WGU C836 Fundamentals of Information Security OA exam (2 VERSIONS) COMPLETE 400 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR

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WGU C836 Fundamentals of Information Security
OA exam (2 VERSIONS) 2026-2027 COMPLETE 400
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST
UPDATE THIS YEAR
WGU C836 Fundamentals of Information Security OA exam


QUESTION: What is the first and arguably one of the most important steps of the risk

management process?


A.Assess risks


B.Mitigate risks


C.Identify threats


D.Assess vulnerabilities


E.Identify assets - ANSWER-Identify assets




QUESTION: Protects information and information systems from unauthorized access, use,

disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction - ANSWER-information security

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QUESTION: A type of attack, primarily against confidentiality - ANSWER-Interception




QUESTION: Something that has the potential to cause harm to our assets - ANSWER-Threat




QUESTION: A weakness that can be used to harm us - ANSWER-Vulnerability




QUESTION: The likelihood that something bad will happen - ANSWER-Risk




QUESTION: An attack that involves tampering with our assets - ANSWER-Modification attack




QUESTION: A model that adds three more principles to the CIA triad: possession or control,

utility, and authenticity - ANSWER-Parkerian hexad




QUESTION: The physical disposition of the media on which the data is stored - ANSWER-

Possession or control

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QUESTION: An attack that involves generating data, processes, communications, or other

similar activities with a system - ANSWER-Fabrication attack




QUESTION: A multilayered defense that will allow us to achieve a successful defense should one

or more of our defensive measures fail - ANSWER-Defense in depth




QUESTION: Sometimes called technical controls, these protect the systems, networks, and

environments that process, transmit, and store our data - ANSWER-Logical controls




QUESTION: Controls that protect the physical environment in which our systems sit, or where

our data is stored - ANSWER-Physical controls




QUESTION: The risk management phase that consists of all of the activities that we can perform

in advance of the incident itself, in order to better enable us to handle it - ANSWER-Preparation

phase

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QUESTION: The risk management phase where we detect the occurrence of an issue and decide

whether it is actually an incident so that we can respond to it appropriately - ANSWER-

Detection and analysis phase




QUESTION: The biometric characteristic that measures how well a factor resists change over

time and with advancing age is called __________.




A. Collectability


B. Acceptability


C.Universality


D.Uniqueness


E.Permanence - ANSWER-E.Permanence




QUESTION: What type of authentication can prevent a man-in-the-middle attack? This task

contains the radio buttons and checkboxes for options.




A.Multifactor