ISC² Certified in Cyber Security Exam Questions And 100%
Correct Answers 2024-2025
What is the CIA triad? - Answer Confidentiality: protecting information from improper
disclosure.
Integrity: Ensuring information is accurate, internal consistent and useful for a stated
purpose.
Availability: systems and data are accessible at the time users need them.
What is PII? - Answer Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Any data about an individual that could be used to identify them.
What is Protected health Information (PHI)? - Answer Information regarding the health
status, the provision of healthcare or payment for healthcare (As defined in the health
Insurance Portability Act).
What is Classified or Sensitive Information? - Answer Information that shall be provided
against unauthorized disclosure and marked to indicate classification level.
What is a breach? - Answer A data breach is a security violation, in which sensitive,
protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen, altered or used by
an individual unauthorized to do so.
What is an Incident? - Answer An event that actually or potentially jeopardizes the
confidentiality, integrity or availability of an information system.
What is an Intrusion? - Answer A security event, or combination of events, that
constitutes a deliberate security incident in which an intruder gains, or attempts to gain,
access to a system
, What is a threat?-Answer Any circumstance or event with the potential to adversely
impact organizational operations (including mission, functions, image or reputation)
What is a vulnerability? - A weakness in an information system, system security
procedures, internal controls or implementation that could be exploited by a threat
source.
What is a zero Day? - A hitherto unknown system vulnerability with the possibility of
exploitation with no chance of detection or prevention because it generally does not
con-form with known patterns, signatures or methods.
What are the typical Incident response plan components? -Answer ● Preparation
● Detection and Analysis
● Containment, Eradication and Recovery
● Post-Incident Activity
What is the ISC² definition of Authorization?-Answer The right or a permission that is
granted to a system entity to access a system resource.
What is the ISC² definition of Authentication? - Answer The control process that
compares one or more factors of identification to validate that the identity claimed by a
user or entity is known to the system.
What is the ISC² definition of Integrity? - Answer The property that data has not been
altered in an unauthorized manner.
What is the ISC² definition of Confidentiality? - Answer The characteristic of data or
information when it is not made available or disclosed to unauthorised persons or
processes.
What is the ISC² definition of Privacy? - Answer The right of an individual to control the
distribution of information about themselves.
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