ISC CISSP Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: CISSP
- Exam Name: Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- Certification Provider: ISC
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
Recovery strategies of a Disaster Recovery planning (DRIP) MUST be aligned with which of the following?
- A . Hardware and software compatibility issues
- B . Applications’ critically and downtime tolerance
- C . Budget constraints and requirements
- D . Cost/benefit analysis and business objectives
Which of the following BEST describes the responsibilities of a data owner?
- A . Ensuring quality and validation through periodic audits for ongoing data integrity
- B . Maintaining fundamental data availability, including data storage and archiving
- C . Ensuring accessibility to appropriate users, maintaining appropriate levels of data security
- D . Determining the impact the information has on the mission of the organization
Which component of the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) specification contains the data required to estimate the severity of vulnerabilities identified automated vulnerability assessments?
- A . Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
- B . Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
- C . Asset Reporting Format (ARF)
- D . Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL)
Which of the following MUST be part of a contract to support electronic discovery of data stored in a cloud environment?
- A . Integration with organizational directory services for authentication
- B . Tokenization of data
- C . Accommodation of hybrid deployment models
- D . Identification of data location
What is the PRIMARY reason for implementing change management?
- A . Certify and approve releases to the environment
- B . Provide version rollbacks for system changes
- C . Ensure that all applications are approved
- D . Ensure accountability for changes to the environment
Which of the following BEST represents the principle of open design?
- A . Disassembly, analysis, or reverse engineering will reveal the security functionality of the computer system.
- B . Algorithms must be protected to ensure the security and interoperability of the designed system.
- C . A knowledgeable user should have limited privileges on the system to prevent their ability to compromise security capabilities.
- D . The security of a mechanism should not depend on the secrecy of its design or implementation.
When implementing a data classification program, why is it important to avoid too much granularity?
- A . The process will require too many resources
- B . It will be difficult to apply to both hardware and software
- C . It will be difficult to assign ownership to the data
- D . The process will be perceived as having value
A company whose Information Technology (IT) services are being delivered from a Tier 4 data center, is preparing a companywide Business Continuity Planning (BCP) .
Which of the following failures should the IT manager be concerned with?
- A . Application
- B . Storage
- C . Power
- D . Network
At what level of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model is data at rest on a Storage Area Network (SAN) located?
- A . Link layer
- B . Physical layer
- C . Session layer
- D . Application layer
Which of the following could cause a Denial of Service (DoS) against an authentication system?
- A . Encryption of audit logs
- B . No archiving of audit logs
- C . Hashing of audit logs
- D . Remote access audit logs