WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF
INFORMATION SECURITY ACTUAL TEST
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉Examples of confidentiality. Answer: A patron using an ATM card
wants to keep their PIN number confidential.
An ATM owner wants to keep bank account numbers confidential.
◉How can confidentiality be broken?. Answer: Losing a laptop
An attacker gets access to info
A person can look over your shoulder
◉Define integrity in the CIA triad.. Answer: The ability to prevent
people from changing your data and the ability to reverse unwanted
changes.
◉How do you control integrity?. Answer: Permissions restrict what
users can do (read, write, etc.)
, ◉Examples of integrity. Answer: Data used by a doctor to make
medical decisions needs to be correct or the patient can die.
◉Define the availability in the CIA triad.. Answer: Our data needs to
be accessible when we need it.
◉How can availability be broken?. Answer: Loss of power,
application problems. If caused by an attacker, this is a Denial of
Service attack.
◉Define information security.. Answer: The protection of
information and information systems from unauthorized access, use,
disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to
provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
◉Define the Parkerian Hexad and its principles.. Answer: The
Parkerian Hexad includes confidentiality, integrity, and availability
from the CIA triad. It also includes possession (or control),
authenticity, and utility.
◉Authenticity. Answer: Whether the data in question comes from
who or where it says it comes from (i.e. did this person actually send
this email?)
INFORMATION SECURITY ACTUAL TEST
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉Examples of confidentiality. Answer: A patron using an ATM card
wants to keep their PIN number confidential.
An ATM owner wants to keep bank account numbers confidential.
◉How can confidentiality be broken?. Answer: Losing a laptop
An attacker gets access to info
A person can look over your shoulder
◉Define integrity in the CIA triad.. Answer: The ability to prevent
people from changing your data and the ability to reverse unwanted
changes.
◉How do you control integrity?. Answer: Permissions restrict what
users can do (read, write, etc.)
, ◉Examples of integrity. Answer: Data used by a doctor to make
medical decisions needs to be correct or the patient can die.
◉Define the availability in the CIA triad.. Answer: Our data needs to
be accessible when we need it.
◉How can availability be broken?. Answer: Loss of power,
application problems. If caused by an attacker, this is a Denial of
Service attack.
◉Define information security.. Answer: The protection of
information and information systems from unauthorized access, use,
disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to
provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
◉Define the Parkerian Hexad and its principles.. Answer: The
Parkerian Hexad includes confidentiality, integrity, and availability
from the CIA triad. It also includes possession (or control),
authenticity, and utility.
◉Authenticity. Answer: Whether the data in question comes from
who or where it says it comes from (i.e. did this person actually send
this email?)
