ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question

A software team must validate a proprietary binary message protocol used between their IoT gateway and cloud service. They decide to apply generation-based fuzzing rather than mutation-based fuzzing. Which preparatory step is most critical to make the generated fuzz cases both syntactically valid and able to explore boundary conditions of every field?

  • Record a large corpus of real gateway-to-cloud traffic to serve as seed inputs.

  • Add code-level instrumentation so the fuzzer can monitor execution paths during tests.

  • Compile a list of publicly known exploit payloads targeting similar IoT protocols.

  • Create a detailed grammar or schema that describes every field and rule in the binary protocol.

ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
Secure Software Testing
Your Score:
Settings & Objectives
Random Mixed
Questions are selected randomly from all chosen topics, with a preference for those you haven’t seen before. You may see several questions from the same objective or domain in a row.
Rotate by Objective
Questions cycle through each objective or domain in turn, helping you avoid long streaks of questions from the same area. You may see some repeat questions, but the distribution will be more balanced across topics.

Check or uncheck an objective to set which questions you will receive.

Bash, the Crucial Exams Chat Bot
AI Bot