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Master the WGU D487 Secure Software Design pre-assessment with this comprehensive guide. Covers essential topics like SDLC methodologies (Agile vs. Waterfall), threat modeling (STRIDE, DREAD, PASTA), secure coding practices, privacy impact assessments, and security testing techniques. Includes detailed answers to exam-style questions, real-world scenarios, and key deliverables for secure development. Ideal for WGU students, security analysts, and developers preparing for certification or advancing their secure software design skills.

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D487 - SECURE SOFTWARE DESIGN
KNOWLEGE CHECK AND QUIZ, WGU D487
PRE-ASSESSMENT: SECURE SOFTWARE
DESIGN (KEO1) (PKEO), WGU D487 PRE-
ASSESSMENT: SECURE SOFTWARE
DESIGN (KEO1) (PKEO)
What are the two common best principles of software applications in the
development process? - ANSWER✅✅ -Quality Code & Secure Code


What ensures that the user has the appropriate role and privilege to view data? -
ANSWER✅✅ -Authorization


Which security goal is defined by "guarding against improper information
modification or destruction and ensuring information non-repudiation and
authenticity"? - ANSWER✅✅ -Integrity


Which phase in an SDLC helps to define the problem and scope of any existing
systems and determine the objectives of new systems? - ANSWER✅✅ -Planning


What happens during a dynamic code review? - ANSWER✅✅ -Programmers
monitor system memory, functional behavior, response times, and overall
performance.


How should you store your application user credentials in your application
database? - ANSWER✅✅ -Store credentials using salted hashes

,Which software methodology resembles an assembly-line approach? -
ANSWER✅✅ -Waterfall model


Which software methodology approach provides faster time to market and higher
business value? - ANSWER✅✅ -Agile model


In Scrum methodology, who is responsible for making decisions on the
requirements? - ANSWER✅✅ -Product Owner


What is the product risk profile? - ANSWER✅✅ -A security assessment
deliverable that estimates the actual cost of the product


A software security team member has been tasked with creating a deliverable that
provides details on where and to what degree sensitive customer information is
collected, stored, or created within a new product offering.


What does the team member need to deliver in order to meet the objective? -
ANSWER✅✅ -Privacy impact assessment


A software security team member has been tasked with creating a threat model for
the login process of a new product.What is the first step the team member should
take? - ANSWER✅✅ -Identify security objectives


What are three parts of the STRIDE methodology? - ANSWER✅✅ -Spoofing,
Elevation, Tampering

,What is the reason software security teams host discovery meetings with
stakeholders early in the development life cycle? - ANSWER✅✅ -To ensure that
security is built into the product from the start


Why should a security team provide documented certification requirements during
the software assessment phase? - ANSWER✅✅ -Depending on the environment
in which the product resides, certifications may be required by corporate or
government entities before the software can be released to customers.


What are two items that should be included in the privacy impact assessment plan
regardless of which methodology is used? - ANSWER✅✅ -Required process
steps & Technologies and techniques


What are the goals of each SDL deliverable? - Product Risk Profile -
ANSWER✅✅ -Estimate the actual cost of the product


What are the goals of each SDL deliverable? -SDL project outline -
ANSWER✅✅ -Map security activities to the development schedule


What are the goals of each SDL deliverable? - Threat profile - ANSWER✅✅ -
Guide security activities to protect the product from vulnerabilities


What are the goals of each SDL deliverable? -List of third-party software -
ANSWER✅✅ -Identify the dependence on unmanaged software


What is a threat action that is designed to illegally access and use another person's
credentials? - ANSWER✅✅ -Spoofing

, What are two steps of the threat modeling process? - ANSWER✅✅ -Survey The
application & Decompose the application


What do the "A" and the first "D" in the DREAD acronym represent? -
ANSWER✅✅ -Damage & Affected Users


Which shape indicates each type of flow diagram element? - External elements -
ANSWER✅✅ -Rectangle


Which shape indicates each type of flow diagram element? - Data Store -
ANSWER✅✅ -Two Parallel horizontal lines


Which shape indicates each type of flow diagram element? - Data Flow -
ANSWER✅✅ -Solid Line with an arrow


Which shape indicates each type of flow diagram element? - Trust Boundry -
ANSWER✅✅ -Dashed Line


What are the two deliverables of the Architecture phase of the SDL? -
ANSWER✅✅ -Threat Modeling artifacts & Policy compliance analysis


What SDL security assessment deliverable is used as an input to an SDL
architecture process? - ANSWER✅✅ -Threat profile


Which software security testing technique tests the software from an external
perspective? - ANSWER✅✅ -Black box

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