Information Systems Security Engineering Professional
Domain 1Objective 6
Resource Analysis (e.g., Cost Estimation, Personnel Costs, Probabilities and Statistics (Monte Carlo)) ISSEP Practice Questions (Page 5)
Part of the Systems Security Engineering Foundations domain, which accounts for 24% of the ISSEP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~17–29 in this domain), expect 3–5 from this objective — we provide 28 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 21–25
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What does Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) measure?
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In probability, what does the term 'probability distribution' describe?
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A security operations center monitors a firewall that experiences failures. Over a 90-day period, the firewall failed 3 times. The total downtime for those failures was 6 hours. What is the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) in hours?
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A security team is planning a penetration testing project. The lead engineer estimates the most likely duration is 20 days, but the optimistic estimate is 15 days and the pessimistic is 30 days. The project manager wants to understand the probability of finishing within 25 days to set stakeholder expectations. Which approach should the project manager use?
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A security engineer earns an annual salary of $100,000. The company applies a benefits rate of 30% and an overhead rate of 50% (both based on salary). What is the fully loaded annual cost for this engineer?
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