You have provisionally passed the CISSP exam and started the online endorsement application to earn the certification (as a privilege) and obtain your credential. To commit to fully supporting the (ISC)² Code of Ethics, you are exercising due diligence and reviewing the code online. Which of the following is not an ethics canon that you might violate?
A. Protect society, the common good, necessary public trust and confidence, and the infrastructure.
B. Act honorably, honestly, justly, responsibly, and legally.
C. Provide diligent and competent service to principles.
D. Advance and protect the profession.

To mitigate lateral movement, your company is implementing technical access controls per zero trust principles. Which of the following is least related to the implementation of zero trust?
A. XACML
B. De-perimeterisation
C. Separation of duties
D. Complete mediation

Your company is developing an E-Commerce web system. As a software tester, you would like to prepare test data to verify if the back-end API is vulnerable in terms of data integrity. Which of the following is the best tool?
A. zzuf
B. Nmap
C. Nessus
D. Metasploit

Your organization suffered from data compromise. A local hacker group was identified during the incident response process and regarded responsible based on collected evidence. If your organization decides to prosecute the hacker group, which of the following is most critical?
A. Timely e-discovery
B. Sound information governance
C. Compliance with CPTED principles
D. Effective administrative investigation

A subject is authenticating to the ID provider. Which of the following is not a cryptographic function or cipher and provides the lowest level of security in the authentication process?
A. Base64 for the encoding of ID and password in HTTP basic authentication
B. Electronic Codebook (ECB) that produces repeated patterns
C. Hash-based message authentication code (HMAC)
D. Cipher block chaining message authentication code (CBC-MAC)

Your organization set up a new position, CISO, which reports to the CIO, to be in charge of cybersecurity. As the CISO, you aim to support the business effectively. Which of the following is the most critical task for you?
A. Integrate security into IT processes
B. Implement comprehensive network access control
C. Sponsor and direct the business continuity program
D. Develop an information security management system

You are applying for a certificate from a certificate authority (CA) to support the secure transmission on the E-Commerce website that serves global customers. Which of the following actions exposes the least risk?
A. Randomly generate an asymmetric key pair on the portal of the CA.
B. Use a utility to create the certificate request on the local workstation
C. Upload the key pair to the CA server for approval and signing
D. Download and install the certificate containing the key pair onto the webserver

Which of the following provides the highest level of safety in storefront or shopping windows?
A. Tempered glass
B. Laminated glass
C. Wired glass
D. Annealed glass

You are the head of a public company’s manufacturing department in Taiwan as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that accepts orders from the globe. Your department has collected manufacturing parameters, accumulated rich experience to improve efficiency and optimize costs, and created sustainable competitive advantages. Which of the following is the most critical concern to protect the manufacturing parameters from the perspective of intellectual property?
A. The ownership of the parameters
B. The secrecy of the parameters
C. The innovation of the parameters
D. The expression of the parameters

You are the head of the research and development (R&D) department. As the data owner of R&D data sets, you are responsible for classifying data and accountable for the results. Which of the following is the best criterion that justifies your classification decision?
A. The importance or meaning to stakeholders
B. The risk of the unauthorized disclosure of information
C. The risk of the unauthorized modification or destruction of information
D. The risk of the disruption of access to or use of information or an information system