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Which security principle grants only the permissions required for a task?

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  1. Which security principle grants only the permissions required for a task?

  2. Which combination provides two different authentication factor types?

  3. What is a cryptographic hash primarily used to verify?

  4. A business owner accepts a documented residual risk within delegated authority. What does this decision mean?

  5. A company can tolerate losing at most 30 minutes of recent transaction data. Which recovery objective addresses this requirement?

  6. A critical service must resume within two hours after disruption. Which objective expresses this target?

  7. Which role normally determines the business classification of an information asset?

  8. An employee can request a payment but a different employee must approve it. Which control is illustrated?

  9. Which activity best demonstrates that a disaster recovery plan is usable?

  10. A record must remain readable for seven years. Which encryption consideration matters beyond choosing an algorithm?

  11. Why should security requirements enter a project before implementation starts?

  12. A building uses badges, guards and door alarms. Which principle does the combination illustrate?

  13. Which evidence-handling practice supports accountability for a collected device?

  14. Which statement correctly distinguishes due care from due diligence in common security usage?

  15. Why should an organization inventory data flows before a privacy assessment?

  16. Which metric directly estimates the expected yearly financial loss for one risk scenario?

  17. An asset is valued at $200,000 and a scenario's exposure factor is 25%. What is the single loss expectancy?

  18. What is the main purpose of a business impact analysis?

  19. Which access model assigns permissions primarily through job functions?

  20. Why should privileged access be periodically recertified?

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