Network and Security – Applications (D320) Western Governors University WGU Academic Year Complete Course Summary and Study Notes

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Which phase of the cloud data life cycle requires adherence to export and import restrictions,
including Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the Wassenaar Arrangement?


A) Create
B) Share

C) Use

D) Destroy
B




Why is the striping method of storing data used in most redundant array of independent disks
(RAID) configurations?


A) It prevents outages and attacks from occurring in a cloud environment.

B) It prevents data from being recovered once it is destroyed using crypto-shredding.
C) It allows data to be safely distributed and stored in a common centralized location.

D) It allows efficient data recovery as even if one drive fails, other drives fill in the missing data.
D

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What is the purpose of egress monitoring tools?



A) They are used to convert a given set of data or information into a different value.

B) They are used to prevent data from going outside the control of an organization.
C) They are used to create data during the Create phase of the cloud data life cycle.
D) They are used to remove data during the Destroy phase of the cloud data life cycle.

B




A company is looking at different types of cloud storage options. One of the threats to cloud
storage that the company foresees is the possibility of losing forensic artifacts in the event of an
incident response investigation.


Which type of cloud storage has the highest risk of losing forensic artifacts in the event of an
incident response investigation?


A) File-based

B) Long-term

C) Block
D) Ephemeral

D

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A manager is made aware of a customer complaint about how an application developed by the
company collects personal and environmental information from the devices it is installed on.


Which document should the manager refer to in order to determine if the company has properly
disclosed information about what data it collects from this application's users?


A) Retention policy

B) Breach notification
C) Privacy notice

D) Denial of service

C




An organization needs to store passwords in a database securely. The data should not be available
to system administrators.
Which technique should the organization use?



A) Encryption

B) Hashing
C) Encoding

D) Masking

B

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A ccompany cis clooking cto censure cthat cthe cnames cof cindividuals cin cits cdata cin cthe ccloud care cnot
crevealed cin cthe cevent cof ca cdata cbreach, cas cthe cdata cis csensitive cand cclassified.



Which cdata cmasking ctechnique cshould cthe ccompany cuse cto cprevent cattackers cfrom cidentifying
cindividuals cin cthe cevent cof ca cdata cbreach?




A) Crypto-shredding

B) Degaussing
C) Anonymization
D) Randomization

C
c




An corganization cneeds cto cquickly cidentify cthe cdocument cowner cin ca cshared cnetwork cfolder.

Which ctechnique cshould cthe corganization cuse cto cmeet cthis cgoal?
c




A) Labeling

B) Classification

C) Mapping

D) Categorization
A
c




An corganization cplans cto cintroduce ca cnew cdata cstandard cand cwants cto censure cthat csystem
cinventory cdata cwill cbe cefficiently cdiscovered cand cprocessed.