ISC CISSP Practice Test 35
Question 340
A critical server room shares one power feed and experiences brief outages whenever building maintenance occurs. The organization has now implemented this response: Provide appropriately engineered redundant power, UPS capacity and tested failover procedures. Which observation would MOST directly demonstrate that the security objective was met?
- An approved change ticket for Provide appropriately engineered redundant power, UPS capacity and tested failover procedures. without a completed verification result.
- A controlled feed failure keeps approved loads running through the targeted window.
- Inspected detectors and approved suppression tests demonstrate design coverage and evacuation interfaces.
- Automated configuration checks show prohibited endpoints absent from production and exceptions logged.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:A controlled feed failure keeps approved loads running through the targeted window. This validates that infrastructure availability requires failure tolerance for predictable maintenance and power loss.
Incorrect Answers
A:An approved change without an executed test cannot prove operating effectiveness. The needed evidence is A controlled feed failure keeps approved loads running through the targeted window.
C:This demonstrates controls in another circumstance: An archival media room uses a water sprinkler system without assessing damage to irreplaceable evidence assets.
D:This other observation is relevant to: An internet-facing service exposes optional debug and administrative endpoints in production by default. In the current case, the assessed requirement is: A critical server room shares one power feed and experiences brief outages whenever building maintenance occurs. The organization has now implemented this response: Provide appropriately engineered redundant power, UPS capacity and tested failover procedures. Which observation would MOST directly demonstrate that the security objective was met.
Question 341
A previous security situation was: A critical server room shares one power feed and experiences brief outages whenever building maintenance occurs. Now the requirement changes: Business impact analysis now requires extended operations during utility failure. Which NEW action BEST answers the changed need?
- A controlled feed failure keeps approved loads running through the targeted window.
- Assess generator capacity, fuel logistics and long-duration resilience.
- Provide appropriately engineered redundant power, UPS capacity and tested failover procedures.
- Install additional locks on the server-room door as the primary continuity measure.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Short-ride UPS support is insufficient for sustained utility outages. The revised action is Assess generator capacity, fuel logistics and long-duration resilience.
Incorrect Answers
A:This is a record of how the initial safeguard would be checked, not an action implementing the newly requested condition: A controlled feed failure keeps approved loads running through the targeted window.
C:This is the appropriate response to the original situation: Infrastructure availability requires failure tolerance for predictable maintenance and power loss. It does not directly meet the new condition.
D:This remains inappropriate: Access barriers do not restore lost electrical power.
Question 342
An archival media room uses a water sprinkler system without assessing damage to irreplaceable evidence assets. What should the security manager recommend as the MOST appropriate response to the current requirement?
- Select suitable detection and suppression under life-safety rules and asset-specific environmental risk assessment.
- Disconnect fire detection entirely to prevent false alarms and water release.
- Stabilize HVAC humidity control and monitor thresholds with alerts.
- Provide appropriately engineered redundant power, UPS capacity and tested failover procedures.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:Facilities must protect people first while reducing avoidable secondary asset damage. This directly addresses the stated situation.
Incorrect Answers
B:Loss of fire detection increases life-safety and property exposure. The proposal would not be defensible for this case.
C:This is appropriate for a later condition (Humidity excursions begin damaging the stored magnetic media.), but it does not directly resolve the initial need. Environmental moisture management is distinct from fire suppression suitability.
D:This response addresses a different condition: A critical server room shares one power feed and experiences brief outages whenever building maintenance occurs. The present case requires the measure described by Select suitable detection and suppression under life-safety rules and asset-specific environmental risk assessment.
Question 343
An archival media room uses a water sprinkler system without assessing damage to irreplaceable evidence assets. A designer proposes: Disconnect fire detection entirely to prevent false alarms and water release. What is the MOST significant security deficiency in this proposal?
- Loss of fire detection increases life-safety and property exposure.
- Access barriers do not restore lost electrical power.
- Environmental moisture management is distinct from fire suppression suitability.
- Infrastructure availability requires failure tolerance for predictable maintenance and power loss.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:Loss of fire detection increases life-safety and property exposure. This is the direct weakness in the proposed action.
Incorrect Answers
B:This is a limitation elsewhere: A critical server room shares one power feed and experiences brief outages whenever building maintenance occurs. It does not explain the deficiency of the specified proposed approach.
C:This explains a later shift in requirements (Humidity excursions begin damaging the stored magnetic media.), not the failure of the current proposal.
D:This is an advantage of another design (Provide appropriately engineered redundant power, UPS capacity and tested failover procedures.), not the particular flaw of Disconnect fire detection entirely to prevent false alarms and water release.
Question 344
An archival media room uses a water sprinkler system without assessing damage to irreplaceable evidence assets. The organization has now implemented this response: Select suitable detection and suppression under life-safety rules and asset-specific environmental risk assessment. Which observation would MOST directly demonstrate that the security objective was met?
- Inspected detectors and approved suppression tests demonstrate design coverage and evacuation interfaces.
- A controlled feed failure keeps approved loads running through the targeted window.
- Access tests show lower-clearance accounts cannot retrieve classified records.
- An approved change ticket for Select suitable detection and suppression under life-safety rules and asset-specific environmental risk assessment. without a completed verification result.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:Inspected detectors and approved suppression tests demonstrate design coverage and evacuation interfaces. This validates that facilities must protect people first while reducing avoidable secondary asset damage.
Incorrect Answers
B:This demonstrates controls in another circumstance: A critical server room shares one power feed and experiences brief outages whenever building maintenance occurs.
C:This other observation is relevant to: A military document system needs to stop users without sufficient classification clearance reading secret content.
D:An approved change without an executed test cannot prove operating effectiveness. The needed evidence is Inspected detectors and approved suppression tests demonstrate design coverage and evacuation interfaces.
Question 345
A new high-risk payment system enters design without a written data classification or abuse case model. The team must implement a defensible safeguard AND demonstrate that it works. Which TWO entries form that control-and-evidence pair? (Select TWO.)
- Define lifecycle security requirements and threat scenarios before approving architecture.
- Design review links classification, threats, control tests and accountable owners.
- Wait until production penetration testing to decide which information requires protection.
- Perform security acceptance testing and authorize release based on documented findings.
- Execute a security retirement process covering identities, secrets, network paths, records and sanitization.
Explanation
Correct Answers
A:Correct control. Early requirements reduce expensive and unsafe changes discovered after deployment.
B:Correct verification. The specific evidence is: Design review links classification, threats, control tests and accountable owners.
Incorrect Answers
C:Late tests cannot compensate for missing trust and data requirements in design.
D:This concerns a later and different need: The service completes implementation and is preparing for release. Implementation completion triggers validation and operational authorization requirements.
E:The proposed control fits another scenario: An organization retires a customer portal but leaves old DNS records, cloud credentials and data backups accessible. It does not directly address this scenario's primary requirement.
Question 346
A new high-risk payment system enters design without a written data classification or abuse case model. A designer proposes: Wait until production penetration testing to decide which information requires protection. What is the MOST significant security deficiency in this proposal?
- Late tests cannot compensate for missing trust and data requirements in design.
- Shutdown alone leaves dangling resources and long-lived attack paths.
- Implementation completion triggers validation and operational authorization requirements.
- Retired services can remain exploitable when access paths and retained data are overlooked.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:Late tests cannot compensate for missing trust and data requirements in design. This is the direct weakness in the proposed action.
Incorrect Answers
B:This is a limitation elsewhere: An organization retires a customer portal but leaves old DNS records, cloud credentials and data backups accessible. It does not explain the deficiency of the specified proposed approach.
C:This explains a later shift in requirements (The service completes implementation and is preparing for release.), not the failure of the current proposal.
D:This is an advantage of another design (Execute a security retirement process covering identities, secrets, network paths, records and sanitization.), not the particular flaw of Wait until production penetration testing to decide which information requires protection.
Question 347
A new high-risk payment system enters design without a written data classification or abuse case model. The organization has now implemented this response: Define lifecycle security requirements and threat scenarios before approving architecture. Which observation would MOST directly demonstrate that the security objective was met?
- Design review links classification, threats, control tests and accountable owners.
- An inventory-driven sweep confirms credentials revoked, DNS reclaimed and data retained or disposed under policy.
- Invalid direct updates fail, while authorized constrained transactions maintain reconciliation invariants.
- An approved change ticket for Define lifecycle security requirements and threat scenarios before approving architecture. without a completed verification result.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:Design review links classification, threats, control tests and accountable owners. This validates that early requirements reduce expensive and unsafe changes discovered after deployment.
Incorrect Answers
B:This demonstrates controls in another circumstance: An organization retires a customer portal but leaves old DNS records, cloud credentials and data backups accessible.
C:This other observation is relevant to: A brokerage trading platform requires well-formed transactions and separation between initiating and certifying financial updates.
D:An approved change without an executed test cannot prove operating effectiveness. The needed evidence is Design review links classification, threats, control tests and accountable owners.
Question 348
A previous security situation was: A new high-risk payment system enters design without a written data classification or abuse case model. Now the requirement changes: The service completes implementation and is preparing for release. Which NEW action BEST answers the changed need?
- Perform security acceptance testing and authorize release based on documented findings.
- Define lifecycle security requirements and threat scenarios before approving architecture.
- Wait until production penetration testing to decide which information requires protection.
- Design review links classification, threats, control tests and accountable owners.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:Implementation completion triggers validation and operational authorization requirements. The revised action is Perform security acceptance testing and authorize release based on documented findings.
Incorrect Answers
B:This is the appropriate response to the original situation: Early requirements reduce expensive and unsafe changes discovered after deployment. It does not directly meet the new condition.
C:This remains inappropriate: Late tests cannot compensate for missing trust and data requirements in design.
D:This is a record of how the initial safeguard would be checked, not an action implementing the newly requested condition: Design review links classification, threats, control tests and accountable owners.
Question 349
An organization retires a customer portal but leaves old DNS records, cloud credentials and data backups accessible. What should the security manager recommend as the MOST appropriate response to the current requirement?
- Power off the web server and keep every former credential indefinitely.
- Place relevant data under legal hold with integrity and access controls.
- Define lifecycle security requirements and threat scenarios before approving architecture.
- Execute a security retirement process covering identities, secrets, network paths, records and sanitization.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Retired services can remain exploitable when access paths and retained data are overlooked. This directly addresses the stated situation.
Incorrect Answers
A:Shutdown alone leaves dangling resources and long-lived attack paths. The proposal would not be defensible for this case.
B:This is appropriate for a later condition (Audit counsel announces that selected records must be preserved for pending litigation.), but it does not directly resolve the initial need. Legal retention may override ordinary disposal for a defined subset of records.
C:This response addresses a different condition: A new high-risk payment system enters design without a written data classification or abuse case model. The present case requires the measure described by Execute a security retirement process covering identities, secrets, network paths, records and sanitization.
Question 350
An organization retires a customer portal but leaves old DNS records, cloud credentials and data backups accessible. A designer proposes: Power off the web server and keep every former credential indefinitely. What is the MOST significant security deficiency in this proposal?
- Late tests cannot compensate for missing trust and data requirements in design.
- Legal retention may override ordinary disposal for a defined subset of records.
- Early requirements reduce expensive and unsafe changes discovered after deployment.
- Shutdown alone leaves dangling resources and long-lived attack paths.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Shutdown alone leaves dangling resources and long-lived attack paths. This is the direct weakness in the proposed action.
Incorrect Answers
A:This is a limitation elsewhere: A new high-risk payment system enters design without a written data classification or abuse case model. It does not explain the deficiency of the specified proposed approach.
B:This explains a later shift in requirements (Audit counsel announces that selected records must be preserved for pending litigation.), not the failure of the current proposal.
C:This is an advantage of another design (Define lifecycle security requirements and threat scenarios before approving architecture.), not the particular flaw of Power off the web server and keep every former credential indefinitely.