Free Practice Questions for ISC2 CISSP Certification

- ISC2 Code of Professional Ethics - Organizational code of ethics

- Confidentiality, integrity, and availability, authenticity, and nonrepudiation (5 Pillars of Information Security)

Evaluate and apply security governance principles

Understand legal, regulatory, and compliance issues that pertain to information security in a holistic context

Understand requirements for investigation types (i.e., administrative, criminal, civil, regulatory, industry standards)

Develop, document, and implement security policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines

- Alignment of the security function to business strategy, goals, mission, and objectives - Organizational processes (e.g., acquisitions, divestitures, governance committees) - Organizational roles and responsibilities - Security control frameworks (e.g., International Organization for Standardization (ISO), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA), Payment Card Industry (PCI), Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)) - Due care/due diligence - Cybercrimes and data breaches - Licensing and Intellectual Property requirements - Import/export controls - Transborder data flow - Issues related to privacy (e.g., General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act, Personal Information Protection Law, Protection of Personal Information Act) - Contractual, legal, industry standards, and regulatory requirements - Business impact analysis (BIA) - External dependencies

- Candidate screening and hiring - Employment agreements and policy driven requirements - Onboarding, transfers, and termination processes - Vendor, consultant, and contractor agreements and controls

- Threat and vulnerability identification - Risk analysis, assessment, and scope - Risk response and treatment (e.g., cybersecurity insurance) - Applicable types of controls (e.g., preventive, detection, corrective) - Control assessments (e.g., security and privacy) - Continuous monitoring and measurement - Reporting (e.g., internal, external) - Continuous improvement (e.g., risk maturity modeling) - Risk frameworks (e.g., International Organization for Standardization (ISO), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA), Payment Card Industry (PCI))

Understand and apply threat modeling concepts and methodologies

- Risks associated with the acquisition of products and services from suppliers and providers (e.g., product tampering, counterfeits, implants) - Risk mitigations (e.g., third-party assessment and monitoring, minimum security requirements, service level requirements, silicon root of trust, physically unclonable function, software bill of materials)

- Methods and techniques to increase awareness and training (e.g., social engineering, phishing, security champions, gamification) - Periodic content reviews to include emerging technologies and trends (e.g., cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain) - Program effectiveness evaluation

- Information and asset ownership - Asset inventory (e.g., tangible, intangible) - Asset management - Data classification - Asset Classification

- Data roles (i.e., owners, controllers, custodians, processors, users/subjects) - Data collection - Data location - Data maintenance - Data retention - Data remanence - Data destruction - Data states (e.g., in use, in transit, at rest)

Provision information and assets securely

Manage data lifecycle

Ensure appropriate asset retention (e.g., End of Life (EOL), End of Support)

- Scoping and tailoring - Standards selection - Data protection methods (e.g., Digital Rights Management (DRM), data loss prevention (DLP), cloud access security broker (CASB))

- Threat modeling - Least privilege - Defense in depth - Secure defaults - Fail securely - Segregation of Duties (SoD) - Keep it simple and small - Zero trust or trust but verify - Privacy by design - Shared responsibility - Secure access service edge

Understand the fundamental concepts of security models (e.g., Biba, Star Model, Bell-LaPadula)

Select controls based upon systems security requirements

Understand security capabilities of Information Systems (IS) (e.g., memory protection, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), encryption/decryption)

- Client-based systems - Server-based systems - Database systems - Cryptographic systems - Industrial Control Systems (ICS) - Cloud-based systems (e.g., Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS)) - Distributed systems - Internet of Things (IoT) - Microservices (e.g., application programming interface (API)) - Containerization - Serverless - Embedded systems - High-Performance Computing systems - Edge computing systems - Virtualized systems

- Cryptographic life cycle (e.g., keys, algorithm selection) - Cryptographic methods (e.g., symmetric, asymmetric, elliptic curves, quantum) - Public key infrastructure (PKI) (e.g., quantum key distribution) - Key management practices (e.g., rotation) - Digital signatures and digital certificates (e.g., non-repudiation, integrity)

- Brute force - Ciphertext only - Known plaintext - Frequency analysis - Chosen ciphertext - Implementation attacks - Side-channel - Fault injection - Timing - Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) - Pass the hash - Kerberos exploitation - Ransomware

Apply security principles to site and facility design

- Wiring closets/intermediate distribution facilities - Server rooms/data centers - Media storage facilities - Evidence storage - Restricted and work area security - Utilities and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) - Environmental issues (e.g., natural disasters, man-made) - Fire prevention, detection, and suppression - Power (e.g., redundant, backup)

- Stakeholders needs and requirements - Requirements analysis - Architectural design - Development /implementation - Integration - Verification and validation - Transition/deployment - Operations and maintenance/sustainment - Retirement/disposal

- Open System Interconnection (OSI) and Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) models - Internet Protocol (IP) version 4 and 6 (IPv6) (e.g., unicast, broadcast, multicast, anycast) - Secure protocols (e.g., Internet Protocol Security (IPSec), Secure Shell (SSH), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS)) - Implications of multilayer protocols - Converged protocols (e.g., Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), InfiniBand over Ethernet, Compute Express Link) - Transport architecture (e.g., topology, data/control/management plane, cut-through/store-and-forward) - Performance metrics (e.g., bandwidth, latency, jitter, throughput, signal-to-noise ratio) - Traffic flows (e.g., north-south, east-west) - Physical segmentation (e.g., in-band, out-of-band, air-gapped) - Logical segmentation (e.g., virtual local area networks (VLANs), virtual private networks (VPNs), virtual routing and forwarding, virtual domain) - Micro-segmentation (e.g., network overlays/encapsulation; distributed firewalls, routers, intrusion detection system (IDS)/intrusion prevention system (IPS), zero trust) - Edge networks (e.g., ingress/egress, peering) - Wireless networks (e.g., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, satellite) - Cellular/mobile networks (e.g., 4G, 5G) - Content distribution networks (CDN) - Software defined networks (SDN), (e.g., application programming interface (API), Software-Defined Wide-Area Network, network functions virtualization) - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Monitoring and management (e.g., network observability, traffic flow/shaping, capacity management, fault detection and handling)

- Operation of infrastructure (e.g., redundant power, warranty, support) - Transmission media (e.g., physical security of media, signal propagation quality) - Network Access Control (NAC) systems (e.g., physical, and virtual solutions) - Endpoint security (e.g., host-based)

- Voice, video, and collaboration (e.g., conferencing, Zoom rooms) - Remote access (e.g., network administrative functions) - Data communications (e.g., backhaul networks, satellite) - Third-party connectivity (e.g., telecom providers, hardware support)

- Information - Systems - Devices - Facilities - Applications - Services

- Groups and Roles - Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) (e.g., multi-factor authentication (MFA), password-less authentication) - Session management - Registration, proofing, and establishment of identity - Credential management systems (e.g., Password vault) - Single sign-on (SSO) - Just-In-Time

- Federated Identity Management (FIM)

- Role-based access control (RBAC) - Rule-based access control - Mandatory access control (MAC) - Discretionary access control (DAC) - Attribute-based access control (ABAC) - Risk-based access control - Access policy enforcement (e.g., policy decision point, policy enforcement point)

- Account access review (e.g., user, system, service) - Provisioning and deprovisioning (e.g., on /off boarding and transfers) - Service accounts management - Role definition and transition (e.g., people assigned to new roles) - Privilege escalation (e.g., use of sudo, auditing its use)

- On-premises - Cloud - Hybrid

Design and validate assessment, test, and audit strategies

- Vulnerability assessment - Penetration testing (e.g., red, blue