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Question:

Job rotation policies provide improved security for all of the following reasons except:

Response:

	Reduces opportunities for abuse
	Increases visibility for high-potential employees
	Identifies / Eliminates single points of failure
	Promotes Professional growth

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Question:

Which classification of fuel type is grease given?

Response:

	B
	A
	C
	D

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Question:

Which access control includes motion detectors?

Response:

	Technical
	Authentication
	Administrative
	Organizational
	Physical

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Question:

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

Response:

	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.
	Rijndael's Challenge
	Moore's Law
	Diffe-Hillman's Axiom

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Question:

Which access control includes cameras?

Response:

	Technical
	Organizational
	Visual
	Administrative
	Physical

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Question:

Which classification of fuel type are electrical fires given?

Response:

	A
	D
	C
	B

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Question:

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

Response:

	ATM
	SMDS
	MPLS
	Frame Relay
	SONET

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Question:

Match the following cryptographic definitions to their terms

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
Replacing one value for another using static or dynamic lookup tables	Substitution
Swapping values around using static or dynamic lookup tables	Transposition
Removing redundant or common letters/phrases from plaintext	Compression
Adding redundant or common letters to plaintext to create a more complex encrypted message	Expansion
Adding redundant or repeating letters to expand plaintext to create a more appropriately sized encrypted message	Padding

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Question:

Which access control includes locked doors?

Response:

	Owner
	Administrative
	Organizational
	Technical
	Physical

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Question:

Which of the following packet switched networks is best suited for fiber optic networks with sporadic traffic?

Response:

	ATM
	MPLS
	Frame Relay
	SMDS
	SONET

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Question:

Which of the following is primarily focused on identifying alternate solutions to achieve a task?

Response:

	Detective
	Corrective
	Compensating
	Recovery
	Preventative

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Question:

What is encrypted data called?

Response:

	Message Digest
	Data-in-transit
	Ciphertext
	Payload

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Question:

Which of the following is NOT a RAW authentication protocol?

Response:

	EAP
	LDAP
	PAP
	CHAP

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Question:

Which of the following is not a typical layer 1 topology?

Response:

	bus
	star
	2 layer star
	ring
	mesh

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Question:

Matchup - Terms

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
Converts internal port numbers to external port numbers	DNS
Converts MAC addresses to IP	ARP
Converts Domain Names to IP	NAT
Converts internal IP to external IP	PAT
Converts IP to MAC Address	RARP

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Question:

Which of the following is primarily focused on identifying violations and incidents?

Response:

	Corrective
	Recovery
	Detective
	Preventative
	Compensating

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Question:

Which of the following is the lowest in the OSI model:

Response:

	Data Link
	Session
	Transport
	Network
	Application

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Question:

Which of the following packet switched networks uses HDLC?

Response:

	SONET
	Frame Relay
	ATM
	MPLS
	SMDS

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Question:

Hashing is used to

Response:

	verify integrity and ensure confidentiality
	ensure confidentiality
	verify integrity
	provide authenticity / authentication

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Question:

Match the following examples to their definitions

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
Unpatched servers	Exposure
A virus that relies on unpatched code or OS levels	Threat
The likelihood a threat will be realized, the frequency of natural disasters	Countermeasure
$1M dollars per day downtime	Risk
A proxy server	Vulnerability

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Question:

Which classification of fuel type is gasoline given?

Response:

	D
	B
	A
	C

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Question:

What OSI Layer includes data compression?

Response:

	Transport
	Network
	Presentation
	Application
	Datalink

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Question:

Which access control protects the entire system?

Response:

	Access Control Lists
	Data Access Controls
	Firewalls/IPS
	Operating System Controls/Policies
	System Access Controls

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Question:

Which classification of fuel type is a computer given?

Response:

	B
	D
	C
	A

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Question:

A SHA-256 system will always generate different hashes when given the same plaintext, no matter how many times it is invoked

Response:

User answer
True	A hash is a hash is a hash, it never changes the output. Hashes are used to prove integrity, usually by comparing current hashes (aka message digests) against previous ones (stored filesystems checksums, for example) to prove nothing has changed. Therefore, a hashing algorithm must produce one and only one output per plaintext input.

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Question:

Match the following terms and definitions

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
Intended to discourage a potential attacker	Deterrent
Intended to avoid an incident from happening	Preventive
Fixes component or systems after an incident has occurred	Corrective
Intended to bring the environment back to production levels	Recovery
Identify an incidents activities	Detective
Alternate measures of control	Compensating

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Question:

John's computer access changed with his reassignment to a new department. This is an example of:

Response:

	Role-based access control
	Access List Control
	Mandatory access control
	Owner set access control
	Need-to-Know control

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Question:

Bell-La Padula focuses primarily on:

Response:

	Data Integrity
	Confidentialty
	Authentication
	Accessibility
	Availability

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Question:

Which of the following uses fixed-size blocks of data as well as previous blocks of text for encryption

Response:

	CFB - Cipher Feed Back
	CBC - Cipher Block Chaining
	ECB - Electronic Code Book
	SBC - Sequential Block Coding

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Question:

What formula provides total keyspace size?

Response:

	SLE x ALE
	(n*(n-1))/2
	w[i] = (w[i-3] xor w[i-8] xor w[i-14] xor w[i-16])
	m^e mod n

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Question:

What is the primary difference between NIST and ISO ?

Response:

	NIST standards are free, ISO charges
	NIST insures compliance only within the United States
	NIST produces guidelines only available to federal agencies.
	Feedback: Though they are intended for use and guidance by US federal agencies, NIST guidelines and research are freely available to the world
	ISO publications cover international standards and are therefore not applicable within the US

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Question:

Data stored on an encrypted file system (EFS, TrueCrypt, etc.) does not need to be encrypted when being sent over the network?

Response:

User answer
False	Protecting data-at-rest does not extend to data-in-transit. Often, encrypted data-at-rest is decrypted once it is read from the media, therefore re-encryption is needed before the data is sent over the ire (or becomes data-in-tansit)

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Question:

How many levels are there in the latest (June 2013) OSI model?

Response:

	7
	6
	5
	10
	8

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Question:

Which access control includes audit trails?

Response:

	Physical
	Administrative
	Organizational
	Owner
	Technical

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Question:

Which of the following is a remote authentication system?

Response:

	SESAME
	OpenVPN
	KERBEROS
	TACACS

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Question:

In MAC the access policy is set by:

Response:

	the GPO
	the system
	network ACL
	the role
	the owner

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Question:

Biometric authentication is most often hampered by:

Response:

	Cost to implement
	Rings/Weight change
	User acceptance
	Initial Registration

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Question:

A WAN is

Response:

	the Westinghouse Address Naming convention
	a Working Authentication Name
	one of the Wilson-Adder Need types
	a Wide Array Node
	a Wide Area Network

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Question:

Which access control includes job rotation?

Response:

	Technical
	Administrative
	Organizational
	Physical

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Question:

Encryption is related to Confidentiality, Hashing is related to

Response:

	Integrity
	Authenticity
	Availability
	Confidentiality

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Question:

Encryption, access control mechanisms, access control lists and remote access authentication protocols are all examples of

Response:

	Physical Controls
	Technical controls
	Both Technical and Administrative
	Administrative Controls

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Question:

Account administration, policies and standards, asset classification and reviews of audit trails are all examples of

Response:

	Administrative controls
	Physical controls
	Technical controls
	Both technical and administrative controls

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Question:

Which of the following have the best CER?

Response:

	Hand scanning
	Badge Scanning
	Iris Scanning
	Finger scanning

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Question:

Which of the following is NOT an example of SSO?

Response:

	LDAP
	KErberos
	SESAME
	KryptoKnight

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Question:

Which classification of fuel type is paper given?

Response:

	A
	D
	C
	B

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Question:

Which access control includes intrusion detection?

Response:

	Organizational
	Techincal
	Physical
	Administrative
	Owner
	Technical

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Question:

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

Response:

	Datalink
	Network
	Presentation
	Session

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Question:

Falsely rejecting an authorized user is:

Response:

	FRR or Type I error
	FRA or Type IV error
	CER or Type III error
	FAR or Type II error

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Question:

Match the following terms to definitions

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
Training, configuration management of documentation, risk management	Administrative controls
Firewalls, IDS, encryption	Technical controls
Lighting, Fencing, guard patrols	Physical Controls

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Question:

The ORIGINAL sender of a message encrypted using asymmetric algorithms can reverse/backout the process using the initial public key

Response:

User answer
True	Although technically, the original sender has an unencrypted version to start with, he/she cannot decrypted the message without the private key (because of the nature of asymmetric algorithms)

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Question:

Work factor is defined as:

Response:

	the amount of effort/time required by an algorithm to fully encrypt or decrypt a message
	the amount of effort/time required by an attacker to overcome a protective measure
	the amount of effort/time required by an administrator to establish a reasonable system security plan
	the amount of effort/time required to maintain an established security plan once it has been implemented

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Question:

How many keys does symmetric cryptography use for a single piece of data?

Response:

	Depends on the key size vs. data size
	1
	Feedback: One key only, Vasily. Symmetric keys are shared passwords/keys between the sender and recipient.
	4
	2

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Question:

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

Response:

	Network
	Datalink
	Presentation
	Transport
	Session

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Question:

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

Response:

	Fire/Fuel/Oxygen
	Heat/Combustion/Oxygen
	Fire/Combustion/Oxygen
	Heat/Fuel/Oxygen

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Question:

Match the following key management definitions and functions

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
Keys must be created randomly, securely, without sequencing or plaintext displays	Generation
Keys must be distributed securely, preferably via asymmetric systems	Distribution
Keys must be readily available, manually invoked and integrity checked	Installation
Keys should be protected at rest and prevent unauthorized access	Storage
Keys should be protected, maintained with integrity checks and safe from frequency analysis	Disposal
Keys should follow the least-access priviliege model and align with appropriate safeguards and levels of classification	Control
Keys must be rotated out, ensuring proper remediation/destruction of storage media and outdated keys	Change

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Question:

Which of the following is primarily focused on restoring systems and information?

Response:

	Compensating
	Recovery
	Preventative
	Corrective
	Detective

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Question:

Which of the following is NOT an example of biometric identification?

Response:

	Hand shape/pattern
	Voice
	Retinal imagery
	Ear shape/pattern

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Question:

What is the ideal humidity level for a data center?

Response:

	30-50%
	20-40%
	40-60%
	60-80%

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Question:

Which access control includes training?

Response:

	Technical
	Organizational
	Physical
	Administrative

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Question:

How many bits are in a SHA1 hash (or message digest)?

Response:

	1024
	255
	160
	256

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Question:

Clark-Wilson focuses primarily on:

Response:

	Confidentialty
	Accessibility
	Authentication
	Address Integrity
	Availability

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Question:

VoIP uses which protocol for AV streaming

Response:

	TCP/IP
	H.264
	Vorbis
	SRTP
	Feedback: Secure Real-time Transport Protocol

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Question:

Match the following cryptology tools and technologies

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
One-time pads	Manual	Still in use in some instances. Recall, one-time pads are the most secure approach
Enigma machine	Mechanical	Electrical lights, mechanical crank/spinwheel
AES, RSA Algorithms	Quantum cryptography	I know, you wanted to think "digital" but technically, electronic works as well
Cipherdisks	Electronic	Think ceasar's spin wheel here
Single photon emissions	Electro-mechanical	used to provide secure key negotiation. After the test, go google "einstein spooky action" to see what will keep future CISSP's from sleeping at night

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Question:

Owner-set permissions are an example of:

Response:

	Clark-Wilson
	role-based access control
	mandatory access control
	Discretionary access control

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Question:

What OSI Layer includes data encryption?

Response:

	Presentation
	Application
	Network
	Transport
	Datalink

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Question:

Which of the folowing is best suited for short messages (one block in size)

Response:

	CFB
	CBC
	ECB
	CCMP

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Question:

Which encryption method is most likely to be used to maintain data confidentiality on a mobile computing device (and why?)

Response:

	One-way hashing
	EC
	Merkle-Hellman Knapsack
	IDEA

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Question:

Which access control requires sensitivity labels on all subjects and objects?

Response:

	Manager set control
	Access List Control
	Mandatory access control
	Role-based access control
	Discretionary access control

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Question:

Which of the following is the highest in the OSI model:

Response:

	Physical
	Presentation
	Network
	Transport
	Data Link

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Question:

Match the following control types to their purposes

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
Reducing Risk	Preventative
Correcting violations and incidents	Detective	Corrective controls also help improve existing preventative and detective controls
Discouraging violations	Deterrent
Providing alternate ways of accomplishing a task	Compensating
Restoring systems and information	Recovery

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Question:

All of the following are true about encryption EXCEPT:

Response:

	Encryption keys are constant from version to version
	Encryption is used to protect the confidentiality of the data
	Encryption algorithms are constant from version to version
	Longer keys usually result in more secure encryption

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Question:

Which access control includes asset classification?

Response:

	Technical
	Administrative
	Owner
	Physical
	Organizational

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Question:

Which of the following components of a computer are best suited to brute force attacks?

Response:

	ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
	SCU - Security Control Unit
	CPU - Central Processing Unit
	Feedback: As it turns out GPU's (with their dedicated hardware of multiple ALU's) provide substantially more throughput than a standalone ALU or even a multicore CPU so GPU's, given their comparative speed for encryption hacking, are the preferred hacking hardware.
	GPU - Graphical Processing Unit

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Question:

A LAN is

Response:

	a Least Access Notification
	a Local Account Name
	a Local Authentication Node
	a Local Area Network
	a Linear Applebaum Network diagram

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Question:

Which of the following is the strongest wireless encryption?

Response:

	E0
	WPA2
	Feedback: WPA2 replaced WPA and WEP and relies on AES instead of RC4 (as do WEP and WPA)
	WPA
	WEP

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Question:

A cryptosystem's strength is primarily based on

Response:

	The Security Parameter Index (SPI)
	The cryptographic key
	The closedness of the algorithm (how well-protected it is, how proprietary it is)
	The openness of the algorithm (how widely available it is, how well-published it is)

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Question:

Asymmetric cryptography is more secure, faster and more scalable than symmetric encryption

Response:

User answer
False	Symmetric encryption can be 100 faster than asymmetric and are generally more available to organizations.

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Question:

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

Response:

	Administrative controls
	Both Technical and Administrative controls
	Technical controls
	Physical controls

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Question:

Which OSI layer includes the LLC and MAC sub-layers?

Response:

	Session
	Network
	Data Link
	Physical
	Transport

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Question:

Which of the following is primarily focused on reducing risk?

Response:

	Corrective
	Deterrent
	Detective
	Recovery
	Preventative

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Question:

Which of the following extinguishing methods is best for a computer or electrical fire?

Response:

	Water
	Soda Acid
	ESD Blanket
	CO2

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Question:

Determining whether a subject can log into a system is an example of

Response:

	Accountability
	Authorization
	Authentication

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Question:

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

Response:

	Packet sniffing
	LophtCrack
	brute force/dictionary attack
	John the Ripper
	MAC the Knife

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Question:

Match the following key terms

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
Availability	Reliable and timely access to data and resources
Confidentiality	Necessary level of secrecy, unauthorized disclosure is prevented
Shoulder surfing	Unauthorized viewing of information (screen peeking)
Social Engineering	Tricking someone into giving sensitive information (to gain unauthorized access)

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Question:

Which of the following is the lowest in the OSI model:

Response:

	Physical
	Transport
	Network
	Data Link
	Session

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Question:

Which classification of fuel type is wood given?

Response:

	A
	D
	B
	C

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Question:

More key terms from Chapter 2

Response:

Match	User answer	Feedback
Weakness or lack of a countermeasure	Vulnerability
Entity that can exploit a vulnerability	Threat agent
The danger of having a vulnerability exploited	Threat
The probability of a threat being realized	Risk
Presence of a vulnerability which exposes the organization	Exposure

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Question:

Which access control includes job rotation?

Response:

	Physical
	Organizational
	Technical
	Administrative