Blog

You are asked to compose an email to send to clients who were unable to access your organization’s sales portal over the weekend because of a power outage that affected the whole area. Your email should be brief but explain the unforeseen circumstances that caused the portal being down and what additional steps the organization is taking to prevent such an outage in the future. The email is an example of:

You are performing a cloud assessment for your organization. It’s time for you to determine which capabilities can be offloaded to the cloud and the level of support services needed. Which of the following assessments should you perform?

Which of the following cloud resources will have a cost associated with any transfer of data out of the CSP’s infrastructure? (Choose all that apply.)

One of the company’s developers is creating a software package that can identify human faces and mine footage from security cameras to determine whether someone is suspected of a crime. Which type of technology is best suited for this task?

You are working for a multinational public corporation. There are offices in India, China, and Germany. You are helping to deploy a chat application to be used by all three offices. The accounting department wants to be able to use the chat software. You will also be required to save all chat communications. Which regulations do you need to worry about? (Choose all that apply.)

A threat is any agent, condition, or circumstance that could potentially cause harm, loss, damage, or compromise to an IT asset or data asset. A threat causes a decrease in what in an asset?

You need to update all the Windows Servers from Server 2012 R2 to Server 2016. You decide the best course of action is to do an in-place upgrade and install Server 2016 over the top of Server 2012 R2. Is this a recommended course of action? Why or why not?

PCI DSS requires encryption both at rest and in transit for any communication where a credit card number is transmitted to keep it private. What data security principle is this an example of?

The only parking garage near your office building is across the street at a busy intersection, and all your employees must cross the intersection. There is a parking garage that is farther away on the same side of the street, but your employees either can’t or don’t want to use it because of the distance. The organization decides to purchase and offer a shuttle service from the distant parking garage free of charge to the employees. This risk response type is:

Your company recently merged with another, and the networks have been combined into a cloud solution. Users need to access multiple resources from different systems within the same security domain. What should your company implement to make access as easy as possible for users?