ISC CISSP Practice Test 73
Question 720
A security operator can both deploy detection rules and delete the corresponding alert history without independent approval. A later change introduces this additional requirement: A production incident requires temporary suppression of a noisy alert. Select THREE elements that together supply the initial control, objective evidence of effectiveness, and the changed-requirement response. (Select THREE.)
- Exercises show critical incident acknowledgement and escalation within agreed thresholds.
- Enforce separation of duties for rule changes, alert suppression and log retention.
- Control tests demonstrate immutable logs and independent authorization for suppression.
- Use time-bounded approved suppression with separate reviewer and retrospective analysis.
- Let the same administrator silently adjust and erase all evidence of their changes.
- Establish measurable service levels, severity criteria and named escalation routes.
Explanation
Correct Answers
B:Correct — initial control. Concentrated privileges allow intentional concealment of policy bypass or suspicious events.
C:Correct — observable control evidence. The relevant result is: Control tests demonstrate immutable logs and independent authorization for suppression. This provides a completed control test rather than an implementation promise.
D:Correct — changed condition. Operational urgency can be accommodated without granting permanent evidence deletion.
Incorrect Answers
A:Incorrect — this evidence applies to another case: A managed SOC has not defined response times or escalation ownership for critical customer incidents. The specified requirement here is A security operator can both deploy detection rules and delete the corresponding alert history without independent approval.
E:Incorrect — it fails the original constraint. Undetected unilateral alteration defeats oversight and accountability.
F:Incorrect — the measure Establish measurable service levels, severity criteria and named escalation routes. addresses a different case: A managed SOC has not defined response times or escalation ownership for critical customer incidents.
Question 721
A security operator can both deploy detection rules and delete the corresponding alert history without independent approval. A designer proposes: Let the same administrator silently adjust and erase all evidence of their changes. What is the MOST significant security deficiency in this proposal?
- Unstandardized severity decisions can delay vital containment and customer communications.
- Operational urgency can be accommodated without granting permanent evidence deletion.
- Incident operations need predictable accountable handling tied to business impact.
- Undetected unilateral alteration defeats oversight and accountability.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Undetected unilateral alteration defeats oversight and accountability. This is the direct weakness in the proposed action.
Incorrect Answers
A:This is a limitation elsewhere: A managed SOC has not defined response times or escalation ownership for critical customer incidents. It does not explain the deficiency of the specified proposed approach.
B:This explains a later shift in requirements (A production incident requires temporary suppression of a noisy alert.), not the failure of the current proposal.
C:This is an advantage of another design (Establish measurable service levels, severity criteria and named escalation routes.), not the particular flaw of Let the same administrator silently adjust and erase all evidence of their changes.
Question 722
A security operator can both deploy detection rules and delete the corresponding alert history without independent approval. The organization has now implemented this response: Enforce separation of duties for rule changes, alert suppression and log retention. Which observation would MOST directly demonstrate that the security objective was met?
- Exercises show critical incident acknowledgement and escalation within agreed thresholds.
- Partition simulations preserve agreed write safety and quantified recovery objectives.
- An approved change ticket for Enforce separation of duties for rule changes, alert suppression and log retention. without a completed verification result.
- Control tests demonstrate immutable logs and independent authorization for suppression.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Control tests demonstrate immutable logs and independent authorization for suppression. This validates that concentrated privileges allow intentional concealment of policy bypass or suspicious events.
Incorrect Answers
A:This demonstrates controls in another circumstance: A managed SOC has not defined response times or escalation ownership for critical customer incidents.
B:This other observation is relevant to: A customer-facing service has active-active database replicas but inconsistent writes during network partition tests.
C:An approved change without an executed test cannot prove operating effectiveness. The needed evidence is Control tests demonstrate immutable logs and independent authorization for suppression.
Question 723
A previous security situation was: A security operator can both deploy detection rules and delete the corresponding alert history without independent approval. Now the requirement changes: A production incident requires temporary suppression of a noisy alert. Which NEW action BEST answers the changed need?
- Enforce separation of duties for rule changes, alert suppression and log retention.
- Let the same administrator silently adjust and erase all evidence of their changes.
- Control tests demonstrate immutable logs and independent authorization for suppression.
- Use time-bounded approved suppression with separate reviewer and retrospective analysis.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Operational urgency can be accommodated without granting permanent evidence deletion. The revised action is Use time-bounded approved suppression with separate reviewer and retrospective analysis.
Incorrect Answers
A:This is the appropriate response to the original situation: Concentrated privileges allow intentional concealment of policy bypass or suspicious events. It does not directly meet the new condition.
B:This remains inappropriate: Undetected unilateral alteration defeats oversight and accountability.
C:This is a record of how the initial safeguard would be checked, not an action implementing the newly requested condition: Control tests demonstrate immutable logs and independent authorization for suppression.
Question 724
A managed SOC has not defined response times or escalation ownership for critical customer incidents. What should the security manager recommend as the MOST appropriate response to the current requirement?
- Integrate customer-specific legal escalation and communication playbooks.
- Enforce separation of duties for rule changes, alert suppression and log retention.
- Establish measurable service levels, severity criteria and named escalation routes.
- Leave priority definitions to each analyst's subjective judgement during every event.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Incident operations need predictable accountable handling tied to business impact. This directly addresses the stated situation.
Incorrect Answers
A:This is appropriate for a later condition (A new healthcare customer requires special statutory notification coordination.), but it does not directly resolve the initial need. Regulated notification introduces obligations beyond routine SOC service timing.
B:This response addresses a different condition: A security operator can both deploy detection rules and delete the corresponding alert history without independent approval. The present case requires the measure described by Establish measurable service levels, severity criteria and named escalation routes.
D:Unstandardized severity decisions can delay vital containment and customer communications. The proposal would not be defensible for this case.
Question 725
A managed SOC has not defined response times or escalation ownership for critical customer incidents. A designer proposes: Leave priority definitions to each analyst's subjective judgement during every event. What is the MOST significant security deficiency in this proposal?
- Regulated notification introduces obligations beyond routine SOC service timing.
- Concentrated privileges allow intentional concealment of policy bypass or suspicious events.
- Unstandardized severity decisions can delay vital containment and customer communications.
- Undetected unilateral alteration defeats oversight and accountability.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Unstandardized severity decisions can delay vital containment and customer communications. This is the direct weakness in the proposed action.
Incorrect Answers
A:This explains a later shift in requirements (A new healthcare customer requires special statutory notification coordination.), not the failure of the current proposal.
B:This is an advantage of another design (Enforce separation of duties for rule changes, alert suppression and log retention.), not the particular flaw of Leave priority definitions to each analyst's subjective judgement during every event.
D:This is a limitation elsewhere: A security operator can both deploy detection rules and delete the corresponding alert history without independent approval. It does not explain the deficiency of the specified proposed approach.
Question 726
A managed SOC has not defined response times or escalation ownership for critical customer incidents. The organization has now implemented this response: Establish measurable service levels, severity criteria and named escalation routes. Which observation would MOST directly demonstrate that the security objective was met?
- A timed test restores identity, network, databases and clinical applications within the approved objective.
- An approved change ticket for Establish measurable service levels, severity criteria and named escalation routes. without a completed verification result.
- Exercises show critical incident acknowledgement and escalation within agreed thresholds.
- Control tests demonstrate immutable logs and independent authorization for suppression.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Exercises show critical incident acknowledgement and escalation within agreed thresholds. This validates that incident operations need predictable accountable handling tied to business impact.
Incorrect Answers
A:This other observation is relevant to: A hospital DR team restores backend databases before essential identity and DNS dependencies, preventing applications from functioning.
B:An approved change without an executed test cannot prove operating effectiveness. The needed evidence is Exercises show critical incident acknowledgement and escalation within agreed thresholds.
D:This demonstrates controls in another circumstance: A security operator can both deploy detection rules and delete the corresponding alert history without independent approval.
Question 727
A previous security situation was: A managed SOC has not defined response times or escalation ownership for critical customer incidents. Now the requirement changes: A new healthcare customer requires special statutory notification coordination. Which NEW action BEST answers the changed need?
- Leave priority definitions to each analyst's subjective judgement during every event.
- Exercises show critical incident acknowledgement and escalation within agreed thresholds.
- Integrate customer-specific legal escalation and communication playbooks.
- Establish measurable service levels, severity criteria and named escalation routes.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Regulated notification introduces obligations beyond routine SOC service timing. The revised action is Integrate customer-specific legal escalation and communication playbooks.
Incorrect Answers
A:This remains inappropriate: Unstandardized severity decisions can delay vital containment and customer communications.
B:This is a record of how the initial safeguard would be checked, not an action implementing the newly requested condition: Exercises show critical incident acknowledgement and escalation within agreed thresholds.
D:This is the appropriate response to the original situation: Incident operations need predictable accountable handling tied to business impact. It does not directly meet the new condition.
Question 728
A field technician transports plaintext backup drives between regional offices using personal luggage. What should the security manager recommend as the MOST appropriate response to the current requirement?
- Restrict removable media and provide approved sanitized transfer procedures between trust zones.
- Use approved encrypted media, custody tracking and secure carrier handling.
- Label the drives confidential but leave contents unencrypted and untracked.
- Invoke loss response, key exposure analysis and applicable notification decisions.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Portable media can be lost or intercepted regardless of endpoint network defenses. This directly addresses the stated situation.
Incorrect Answers
A:This response addresses a different condition: A lab uses shared removable devices across malware analysis and trusted production networks. The present case requires the measure described by Use approved encrypted media, custody tracking and secure carrier handling.
C:Labels alone do not enforce confidentiality or establish who had custody. The proposal would not be defensible for this case.
D:This is appropriate for a later condition (A transport bag goes missing before the receiving office signs the transfer.), but it does not directly resolve the initial need. A missing shipment introduces incident duties even if good transport practices were planned.
Question 729
A field technician transports plaintext backup drives between regional offices using personal luggage. A designer proposes: Label the drives confidential but leave contents unencrypted and untracked. What is the MOST significant security deficiency in this proposal?
- Cross-domain physical media can transfer malicious code or leak data.
- Labels alone do not enforce confidentiality or establish who had custody.
- Physical proximity does not eliminate logical network trust differences.
- A missing shipment introduces incident duties even if good transport practices were planned.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Labels alone do not enforce confidentiality or establish who had custody. This is the direct weakness in the proposed action.
Incorrect Answers
A:This is an advantage of another design (Restrict removable media and provide approved sanitized transfer procedures between trust zones.), not the particular flaw of Label the drives confidential but leave contents unencrypted and untracked.
C:This is a limitation elsewhere: A lab uses shared removable devices across malware analysis and trusted production networks. It does not explain the deficiency of the specified proposed approach.
D:This explains a later shift in requirements (A transport bag goes missing before the receiving office signs the transfer.), not the failure of the current proposal.
Question 730
A field technician transports plaintext backup drives between regional offices using personal luggage. The organization has now implemented this response: Use approved encrypted media, custody tracking and secure carrier handling. Which observation would MOST directly demonstrate that the security objective was met?
- An approved change ticket for Use approved encrypted media, custody tracking and secure carrier handling. without a completed verification result.
- Transfer records map each serial to encryption status, couriers and receipt verification.
- A test infected sample is blocked at the trusted-zone boundary.
- A crisis exercise reaches designated internal and external contacts with approved messages.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Transfer records map each serial to encryption status, couriers and receipt verification. This validates that portable media can be lost or intercepted regardless of endpoint network defenses.
Incorrect Answers
A:An approved change without an executed test cannot prove operating effectiveness. The needed evidence is Transfer records map each serial to encryption status, couriers and receipt verification.
C:This demonstrates controls in another circumstance: A lab uses shared removable devices across malware analysis and trusted production networks.
D:This other observation is relevant to: A data center's recovery plan lists systems but omits who communicates with customers, regulators and employees during a major outage.