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WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION SECURITY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |A+ GRADE
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WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATIONSECURITY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
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Define the confidentiality in the CIA triad. ...ANSWER...
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Our ability to protect data from those who are not
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authorized to view it.
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Examples of confidentiality ...ANSWER... A patron using
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an ATM card wants to keep their PIN number confidential.
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An ATM owner wants to keep bank account numbers
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confidential.
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How can confidentiality be broken? ...ANSWER... Losing
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a laptop
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An attacker gets access to info
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A person can look over your shoulder
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Define integrity in the CIA triad. ...ANSWER... The
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ability to prevent people from changing your data and the
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ability to reverse unwanted changes.
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,How do you control integrity? ...ANSWER... Permissions
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restrict what users can do (read, write, etc.)
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Examples of integrity ...ANSWER... Data used by a doctor
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to make medical decisions needs to be correct or the patient
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can die.
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Define the availability in the CIA triad. ...ANSWER... Our
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data needs to be accessible when we need it.
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How can availability be broken? ...ANSWER... Loss of
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power, application problems. If caused by an attacker, this is
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a Denial of Service attack.
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Define information security. ...ANSWER... The protection
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of information and information systems from unauthorized
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access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or
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destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and
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availability.
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Define the Parkerian Hexad and its principles.
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...ANSWER... The Parkerian Hexad includes
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confidentiality, integrity, and availability from the CIA
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triad. It also includes possession (or control), authenticity,
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and utility.
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, Authenticity ...ANSWER... Whether the data in question
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comes from who or where it says it comes from (i.e. did this
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person actually send this email?)
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Confidentiality is affected by what type of attack? v v v v v v v vv
...ANSWER... Interception (eaves dropping)
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Integrity is affected by what type of attacks? ...ANSWER...
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Interruption (assets are unusable), modification (tampering
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with an asset), fabrication (generating false data)
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Authenticity is affected by what type of attacks?
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...ANSWER... Interruption (assets are unusable),
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modification (tampering with an asset), fabrication
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(generating false data)
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Utility ...ANSWER... How useful the data is to you (can be
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a spectrum, not just yes or no)
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Possession ...ANSWER... Do you physically have the data
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in question? Used to describe the scope of a loss
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Identify the four types of attacks ...ANSWER...
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interception, interruption, modification, and fabrication
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