Explanation/Reference:
Pipelining is a natural concept in everyday life, e.g. on an assembly line. Consider the assembly of a car:
assume that certain steps in the assembly line are to install the engine, install the hood, and install the wheels (in that order, with arbitrary interstitial steps). A car on the assembly line can have only one of the three steps done at once. After the car has its engine installed, it moves on to having its hood installed, leaving the engine installation facilities available for the next car. The first car then moves on to wheel installation, the second car to hood installation, and a third car begins to have its engine installed. If engine installation takes 20 minutes, hood installation takes 5 minutes, and wheel installation takes 10 minutes, then finishing all three cars when only one car can be assembled at once would take 105 minutes. On the other hand, using the assembly line, the total time to complete all three is 75 minutes. At this point, additional cars will come off the assembly line at 20 minute increments.
In computing, a pipeline is a set of data processing elements connected in series, so that the output of one element is the input of the next one. The elements of a pipeline are often executed in parallel or in time- sliced fashion; in that case, some amount of buffer storage is often inserted between elements. Pipelining is used in processors to allow overlapping execution of multiple instructions within the same circuitry. The circuitry is usually divided into stages, including instruction decoding, arithmetic, and register fetching stages, wherein each stage processes one instruction at a time.
The following were not correct answers:
CISC: is a CPU design where single instructions execute several low-level operations (such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store) within a single instruction.
RISC: is a CPU design based on simplified instructions that can provide higher performance as the simplicity enables much faster execution of each instruction.
Multitasking: is a method where multiple tasks share common processing resources, such as a CPU, through a method of fast scheduling that gives the appearance of parallelism, but in reality only one task is being performed at any one time.
Reference:
KRUTZ, Ronald L. & VINES, Russel D., The CISSP Prep Guide: Mastering the Ten Domains of Computer Security, pages 188-189.
Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(computing)

Explanation/Reference:
The advantages of SSO include having the ability to use stronger passwords, easier administration as far as changing or deleting the passwords, minimize the risks of orphan accounts, and requiring less time to access resources.
Source: KRUTZ, Ronald L. & VINES, Russel D., The CISSP Prep Guide: Mastering the Ten Domains of Computer Security, 2001, John Wiley & Sons, Page 39.

Section: Network and Telecommunications
Explanation/Reference:
Ethernet uses Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) to minimize the effect of broadcast collisions.
The following answers are incorrect:
CSU/DSU Is incorrect because Channel Service Unit/Digital Service Unit(CSU/DSU) is a digital interface normally used to connect a router to a digital circuit.
TCP/IP Is incorrect because Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol(TCP/IP) is a network protocol not an access method.
FIFO Is incorrect as it is a distractor. First In, First Out (FIFO) is typically a processing methodology in which first come, first served.
Ethernet is a frame based network technology.
References:
OIG CBK Telecommunications and Network Security (pages 437 - 438)
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO

Running the source comparison program between control and current source
periodically allows detection, not prevention, of unauthorized changes in the production
environment. Other options are preventive controls.
Source: Information Systems Audit and Control Association, Certified Information Systems
Auditor 2002 review manual, chapter 6: Business Application System Development,
Acquisition, Implementation and Maintenance (page 309).