WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION SECURITY EXAM
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT TEST BANK ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
1. The Fabrication attack type most commonly affects which principle(s) of
the CIA triad?
A. Availability
B. Integrity
C. Confidentiality
D. Integrity and Availability
E. Confidentiality and Integrity: Integrity and Availability
2. The Interception attack type most commonly affects which principle(s) of
the CIA triad? This task contains the radio buttons and checkboxes for
options. The shortcut keys to perform this task are A to H and alt+1 to
alt+9.
A.Integrity and Availability
B.Confidentiality and Integrity
C.Availability
D.Integrity
E.Confidentiality: Confidentiality
3. Something that has the potential to cause harm to our assets is known as
a(n) ________.
A.Threat
B.Impact
C.Risk
D.Vulnerability: Threat
4. Controls that protect the systems, networks, and environments that
process, transmit, and store our data are called _______.
A.Logical controls
B.Administrative controls
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C.Physical controls: Logical Control
5. What is the first and arguably one of the most important steps of the risk
management process?
A.Assess risks
B.Mitigate risks
C.Identify threats
D.Assess vulnerabilities
E.Identify assets: Identify assets
6. Protects information and information systems from unauthorized access,
use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction: information
security
7. A type of attack, primarily against confidentiality: Interception
8. Something that has the potential to cause harm to our assets: Threat
9. A weakness that can be used to harm us: Vulnerability
10. The likelihood that something bad will happen: Risk
11. An attack that involves tampering with our assets: Modification attack 12. A
model that adds three more principles to the CIA triad: possession or
control, utility, and authenticity: Parkerian hexad
13. The physical disposition of the media on which the data is stored:
Possession or control
14. An attack that involves generating data, processes, communications, or
other similar activities with a system: Fabrication attack
15. A multilayered defense that will allow us to achieve a successful defense
should one or more of our defensive measures fail: Defense in depth
16. Sometimes called technical controls, these protect the systems,
networks, and environments that process, transmit, and store our data:
Logical controls 17. Controls that protect the physical environment in which
our systems sit, or where our data is stored: Physical controls
18. The risk management phase that consists of all of the activities that we
can perform in advance of the incident itself, in order to better enable us to
handle it: Preparation phase
19. The risk management phase where we detect the occurrence of an issue
and decide whether it is actually an incident so that we can respond to it
appropriately: Detection and analysis phase
, WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION SECURITY EXAM
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT TEST BANK ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
20. The biometric characteristic that measures how well a factor resists
change over time and with advancing age is called __________.
A. Collectability
B. Acceptability
C.Universality
D.Uniqueness
E.Permanence: E.Permanence
21. What type of authentication can prevent a man-in-the-middle attack?
This task contains the radio buttons and checkboxes for options.
A.Multifactor
B.Mutual
C.Something you know
D.Something you are
ESomething you do: B.Mutual
22. An authentication mechanism in which both parties authenticate each
other: Mutual authentication
23. Describes the ease with which a system can be tricked by a falsified
biometric identifier: Circumvention
24. A user who creates a network share and sets permissions on that share
is employing which model of access control? This task contains the radio
buttons and checkboxes for options. The shortcut keys to perform this task
are A to H and alt+1 to alt+9. A. Mandatory access control
B. Discretionary access control
C. Attribute-based access control
D. Role-based access control: Discretionary access control
25. What type of access control can prevent the confused deputy problem?
This task contains the radio buttons and checkboxes for options. The
shortcut keys to perform this task are A to H and alt+1 to alt+9.
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT TEST BANK ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
1. The Fabrication attack type most commonly affects which principle(s) of
the CIA triad?
A. Availability
B. Integrity
C. Confidentiality
D. Integrity and Availability
E. Confidentiality and Integrity: Integrity and Availability
2. The Interception attack type most commonly affects which principle(s) of
the CIA triad? This task contains the radio buttons and checkboxes for
options. The shortcut keys to perform this task are A to H and alt+1 to
alt+9.
A.Integrity and Availability
B.Confidentiality and Integrity
C.Availability
D.Integrity
E.Confidentiality: Confidentiality
3. Something that has the potential to cause harm to our assets is known as
a(n) ________.
A.Threat
B.Impact
C.Risk
D.Vulnerability: Threat
4. Controls that protect the systems, networks, and environments that
process, transmit, and store our data are called _______.
A.Logical controls
B.Administrative controls
, WGU D430 MULTI/COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM REVIEW
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C.Physical controls: Logical Control
5. What is the first and arguably one of the most important steps of the risk
management process?
A.Assess risks
B.Mitigate risks
C.Identify threats
D.Assess vulnerabilities
E.Identify assets: Identify assets
6. Protects information and information systems from unauthorized access,
use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction: information
security
7. A type of attack, primarily against confidentiality: Interception
8. Something that has the potential to cause harm to our assets: Threat
9. A weakness that can be used to harm us: Vulnerability
10. The likelihood that something bad will happen: Risk
11. An attack that involves tampering with our assets: Modification attack 12. A
model that adds three more principles to the CIA triad: possession or
control, utility, and authenticity: Parkerian hexad
13. The physical disposition of the media on which the data is stored:
Possession or control
14. An attack that involves generating data, processes, communications, or
other similar activities with a system: Fabrication attack
15. A multilayered defense that will allow us to achieve a successful defense
should one or more of our defensive measures fail: Defense in depth
16. Sometimes called technical controls, these protect the systems,
networks, and environments that process, transmit, and store our data:
Logical controls 17. Controls that protect the physical environment in which
our systems sit, or where our data is stored: Physical controls
18. The risk management phase that consists of all of the activities that we
can perform in advance of the incident itself, in order to better enable us to
handle it: Preparation phase
19. The risk management phase where we detect the occurrence of an issue
and decide whether it is actually an incident so that we can respond to it
appropriately: Detection and analysis phase
, WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION SECURITY EXAM
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT TEST BANK ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
20. The biometric characteristic that measures how well a factor resists
change over time and with advancing age is called __________.
A. Collectability
B. Acceptability
C.Universality
D.Uniqueness
E.Permanence: E.Permanence
21. What type of authentication can prevent a man-in-the-middle attack?
This task contains the radio buttons and checkboxes for options.
A.Multifactor
B.Mutual
C.Something you know
D.Something you are
ESomething you do: B.Mutual
22. An authentication mechanism in which both parties authenticate each
other: Mutual authentication
23. Describes the ease with which a system can be tricked by a falsified
biometric identifier: Circumvention
24. A user who creates a network share and sets permissions on that share
is employing which model of access control? This task contains the radio
buttons and checkboxes for options. The shortcut keys to perform this task
are A to H and alt+1 to alt+9. A. Mandatory access control
B. Discretionary access control
C. Attribute-based access control
D. Role-based access control: Discretionary access control
25. What type of access control can prevent the confused deputy problem?
This task contains the radio buttons and checkboxes for options. The
shortcut keys to perform this task are A to H and alt+1 to alt+9.
