The NCSC promotes information systems security awareness and technology transfer through many channels, including the annual National Information Systems Security Conference. It was founded in 1981 as the Department of Defense Computer Security Center , and its name was change in 1985 to NCSc. It developed the Trusted Computer Evaluation Program Rainbow series for evaluating commercial products against information system security criteria. All the other answers are, therefore incorrect since they refer to NIST, which is under the US Department of Commerce.
Question 27
Which disaster recovery/emergency management plan testing type below is considered the most cost-effective and efficient way to identify areas of overlap in the plan before conducting more demanding training exercises?
Correct Answer: B
In a table-top exercise, members of the emergency management group meet in a conference room setting to discuss their responsibilities and how they would react to emergency scenarios. Disaster recovery/emergency management plan testing scenarios have several levels, and can be called different things. The primary hierarchy of disaster/emergency testing plan types is shown below. Checklist review. Plan is distributed and reviewed by business units for its thoroughness and effectiveness. Table-top exercise or structured walk-through test. Members of the emergency management group meet in a conference room setting to discuss their responsibilities and how they would react to emergency scenarios by stepping through the plan. Walk-through drill or simulation test. The emergency management group and response teams actually perform their emergency response functions by walking through the test, without actually initiating recovery procedures. More thorough than the table-top exercise. Functional drills. Test specific functions such as medical response, emergency notifications, warning and communications procedures, and equipment, although not necessarily all at once. Also includes evacuation drills, where personnel walk the evacuation route to a designated area where procedures for accounting for the personnel are tested. Parallel test or full-scale exercise. A real-life emergency situation is simulated as closely as possible. Involves all of the participants that would be responding to the real emergency, including community and external organizations. The test may involve ceasing some real production processing. Source: Emergency Management Guide for Business and Industry, Federal Emergency Management Agency, August 1998 and Computer Security Basics, by Deborah Russell and G.T. Gangemi, Sr. (OReilly, 1992).
Question 28
What should an auditor do when conducting a periodic audit on media retention?
Correct Answer: C
Question 29
On UNIX systems, passwords shall be kept:
Correct Answer: B
When possible, on UNIX systems, passwords shall not be kept in the /etc/passwd file, but rather in a shadow password file which can be modified only by root or a program executing on behalf of root.
Question 30
Java is not:
Correct Answer: C
Explanation/Reference: Explanation: JAVA was developed so that the same program could be executed on multiple hardware and operating system platforms, it is not Architecture Specific. Incorrect Answers: A: JAVA is object-oriented as it works with classes and objects. B: JAVA was developed to be used in a distributed computing environment. D: JAVA is multi-threaded that is calls to subroutines as is the case with object-oriented programming. References: Harris, Shon, All In One CISSP Exam Guide, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2013, p. 1148