Objective 6.3
Cybersecurity Defense ArchitectExplain how industry standard security frameworks (PCI, HIPAA, OT/IC, others) affect cyber defense architecture
Objective 6.3 sits in Governance, Risk, and Compliance, which carries 10% of the Cybersecurity Defense Architect exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Splunk page it rests on.
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A worked example
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An administrator asks where the NIST control baselines now live after SP 800-53 Revision 5. What does NIST document?
Correct.
Checked against nvlpubs.nist.gov, August 2026Concept
Separating the catalogue from the baselines lets one control set serve many regimes. Which document to hand an assessor depends on knowing the split.
Why D
NIST documents that the control baselines previously included in SP 800-53 have been relocated to SP 800-53B, which contains security and privacy control baselines.
Source
NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5: Security and Privacy Controls, checked August 2026The control baselines that have previously been included in NIST Special Publication 800-53 have been relocated to NIST Special Publication 800-53B.
Now you: objective 6.3 questions
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Sample question 1 of 2
An administrator must adapt a baseline to a sector's requirements. Which two mechanisms does NIST name for that?
Sample question 2 of 2
An administrator works on a national security system and asks which instruction supplies its baselines. Which does NIST name?
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