WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION
SECURITY EXAM 2 2026 ACTUAL TEST
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
◉ Acceptability.
Answer: A measure of how acceptable the particular characteristic is
to the users of the system
◉ circumvention.
Answer: Describes the ease with which a system can be tricked by a
falsified biometric identifier
◉ Hardware tokens.
Answer: Physical devices that generate a one time password (
something you have )
◉ Software tokens.
Answer: Applications that generate OTP
◉ one time password.
,Answer: OTP passwords that expire after a time frame of after one
time usage
◉ Authorization.
Answer: What the user can access, modify, and delete
◉ Principle of Least Privilege.
Answer: The lowest level of authorization allowed to a user to
preform duties
◉ Allowing access.
Answer: Let's us give a particular party or parties access to a given
resource
◉ Denying access.
Answer: Simply the opposite of granting access
◉ Limiting access.
Answer: Refers to allowing some access to out resource, but only up
to a certain point
◉ sandbox.
, Answer: A set of resources devoted to a program, process, or similar
entity, outside of which the entity cannot operate
◉ Revoking access.
Answer: Takes access that was once allowed away from the user.
◉ ACLs (access control lists).
Answer: The means by which we implement authorization and deny
or allow access to parties based on what resources we have
determined they should be allowed access to .
◉ capability-based security.
Answer: The use of a token that controls our access
◉ Read.
Answer: Allowing us to access the contents of a file or directory
◉ Write.
Answer: Write to a file or directory
◉ Execute.
Answer: Execute the contents of the file
SECURITY EXAM 2 2026 ACTUAL TEST
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
◉ Acceptability.
Answer: A measure of how acceptable the particular characteristic is
to the users of the system
◉ circumvention.
Answer: Describes the ease with which a system can be tricked by a
falsified biometric identifier
◉ Hardware tokens.
Answer: Physical devices that generate a one time password (
something you have )
◉ Software tokens.
Answer: Applications that generate OTP
◉ one time password.
,Answer: OTP passwords that expire after a time frame of after one
time usage
◉ Authorization.
Answer: What the user can access, modify, and delete
◉ Principle of Least Privilege.
Answer: The lowest level of authorization allowed to a user to
preform duties
◉ Allowing access.
Answer: Let's us give a particular party or parties access to a given
resource
◉ Denying access.
Answer: Simply the opposite of granting access
◉ Limiting access.
Answer: Refers to allowing some access to out resource, but only up
to a certain point
◉ sandbox.
, Answer: A set of resources devoted to a program, process, or similar
entity, outside of which the entity cannot operate
◉ Revoking access.
Answer: Takes access that was once allowed away from the user.
◉ ACLs (access control lists).
Answer: The means by which we implement authorization and deny
or allow access to parties based on what resources we have
determined they should be allowed access to .
◉ capability-based security.
Answer: The use of a token that controls our access
◉ Read.
Answer: Allowing us to access the contents of a file or directory
◉ Write.
Answer: Write to a file or directory
◉ Execute.
Answer: Execute the contents of the file
