Fred’s data role requires him to maintain system security plans and
to ensure that system users and support staff get the training they
need about security practices and acceptable use. What is the role
that Fred is most likely to hold in the organization?

Sally is using IPsec’s ESP component in transport mode. What
important information should she be aware of about transport
mode?

Which one of the following is not a key process area for the
Repeatable phase of the Software Capability Maturity Model (SWCMM)?

Ben wants to provide predictive information about his
organization’s risk exposure in an automated way as part of an
ongoing organizational risk management plan. What should he use
to do this?

Chris is conducting reconnaissance on a remote target and
discovers that pings are allowed through his target’s border
firewall. What can he learn by using ping to probe the remote
network?

What access management concept defines what rights or privileges
a user has?

Which one of the following is not a classification level commonly
found in commercial data classification schemes?

Files, databases, computers, programs, processes, devices, and
media are all examples of what?

Danielle is testing tax software, and part of her testing process
requires her to input a variety of actual tax forms to verify that the
software produces the right answers. What type of testing is
Danielle performing?

After 10 years working in her organization, Cassandra is moving
into her fourth role, this time as a manager in the accounting
department. What issue is likely to show up during an account
review if her organization does not have strong account
maintenance practices?

IP addresses like 10.10.10.10 and 172.19.24.21 are both examples of
what type of IP address?

What flaw is a concern with preset questions for cognitive
passwords?

Megan needs to create a forensic copy of a hard drive that will be
used in an investigation. Which of the following tools is best suited
to her work?

Kay is selecting an application management approach for her
organization. Employees need the flexibility to install software on
their systems, but Kay wants to prevent them from installing
certain prohibited packages. What type of approach should she
use?

Data relating to the past, present, or future payment for the
provision of healthcare to an individual is what type of data per
HIPAA?

Yagis, panel, cantennas, and parabolic antennas are all examples of
what type of antenna?

While traveling, James is held at knifepoint and forced to log into
his laptop. What is this called?

What is the minimum number of people who should be trained on
any specific business continuity plan implementation task?

Susan uses a span port to monitor traffic to her production website
and uses a monitoring tool to identify performance issues in real
time. What type of monitoring is she conducting?

The type of access granted to an object and the actions that you can
take on or with the object are examples of what?

Which one of the following would be considered an example of
infrastructure as a service cloud computing?

Darcy is an information security risk analyst for Roscommon
Agricultural Products. She is currently trying to decide whether
the company should purchase an upgraded fire suppression
system for their primary data center. The data center facility
has a replacement cost of $2 million.
After consulting with actuaries, data center managers, and fire
subject matter experts, Darcy determined that a typical fire
would likely require the replacement of all equipment inside the
building but not cause significant structural damage. Together,
they estimated that recovering from the fire would cost
$750,000. They also determined that the company can expect a
fire of this magnitude once every 50 years.

Based on the information in this scenario, what is the exposure
factor for the effect of a fire on the Roscommon Agricultural
Products data center?

Darcy is an information security risk analyst for Roscommon
Agricultural Products. She is currently trying to decide whether
the company should purchase an upgraded fire suppression
system for their primary data center. The data center facility
has a replacement cost of $2 million.
After consulting with actuaries, data center managers, and fire
subject matter experts, Darcy determined that a typical fire
would likely require the replacement of all equipment inside the
building but not cause significant structural damage. Together,
they estimated that recovering from the fire would cost
$750,000. They also determined that the company can expect a
fire of this magnitude once every 50 years.

Based on the information in this scenario, what is the annualized
rate of occurrence for a fire at the Roscommon Agricultural
Products data center?

Darcy is an information security risk analyst for Roscommon
Agricultural Products. She is currently trying to decide whether
the company should purchase an upgraded fire suppression
system for their primary data center. The data center facility
has a replacement cost of $2 million.
After consulting with actuaries, data center managers, and fire
subject matter experts, Darcy determined that a typical fire
would likely require the replacement of all equipment inside the
building but not cause significant structural damage. Together,
they estimated that recovering from the fire would cost
$750,000. They also determined that the company can expect a
fire of this magnitude once every 50 years.

Based on the information in this scenario, what is the annualized
loss expectancy for a fire at the Roscommon Agricultural Products
data center?

Two TCP header flags are rarely used. Which two are you unlikely
to see in use in a modern network?

Mike wants to ensure that third-party users of his service’s API can
be tracked to prevent abuse of the API. What should he implement
to help with this?

Fran is a web developer who works for an online retailer. Her boss
asked her to create a way that customers can easily integrate
themselves with Fran’s company’s site. They need to be able to
check inventory in real time, place orders, and check order status
programmatically without having to access the web page. What can
Fran create to most directly facilitate this interaction?

What type of power issue occurs when a facility experiences a
momentary loss of power?

Lauren’s team of system administrators each deal with hundreds of
systems with varying levels of security requirements and find it
difficult to handle the multitude of usernames and passwords they
each have. What type of solution should she recommend to ensure
that passwords are properly handled and that features like logging
and password rotation occur?

What term is commonly used to describe initial creation of a user
account in the provisioning process?

What type of forensic investigation typically has the highest
evidentiary standards?

There is a significant conflict between the drive for profit and the
security requirements that Olivia’s organization has standardized.
Olivia’s role means that decreased usability and loss of profit due
to her staff’s inability to use the system is her major concern. What
is the most likely role that Olivia plays in her organization?

Tom believes that a customer of his Internet service provider has
been exploiting a vulnerability in his system to read the email
messages of other customers. If true, what law did the customer
most likely violate?

Metrics like the attack vector, complexity, exploit maturity, and
how much user interaction is required are all found in what scoring
system?

In which of the following circumstances does an individual not
have a reasonable expectation of privacy?

During which of the following disaster recovery tests does the team
sit together and discuss the response to a scenario but not actually
activate any disaster recovery controls?

Susan wants to integrate her website to allow users to use accounts
from sites like Google. What technology should she adopt?

Tom is conducting a business continuity planning effort for Orange
Blossoms, a fruit orchard located in Central Florida. During the
assessment process, the committee determined that there is a
small risk of snow in the region but that the cost of implementing
controls to reduce the impact of that risk is not warranted. They
elect to not take any specific action in response to the risk. What
risk management strategy is Orange Blossoms pursuing?

What root security issue causes the following issues?
Cross-site scripting
SQL injection
Buffer overflows
Cross-site request forgery

Jack’s organization is a multinational nonprofit that has small
offices in many developing countries throughout the world. They
need to implement an access control system that allows flexibility
and that can work despite poor Internet connectivity at their
locations. What is the best type of access control design for Jack’s
organization?

What US government classification label is applied to information
that, if disclosed, could cause serious damage to national security
and also requires that the damage that would be caused is able to
be described or identified by the classification authority?

Mike and Renee would like to use an asymmetric cryptosystem
to communicate with each other. They are located in different
parts of the country but have exchanged encryption keys by
using digital certificates signed by a mutually trusted certificate
authority.

When the certificate authority (CA) created Renee’s digital
certificate, what key was contained within the body of the
certificate?

Mike and Renee would like to use an asymmetric cryptosystem
to communicate with each other. They are located in different
parts of the country but have exchanged encryption keys by
using digital certificates signed by a mutually trusted certificate
authority.

When the certificate authority created Renee’s digital certificate,
what key did it use to digitally sign the completed certificate?

Mike and Renee would like to use an asymmetric cryptosystem
to communicate with each other. They are located in different
parts of the country but have exchanged encryption keys by
using digital certificates signed by a mutually trusted certificate
authority.

When Mike receives Renee’s digital certificate, what key does he
use to verify the authenticity of the certificate?

Mike and Renee would like to use an asymmetric cryptosystem
to communicate with each other. They are located in different
parts of the country but have exchanged encryption keys by
using digital certificates signed by a mutually trusted certificate
authority.

Mike would like to send Renee a private message using the
information gained during this exchange. What key should he use
to encrypt the message?

Which one of the following tools may be used to directly violate the
confidentiality of communications on an unencrypted VoIP
network?

How does single sign-on increase security?

Which one of the following cryptographic algorithms supports the
goal of nonrepudiation?

Microsoft’s STRIDE threat assessment framework uses six
categories for threats: Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation,
Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of
Privilege. If a penetration tester is able to modify audit logs, what
STRIDE categories best describe this issue?

RIP, OSPF, and BGP are all examples of protocols associated with
what type of network device?

AES-based CCMP and 802.1x replaced what security protocol that
was designed as part of WPA to help fix the significant security
issues found in WEP?

The government agency that Ben works at installed a new access
control system. The system uses information such as Ben’s
identity, department, normal working hours, job category, and
location to make authorization. What type of access control system
did Ben’s employer adopt?

The Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) attack tool used by Anonymous
leverages a multitude of home PCs to attack its chosen targets. This
is an example of what type of network attack?

Andrew believes that a digital certificate belonging to his
organization was compromised and would like to add it to a
Certificate Revocation List. Who must add the certificate to the
CRL?

Amanda is considering the implementation of a database recovery
mechanism recommended by a consultant. In the recommended
approach, an automated process will move records of transactions
from the primary site to a backup site on an hourly basis. What
type of database recovery technique is the consultant describing?

A process on a system needs access to a file that is currently in use
by another process. What state will the process scheduler place this
process in until the file becomes available?

Which one of the following investigation types has the loosest
standards for the collection and preservation of information?

Sue was required to sign an NDA when she took a job at her new
company. Why did the company require her to sign it?

Susan is concerned about the FAR associated with her biometric
technology. What is the best method to deal with the FAR?

What type of virus is characterized by the use of two or more different
propagation mechanisms to improve its likelihood of spreading
between systems?

Which of the following is not a code review process?

Which one of the following attack types depends on precise timing?

What process adds a header and a footer to data received at each
layer of the OSI model?

Attackers who compromise websites often acquire databases of
hashed passwords. What technique can best protect these
passwords against automated password cracking attacks that use
precomputed values?

Jim starts a new job as a system engineer, and his boss provides
him with a document entitled “Forensic Response Guidelines.”
Which one of the following statements is not true?

Which one of the following tools is most often used for
identification purposes and is not suitable for use as an
authenticator?

Ben needs to verify that the most recent patch for his
organization’s critical application did not introduce issues
elsewhere. What type of testing does Ben need to conduct to ensure
this?

Tamara recently decided to purchase cyber-liability insurance to
cover her company’s costs in the event of a data breach. What risk
management strategy is she pursuing?

Which of the following is not one of the four canons of the (ISC)2
code of ethics?

Jim wants to allow a partner organization’s Active Directory forest
(B) to access his domain forest’s (A)’s resources but doesn’t want to
allow users in his domain to access B’s resources. He also does not
want the trust to flow upward through the domain tree as it is
formed. What should he do?

Susan’s team is performing code analysis by manually reviewing
the code for flaws. What type of analysis are they performing?

The IP address 201.19.7.45 is what type of address?

Sam is a security risk analyst for an insurance company. He is
currently examining a scenario where a 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
vulnerability?

Which one of the following categories of secure data removal
techniques would include degaussing?

What type of alternate processing facility includes all of the
hardware and data necessary to restore operations in a matter of
minutes or seconds?

What UDP port is typically used by the syslog service?

Fred finds a packet that his protocol analyzer shows with both PSH
and URG set. What type of packet is he looking at, and what do the
flags mean?

Alejandro is an incident response analyst for a large
corporation. He is on the midnight shift when an intrusion
detection system alerts him to a potential brute-force password
attack against one of the company’s critical information
systems. He performs an initial triage of the event before taking
any additional action.

What stage of the incident response process is Alejandro currently
conducting?

Alejandro is an incident response analyst for a large
corporation. He is on the midnight shift when an intrusion
detection system alerts him to a potential brute-force password
attack against one of the company’s critical information
systems. He performs an initial triage of the event before taking
any additional action.

If Alejandro’s initial investigation determines that a security
incident is likely taking place, what should be his next step?

Alejandro is an incident response analyst for a large
corporation. He is on the midnight shift when an intrusion
detection system alerts him to a potential brute-force password
attack against one of the company’s critical information
systems. He performs an initial triage of the event before taking
any additional action.

As the incident response progresses, during which stage should the
team conduct a root cause analysis?

Barry recently received a message from Melody that Melody
encrypted using symmetric cryptography. What key should Barry
use to decrypt the message?

After you do automated functional testing with 100 percent
coverage of an application, what type of error is most likely to
remain?

During what phase of the incident response process would security
professionals analyze the process itself to determine whether any
improvements are warranted?

What law prevents the removal of protection mechanisms placed
on a copyrighted work by the copyright holder?

Linda is selecting a disaster recovery facility for her organization,
and she wishes to retain independence from other organizations as
much as possible. She would like to choose a facility that balances
cost and recovery time, allowing activation in about one week after
a disaster is declared. What type of facility should she choose?

Purchasing insurance is a form of what type of risk response?

What type of penetration testing provides detail on the scope of a
penetration test—including items like what systems would be
targeted—but does not provide full visibility into the configuration
or other details of the systems or networks the penetration tester
must test?

Test coverage is computed using which of the following formulas?

TCP and UDP both operate at what layer of the OSI model?

Which one of the following goals of physical security environments
occurs first in the functional order of controls?

In what type of trusted recovery process is the system able to
recover without administrator intervention but the system may
suffer some loss of data?

Skip needs to transfer files from his PC to a remote server. What
protocol should he use instead of FTP?

Ben’s New York–based commercial web service collects personal
information from California residents. What does the California
Online Privacy Protection Act require Ben to do to be compliant?

What process is used to verify that a dial-up user is connecting
from the phone number they are preauthorized to use in a way that
avoids spoofing?

The Meltdown bug announced in early 2018 exposed kernel data
to user application space. What two rings are these referred to as
for x86 PCs?

What advantage do iris scans have over most other types of
biometric factors?

Alex would like to ask all of his staff to sign an agreement that they
will not share his organization’s intellectual property with
unauthorized individuals. What type of agreement should Alex ask
employees to sign?

Matthew, Richard, and Christopher would like to exchange
messages with each other using symmetric cryptography. They
want to ensure that each individual can privately send a message to
another individual without the third person being able to read the
message. How many keys do they need?

Which one of the following is not an example of criminal law?

What is the best way to ensure email confidentiality in motion?

Brenda is analyzing the web server logs after a successful
compromise of her organization’s web-based order processing
application. She finds an entry in the log file showing that a user
entered the following information as his last name when placing an
order:
Smith’;DROP TABLE orders;--
What type of attack was attempted?

What type of policy describes how long data is kept before
destruction?

What is the goal of the BCP process?

During which phase of the incident response process would
administrators design new security controls intended to prevent a
recurrence of the incident?

Bethany received an email from one of her colleagues with an
unusual attachment named smime.p7s. She does not recognize the
attachment and is unsure what to do. What is the most likely
scenario?

Kim is the database security administrator for Aircraft Systems,
Inc. (ASI). ASI is a military contractor engaged in the design
and analysis of aircraft avionics systems and regularly handles
classified information on behalf of the government and other
government contractors. Kim is concerned about ensuring the
security of information stored in ASI databases.
Kim’s database is a multilevel security database, and different
ASI employees have different security clearances. The database
contains information on the location of military aircraft
containing ASI systems to allow ASI staff to monitor those
systems.

Kim learned that the military is planning a classified mission that
involves some ASI aircraft. She is concerned that employees not
cleared for the mission may learn of it by noticing the movement of
many aircraft to the region. Individual employees are cleared to
know about the movement of an individual aircraft, but they are
not cleared to know about the overall mission. What type of attack
is Kim concerned about?

Kim is the database security administrator for Aircraft Systems,
Inc. (ASI). ASI is a military contractor engaged in the design
and analysis of aircraft avionics systems and regularly handles
classified information on behalf of the government and other
government contractors. Kim is concerned about ensuring the
security of information stored in ASI databases.
Kim’s database is a multilevel security database, and different
ASI employees have different security clearances. The database
contains information on the location of military aircraft
containing ASI systems to allow ASI staff to monitor those
systems.

What technique can Kim employ to prevent employees not cleared
for the mission from learning the true location of the aircraft?

Kim is the database security administrator for Aircraft Systems,
Inc. (ASI). ASI is a military contractor engaged in the design
and analysis of aircraft avionics systems and regularly handles
classified information on behalf of the government and other
government contractors. Kim is concerned about ensuring the
security of information stored in ASI databases.
Kim’s database is a multilevel security database, and different
ASI employees have different security clearances. The database
contains information on the location of military aircraft
containing ASI systems to allow ASI staff to monitor those
systems.

Kim’s database uniquely identifies aircraft by using their tail
number. Which one of the following terms would not necessarily
accurately describe the tail number?

Kim is the database security administrator for Aircraft Systems,
Inc. (ASI). ASI is a military contractor engaged in the design
and analysis of aircraft avionics systems and regularly handles
classified information on behalf of the government and other
government contractors. Kim is concerned about ensuring the
security of information stored in ASI databases.
Kim’s database is a multilevel security database, and different
ASI employees have different security clearances. The database
contains information on the location of military aircraft
containing ASI systems to allow ASI staff to monitor those
systems.

Kim would like to create a key that enforces referential integrity for
the database. What type of key does she need to create?

Doug is choosing a software development life-cycle model for use
in a project he is leading to develop a new business application. He
has very clearly defined requirements and would like to choose an
approach that places an early emphasis on developing
comprehensive documentation. He does not have a need for the
production of rapid prototypes or iterative improvement. Which
model is most appropriate for this scenario?

What should be true for salts used in password hashes?

Which individual bears the ultimate responsibility for data
protection tasks?

What type of assessment methods are associated with mechanisms
and activities based on the recommendations of NIST SP800-53A,
the Guide for Assessing Security Controls in Federal Information
Systems?

Which one of the following controls would be most effective in
detecting zero-day attack attempts?

The ability to store and generate passwords, provide logging and
auditing capabilities, and allow password check-in and check-out
are all features of what type of system?

Which one of the following components should be included in an
organization’s emergency response guidelines?

When Jim enters his organization’s data center, he has to use a
smart card and code to enter and is allowed through one set of
doors. The first set of doors closes, and he must then use his card
again to get through a second set, which locks behind him. What
type of control is this, and what is it called?

What security control may be used to implement a concept known
as two-person control?