wgu d430 fundamentals of information security 2024
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WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION
SECURITY 2024/2025 (PRE-ASSESSMENT) 100%
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Define the confidentiality in the CIA triad. - (correct answer) Our ability to protect data
from those who are not authorized to view it.
Examples of confidentiality - (correct answer) A patron using an ATM card wants to
keep their PIN number confidential.
An ATM owner wants to keep bank account numbers confidential.
How can confidentiality be broken? - (correct answer) Losing a laptop
An attacker gets access to info
A person can look over your shoulder
Define integrity in the CIA triad. - (correct answer) The ability to prevent people from
changing your data and the ability to reverse unwanted changes.
How do you control integrity? - (correct answer) Permissions restrict what users can
do (read, write, etc.)
Examples of integrity - (correct answer) Data used by a doctor to make medical
decisions needs to be correct or the patient can die.
Define the availability in the CIA triad. - (correct answer) Our data needs to be
accessible when we need it.
How can availability be broken? - (correct answer) Loss of power, application
problems. If caused by an attacker, this is a Denial of Service attack.
Define information security. - (correct answer) The protection of information and
information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification,
or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Define the Parkerian Hexad and its principles. - (correct answer) The Parkerian
Hexad includes confidentiality, integrity, and availability from the CIA triad. It also
includes possession (or control), authenticity, and utility.
Authenticity - (correct answer) Whether the data in question comes from who or
where it says it comes from (i.e. did this person actually send this email?)
Confidentiality is affected by what type of attack? - (correct answer) Interception
(eaves dropping)
Integrity is affected by what type of attacks? - (correct answer) Interruption (assets
are unusable), modification (tampering with an asset), fabrication (generating false data)
, Authenticity is affected by what type of attacks? - (correct answer) Interruption
(assets are unusable), modification (tampering with an asset), fabrication (generating
false data)
Utility - (correct answer) How useful the data is to you (can be a spectrum, not just
yes or no)
Possession - (correct answer) Do you physically have the data in question? Used to
describe the scope of a loss
Identify the four types of attacks - (correct answer) interception, interruption,
modification, and fabrication
Interception attacks - (correct answer) Make your assets unusable or unavailable
Interruption attacks - (correct answer) cause assets to become unusable or
unavailable for our use, on a temporary or permanent basis
Modification attacks - (correct answer) Tampering with an asset
Fabrication attacks - (correct answer) Generating data, process, and communications
Define the incident response process and its stages. - (correct answer) Preparation
Detection and analysis
Containment
Eradication
Recovery
Preparation in incident response - (correct answer) creating policies and procedures
Detection in incident response - (correct answer) Using tools and humans to decide if
an incident is an incident
Defense in Depth - (correct answer) employing multiple layers of controls to avoid a
single point of failure
Identify types of controls to mitigate risk - (correct answer) physical, logical,
administrative
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