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24 TEST BANK ACTUAL EXAM 300 QUESTIONS AND
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A company wants to update its access control policy
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. The company wants to prevent hourly employees f
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rom logging in to company computers after busines
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s hours.
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Which type of access control policy should beimple
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A Mandator
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C Discretionary
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D Attribute-based - ...ANSWER...D
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A new software development company has determi
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nedthat one of its proprietary algorithms is at a hig
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h risk for unauthorized disclosure. The company's s
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ecurity upto this point has been fairly lax.
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Which procedure should the company implement to
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A Transfer the algorithm onto servers in thedemilit
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B Store the algorithm on highly available servers.
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,C Relocate the algorithm to encrypted storage.
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D Create multiple off-
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site backups of the algorithm. -
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An accounting firm stores financial data for many cu
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stomers. The company policy requires that employee
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s only access data for customers they are assigned
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to. The company implements a written policyindicat
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ing an employee can be fired for violating this requir
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ement.
Which type of control has the company implement
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ed?A Deterrent
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B Active
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C Preventive
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D Detective - ...ANSWER...A
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How can an operating system be hardened in accor
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dance to the principle of least privilege?
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A Implement account auditin
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g. B Remove unneeded servi
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ces. C Restrict account permi
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ssions.
D Remove unnecessary software. - ...ANSWER...C
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A company implements an Internet-
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facing web serverfor its sales force to review produ
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ct information. Thesales force can also update its pr
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ofiles and profile photos, but not the product informa
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tion. There is no other information on this server.
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,Which content access permissions should be granted
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Vtothe sales force based on the principle of least pri
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vilege?
A Read and limited write acce
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ssB Read and write access
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C Limited write access only
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D Limited read access only - ...ANSWER...A
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A corporation has discovered that some confidential p
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ersonnel information has been used inappropriately.
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How can the principle of least privilege be applied
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tolimit access to confidential personnel records?
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A Only allow access to those with elevated securit
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ypermissions.
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B Only allow access to department heads andexecu
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C Only allow access to those who need access top
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D Only allow access to those who work in the hu
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manresources department. - ...ANSWER...C
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A user runs an application that has been infected
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withmalware that is less than 24 hours old. The mal
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ware then infects the operating system.
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Which safeguard should be implemented to prevent t
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histype of attack?
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A Install the latest security updat
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es.B Uninstall unnecessary softwa
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, C Modify the default user accounts.
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D Limit user account privileges. - ...ANSWER...D
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A company was the victim of a security breach res
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ulting in stolen user credentials. An attacker used
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astolen username and password to log in to an em
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ployee email account.
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Which security practice could have reduced the pos
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t-breach impact of this event?
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A Multi-
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factor authentication B Oper
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ating system hardeningC Ne
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D Mutual authentication - ...ANSWER...A
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A module in a security awareness course shows a
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usermaking use of two-
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factor authentication using a hardware token.
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Which security failure is being addressed by thistra
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Which tool should an application developer use to
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helpidentify input validation vulnerabilities?
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A scanner
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