Free CSSLP: Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional Exam Questions and Answers

Last updated: September 11, 2026

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CSSLP

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1. Question #1

   To help review or design security controls, they can be classified by several criteria . One of these criteria is based on their nature. According to this criterion, which of the following controls consists of incident response processes, management oversight, security awareness, and training?

   • A. Compliance control
   • B. Physical control
   • C. Procedural control
   • D. Technical control
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2. Question #2

   What component of the change management system is responsible for evaluating, testing, and documenting changes created to the project scope?

   • A. Project Management Information System
   • B. Integrated Change Control
   • C. Configuration Management System
   • D. Scope Verification
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3. Question #3

   You are the project manager of the NNN project for your company. You and the project team are working together to plan the risk responses for the project. You feel that the team has successfully completed the risk response planning and now you must initiate what risk process it is. Which of the following risk processes is repeated after the plan risk responses to determine if the overall project risk has been satisfactorily decreased?

   • A. Quantitative risk analysis
   • B. Risk identification
   • C. Risk response implementation
   • D. Qualitative risk analysis
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4. Question #4

   You have a storage media with some data and you make efforts to remove this data. After performing this, you analyze that the data remains present on the media. Which of the following refers to the above mentioned condition?

   • A. Object reuse
   • B. Degaussing
   • C. Residual
   • D. Data remanence
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5. Question #5

   Which of the following tools is used to attack the Digital Watermarking?

   • A. Steg-Only Attack
   • B. Active Attacks
   • C. 2Mosaic
   • D. Gifshuffle
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6. Question #6

   What project management plan is most likely to direct the quantitative risk analysis process for a project in a matrix environment?

   • A. Risk analysis plan
   • B. Staffing management plan
   • C. Risk management plan
   • D. Human resource management plan
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7. Question #7

   Which of the following testing methods tests the system efficiency by systematically selecting the suitable and minimum set of tests that are required to effectively cover the affected changes?

   • A. Unit testing
   • B. Integration testing
   • C. Acceptance testing
   • D. Regression testing
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8. Question #8

   Which of the following features of SIEM products is used in analysis for identifying potential problems and reviewing all available data that are associated with the problems?

   • A. Security knowledge base
   • B. Graphical user interface
   • C. Asset information storage and correlation
   • D. Incident tracking and reporting
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9. Question #9

   You are the project manager for your organization. You are preparing for the quantitative risk analysis. Mark, a project team member, wants to know why you need to do quantitative risk analysis when you just completed qualitative risk analysis. Which one of the following statements best defines what quantitative risk analysis is?

   • A. Quantitative risk analysis is the process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact.
   • B. Quantitative risk analysis is the review of the risk events with the high probability and the highest impact on the project objectives.
   • C. Quantitative risk analysis is the planning and quantification of risk responses based on probability and impact of each risk event.
   • D. Quantitative risk analysis is the process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.
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10. Question #10

    Which of the following US Acts emphasized a "risk-based policy for cost-effective security" and makes mandatory for agency program officials, chief information officers, and inspectors general (IGs) to conduct annual reviews of the agency's information security program and report the results to Office of Management and Budget?

    • A. Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA)
    • B. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA)
    • C. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)
    • D. The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
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