WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION
SECURITY EXAM 2 2026 FINAL PAPER SOLVED
QUESTIONS WITH FULL SOLUTION ALREADY
PASSED
◉ Recovery phase.
Answer: Recover to a better state that we were prior to the incident
or perhaps prior to when the issue started if we did not detect it
immediately
◉ Post incident activity phase.
Answer: We attempt to determine specifically what happened, why
it happened, and what we can do to keep it from happening again.
◉ Defense in depth.
Answer: Layering of security controls is more effective and secure
than relying on a single control
◉ Identity.
Answer: Who or what we claim to be ( username)
◉ Authentication.
,Answer: The act of proving who or what we claim to be (password)
◉ Identity verification.
Answer: The half step between identity and authentication (showing
two forms of Id)
◉ single-factor authentication.
Answer: Involves the use of simply one of the three available factors
solely in order to carry out the authentication process being
requested
◉ Dual-factor authentication.
Answer: An authentication method that includes multiple methods
for a single authentication transaction. Often referred to as
"something you have and something you know," when the factors
include a device such as a smart card and a secret such as a
password or PIN.
◉ Multi-factor authentication.
Answer: Use of several authentication techniques together, such as
passwords and security tokens.
◉ mutual authentication.
,Answer: The process where the session is authenticated on both
ends and just one end . Prevents man in the middle attacks
◉ man-in-the-middle attack.
Answer: a hacker placing himself between a client and a host to
intercept communications between them
◉ brute force attack.
Answer: the password cracker tries every possible combination of
characters to guess the password
◉ Password manager.
Answer: Programs that store all of the users passwords with a
master password
◉ Manual Password Synchronization.
Answer: When a user synced passwords from different systems
without a software application
◉ Biometrics.
Answer: Authentication factors that use physical features (
something that you are )
, ◉ Universality.
Answer: Stipulates that we should be able to find our chosen
biometric characteristics in the majority of people we expect to
enroll in the system
◉ uniqueness.
Answer: A measure of how unique a particular characteristic is
among individuals
◉ Permanence.
Answer: Tests show how well a particular characteristic resists
change over time and with advancing age
◉ Collectibility.
Answer: Measures how easy it is to acquire a characteristic with
which we can use later to authenticate a user
◉ Performance.
Answer: A set of metrics that judge how well a given system
functions
◉ Acceptability.
Answer: A measure of how acceptable the particular characteristic is
to the users of the system
SECURITY EXAM 2 2026 FINAL PAPER SOLVED
QUESTIONS WITH FULL SOLUTION ALREADY
PASSED
◉ Recovery phase.
Answer: Recover to a better state that we were prior to the incident
or perhaps prior to when the issue started if we did not detect it
immediately
◉ Post incident activity phase.
Answer: We attempt to determine specifically what happened, why
it happened, and what we can do to keep it from happening again.
◉ Defense in depth.
Answer: Layering of security controls is more effective and secure
than relying on a single control
◉ Identity.
Answer: Who or what we claim to be ( username)
◉ Authentication.
,Answer: The act of proving who or what we claim to be (password)
◉ Identity verification.
Answer: The half step between identity and authentication (showing
two forms of Id)
◉ single-factor authentication.
Answer: Involves the use of simply one of the three available factors
solely in order to carry out the authentication process being
requested
◉ Dual-factor authentication.
Answer: An authentication method that includes multiple methods
for a single authentication transaction. Often referred to as
"something you have and something you know," when the factors
include a device such as a smart card and a secret such as a
password or PIN.
◉ Multi-factor authentication.
Answer: Use of several authentication techniques together, such as
passwords and security tokens.
◉ mutual authentication.
,Answer: The process where the session is authenticated on both
ends and just one end . Prevents man in the middle attacks
◉ man-in-the-middle attack.
Answer: a hacker placing himself between a client and a host to
intercept communications between them
◉ brute force attack.
Answer: the password cracker tries every possible combination of
characters to guess the password
◉ Password manager.
Answer: Programs that store all of the users passwords with a
master password
◉ Manual Password Synchronization.
Answer: When a user synced passwords from different systems
without a software application
◉ Biometrics.
Answer: Authentication factors that use physical features (
something that you are )
, ◉ Universality.
Answer: Stipulates that we should be able to find our chosen
biometric characteristics in the majority of people we expect to
enroll in the system
◉ uniqueness.
Answer: A measure of how unique a particular characteristic is
among individuals
◉ Permanence.
Answer: Tests show how well a particular characteristic resists
change over time and with advancing age
◉ Collectibility.
Answer: Measures how easy it is to acquire a characteristic with
which we can use later to authenticate a user
◉ Performance.
Answer: A set of metrics that judge how well a given system
functions
◉ Acceptability.
Answer: A measure of how acceptable the particular characteristic is
to the users of the system
