GIAC Information Security Fundamentals - GISF Exam Practice Test

Question 1

You work as a Security manager for Qualoxizz Inc. Your company has number of network switches in the site network infrastructure. Which of the following actions will you perform to ensure the security of the switches in your company?

A. Set similar passwords for each management port.

B. Open up all the unused management ports.

C. Ignore usage of the default account settings.

D. Set long session timeouts.

Correct Answer: C

Question 2

You are a Product manager of Marioxiss Inc. Your company management is having a conflict with another company Texasoftg Inc. over an issue of security policies. Your legal advisor has prepared a document that includes the negotiation of views for both the companies. This solution is supposed to be the key for conflict resolution. Which of the following are the forms of conflict resolution that have been employed by the legal advisor?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

A. Orientation

B. Mediation

C. Arbitration

D. Negotiation

Correct Answer: B,C,D

Question 3

John works as an Exchange Administrator for Apple Inc. The company has a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain-based network. The network contains several Windows Server 2003 servers. Three of them have been configured as domain controllers. John complains to the Network Administrator that he is unable to manage group memberships. Which of the following operations master roles is responsible for managing group memberships?

A. RID master

B. Infrastructure master

C. PDC emulator

D. Schema master

Correct Answer: B

Question 4

Which of the following combines the characteristics of a bridge and a router?

A. Brouter

B. Firewall

C. Repeater

D. Hub

E. Switch

Correct Answer: A

Question 5

You work as a SharePoint Administrator for TechWorld Inc. You must protect your SharePoint server farm from viruses that are accidentally uploaded to the SharePoint libraries. You have installed antivirus software that is designed for use with Windows SharePoint server. You have logged on to the Central Administration site.
How can you configure the SharePoint site so that the document libraries are protected?

A. Require all documents to be scanned on the local PC before uploading to the SharePoint sit e.

B. Choose the Scan documents on upload option in the antivirus settings.

C. SharePoint does not support antivirus solutions.

D. Restrict users to read only on document libraries.

Correct Answer: B

Question 6

You are the Network Administrator for a bank. You discover that someone has logged in with a user account access, but then used various techniques to obtain access to other user accounts. What is this called?

A. Horizontal Privilege Escalation

B. Session Hijacking

C. Vertical Privilege Escalation

D. Account hijacking

Correct Answer: A

Question 7

Which of the following methods of encryption uses a single key to encrypt and decrypt data?

A. S/MIME

B. Symmetric

C. Asymmetric

D. PGP

Correct Answer: B

Question 8

You work as a Consumer Support Technician for ABC Inc. The company provides troubleshooting support to users. You are troubleshooting a computer of a user who is working on Windows Vista.
He reports that his sensitive data is being accessed by someone because of security vulnerability in the component of Windows Vista. Which of the following features of Windows Security Center will you configure to save the user's data?

A. Other security settings

B. Automatic updating

C. Malware protection

D. Firewall

Correct Answer: D

GIAC Information Security Fundamentals - GISF Exam Practice Test

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