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CISSP Certification Readiness Quiz

Test your knowledge and readiness for the CISSP certification with this comprehensive quiz. Covering critical topics from risk management to intellectual property, this quiz is designed to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses in cybersecurity.

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Which one of the following is an example of physical infrastructure hardening?

Hardware-based network firewall

Two-factor authentication

Fire suppression system

Antivirus software

Which one of the following is normally used as an authorization tool?

ACL

Token

Username

Password

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

Renee is designing the long-term security plan for her organization and has a three- to five-year planning horizon. What type of plan is she developing?

Operational

Tactical

Summary

Strategic

Which one of the following organizations would not be automatically subject to the terms of HIPAA if they engage in electronic transactions?

Healthcare provider

Health and fitness application developer

Health information clearinghouse

Health insurance plan

Tom is installing a next-generation firewall (NGFW) in his data center that is designed to block many types of application attacks. When viewed from a risk management perspective, what metric is Tom attempting to lower?

Impact

RPO

MTO

Likelihood

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

Trademark

Patent

What is the formula used to determine risk

Risk = Threat * Vulnerability

Risk = Threat / Vulnerability

Risk = Asset * Threat

Risk = Asset / Threat

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

Ryan is a security risk analyst for an insurance company. He is currently examining a scenario in which 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 threat

Unpatched web application

Web defacement

Hacker

Operating system

Which one of the following is an administrative control that can protect the confidentiality of information?

Encryption

Non-disclosure agreement

Firewall

Fault tolerance

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