Security Principles, Risk and Professional Conduct

Review questions

Integrated summary: Security Principles, Risk and Professional Conduct

For each case, identify the asset, actor, action and observed effect; do not replace confidentiality, integrity or availability analysis with the word 'breach.' Authentication establishes account identity within its evidence, authorization decides an operation on a resource, and accounting records the request and result. On a stated likelihood-impact scale from 1 to 3, name the assumptions: 2×3=6 and 1×3=3 are ordinal rankings, not monetary loss. Treatment does not automatically eliminate risk; identify owner, verification evidence, due date and residual risk. Policy states intent, procedure lays out steps, and an execution record shows what happened. Administrative, technical and physical controls complement one another, but a locked door cannot fix a shared administrator identity. In an ethical report, separate observation from assumed cause. Do not conceal a proven effect under management pressure or distribute raw data without need. A good exam decision uses the supplied facts and changes when evidence or authority changes.

Review questions

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  1. Question 1An employee sends a grade roster to an unintended group. The file remains accurate and the service stays available. Which property is directly exposed first?
  2. Question 2Account analyst7 logs in successfully, but policy denies a grade-roster download because the role can read summaries only. Which statement fits AAA?
  3. Question 3In a training scenario, a personal-roster link reaches the wrong group. Logs show two openings, no observed edit and no outage. One opening might be an automated test, but no record confirms it. What is the most disciplined first decision?
  4. Question 4On a practice 1–3 scale, risk A has likelihood 2 and impact 3; risk B has likelihood 3 and impact 1. Which initial rank follows?
  5. Question 5One internal document requires account review quarterly; another lists steps to extract and compare accounts. What classification fits?
  6. Question 6A reception terminal faces a corridor and its role reads full files. Which set addresses different exposure paths?
  7. Question 7An analyst finds a public link to personal data and two logged requests, then is told to delete the log until a product launch. What comes first?