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CCNP Security 300-745 SDSI Practice Test 20 (Hard) - Assessing and Identifying Security Design Risk

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Which activity is most foundational to a security design risk assessment before any mitigation approach can be selected?

Identifying and characterizing assets, threats, and vulnerabilities relevant to the system being designed, to understand what could go wrong and what the potential impact would be

Immediately purchasing and deploying every available security product regardless of the system's actual threat profile

Assuming risk assessment is unnecessary since the system is assumed to be inherently secure by design

Skipping asset and threat identification entirely and proceeding directly to selecting a mitigation control at random

Assuming every system carries an identical risk profile regardless of its function or the data it processes

Disabling all existing security controls before any new risk assessment can begin

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Which risk assessment concept describes the combination of the likelihood of a threat exploiting a vulnerability and the resulting impact if that exploitation occurs?

Availability, which refers to a system's uptime and accessibility rather than the likelihood/impact combination

Throughput, which refers to a system's data processing capacity rather than the likelihood/impact combination

Risk (as typically expressed as a function of likelihood and impact)

Latency, which refers to the delay in data transmission rather than the likelihood/impact combination

Compliance, which refers to adherence to a specific regulatory or policy requirement rather than the likelihood/impact combination

Redundancy, which refers to duplicated system components rather than the likelihood/impact combination

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Which design practice would most help ensure a risk assessment accurately reflects the actual business context and priorities of the system being evaluated, rather than being a purely generic technical exercise?

Assuming every system's business criticality is identical regardless of its function or the data it handles

Assuming technical vulnerability data alone is always sufficient to determine a system's actual business risk

Skipping stakeholder engagement entirely to complete the risk assessment more quickly

Engaging business and system stakeholders to understand the data sensitivity, business criticality, and operational context of the system, in addition to conducting the technical vulnerability and threat analysis

Relying solely on a generic, industry-wide risk template with no customization for the specific system's context

Conducting the risk assessment exclusively by technical security staff with no input from business or system stakeholders at all, regardless of the platform version in use, based on standard platform behavior, under normal operating conditions

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Which risk would most likely result from a design team performing a risk assessment based only on a system's architecture diagram, without validating that diagram against the system's actual current deployed configuration?

Using only the architecture diagram would have no impact whatsoever on the accuracy of the risk assessment

The assessment could miss risks introduced by configuration drift or undocumented changes, since the actual deployed system may no longer match what the architecture diagram describes

The organization's DNS infrastructure would automatically fail as a direct result of using only an architecture diagram for the assessment

An architecture-diagram-only assessment would automatically be more accurate than one that also validates against actual deployed configuration, which is not the standard approach, which is rarely the correct choice

Using only the architecture diagram would automatically reduce the time required to complete the risk assessment to zero

Using only the architecture diagram would automatically guarantee the assessment identifies every possible risk

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Which factor would most influence how frequently a design team re-performs a risk assessment for a given system after its initial deployment?

The rate of change in the system's architecture, threat landscape, and data sensitivity, along with any significant incidents or newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting similar systems

The specific brand of coffee served in the risk management team's office

The color scheme configured for the risk assessment reporting dashboard

The average outdoor temperature at the organization's headquarters

The number of parking spaces available at the organization's headquarters, which is inconsistent with expected behavior, under normal operating conditions, which is rarely the correct choice

The font used in the organization's internal newsletter

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Which combination of practices would provide an accurate, actionable security design risk assessment for a business-critical system?

A risk assessment performed exclusively by technical staff with no business stakeholder input on criticality or context

An assessment based solely on an architecture diagram with no validation against the actual deployed system

Threat and vulnerability identification skipped entirely in favor of directly selecting mitigation controls

A generic, industry-wide risk checklist applied with no customization for the specific system's context, in accordance with common design practices, which is not the standard approach, under normal operating conditions, under typical configuration conditions

Identifying assets, threats, and vulnerabilities specific to the system, engaging business stakeholders to understand actual criticality and context, and validating the assessment against the system's actual current deployed configuration

A risk assessment performed once at initial system design with no consideration of ongoing relevance

7 / 10

Which troubleshooting/process review step would be appropriate if a design team discovers that a risk assessment completed six months ago failed to identify a vulnerability that was subsequently exploited in an actual incident?

Assume the issue is caused by the phase of the moon

Assume the issue is caused by the risk assessment team's choice of desktop wallpaper

Review the original risk assessment's methodology and scope to determine whether the vulnerability was outside the assessment's scope, was missed due to a methodology gap, or emerged after the assessment was completed, and use those findings to improve the assessment process

Immediately discontinue all future risk assessments since the prior one failed to identify this vulnerability

Assume the issue is unrelated to assessment methodology and only check the office's physical air conditioning system, which is not the standard approach, though this is not generally recommended, in accordance with common design practices, in accordance with common design practices

Assume risk assessment methodology gaps are a deprecated concern no longer relevant to any organization

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Which statement accurately describes why risk assessment is considered a continuous or periodic activity rather than a single, one-time exercise performed only at initial system design?

A system's risk profile is always fixed permanently at the moment of initial design and never changes afterward under any circumstance

Continuous risk assessment eliminates the need for any initial, foundational risk assessment at system design time

Risk assessment is only relevant for guest network systems and has no bearing on core business-critical infrastructure

A system's threat landscape, architecture, and data sensitivity can all change after initial deployment, so a risk assessment performed only once would quickly become outdated and fail to reflect the system's current actual risk profile

Performing risk assessment only once at initial design always provides equivalent value to performing it periodically

Risk assessment and system documentation are simply two different names for the exact same identical one-time activity with no distinction

9 / 10

Which combination of practices would help a design team maintain an accurate, up-to-date understanding of security design risk as a system evolves over its operational lifetime?

Reviewing the risk assessment only once per decade regardless of how significantly the system or threat landscape changes

Assuming the system's architecture will never change after initial deployment, making reassessment unnecessary

Periodically re-performing risk assessments triggered by significant architectural changes or a defined review cadence, validating assessments against actual current deployed configuration, and incorporating lessons learned from incidents affecting the system or similar systems

Disabling configuration validation entirely once the initial risk assessment is considered complete

Performing the risk assessment once at initial design and never revisiting it regardless of how the system evolves, in accordance with common design practices, which is not the standard approach, regardless of the platform version in use, which is not the standard approach, which does not align with best practices

Ignoring incident lessons learned entirely when updating the risk assessment, since incidents are assumed to be unrelated to design risk

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Which design practice would most help a design team communicate identified security design risks to business decision-makers in a way that supports informed risk acceptance or mitigation investment decisions?

Presenting only raw technical vulnerability scan output with no business context or translation of any kind

Withholding identified risks from business decision-makers entirely to avoid causing organizational concern

Assuming every identified risk requires an identical mitigation investment regardless of its assessed severity or business impact

Presenting risks using technical jargon exclusively, with no translation into business-relevant terms

Translating technical risk findings into business terms (such as potential financial, operational, or reputational impact) and presenting them alongside recommended mitigation options and their relative cost and effectiveness

Assuming business decision-makers require no information about identified risks since technical staff will handle mitigation independently, based on standard platform behavior, which is not the standard approach, under typical configuration conditions

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