Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) — Question 315

Capacity planning would prevent:

Answer options

• A. system downtime for scheduled security maintenance.
• B. file system overload arising from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
• C. application failures arising from insufficient hardware resources.
• D. software failures arising from exploitation of buffer capacity vulnerabilities.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because capacity planning ensures that sufficient hardware resources are available to support applications, preventing failures. Options A, B, and D are not primarily addressed by capacity planning, as they relate more to security maintenance, attack mitigation, and software vulnerabilities, respectively.