CISSP All Domains Practice test 14

The Ring Model: 4 ring model that separates Users (Untrusted) from the Kernel (Trusted). The full model is slow and rarely used; most OS’ only use rings 0 and 3. The applications are at layer 3. There is a new addition to the Ring Model: Hypervisor mode is called Ring -1 and is for VM Hosts. Ring -1 sits below the Client kernel in Ring 0.