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WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION
SECURITY MIDTERM EXAM RATIONALE Q&A
2024/2025
Access Control List –

CORRECT ANSWER: info about what kind of access certainparties are

allowed to have to a given system

Read , write , execute



Access Control Models –

CORRECT ANSWER: Discretionary ( DAC )Mandatory ( MAC )

Rule - based

Role - based ( RBAC )

Attribute - based ( ABAC )



Accountability –

CORRECT ANSWER:

Refers to making sure that a person isresponsible for their actions .

-It provides us with the means to trace activities in our environment back to their

source

-Depends on identification , authentication , and access control being present so

that wecan know who a given transaction is associated with , and what

permissions were used to allow them to carry it out .




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, Acess Control –

CORRECT ANSWER: Allowing - lets us give a particular party accessto a given

source

Denying - opposite of gaining access

Limiting - allowing some access to our resource , only up to a certain point

Revoking - takes access away from former user



AES –

CORRECT ANSWER: uses three different ciphers : one with a 128 - bit key , one

with a 192 - bit key , and one with a 256 - bit key , all having a block length of 128

bits



Asymmetric cryptography –

CORRECT ANSWER: a public key and a private key . Thepublic key is used to

encrypt data sent from the sender to the receiver and is shared with everyone .

Private keys are used to decrypt data that arrives at the receiving end and are

very carefully guarded by the receive ( aka the public key cryptography )



Asymmetric Key Algorithms –

CORRECT ANSWER:

Secure Sockets Layer ( RSA )Elliptic Curve Cryptography ( ECC )

Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP )

Transport Layer Security (

TLS )

Attack Types –




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, CORRECT ANSWER: InterceptionInterruption

Modification

Fabrication



Attack types and their effect –

CORRECT ANSWER: Interception is the ONLY attack that affects on

confidentiality. Interruption, modification, and fabrication affects integrityand

availability because most of the time they're impacting data.



Attribute - based ( ABAC )

- CORRECT ANSWER: based on attributes , such as of aperson , resource , or

an environment



Auditing –

CORRECT ANSWER: the examination and review of an organization's

records to ensure accountability through technical means .



Authentication –

CORRECT ANSWER: verifying that a person is who they claim to be



Authorization –

CORRECT ANSWER: what the user can access , modify , and delete



Availability –

CORRECT ANSWER: For one's AUTHORIZED to ACCESS data whenneeded




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, BinScope Binary Analyzer –

CORRECT ANSWER: a tool developed by Microsoft toexamine source code

for general good practices



Block Cipher –

CORRECT ANSWER: takes a predetermined number of bits , known asa block , in the

plaintext message and encrypts that block



Brute Force –

CORRECT ANSWER: an attack by submitting password attempts untileventually

guessed correctly



Buffer overflows –

CORRECT ANSWER:

a vulnerability that occurs when we do not properly store the size of the data input

into our applications , causing the program tocrash and an attacker to take

advantage



Certificates –

CORRECT ANSWER: link a public key to a particular individual and areoften used

as a form of electronic identification for that particular person



Childrens ' Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) –

CORRECT ANSWER: sets ruleson data collection for children under 13 to

protect their online privacy




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