CCSK Free Practice Test

Which of the following is one of the five essential characteristics of cloud computing as defined by NIST?

1. A. Multi-tenancy
2. B. Nation-state boundaries
3. C. Measured service
4. D. Unlimited bandwidth
5. E. Hybrid clouds

Correct Answer: C

What is a core tenant of risk management?

1. A. The provider is accountable for all risk management.
2. B. You can manage, transfer, accept, or avoid risks.
3. C. The consumers are completely responsible for all risk.
4. D. If there is still residual risk after assessments and controls are inplace, you must accept the risk.
5. E. Risk insurance covers all financial losses, including loss of customers.

Correct Answer: B

Which term describes any situation where the cloud consumer does not manage any of the underlying hardware or virtual machines?

1. A. Serverless computing
2. B. Virtual machineless
3. C. Abstraction
4. D. Container
5. E. Provider managed

Correct Answer: A

Which of the following items is NOT an example of Security as a Service (SecaaS)?

1. A. Spam filtering
2. B. Authentication
3. C. Provisioning
4. D. Web filtering
5. E. Intrusion detection

Correct Answer: C

Who is responsible for the security of the physical infrastructure and virtualization platform?

1. A. The cloud consumer
2. B. The majority is covered by the consumer
3. C. It depends on the agreement
4. D. The responsibility is split equally
5. E. The cloud provider

Correct Answer: E