Terminology Question???
I just got this question wrong in a practice exam I took and after going back to review the material I still would pick what I originally picked!!
Can someone please explain the correct answer to me?
Management establishes a policy that requires that all information technology professionals must have a college degree with a core emphasis on information technology, and that all system administrators must have a security certification from an accredited program. By doing so, management has established what?
A - a standard
B - a guideline
C - a baseline
D - a regulation
Can someone please explain the correct answer to me?
Management establishes a policy that requires that all information technology professionals must have a college degree with a core emphasis on information technology, and that all system administrators must have a security certification from an accredited program. By doing so, management has established what?
A - a standard
B - a guideline
C - a baseline
D - a regulation
Comments
My 2 cents.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
guidelines are more like suggestions
baseline is a minimum achievable standard (could be this but baselines are more geared towards configurations).
Regulation is usually dictated from a governing source ( like the government saying "x corp" must abide by HIPAA)
Hope this make sense.
The correct answer according the the source is a baseline.
But I cant see why its not a standard!!!
Perhaps thinking of it in the following way will help?
From the perspective of a manager, their IT staff should have a "minimum requirement" (or if you think of people as machines, a minimum configuration) of an BS IT degree and/or a Security certification.
Meaning that moving forward, every IT staff member will have this "required configuration".
And
No IT staff without this configuration will be used, only IT staff with this configuration will be used.
For example, the following ISC2 page uses the word baseline similarly.
https://www.isc2.org/dodmandate/Default.aspx
Baseline is the minimum level of something as per that point in time. You can have more, but not less.
Regulations are (possibly mandatory) instructions usually dictated from a higher sources as already mentioned earlier.
Guidelines are recommendations which you do not have to comply with.
netstat gave an excellent perspective
Exam in 3 days...starting to second guess everything now and getting nervous