EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
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1. The internal audit department is investigating a possible accounting breach.
One of the auditors is sent to interview the following employees: Employee
A works in the accounts receivable office and is in charge of entering data
into the finance system; Employee B works in the accounts payable office
and is in charge of approving purchase orders; Employee C is the manager
of the finance department, supervises Employee A and Employee B, and can
perform the functions of both Employee A and Employee B. Which of the
following should the auditor suggest be done to avoid future security
breaches? - ANSWER ✔ The manager should only be able to review the
data and approve purchase orders.
2. The acronym VPN stands for: - ANSWER ✔ Virtual Private Network
3. Executives are responsible for managing and overseeing enterprise risk
management. - ANSWER ✔ True
4. An electrical utility has employed a consultant to perform a controls
assessment of the personnel system, backend business operations, and the
SCADA system used in their facility. Which of the following correctly states
the risk management options that the consultant should use during the
assessment? - ANSWER ✔ Avoid, transfer, mitigate, and accept.
,5. The acronym SOA stands for: - ANSWER ✔ Statement of Applicability
6. New zero day attacks are being discovered on a regular basis against a broad
range of IT systems. Which of the following best practices should a security
manager do to manage the risks being faced through these attack vectors? -
ANSWER ✔ Maintain a list of critical systems.
7. Which of the following BEST explains SAML? - ANSWER ✔ A security
attestation model built on XML and SOAP based services, which allows for
the exchange of AandA data between systems and supports Federated
Identity Management.
8. An intrusion detection system logged an attack attempt from a remote IP
address. One week later, the attacker successfully compromised the network.
Which of the following MOST likely occurred? - ANSWER ✔ No one was
reviewing the IDS event logs.
9. A government agency has a major new initiative to virtualize as many
servers as possible, due to power and rack space capacity at its two data
centers. The agency has prioritized virtualizing older servers first as the
hardware is nearing end of life. The two initial migrations include Windows
2000 hosts (domain controllers and front-facing web servers) and open
source Linux hosts (front facing web servers). Which of the following
should occur based on best practices? - ANSWER ✔ Each data center
should contain separate virtual environments for the web servers and for the
domain controllers.
10.Which of the following is an agreement between two or more organizations
to work together to allow information exchange? - ANSWER ✔
Interoperability
, 11.The DoD has specific mandatory requirements for data encryption. -
ANSWER ✔ True
12.A new IDS appliance is generating a very large number of events, most of
which are not security-related. Select the approach which best resolves this
issue. - ANSWER ✔ Adjust IDS filters that are creating false positives.
13.Good metrics are SMART. The M in the acronym SMART stands for: -
ANSWER ✔ Measurable
14.Which of the following can be useful in information gathering? - ANSWER
✔ All of the Above
15.File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is secure. - ANSWER ✔ False
16.Impact measures are inherently organization specific. - ANSWER ✔ True
17.A Security Manager is selecting web conferencing systems for internal use.
The system will only be used for internal employee collaboration. All of the
following should be priority issues for the security manager EXCEPT: -
ANSWER ✔ PBX integration of the service
18.The firm's CISO has been working with the Purchasing and the Project
Management Office on soliciting bids for a series of HIDS and NIDS
products for a major installation in the firm's new Hong Kong office. After
reviewing RFQs received from three vendors, the company has not gained
any real data regarding the specifications about any of the solutions and
want that data before the procurement continues. Which of the following
will the CISO do at this point to get back on track in this procurement