Which of the following provides the highest level of isolation? (Wentz QOTD)
A. Bounds
B. Containerization
C. Type II hypervisor
D. Preemptive multitasking
CISSP PRACTICE QUESTIONS – 20210803
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CISSP PRACTICE QUESTIONS – 20210802
You are writing a program using the C language to calculate the percentage of pictures in .jpg format from the total images on the hard drive. However, the process is terminated when launched because a “divide by 0” fault occurred. The operating system isolated your program to protect itself from a crash. Which of the following protection rings most likely handles the fault? (Wentz QOTD)
A. Ring 0
B. Ring 1
C. Ring 2
D. Ring 3
Systems Engineering: Confidence, Trust, and Assurance
Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach to producing trustworthy systems as a solution, which may render confidence, trust, or assurance to stakeholders through claims or assertions supported by objective evidence and certified by an independent party.
Assurance is the confidence in the solution based on objective evidence certified by an independent party; trust is the confidence based on assertions by other parties; confidence can be belief or faith shaped without objective evidence.
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CISSP PRACTICE QUESTIONS – 20210801
Containers are a fundamental element in application virtualization where the same shared OS kernel is exposed virtually to multiple discrete applications. Which of the following statements about containerization and container technology is correct? (Wentz QOTD)
A. Containers are vendor-neutral so that a Linux host can run containers built for Windows
B. Containers require a hypervisor to support application virtualization
C. Containers provide a higher level of isolation than virtual machines
D. Containers may disrupt the existing software development methodologies