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Access Control Principles Quiz

Test your knowledge on access control principles and security practices with our engaging quiz. This quiz is designed for those interested in information security and access management.

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An organization ensures that users are granted access to only the data they need to perform specific word tasks. What principle are they following?

Separation of duties

Principle of least permission

Roled-based access control

Need to know

An administrator is granting permissions to a database. What is the default level of access the administration should grant to new users?

Modify

Full access

Read

No access

What is primary benefit of job rotation and separation of duties polices?

Encouraging collusion

Preventing fraud

Preventing collusion

Correcting incidents

Which of the following is one of the primary reasons an organization enforces a mandatory vacation policy?

To detect fraud

To rotate job responsibilities

To increase employee productivity

To reduce employee stress levels

Which of the following identifies vendor responsibilities and can include monetary penalties if the vendor doesn't meet the stated responsiblilities?

Memorandum of understanding (MOU)

Service level agreement (SLA)

Interconnection security agreement(ISA)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

An organization is planning the layout of a new building that will house a datacenter. Where is the most appropriate place to locate the datacenter?

Closet to the outside wall where heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems are located

Closet to the outside wall where power enters the building

At the back of the building

In the center of the building

Backup tapes have reached the end of their life cycle and need to be disposed of. Which of the following is the most appropriate disposal method?

Purge the tapes of all data before disposing of them.

Throw them away. Because they at the end of their life cycle. It is not possible to read data from them.

Store the tapes in a storage facility.

Erase data off the tapes before disposing of them.

Which of the following can be effective method of configuration management using a baseline?

Using images

Implementing patch management

Implementing change management

Implementing vulnerability management

While troubleshooting a network problem, a technician realized it could be resolved by opening a port on a firewall. The technician opened then port and verified the system was now working. However, an attacker accessed this port launched a successful attack. What could have prevented this problem?

Change management processes

Vulnerability management processes

Configuration management processes

Patch management processes

What would an administrator use to check system for known issues that attackers may use to exploit the systems?

Security audit

Security review

Versioning tracker

Vulnerability scanner

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