CISM Domain 2: Information Security Risk Management
Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
What is the formula to calculate Risk? - Answer✔️✔️-Risk = Threat * Vulnerability
- This is a qualitative analysis of risk to our assets
- You need to identify your assets before calculating the risk of operating them
What is the Risk Management lifecycle? - Answer✔️✔️-- IT Risk Identification
- IT Risk Assessment
- Risk Response and Mitigation
- Risk and Control Monitoring and Reporting
What is the formula to calculate how bad the risk will be? - Answer✔️✔️-Risk =
Threat * Vulnerability * Impact
What is the formula to calculate Total Risk? - Answer✔️✔️-Total Risk = Threat *
Vulnerability * Asset Value
What is the formula to calculate Residual Risk? - Answer✔️✔️-Residual Risk =
Total Risk - Countermeasures
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What is Qualitative Risk Analysis? - Answer✔️✔️-How likely is a risk to happen
and how bad is the impact if it does happen?
- This is feeling based analysis
What is Quantitative Risk Analysis? - Answer✔️✔️-What will a risk cost us if it's to
happen?
- This is fact based analysis
What is a Risk Analysis Matrix? - Answer✔️✔️-A visual representation of risk
organized by likelihood (rare to certain) and consequences (insignificant to
catastrophic).
What is a Risk Register? - Answer✔️✔️-A spreadsheet used to categorize and group
risk in columns by name, risk #, probability, impact, mitigation, contingency, and
residual risk score.
What is Asset Value (AV)? - Answer✔️✔️-How much an asset is worth.
What is Exposure Factor (EF)? - Answer✔️✔️-The percentage of the asset loss.
What is Single Loss Expectancy (SLE)? - Answer✔️✔️-How much would it cost if it
happened once.
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What is the formula to calculate Single Loss Expectancy (SLE)? - Answer✔️✔️-SLE
= AV * EF
What is Annual Rate of Occurrence (ARO)? - Answer✔️✔️-How often something
will happen each year.
What is Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE)? - Answer✔️✔️-What it costs per year if we
do nothing.
What is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)? - Answer✔️✔️-The cost of owning and
operating something.
What is the formula for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)? - Answer✔️✔️-Upfront
cost + mitigation cost + operational cost
What is Secondary Risk? - Answer✔️✔️-What you get when you mitigate one risk
and unintentionally open up another risk.
What are the steps to NIST 800-30? - Answer✔️✔️-The 9-step process for Risk
Management.
1. System Characterization (risk scope, system/data sensitivity)
2. Threat Identification (threats to system)
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