6510.1 Information Assurance

Front 1

What is an occurrence, not yet assessed, that may effect the performance of an IS?

Back 1

Event

Front 2

What kind of plan is maintained for emergency response, backup operations, and post disaster recovery fo an information system, to ensure the availability of critical resources and facilitate the continuity of operations in an emergency situation?

Back 2

Contigency Plan

Front 3

What provides visibility of extent and intensity of the activity, traffic, load and throughput potential, as well as detection of significant degradation of service?

Back 3

Network Mangement

Front 4

What enables operations and intelligence collection to gather data from target of adversary automated information systems or networks?

Back 4

Computer Network Exploitation (CNE)

Front 5

What integrates an organized, manned, equipped and trained workforce to guard, secure and secure information and information systems by providing the security services/attributes of availability, authentication, confidentiality, integrity and non-repudation?

Back 5

Information Assurance

Front 6

Which INFOCON level is described as a normal readiness of DOD information systems and networks?

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Normal

Front 7

What does network management enable based on priority, system status and capacity?

Back 7

Dynamic rerouting

Front 8

What is the ability to rapidly collect, process and disseminate information while denying these cpabilities to adversaries?

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Information Superiority

Front 9

What provides globally interconnected capabilities, processes and personnel for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating and managing information for all DOD war-fighters, policy makers, and support personnel?

Back 9

Global Computer Grid (GCG)

Front 10

Who is responsible for developing and providing US military policy, positions and concepts supporting CND and IA?

Back 10

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Front 11

what is the probability that a particular vulnerability will be exploited within an interacting population and adversely impact some members of that popluation.?

Back 11

Community Risk

Front 12

Which type of threats describes non state-sponsored computer network attack, espionage or data theft?

Back 12

Second Generation

Front 13

Which INFOCON level has a further increase in CND force readiness above that required for normal readiness?

Back 13

Bravo

Front 14

What focuses on affecting human decision processes to achieve friendly objectives?

Back 14

Information Operations

Front 15

What integrates the 3 primary functions of network management, information dissemination management (IDM) and IA?

Back 15

NETOPS

Front 16

What are teams composed of personnel with the technical expertise and organic equipment that may deploy to assist remote sites in the restoration of computer services?

Back 16

Computer Emergency Respose Team.

Front 17

What is the opportunity to make use of an information system (IS) resource?

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Access

Front 18

What limits access to information system resources only to authorized users, programs, processes or other systems?

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Access Control

Front 19

What is the assurance the sender of the data is provided with proof of delivery and the recipient is provided with proof of the sender's identity, so neither can later deny having processed the data?

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Non-Repudiation

Front 20

What is DOD consolidated worldwide enterprise level telecommunications infrastructure that provides the end-to-end information transfer network for supporting military operations?

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Defense Information System Network.

Front 21

What is the formal description and evaluation of vulnerabilities of an information system?

Back 21

Vulnerability Assessment

Front 22

What is the quaility of an information system reflecting the logical correctness and reliability of the operating system?

Back 22

Integrity

Front 23

Which INFOCON level is described as the maximum CND force readiness?

Back 23

Delta

Front 24

What provides the timely, reliable access to data and services for authorized users?

Back 24

Availability

Front 25

What is the possibility that a particular threat will adversely impact as IS by exploiting a particular vulnerability?

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Risk

Front 26

What is hardware, software or firmware capable of performing an unauthorized function on an information system?

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Malicious Logic

Front 27

Who is the individual responsible for the information assurance program of a DOD information system or organization?

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Information Assurance Manager

Front 28

What is the formal declaration by a DAA that an information system (IS) is approved to operate in a particular security mode at an acceptable level of risk?

Back 28

Accreditation

Front 29

Certification and accreditation (C&A) of information systems that process Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information will comply with requirements of what?

Back 29

Director of Central Intelligence Directive

Front 30

Which type of threats describes common hacker tools and techniques used in a non-sophisticated manner?

Back 30

First Generation

Front 31

Who is the official with authority to formally assume responsibility for operating a system at an acceptable level of risk?

Back 31

Designated Approving Authority

Front 32

What is an information system (IS) assessed occurrence having actual or potentially adverse effects on an IS?

Back 32

Incident

Front 33

Who is the individual responsible to the IAM for ensuring the appropriate operational IA posture is maintained for a DOD information system or organization?

Back 33

Information Assurance Officer

Front 34

Which INFOCON level has the further increase in CND force readiness but less than maximum CND force readiness?

Back 34

Charlie

Front 35

What are operations to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy information resident in computers and networks themselves?

Back 35

Computer Network Attack

Front 36

What is a collection of computing environments connected by one or more internal networks under the control of a single authority and security policy, including personnel and physical security?

Back 36

Enclave

Front 37

What provides the assurance the information is not disclosed to unathorized entities or processes?

Back 37

Confidentiality

Front 38

What is a chronological record of system activities to enable the reconstruction and examination of the sequence of events and/or changes in an event?

Back 38

Audit Trail

Front 39

What is a security measure designed to establish the validity of a transmission, message or originator, or as a means of verifying an individual's authorization to access specific categories of information?

Back 39

Authentication

Front 40

Which type of threats described state-sponsored computer network attack or espionage?

Back 40

Third Generation

Front 41

Which INFOCON level has increased intelligence watches and strengthened security measures of DOD information systems and networks?

Back 41

Alpha

Front 42

What is a type of incident resulting from any action or series of actions that prevents any part of an information system (IS) from functioning?

Back 42

Distributed Denial of Service

Front 43

What is a weakness in an information system, system security procedures, internal control or implementation that could be exploited?

Back 43

Vulnerability

Front 44

What consists of actions and operations to defend computer systems and networks from unauthorized activities that degrade mission performance and adversely impact survivability?

Back 44

Computer Network Defense

Front 45

What is system designed to defend against unauthorized access to or from a private network?

Back 45

Firewall

Front 46

What is the unauthorized act of bypassing the security mechanism of a system?

Back 46

Intrusion

Front 47

What is a program recorded in permanent of semi-permanent computer memory?

Back 47

Firmware

Front 48

What physical and cyber-based systems are essential to the minimum operations of the economy and government?

Back 48

Critical Infrastructures

Front 49

Which instruction states all DOD information systems and networks will be certified and accredited IAW with the DOD policy and guidance, currently the DOD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP)

Back 49

DOD Instruction 5200.40

Front 50

What are automated methods of authenticating or verifying an individual based upon a physical or behaavioral characteristic?

Back 50

Biometrics

Front 51

What are the measures that protect and defend information and information system by ensuring availability integrity, authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation?

Back 51

Information Assurance

Front 52

What is process of tracing information system (IS) activities to a responsible source know as?

Back 52

Accountability

Front 53

What is an organizational, procedural and technological construct for ensuring information superiority and enabling speed of command for the war-fighter?

Back 53

NETOPS