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The CCSP certification was created by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)² and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The goal of the CCSP certification is to build a common understanding of cloud security practices and promote a globally recognized standard for cloud security expertise.
NEW QUESTION # 177
Which process serves to prove the identity and credentials of a user requesting access to an application or data?
- A. Repudiation
- B. Authorization
- C. Identification
- D. Authentication
Answer: D
Explanation:
Authentication is the process of proving whether the identity presented by a user is true and valid.
This can be done through common mechanisms such as user ID and password combinations or with more secure methods such as multifactor authentication.
NEW QUESTION # 178
Which of the following threat types can occur when an application does not properly validate input and can be leveraged to send users to malicious sites that appear to be legitimate?
- A. Security miscomfiguration
- B. Insecure direct object references
- C. Unvalidated redirects and forwards
- D. Sensitive data exposure
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Many web applications offer redirect or forward pages that send users to different, external sites. If these pages are not properly secured and validated, attackers can use the application to forward users off to sites for phishing or malware attempts. These attempts can often be more successful than direct phishing attempts because users will trust the site or application that sent them there, and they will assume it has been properly validated and approved by the trusted application's owners or operators. Security misconfiguration occurs when applications and systems are not properly configured for security--often a result of misapplied or inadequate baselines. Insecure direct object references occur when code references aspects of the infrastructure, especially internal or private systems, and an attacker can use that knowledge to glean more information about the infrastructure. Sensitive data exposure occurs when an application does not use sufficient encryption and other security controls to protect sensitive application data.
NEW QUESTION # 179
Federation allows _________ across organizations.
Response:
- A. Policy
- B. Role replication
- C. Encryption
- D. Access
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 180
Which of the following roles involves the connection and integration of existing systems and services to a cloud environment?
- A. Cloud service business manager
- B. Cloud service user
- C. Cloud service administrator
- D. Cloud service integrator
Answer: D
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
The cloud service integrator is the official role that involves connecting and integrating existing systems and services with a cloud environment. This may involve moving services into a cloud environment, or connecting to external cloud services and capabilities from traditional data center-hosted services.
NEW QUESTION # 181
Cloud systems are increasingly used for BCDR solutions for organizations.
What aspect of cloud computing makes their use for BCDR the most attractive?
- A. Broad network access
- B. Portability
- C. Measured service
- D. On-demand self-service
Answer: C
Explanation:
Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions largely sit idle until they are actually needed.
This traditionally has led to increased costs for an organization because physical hardware must be purchased and operational but is not used. By using a cloud system, an organization will only pay for systems when they are being used and only for the duration of use, thus eliminating the need for extra hardware and costs. Portability is the ability to easily move services among different cloud providers.
Broad network access allows access to users and staff from anywhere and from different clients, and although this would be important for a BCDR situation, it is not the best answer in this case.
On-demand self-service allows users to provision services automatically and when needed, and although this too would be important for BCDR situations, it is not the best answer because it does not address costs or the biggest benefits to an organization.
NEW QUESTION # 182
What concept does the D represent within the STRIDE threat model?
- A. Data breach
- B. Distributed
- C. Data loss
- D. Denial of service
Answer: D
Explanation:
Any application can be a possible target of denial of service (DoS) attacks. From the application side, the developers should minimize how many operations are performed for unauthenticated users. This will keep the application running as quickly as possible and using the least amount of system resources to help minimize the impact of any such attacks. None of the other options provided is the correct term.
NEW QUESTION # 183
Although indirect identifiers cannot alone point to an individual, the more of them known can lead to a specific identity. Which strategy can be used to avoid such a connection being made?
Response:
- A. Masking
- B. Encryption
- C. Obfuscation
- D. Anonymization
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 184
With finite resources available within a cloud, even the largest cloud providers will at times need to determine which customers will receive additional resources first.
What is the term associated with this determination?
- A. Scoring
- B. Shares
- C. Weighting
- D. Prioritization
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation
Shares are used within a cloud environment to prioritize resource allocation when customer requests exceed the available resources. Cloud providers utilize shares by assigning a priority score to each customer and allocating resources to those with the highest scores first. Scoring is a component of shares that determines the actual order in which to allocate resources. Neither weighting nor prioritization is the correct term in this case.
NEW QUESTION # 185
GAAPs are created and maintained by which organization?
- A. ISO/IEC
- B. AICPA
- C. ISO
- D. PCI Council
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation
The AICPA is the organization responsible for generating and maintaining what are the Generally Accepted Accounting Practices in the United States.
NEW QUESTION # 186
What is the cloud service model in which the customer is responsible for administration of the OS?
- A. QaaS
- B. PaaS
- C. IaaS
- D. SaaS
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation
In IaaS, the cloud provider only owns the hardware and supplies the utilities. The customer is responsible for the OS, programs, and data. In PaaS and SaaS, the provider also owns the OS. There is no QaaS. That is a red herring.
NEW QUESTION # 187
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten is a list of web application security threats that is composed by a member-driven OWASP committee of application development experts and published approximately every 24 months. The 2013 OWASP Top Ten list includes "using components with known vulnerabilities." Why would an organization ever use components with known vulnerabilities to create software?
- A. Some vulnerabilities only exist in foreign countries.
- B. The organization is insured.
- C. The particular vulnerabilities only exist in a context not being used by developers.
- D. A component might have a hidden vulnerability.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 188
_______ is the most prevalent protocol used in identity federation.
- A. HTTP
- B. SAML
- C. FTP
- D. WS-Federation
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 189
Which one of the following is not one of the three common threat modeling techniques?
- A. Focused on attackers
- B. Focused on assets
- C. Focused on software
- D. Focused on social engineering
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 190
A loosely coupled storage cluster will have performance and capacity limitations based on the
____________.
Response:
- A. Total number of nodes in the cluster
- B. The performance and capacity in each node
- C. Amount of usage demanded
- D. Physical backplane connecting it
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 191
Gathering business requirements can aid the organization in determining all of this information about organizational assets, except:
- A. Usefulness
- B. Value
- C. Full inventory
- D. Criticality
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
When we gather information about business requirements, we need to do a complete inventory, receive accurate valuation of assets (usually from the owners of those assets), and assess criticality; this collection of information does not tell us, objectively, how useful an asset is, however.
NEW QUESTION # 192
Which of the following roles involves testing, monitoring, and securing cloud services for an organization?
- A. Cloud service business manager
- B. Cloud service user
- C. Cloud service administrator
- D. Cloud service integrator
Answer: C
Explanation:
The cloud service administrator is responsible for testing cloud services, monitoring services, administering security for services, providing usage reports on cloud services, and addressing problem reports
NEW QUESTION # 193
Cloud environments pose many unique challenges for a data custodian to properly adhere to policies and the use of data. What poses the biggest challenge for a data custodian with a PaaS implementation, over and above the same concerns with IaaS?
- A. Contractual requirements
- B. Access to systems
- C. Data classification rules
- D. Knowledge of systems
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 194
While an audit is being conducted, which of the following could cause management and the auditors to change the original plan in order to continue with the audit?
- A. Software version changes
- B. Cost overruns
- C. Impact on systems
- D. Regulatory changes
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 195
Which of the following is not an example of a highly regulated environment?
- A. Wholesale or distribution
- B. Public companies
- C. Financial services
- D. Healthcare
Answer: A
Explanation:
Wholesalers or distributors are generally not regulated, although the products they sell may be.
NEW QUESTION # 196
Digital investigations have adopted many of the same methodologies and protocols as other types of criminal or scientific inquiries.
What term pertains to the application of scientific norms and protocols to digital investigations?
- A. Investigative
- B. Methodological
- C. Scientific
- D. Forensics
Answer: D
Explanation:
Forensics refers to the application of scientific methods and protocols to the investigation of crimes. Although forensics has traditionally been applied to well-known criminal proceedings and investigations, the term equally applies to digital investigations and methods. Although the other answers provide similar-sounding terms and ideas, none is the appropriate answer in this case.
NEW QUESTION # 197
Which format is the most commonly used standard for exchanging information within a federated identity system?
- A. SAML
- B. HTML
- C. JSON
- D. XML
Answer: A
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is the most common data format for information exchange within a federated identity system. It is used to transmit and exchange authentication and authorization data.XML is similar to SAML, but it's used for general-purpose data encoding and labeling and is not used for the exchange of authentication and authorization data in the way that SAML is for federated systems.
JSON is used similarly to XML, as a text-based data exchange format that typically uses attribute-value pairings, but it's not used for authentication and authorization exchange. HTML is used only for encoding web pages for web browsers and is not used for data exchange--and certainly not in a federated system.
NEW QUESTION # 198
Which of the following does NOT relate to the hiding of sensitive data from data sets?
- A. Masking
- B. Obfuscation
- C. Anonymization
- D. Federation
Answer: D
Explanation:
Federation pertains to authenticating systems between different organizations.
NEW QUESTION # 199
Many of the traditional concepts of systems and services for a traditional data center also apply to the cloud.
Both are built around key computing concepts.
Which of the following compromise the two facets of computing?
- A. CPU and software
- B. Memory and networking
- C. CPU and storage
- D. CPU and memory
Answer: D
Explanation:
The CPU and memory resources of an environment together comprise its "computing" resources. Cloud environments, especially public clouds, are enormous pools of resources for computing and are typically divided among a large number of customers with constantly changing needs and demands. Although storage and networking are core components of a cloud environment, they do not comprise its computing core.
Software, much like within a traditional data center, is highly subjective based on the application, system, service, or cloud computing model used; however, it is not one of the core cloud components.
NEW QUESTION # 200
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