Pregunta 1
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An organization does not have adequate resources to administer its large infrastructure. A security administrator wishes to combine the security controls of some of the network devices in the organization. Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?
Pregunta 2
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Which of the following would allow the organization to divide a Class C IP address range into several ranges?
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DMZ
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Virtual LANs
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NAT
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Subnetting
Pregunta 3
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The security administrator is currently unaware of an incident that occurred a week ago. Which of the following will ensure the administrator is notified in a timely manner in the future?
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User permissions reviews
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Incident response team
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Change management
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Routine auditing
Pregunta 4
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An access point has been configured for AES encryption but a client is unable to connect to it. Which of the following should be configured on the client to fix this issue?
Pregunta 5
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The system administrator is tasked with changing the administrator password across all 2000 computers in the organization. Which of the following should the system administrator implement to accomplish this task?
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A security group
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A group policy
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Key escrow
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Certificate revocation
Pregunta 6
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A network administrator wants to block both DNS requests and zone transfers coming from outside IP addresses. The company uses a firewall which implements an implicit allow and is currently configured with the following ACL applied to its external interfacE.
PERMIT TCP ANY ANY 80
PERMIT TCP ANY ANY 443
Which of the following rules would accomplish this task? (Select TWO).
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Change the firewall default settings so that it implements an implicit deny
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Apply the current ACL to all interfaces of the firewall
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Remove the current ACL
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Add the following ACL at the top of the current ACL DENY TCP ANY ANY 53
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Add the following ACL at the bottom of the current ACL DENY ICMP ANY ANY 53
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Add the following ACL at the bottom of the current ACL DENY IP ANY ANY 53
Pregunta 7
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Which of the following attacks would cause all mobile devices to lose their association with corporate access points while the attack is underway?
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Wireless jamming
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Evil twin
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Rogue AP
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Packet sniffing
Pregunta 8
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An administrator wants to ensure that the reclaimed space of a hard drive has been sanitized while the computer is in use. Which of the following can be implemented?
Pregunta 9
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A company is looking to improve their security posture by addressing risks uncovered by a recent penetration test. Which of the following risks is MOST likely to affect the business on a day-to-day basis?
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Insufficient encryption methods
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Large scale natural disasters
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Corporate espionage
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Lack of antivirus software
Pregunta 10
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Ann, an employee, is cleaning out her desk and disposes of paperwork containing confidential customer information in a recycle bin without shredding it first. This is MOST likely to increase the risk of loss from which of the following attacks?
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Shoulder surfing
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Dumpster diving
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Tailgating
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Spoofing
Pregunta 11
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A recently installed application update caused a vital application to crash during the middle of the workday. The application remained down until a previous version could be reinstalled on the server, and this resulted in a significant loss of data and revenue.
Which of the following could BEST prevent this issue from occurring again?
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Application configuration baselines
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Application hardening
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Application access controls
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Application patch management
Pregunta 12
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A security administrator wishes to increase the security of the wireless network. Which of the following BEST addresses this concern?
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Change the encryption from TKIP-based to CCMP-based.
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Set all nearby access points to operate on the same channel.
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Configure the access point to use WEP instead of WPA2.
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Enable all access points to broadcast their SSIDs.
Pregunta 13
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The system administrator has deployed updated security controls for the network to limit risk of attack. The security manager is concerned that controls continue to function as intended to maintain appropriate security posture.
Which of the following risk mitigation strategies is MOST important to the security manager?
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User permissions
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Policy enforcement
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Routine audits
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Change management
Pregunta 14
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A company is about to release a very large patch to its customers. An administrator is required to test patch installations several times prior to distributing them to customer PCs.
Which of the following should the administrator use to test the patching process quickly and often?
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A. Create an incremental backup of an unpatched PC
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B. Create an image of a patched PC and replicate it to servers
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C. Create a full disk image to restore after each installation
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D. Create a virtualized sandbox and utilize snapshots
Pregunta 15
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An auditing team has found that passwords do not meet best business practices. Which of the following will MOST increase the security of the passwords? (Select TWO).
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Password Complexity
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Password Expiration
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Password Age
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Password Length
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Password History
Pregunta 16
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A vulnerability scan is reporting that patches are missing on a server. After a review, it is determined that the application requiring the patch does not exist on the operating system.
Which of the following describes this cause?
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Application hardening
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False positive
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Baseline code review
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False negative
Pregunta 17
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Company A submitted a bid on a contract to do work for Company B via email. Company B was insistent that the bid did not come from Company A. Which of the following would have assured that the bid was submitted by Company A?
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Steganography
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Hashing
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Encryption
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Digital Signatures
Pregunta 18
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Ann, a sales manager, successfully connected her company-issued smartphone to the wireless network in her office without supplying a username/password combination. Upon disconnecting from the wireless network, she attempted to connect her personal tablet computer to the same wireless network and could not connect.
Which of the following is MOST likely the reason?
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The company wireless is using a MAC filter.
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The company wireless has SSID broadcast disabled.
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The company wireless is using WEP.
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The company wireless is using WPA2.
Pregunta 19
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A network technician is on the phone with the system administration team. Power to the server room was lost and servers need to be restarted. The DNS services must be the first to be restarted. Several machines are powered off. Assuming each server only provides one service, which of the following should be powered on FIRST to establish DNS services?
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Bind server
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Apache server
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Exchange server
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RADIUS server
Pregunta 20
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A security administrator is reviewing the company's continuity plan. The plan specifies an RTO of six hours and RPO of two days. Which of the following is the plan describing?
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Systems should be restored within six hours and no later than two days after the incident.
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Systems should be restored within two days and should remain operational for at least six hours.
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Systems should be restored within six hours with a minimum of two days worth of data.
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Systems should be restored within two days with a minimum of six hours worth of data.
Pregunta 21
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The incident response team has received the following email messagE.
From: monitor@ext-company.com
To: security@company.com
Subject: Copyright infringement
A copyright infringement alert was triggered by IP address 13.10.66.5 at 09: 50: 01 GMT.
After reviewing the following web logs for IP 13.10.66.5, the team is unable to correlate and identify the incident.
09: 45: 33 13.10.66.5 http: //remote.site.com/login.asp?user=john
09: 50: 22 13.10.66.5 http: //remote.site.com/logout.asp?user=anne
10: 50: 01 13.10.66.5 http: //remote.site.com/access.asp?file=movie.mov
11: 02: 45 13.10.65.5 http: //remote.site.com/download.asp?movie.mov=ok
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the incident response team is unable to identify and correlate the incident?
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The logs are corrupt and no longer forensically sound.
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Traffic logs for the incident are unavailable.
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Chain of custody was not properly maintained.
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Incident time offsets were not accounted for.
Pregunta 22
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A server dedicated to the storage and processing of sensitive information was compromised with a rootkit and sensitive data was exfiltrated. Which of the following incident response procedures is best suited to restore the server?
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Wipe the storage, reinstall the OS from original media and restore the data from the last known good backup.
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Keep the data partition, restore the OS from the most current backup and run a full system antivirus scan.
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Format the storage and reinstall both the OS and the data from the most current backup.
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Erase the storage, reinstall the OS from most current backup and only restore the data that was not compromised.
Pregunta 23
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Which of the following describes a type of malware which is difficult to reverse engineer in a virtual lab?
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Armored virus
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Polymorphic malware
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Logic bomb
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Rootkit
Pregunta 24
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Using a heuristic system to detect an anomaly in a computer's baseline, a system administrator was able to detect an attack even though the company signature based IDS and antivirus did not detect it. Further analysis revealed that the attacker had downloaded an executable file onto the company PC from the USB port, and executed it to trigger a privilege escalation flaw. Which of the following attacks has MOST likely occurred?
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Cookie stealing
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Zero-day
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Directory traversal
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XML injection
Pregunta 25
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After copying a sensitive document from his desktop to a flash drive, Joe, a user, realizes that the document is no longer encrypted. Which of the following can a security technician implement to ensure that documents stored on Joe's desktop remain encrypted when moved to external media or other network based storage?