Anonymously accessible code
E. Code that runs by default
F. Code that runs in elevated context
Joseph works as a Software Developer for WebTech Inc. He wants to protect the algorithms and the techniques of programming that he uses in developing an application. Which of the following laws are used to protect a part of software?
A. Code Security law
B. Patent laws
C. Trademark laws
D. Copyright laws
Digital rights management (DRM) consists of compliance and robustness rules. Which of the following features does the robustness rule have? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose three.
A. It specifies the various levels of robustness that are needed for asset security.
B. It specifies minimum techniques for asset security.
C. It specifies the behaviors of the DRM implementation and applications accessing the implementation.
D. It contains assets, such as device key, content key, algorithm, and profiling data.
Della works as a security engineer for BlueWell Inc. She wants to establish configuration management and control procedures that will document proposed or actual changes to the information system. Which of the following phases of NIST SP 800-37 C&A methodology will define the above task?
A. Initiation
B. Security Certification
C. Continuous Monitoring
D. Security Accreditation
In which of the following alternative processing sites is the backup facility maintained in a constant order, with a full complement of servers, workstations, and communication links ready to assume the primary operations responsibility?
A. Cold Site
B. Hot Site
C. Warm Site
D. Mobile Site
Which of the following programming languages are compiled into machine code and directly executed by the CPU of a computer system? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
A. C
B. Microosft.NET
C. Java EE
D. C++
Which of the following refers to a process that is used for implementing information security?
A. Classic information security model
B. Five Pillars model
C. Certification and Accreditation (C&A)
D. Information Assurance (IA)
Which of the following access control models are used in the commercial sector? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
A. Biba model
B. Clark-Biba model
C. Clark-Wilson model
D. Bell-LaPadula model
At which of the following levels of robustness in DRM must the security functions be immune to widely available tools and specialized tools and resistant to professional tools?
A. Level 2
B. Level 4
C. Level 1
D. Level 3
You work as a systems engineer for BlueWell Inc. Which of the following tools will you use to look outside your own organization to examine how others achieve their performance levels, and what processes they use to reach those levels?
A. Benchmarking
B. Six Sigma
C. ISO 9001:2000
D. SEI-CMM
Which of the following software review processes increases the software security by removing the common vulnerabilities, such as format string exploits, race conditions, memory leaks, and buffer overflows?
A. Management review
B. Code review
C. Peer review
D. Software audit review
There are seven risks responses that a project manager can choose from. Which risk response is appropriate for both positive and negative risk events?
A. Acceptance
B. Transference
C. Sharing
D. Mitigation
Which of the following are the primary functions of configuration management? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. It removes the risk event entirely by adding additional steps to avoid the event.
B. It ensures that the change is implemented in a sequential manner through formalized testing.
C. It reduces the negative impact that the change might have had on the computing services and resources.
D. It analyzes the effect of the change that is implemented on the system.
FIPS 199 defines the three levels of potential impact on organizations. Which of the following potential impact levels shows limited adverse effects on organizational operations, organizational assets, or individuals?
A. Moderate
B. Low
C. Medium
D. High
Which of the following rated systems of the Orange book has mandatory protection of the TCB?
A. A-rated
B. B-rated
C. D-rated
D. C-rated
Which of the following specifies access privileges to a collection of resources by using the URL mapping?
A. Code Access Security
B. Security constraint
C. Configuration Management
D. Access Management
Which of the following is an example of penetration testing?
A. Implementing NIDS on a network
B. Implementing HIDS on a computer
C. Simulating an actual attack on a network
D. Configuring firewall to block unauthorized traffic
Which of the following are included in Technical Controls? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Identification and authentication methods
B. Configuration of the infrastructure
C. Password and resource management
D. Implementing and maintaining access control mechanisms
E. Security devices
F. Conducting security-awareness training
NIST SP 800-53A defines three types of interview depending on the level of assessment conducted. Which of the following NIST SP 800-53A interviews consists of informal and ad hoc interviews?
A. Comprehensive
B. Significant
C. Abbreviated
D. Substantial
Which of the following sections come under the ISO/IEC 27002 standard?
A. Security policy
B. Asset management
C. Financial assessment
D. Risk assessment
Which of the following are the principle duties performed by the BIOS during POST (power-on-self-test)? Each correct answer represents a part of the solution. Choose all that apply.
A. It provides a user interface for system’s configuration.
B. It identifies, organizes, and selects boot devices.
C. It delegates control to other BIOS, if it is required.
D. It discovers size and verifies system memory.
E. It verifies the integrity of the BIOS code itself.
F. It interrupts the execution of all running programs.
Adam works as a Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator for a garment company in the United States. A project has been assigned to him to investigate a case of a disloyal employee who is suspected of stealing design of the garments, which belongs to the company and selling those garments of the same design under different brand name. Adam investigated that the company does not have any policy related to the copy of design of the garments. He also investigated that the trademark under which the employee is selling the garments is almost identical to the original trademark of the company. On the grounds of which of the following laws can the employee be prosecuted?
A. Espionage law
B. Trademark law
C. Cyber law
D. Copyright law
John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the security of www.we-are-secure.com. In order to do so, he performs the following steps of the pre-attack phase successfully: Information gathering Determination of network range Identification of active systems Location of open ports and applications Now, which of the following tasks should he perform next?
A. Perform OS fingerprinting on the We-are-secure network.
B. Map the network of We-are-secure Inc.
C. Install a backdoor to log in remotely on the We-are-secure server.
D. Fingerprint the services running on the we-are-secure network.
Which of the following methods does the Java Servlet Specification v2.4 define in the HttpServletRequest interface that control programmatic security? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. getCallerIdentity()
B. isUserInRole()
C. getUserPrincipal()
D. getRemoteUser()
You have a storage media with some data and you make efforts to remove this data. After performing this, you analyze that the data remains present on the media. Which of the following refers to the above mentioned condition?
A. Object reuse
B. Degaussing
C. Residual
D. Data remanence
Which of the following individuals inspects whether the security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures are efficiently performed in accordance with the company's stated security objectives?
A. Information system security professional
B. Data owner
C. Senior management
D. Information system auditor
Which of the following methods determines the principle name of the current user and returns the jav a.security.Principal object in the HttpServletRequest interface?
A. getUserPrincipal()
B. isUserInRole()
C. getRemoteUser()
D. getCallerPrincipal()
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