Overall Questions (15 random)

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Your score was: 53 %

Remember, these quizzes test your overall CISSP knowledge but should not be used as CISSP exam prep examples.

Question Results

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Question:

Motion detectors, video cameras, fences, locked doors, guards and dogs are all examples of

Response:

Physical controls

Both Technical and Administrative controls

Technical controls

Administrative controls

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Question:

"The strength of the cryptosystem is a function of the keys, not the algorithm" is also known as

Response:

Rijndael's Challenge

Kerckhoff's Principle

Feedback:

Auguste Kerckhoff, trying to get the French to clean up their military cryptography back in 1883... seriously kickin' it old school.

Diffe-Hillman's Axiom

Moore's Law

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Question:

Which of the following packet switched networks is best suited to support fully meshed VPNs?

Response:

ATM

SMDS

MPLS

SONET

Frame Relay

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Question:

What is the ideal humidity level for a data center?

Response:

60-80%

40-60%

20-40%

30-50%

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Question:

Which classification of fuel type is paper given?

Response:

C

D

A

B

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Question:

Which of the following packet switched networks uses HDLC?

Response:

SONET

SMDS

ATM

Frame Relay

MPLS

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Question:

Which classification of fuel type is a computer given?

Response:

D

A

C

B

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Question:

What OSI Layer includes data encryption?

Response:

Transport

Datalink

Presentation

Application

Network

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Question:

Biometric authentication is most often hampered by:

Response:

Cost to implement

Rings/Weight change

Initial Registration

User acceptance

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Question:

Which of the following is immediately above the Transport Layer in the OSI model:

Response:

Presentation

Datalink

Session

Network

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Question:

Which classification of fuel type are electrical fires given?

Response:

C

A

D

B

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Question:

Which of the following are the three components of the fire triangle?

Response:

Fire/Combustion/Oxygen

Fire/Fuel/Oxygen

Heat/Combustion/Oxygen

Heat/Fuel/Oxygen

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Question:

Which of the following would be the least useful in attempting to crack a password?

Response:

LophtCrack

John the Ripper

brute force/dictionary attack

Packet sniffing

MAC the Knife

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Question:

Match the following control types to their purposes

Response:

MatchUser answerFeedback

Reducing Risk

Preventative

correct

Correcting violations and incidents

Detective

Corrective controls also help improve existing preventative and detective controls

correct

Discouraging violations

Deterrent

correct

Providing alternate ways of accomplishing a task

Compensating

correct

Restoring systems and information

Recovery

correct
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Question:

A WAN is

Response:

one of the Wilson-Adder Need types

a Wide Area Network

the Westinghouse Address Naming convention

a Working Authentication Name

a Wide Array Node