AP Cybersecurity Unit 2 Lesson 3 Exercise 1

Unit 2 • 2.3 • Exercise 1

Exercise 1 — Recommending Controls for Delmar

6 questions — Choose the managerial and physical controls that answer each walkthrough finding

Score: 0 / 0 Predict the answer before selecting an option
Assessment Scenario
Xtensr Research Labs — Delmar Applied Optics

You are on the physical security team at Xtensr Research Labs. Xtensr is acquiring Delmar Applied Optics, a smaller research company in the same town, and your walkthrough of the Delmar building is finished. The findings are on record: a finished-lens vault, an engineering file server on a shelf in an unlocked utility closet, a reception PC on the internal wireless network with exposed USB ports, a badge controller cabinet standing unlocked in the open lobby, a testing bay fed by a single power panel, and a ground-floor optics bay below street grade on a floodplain. Assessing the risk was the last exercise. This one is the recommendation: which control answers which finding, and what gets funded first.

Q1 Awareness Training
Xtensr is drafting a security awareness training module for the Delmar staff who will stay on after the acquisition. Four objectives are proposed. Three of them describe employee behavior that awareness training exists to change; one describes an administrative duty instead, and does not belong in this module. Which objective does NOT belong?
Q2 Workstation Security Policy
Delmar has no workstation security policy at all. Xtensr must write one, tiered by the sensitivity of the data handled at each workstation: the reception PC records walk-in visitors, while the engineering workstations hold lens design files. Three measures are proposed.

I. Fit the reception PC with a privacy screen filter so a person standing at the counter cannot read the display.
II. Connect the engineering workstations to an uninterruptible power supply so an outage does not interrupt work in progress.
III. Install a turnstile at the engineering wing entrance so each person entering must authenticate individually.

Which measures belong in the workstation security policy itself?
Q3 Locks and Layers
Delmar’s engineering file server sits on a shelf in an unlocked utility closet, off a corridor that any badged Delmar employee may walk down. Xtensr recommends a keyed lock on the closet door and a locking cabinet around the server itself. A Delmar manager objects: “A lock on that closet is pointless — everyone who can reach that corridor has already badged into the building.” Which response is BEST?
Q4 Perimeter Controls
Delmar’s ground-floor optics bay fronts a street where delivery vehicles reverse up to the curb, and the bay’s glass frontage sits directly behind them. Xtensr recommends a line of bollards along that frontage. Which statement BEST describes what that recommendation accomplishes?
Q5 Matching Control to Compromise
Xtensr’s draft report maps each Delmar finding to a recommended control. Exactly one row recommends a control that does not act on the compromise its finding creates.

1. A stranger followed a technician through the engineering wing door → install an access control vestibule at that entrance
2. The reception PC has exposed USB ports in an area anyone may walk into → disable the USB ports on that PC
3. A Delmar badge was photographed on a lanyard in the open lobby, and the badge controller cabinet stands unlocked beside it → connect the badge controller to an uninterruptible power supply
4. The engineering file server sits in an unlocked utility closet → fit a keyed lock on the closet and a locking cabinet on the server

Which correction is BEST?
Q6 Prioritizing Mitigations
Xtensr’s Delmar remediation budget will cover only two recommendations this quarter; the rest wait for next year’s cycle. The four candidates carry these assessments.

W. Keyed lock and locking cabinet for the engineering file server — high severity, low cost
X. Access control vestibule at the engineering wing entrance — high severity, high cost
Y. Disabling the USB ports on the reception PC — moderate severity, negligible cost
Z. Bollards around the full building perimeter — low severity, high cost

Which pair should Xtensr fund first?
Questions Correct
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