ECCouncil 712-50 (EC-Council Certified CISO) Practice Test 36

Question 350

An analyst needs to read alerts but currently can reconfigure production identity rules. What should the decision-maker choose?

  1. Least-privilege assignment
  2. Need-to-know restriction
  3. Attribute-based access control
  4. Mandatory access control

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Least privilege reduces permissions to those demonstrably needed for the assigned task. By contrast, Mandatory access control is relevant when users must not independently override centrally imposed classification restrictions, not as a substitute for Least-privilege assignment in this case.

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B:

Need-to-know adds a mission-based purpose test beyond general eligibility; this is pertinent when two equally cleared employees differ in whether their assignment requires a classified file, in contrast with the actual gap where an analyst needs to read alerts but currently can reconfigure production identity rules.

C:

ABAC evaluates policy attributes about subjects, objects, actions, and environmental conditions; the condition for this measure is that access must depend on clearance, record sensitivity, location, and transaction context together, whereas the current question concerns a case where an analyst needs to read alerts but currently can reconfigure production identity rules.

D:

MAC uses centrally enforced labels and clearances rather than discretionary owner sharing; it would be a fit if users must not independently override centrally imposed classification restrictions, whereas the required response must deal with the fact that an analyst needs to read alerts but currently can reconfigure production identity rules.

Question 351

Two equally cleared employees differ in whether their assignment requires a classified file. What action would satisfy this constraint most directly?

  1. Rule-based access control
  2. Need-to-know restriction
  3. Least-privilege assignment
  4. Role-based access control

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Need-to-know adds a mission-based purpose test beyond general eligibility. By contrast, Least-privilege assignment is relevant when an analyst needs to read alerts but currently can reconfigure production identity rules, not as a substitute for Need-to-know restriction in this case.

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A:

Rule-based enforcement applies explicit conditions to each request independent of job title alone; this is pertinent when access to an environment should be denied automatically outside defined network and time rules, in contrast with the actual gap where two equally cleared employees differ in whether their assignment requires a classified file.

C:

Least privilege reduces permissions to those demonstrably needed for the assigned task; its proper use case is one in which an analyst needs to read alerts but currently can reconfigure production identity rules, not one in which two equally cleared employees differ in whether their assignment requires a classified file.

D:

RBAC grants rights through role assignments instead of individual ad hoc grants; it helps when staff permissions should follow standardized job responsibilities and change when roles change, whereas the present requirement arises because two equally cleared employees differ in whether their assignment requires a classified file.

Question 352

A payment administrator can create and approve a high-value transfer without another person. What approach should the accountable team prioritize?

  1. Separation of duties
  2. Discretionary access control
  3. Attribute-based access control
  4. Rule-based access control

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Separating sensitive duties reduces opportunities for unilateral fraud or concealed error. By contrast, Attribute-based access control is relevant when access must depend on clearance, record sensitivity, location, and transaction context together, not as a substitute for Separation of duties in this case.

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B:

DAC allows a resource owner to grant access within broader policy constraints; its proper use case is one in which a research document owner should decide which approved collaborators may read that document, not one in which a payment administrator can create and approve a high-value transfer without another person.

C:

ABAC evaluates policy attributes about subjects, objects, actions, and environmental conditions; such an effect addresses a situation where access must depend on clearance, record sensitivity, location, and transaction context together rather than the situation where a payment administrator can create and approve a high-value transfer without another person.

D:

Rule-based enforcement applies explicit conditions to each request independent of job title alone; it would be a fit if access to an environment should be denied automatically outside defined network and time rules, whereas the required response must deal with the fact that a payment administrator can create and approve a high-value transfer without another person.

Question 353

A healthcare operator is tightening the lifecycle of employee and contractor identities. New clinicians lack access to approved applications on their first shift. What action would satisfy this constraint most directly?

  1. Dormant account disablement
  2. Periodic access recertification
  3. Leaver deprovisioning
  4. Joiner provisioning

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Joiner workflows create verified identities and grant baseline entitlements from authorized role data. By contrast, Leaver deprovisioning is relevant when departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, not as a substitute for Joiner provisioning in this case.

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A:

Dormant-account rules reduce forgotten entry points by disabling or investigating unused identities; that helps with the separate case where accounts unused for many months remain enabled without documented operational need, not with the issue that new clinicians lack access to approved applications on their first shift.

B:

Recertification requires accountable reviewers to reaffirm or revoke access based on current duties; this is pertinent when managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary, in contrast with the actual gap where new clinicians lack access to approved applications on their first shift.

C:

Leaver processes promptly disable credentials, sessions, and related access paths; it would be a fit if departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, whereas the required response must deal with the fact that new clinicians lack access to approved applications on their first shift.

Question 354

An employee changes departments but keeps sensitive access needed only for the prior role. What approach should the accountable team prioritize?

  1. Identity reconciliation
  2. Dormant account disablement
  3. Mover access re-evaluation
  4. Periodic access recertification
  5. Leaver deprovisioning

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Mover controls reassess privileges against the new job and remove obsolete entitlements. By contrast, Identity reconciliation is relevant when application accounts do not match approved central entitlements after automated updates, not as a substitute for Mover access re-evaluation in this case.

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A:

Reconciliation compares actual access against authoritative assignments and resolves drift; that is relevant if application accounts do not match approved central entitlements after automated updates, but it does not directly resolve the need arising when an employee changes departments but keeps sensitive access needed only for the prior role.

B:

Dormant-account rules reduce forgotten entry points by disabling or investigating unused identities; its proper use case is one in which accounts unused for many months remain enabled without documented operational need, not one in which an employee changes departments but keeps sensitive access needed only for the prior role.

D:

Recertification requires accountable reviewers to reaffirm or revoke access based on current duties; that helps with the separate case where managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary, not with the issue that an employee changes departments but keeps sensitive access needed only for the prior role.

E:

Leaver processes promptly disable credentials, sessions, and related access paths; the condition under which it applies is that departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, unlike the condition in the question, where an employee changes departments but keeps sensitive access needed only for the prior role.

Question 355

Departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end. What is the best-targeted intervention?

  1. Leaver deprovisioning
  2. Orphan account detection
  3. Dormant account disablement
  4. Periodic access recertification

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Leaver processes promptly disable credentials, sessions, and related access paths. By contrast, Dormant account disablement is relevant when accounts unused for many months remain enabled without documented operational need, not as a substitute for Leaver deprovisioning in this case.

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B:

Orphan detection finds active identities lacking a responsible person or valid business purpose; that helps with the separate case where several service and human accounts have no current documented owner, not with the issue that departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end.

C:

Dormant-account rules reduce forgotten entry points by disabling or investigating unused identities; the alternative concern is that accounts unused for many months remain enabled without documented operational need, but the tested need stems from the fact that departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end.

D:

Recertification requires accountable reviewers to reaffirm or revoke access based on current duties; this provides its benefit when managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary; the matter at hand is instead that departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end.

Question 356

Managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary. What should the decision-maker choose?

  1. Leaver deprovisioning
  2. Periodic access recertification
  3. Authoritative identity source
  4. Mover access re-evaluation

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Recertification requires accountable reviewers to reaffirm or revoke access based on current duties. By contrast, Leaver deprovisioning is relevant when departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, not as a substitute for Periodic access recertification in this case.

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A:

Leaver processes promptly disable credentials, sessions, and related access paths; that helps with the separate case where departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, not with the issue that managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary.

C:

An authoritative source establishes verified lifecycle events used to drive provisioning decisions; deploying it would matter if HR and IT directories disagree about which workers are still employed, but the deciding issue here is that managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary.

D:

Mover controls reassess privileges against the new job and remove obsolete entitlements; its proper use case is one in which an employee changes departments but keeps sensitive access needed only for the prior role, not one in which managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary.

Question 357

The security plan must satisfy both requirements: (1) several service and human accounts have no current documented owner; (2) departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end. Which TWO options directly satisfy these requirements? Choose TWO.

  1. Mover access re-evaluation
  2. Orphan account detection
  3. Leaver deprovisioning
  4. Authoritative identity source
  5. Periodic access recertification

Explanation

Correct Answers

B:

For the requirement that several service and human accounts have no current documented owner, orphan detection finds active identities lacking a responsible person or valid business purpose; Leaver deprovisioning separately addresses the need that departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end.

C:

For the requirement that departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, leaver processes promptly disable credentials, sessions, and related access paths; Orphan account detection separately addresses the need that several service and human accounts have no current documented owner.

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A:

Mover controls reassess privileges against the new job and remove obsolete entitlements; the alternative concern is that an employee changes departments but keeps sensitive access needed only for the prior role, but the tested need stems from the fact that several service and human accounts have no current documented owner.

D:

An authoritative source establishes verified lifecycle events used to drive provisioning decisions; it helps when HR and IT directories disagree about which workers are still employed, whereas the present requirement arises because departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end; the other need in this item is that several service and human accounts have no current documented owner.

E:

Recertification requires accountable reviewers to reaffirm or revoke access based on current duties; it helps when managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary, whereas the present requirement arises because several service and human accounts have no current documented owner.

Question 358

Accounts unused for many months remain enabled without documented operational need. What approach should the accountable team prioritize?

  1. Identity reconciliation
  2. Leaver deprovisioning
  3. Mover access re-evaluation
  4. Dormant account disablement

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Dormant-account rules reduce forgotten entry points by disabling or investigating unused identities. By contrast, Leaver deprovisioning is relevant when departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, not as a substitute for Dormant account disablement in this case.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Reconciliation compares actual access against authoritative assignments and resolves drift; it would be a fit if application accounts do not match approved central entitlements after automated updates, whereas the required response must deal with the fact that accounts unused for many months remain enabled without documented operational need.

B:

Leaver processes promptly disable credentials, sessions, and related access paths; this is pertinent when departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, in contrast with the actual gap where accounts unused for many months remain enabled without documented operational need.

C:

Mover controls reassess privileges against the new job and remove obsolete entitlements; it would be a fit if an employee changes departments but keeps sensitive access needed only for the prior role, whereas the required response must deal with the fact that accounts unused for many months remain enabled without documented operational need.

Question 359

HR and IT directories disagree about which workers are still employed. What is the best-targeted intervention?

  1. Leaver deprovisioning
  2. Identity reconciliation
  3. Orphan account detection
  4. Authoritative identity source

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

An authoritative source establishes verified lifecycle events used to drive provisioning decisions. By contrast, Orphan account detection is relevant when several service and human accounts have no current documented owner, not as a substitute for Authoritative identity source in this case.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Leaver processes promptly disable credentials, sessions, and related access paths; it would be a fit if departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, whereas the required response must deal with the fact that HR and IT directories disagree about which workers are still employed.

B:

Reconciliation compares actual access against authoritative assignments and resolves drift; the condition for this measure is that application accounts do not match approved central entitlements after automated updates, whereas the current question concerns a case where HR and IT directories disagree about which workers are still employed.

C:

Orphan detection finds active identities lacking a responsible person or valid business purpose; the condition for this measure is that several service and human accounts have no current documented owner, whereas the current question concerns a case where HR and IT directories disagree about which workers are still employed.

Question 360

Application accounts do not match approved central entitlements after automated updates. What should the decision-maker choose?

  1. Mover access re-evaluation
  2. Leaver deprovisioning
  3. Orphan account detection
  4. Identity reconciliation
  5. Periodic access recertification

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Reconciliation compares actual access against authoritative assignments and resolves drift. By contrast, Periodic access recertification is relevant when managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary, not as a substitute for Identity reconciliation in this case.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Mover controls reassess privileges against the new job and remove obsolete entitlements; that is relevant if an employee changes departments but keeps sensitive access needed only for the prior role, but it does not directly resolve the need arising when application accounts do not match approved central entitlements after automated updates.

B:

Leaver processes promptly disable credentials, sessions, and related access paths; the condition for this measure is that departed contractors retain working accounts days after their assignments end, whereas the current question concerns a case where application accounts do not match approved central entitlements after automated updates.

C:

Orphan detection finds active identities lacking a responsible person or valid business purpose; the alternative concern is that several service and human accounts have no current documented owner, but the tested need stems from the fact that application accounts do not match approved central entitlements after automated updates.

E:

Recertification requires accountable reviewers to reaffirm or revoke access based on current duties; such an effect addresses a situation where managers cannot demonstrate that long-standing entitlements remain necessary rather than the situation where application accounts do not match approved central entitlements after automated updates.

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