institutions to regulate behavior, ensure order, and resolve disputes.Ethical dilemmas often arise
when an individual or organization faces a situation in which different moral principles conflict, or
where there is no clear "right" answer. Legal issues, meanwhile, come into play when actions conflict
with established laws or legal norms. The challenge arises in balancing both ethical and legal
considerations when making decisions.### 2. **Ethical Issues in Healthcare**Healthcare is one of the
sectors where ethical and legal issues are particularly pronounced. Medical professionals regularly
face situations that require them to make complex decisions that not only have life-altering
consequences for patients but also raise profound moral questions. These issues include:#### 2.1
**Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent**One of the fundamental ethical principles in healthcare
is respect for patient autonomy—the right of patients to make decisions about their own bodies and
medical
Test Questions
1. Separation of duties is an important aspect of operations security. Which of the
following scenarios does not violate the separation of duties principle?
A. A development team performs unit testing and quality assurance testing.
B. A security administrator is allowed to view and delete audit logs.
C. A computer user is allowed to install software and also to modify her security
profile.
D. A computer user is allowed to install software and alter desktop configurations.
2. A security administrator completed the configuration of an antivirus software. She
was however concerned about how the system would behave when an actual virus
was encountered. Which of the following will help her in resolving this?
A. A script test
B. An ICE test
C. A self-test
D. An EICAR test
3. The IT team in a company with a poor security policy uses a mechanism by which
they are able to access code without any security checks. This is likely to be a:
A. Administrator hook
B. Database program
, C. Security bypasser
D. Maintenance hook
4. During development of a software product, the development team performed unit
testing on the code during the coding phase. Subsequently a different team performed
formal testing on the product. This is in accordance with what principle?
A. Generally accepted testing principles (GATP)
B. Agile methodology
C. Division of labor
D. Separation of duties
5. A user logged into an online banking system using a secure connection and performed
certain online transactions. She left her desk for about 5 minutes and then returned to
continue a transaction on the online banking system. At this time, the online banking
system required her to login again. Which of the following is a reason this could
happen?
A. All secure connections are setup such that they timeout automatically after 5
minutes. Hence it is important to ensure that a periodic refresh is done every 5
minutes so that the web server doesn't log the user out.
B. When a web session is idle for a period of time, the internet connection gets timed
out. Hence the user needs to login again into the online banking system.
institutions to regulate behavior, ensure order, and resolve disputes.Ethical dilemmas often arise
when an individual or organization faces a situation in which different moral principles conflict, or
where there is no clear "right" answer. Legal issues, meanwhile, come into play when actions
conflict with established laws or legal norms. The challenge arises in balancing both ethical and
legal considerations when making decisions.### 2. **Ethical Issues in Healthcare**Healthcare is
one of the sectors where ethical and legal issues are particularly pronounced. Medical
professionals regularly face situations that require them to make complex decisions that not only
have life-altering consequences for patients but also raise profound moral questions. These issues
include:#### 2.1 **Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent**One of the fundamental ethical
principles in healthcare is respect for patient autonomy—the right of patients to make decisions
about their own bodies and medical
C. This is most likely a bug in the online banking software and the user needs to
register a formal complaint.
D. When a web session is idle for a specified period of time, the connection is closed
out since the web server does not receive a cookie from the session. The cookie
has a timestamp and as a result the session gets timed out.
,6. A high security system was found to have a high level of electromagnetic emanation.
Which of these standards is likely to have been violated?
A. Ampere
B. Tropic
C. Tempest
D. Faraday
7. Although the terms event and incident are often used interchangeably, they are
different. Which of the following statements is incorrect in this context?
A. An insider attack is a type of incident.
B. A terrorist attack is a type of incident.
C. An incident may have a positive or a negative impact on the company.
D. An event is a negative occurrence that can be observed, verified and documented.
8. A security officer developed a security program to handle the security requirements of
an organization. The first three stages of the life cycle of the security program were (a)
Plan, (b) Implement and (c) Operate. Select a choice from the following which best
represents the next activity to be done as part of the Security Program.
A. Assign roles and responsibilities
B. Monitor the program
C. Assess business drivers
D. Restart the planning process
9. In the context of an IT environment, what does asset identification and management
refer to?
institutions to regulate behavior, ensure order, and resolve disputes.Ethical dilemmas often arise when
an individual or organization faces a situation in which different moral principles conflict, or where
there is no clear "right" answer. Legal issues, meanwhile, come into play when actions conflict with
established laws or legal norms. The challenge arises in balancing both ethical and legal considerations
when making decisions.### 2. **Ethical Issues in Healthcare**Healthcare is one of the sectors where
ethical and legal issues are particularly pronounced. Medical professionals regularly face situations
that require them to make complex decisions that not only have life-altering consequences for patients
but also raise profound moral questions. These issues include:#### 2.1 **Patient Autonomy and
Informed Consent**One of the fundamental ethical principles in healthcare is respect for patient
, autonomy—the right of patients to make decisions about their own bodies and medical
A. Asset management involves knowing and keeping up-to-date the hardware,
software, firmware, operating systems, and applications.
B. Asset management involves knowing and keeping up-to-date the complete
inventory of hardware, including the names of the manufacturers.
C. Asset management involves knowing and keeping up-to-date the complete
inventory of software in the department including operating systems, applications
and individual libraries.
D. Asset management involves knowing and keeping up-to-date the complete
inventory of hardware including laptops and printers.
10. A bank is planning to implement a security model which allows for dynamic changing
of access controls to prevent conflict of interest. Which of the following would fit this
requirement?
A. Brewer and Nash model
B. Clark and Wilson model
C. The Access Control Matrix model
D. Biba model
institutions to regulate behavior, ensure order, and resolve disputes.Ethical dilemmas often arise when an
individual or organization faces a situation in which different moral principles conflict, or where there is no
clear "right" answer. Legal issues, meanwhile, come into play when actions conflict with established laws or
legal norms. The challenge arises in balancing both ethical and legal considerations when making decisions.###
2. **Ethical Issues in Healthcare**Healthcare is one of the sectors where ethical and legal issues are
particularly pronounced. Medical professionals regularly face situations that require them to make complex
decisions that not only have life-altering consequences for patients but also raise profound moral questions.
These issues include:#### 2.1 **Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent**One of the fundamental ethical
principles in healthcare is respect for patient autonomy—the right of patients to make decisions about their own
bodies and medical
11. Two sets of computers are communicating with each other. One set of computers uses
session keys while the other set of computers uses static symmetric keys. Which of the
two is preferable to provide better protection?
A. Static symmetric keys provide better protection than session keys since they are
valid only for one session.
B. Both session keys and static symmetric keys provide equal protection since
when an individual or organization faces a situation in which different moral principles conflict, or
where there is no clear "right" answer. Legal issues, meanwhile, come into play when actions conflict
with established laws or legal norms. The challenge arises in balancing both ethical and legal
considerations when making decisions.### 2. **Ethical Issues in Healthcare**Healthcare is one of the
sectors where ethical and legal issues are particularly pronounced. Medical professionals regularly
face situations that require them to make complex decisions that not only have life-altering
consequences for patients but also raise profound moral questions. These issues include:#### 2.1
**Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent**One of the fundamental ethical principles in healthcare
is respect for patient autonomy—the right of patients to make decisions about their own bodies and
medical
Test Questions
1. Separation of duties is an important aspect of operations security. Which of the
following scenarios does not violate the separation of duties principle?
A. A development team performs unit testing and quality assurance testing.
B. A security administrator is allowed to view and delete audit logs.
C. A computer user is allowed to install software and also to modify her security
profile.
D. A computer user is allowed to install software and alter desktop configurations.
2. A security administrator completed the configuration of an antivirus software. She
was however concerned about how the system would behave when an actual virus
was encountered. Which of the following will help her in resolving this?
A. A script test
B. An ICE test
C. A self-test
D. An EICAR test
3. The IT team in a company with a poor security policy uses a mechanism by which
they are able to access code without any security checks. This is likely to be a:
A. Administrator hook
B. Database program
, C. Security bypasser
D. Maintenance hook
4. During development of a software product, the development team performed unit
testing on the code during the coding phase. Subsequently a different team performed
formal testing on the product. This is in accordance with what principle?
A. Generally accepted testing principles (GATP)
B. Agile methodology
C. Division of labor
D. Separation of duties
5. A user logged into an online banking system using a secure connection and performed
certain online transactions. She left her desk for about 5 minutes and then returned to
continue a transaction on the online banking system. At this time, the online banking
system required her to login again. Which of the following is a reason this could
happen?
A. All secure connections are setup such that they timeout automatically after 5
minutes. Hence it is important to ensure that a periodic refresh is done every 5
minutes so that the web server doesn't log the user out.
B. When a web session is idle for a period of time, the internet connection gets timed
out. Hence the user needs to login again into the online banking system.
institutions to regulate behavior, ensure order, and resolve disputes.Ethical dilemmas often arise
when an individual or organization faces a situation in which different moral principles conflict, or
where there is no clear "right" answer. Legal issues, meanwhile, come into play when actions
conflict with established laws or legal norms. The challenge arises in balancing both ethical and
legal considerations when making decisions.### 2. **Ethical Issues in Healthcare**Healthcare is
one of the sectors where ethical and legal issues are particularly pronounced. Medical
professionals regularly face situations that require them to make complex decisions that not only
have life-altering consequences for patients but also raise profound moral questions. These issues
include:#### 2.1 **Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent**One of the fundamental ethical
principles in healthcare is respect for patient autonomy—the right of patients to make decisions
about their own bodies and medical
C. This is most likely a bug in the online banking software and the user needs to
register a formal complaint.
D. When a web session is idle for a specified period of time, the connection is closed
out since the web server does not receive a cookie from the session. The cookie
has a timestamp and as a result the session gets timed out.
,6. A high security system was found to have a high level of electromagnetic emanation.
Which of these standards is likely to have been violated?
A. Ampere
B. Tropic
C. Tempest
D. Faraday
7. Although the terms event and incident are often used interchangeably, they are
different. Which of the following statements is incorrect in this context?
A. An insider attack is a type of incident.
B. A terrorist attack is a type of incident.
C. An incident may have a positive or a negative impact on the company.
D. An event is a negative occurrence that can be observed, verified and documented.
8. A security officer developed a security program to handle the security requirements of
an organization. The first three stages of the life cycle of the security program were (a)
Plan, (b) Implement and (c) Operate. Select a choice from the following which best
represents the next activity to be done as part of the Security Program.
A. Assign roles and responsibilities
B. Monitor the program
C. Assess business drivers
D. Restart the planning process
9. In the context of an IT environment, what does asset identification and management
refer to?
institutions to regulate behavior, ensure order, and resolve disputes.Ethical dilemmas often arise when
an individual or organization faces a situation in which different moral principles conflict, or where
there is no clear "right" answer. Legal issues, meanwhile, come into play when actions conflict with
established laws or legal norms. The challenge arises in balancing both ethical and legal considerations
when making decisions.### 2. **Ethical Issues in Healthcare**Healthcare is one of the sectors where
ethical and legal issues are particularly pronounced. Medical professionals regularly face situations
that require them to make complex decisions that not only have life-altering consequences for patients
but also raise profound moral questions. These issues include:#### 2.1 **Patient Autonomy and
Informed Consent**One of the fundamental ethical principles in healthcare is respect for patient
, autonomy—the right of patients to make decisions about their own bodies and medical
A. Asset management involves knowing and keeping up-to-date the hardware,
software, firmware, operating systems, and applications.
B. Asset management involves knowing and keeping up-to-date the complete
inventory of hardware, including the names of the manufacturers.
C. Asset management involves knowing and keeping up-to-date the complete
inventory of software in the department including operating systems, applications
and individual libraries.
D. Asset management involves knowing and keeping up-to-date the complete
inventory of hardware including laptops and printers.
10. A bank is planning to implement a security model which allows for dynamic changing
of access controls to prevent conflict of interest. Which of the following would fit this
requirement?
A. Brewer and Nash model
B. Clark and Wilson model
C. The Access Control Matrix model
D. Biba model
institutions to regulate behavior, ensure order, and resolve disputes.Ethical dilemmas often arise when an
individual or organization faces a situation in which different moral principles conflict, or where there is no
clear "right" answer. Legal issues, meanwhile, come into play when actions conflict with established laws or
legal norms. The challenge arises in balancing both ethical and legal considerations when making decisions.###
2. **Ethical Issues in Healthcare**Healthcare is one of the sectors where ethical and legal issues are
particularly pronounced. Medical professionals regularly face situations that require them to make complex
decisions that not only have life-altering consequences for patients but also raise profound moral questions.
These issues include:#### 2.1 **Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent**One of the fundamental ethical
principles in healthcare is respect for patient autonomy—the right of patients to make decisions about their own
bodies and medical
11. Two sets of computers are communicating with each other. One set of computers uses
session keys while the other set of computers uses static symmetric keys. Which of the
two is preferable to provide better protection?
A. Static symmetric keys provide better protection than session keys since they are
valid only for one session.
B. Both session keys and static symmetric keys provide equal protection since
