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An IS auditor is reviewing a software-based firewall configuration. Which of the following represents the GREATEST vulnerability? The firewall software:

A. is configured with an implicit deny rule as the last rule in the rule base.

B. is installed on an operating system with default settings.

C. has been configured with rules permitting or denying access to systems or networks.

D. is configured as a virtual private network (VPN) endpoint.

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Question 454: A transaction journal provides the information necessary for...; Question 455: Which of the following disaster recovery/continuity plan com...; Question 456: Which of the following BEST ensures the integrity of a serve...; Question 457: Which of the following should an IS auditor recommend for th...; Question 458: An IS auditor has identified the lack of an authorization pr...; Question 459: After discovering a security vulnerability in a third-party ...; Question 460: There are several methods of providing telecommunications co...; Question 461: An IS auditor should recommend the use of library control so...; Question 462: An organization has outsourced its wide area network (WAN) t...; Question 463: Reconfiguring which of the following firewall types will pre...; Question 464: A control that detects transmission errors by appending calc...; Question 465: Which of the following would BEST ensure continuity of a wid...; Question 466: Normally, it would be essential to involve which of the foll...; Question 467: A local area network (LAN) administrator normally would be r...; Question 468: IS management has decided to rewrite a legacy customer relat...; Question 469: How does the process of systems auditing benefit from using ...; Question 470: Which of the following would effectively verify the originat...; Question 471: An organization has contracted with a vendor for a turnkey s...; Question 472: For application acquisitions with significant impacts, parti...; Question 473: Which of the following is an example of the defense in-depth...; Question 474: Security should ALWAYS be an all or nothing issue....; Question 475: Which of the following would be the MOST cost-effective reco...; Question 476: When reviewing the IT strategic planning process, an IS audi...; Question 477: Batch control reconciliation is a _____________________ (fil...; Question 478: The implementation of access controls FIRST requires:...; Question 479: An IS auditor is performing an audit of a network operating ...; Question 480: Talking about the different approaches to security in comput...; Question 481: What is often the most difficult part of initial efforts in ...; Question 482: The PRIMARY objective of business continuity and disaster re...; Question 483: Which of the following is the MOST important action in recov...; Question 484: Which of the following should be the MOST important criterio...; Question 485: Which of the following should be the MOST important consider...; Question 486: To aid management in achieving IT and business alignment, an...; Question 487: For which of the following applications would rapid recovery...; Question 488: Which of the following would BEST provide assurance of the i...; Question 489: What is the BEST approach to mitigate the risk of a phishing...; Question 490: An organization has recently installed a security patch, whi...; Question 491: An IS auditor reviewing an accounts payable system discovers...; Question 492: During what process should router access control lists be re...; Question 493: Which of the following controls would an IS auditor look for...; Question 494: Which of the following would be the BEST access control proc...; Question 495: While copying files from a floppy disk, a user introduced a ...; Question 496: Which of the following should an IS auditor review to determ...; Question 497: Which of the following BEST restricts users to those functio...; Question 498: An IS auditor attempting to determine whether access to prog...; Question 499: Which of the following would be the BEST population to take ...; Question 500: An IS auditor examining a biometric user authentication syst...; Question 501: When using a digital signature, the message digest is comput...; Question 502: The application systems of an organization using open-source...; Question 503: What type of fire-suppression system suppresses fire via wat...; Question 504: Which of the following hardware devices relieves the central...; Question 505: To provide protection for media backup stored at an offsite ...; Question 506: Input/output controls should be implemented for which applic...; Question 507: As a driver of IT governance, transparency of IT's cost, val...; Question 508: Which type of major BCP test only requires representatives f...; Question 509: Which of the following risks could result from inadequate so...; Question 510: An appropriate control for ensuring the authenticity of orde...; Question 511: With respect to business continuity strategies, an IS audito...; Question 512: Effective transactional controls are often capable of offeri...; Question 513: The use of digital signatures:; Question 514: Doing which of the following during peak production hours co...; Question 515: Which of the following is a passive attack to a network?...; Question 516: During the review of a web-based software development projec...; Question 517: Overall business risk for a particular threat can be express...; Question 518: An information security policy stating that 'the display of ...; Question 519: A database administrator has detected a performance problem ...; Question 520: An IS auditor can verify that an organization's business con...; Question 521: A major portion of what is required to address nonrepudiatio...; Question 522: While reviewing sensitive electronic work papers, the IS aud...; Question 523: In determining the acceptable time period for the resumption...; Question 524: Which of the following is the BEST method for preventing the...; Question 525: An organization can ensure that the recipients of e-mails fr...; Question 526: Well-written risk assessment guidelines for IS auditing shou...; Question 527: Which of the following is the MOST effective control when gr...; Question 528: What can be implemented to provide the highest level of prot...; Question 529: Which of the following could lead to an unintentional loss o...; Question 530: Which of the following is the MOST important objective of da...; Question 531: Which of the following best characterizes "worms"?...; Question 532: The BEST method of proving the accuracy of a system tax calc...; Question 533: A benefit of quality of service (QoS) is that the:...; Question 534: In auditing a web server, an IS auditor should be concerned ...; Question 535: What is the recommended initial step for an IS auditor to im...; Question 536: Which of the following software tools is often used for stea...; Question 537: Minimum password length and password complexity verification...; Question 538: Which of the following will BEST ensure the successful offsh...; Question 539: A business application system accesses a corporate database ...; Question 540: What process is used to validate a subject's identity?...; Question 541: Data flow diagrams are used by IS auditors to:...; Question 542: An IS auditor reviewing digital rights management (DRM) appl...; Question 543: Using the OSI reference model, what layer(s) is/are used to ...; Question 544: An accuracy measure for a biometric system is:...; Question 545: Which of the following tests is an IS auditor performing whe...; Question 546: An IS auditor's PRIMARY concern when application developers ...; Question 547: In wireless communication, which of the following controls a...; Question 548: The reliability of an application system's audit trail may b...; Question 549: What type of approach to the development of organizational p...; Question 550: IT governance is PRIMARILY the responsibility of the:...; Question 551: What type of cryptosystem is characterized by data being enc...; Question 552: What type of risk is associated with authorized program exit...; Question 553: To reduce the possibility of losing data during processing, ...; Question 554: Which of the following controls would be the MOST comprehens...; Question 555: When storing data archives off-site, what must be done with ...; Question 556: Which of the following implementation modes would provide th...; Question 557: Which of the following refers to the collection of policies ...; Question 558: What should be the GREATEST concern to an IS auditor when em...; Question 559: The most common reason for the failure of information system...; Question 560: Which of the following is the MOST important criterion when ...; Question 561: Which of the following is the BEST practice to ensure that a...; Question 562: Effective IT governance will ensure that the IT plan is cons...; Question 563: Which of the following would BEST maintain the integrity of ...; Question 564: Which of the following provides the strongest authentication...; Question 565: A company has implemented a new client-server enterprise res...; Question 566: Which of the following situations would increase the likelih...; Question 567: One major improvement in WPA over WEP is the use of a protoc...; Question 568: An IS auditor examining the configuration of an operating sy...; Question 569: In a relational database with referential integrity, the use...; Question 570: In order to coordinate the activity of many infected compute...; Question 571: The responsibility for authorizing access to application dat...; Question 572: When reviewing an active project, an IS auditor observed tha...; Question 573: An offsite information processing facility having electrical...; Question 574: IT operations for a large organization have been outsourced....; Question 575: Which of the following would be the BEST method for ensuring...; Question 576: The Trojan.Linux.JBellz Trojan horse runs as a malformed fil...; Question 577: A data administrator is responsible for:...; Question 578: How do modems (modulation/demodulation) function to facilita...; Question 579: Which of the following public key infrastructure (PKI) eleme...; Question 580: When developing a risk-based audit strategy, an IS auditor s...; Question 581: Which of the following programs would a sound information se...; Question 582: Which of the following is the BEST performance criterion for...; Question 583: An IS auditor should use statistical sampling and not judgme...; Question 584: Which of the following will help detect changes made by an i...; Question 585: The rate of change in technology increases the importance of...; Question 586: ALL computer programming languages are vulnerable to command...; Question 587: An IS auditor finds that conference rooms have active networ...; 1 commentQuestion 588: What are used as a countermeasure for potential database cor...; Question 589: Which of the following would an IS auditor use to determine ...; Question 590: Sign-on procedures include the creation of a unique user ID ...; Question 591: Which of the following is a benefit of using callback device...; Question 592: Atomicity enforces data integrity by ensuring that a transac...; Question 593: Which of the following is an effective method for controllin...; Question 594: Which of the following would an IS auditor consider to be th...; Question 595: How does the SSL network protocol provide confidentiality?...; Question 596: In large corporate networks having supply partners across th...; Question 597: After an IS auditor has identified threats and potential imp...; Question 598: Assuming this diagram represents an internal facility and th...; Question 599: Many organizations require an employee to take a mandatory v...; Question 600: Which of the following measures can effectively minimize the...; Question 601: As part of the business continuity planning process, which o...; Question 602: After the merger of two organizations, multiple self-develop...; Question 603: At the completion of a system development project, a postpro...; Question 604: Phishing attack works primarily through:...; Question 605: Which of the following correctly describe the potential prob...; Question 606: The BEST method for assessing the effectiveness of a busines...; Question 607: Which of the following controls will MOST effectively detect...; Question 608: Which of the following refers to the act of creating and usi...; Question 609: An IS auditor performing a telecommunication access control ...; Question 610: Which of the following are the characteristics of a good pas...; Question 611: Which of the following refers to a primary component of corp...; Question 612: In an IS audit of several critical servers, the IS auditor w...; Question 613: An IS auditor selects a server for a penetration test that w...; Question 614: Integrating business continuity planning (BCP) into an IT pr...; Question 615: During the development of an application, the quality assura...; Question 616: Which of the following should be of MOST concern to an IS au...; Question 617: Which of the following is a general operating system access ...; Question 618: Which of the following protocols would be involved in the im...; Question 619: As part of the IEEE 802.11 standard ratified in September 19...; Question 620: What is the recommended minimum length of a good password?...; Question 621: After implementation of a disaster recovery plan, pre-disast...; Question 622: Though management has stated otherwise, an IS auditor has re...; Question 623: What is used as a control to detect loss, corruption, or dup...; Question 624: During a logical access controls review, an IS auditor obser...; Question 625: The ultimate purpose of IT governance is to:...; Question 626: Which of the following should be included in a feasibility s...; Question 627: What is wrong with a Black Box type of intrusion detection s...; Question 628: Responsibility for the governance of IT should rest with the...; Question 629: When reviewing the procedures for the disposal of computers,...; Question 630: Which of the following is an implementation risk within the ...; Question 631: Which of the following penetration tests would MOST effectiv...; Question 632: Which of the following encrypt/decrypt steps provides the GR...; Question 633: An organization has outsourced its help desk. Which of the f...; Question 634: What are trojan horse programs? Choose the BEST answer....; Question 635: Which of the following is a benefit of using a callback devi...; Question 636: Which of the following encryption techniques will BEST prote...; Question 637: The purpose of a deadman door controlling access to a comput...; Question 638: Back Orifice is an example of:; Question 639: What should an organization do before providing an external ...; Question 640: The IS management of a multinational company is considering ...; Question 641: While conducting an audit of a service provider, an IS audit...; Question 642: Which of the following is MOST directly affected by network ...; Question 643: What is a primary high-level goal for an auditor who is revi...; Question 644: What is a risk associated with attempting to control physica...; Question 645: Company.com has contracted with an external consulting firm ...; Question 646: Performance of a biometric measure is usually referred to in...; Question 647: Many WEP systems require a key in a relatively insecure form...; Question 648: Who is ultimately responsible and accountable for reviewing ...; Question 649: What process allows IS management to determine whether the a...; Question 650: The use of object-oriented design and development techniques...; Question 651: Which of the following is the MOST effective type of antivir...; Question 652: Which of the following is the BEST type of program for an or...; Question 653: Which of the following backup techniques is the MOST appropr...; Question 654: An IS auditor who has discovered unauthorized transactions d...; Question 655: An IS auditor notes that patches for the operating system us...; Question 656: An IS auditor performing a review of an application's contro...; Question 657: A PRIMARY benefit derived from an organization employing con...; Question 658: A web server is attacked and compromised. Which of the follo...; Question 659: Cisco IOS based routers perform basic traffic filtering via ...; Question 660: Which of the following fire-suppression methods is considere...; Question 661: Which of the following would be the GREATEST cause for conce...; Question 662: Before implementing controls, management should FIRST ensure...; Question 663: If a database is restored using before-image dumps, where sh...; Question 664: Under the concept of ""defense in depth"", subsystems should...; Question 665: Fault-tolerance is a feature particularly sought-after in wh...; Question 666: An IS auditor should carefully review the functional require...; Question 667: What type of risk results when an IS auditor uses an inadequ...; Question 668: The PRIMARY objective of an audit of IT security policies is...; Question 669: An IS auditor noted that an organization had adequate busine...; Question 670: Which of the following would be of MOST concern to an IS aud...; Question 671: Which of the following methods of suppressing a fire in a da...; Question 672: What is the BEST backup strategy for a large database with d...; Question 673: A structured walk-through test of a disaster recovery plan i...; Question 674: If a programmer has update access to a live system, IS audit...; Question 675: Which of the following issues should be the GREATEST concern...; Question 676: Which of the following is a good time frame for making chang...; Question 677: An advantage of a continuous audit approach is that it can i...; Question 678: What is the BEST action to prevent loss of data integrity or...; Question 679: Which of the following would prevent accountability for an a...; Question 680: Which of the following is the MOST reliable sender authentic...; Question 681: Which of the following is used to evaluate biometric access ...; Question 682: Active radio frequency ID (RFID) tags are subject to which o...; Question 683: Which of the following would have the HIGHEST priority in a ...; Question 684: Which of the following virus prevention techniques can be im...; Question 685: Which of the following BEST limits the impact of server fail...; Question 686: A number of system failures are occurring when corrections t...; Question 687: What is the primary objective of a control self-assessment (...; Question 688: Which of the following is a technique that could be used to ...; Question 689: Human error is being HEAVILY relied upon on by which of the ...; Question 690: Which of the following refers to the proving of mathematical...; Question 691: The feature of a digital signature that ensures the sender c...; Question 692: In an audit of an inventory application, which approach woul...; Question 693: Involvement of senior management is MOST important in the de...; Question 694: Common implementations of strong authentication may use whic...; Question 695: The decisions and actions of an IS auditor are MOST likely t...; Question 696: Digital signatures require the:...; Question 697: Creating which of the following is how a hacker can insure h...; Question 698: Which of the following measures can protect systems files an...; Question 699: Which of the following would be the MOST secure firewall sys...; Question 700: What are often the primary safeguards for systems software a...; Question 701: The reason a certification and accreditation process is perf...; Question 702: When is regression testing used to determine whether new app...; Question 703: Which of the following tasks should be performed FIRST when ...; Question 704: Reverse proxy technology for web servers should be deployed ...; Question 705: Which of the following is the PRIMARY advantage of using com...; Question 706: An organization has an integrated development environment (I...; Question 707: Which of the following should be of PRIMARY concern to an IS...; Question 708: Which of the following BEST describes the necessary document...; Question 709: Which of the following controls would BEST detect intrusion?...; Question 710: When using a universal storage bus (USB) flash drive to tran...; Question 711: Library control software restricts source code to:...; Question 712: Which of the following provides the BEST evidence of an orga...; Question 713: When developing a disaster recovery plan, the criteria for d...; Question 714: The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are prim...; Question 715: During the requirements definition phase for a database appl...; Question 716: An organization is using an enterprise resource management (...; Question 717: The technique of rummaging through commercial trash to colle...; Question 718: How is the risk of improper file access affected upon implem...; Question 719: What is a common vulnerability, allowing denial-of-service a...; Question 720: When implementing an application software package, which of ...; Question 721: When reviewing the configuration of network devices, an IS a...; Question 722: The MOST effective biometric control system is the one:...; Question 723: An IS auditor reviewing an outsourcing contract of IT facili...; Question 724: Proper segregation of duties normally does not prohibit a LA...; Question 725: A project manager of a project that is scheduled to take 18 ...; Question 726: Which of the following is a continuity plan test that uses a...; Question 727: An IS auditor is reviewing a software-based firewall configu...; Question 728: Which of the following manages the digital certificate life ...; Question 729: Transmitting redundant information with each character or fr...; Question 730: Regarding digital signature implementation, which of the fol...; Question 731: Which of the following would be the MOST effective audit tec...; Question 732: Which of the following data validation edits is effective in...; Question 733: An IS auditor observes a weakness in the tape management sys...; Question 734: The vice president of human resources has requested an audit...; Question 735: A certificate authority (CA) can delegate the processes of:...; Question 736: Which of the following is a mechanism for mitigating risks?...; Question 737: If an IS auditor finds evidence of risk involved in not impl...; Question 738: An internet-based attack using password sniffing can:...; Question 739: An organization's IS audit charter should specify the:...; Question 740: During an application audit, an IS auditor finds several pro...; Question 741: Disabling which of the following would make wireless local a...; Question 742: Which of the following would normally be the MOST reliable e...; Question 743: Which of the following types of audit always takes high prio...; Question 744: A company has contracted with an external consulting firm to...; Question 745: Which of the following is a program evaluation review techni...; Question 746: Which of the following provides the framework for designing ...; Question 747: What is an acceptable recovery mechanism for extremely time-...; Question 748: In the event of a disruption or disaster, which of the follo...; Question 749: Which of the following is the GREATEST advantage of elliptic...; Question 750: Which of the following physical access controls effectively ...; Question 751: Which of the following refers to a method of bypassing norma...; Question 752: Time constraints and expanded needs have been found by an IS...; Question 753: In the course of performing a risk analysis, an IS auditor h...; Question 754: Which of the following terms generally refers to small progr...; Question 755: The MAIN purpose of a transaction audit trail is to:...; Question 756: An advantage in using a bottom-up vs. a top-down approach to...; Question 757: Authentication techniques for sending and receiving data bet...; Question 758: Which of the following will prevent dangling tuples in a dat...; Question 759: Which of the following is the GREATEST risk to the effective...; Question 760: The MAJOR advantage of a component-based development approac...; Question 761: An integrated test facility is considered a useful audit too...; Question 762: What is an edit check to determine whether a field contains ...; Question 763: The PRIMARY objective of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is to en...; Question 764: Which of the following should be of MOST concern to an IS au...; Question 765: A virus typically consists of what major parts (choose all t...; Question 766: An offsite information processing facility:...; Question 767: The extent to which data will be collected during an IS audi...; Question 768: The human resources (HR) department has developed a system t...; Question 769: While designing the business continuity plan (BCP) for an ai...; Question 770: During the review of a biometrics system operation, an IS au...; Question 771: Which of the following is a dynamic analysis tool for the pu...; Question 772: Which of the following refers to an anomalous condition wher...; Question 773: Fourth-Generation Languages (4GLs) are most appropriate for ...; Question 774: Network environments often add to the complexity of program-...; Question 775: Which of the following is the MOST important element for the...; Question 776: With the objective of mitigating the risk and impact of a ma...; Question 777: The potential for unauthorized system access by way of termi...; Question 778: Why is one-time pad not always preferable for encryption (ch...; Question 779: An IS auditor notes that IDS log entries related to port sca...; Question 780: In a client-server architecture, a domain name service (DNS)...; Question 781: What can be very helpful to an IS auditor when determining t...; Question 782: An IS auditor is performing an audit of a remotely managed s...; Question 783: When auditing a disaster recovery plan for a critical busine...; Question 784: Information for detecting unauthorized input from a terminal...; Question 785: The MOST effective control for addressing the risk of piggyb...; Question 786: What often results in project scope creep when functional re...; Question 787: When reviewing an organization's approved software product l...; Question 788: The IT balanced scorecard is a business governance tool inte...; Question 789: Which of the following would be an indicator of the effectiv...; Question 790: A clerk changed the interest rate for a loan on a master fil...; Question 791: The optimum business continuity strategy for an entity is de...; Question 792: Which of the following types of attack involves a program th...; Question 793: Which of the following is MOST is critical during the busine...; Question 794: Sophisticated database systems provide many layers and types...; Question 795: After identifying potential security vulnerabilities, what s...; Question 796: Which of the following is BEST characterized by unauthorized...; Question 797: What is a reliable technique for estimating the scope and co...; Question 798: Which of the following should be a concern to an IS auditor ...; Question 799: Which of the following refers to any authentication protocol...; Question 800: Which of the following should concern an IS auditor when rev...; Question 801: Which of the following is a substantive test?...; Question 802: Which of the following BEST characterizes a mantrap or deadm...; Question 803: Which of the following provides the best evidence of the ade...; Question 804: Which of the following is an example of a passive attack ini...; Question 805: A company uses a bank to process its weekly payroll. Time sh...; Question 806: The PRIMARY purpose of audit trails is to:...; Question 807: Gimmes often work through:; Question 808: Which of the following types of attack makes use of common c...; Question 809: Which of the following is the MOST effective method for deal...; Question 810: Which of the following is an advantage of an integrated test...; Question 811: What benefit does using capacity-monitoring software to moni...; Question 812: A proposed transaction processing application will have many...; Question 813: Who should be responsible for network security operations?...; Question 814: Use of asymmetric encryption in an internet e-commerce site,...; Question 815: Which of the following provides the MOST relevant informatio...; Question 816: When using an integrated test facility (ITF), an IS auditor ...; Question 817: Which of the following types of attack makes use of unfilter...; Question 818: When protecting an organization's IT systems, which of the f...; Question 819: What is essential for the IS auditor to obtain a clear under...; Question 820: What should be done to determine the appropriate level of au...; Question 821: An IS auditor inspected a windowless room containing phone s...; Question 822: A company is implementing a dynamic host configuration proto...; Question 823: A hot site should be implemented as a recovery strategy when...; Question 824: Which of the following is the dominating objective of BCP an...; Question 825: Most trojan horse programs are spread through:...; Question 826: When reviewing an intrusion detection system (IDS), an IS au...; Question 827: Is it appropriate for an IS auditor from a company that is c...; Question 828: When reviewing an organization's strategic IT plan an IS aud...; Question 829: After completing the business impact analysis (BIA), what is...; Question 830: Which of the following methods of encryption has been proven...; Question 831: Which of the following are designed to detect network attack...; Question 832: Which of the following is widely accepted as one of the crit...; Question 833: When planning to add personnel to tasks imposing time constr...; Question 834: Responsibility and reporting lines cannot always be establis...; Question 835: In a public key infrastructure (PKI), the authority responsi...; Question 836: Which of the following message services provides the stronge...; Question 837: Which of the following satisfies a two-factor user authentic...; Question 838: An IS auditor finds that, at certain times of the day, the d...; Question 839: Functionality is a characteristic associated with evaluating...; Question 840: An organization has a mix of access points that cannot be up...; Question 841: The cost of ongoing operations when a disaster recovery plan...; Question 842: Which of the following network components is PRIMARILY set u...; Question 843: An IS auditor performing an independent classification of sy...; Question 844: An organization currently using tape backups takes one full ...; Question 845: Regarding a disaster recovery plan, the role of an IS audito...; Question 846: The quality of the metadata produced from a data warehouse i...; Question 847: Which of the following IT governance best practices improves...; Question 848: What must an IS auditor understand before performing an appl...; Question 849: A hub is a device that connects:...; Question 850: Which of the following would help to ensure the portability ...; Question 851: In the context of physical access control, what is known as ...; Question 852: An IS auditor performing a review of the backup processing f...; Question 853: Electromagnetic emissions from a terminal represent an expos...; Question 854: Integer overflow occurs primarily with:...; Question 855: The output of the risk management process is an input for ma...; Question 856: Before implementing an IT balanced scorecard, an organizatio...; Question 857: A programmer maliciously modified a production program to ch...; Question 858: What can ISPs use to implement inbound traffic filtering as ...; Question 859: To detect attack attempts that the firewall is unable to rec...; Question 860: An IS auditor reviewing wireless network security determines...; Question 861: The specific advantage of white box testing is that it:...; Question 862: An IS auditor should be MOST concerned with what aspect of a...; Question 863: The difference between a vulnerability assessment and a pene...; Question 864: A legacy payroll application is migrated to a new applicatio...; Question 865: Which of the following would MOST effectively enhance the se...; Question 866: In which of the following situations is it MOST appropriate ...; Question 867: In regard to moving an application program from the test env...; Question 868: Which of the following types of firewall treats each network...; Question 869: Which of the following BEST supports the prioritization of n...; Question 870: The information security policy that states 'each individual...; Question 871: When transmitting a payment instruction, which of the follow...; Question 872: The GREATEST advantage of using web services for the exchang...; Question 873: A hacker could obtain passwords without the use of computer ...; Question 874: Why is a clause for requiring source code escrow in an appli...; Question 875: Which of the following is the MOST important consideration w...; Question 876: After installing a network, an organization installed a vuln...; Question 877: A company has decided to implement an electronic signature s...; Question 878: An organization has been recently downsized, in light of thi...; Question 879: When using public key encryption to secure data being transm...; Question 880: A virtual private network (VPN) provides data confidentialit...; Question 881: The MOST effective control for reducing the risk related to ...; Question 882: Talking about application system audit, focus should always ...; Question 883: The database administrator (DBA) suggests that DB efficiency...; Question 884: The BEST way to minimize the risk of communication failures ...; Question 885: The most likely error to occur when implementing a firewall ...; Question 886: If senior management is not committed to strategic planning,...; Question 887: Accountability for the maintenance of appropriate security m...; Question 888: Host Based ILD&P primarily addresses the issue of:...; Question 889: When developing a security architecture, which of the follow...; Question 890: When should systems administrators first assess the impact o...; Question 891: An IS auditor reviewing an organization that uses cross-trai...; Question 892: Obtaining user approval of program changes is very effective...; Question 893: When are benchmarking partners identified within the benchma...; Question 894: Which of the following systems or tools can recognize that a...; Question 895: Network ILD&P are typically installed:...; Question 896: Which of the following functions is performed by a virtual p...; Question 897: An IT steering committee should review information systems P...; Question 898: The traditional role of an IS auditor in a control self-asse...; Question 899: As an outcome of information security governance, strategic ...; Question 900: Which of the following will replace system binaries and/or h...; Question 901: Which of the following is the MOST effective control over vi...; Question 902: When reviewing procedures for emergency changes to programs,...; Question 903: The purpose of a mainframe audit is to provide assurance tha...; Question 904: Functional acknowledgements are used:...; Question 905: During a change control audit of a production system, an IS ...; Question 906: Who is ultimately accountable for the development of an IS s...; Question 907: Establishing data ownership is an important first step for w...; Question 908: A digital signature contains a message digest to:...; Question 909: The final decision to include a material finding in an audit...; Question 910: The activation of an enterprise's business continuity plan s...; Question 911: An audit charter should:; Question 912: An organization is migrating from a legacy system to an ente...; Question 913: An IS auditor finds that a DBA has read and write access to ...; Question 914: Which of the following is the BEST way to handle obsolete ma...; Question 915: The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) were dev...; Question 916: An IS auditor conducting a review of software usage and lice...; Question 917: Which of the following is an advantage of prototyping?...; Question 918: Which of the following is an oft-cited cause of vulnerabilit...; Question 919: Which of the following is best suited for searching for addr...; Question 920: Which of the following is a prevalent risk in the developmen...; Question 921: The responsibilities of a disaster recovery relocation team ...; Question 922: During an audit of an enterprise that is dedicated to e-comm...; Question 923: Why does an IS auditor review an organization chart?...; Question 924: The sophistication and formality of IS audit programs may va...; Question 925: Which of the following uses a prototype that can be updated ...; Question 926: An IS auditor finds out-of-range data in some tables of a da...; Question 927: Which of the following would provide the BEST protection aga...; Question 928: Which testing approach is MOST appropriate to ensure that in...; Question 929: When identifying an earlier project completion time, which i...; Question 930: When installing an intrusion detection system (IDS), which o...; Question 931: A substantive test to verify that tape library inventory rec...; Question 932: Which of the following insurance types provide for a loss ar...; Question 933: Which of the following are effective controls for detecting ...; Question 934: The MOST significant level of effort for business continuity...; Question 935: An IS auditor who was involved in designing an organization'...; Question 936: To affix a digital signature to a message, the sender must f...; Question 937: The MOST important reason for an IS auditor to obtain suffic...; Question 938: An IS auditor reviewing an organization's IT strategic plan ...; Question 939: An IS auditor finds that a system under development has 12 l...; Question 940: Which of the following terms is used more generally for desc...; Question 941: Which of the following is the MOST critical and contributes ...; Question 942: Which of the following must exist to ensure the viability of...; Question 943: What is the primary security concern for EDI environments? C...; Question 944: Who assumes ownership of a systems-development project and t...; Question 945: Which of the following BEST describes the concept of ""defen...; Question 946: The ability of the internal IS audit function to achieve des...; Question 947: What is the lowest level of the IT governance maturity model...; Question 948: Which of the following do digital signatures provide?...; Question 949: What would be the major purpose of rootkit?...; Question 950: What method might an IS auditor utilize to test wireless sec...; Question 951: The FIRST step in data classification is to:...; Question 952: The MAJOR advantage of the risk assessment approach over the...; Question 953: Which of the following is MOST likely to result from a busin...; Question 954: In planning an audit, the MOST critical step is the identifi...; Question 955: How is the time required for transaction processing review u...; Question 956: When reviewing input controls, an IS auditor observes that, ...; Question 957: When reviewing an organization's logical access security, wh...; Question 958: A hardware control that helps to detect errors when data are...; Question 959: A financial institution that processes millions of transacti...; Question 960: Business units are concerned about the performance of a newl...; Question 961: In order to properly protect against unauthorized disclosure...; Question 962: Which of the following attacks targets the Secure Sockets La...; Question 963: What type of BCP test uses actual resources to simulate a sy...; Question 964: Web and e-mail filtering tools are PRIMARILY valuable to an ...; Question 965: Which of the following types of firewalls would BEST protect...; Question 966: Although BCP and DRP are often implemented and tested by mid...; Question 967: Which of the following is MOST critical when creating data f...; Question 968: An IS auditor is reviewing access to an application to deter...; Question 969: What determines the strength of a secret key within a symmet...; Question 970: Whenever an application is modified, what should be tested t...; Question 971: To ensure an organization is complying with privacy requirem...; Question 972: To address a maintenance problem, a vendor needs remote acce...; Question 973: Which of the following is the PRIMARY purpose for conducting...; Question 974: During an exit interview, in cases where there is disagreeme...; Question 975: Why does the IS auditor often review the system logs?...; Question 976: During a business continuity audit an IS auditor found that ...; Question 977: When reviewing IS strategies, an IS auditor can BEST assess ...; Question 978: Validated digital signatures in an e-mail software applicati...; Question 979: TEMPEST is a hardware for which of the following purposes?...; Question 980: Two-factor authentication can be circumvented through which ...; Question 981: The technique used to ensure security in virtual private net...; Question 982: An IS auditor finds that not all employees are aware of the ...; Question 983: A medium-sized organization, whose IT disaster recovery meas...; 1 commentQuestion 984: An IS auditor reviewing the implementation of an intrusion d...; Question 985: The development of an IS security policy is ultimately the r...; Question 986: To determine if unauthorized changes have been made to produ...; Question 987: Depending on the complexity of an organization's business co...; Question 988: To address the risk of operations staff's failure to perform...; Question 989: Database snapshots can provide an excellent audit trail for ...; Question 990: During the audit of an acquired software package, an IS audi...; Question 991: When reviewing a digital certificate verification process, w...; Question 992: Users are issued security tokens to be used in combination w...; Question 993: A technical lead who was working on a major project has left...; Question 994: An IS auditor doing penetration testing during an audit of i...; Question 995: Which of the following intrusion detection systems (IDSs) mo...; Question 996: The PRIMARY objective of service-level management (SLM) is t...; Question 997: An IS auditor reviewing the risk assessment process of an or...; Question 998: Which of the following is a network diagnostic tool that mon...; Question 999: With the help of a security officer, granting access to data...; Question 1000: Which of the following is a continuity plan test that uses a...; Question 1001: When reviewing a hardware maintenance program, an IS auditor...; Question 1002: What increases encryption overhead and cost the most?...; Question 1003: Which of the following types of testing would determine whet...; Question 1004: To optimize an organization's business contingency plan (BCP...; Question 1005: In addition to the backup considerations for all systems, wh...; Question 1006: Which of the following should be considered FIRST when imple...; Question 1007: In what way is a common gateway interface (CGI) MOST often u...; Question 1008: An organization has a recovery time objective (RTO) equal to...; Question 1009: Which of the following would prevent unauthorized changes to...; Question 1010: What is a callback system?; Question 1011: Which of the following network configuration options contain...; Question 1012: When should application controls be considered within the sy...; Question 1013: An IS auditor finds that, in accordance with IS policy, IDs ...; Question 1014: Pretexting is an act of:; Question 1015: Over the long term, which of the following has the greatest ...; Question 1016: During the design of a business continuity plan, the busines...; Question 1017: When conducting a penetration test of an organization's inte...; Question 1018: Which of the following may be deployed in a network as lower...; Question 1019: An IS steering committee should:...; Question 1020: What control detects transmission errors by appending calcul...; 1 commentQuestion 1021: An IS auditor discovers that developers have operator access...; Question 1022: An organization is implementing an enterprise resource plann...; Question 1023: Which of the following techniques would BEST help an IS audi...; Question 1024: Which of the following is of greatest concern to the IS audi...; Question 1025: In the event of a data center disaster, which of the followi...; Question 1026: A core tenant of an IS strategy is that it must:...; Question 1027: E-mail message authenticity and confidentiality is BEST achi...; Question 1028: ______________ risk analysis is not always possible because ...; Question 1029: An organization having a number of offices across a wide geo...; Question 1030: The phases and deliverables of a system development life cyc...; Question 1031: Proper segregation of duties does not prohibit a quality con...; Question 1032: In the 2c area of the diagram, there are three hubs connecte...; Question 1033: Which of the following types of spyware was originally desig...; Question 1034: When assessing the design of network monitoring controls, an...; Question 1035: An organization is considering connecting a critical PC-base...; Question 1036: To gain an understanding of the effectiveness of an organiza...; Question 1037: When auditing a proxy-based firewall, an IS auditor should:...; Question 1038: Wi-Fi Protected Access implements the majority of which IEEE...; Question 1039: An organization with extremely high security requirements is...; Question 1040: An integrated test facility is not considered a useful audit...; Question 1041: Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) technology should be...; Question 1042: During which of the following phases in system development w...; Question 1043: Who is responsible for the overall direction, costs, and tim...; Question 1044: An existing system is being extensively enhanced by extracti...; Question 1045: Which of the following is a control over component communica...; Question 1046: Documentation of a business case used in an IT development p...; Question 1047: Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on Internet sit...; Question 1048: While conducting an audit, an IS auditor detects the presenc...; Question 1049: Talking about biometric measurement, which of the following ...; Question 1050: Business process re-engineering often results in ___________...; Question 1051: Software is considered malware based on:...; 1 commentQuestion 1052: E-mail traffic from the Internet is routed via firewall-1 to...; Question 1053: An organization has created a policy that defines the types ...; Question 1054: Which of the following terms refers to systems designed to d...; Question 1055: During a postimplementation review of an enterprise resource...; Question 1056: Which of the following is the most fundamental step in preve...; Question 1057: The majority of software vulnerabilities result from a few k...; Question 1058: Which of the following forms of evidence for the auditor wou...; Question 1059: In an online transaction processing system, data integrity i...; Question 1060: What is the PRIMARY purpose of audit trails?...; 1 commentQuestion 1061: A primary benefit derived from an organization employing con...; Question 1062: An efficient use of public key infrastructure (PKI) should e...; Question 1063: Which of the following exposures could be caused by a line g...; Question 1064: The sender of a public key would be authenticated by a:...; Question 1065: Which of the following is the most important element in the ...; Question 1066: In a small organization, an employee performs computer opera...; Question 1067: Which of the following types of data validation editing chec...; Question 1068: An organization's disaster recovery plan should address earl...; Question 1069: The MAIN reason for requiring that all computer clocks acros...

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