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Question 1

Which of the following is the number one priority of a disaster recovery planning?

A	Preservation of IT assets
B	resumption of business functionalities
C	Personnel evacuation and safety
D	minimize reputation damage

Question 2

An access control system that grants access to information based on that information's classification and the clearance of the individual is known as:

A	Mandatory access control
B	Identity-based access control
C	Clearance-based access control
D	Role-based access control

Question 3

What do we call a database that contains the data structures used by an application:

A	data schema
B	data controller
C	meta data
D	data dictionary

Question 4

The process used to break the key and the plain text from an enciphered text is called

A	decryption
B	data ciphering
C	cryptanalysis
D	data extraction

Question 5

Access control and card keys are examples of which control systems?

A	preventive controls
B	detection controls
C	correction controls
D	access controls

Question 6

What is the main purpose of separation of authority in an organization?

A	to ensure that only one person can perform a specific task.
B	to limit the capabilities of each individual
C	to ensure access control systems are effective
D	to improve change management systems

Question 7

Why UDP is known as unreliable protocol?

A	UDP has less priority than TCP.
B	UDP does not use communication channel coding .
C	UDP packets are prone to errors.
D	UDP does not guarantee delivery of packets.

Question 8

Which one is not a goal of business impact assessment?

A	to identify critical business functions
B	to determine the maximum acceptable downtime
C	to identify critical IT resources
D	to determine the effectiveness of access control systems

Question 9

What is the purpose of service level agreement(SLA)?

A	to guarantee a maximum level of quality of service required for an application.
B	to guarantee a minimum level of quality of service required for an application.
C	to troubleshoot the issues and faults as soon as they occurs.
D	to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.

Question 10

The method of cryptography in which both the sender and the recipient use the same key is known as

A	public key cryptography
B	private key cryptography
C	message hashing
D	secret key cryptography

Question 11

What does forensics mean?

A	the process of discovering compromised file.
B	tracking down the prepertator who access the data illegally.
C	preserving evidence of breached system files and data
D	the activity of discovering, preserving, and recording evidence.

Question 12

Security cameras and audit trails are examples of:

A	detective controls.
B	preventive controls.
C	correction conrols.
D	access controls.

Question 13

where can you find Firmware?

A	RAM
B	Hard disk
C	ROM or EPROM
D	USB device

Question 14

Why TCP is a poor choice for streaming video?

A	it does not allow bursty data flow.
B	TCP adds unnecessary overhead such as acknowledgement and sequencing.
C	it has poor error control mechanism.
D	it does not support real time protocol

Question 15

Why does the distribtution of a user's public key not compromise the secrecy of the PKI ?

A	because public key is encrypted.
B	because it only uses the hash value of the actual public key.
C	because a private key is required in conjunction with the public key to decipher the messages.
D	because public key is encrypted with a secret key.

Question 16

Who is responsible for classifying information?

A	information asset custodian.
B	risk manager.
C	information owner.
D	IT auditor

Question 17

What is the main differene between a warm site and a hot site?

A	warm is always powered down and not connected to the main site.
B	warm site is much closer the head office of an organization than a hot site.
C	there is no major difference between a warm site and a hot site.
D	the warm site's IT systems don't have the organization's software or data installed.

Question 18

What is data mining?

A	storing and securing data in a hot site
B	searches for correlations, patterns, and trends in a data warehouse.
C	archiving unnessary data for future use.
D	synchromizing data among all the relational databases in an organization.

Question 19

The process of mapping the available physical memory into a larger memory is known as

A	memory swapping.
B	spooling.
C	memory extention.
D	virtual memory.

Question 20

Who is responsible for information protection?

A	data custodian.
B	data owner.
C	security manager.
D	system engineer.

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