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CISSP Domain 8 - Software Development Security Questions with Solutions
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CISSP Domain 8 - Software DevelopmentSecurity
The key objective of application security is to ensure
A. That the software is hacker proof
B. the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data
C. accountability of software and user activity
D. prevent data theft – answer B. the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data
For an application security program to be effective within an organization, it is critical to
A. identify regulatory and compliance requirements
B. educate the software development organization the impact of insecure programming
C. develop security policy that can be enforced
D. properly test all the software that is developed by your organization for security
vulnerabilities - answerC. develop security policy that can be enforced
Which of the following architectures states: "There is no inherent difference between
data and programming representations in computer memory" which can lead to injection
attacks, characterized by executing data as instructions.
A. Von Neumann
B. Linus' Law
C. Clark and Wilson
D. Bell LaPadula - answerA. Von Neumann
An important characteristic of bytecode is that it
A. has increased secure inherently due to sandboxing
B. manages memory operations automatically
C. is more difficult to reverse engineer
D. is faster than interpreted languages - answerD. is faster than interpreted languages
Two cooperating processes that simultaneously compete for a shared resource, in such
a way that they violate the system's security policy, is commonly known as
A. Covert channel
B. Denial of Service
C. Overt channel
D. Object reuse - answerA. Covert channel
An organization has a website with a guest book feature, where visitors to the web site
can input their names and comments about the organization. Each time the guest book
web page loads, a message box is prompted with the message 'You have been P0wnd'
followed by redirection to a different website. Analysis reveals that the no input
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