What is a computer crime?
Any attack specifically listed in your security policy
Any illegal attack that compromises a protected computer
Any violation of a law or regulation that involves a computer
Failure to practice due diligence in computer security
What is the main purpose of a military and intelligence attack?
To attack the availability of military systems
To obtain secret and restricted information from military or law enforcement sources
To utilize military or intelligence agency systems to attack other nonmilitary sites
To compromise military systems for use in attacks against other systems
What type of attack targets proprietary information stored on a civilian organization's system.
Business attack
Denial of service attack
Financial attack
Military and intelligence attack
What goal is not a purpose of a financial attack?
Access services you have not purchased
Disclose confidential personal employee information
Transfer funds from an unapproved source into your account
Steal money from another organization
Which one of the following attacks is most indicative of a terrorist attack?
Altering sensitive trade secret documents
Damaging the ability to communicate and respond to a physical attack
Stealing unclassified information
Transferring funds to other countries
Which of the following would not be a primary goal of a grudge attack?
Disclosing embarrassing personal information
Launching a virus on an organization's system
Sending inappropriate email with a spoofed origination address of the victim organization
Using automated tools to scan the organization's systems for vulnerable ports
What are the primary reasons attackers engage in thrill attacks? (Choose all that apply)
Bragging rights
Money from the sale of stolen documents
Pride of conquering a secure system
Retaliation against a person or organization
What is the most important rule to follow when collecting evidence?
Do not turn off a computer until you photograph the screen
List all people present while collecting evidence
Never modify evidence during the collection process
Transfer all equipment to a secure storage location
What would be a valid argument for not immediately removing power from a machine when an incident is disovered?
All of the damage has been done. Turning the machine off would not stop additional damage.
There is no other system that can replace this one if it is turned off.
Too many users are logged in and using the system.
Valuable evidence in memory will be lost.
Hacktivists are motivated by which of the following factors? (Choose all that apply)
Financial gain
Thrill
Skill
Political beliefs
Which one of the following investigation types has the highest standard of evidence?
Administrative
Civil
Criminal
Regulatory
During an operational investigation, what type of analysis might an organization undertake to prevent similar incidents in the future?
Forensic analysis
Root-cause analysis
Network traffic analysis
Fagan analysis
What step of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model ensures that information that may be subject to discovery is not altered?
Preservation
Production
Processing
Presentation
Gary is a system administrator and is testifying in court about a cybercrime incident. He brings server logs to support his testimony. What type of evidence are the server logs?
Real evidence
Documentary evidence
Parol evidence
Testimonial evidence
If you need to confiscate a PC from a suspected attacker who does not work for your organization, what legal avenue is most appropriate?
Consent agreement signed by employees.
Search warrant.
No legal avenue is necessary.
Voluntary consent.
Why should you avoid deleting log files on a daily basis?
An incident may not be discovered for several days and valuable evidence could be lost.
Disk space is cheap, and log files are used frequently.
Log files are protected and cannot be altered.
Any information in a log file is useless after it is several hours old.
What phase of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model examines information to remove information subject to attorney-client privilege?
Identification
Collection
Review
What are ethics?
Mandatory actions required to fulfill job requirements
Laws of professional conduct
Regulations set forth by a professional organization
Rules of personal behavior
According to the (ISC)2 Code of Ethics, how are CISSPs expected to act?
Honestly, diligently, responsibly, and legally
Honorably, honestly, justly, responsibly, and legally
Upholding the security policy and protecting the organization
Trustworthy, loyally, friendly, courteously
Which of the following actions are considered unacceptable and unethical according to RFC 1087, "Ethics and the Internet"?
Actions that compromise the privacy of classified information
Actions that compromise the privacy of users
Actions that disrupt organizational activities
Actions in which a computer is used in a manner inconsistent with a stated security policy
Which one of the following is not a component of the DevOps model?
Information security
Software development
Quality assurance
IT operations
Bob is developing a software application and has a field where users may enter a date. He wants to ensure that the values provided by the users are accurate dates to prevent security issues. What technique should Bob use?
Polyinstantiation
Input validation
Contamination
Screening
What portion of the change management process allows developers to prioritize tasks?
Release control
Configuration control
Request control
Change audit
What approach to failure management places the system in a high level of security?
Fail-open
Fail mitigation
Fail-secure
Fail clear
What software development model uses a seven stage approach with a feedback loop that allows progress one step backward?
Boyce-Codd
Waterfall
Spiral
Agile
What form of access control is concerned primarily with the data stored by a field?
Content dependent
Context dependent
Semantic integrity mechanisms
Perturbation
Which one of the following key types is used to enforce referential integrity between database tables?
Candidate key
Primary key
Foreign key
Super key
Richard believes that a database user is misusing his privileges to gain informaiton about the company's overall business trends by issuing queries that combine data from a large number of records. What process is the database user taking advantage of?
Inference
Aggregation
What database technique can be used to prevent unauthorized users from determining classified information by noticing the absence of information normally available to them?
Manipulation
Which one of the following is not a principle of Agile development?
Satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery
Business people and developers work together
Pay continuous attention to technical excellence
Prioritize security over other requirements
What type of information is used to form the basis of an expert system's decision making process?
A series of weighted layered computations
Combined input from a number of human experts, weighted according to past performance
A series of "if/then" rules codified in a knowledge base
A biological decision making process that simulates the reasoning process used by the human mind
In which pase of the SW-CMM does an organization use quantitative measures to gain a detailed understanding of the development process?
Initial
Repeatable
Defined
Managed
Which of the following acts as a proxy between an application and a database to support interaction and simplify the work of programmers?
SDLC
ODBC
DSS
Abstraction
In what type of software testing does the tester have access to the underlying source code?
Static testing
Dynamic testing
Cross site scripting testing
Black box testing
What type of chart provides a graphical illustration of a schedule that helps to plan, coordinate, and track project tasks?
Gantt
Venn
Bar
PERT
Which database security risk occurs when data from a higher classification level is mixed with data from a lower classification level?
What database security technology involves creating two or more rows with seemingly identical primary keys that contain different data for users with different security clearances?
Cell suppression
Views
Which one of the following is not part of the change management process?
Configuration audit
Change control
What transaction management principle ensures that two transactions do not interfere with each other as they operate on the same data?
Atomicity
Consistency
Isolation
Durability
Tom built a database table consisting of the names, telephone numbers, and customer IDs for his business. The table contains information on 30 customers. What is the degree of this table?
Two
Three
Thirty
Undefined
What is the most commonly used technique to protect against virus attacks?
Signature detection
Heuristic detection
Data integrity assurance
Automated reconstruction
You are the security administrator for an e-commerce company and are placing a new web server into production. What network zone should you use?
Internet
DMZ
Intranet
Sandbox
Which one of the following types of attacks relies on the difference between the timing of two events?
Smurf
TOCTTOU
Land
Fraggle
Which one of the following techniques is most closely associated with APT attacks?
Zero-day exploit
Social engineering
Trojan horse
SQL injection
What advanced virus technique modifies the malicious code of a virus on each system it infects?
Polymorphism
Stealth
Encryption
Multipartitism
Which one of the following tools provides a solution to the problem of users forgetting complex passwords?
LastPass
Crack
Shadow password files
Tripwire
What type of application vulnerability most directly allows an attacker to modify the contents of a system's memory?
Rootkit
Back door
TOC/TOU
Buffer overflow
Which one of the following passwords is least likely to be compromised during a dictionary attack?
mike
elppa
dayorange
fsas3a1G
What technique may be used to limit the effectiveness of rainbow table attacks?
hashing
salting
digital signatures
transport encryption
What character should always be treated carefully when encountered as user input on a web form?
!
&
*
'
What database technology, if implemented for web forms, can limit the potential for SQL injection attacks?
Triggers
Stored procedures
Column encryption
Concurrency control
What type of reconnaissance attack provides attackers with useful information about the services running on a system?
Sesison hijacking
Port scan
Dumpster diving
IP sweep
What condition is necessary on a web page for it to be used in a cros-site scripting attack?
Reflected input
Database driven content
.NET technology
CGI scripts
What type of virus utilizes more than one propagation techniqe to maximize the number of penetrated systems?
Stealth virus
Companion virus
Polymorphic virus
Mulipartite virus
What is the most effective defense against cross-site scripting attacks?
Limiting account privileges?
User authentication
What worm was the first to cause major physical damage to a facility?
Stuxnet
Code Red
Melissa
RTM
Ben's system was infected by malicious code that modified the operating system to allow the malicious code author to gain access to his files. What type of exploit did this attacker engage in?
Escalation of privilege
What technology does the Java language use to minimize the threat posed by applets?
Confidentiality
What HTML tag is often used as part of a cross site scripting (XSS) attack?
<HI>
<HEAD>
<XSS>
<SCRIPT>
When designing firewall rules to prevent IP spoofing, which of the following principles should you follow?
Packets with internal source IP addresses don't enter the network from the outside
Packets with internal source IP addresses don't exit the network from the inside
Packets with public IP addresses don't pass through the router in either direction
Packets with external source IP addresses don't enter the network from the outside
