Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Domain 4Objective 1
4.1 - Apply Secure Design Principles in Network Architectures CISSP Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Communication and Network Security domain, which accounts for 13% of the CISSP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~9–16 in this domain), expect 3–5 from this objective — we provide 52 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
52questions here
11free pages
18concepts
13%of the exam
Questions 1–5
- 1
What is the primary purpose of a Content Distribution Network (CDN)?
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In a network switch, which forwarding method begins forwarding a frame as soon as the destination MAC address is read, without waiting for the entire frame?
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A company is moving to a microservices architecture where services communicate extensively with each other within the same data center. The security team wants to implement micro-segmentation to limit lateral movement. Which traffic flow pattern is most critical to monitor and control in this environment?
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What is a primary benefit of converged protocols like VoIP and iSCSI sharing a common network infrastructure?
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A company operates a large public-facing web service and wants to improve performance for global users while also protecting origin servers from direct exposure. They decide to use a CDN. What is the primary security benefit of placing the CDN at the edge?
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