WGU D483 COMPREHENSIVE SCRIPT
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ What controls should protect privileged accounts?
Answer: Restricted access, multifactor authentication, detailed
logging, and continuous monitoring.
◉ A hospital billing employee can view only the patient financial
records required for billing. Which principle is being applied?
Answer: Need to know.
◉ A hospital IT technician can reset passwords but cannot modify
firewall rules. Which principle is being applied?
Answer: Least privilege.
◉ A retail company requires administrators to check out
temporary credentials before modifying production servers.
Which control is being used?
Answer: Privileged Account Management.
◉ An administrator at a bank uses a domain admin account for
email and web browsing. What is the BEST correction?
,Answer: Require a normal user account for daily work and use the
privileged account only for administrative tasks.
◉ A company deploys 100 laptops from an approved baseline and
then scans them using authenticated credentials. What is the
PRIMARY purpose of the scan?
Answer: To verify that the deployed configurations match the
approved standard.
◉ Job Rotation
Answer: Periodically moving employees between duties to detect
fraud, cross-train staff, and reduce single points of failure.
◉ Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Answer: A contractual agreement defining measurable service
expectations, responsibilities, and response timeframes between
a customer and provider.
◉ Media Management
Answer: The controlled selection, protection, storage, handling,
migration, and disposal of data storage media.
◉ Common Storage Media
Answer: Paper, microfilm or microfiche, magnetic disks and tapes,
flash memory, SSDs, memory cards, CDs, and DVDs.
, ◉ Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
Answer: The estimated average operating time between failures
of a repairable device or storage medium.
◉ Media Migration
Answer: Periodically transferring retained data to newer media
before the existing media becomes unreliable or obsolete.
◉ Why must long-term records be periodically migrated?
Answer: Storage media, file formats, applications, and
cryptographic protections may become unreliable or obsolete
over time.
◉ What is the MOST important benefit of job rotation in a
sensitive financial role?
Answer: It increases the likelihood that concealed fraud or
improper processes will be discovered.
◉ A bank requires each wire-transfer employee to exchange
duties with another employee every six months. Which control is
being used?
Answer: Job rotation.
◉ A hospital's cloud provider must respond to critical outages
within one hour. Where should this requirement be formally
documented?
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ What controls should protect privileged accounts?
Answer: Restricted access, multifactor authentication, detailed
logging, and continuous monitoring.
◉ A hospital billing employee can view only the patient financial
records required for billing. Which principle is being applied?
Answer: Need to know.
◉ A hospital IT technician can reset passwords but cannot modify
firewall rules. Which principle is being applied?
Answer: Least privilege.
◉ A retail company requires administrators to check out
temporary credentials before modifying production servers.
Which control is being used?
Answer: Privileged Account Management.
◉ An administrator at a bank uses a domain admin account for
email and web browsing. What is the BEST correction?
,Answer: Require a normal user account for daily work and use the
privileged account only for administrative tasks.
◉ A company deploys 100 laptops from an approved baseline and
then scans them using authenticated credentials. What is the
PRIMARY purpose of the scan?
Answer: To verify that the deployed configurations match the
approved standard.
◉ Job Rotation
Answer: Periodically moving employees between duties to detect
fraud, cross-train staff, and reduce single points of failure.
◉ Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Answer: A contractual agreement defining measurable service
expectations, responsibilities, and response timeframes between
a customer and provider.
◉ Media Management
Answer: The controlled selection, protection, storage, handling,
migration, and disposal of data storage media.
◉ Common Storage Media
Answer: Paper, microfilm or microfiche, magnetic disks and tapes,
flash memory, SSDs, memory cards, CDs, and DVDs.
, ◉ Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
Answer: The estimated average operating time between failures
of a repairable device or storage medium.
◉ Media Migration
Answer: Periodically transferring retained data to newer media
before the existing media becomes unreliable or obsolete.
◉ Why must long-term records be periodically migrated?
Answer: Storage media, file formats, applications, and
cryptographic protections may become unreliable or obsolete
over time.
◉ What is the MOST important benefit of job rotation in a
sensitive financial role?
Answer: It increases the likelihood that concealed fraud or
improper processes will be discovered.
◉ A bank requires each wire-transfer employee to exchange
duties with another employee every six months. Which control is
being used?
Answer: Job rotation.
◉ A hospital's cloud provider must respond to critical outages
within one hour. Where should this requirement be formally
documented?
