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WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF
INFORMATION SECURITY EXAM
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT NEWEST 2024
TEST BANK ACTUAL EXAM 300
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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Information security
Ans: Keeping data, software, and hardware secure against unauthorized
access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
Compliance
Ans: The requirements that are set forth by laws and industry regulations.
Example : HIPPA/ HITECH- healthcare, PCI/DSS- payment card industry,
FISMA- federal government agencies
CIA
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Ans: The core model of all information security. Confidential, integrity and
availability
Confidential
Ans: Allowing only those authorized to access the data requested
integrity
Ans: Keeping data unaltered by accidental or malicious intent
Availability
Ans: The ability to access data when needed
Parkerian hexad model
Ans: Confidentiality , integrity, availability, possession/control, authenticity,
utility
Possession/ control
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Ans: Refers to the physical disposition of the media on which the data is
stored
authenticity
Ans: Allows us to talk about the proper attribution as to the owner or
creator of the data in question
Utility
Ans: How useful the data is to us
Types of attacks
Ans: 1- interception
2- interruption
3- modification
4- fabrication
Interception
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Ans: Attacks allows unauthorized users to access our data, applications, or
environments. Are primarily an attack against confidentiality
Interruption
Ans: Attacks cause our assets to become unstable or unavailable for our
use, on a temporary or permanent basis. This attack affects availability but
can also attack integrity
Modification
Ans: Attacks involve tampering with our asset. Such attacks might primarily
be considered an integrity attack, but could also be an availability
attack.
Fabrication
Ans: Attacks involve generating data, processes, communications, or
other similar activities with a system. Attacks primarily affect integrity but
can be considered an availability attack.
WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF
INFORMATION SECURITY EXAM
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT NEWEST 2024
TEST BANK ACTUAL EXAM 300
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+ Questions and
Correct Answers/ Latest Update /
Already Graded
Information security
Ans: Keeping data, software, and hardware secure against unauthorized
access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
Compliance
Ans: The requirements that are set forth by laws and industry regulations.
Example : HIPPA/ HITECH- healthcare, PCI/DSS- payment card industry,
FISMA- federal government agencies
CIA
,2 | Page
Ans: The core model of all information security. Confidential, integrity and
availability
Confidential
Ans: Allowing only those authorized to access the data requested
integrity
Ans: Keeping data unaltered by accidental or malicious intent
Availability
Ans: The ability to access data when needed
Parkerian hexad model
Ans: Confidentiality , integrity, availability, possession/control, authenticity,
utility
Possession/ control
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Ans: Refers to the physical disposition of the media on which the data is
stored
authenticity
Ans: Allows us to talk about the proper attribution as to the owner or
creator of the data in question
Utility
Ans: How useful the data is to us
Types of attacks
Ans: 1- interception
2- interruption
3- modification
4- fabrication
Interception
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Ans: Attacks allows unauthorized users to access our data, applications, or
environments. Are primarily an attack against confidentiality
Interruption
Ans: Attacks cause our assets to become unstable or unavailable for our
use, on a temporary or permanent basis. This attack affects availability but
can also attack integrity
Modification
Ans: Attacks involve tampering with our asset. Such attacks might primarily
be considered an integrity attack, but could also be an availability
attack.
Fabrication
Ans: Attacks involve generating data, processes, communications, or
other similar activities with a system. Attacks primarily affect integrity but
can be considered an availability attack.
