SSCP: Controls and Countermeasures
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SSCP: Controls and Countermeasures
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1. What type of control are procedures to back up and restore data?
2. What type of security control is an audit log?
3. You don't have enough maintenance time during the week to perform full backups, so you decide to implement a backup strategy that takes less time to do backups during the week. Of the following choices, what strategy will minimize the amount of time needed to restore a backup after a failure?
4. You have two disk drives and you want to provide fault tolerance by mirroring the two drives. What should you use?
5. Which of the following security controls attempts to avoid security incidents?
6. A computer system records events into a security log, and administrators periodically review the log for security incidents. Which of the following best describes this security control?
7. Which of the following provides the best definition of a security control?
8. What should administrators do after learning that a vendor has released a patch that is relevant for servers they manage?
9. Which of the following provides the best definition of a security control?
10. You need to ensure that a service continues to run even if a server fails. What should you implement?
11. You have two disk drives and you want to provide fault tolerance by mirroring the two drives. What should you use?
12. Your organization is considering adding a security control. The CBA indicates that the ALE without the control is approximately 25 percent the cost of the control. Which of the following is the best choice given these results?
13. Which of the following choices best describes an administrative security control?
14. What are the primary objectives of security controls?
15. Administrators are configuring a group of e-commerce-based web servers in a load-balancing configuration. Customers need to return to the same server each time they visit within a session. Which of the following configurations will support this goal?
16. What should administrators do after learning that a vendor has released a patch that is relevant for servers they manage?
17. Which of the following security controls can restore a failed or disabled control?
18. What is an important benefit to organizations that use virtual servers?
19. Which of the following tasks would administrators complete when hardening a server?
20. What is the overall goal of a change management process?

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