Chapter 6 Cybersecurity

Avoiding complex solutions that users cannot understand or troubleshoot

• Obscurity

• Limiting

• Diversity

• Simplicity

Prohibiting an employee from removing sensitive documents from the premises

• Diversity

• Limiting

• Obscurity

• Simplicity

______________ mean that systems and services are available 99.999%

A user is asked to evaluate the data center to improve availability for customers. The user notices that there is only one ISP connection, some of the equipment is out of warranty, there are no spare parts, and no one was monitoring the UPS which was tripped twice in one month. Which three deficiencies in high availability has the user identified? (Choose two)

• single points of failure

• failure to design for reliability

• failure to protect against poor maintenance

• failure to identify management issues

A user is running a routine audit of the server hardware in the company data center. Several servers are using single drives to host operating systems and multiple types of attached storage solutions for storing data. The user wants to offer a better solution to provide fault tolerance during a drive failure. Which solution is best?

• offsite backup

• UPS

• RAID

• tape backup

A user was hired by a company to provide a highly available network infrastructure. The user wants to build redundancy into the network in case of a switch failure, but wants to prevent Layer 2 looping. What would the user implement in the network?

• Spanning Tree Protocol

• GLBP

• VRRP

• HSRP

A team has been asked to create an incident response plan for security incidents. In what phase of an incident response plan does the team get management approval of the plan?

• recovery

• detection

• preparation

• post-incident

A user is a consultant who is hired to prepare a report to Congress as to which industries should be required to maintain five nine availability. Which three industries should the user include in a report? (Choose three.)

• retail

• finance

• healthcare

• food service

• public safety

A security breach has happened at a major corporation. The incident team has responded and executed their incident response plan. During which phase are lessons learned applied?

• recovery

• post-incident

• analyze

• preparation

_____________ redundancy ensures system availability in the event of a component failure.