Official (ISC)² CISSP - Domain 1: Security
and Risk Management UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Acceptable risk - CORRECT ANSWER - A suitable level of risk commensurate with the
potential benefits of the organization's operations as determined by senior management.
Audit/auditing - CORRECT ANSWER - The tools, processes, and activities used to
perform compliance reviews.
Availability - CORRECT ANSWER - Ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of
information by authorized users.
Business continuity (BC) - CORRECT ANSWER - Actions, processes, and tools for
ensuring an organization can continue critical operations during a contingency.
Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) - CORRECT ANSWER - A term used
to jointly describe business continuity and disaster recovery efforts.
Business impact analysis (BIA) - CORRECT ANSWER - A list of the organization's
assets, annotated to reflect the criticality of each asset to the organization.
Compliance - CORRECT ANSWER - Adherence to a mandate; both the actions
demonstrating adherence and the tools, processes, and documentation that are used in adherence.
Confidentiality - CORRECT ANSWER - Preserving authorized restrictions on information
access and disclosure, including means for protecting personal privacy and proprietary
information.
Data custodian - CORRECT ANSWER - The person/role within the organization who
usually manages the data on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the data owner/controller.