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Pregunta 1
Pregunta
What type of access control is intended to discover unwanted or
unauthorized activity by providing information after the event has
occurred?
Respuesta
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A. Preventive
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B. Corrective
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C. Detective
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D. Directive
Pregunta 2
Pregunta
Which one of the following presents the most complex decoy
environment for an attacker to explore during an intrusion attempt?
Respuesta
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A. Honeypot
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B. Darknet
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C. Honeynet
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D. Pseudo flaw
Pregunta 3
Pregunta
Ben’s organization is adopting biometric authentication for their
high-security building’s access control system.
Ben’s company is considering configuring their systems to work at the level shown by point A on the diagram. What level are they setting the sensitivity to?
Image:
56 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
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A. The FRR crossover
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B. The FAR point
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C. The CER
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D. The CFR
Pregunta 4
Pregunta
Ben’s organization is adopting biometric authentication for their
high-security building’s access control system.
At point B, what problem is likely to occur?
Image:
56 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
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A. False acceptance will be very high.
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B. False rejection will be very high.
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C. False rejection will be very low.
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D. False acceptance will be very low.
Pregunta 5
Pregunta
Ben’s organization is adopting biometric authentication for their
high-security building’s access control system.
What should Ben do if the FAR and FRR shown in this diagram does
not provide an acceptable performance level for his organization’s
needs?
Image:
56 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
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A. Adjust the sensitivity of the biometric devices.
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B. Assess other biometric systems to compare them.
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C. Move the CER.
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D. Adjust the FRR settings in software.
Pregunta 6
Pregunta
Ed is tasked with protecting information about his organization’s
customers, including their name, Social Security number, birthdate,
and place of birth, as well as a variety of other information. What is
this information known as?
Respuesta
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A. PHI
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B. PII
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C. Personal Protected Data
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D. PID
Pregunta 7
Pregunta
What software development life-cycle model is shown in the following
illustration?
Image:
57 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
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A. Spiral
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B. Agile
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C. Boehm
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D. Waterfall
Pregunta 8
Pregunta
Encapsulation is the core concept that enables what type of protocol?
Respuesta
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A. Bridging
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B. Multilayer
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C. Hashing
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D. Storage
Pregunta 9
Pregunta
Which one of the following is not a key principle of the COBIT
framework for IT security control objectives?
Respuesta
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A. Meeting stakeholder needs
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B. Performing exhaustive analysis
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C. Covering the enterprise end-to-end
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D. Separating governance from management
Pregunta 10
Pregunta
Roscommon Enterprises is an Irish company that handles personal
information. They exchange information with many other countries.
Which of the following countries would trigger the onward transfer
provisions of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield?
Respuesta
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A. United States
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B. France
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C. Italy
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D. Germany
Pregunta 11
Pregunta
Susan provides a public RESTful API for her organization’s data but
wants to limit its use to trusted partners. She intends to use API keys.
What other recommendation would you give Susan to limit the
potential abuse of the service?
Respuesta
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A. Limit request rates
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B. Force HTTP-only requests
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C. Avoid tokens due to bandwidth constraints
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D. Blacklist HTTP methods such as GET, POST, and PUT
Pregunta 12
Pregunta
NIST Special Publication 800-53A describes four types of objects that
can be assessed. If Ben is reviewing a password standard, which of the
four types of objects is he assessing?
Respuesta
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A. A mechanism
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B. A specification
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C. An activity
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D. An individual
Pregunta 13
Pregunta
What process is typically used to ensure data security for workstations
that are being removed from service but that will be resold or
otherwise reused?
Respuesta
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A. Destruction
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B. Erasing
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C. Sanitization
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D. Clearing
Pregunta 14
Pregunta
Colleen is conducting a software test that is evaluating code for both
security flaws and usability issues. She is working with the application
from an end-user perspective and referencing the source code as she
works her way through the product. What type of testing is Colleen
conducting?
Respuesta
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A. White box
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B. Blue box
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C. Gray box
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D. Black box
Pregunta 15
Pregunta
Harold is looking for a software development methodology that will
help with a major issue he is seeing in his organization. Currently,
developers and operations staff do not work together and are often
seen as taking problems and “throwing them over the fence” to the
other team. What technology management approach is designed to
alleviate this problem?
Respuesta
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A. ITIL
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B. Lean
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C. ITSM
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D. DevOps
Pregunta 16
Pregunta
NIST Special Publication 800-92, the Guide to Computer Security Log
Management, describes four types of common challenges to log
management:
Many log sources
Inconsistent log content
Inconsistent timestamps
Inconsistent log formats
Which of the following solutions is best suited to solving these issues?
Respuesta
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A. Implement SNMP for all logging devices.
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B. Implement a SIEM.
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C. Standardize on the Windows event log format for all devices and use NTP.
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D. Ensure that logging is enabled on all endpoints using their native logging formats and set their local time correctly.
Pregunta 17
Pregunta
Mike has a flash memory card that he would like to reuse. The card
contains sensitive information. What technique can he use to securely
remove data from the card and allow its reuse?
Respuesta
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A. Degaussing
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B. Physical destruction
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C. Overwriting
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D. Reformatting
Pregunta 18
Pregunta
Carlos is investigating the compromise of sensitive information in his
organization. He believes that attackers managed to retrieve personnel
information on all employees from the database and finds the
following user-supplied input in a log entry for a web-based personnel
management system:
Collins’&1=1;––
What type of attack took place?
Respuesta
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A. SQL injection
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B. Buffer overflow
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C. Cross-site scripting
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D. Cross-site request forgery
Pregunta 19
Pregunta
Which one of the following is a detailed, step-by-step document that
describes the exact actions that individuals must complete?
Respuesta
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A. Policy
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B. Standard
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C. Guideline
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D. Procedure
Pregunta 20
Pregunta
What principle of relational databases ensures the permanency of
transactions that have successfully completed?
Respuesta
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A. Atomicity
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B. Consistency
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C. Isolation
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D. Durability
Pregunta 21
Pregunta
Bryan has a set of sensitive documents that he would like to protect
from public disclosure. He would like to use a control that, if the
documents appear in a public forum, may be used to trace the leak
back to the person who was originally given the document copy. What security control would best fulfill this purpose?
Respuesta
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A. Digital signature
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B. Document staining
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C. Hashing
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D. Watermarking
Pregunta 22
Pregunta
Carlos is planning a design for a data center that will be constructed
within a new four-story corporate headquarters. The building consists of a basement and three above-ground floors. What is the best location
for the data center?
Respuesta
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A. Basement
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B. First floor
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C. Second floor
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D. Third floor
Pregunta 23
Pregunta
Chris is an information security professional for a major corporation
and, as he is walking into the building, he notices that the door to a
secure area has been left ajar. Physical security does not fall under his responsibility, but he takes immediate action by closing the door and informing the physical security team of his action. What principle is Chris demonstrating?
Respuesta
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A. Due care
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B. Due diligence
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C. Separation of duties
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D. Informed consent
Pregunta 24
Pregunta
Which one of the following investigation types always uses the
beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard of proof?
Respuesta
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A. Civil investigation
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B. Criminal investigation
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C. Operational investigation
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D. Regulatory investigation
Pregunta 25
Pregunta
Which one of the following backup types does not alter the status of
the archive bit on a file?
Respuesta
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A. Full backup
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B. Incremental backup
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C. Partial backup
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D. Differential backup
Pregunta 26
Pregunta
What type of alternate processing facility contains the hardware
necessary to restore operations but does not have a current copy of
data?
Respuesta
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A. Hot site
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B. Warm site
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C. Cold site
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D. Mobile site
Pregunta 27
Pregunta
Which one of the following terms describes a period of momentary
high voltage?
Respuesta
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A. Sag
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B. Brownout
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C. Spike
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D. Surge
Pregunta 28
Pregunta
A web application accesses information in a database to retrieve user
information. What is the web application acting as?
Respuesta
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A. A subject
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B. An object
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C. A user
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D. A token
Pregunta 29
Pregunta
The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol is a routing protocol
that keeps a map of all connected remote networks and uses that map to select the shortest path to a remote destination. What type of
routing protocol is OSPF?
Respuesta
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A. Link state
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B. Shortest path first
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C. Link mapping
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D. Distance vector
Pregunta 30
Pregunta
Which one of the following categories consists of first-generation
programming languages?
Respuesta
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A. Machine languages
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B. Assembly languages
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C. Compiled languages
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D. Natural language
Pregunta 31
Pregunta
Concho Controls is a midsized business focusing on building
automation systems. They host a set of local file servers in their onpremises
data center that store customer proposals, building plans,
product information, and other data that is critical to their
business operations.
Tara works in the Concho Controls IT department and is
responsible for designing and implementing the organization’s
backup strategy, among other tasks. She currently conducts full
backups every Sunday evening at 8 p.m. and differential backups
on Monday through Friday at noon.
Concho experiences a server failure at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Tara
rebuilds the server and wants to restore data from the backups.
What backup should Tara apply to the server first?
Respuesta
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A. Sunday’s full backup
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B. Monday’s differential backup
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C. Tuesday’s differential backup
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D. Wednesday’s differential backup
Pregunta 32
Pregunta
Concho Controls is a midsized business focusing on building
automation systems. They host a set of local file servers in their onpremises
data center that store customer proposals, building plans,
product information, and other data that is critical to their
business operations.
Tara works in the Concho Controls IT department and is
responsible for designing and implementing the organization’s
backup strategy, among other tasks. She currently conducts full
backups every Sunday evening at 8 p.m. and differential backups
on Monday through Friday at noon.
Concho experiences a server failure at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Tara
rebuilds the server and wants to restore data from the backups.
How many backups in total must Tara apply to the system to make the data it contains as current as possible?
Respuesta
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A. 1
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B. 2
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C. 3
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D. 4
Pregunta 33
Pregunta
Concho Controls is a midsized business focusing on building
automation systems. They host a set of local file servers in their onpremises
data center that store customer proposals, building plans,
product information, and other data that is critical to their
business operations.
Tara works in the Concho Controls IT department and is
responsible for designing and implementing the organization’s
backup strategy, among other tasks. She currently conducts full
backups every Sunday evening at 8 p.m. and differential backups
on Monday through Friday at noon.
Concho experiences a server failure at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Tara
rebuilds the server and wants to restore data from the backups.
In this backup approach, some data may be irretrievably lost. How
long is the time period where any changes made will have been lost?
Respuesta
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A. 3 hours.
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B. 5 hours.
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C. 8 hours.
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D. No data will be lost.
Pregunta 34
Pregunta
Concho Controls is a midsized business focusing on building
automation systems. They host a set of local file servers in their onpremises
data center that store customer proposals, building plans,
product information, and other data that is critical to their
business operations.
Tara works in the Concho Controls IT department and is
responsible for designing and implementing the organization’s
backup strategy, among other tasks. She currently conducts full
backups every Sunday evening at 8 p.m. and differential backups
on Monday through Friday at noon.
Concho experiences a server failure at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Tara
rebuilds the server and wants to restore data from the backups.
If Tara followed the same schedule but switched the differential
backups to incremental backups, how many backups in total would
she need to apply to the system to make the data it contains as current as possible?
Respuesta
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A. 1
-
B. 2
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C. 3
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D. 4
Pregunta 35
Pregunta
Concho Controls is a midsized business focusing on building
automation systems. They host a set of local file servers in their onpremises
data center that store customer proposals, building plans,
product information, and other data that is critical to their
business operations.
Tara works in the Concho Controls IT department and is
responsible for designing and implementing the organization’s
backup strategy, among other tasks. She currently conducts full
backups every Sunday evening at 8 p.m. and differential backups
on Monday through Friday at noon.
Concho experiences a server failure at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Tara
rebuilds the server and wants to restore data from the backups.
If Tara made the change from differential to incremental backups and
we assume that the same amount of information changes each day,
which one of the following files would be the largest?
Respuesta
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A. Monday’s incremental backup
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B. Tuesday’s incremental backup
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C. Wednesday’s incremental backup
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D. All three will be the same size.
Pregunta 36
Pregunta
Susan is conducting a STRIDE threat assessment by placing threats
into one or more of the following categories: Spoofing, Tampering,
Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation
of Privilege. As part of her assessment, she has discovered an issue
that allows transactions to be modified between a web browser and the application server that it accesses. What STRIDE categorization(s)
best fit this issue?
Respuesta
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A. Tampering and Information Disclosure
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B. Spoofing and Tampering
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C. Tampering and Repudiation
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D. Information Disclosure and Elevation of Privilege
Pregunta 37
Pregunta
Bob has been tasked with writing a policy that describes how long data
should be kept and when it should be purged. What concept does this
policy deal with?
Respuesta
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A. Data remanence
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B. Record retention
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C. Data redaction
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D. Audit logging
Pregunta 38
Pregunta
Which component of IPsec provides authentication, integrity, and
nonrepudiation?
Respuesta
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A. L2TP
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B. Encapsulating Security Payload
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C. Encryption Security Header
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D. Authentication Header
Pregunta 39
Pregunta
Renee notices that a system on her network recently received
connection attempts on all 65,536 TCP ports from a single system
during a short period of time. What type of attack did Renee most
likely experience?
Respuesta
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A. Denial of service
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B. Reconnaissance
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C. Malicious insider
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D. Compromise
Pregunta 40
Pregunta
What type of Windows audit record describes events like an OS
shutdown or a service being stopped?
Respuesta
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A. An application log
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B. A security log
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C. A system log
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D. A setup log
Pregunta 41
Pregunta
In the ring protection model shown here, what ring does not run in
privileged mode?
Image:
58 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
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A. Ring 0
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B. Ring 1
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C. Ring 2
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D. Ring 3
Pregunta 42
Pregunta
What level of RAID is also known as disk striping?
Respuesta
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A. RAID 0
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B. RAID 1
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C. RAID 5
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D. RAID 10
Pregunta 43
Pregunta
Jacob executes an attack against a system using a valid but lowprivilege user account by accessing a file pointer that the account has access to. After the access check, but before the file is opened, he
quickly switches the file pointer to point to a file that the user account
does not have access to. What type of attack is this?
Respuesta
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A. TOCTOU
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B. Permissions creep
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C. Impersonation
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D. Link swap
Pregunta 44
Pregunta
What is the minimum number of disks required to implement RAID
level 0?
Respuesta
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A. 1
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B. 2
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C. 3
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D. 5
Pregunta 45
Pregunta
Fred’s company wants to ensure the integrity of email messages sent
via their central email servers. If the confidentiality of the messages is
not critical, what solution should Fred suggest?
Respuesta
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A. Digitally sign and encrypt all messages to ensure integrity.
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B. Digitally sign but don’t encrypt all messages.
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C. Use TLS to protect messages, ensuring their integrity.
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D. Use a hashing algorithm to provide a hash in each message to prove that it hasn’t changed.
Pregunta 46
Pregunta
The leadership at Susan’s company has asked her to implement an
access control system that can support rule declarations like “Only
allow access to salespeople from managed devices on the wireless
network between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.” What type of access control
system would be Susan’s best choice?
Respuesta
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A. ABAC
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B. RBAC
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C. DAC
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D. MAC
Pregunta 47
Pregunta
What type of communications rely on a timing mechanism using
either an independent clock or a time stamp embedded in the
communications?
Respuesta
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A. Analog
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B. Digital
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C. Synchronous
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D. Asynchronous
Pregunta 48
Pregunta
Chris is deploying a gigabit Ethernet network using Category 6 cable
between two buildings. What is the maximum distance he can run the
cable according to the Category 6 standard?
Respuesta
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A. 50 meters
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B. 100 meters
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C. 200 meters
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D. 300 meters
Pregunta 49
Pregunta
Howard is a security analyst working with an experienced computer
forensics investigator. The investigator asks him to retrieve a forensic
drive controller, but Howard cannot locate a device in the storage
room with this name. What is another name for a forensic drive
controller?
Respuesta
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A. RAID controller
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B. Write blocker
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C. SCSI terminator
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D. Forensic device analyzer
Pregunta 50
Pregunta
The web application that Saria’s development team is working on
needs to provide secure session management that can prevent
hijacking of sessions using the cookies that the application relies on.
Which of the following techniques would be the best for her to
recommend to prevent this?
Respuesta
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A. Set the Secure attribute for the cookies, thus forcing TLS.
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B. Set the Domain cookie attribute to example.com to limit cookie access to servers in the same domain.
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C. Set the Expires cookie attribute to less than a week.
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D. Set the HTTPOnly attribute to require only unencrypted sessions.
Pregunta 51
Pregunta
Ben’s company has recently retired their fleet of multifunction
printers. Their information security team has expressed concerns that
the printers contain hard drives and that they may still have data from
scans and print jobs. What is the technical term for this issue?
Respuesta
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A. Data pooling
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B. Failed clearing
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C. Data permanence
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D. Data remanence
Pregunta 52
Pregunta
What access control scheme labels subjects and objects, and allows
subjects to access objects when the labels match?
Respuesta
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A. DAC
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B. MAC
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C. Rule-based access control (RBAC)
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D. Role-based access control (RBAC)
Pregunta 53
Pregunta
A cloud-based service that provides account provisioning,
management, authentication, authorization, reporting, and
monitoring capabilities is known as what type of service?
Respuesta
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A. PaaS
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B. IDaaS
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C. IaaS
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D. SaaS
Pregunta 54
Pregunta
Sally wants to secure her organization’s VoIP systems. Which of the
following attacks is one that she shouldn’t have to worry about?
Respuesta
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A. Eavesdropping
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B. Denial of service
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C. Blackboxing
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D. Caller ID spoofing
Pregunta 55
Pregunta
Marty discovers that the access restrictions in his organization allow
any user to log into the workstation assigned to any other user, even if
they are from completely different departments. This type of access
most directly violates which information security principle?
Respuesta
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A. Separation of duties
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B. Two-person control
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C. Need to know
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D. Least privilege
Pregunta 56
Pregunta
Fred needs to transfer files between two servers on an untrusted
network. Since he knows the network isn’t trusted, he needs to select
an encrypted protocol that can ensure that his data remains secure.
What protocol should he choose?
Respuesta
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A. SSH
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B. TCP
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C. SFTP
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D. IPsec
Pregunta 57
Pregunta
Chris uses a packet sniffer to capture traffic from a TACACS+ server.
What protocol should he monitor, and what data should he expect to
be readable?
Respuesta
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A. UDP; none—TACACS+ encrypts the full session
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B. TCP; none—TACACS+ encrypts the full session
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C. UDP; all but the username and password, which are encrypted
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D. TCP; all but the username and password, which are encrypted
Pregunta 58
Pregunta
If the client has already authenticated to the KDC, what does the client
workstation send to the KDC at point A when it wants to access a
resource?
Image:
59 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
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A. It re-sends the password.
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B. A TGR
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C. Its TGT
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D. A service ticket
Pregunta 59
Respuesta
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A. The KDC verifies the validity of the TGT and whether the user has the right privileges for the requested resource.
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B. The KDC updates its access control list based on the data in the TGT.
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C. The KDC checks its service listing and prepares an updated TGT based on the service request.
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D. The KDC generates a service ticket to issue to the client.
Pregunta 60
Pregunta
What system or systems does the service that is being accessed use to
validate the ticket?
Image:
59 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
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A. The KDC
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B. The client workstation and the KDC
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C. The client workstation supplies it in the form of a client-to-server ticket and an authenticator.
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D. The KVS
Pregunta 61
Pregunta
What does a service ticket (ST) provide in Kerberos authentication?
Respuesta
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A. It serves as the authentication host.
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B. It provides proof that the subject is authorized to access an object.
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C. It provides proof that a subject has authenticated through a KDC and can request tickets to access other objects.
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D. It provides ticket granting services.
Pregunta 62
Pregunta
A password that requires users to answer a series of questions like
“What is your mother’s maiden name?” or “What is your favorite
color?” is known as what type of password?
Respuesta
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A. A passphrase
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B. Multifactor passwords
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C. Cognitive passwords
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D. Password reset questions
Pregunta 63
Pregunta
CDMA, GSM, and IDEN are all examples of what generation of cellular
technology?
Respuesta
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A. 1G
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B. 2G
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C. 3G
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D. 4G
Pregunta 64
Pregunta
Which one of the following fire suppression systems poses the greatest
risk of accidental discharge that damages equipment in a data center?
Respuesta
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A. Closed head
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B. Dry pipe
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C. Deluge
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D. Preaction
Pregunta 65
Pregunta
Lauren’s healthcare provider maintains such data as details about her
health, treatments, and medical billing. What type of data is this?
Respuesta
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A. Protected Health Information
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B. Personally Identifiable Information
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C. Protected Health Insurance
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D. Individual Protected Data
Pregunta 66
Pregunta
What type of code review is best suited to identifying business logic
flaws?
Respuesta
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A. Mutational fuzzing
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B. Manual
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C. Generational fuzzing
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D. Interface testing
Pregunta 67
Pregunta
Something you know is an example of what type of authentication
factor?
Respuesta
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A. Type 1
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B. Type 2
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C. Type 3
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D. Type 4
Pregunta 68
Pregunta
Saria is the system owner for a healthcare organization. What
responsibilities does she have related to the data that resides on or is
processed by the systems she owns?
Respuesta
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A. She has to classify the data.
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B. She has to make sure that appropriate security controls are in place to protect the data.
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C. She has to grant appropriate access to personnel.
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D. She bears sole responsibility for ensuring that data is protected at rest, in transit, and in use.
Pregunta 69
Pregunta
During software testing, Jack diagrams how a hacker might approach
the application he is reviewing and determines what requirements the
hacker might have. He then tests how the system would respond to the
attacker’s likely behavior. What type of testing is Jack conducting?
Respuesta
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A. Misuse case testing
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B. Use case testing
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C. Hacker use case testing
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D. Static code analysis
Pregunta 70
Pregunta
When a vendor develops a product that they wish to submit for
Common Criteria evaluation, what do they complete to describe the
claims of security for their product?
Respuesta
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A. PP
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B. ITSEC
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C. TCSEC
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D. ST
Pregunta 71
Pregunta
Chris has been assigned to scan a system on all of its possible TCP and
UDP ports. How many ports of each type must he scan to complete his
assignment?
Respuesta
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A. 65,536 TCP ports and 32,768 UDP ports
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B. 1024 common TCP ports and 32,768 ephemeral UDP ports
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C. 65,536 TCP and 65,536 UDP ports
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D. 16,384 TCP ports, and 16,384 UDP ports
Pregunta 72
Pregunta
CVE and the NVD both provide information about what?
Respuesta
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A. Vulnerabilities
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B. Markup languages
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C. Vulnerability assessment tools
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D. Penetration testing methodologies
Pregunta 73
Pregunta
What is the highest level of the military classification scheme?
Respuesta
-
A. Secret
-
B. Confidential
-
C. SBU
-
D. Top Secret
Pregunta 74
Pregunta
In what type of trusted recovery process does the system recover
against one or more failure types without administrator intervention
while protecting itself against data loss?
Respuesta
-
A. Automated recovery
-
B. Manual recovery
-
C. Function recovery
-
D. Automated recovery without undue data loss
Pregunta 75
Pregunta
What three important items should be considered if you are
attempting to control the strength of signal for a wireless network as
well as where it is accessible?
Respuesta
-
A. Antenna placement, antenna type, antenna power levels
-
B. Antenna design, power levels, use of a captive portal
-
C. Antenna placement, antenna design, use of a captive portal
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D. Power levels, antenna placement, FCC minimum strength requirements
Pregunta 76
Pregunta
What is the best way to ensure that data is unrecoverable from a SSD?
Respuesta
-
A. Use the built-in erase commands
-
B. Use a random pattern wipe of 1s and 0s
-
C. Physically destroy the drive
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D. Degauss the drive
Pregunta 77
Pregunta
Alice sends a message to Bob and wants to ensure that Mal, a third
party, does not read the contents of the message while in transit. What
goal of cryptography is Alice attempting to achieve?
Respuesta
-
A. Confidentiality
-
B. Integrity
-
C. Authentication
-
D. Nonrepudiation
Pregunta 78
Pregunta
Which one of the following metrics specifies the amount of time that
business continuity planners find acceptable for the restoration of
service after a disaster?
Respuesta
-
A. MTD
-
B. RTO
-
C. RPO
-
D. MTO
Pregunta 79
Pregunta
Gary would like to examine the text of a criminal law on computer
fraud to determine whether it applies to a recent act of hacking against
his company. Where should he go to read the text of the law?
Respuesta
-
A. Code of Federal Regulations
-
B. Supreme Court rulings
-
C. Compendium of Laws
-
D. United States Code
Pregunta 80
Pregunta
James has opted to implement a NAC solution that uses a postadmission
philosophy for its control of network connectivity. What
type of issues can’t a strictly post-admission policy handle?
Respuesta
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A. Out-of-band monitoring
-
B. Preventing an unpatched laptop from being exploited immediately after connecting to the network
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C. Denying access when user behavior doesn’t match an authorization matrix
-
D. Allowing user access when user behavior is allowed based on an authorization matrix
Pregunta 81
Pregunta
Ben has built an access control list that lists the objects that his users
are allowed to access. When users attempt to access an object that they
don’t have rights to, they are denied access, even though there isn’t a
specific rule that prevents it. What access control principle is key to
this behavior?
Respuesta
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A. Least privilege
-
B. Implicit deny
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C. Explicit deny
-
D. Final rule fall-through
Pregunta 82
Pregunta
Mary is a security risk analyst for an insurance company. She is
currently examining a scenario where a hacker might use a SQL
injection attack to deface a web server due to a missing patch in the
company’s web application. In this scenario, what is the risk?
Respuesta
-
A. Unpatched web application
-
B. Web defacement
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C. Hacker
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D. Operating system
Pregunta 83
Pregunta
In the diagram shown here of security boundaries within a computer
system, what component’s name has been replaced with XXX?
Image:
60 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
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A. Kernel
-
B. Privileged core
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C. User monitor
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D. Security perimeter
Pregunta 84
Pregunta
Val is attempting to review security logs but is overwhelmed by the
sheer volume of records maintained in her organization’s central log
repository. What technique can she use to select a representative set of
records for further review?
Respuesta
-
A. Statistical sampling.
-
B. Clipping.
-
C. Choose the first 5% of records from each day.
-
D. Choose 5% of records from the middle of the day.
Pregunta 85
Pregunta
In Jen’s job as the network administrator for an industrial production
facility, she is tasked with ensuring that the network is not susceptible
to electromagnetic interference due to the large motors and other
devices running on the production floor. What type of network cabling
should she choose if this concern is more important than cost and
difficulty of installation?
Respuesta
-
A. 10Base2
-
B. 100BaseT
-
C. 1000BaseT
-
D. Fiber-optic
Pregunta 86
Pregunta
Jasper Diamonds is a jewelry manufacturer that markets and sells
custom jewelry through their website. Bethany is the manager of
Jasper’s software development organization, and she is working to
bring the company into line with industry standard practices. She
is developing a new change management process for the
organization and wishes to follow commonly accepted approaches.
Bethany would like to put in place controls that provide an organized
framework for company employees to suggest new website features
that her team will develop. What change management process
facilitates this?
Respuesta
-
A. Configuration control
-
B. Change control
-
C. Release control
-
D. Request control
Pregunta 87
Pregunta
Jasper Diamonds is a jewelry manufacturer that markets and sells
custom jewelry through their website. Bethany is the manager of
Jasper’s software development organization, and she is working to
bring the company into line with industry standard practices. She
is developing a new change management process for the
organization and wishes to follow commonly accepted approaches.
Bethany would also like to create a process that helps multiple
developers work on code at the same time. What change management
process facilitates this?
Respuesta
-
A. Configuration control
-
B. Change control
-
C. Release control
-
D. Request control
Pregunta 88
Pregunta
Jasper Diamonds is a jewelry manufacturer that markets and sells
custom jewelry through their website. Bethany is the manager of
Jasper’s software development organization, and she is working to
bring the company into line with industry standard practices. She
is developing a new change management process for the
organization and wishes to follow commonly accepted approaches.
Bethany is working with her colleagues to conduct user acceptance
testing. What change management process includes this task?
Respuesta
-
A. Configuration control
-
B. Change control
-
C. Release control
-
D. Request control
Pregunta 89
Pregunta
Jasper Diamonds is a jewelry manufacturer that markets and sells
custom jewelry through their website. Bethany is the manager of
Jasper’s software development organization, and she is working to
bring the company into line with industry standard practices. She
is developing a new change management process for the
organization and wishes to follow commonly accepted approaches.
Bethany noticed that some problems arise when system
administrators update libraries without informing developers. What
change management process can assist with this problem?
Respuesta
-
A. Configuration control
-
B. Change control
-
C. Release control
-
D. Request control
Pregunta 90
Pregunta
Ben has written the password hashing system for the web application
he is building. His hashing code function for passwords results in the
following process for a series of passwords:
hash (password1 + 07C98BFE4CF67B0BFE2643B5B22E2D7D) =
10B222970537B97919DB36EC757370D2
hash (password2 + 07C98BFE4CF67B0BFE2643B5B22E2D7D) =
F1F16683F3E0208131B46D37A79C8921
What flaw has Ben introduced with his hashing implementation?
Respuesta
-
A. Plaintext salting
-
B. Salt reuse
-
C. Use of a short salt
-
D. Poor salt algorithm selection
Pregunta 91
Pregunta
Which one of the following is an example of risk transference?
Respuesta
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A. Building a guard shack
-
B. Purchasing insurance
-
C. Erecting fences
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D. Relocating facilities
Pregunta 92
Pregunta
What protocol takes the place of certificate revocation lists and adds
real-time status verification?
Respuesta
-
A. RTCP
-
B. RTVP
-
C. OCSP
-
D. CSRTP
Pregunta 93
Pregunta
Jim performs lexical analysis on a program and produces control flow
graphs. What type of software testing is he performing?
Respuesta
-
A. Dynamic
-
B. Fuzzing
-
C. Manual
-
D. Static
Pregunta 94
Pregunta
What process makes TCP a connection-oriented protocol?
Respuesta
-
A. It works via network connections.
-
B. It uses a handshake.
-
C. It monitors for dropped connections.
-
D. It uses a complex header.
Pregunta 95
Pregunta
What LDAP operation includes authentication to the LDAP server?
Respuesta
-
A. Bind
-
B. Auth
-
C. StartLDAP
-
D. AuthDN
Pregunta 96
Pregunta
You are conducting a qualitative risk assessment for your
organization. The two important risk elements that should weigh most
heavily in your analysis of risk are probability and
________________.
Respuesta
-
A. Likelihood
-
B. History
-
C. Impact
-
D. Cost
Pregunta 97
Pregunta
Using the OSI model, what format does the Data Link layer use to
format messages received from higher up the stack?
Respuesta
-
A. A datastream
-
B. A frame
-
C. A segment
-
D. A datagram
Pregunta 98
Pregunta
What is the maximum penalty that may be imposed by an (ISC)2 peer
review board when considering a potential ethics violation?
Respuesta
-
A. Revocation of certification
-
B. Termination of employment
-
C. Financial penalty
-
D. Suspension of certification
Pregunta 99
Pregunta
Which one of the following statements about the SDLC is correct?
Respuesta
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A. The SDLC requires the use of an iterative approach to software development.
-
B. The SDLC requires the use of a sequential approach to software development.
-
C. The SDLC does not include training for end users and support staff.
-
D. The waterfall methodology is compatible with the SDLC.
Pregunta 100
Pregunta
In the diagram shown here, Harry is prevented from reading a file at a
higher classification level than his security clearance. What security
model prevents this behavior?
Image:
61 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
-
A. Bell-LaPadula
-
B. Biba
-
C. Clark-Wilson
-
D. Brewer-Nash
Pregunta 101
Pregunta
Susan is setting up the network for a local coffee house and wants to
ensure that users have to authenticate using an email address and
agree to the coffee house’s acceptable use policy before being allowed
on the network. What technology should she use to do this?
Respuesta
-
A. 802.11
-
B. NAC
-
C. A captive portal
-
D. A wireless gateway
Pregunta 102
Pregunta
What is another term for active monitoring?
Respuesta
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A. Synthetic
-
B. Passive
-
C. Reactive
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D. Span-based
Pregunta 103
Pregunta
The TCP header is made up of elements such as the source port,
destination port, sequence number, and others. How many bytes long
is the TCP header?
Respuesta
-
A. 8 bytes
-
B. 20–60 bytes
-
C. 64 bytes
-
D. 64–128 bytes
Pregunta 104
Pregunta
The company that Fred works for is reviewing the security of their
company-issued cell phones. They issue 4G-capable smartphones
running Android and iOS and use a mobile device management
solution to deploy company software to the phones. The mobile
device management software also allows the company to remotely
wipe the phones if they are lost.
What security considerations should Fred’s company require for
sending sensitive data over the cellular network?
Respuesta
-
A. They should use the same requirements as data over any public network.
-
B. Cellular provider networks are private networks and should not require special consideration.
-
C. Encrypt all traffic to ensure confidentiality.
-
D. Require the use of WAP for all data sent from the phone.
Pregunta 105
Pregunta
The company that Fred works for is reviewing the security of their
company-issued cell phones. They issue 4G-capable smartphones
running Android and iOS and use a mobile device management
solution to deploy company software to the phones. The mobile
device management software also allows the company to remotely
wipe the phones if they are lost.
Fred intends to attend a major hacker conference this year. What
should he do when connecting to his cellular provider’s 4G network
while at the conference?
Respuesta
-
A. Continue normal usage.
-
B. Discontinue all usage; towers can be spoofed.
-
C. Only use trusted Wi-Fi networks.
-
D. Connect to his company’s encrypted VPN service.
Pregunta 106
Pregunta
The company that Fred works for is reviewing the security of their
company-issued cell phones. They issue 4G-capable smartphones
running Android and iOS and use a mobile device management
solution to deploy company software to the phones. The mobile
device management software also allows the company to remotely
wipe the phones if they are lost.
What are the most likely circumstances that would cause a remote
wipe of a mobile phone to fail?
Respuesta
-
A. The phone has a passcode on it.
-
B. The phone cannot contact a network.
-
C. The provider has not unlocked the phone.
-
D. The phone is in use.
Pregunta 107
Pregunta
Elaine is developing a business continuity plan for her organization.
What value should she seek to minimize?
Respuesta
-
A. AV
-
B. SSL
-
C. RTO
-
D. MTO
Pregunta 108
Pregunta
NIST Special Publication 800-53, revision 4, describes two measures
of assurance. Which measure of developmental assurance is best
described as measuring “the rigor, level of detail, and formality of the
artifacts produced during the design and development of the
hardware, software, and firmware components of information systems
(e.g., functional specifications, high-level design, low-level design,
source code)”?
Respuesta
-
A. Coverage
-
B. Suitability
-
C. Affirmation
-
D. Depth
Pregunta 109
Pregunta
Kathleen is reviewing the Ruby code shown here. What security
technique is this code using?
Image:
62 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
-
A. Parameterization
-
B. Typecasting
-
C. Gem cutting
-
D. Stored procedures
Pregunta 110
Pregunta
Chris is experiencing issues with the quality of network service on his
organization’s network. The primary symptom is that packets are
becoming corrupted as they travel from their source to their
destination. What term describes the issue Chris is facing?
Respuesta
-
A. Latency
-
B. Jitter
-
C. Interference
-
D. Packet loss
Pregunta 111
Pregunta
Kathleen has been asked to choose a highly formalized code review
process for her software quality assurance team to use. Which of the
following software testing processes is the most rigorous and formal?
Respuesta
-
A. Fagan
-
B. Fuzzing
-
C. Over the shoulder
-
D. Pair programming
Pregunta 112
Pregunta
Frank is attempting to protect his web application against cross-site
scripting attacks. Users do not need to provide input containing
scripts, so he decided the most effective way to filter would be to write
a filter on the server that watches for the <SCRIPT> tag and removes it.
What is the issue with Frank’s approach?
Respuesta
-
A. Validation should always be performed on the client side.
-
B. Attackers may use XSS filter evasion techniques against this approach.
-
C. Server-side validation requires removing all HTML tags, not just the <SCRIPT> tag.
-
D. There is no problem with Frank’s approach.
Pregunta 113
Pregunta
Which one of the following is not an object-oriented programming
language?
Respuesta
-
A. C++
-
B. Java
-
C. Fortran
-
D. C#
Pregunta 114
Pregunta
Uptown Records Management recently entered into a contract with a
hospital for the secure storage of medical records. The hospital is a
HIPAA-covered entity. What type of agreement must the two
organizations sign to remain compliant with HIPAA?
Respuesta
-
A. NDA
-
B. NCA
-
C. BAA
-
D. SLA
Pregunta 115
Pregunta
Norm would like to conduct a disaster recovery test for his
organization and wants to choose the most thorough type of test,
recognizing that it may be quite disruptive. What type of test should
Norm choose?
Respuesta
-
A. Full interruption test
-
B. Parallel test
-
C. Tabletop exercise
-
D. Checklist review
Pregunta 116
Pregunta
Ed is building a network that supports IPv6 but needs to connect it to
an IPv4 network. What type of device should Ed place between the
networks?
Respuesta
-
A. A switch
-
B. A router
-
C. A bridge
-
D. A gateway
Pregunta 117
Pregunta
What encryption standard won the competition for certification as the
Advanced Encryption Standard?
Respuesta
-
A. Blowfish
-
B. Twofish
-
C. Rijndael
-
D. Skipjack
Pregunta 118
Pregunta
What application development method uses the cycle shown here?
Image:
63 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
-
A. Waterfall
-
B. Spiral
-
C. Agile
-
D. RAD
Pregunta 119
Pregunta
Which one of the following actions is not required under the EU
General Data Protection Regulation?
Respuesta
-
A. Organizations must allow individuals to opt out of information sharing.
-
B. Organizations must provide individuals with lists of employees with access to information.
-
C. Organizations must use proper mechanisms to protect data against unauthorized disclosure.
-
D. Organizations must have a dispute resolution process for privacy issues.
Pregunta 120
Pregunta
Tammy is selecting a disaster recovery facility for her organization.
She would like to choose a facility that balances the time required to
recover operations with the cost involved. What type of facility should
she choose?
Respuesta
-
A. Hot site
-
B. Warm site
-
C. Cold site
-
D. Red site
Pregunta 121
Pregunta
What layer of the OSI model is associated with datagrams?
Respuesta
-
A. Session
-
B. Transport
-
C. Network
-
D. Data Link
Pregunta 122
Pregunta
Which one of the following is not a valid key length for the Advanced
Encryption Standard?
Respuesta
-
A. 128 bits
-
B. 192 bits
-
C. 256 bits
-
D. 384 bits
Pregunta 123
Pregunta
Which one of the following technologies provides a function interface
that allows developers to directly interact with systems without
knowing the implementation details of that system?
Respuesta
-
A. Data dictionary
-
B. Object model
-
C. Source code
-
D. API
Pregunta 124
Pregunta
What email encryption technique is illustrated in this figure?
Image:
64 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
-
A. MD5
-
B. Thunderbird
-
C. S/MIME
-
D. PGP
Pregunta 125
Pregunta
When Ben lists the files on a Linux system, he sees a set of attributes
as shown in the following image.
The letters rwx indicate different levels of what?
Image:
65 (binary/octet-stream)
Respuesta
-
A. Identification
-
B. Authorization
-
C. Authentication
-
D. Accountability
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