IT255 Practice Exam Questions

Practice Questions with Solutions

Chapter 1
1. What is the correct approach for addressing security and organization objectives? a. Security and organization objectives should be developed separately.
b. Security should drive organization objectives.
c. Security should support organization objectives.
d. The site security officer should approve or reject organization objectives. 2. The statement, “Promote professionalism among information system security practitioners through the provisioning of professional certification and training” is an example of a/an:
a. Mission statement
b. Objective
c. Goal
d. Requirement
3. The two components of risk management are:
a. Risk assessment and risk analysis
b. Vulnerability assessment and risk treatment
c. Risk assessment and risk mitigation
d. Risk assessment and risk treatment
4. A security manager needs to perform a risk assessment on a critical business application in order to determine what additional controls may be needed to protect the application and its databases. The best approach to performing this risk assessment is:
a. Perform a qualitative risk assessment only
b. Perform a quantitative risk assessment only

c. Perform a qualitative risk assessment first, then perform a quantitative risk assessment
d. Perform a quantitative risk assessment, then perform a qualitative risk assessment 5. A qualitative risk assessment is used to identify:
a. Vulnerabilities, threats, and countermeasures
b. Vulnerabilities, threats, threat probabilities, and countermeasures
c. Assets, risks, and mitigation plans
d. Vulnerabilities and countermeasures
6. The impact of a specific threat is defined as:
a. The cost of recovering the asset
b. The cost required to protect the related asset
c. The effect of the threat if it is realized
d. The loss of revenue if it is realized
7. Exposure factor is defined as:
a. The part of an asset's value that is likely to be lost by a particular threat b.