At a retailer, a file contains cashier usernames and passwords for the register system. Which data class does that file fall under?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A sticky note with a cashier's username and password is a key to the register, not a patient chart or a product design. You classify that file as personal security information, meaning the credentials. The trap is health data, intellectual property, or a NetFlow template.
Full Explanation
Personal security information means usernames, passwords, and other credentials. Cashier usernames and passwords for the registers are Personal security information, the credential class for cashier usernames and passwords on the registers. Protected health information, the class for a patient's diagnosis and medical-record number, is clinical data, and a register password file has none. Intellectual property, the class for trade secrets, product designs, and unpublished source, covers designs and source, not login secrets for a till. A NetFlow template, the field layout an exporter uses when it describes conversation summaries, is a flow-record format and not a data class for the file. Usernames can also identify a person, but the passwords in this file are credentials, and that credential class is the one this question asks for. Exam caveat: in this material, personal security information means credentials, not a loose phrase for every sensitive file; the passwords are what place this file in that class. Operational check: confirm the columns are register usernames and passwords, then store and transmit the file as credential material.