ISC Updated CCSP Exam Questions and Answers by winifred

Data owner is a management role that's responsible for all aspects of how data is used and protected. The database administrator, data custodian, and data processor are all technical roles that involve the actual use and consumption of data, or the implementation of security controls and policies with the data.

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) automatically configures network settings for a host so that these settings do not need to be configured on the host statically. Given the rapid and programmatic provisioning of resources within a cloud environment, this capability is crucial to cloud operations. Both DNS and its security-integrity extension DNSSEC provide name resolution to IP addresses, but neither is used for the configuration of network settings on a host. DCOM refers to the Distributed Component Object Model, which was developed by Microsoft as a means to request services across a network, and is not used for network configurations at all.

All of these activities should incorporate encryption, except for profile formatting, which is a made-up term.

All of these answers are actually correct, but A is the best answer, because it is the most general, includes the others, and is therefore the optimum choice. This is a good example of the type of question that can appear on the actual exam.