CISSP Exam - Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

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Q1. What is an important characteristic of Role Based Access Control (RBAC)? 

A. Supports Mandatory Access Control (MAC) 

B. Simplifies the management of access rights 

C. Relies on rotation of duties 

D. Requires.two factor authentication 

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Q2. Which of the following is a network intrusion detection technique? 

A. Statistical anomaly 

B. Perimeter intrusion 

C. Port scanning 

D. Network spoofing 

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Q3. Refer.to the information below to answer the question. 

An organization has hired an information security officer to lead their security department. The officer has adequate people resources but is lacking the other necessary components to have an effective security program. There are numerous initiatives requiring security involvement. 

The effectiveness of the security program can PRIMARILY be measured through 

A. audit findings. 

B. risk elimination. 

C. audit requirements. 

D. customer satisfaction. 

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Q4. When implementing controls in a heterogeneous end-point network for an organization, it is critical that 

A. hosts are able to establish network communications. 

B. users can make modifications to their security software configurations. 

C. common software security components be implemented across all hosts. 

D. firewalls running on each host are fully customizable by the user. 

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Q5. How can a forensic specialist exclude from examination a large percentage of operating system files residing on a copy of the target system? 

A. Take another backup of the media in question then delete all irrelevant operating system files. 

B. Create a comparison database of cryptographic hashes of the files from a system with the same operating system and patch level. 

C. Generate a message digest (MD) or secure hash on the drive image to detect tampering of the media being examined. 

D. Discard harmless files for the operating system, and known installed programs. 

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Q6. How can lessons learned from business continuity training and actual recovery incidents BEST be used? 

A. As a means for improvement 

B. As alternative options for awareness and training 

C. As indicators of a need for policy 

D. As business function gap indicators 

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Q7. Which of the following is the FIRST action that a system administrator should take when it is revealed during a penetration test that everyone in an organization has unauthorized access to a server holding sensitive data? 

A. Immediately document the.finding and.report to senior management. 

B. Use system privileges to alter the permissions to secure the server 

C. Continue the testing to its completion and then inform IT management 

D. Terminate the penetration test and pass the finding to the server management team 

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Q8. Retaining system logs for six months or longer can be valuable for what activities?.

A. Disaster recovery and business continuity 

B. Forensics and incident response 

C. Identity and authorization management 

D. Physical and logical access control 

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Q9. Which of the following is an appropriate source for test data? 

A. Production.data that is secured and maintained only in the production environment. 

B. Test data that has no similarities to production.data. 

C. Test data that is mirrored and kept up-to-date with production data. 

D. Production.data that has been.sanitized before loading into a test environment. 

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Q10. Refer.to the information below to answer the question. 

A large organization uses unique identifiers and requires them at the start of every system session. Application access is based on job classification. The organization is subject to periodic independent reviews of access controls and violations. The organization uses wired and wireless networks and remote access. The organization also uses secure connections to branch offices and secure backup and recovery strategies for selected information and processes. 

Following best practice, where should the permitted access for each department and job classification combination be specified? 

A. Security procedures 

B. Security standards 

C. Human resource policy 

D. Human resource standards 

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