You are assessing an organization?s implementation of the System and Information Integrity (SI) practices. During your assessment, you find that the organization has subscribed to security alert and advisory services from reputable sources, such as US-CERT and relevant industry-specific organizations. In interviews with their network and system administrators, you learn that they have deployed an intrusion detection system (IDS) to monitor network traffic for known threats and suspicious activities. They also have a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system in place to aggregate and analyze logs from various sources for potential security incidents. Additionally, the network administrator informs you that they have established a Security Operations Center (SOC) to monitor and analyze activity on networks, servers, databases, applications, and other systems. However, you notice that while the organization receives these alerts and advisories, there is no documented process or assigned personnel responsible for reviewing and acting upon them. After reviewing the organization?s implementation, which of the following would be the most appropriate next step for the assessor to validate compliance with CMMC practice SI.L2-3.14.3-Security Alerts & Advisories?

A contractor has retained you to assess compliance with CMMC practices as part of their triennial review. During your assessment of the AU domain, you discovered that the contractor has recently installed new nodes and servers on their network infrastructure. To assess their implementation of AU.L2-3.3.7-Authoritative Time Source, you trigger some events documented to meet AU.L2-3.3.1-System Auditing across both the new and existing systems, generating audit logs. Upon examining these logs, you notice inconsistencies in the time stamps between newly installed and previously existing nodes. Further investigation reveals that while the contractor has implemented a central Network Time Protocol (NTP) server as the authoritative time source, the new systems are configured to automatically adjust and synchronize their clocks only when the time difference with the NTP server exceeds 30 seconds. Based on this scenario, how many points would you score the OSC's implementation of CMMC practice AU.L2-3.3.7-Authoritative Time Source?

A defense contractor has implemented a secure wireless network infrastructure to support their operations and client engagements. They use the WPA2-Enterprise encryption protocol with AES-CCMP ciphers and the 802.1X port-based authentication framework to secure their wireless network. The wireless network infrastructure includes a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server for centralized authentication and authorization of wireless clients. The contractor has deployed multiple Wireless Access Points (WAPs) throughout their office premises, each with its own Service Set Identifier (SSID) and VLAN configuration. Before granting wireless access, the contractor?s IT team verifies the device's compliance with their security standards and validates the user's credentials against the RADIUS server using EAP-TLS authentication. Which of the following actions would NOT be considered a best practice for the contractor to further strengthen their compliance with CMMC AC.L2-3.1.16-Wireless Access Authorization?

You are part of an Assessment Team that has just completed a CMMC assessment for an OSC. The assessment is deemed complete after the CMMC results and artifacts are uploaded to the CMMC eMASS system. You overhear one of the CCAs chatting with their friends about how sloppily the OSC categorized their evidence. They even share some information about the assessor's network designs. Based on this scenario, which of the following statements is true?

Before an OSC categorizes its assets into different categories, it must determine the Scope of applicability. However, after discussing with the OSC� PoC, you learn that although they follow CUI and FCI in all forms and stages, they are mostly considered technical components. What is the issue with the OSC?s approach to determining scope of applicability?