CISSP-ISSAP Practice Test

CISSP-ISSAP Practice Test practice questions, page 6 of 10, with answer review and explanations.

Question 26

Which of the following types of attacks cannot be prevented by technical measures only?

  1. Social engineering
  2. Brute force
  3. Smurf DoS
  4. Ping flood attack

Question 27

Which of the following attacks can be overcome by applying cryptography?

  1. Web ripping
  2. DoS
  3. Sniffing
  4. Buffer overflow

Question 28

Which of the following authentication methods prevents unauthorized execution of code on remote systems?

  1. TACACS
  2. S-RPC
  3. RADIUS
  4. CHAP

Question 29

The simplest form of a firewall is a packet filtering firewall. Typically a router works as a packet-filtering firewall and has the capability to filter on some of the contents of packets. On which of the following layers of the OSI reference model do these routers filter information? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

  1. Transport layer
  2. Physical layer
  3. Data Link layer
  4. Network layer

Question 30

Andrew works as a Network Administrator for Infonet Inc. The company's network has a Web server that hosts the company's Web site. Andrew wants to increase the security of the Web site by implementing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Which of the following types of encryption does SSL use? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

  1. Synchronous
  2. Secret
  3. Asymmetric
  4. Symmetric