(ISC)2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Practice Tests E-Book
Mike Chapple
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- Sprache: Englisch
Full-length practice tests covering all CISSP domains for the ultimate exam prep The (ISC)2 CISSP Official Practice Tests is a major resource for (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) candidates, providing 1300 unique practice questions. The first part of the book provides 100 questions per domain. You also have access to four unique 125-question practice exams to help you master the material. As the only official practice tests endorsed by (ISC)2, this book gives you the advantage of full and complete preparation. These practice tests align with the 2021 version of the exam to ensure up-to-date preparation, and are designed to cover what you will see on exam day. Coverage includes: Security and Risk Management, Asset Security, Security Architecture and Engineering, Communication and Network Security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Security Assessment and Testing, Security Operations, and Software Development Security. The CISSP credential signifies a body of knowledge and a set of guaranteed skills that put you in demand in the marketplace. This book is your ticket to achieving this prestigious certification, by helping you test what you know against what you need to know. * Test your knowledge of the 2021 exam domains * Identify areas in need of further study * Gauge your progress throughout your exam preparation * Practice test taking with Sybex's online test environment containing the questions from the book, which is supported by Wiley's support agents who are available 24x7 via email or live chat to assist with access and login questions The CISSP exam is refreshed every few years to ensure that candidates are up-to-date on the latest security topics and trends. Currently-aligned preparation resources are critical, and periodic practice tests are one of the best ways to truly measure your level of understanding.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Technical Editors
Introduction
CISSP Certification
Taking the CISSP Exam
Computer-Based Testing Environment
Exam Retake Policy
Work Experience Requirement
Recertification Requirements
Using This Book to Practice
Using the Online Practice Tests
Chapter 1: Security and Risk Management (Domain 1)
Chapter 2: Asset Security (Domain 2)
Chapter 3: Security Architecture and Engineering (Domain 3)
Chapter 4: Communication and Network Security (Domain 4)
Chapter 5: Identity and Access Management (Domain 5)
Chapter 6: Security Assessment and Testing (Domain 6)
Chapter 7: Security Operations (Domain 7)
Chapter 8: Software Development Security (Domain 8)
Chapter 9: Practice Test 1
Chapter 10: Practice Test 2
Chapter 11: Practice Test 3
Chapter 12: Practice Test 4
Appendix Answers
Chapter 1: Security and Risk Management (Domain 1)
Chapter 2: Asset Security (Domain 2)
Chapter 3: Security Architecture and Engineering (Domain 3)
Chapter 4: Communication and Network Security (Domain 4)
Chapter 5: Identity and Access Management (Domain 5)
Chapter 6: Security Assessment and Testing (Domain 6)
Chapter 7: Security Operations (Domain 7)
Chapter 8: Software Development Security (Domain 8)
Chapter 9: Practice Test 1
Chapter 10: Practice Test 2
Chapter 11: Practice Test 3
Chapter 12: Practice Test 4
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Technical Editors
Introduction
Begin Reading
Appendix Answers
Index
End User License Agreement
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(ISC)2®CISSP® Certified Information Systems Security ProfessionalOfficial Practice Tests
Third Edition
Mike Chapple, CISSP
David Seidl, CISSP
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the many people who made this book possible. Jim Minatel at Wiley Publishing helped us extend the Sybex CISSP franchise to include this title and has continued to champion with the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2. Carole Jelen, our agent, tackles all the back-end magic for our writing efforts and worked on both the logistical details and the business side of the book with her usual grace and commitment to excellence. Ben Malisow and Jerry Rayome, our technical editors, pointed out many opportunities to improve our work and deliver a high-quality final product. Caroline Define served as our project manager and made sure everything fit together. Many other people we'll never meet worked behind the scenes to make this book a success, and we really appreciate their time and talents to make this next edition come together.
About the Authors
Mike Chapple, PhD, CISSP, is an author of the best-selling CISSP (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide (Sybex, 2021), now in its ninth edition. He is an information security professional with two decades of experience in higher education, the private sector, and government.
Mike currently serves as Teaching Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. He previously served as Senior Director for IT Service Delivery at Notre Dame, where he oversaw the information security, data governance, IT architecture, project management, strategic planning, and product management functions for the university.
Before returning to Notre Dame, Mike served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the Brand Institute, a Miami-based marketing consultancy. Mike also spent four years in the information security research group at the National Security Agency and served as an active duty intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.
He is a technical editor for Information Security Magazine and has written 20 books, including Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World (Jones & Bartlett, 2015), CompTIA Security+ Training Kit (Microsoft Press, 2013), and CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) Study Guide (Wiley, 2017) and Practice Tests (Wiley, 2018).
Mike earned both his BS and PhD degrees from Notre Dame in computer science and engineering. He also holds an MS in computer science from the University of Idaho and an MBA from Auburn University. His IT certifications include the CISSP, Security+, CySA+, CISA, PenTest+, CIPP/US, CISM, CCSP, and PMP credentials.
Mike provides books, video-based training, and free study groups for a wide variety of IT certifications at his website, CertMike.com.
David Seidl, CISSP, is Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at Miami University. During his IT career, he has served in a variety of technical and information security roles including serving at the Senior Director for Campus Technology Services at the University of Notre Dame where he co-led Notre Dame's move to the cloud, and oversaw cloud operations, ERP, databases, identity management, and a broad range of other technologies and service. He also served as Notre Dame's Director of Information Security and led Notre Dame's information security program. He has taught information security and networking undergraduate courses as an instructor for Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business and has written books on security certification and cyberwarfare, including co-authoring the previous editions of CISSP (ISC)2Official Practice Tests (Sybex 2018) as well as CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide: Exam CS0-002, CompTIA CySA+ Practice Tests: Exam CS0-002, CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: Exam SY0-601, and CompTIA Security+ Practice Tests: Exam SY0-601 as well as other certification guides and books on information security.
David holds a bachelor's degree in communication technology and a master's degree in information security from Eastern Michigan University, as well as CISSP, CySA+, Pentest+, GPEN, and GCIH certifications.
About the Technical Editors
Ben Malisow is a consultant and writer with more than 25 years of experience in the fields of information, security, and information security. He teaches SSCP, CISSP, and CCSP preparation courses for (ISC)2 and has written the Official (ISC)2 CCSP Study Guide and the Official (ISC)2 Practice Tests books, among other titles; his latest works include CCSK Practice Tests and Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity. He and his partner Robin Cabe host the weekly podcast, “The Sensuous Sounds of INFOSEC,” from his website www.securityzed.com.
Jerry Rayome, BS/MS Computer Science, CISSP, employed as a member of the Cyber Security Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for over 20 years providing cyber security services that include software development, penetrative testing, incident response, firewall implementation/administration, firewall auditing, honey net deployment/monitoring, cyber forensic investigations, NIST 900-53 control implementation/assessment, cloud risk assessment, and cloud security auditing.
Introduction
(ISC)2 ®CISSP ® Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Practice Tests is a companion volume to (ISC)2CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide. It includes questions that cover content from the CISSP Detailed Content Outline and exam that became effective on May 1, 2021. If you're looking to test your knowledge before you take the CISSP exam, this book will help you by providing more than 1,300 questions that cover the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge and easy-to-understand explanations of both right and wrong answers.
If you're just starting to prepare for the CISSP exam, we highly recommend that you use (ISC)2CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide to help you learn about each of the domains covered by the CISSP exam. Once you're ready to test your knowledge, use this book to help find places where you may need to study more or to practice for the exam itself.
Since this is a companion to CISSP Study Guide, this book is designed to be similar to taking the CISSP exam. It contains multipart scenarios as well as standard multiple-choice and matching questions similar to those you may encounter on the certification exam. The book is broken up into 12 chapters: 8 domain-centric chapters with 100 or more questions about each domain, and 4 chapters that contain 125-question practice tests to simulate taking the exam.
CISSP Certification
The CISSP certification is offered by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)2, a global nonprofit organization. The mission of (ISC)2 is to support and provide members and constituents with credentials, resources, and leadership to address cyber, information, software, and infrastructure security to deliver value to society. (ISC)2 achieves this mission by delivering the world's leading information security certification program, the CISSP. (ISC)2 also offered five additional certifications including:
Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Certified Authorization Professional (CAP)
Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner (HCISPP)
Certified Cloud Security Professional (CSP)
There are also three advanced CISSP certifications for those who want to move on from the base credential to demonstrate advanced expertise in a domain of information security.
Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP)
Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (CISSP-ISSEP)
Information Systems Security Management Professional (CISSP-ISSMP)
The CISSP certification covers eight domains of information security knowledge. These domains are meant to serve as the broad knowledge foundation required to succeed in the information security profession.
Security and Risk Management
Asset Security
Security Architecture and Engineering
Communication and Network Security
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Security Assessment and Testing
Security Operations
Software Development Security
The CISSP domains are periodically updated by (ISC)2. The most recent revision May 1, 2021 slightly modified the weighting for Communication and Network security from 14 percent to 13 percent while increasing the focus on Software Development Security from 10 percent to 11 percent. It also added or expanded coverage of topics such as the data management lifecycle, microservices, containerization, serverless computing, quantum computing, 5G networking, and modern security controls.
Complete details on the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) are contained in the Exam Outline. It includes a full outline of exam topics, can be found on the (ISC)2 website at www.isc2.org.
Taking the CISSP Exam
The English version of the CISSP exam uses a technology called computer adaptive testing (CAT). With this format, you will face an exam containing between 125 to 175 questions with a four-hour time limit as of June 1, 2022. You will not have the opportunity to skip back and forth because the computer selects the next questions that it asks you based upon your answers to previous questions. If you're doing well on the exam, it will get more difficult as you progress. Don't let that unnerve you!
Other versions of the exam in French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean use a traditional linear format. The linear format exam includes 250 questions with a six-hour time limit. For either version of the exam, passing requires achieving a score of at least 700 out of 1,000 points. It's important to understand that this is a scaled score, meaning that not every question is worth the same number of points. Questions of differing difficulty may factor into your score more or less heavily, and adaptive exams adjust to the test taker.
That said, as you work through these practice exams, you might want to use 70 percent as a goal to help you get a sense of whether you're ready to sit for the actual exam. When you're ready, you can schedule an exam at a location near you through the (ISC)2 website.
Questions on the CISSP exam are provided in both multiple-choice form and what (ISC)2 calls advanced innovative questions, which are drag-and-drop and hotspot questions, both of which are offered in computer-based testing environments. Innovative questions are scored the same as traditional multiple-choice questions and have only one right answer.
(ISC)² exam policies are subject to change. Please be sure to check isc2.org for the current policies before you register and take the exam.
Computer-Based Testing Environment
CISSP exams are now administered in a computer-based testing (CBT) format. You'll register for the exam through the Pearson Vue website and may take the exam in the language of your choice. It is offered in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and a visually impaired format.
You'll take the exam in a computer-based testing center located near your home or office. The centers administer many different exams, so you may find yourself sitting in the same room as a student taking a school entrance examination and a healthcare professional earning a medical certification. If you'd like to become more familiar with the testing environment, the Pearson Vue website offers a virtual tour of a testing center.
home.pearsonvue.com/test-taker/Pearson-Professional-Center-Tour.aspx
When you take the exam, you'll be seated at a computer that has the exam software already loaded and running. It's a pretty straightforward interface that allows you to navigate through the exam. You can download a practice exam and tutorial from the Pearson Vue website.
http://www.vue.com/athena/athena.asp
At the time this book went to press, (ISC)2 was conducting a pilot test of at-home computer-based exams for CISSP candidates in the United States. It is possible that this pilot will be extended to a permanent product and may become available in additional countries. Check the (ISC)2 website for more information.
Exam Retake Policy
If you don't pass the CISSP exam, you shouldn't panic. Many individuals don't reach the bar on their first attempt, but gain valuable experience that helps them succeed the second time around. When you retake the exam, you'll have the benefit of familiarity with the CBT environment and CISSP exam format. You'll also have time to study the areas where you felt less confident.
After your first exam attempt, you must wait 30 days before retaking the computer-based exam. If you're not successful on that attempt, you may re-test after 60 days. If you don't pass after your third attempt, you can re-test after 90 days for that and any subsequent attempts. You can’t take the test more than 4 times within a single calendar year. You can obtain more information about (ISC)2 and its other certifications from its website at www.isc2.org.
Work Experience Requirement
Candidates who want to earn the CISSP credential must not only pass the exam but also demonstrate that they have at least five years of work experience in the information security field. Your work experience must cover activities in at least two of the eight domains of the CISSP program and must be paid, full-time employment. Volunteer experiences or part-time duties are not acceptable to meet the CISSP experience requirement.
You may be eligible to waive one of the five years of the work experience requirement based upon your educational achievements. If you hold a bachelor's degree or four-year equivalent, you may be eligible for a degree waiver that covers one of those years. Similarly, if you hold one of the information security certifications on the current (ISC)2 credential waiver list (www.isc2.org/credential_waiver/default.aspx), you may also waive a year of the experience requirement. You may not combine these two programs. Holders of both a certification and an undergraduate degree must still demonstrate at least four years of experience.
If you haven't yet completed your work experience requirement, you may still attempt the CISSP exam. Individuals who pass the exam are designated Associates of (ISC)2 and have six years to complete the work experience requirement.
Recertification Requirements
Once you've earned your CISSP credential, you'll need to maintain your certification by paying maintenance fees and participating in continuing professional education (CPE). As long as you maintain your certification in good standing, you will not need to retake the CISSP exam.
Currently, the annual maintenance fees for the CISSP credential are $125 per year. This fee covers the renewal for all (ISC)2 certifications held by an individual.
The CISSP CPE requirement mandates earning at least 120 CPE credits during each three-year renewal cycle. Associates of (ISC)2 must earn at least 15 CPE credits each year. (ISC)2 provides an online portal where certificate holders may submit CPE completion for review and approval. The portal also tracks annual maintenance fee payments and progress toward recertification.
Using This Book to Practice
This book is composed of 12 chapters. Each of the first eight chapters covers a domain, with a variety of questions that can help you test your knowledge of real-world, scenario, and best-practice security knowledge. The final four chapters are complete practice exams that can serve as timed practice tests to help determine whether you're ready for the CISSP exam.
We recommend taking the first practice exam to help identify where you may need to spend more study time and then using the domain-specific chapters to test your domain knowledge where it is weak. Once you're ready, take the other practice exams to make sure you've covered all the material and are ready to attempt the CISSP exam.
Using the Online Practice Tests
All the questions in this book are also available in Sybex's online practice test tool. To get access to this online format, go to www.wiley.com/go/sybextestprep and start by registering your book. You'll receive a PIN code and instructions on where to create an online test bank account. Once you have access, you can use the online version to create your own sets of practice tests from the book questions and practice in a timed and graded setting.
Chapter 1Security and Risk Management (Domain 1)
SUBDOMAINS
1.1 Understand, adhere to, and promote professional ethics
1.2 Understand and apply security concepts
1.3 Evaluate and apply security governance principles
1.4 Determine compliance and other requirements
1.5 Understand legal and regulatory issues that pertain to information security in a holistic context
1.6 Understand requirements for investigation types (i.e., administrative, criminal, civil, regulatory, industry standards)
1.7 Develop, document, and implement security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines
1.8 Identify, analyze, and prioritize Business Continuity (BC) requirements
1.9 Contribute to and enforce personnel security policies and procedures
1.10 Understand and apply risk management concepts
1.11 Understand and apply threat modeling concepts and methodologies
1.12 Apply Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) concepts
1.13 Establish and maintain a security awareness, education, and training program
Alyssa is responsible for her organization's security awareness program. She is concerned that changes in technology may make the content outdated. What control can she put in place to protect against this risk?
Gamification
Computer-based training
Content reviews
Live training
Gavin is creating a report to management on the results of his most recent risk assessment. In his report, he would like to identify the remaining level of risk to the organization after adopting security controls. What term best describes this current level of risk?
Inherent risk
Residual risk
Control risk
Mitigated risk
Francine is a security specialist for an online service provider in the United States. She recently received a claim from a copyright holder that a user is storing information on her service that violates the third party's copyright. What law governs the actions that Francine must take?
Copyright Act
Lanham Act
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Gramm Leach Bliley Act
FlyAway Travel has offices in both the European Union (EU) and the United States and transfers personal information between those offices regularly. They have recently received a request from an EU customer requesting that their account be terminated. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requirement for processing personal information states that individuals may request that their data no longer be disseminated or processed?
The right to access
Privacy by design
The right to be forgotten
The right of data portability
After conducting a qualitative risk assessment of her organization, Sally recommends purchasing cybersecurity breach insurance. What type of risk response behavior is she recommending?
Accept
Transfer
Reduce
Reject
Which one of the following elements of information is not considered personally identifiable information that would trigger most United States (U.S.) state data breach laws?
Student identification number
Social Security number
Driver's license number
Credit card number
Renee is speaking to her board of directors about their responsibilities to review cybersecurity controls. What rule requires that senior executives take personal responsibility for information security matters?
Due diligence rule
Personal liability rule
Prudent man rule
Due process rule
Henry recently assisted one of his co-workers in preparing for the CISSP exam. During this process, Henry disclosed confidential information about the content of the exam, in violation of Canon IV of the Code of Ethics: “Advance and protect the profession.” Who may bring ethics charges against Henry for this violation?
Anyone may bring charges.
Any certified or licensed professional may bring charges.
Only Henry's employer may bring charges.
Only the affected employee may bring charges.
Wanda is working with one of her organization's European Union business partners to facilitate the exchange of customer information. Wanda's organization is located in the United States. What would be the best method for Wanda to use to ensure GDPR compliance?
Binding corporate rules
Privacy Shield
Standard contractual clauses
Safe harbor
Yolanda is the chief privacy officer for a financial institution and is researching privacy requirements related to customer checking accounts. Which one of the following laws is most likely to apply to this situation?
GLBA
SOX
HIPAA
FERPA
Tim's organization recently received a contract to conduct sponsored research as a government contractor. What law now likely applies to the information systems involved in this contract?
FISMA
PCI DSS
HIPAA
GISRA
Chris is advising travelers from his organization who will be visiting many different countries overseas. He is concerned about compliance with export control laws. Which of the following technologies is most likely to trigger these regulations?
Memory chips
Office productivity applications
Hard drives
Encryption software
Bobbi is investigating a security incident and discovers that an attacker began with a normal user account but managed to exploit a system vulnerability to provide that account with administrative rights. What type of attack took place under the STRIDE threat model?
Spoofing
Repudiation
Tampering
Elevation of privilege
You are completing your business continuity planning effort and have decided that you want to accept one of the risks. What should you do next?
Implement new security controls to reduce the risk level.
Design a disaster recovery plan.
Repeat the business impact assessment.
Document your decision-making process.
You are completing a review of the controls used to protect a media storage facility in your organization and would like to properly categorize each control that is currently in place. Which of the following control categories accurately describe a fence around a facility? (Select all that apply.)
Physical
Detective
Deterrent
Preventive
Tony is developing a business continuity plan and is having difficulty prioritizing resources because of the difficulty of combining information about tangible and intangible assets. What would be the most effective risk assessment approach for him to use?
Quantitative risk assessment
Qualitative risk assessment
Neither quantitative nor qualitative risk assessment
Combination of quantitative and qualitative risk assessment
Vincent believes that a former employee took trade secret information from his firm and brought it with him to a competitor. He wants to pursue legal action. Under what law could he pursue charges?
Copyright law
Lanham Act
Glass-Steagall Act
Economic Espionage Act
Which one of the following principles imposes a standard of care upon an individual that is broad and equivalent to what one would expect from a reasonable person under the circumstances?
Due diligence
Separation of duties
Due care
Least privilege
Brenda's organization recently completed the acquisition of a competitor firm. Which one of the following tasks would be LEAST likely to be part of the organizational processes addressed during the acquisition?
Consolidation of security functions
Integration of security tools
Protection of intellectual property
Documentation of security policies
Kelly believes that an employee engaged in the unauthorized use of computing resources for a side business. After consulting with management, she decides to launch an administrative investigation. What is the burden of proof that she must meet in this investigation?
Preponderance of the evidence
Beyond a reasonable doubt
Beyond the shadow of a doubt
There is no standard
Keenan Systems recently developed a new manufacturing process for microprocessors. The company wants to license the technology to other companies for use but wants to prevent unauthorized use of the technology. What type of intellectual property protection is best suited for this situation?
Patent
Trade secret
Copyright
Trademark
Which one of the following actions might be taken as part of a business continuity plan?
Restoring from backup tapes
Implementing RAID
Relocating to a cold site
Restarting business operations
When developing a business impact analysis, the team should first create a list of assets. What should happen next?
Identify vulnerabilities in each asset.
Determine the risks facing the asset.
Develop a value for each asset.
Identify threats facing each asset.
Mike recently implemented an intrusion prevention system designed to block common network attacks from affecting his organization. What type of risk management strategy is Mike pursuing?
Risk acceptance
Risk avoidance
Risk mitigation
Risk transference
Laura has been asked to perform an SCA. What type of organization is she most likely in?
Higher education
Banking
Government
Healthcare
Carl is a federal agent investigating a computer crime case. He identified an attacker who engaged in illegal conduct and wants to pursue a case against that individual that will lead to imprisonment. What standard of proof must Carl meet?
Beyond the shadow of a doubt
Preponderance of the evidence
Beyond a reasonable doubt
Majority of the evidence
The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium uses the logo shown here to represent itself online and in a variety of forums. What type of intellectual property protection may it use to protect its rights in this logo?
Copyright
Patent
Trade secret
Trademark
Mary is helping a computer user who sees the following message appear on his computer screen. What type of attack has occurred?
Availability
Confidentiality
Disclosure
Distributed
Which one of the following organizations would not be automatically subject to the privacy and security requirements of HIPAA if they engage in electronic transactions?
Healthcare provider
Health and fitness application developer
Health information clearinghouse
Health insurance plan
John's network begins to experience symptoms of slowness. Upon investigation, he realizes that the network is being bombarded with TCP SYN packets and believes that his organization is the victim of a denial-of-service attack. What principle of information security is being violated?
Availability
Integrity
Confidentiality
Denial
Renee is designing the long-term security plan for her organization and has a three- to five-year planning horizon. Her primary goal is to align the security function with the broader plans and objectives of the business. What type of plan is she developing?
Operational
Tactical
Summary
Strategic
Gina is working to protect a logo that her company will use for a new product they are launching. She has questions about the intellectual property protection process for this logo. What U.S. government agency would be best able to answer her questions?
USPTO
Library of Congress
NSA
NIST
The Acme Widgets Company is putting new controls in place for its accounting department. Management is concerned that a rogue accountant may be able to create a new false vendor and then issue checks to that vendor as payment for services that were never rendered. What security control can best help prevent this situation?
Mandatory vacation
Separation of duties
Defense in depth
Job rotation
Which one of the following categories of organizations is most likely to be covered by the provisions of FISMA?
Banks
Defense contractors
School districts
Hospitals
Robert is responsible for securing systems used to process credit card information. What security control framework should guide his actions?
HIPAA
PCI DSS
SOX
GLBA
Which one of the following individuals is normally responsible for fulfilling the operational data protection responsibilities delegated by senior management, such as validating data integrity, testing backups, and managing security policies?
Data custodian
Data owner
User
Auditor
Alan works for an e-commerce company that recently had some content stolen by another website and republished without permission. What type of intellectual property protection would best preserve Alan's company's rights?
Trade secret
Copyright
Trademark
Patent
Florian receives a flyer from a U.S. federal government agency announcing that a new administrative law will affect his business operations. Where should he go to find the text of the law?
United States Code
Supreme Court rulings
Code of Federal Regulations
Compendium of Laws
Tom enables an application firewall provided by his cloud infrastructure as a service provider that is designed to block many types of application attacks. When viewed from a risk management perspective, what metric is Tom attempting to lower by implementing this countermeasure?
Impact
RPO
MTO
Likelihood
Which one of the following individuals would be the most effective organizational owner for an information security program?
CISSP-certified analyst
Chief information officer (CIO)
Manager of network security
President and CEO
What important function do senior managers normally fill on a business continuity planning team?
Arbitrating disputes about criticality
Evaluating the legal environment
Training staff
Designing failure controls
You are the CISO for a major hospital system and are preparing to sign a contract with a software as a service (SaaS) email vendor and want to perform a control assessment to ensure that its business continuity planning measures are reasonable. What type of audit might you request to meet this goal?
SOC 1
FISMA
PCI DSS
SOC 2
Gary is analyzing a security incident and, during his investigation, encounters a user who denies having performed an action that Gary believes he did perform. What type of threat has taken place under the STRIDE model?
Repudiation
Information disclosure
Tampering
Elevation of privilege
Beth is the security administrator for a public school district. She is implementing a new student information system and is testing the code to ensure that students are not able to alter their own grades. What principle of information security is Beth enforcing?
Integrity
Availability
Confidentiality
Denial
Which one of the following issues is not normally addressed in a service-level agreement (SLA)?
Confidentiality of customer information
Failover time
Uptime
Maximum consecutive downtime
Joan is seeking to protect a piece of computer software that she developed under intellectual property law. Which one of the following avenues of protection would not apply to a piece of software?
Trademark
Copyright
Patent
Trade secret
For questions 47–49, please refer to the following scenario:
Juniper Content is a web content development company with 40 employees located in two offices: one in New York and a smaller office in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each office has a local area network protected by a perimeter firewall. The local area network (LAN) contains modern switch equipment connected to both wired and wireless networks.
Each office has its own file server, and the information technology (IT) team runs software every hour to synchronize files between the two servers, distributing content between the offices. These servers are primarily used to store images and other files related to web content developed by the company. The team also uses a SaaS-based email and document collaboration solution for much of their work.
You are the newly appointed IT manager for Juniper Content, and you are working to augment existing security controls to improve the organization's security.
Users in the two offices would like to access each other's file servers over the internet. What control would provide confidentiality for those communications?
Digital signatures
Virtual private network
Virtual LAN
Digital content management
You are also concerned about the availability of data stored on each office's server. You would like to add technology that would enable continued access to files located on the server even if a hard drive in a server fails. What control allows you to add robustness without adding additional servers?
Server clustering
Load balancing
RAID
Scheduled backups
Finally, there are historical records stored on the server that are extremely important to the business and should never be modified. You would like to add an integrity control that allows you to verify on a periodic basis that the files were not modified. What control can you add?
Hashing
ACLs
Read-only attributes
Firewalls
Beth is a human resources specialist preparing to assist in the termination of an employee. Which of the following is not typically part of a termination process?
An exit interview
Recovery of property
Account termination
Signing an NCA
Frances is reviewing her organization's business continuity plan documentation for completeness. Which one of the following is not normally included in business continuity plan documentation?
Statement of accounts
Statement of importance
Statement of priorities
Statement of organizational responsibility
An accounting employee at Doolittle Industries was recently arrested for participation in an embezzlement scheme. The employee transferred money to a personal account and then shifted funds around between other accounts every day to disguise the fraud for months. Which one of the following controls might have best allowed the earlier detection of this fraud?
Separation of duties
Least privilege
Defense in depth
Mandatory vacation
Jeff would like to adopt an industry-standard approach for assessing the processes his organization uses to manage risk. What maturity model would be most appropriate for his use?
CMM
SW-CMM
RMM
COBIT
Chris' organization recently suffered an attack that rendered their website inaccessible to paying customers for several hours. Which information security goal was most directly impacted?
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Denial
Yolanda is writing a document that will provide configuration information regarding the minimum level of security that every system in the organization must meet. What type of document is she preparing?
Policy
Baseline
Guideline
Procedure
Who should receive initial business continuity plan training in an organization?
Senior executives
Those with specific business continuity roles
Everyone in the organization
First responders
James is conducting a risk assessment for his organization and is attempting to assign an asset value to the servers in his data center. The organization's primary concern is ensuring that it has sufficient funds available to rebuild the data center in the event it is damaged or destroyed. Which one of the following asset valuation methods would be most appropriate in this situation?
Purchase cost
Depreciated cost
Replacement cost
Opportunity cost
Roger's organization suffered a breach of customer credit card records. Under the terms of PCI DSS, what organization may choose to pursue an investigation of this matter?
FBI
Local law enforcement
Bank
PCI SSC
Rick recently engaged critical employees in each of his organization's business units to ask for their assistance with his security awareness program. They will be responsible for sharing security messages with their peers and answering questions about cybersecurity matters. What term best describes this relationship?
Security champion
Security expert
Gamification
Peer review
Frank discovers a keylogger hidden on the laptop of his company's chief executive officer. What information security principle is the keylogger most likely designed to disrupt?
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Denial
Elise is helping her organization prepare to evaluate and adopt a new cloud-based human resource management (HRM) system vendor. What would be the most appropriate minimum security standard for her to require of possible vendors?
Compliance with all laws and regulations
Handling information in the same manner the organization would
Elimination of all identified security risks
Compliance with the vendor's own policies
The following graphic shows the NIST risk management framework with step 4 missing. What is the missing step?
Assess security controls.
Determine control gaps.
Remediate control gaps.
Evaluate user activity.
HAL Systems recently decided to stop offering public NTP services because of a fear that its NTP servers would be used in amplification DDoS attacks. What type of risk management strategy did HAL pursue with respect to its NTP services?
Risk mitigation
Risk acceptance
Risk transference
Risk avoidance
Susan is working with the management team in her company to classify data in an attempt to apply extra security controls that will limit the likelihood of a data breach. What principle of information security is Susan trying to enforce?
Availability
Denial
Confidentiality
Integrity
Which one of the following components should be included in an organization's emergency response guidelines?
List of individuals who should be notified of an emergency incident
Long-term business continuity protocols
Activation procedures for the organization's cold sites
Contact information for ordering equipment
Chas recently completed the development of his organization's business continuity plan. Who is the ideal person to approve an organization's business continuity plan?
Chief information officer
Chief executive officer
Chief information security officer
Chief operating officer
Which one of the following actions is not normally part of the project scope and planning phase of business continuity planning?
Structured analysis of the organization
Review of the legal and regulatory landscape
Creation of a BCP team
Documentation of the plan
Gary is implementing a new website architecture that uses multiple small web servers behind a load balancer. What principle of information security is Gary seeking to enforce?
Denial
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Becka recently signed a contract with an alternate data processing facility that will provide her company with space in the event of a disaster. The facility includes HVAC, power, and communications circuits but no hardware. What type of facility is Becka using?
Cold site
Warm site
Hot site
Mobile site
Greg's company recently experienced a significant data breach involving the personal data of many of their customers. Which breach laws should they review to ensure that they are taking appropriate action?
The breach laws in the state where they are headquartered.
The breach laws of states they do business in.
Only federal breach laws.
Breach laws only cover government agencies, not private businesses.
Ben is seeking a control objective framework that is widely accepted around the world and focuses specifically on information security controls. Which one of the following frameworks would best meet his needs?
ITIL
ISO 27002
CMM
PMBOK Guide
Matt works for a telecommunications firm and was approached by a federal agent seeking assistance with wiretapping one of Matt's clients pursuant to a search warrant. Which one of the following laws requires that communications service providers cooperate with law enforcement requests?
ECPA
CALEA
Privacy Act
HITECH Act
Every year, Gary receives privacy notices in the mail from financial institutions where he has accounts. What law requires the institutions to send Gary these notices?
FERPA
GLBA
HIPAA
HITECH
Which one of the following agreements typically requires that a vendor not disclose confidential information learned during the scope of an engagement?
NCA
SLA
NDA
RTO
The (ISC)
2
Code of Ethics applies to all CISSP holders. Which of the following is not one of the four mandatory canons of the code?
Protect society, the common good, the necessary public trust and confidence, and the infrastructure.
Disclose breaches of privacy, trust, and ethics.
Provide diligent and competent service to the principles.
Advance and protect the profession.
Which one of the following stakeholders is not typically included on a business continuity planning team?
Core business function leaders
Information technology staff
CEO
Support departments
Ben is designing a messaging system for a bank and would like to include a feature that allows the recipient of a message to prove to a third party that the message did indeed come from the purported originator. What goal is Ben trying to achieve?
Authentication
Authorization
Integrity
Nonrepudiation
What principle of information security states that an organization should implement overlapping security controls whenever possible?
Least privilege
Separation of duties
Defense in depth
Security through obscurity
Ryan is a CISSP-certified cybersecurity professional working in a nonprofit organization. Which of the following ethical obligations apply to his work? (Select all that apply.)
(ISC)
2
Code of Ethics
Organizational code of ethics
Federal code of ethics
RFC 1087
Ben is responsible for the security of payment card information stored in a database. Policy directs that he remove the information from the database, but he cannot do this for operational reasons. He obtained an exception to policy and is seeking an appropriate compensating control to mitigate the risk. What would be his best option?
Purchasing insurance
Encrypting the database contents
Removing the data
Objecting to the exception
The Domer Industries risk assessment team recently conducted a qualitative risk assessment and developed a matrix similar to the one shown here. Which quadrant contains the risks that require the most immediate attention?
I
II
III
IV
Tom is planning to terminate an employee this afternoon for fraud and expects that the meeting will be somewhat hostile. He is coordinating the meeting with human resources and wants to protect the company against damage. Which one of the following steps is most important to coordinate in time with the termination meeting?
Informing other employees of the termination
Retrieving the employee's photo ID
Calculating the final paycheck
Revoking electronic access rights
Rolando is a risk manager with a large-scale enterprise. The firm recently evaluated the risk of California mudslides on its operations in the region and determined that the cost of responding outweighed the benefits of any controls it could implement. The company chose to take no action at this time. What risk management strategy did Rolando's organization pursue?
Risk avoidance
Risk mitigation
Risk transference
Risk acceptance
Helen is the owner of a U.S. website that provides information for middle and high school students preparing for exams. She is writing the site's privacy policy and would like to ensure that it complies with the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). What is the cutoff age below which parents must give consent in advance of the collection of personal information from their children under COPPA?
13
15
17
18
Tom is considering locating a business in the downtown area of Miami, Florida. He consults the FEMA flood plain map for the region, shown here, and determines that the area he is considering lies within a 100-year flood plain. What is the ARO of a flood in this area?
100
1
0.1
0.01
You discover that a user on your network has been using the Wireshark tool, as shown here. Further investigation revealed that he was using it for illicit purposes. What pillar of information security has most likely been violated?
Integrity
Denial
Availability
Confidentiality
Alan is performing threat modeling and decides that it would be useful to decompose the system into the core elements shown here. What tool is he using?
Vulnerability assessment
Fuzzing
Reduction analysis
Data modeling
Craig is selecting the site for a new data center and must choose a location somewhere within the United States. He obtained the earthquake risk map shown here from the United States Geological Survey. Which of the following would be the safest location to build his facility if he were primarily concerned with earthquake risk?
New York
North Carolina
Indiana
Florida
Which type of business impact assessment tool is most appropriate when attempting to evaluate the impact of a failure on customer confidence?
Quantitative
Qualitative
Annualized loss expectancy
Reduction
Ryan is a security risk analyst for an insurance company. He is currently examining a scenario in which a malicious hacker might use a SQL injection attack to deface a web server due to a missing patch in the company's web application. In this scenario, what is the threat?
Unpatched web application
Web defacement
Malicious hacker
Operating system
For questions 91–93, please refer to the following scenario:
Henry is the risk manager for Atwood Landing, a resort community in the midwestern United States. The resort's main data center is located in northern Indiana in an area that is prone to tornados. Henry recently undertook a replacement cost analysis and determined that rebuilding and reconfiguring the data center would cost $10 million.
Henry consulted with tornado experts, data center specialists, and structural engineers. Together, they determined that a typical tornado would cause approximately $5 million of damage to the facility. The meteorologists determined that Atwood's facility lies in an area where they are likely to experience a tornado once every 200 years.
Based upon the information in this scenario, what is the exposure factor for the effect of a tornado on Atwood Landing's data center?
10 percent
25 percent
50 percent
75 percent
Based upon the information in this scenario, what is the annualized rate of occurrence for a tornado at Atwood Landing's data center?
0.0025
0.005
0.01
0.015
Based upon the information in this scenario, what is the annualized loss expectancy for a tornado at Atwood Landing's data center?
$25,000
$50,000
$250,000
$500,000
John is analyzing an attack against his company in which the attacker found comments embedded in HTML code that provided the clues needed to exploit a software vulnerability. Using the STRIDE model, what type of attack did he uncover?
Spoofing
Repudiation
Information disclosure
Elevation of privilege
Chris is worried that the laptops that his organization has recently acquired were modified by a third party to include keyloggers before they were delivered. Where should he focus his efforts to prevent this?
His supply chain
His vendor contracts
His post-purchase build process
The original equipment manufacturer (OEM)
In her role as a developer for an online bank, Lisa is required to submit her code for testing and review. After it passes through this process and it is approved, another employee moves the code to the production environment. What security management does this process describe?
Regression testing
Code review
Change management
Fuzz testing
After completing the first year of his security awareness program, Charles reviews the data about how many staff completed training compared to how many were assigned the training to determine whether he hit the 95 percent completion rate he was aiming for. What is this type of measure called?
A KPI
A metric
An awareness control
A return on investment rate
Which of the following is not typically included in a prehire screening process?
A drug test
A background check
Social media review
Fitness evaluation
Which of the following would normally be considered a supply chain risk? (Select all that apply.)
Adversary tampering with hardware prior while being shipped to the end customer
Adversary hacking into a web server run by the organization in an IaaS environment
Adversary using social engineering to compromise an employee of a SaaS vendor to gain access to customer accounts
Adversary conducting a denial-of-service attack using a botnet
Match the following numbered laws or industry standards to their lettered description:
Laws and industry standards
GLBA
PCI DSS
HIPAA
SOX
Descriptions
A U.S. law that requires covered financial institutions to provide their customers with a privacy notice on a yearly basis
A U.S. law that requires internal controls assessments, including IT transaction flows for publicly traded companies
An industry standard that covers organizations that handle credit cards
A U.S. law that provides data privacy and security requirements for medical information
Chapter 2Asset Security (Domain 2)
SUBDOMAINS:
2.1 Identify and classify information and assets
2.2 Establish information and asset handling requirements
2.3 Provision resources securely
2.4 Manage data lifecycle
2.5 Ensure appropriate asset retention (e.g. End-of-Life (EOL), End-of-Support (EOS))
2.6 Determine data security controls and compliance requirements
Angela is an information security architect at a bank and has been assigned to ensure that transactions are secure as they traverse the network. She recommends that all transactions use TLS. What threat is she most likely attempting to stop, and what method is she most likely using to protect against it?
Man-in-the-middle, VPN
Packet injection, encryption
Sniffing, encryption
Sniffing, TEMPEST
Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) is a framework for information technology (IT) management and governance. Which data management role is most likely to select and apply COBIT to balance the need for security controls against business requirements?
Business owners
Data processors
Data owners
Data stewards
Nadia's company is operating a hybrid cloud environment with some on-site systems and some cloud-based systems. She has satisfactory monitoring on-site, but needs to apply security policies to both the activities her users engage in and to report on exceptions with her growing number of cloud services. What type of tool is best suited to this purpose?
A NGFW
A CASB
An IDS
A SOAR
When media is labeled based on the classification of the data it contains, what rule is typically applied regarding labels?
The data is labeled based on its integrity requirements.
The media is labeled based on the highest classification level of the data it contains.
The media is labeled with all levels of classification of the data it contains.
The media is labeled with the lowest level of classification of the data it contains.
Which one of the following administrative processes assists organizations in assigning appropriate levels of security control to sensitive information?
Data classification
Remanence
Transmitting data
Clearing
How can a data retention policy help to reduce liabilities?
By ensuring that unneeded data isn't retained
By ensuring that incriminating data is destroyed
