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Security governance is most concerned with:
A. Security policy
B. IT policy
C. Security strategy
D. Security executive - Correct Answer ✅ C. Security
Strategy
A gaming software startup company does not employ
penetration testing of its software. This is an example of:
A. High tolerance of risk
B. Noncompliance
C. Irresponsibility
D. Outsourcing - Correct Answer ✅ A. High tolerance of risk
An organization's board of directors wants to see quarterly
metrics on risk reduction. What would be the best metric for
this purpose?
A. Number of firewall rules triggered
B. Viruses blocked by the firewall
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C. Packets dropped by the firewall
D. Time to patch vulnerabilities on critical servers - Correct
Answer ✅ D. Time to patch vulnerabilities on critical servers
Which of the following metrics is the best example of a
leading indicator?
A. Average time to mitigate security incidents
B. Increase in the number of attacks blocked by the intrusion
prevention system (IPS)
C. Increase in the number of attacks blocked by the firewall
D. Percentage of critical servers being patched within service
level agreements (SLAs) - Correct Answer ✅ D. Percentage
of critical servers being patched within service level
agreements (SLAs)
What are the elements of the business model for information
security (BMIS)?
A. Culture, governing, architecture, emergence, enabling and
support, human factors
B. People, process, technology
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C. Organization, people, process, technology
D. Financial, customer, internal processes, innovation, and
learning - Correct Answer ✅ C. Organization, people,
process, technology
The best definition of a strategy is:
A. The objective to achieve a plan
B. The plan to achieve an objective
C. The plan to achieve business alignment
D. The plan to reduce risk - Correct Answer ✅ B. The plan
to achieve an objective
The primary factor related to the selection of a control
framework is:
A. Industry vertical
B. Current process maturity level
C. Size of the organization
D. Compliance level - Correct Answer ✅ A. Industry vertical
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