A software development team has applied a security patch to a critical application in a staging environment. The vulnerability management process requires that the patch be verified before the application is promoted to production. What is the most appropriate verification step?

Run a vulnerability scan against the staging environment to confirm the vulnerability is no longer detected.

Promote the application to production and monitor for any security incidents.

Review the patch's release notes and confirm the patch was installed without errors.

Ask the development team to confirm the patch works as expected.

How can CVE data be used to inform remediation decisions?

By providing information about the vulnerability's severity and affected versions

By automatically applying the necessary patches

By replacing the need for internal vulnerability scanning

By providing a legal guarantee of security

A security analyst is investigating a vulnerability in a web application. The analyst finds a CVE identifier that matches the vulnerability. What is the primary benefit of using the CVE identifier?

It guarantees that a patch is available for the vulnerability.

It provides a standardized reference that can be used to communicate and correlate the vulnerability across different systems and teams.

It automatically prioritizes the vulnerability based on its severity.

It confirms that the vulnerability is exploitable in the organization's environment.

What is the primary goal of vulnerability remediation?

To resolve vulnerabilities in deployed software

To identify new vulnerabilities

To document vulnerabilities for future reference

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Domain 7Objective 10

Perform Vulnerability Management (e.g., Tracking, Triaging, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)) CSSLP Practice Questions (Page 6)

Part of the Secure Software Deployment, Operations, Maintenance domain, which accounts for 11% of the CSSLP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~8–13 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 29 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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