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Contains practice exam questions from all eight domains, and they are weighted as follows:    
15% from Security and Risk Management    
10% from Asset Security    
13% from Security Architecture and Engineering    
13% from Communication and Network Security    
13% from Identity and Access Management    
12% from Security Assessment and Testing    
13% from Security Operations    
11% from Software Development Security    

CISSP Practice Exam 1
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25 Questions

1. Landon is a software manager leading a team of developers who are creating wind tunnel simulation software. He tracks and manages the project requirements with a grid. This grid is known as what?
2. Which of the following is the biggest risk of a company converting from Waterfall development to CI/CD?
3. Databases use four transaction properties to guarantee data validity. Which of the following is NOT one of these data validity properties?
4. Sherrel is a security administrator and believes hackers are within her network but that they are covering their tracks well by modifying log files. What steps can she take to mitigate altered log files?
5. During the change management process, the process of scheduling the installation of a change should occur at which step?
6. Lisa receives an email stating that her email box is filling up. The message contains a link for her to click on so that the issue can be resolved. The link is MOST LIKELY being used for which type of attack?
7. Beth is an auditor determining which department and systems to examine for an audit. She also needs details about which processes to monitor. This is an example of which phase of the audit?
8. Joseph is a network engineer and suspects that a new switch on the network is fraudulent. What step can he take to test whether it belongs on the network?
9. Which of the following are NOT phases in the Microsoft SDL process?
10. Carol is a security administrator who wants to be notified of valid staff not gaining entry to the server room (false negative) when it reaches 5 per minute. This form of notification would be considered which of the following?
11. Which of the following is an electro-mechanical type of alarm system?
12. A centralized system that correlates, analyzes, and retains log files for the entire corporate network is known as which device?
13. For single sign-on systems, what does geo-velocity mean?
14. An important part of a service for users of an organization's software product includes which of the following?
15. Naomi needs an administrative control to enhance the confidentiality of data. Which should she choose?
16. Which ports are considered the well-known ports?
17. Which VPN protocol operates at layer 2 of the OSI model using 256-bit encryption?
18. Pradip notices a standard system file is missing. What utility can he use to help determine who deleted the file?
19. Abbe is running the marketing department and finds that her team has sold $300,000 of their yearly goal of $1,000,000. What are the KPI and KGI?
20. There is a cloud feature that monitors specific metrics to determine whether more memory, CPU, or disk is needed for an application to run well. Once loads return to normal, system requirements return to normal. What is this feature called?
21. Randy has installed firewalls to protect his team from outside attacks. This is a good example of what?
22. The device that resides on system motherboards to manage encryption and passwords is called what?
23. When a system fails to display leaky banners, information that's useful to a hacker is visible in error messages. This is an example of which type of attack?
24. What communication connectors provide the BEST defense and security for leaked authentication vulnerabilities?
25. Perry is a security engineer who manages expired encryption keys. Where is the BEST place for him to put these expired keys?

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