WGU D488 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT - CYBERSECURITY
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A financial institution is required to comply with the Payment Card
Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which sets requirements for
the protection of payment card data. The institution uses various
software programs and utilities to manage payment card data, and it is
essential to ensure that only authorized programs and utilities are
allowed on the institution's systems.
Which security control will meet the needs of the institution?
Application allowlisting
What is SIEM?
Security information and event management. SIEM gives security
teams a central place to collect, aggregate, and analyze volumes of
data across an enterprise, effectively streamlining security
workflows.
,It also delivers operational capabilities such as compliance
reporting, incident management, and dashboards that prioritize
threat activity.
A regional hospital with budget constraints stores critical patient
information and medical records on local servers.
Which protocol will ensure that the company can respond to an
unexpected event by ensuring that its critical systems are available and
responsive with minimal downtime and data loss?
Disaster recovery (DR) protocol, to ensure that recovery procedures
are executed in a consistent and efficient manner
An e-commerce company is developing a disaster recovery plan and
wants to determine how long its systems or applications can be down
before causing significant harm to the business.
,What is the term used to describe this metric?
Maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)
A company is planning to update its disaster recovery plan to ensure that
it meets the latest regulations on securing personally identifiable
information (PII).
What is the term used to describe the process of identifying and
evaluating the effect that the updated plan will have on the company's
operations and stakeholders?
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
In the event of a cyberattack, a company's security team needs to be able
to respond quickly and remediate the issue to minimize the impact.
Which solution will streamline the incident response process?
, Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR)
What is SOAR?
SOAR—for security orchestration, automation and response—is a
software solution that enables security teams to integrate and
coordinate separate security tools, automate repetitive tasks and
streamline incident and threat response workflows.
Which type of disaster recovery site will ensure that the hospital can
quickly resume operations in case of a disaster?
A warm site that is partially equipped with the necessary hardware
and software to be operational in a short period of time
A manufacturing company is evaluating continuity options for its critical
systems and data.
A company's website is a critical component of their business operations.
However, due to an unexpected disaster, their website is experiencing a
ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING | OA EXAM TEST
BANK | D488 TEST BANK | EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS | UPDATED 2026/2027 | GUARANTEED
PASS.
A financial institution is required to comply with the Payment Card
Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which sets requirements for
the protection of payment card data. The institution uses various
software programs and utilities to manage payment card data, and it is
essential to ensure that only authorized programs and utilities are
allowed on the institution's systems.
Which security control will meet the needs of the institution?
Application allowlisting
What is SIEM?
Security information and event management. SIEM gives security
teams a central place to collect, aggregate, and analyze volumes of
data across an enterprise, effectively streamlining security
workflows.
,It also delivers operational capabilities such as compliance
reporting, incident management, and dashboards that prioritize
threat activity.
A regional hospital with budget constraints stores critical patient
information and medical records on local servers.
Which protocol will ensure that the company can respond to an
unexpected event by ensuring that its critical systems are available and
responsive with minimal downtime and data loss?
Disaster recovery (DR) protocol, to ensure that recovery procedures
are executed in a consistent and efficient manner
An e-commerce company is developing a disaster recovery plan and
wants to determine how long its systems or applications can be down
before causing significant harm to the business.
,What is the term used to describe this metric?
Maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)
A company is planning to update its disaster recovery plan to ensure that
it meets the latest regulations on securing personally identifiable
information (PII).
What is the term used to describe the process of identifying and
evaluating the effect that the updated plan will have on the company's
operations and stakeholders?
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
In the event of a cyberattack, a company's security team needs to be able
to respond quickly and remediate the issue to minimize the impact.
Which solution will streamline the incident response process?
, Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR)
What is SOAR?
SOAR—for security orchestration, automation and response—is a
software solution that enables security teams to integrate and
coordinate separate security tools, automate repetitive tasks and
streamline incident and threat response workflows.
Which type of disaster recovery site will ensure that the hospital can
quickly resume operations in case of a disaster?
A warm site that is partially equipped with the necessary hardware
and software to be operational in a short period of time
A manufacturing company is evaluating continuity options for its critical
systems and data.
A company's website is a critical component of their business operations.
However, due to an unexpected disaster, their website is experiencing a
