Linda is reviewing posts to a user forum on her company’s website
and, when she browses a certain post, a message pops up in a
dialog box on her screen reading “Alert.” She reviews the source
code for the post and finds the following code snippet:
<script>alert(‘Alert’);</script>

Linda communicates with the vendor and determines that no patch is
available to correct this vulnerability. Which one of the following
devices would best help her defend the application against further
attack?

Linda is reviewing posts to a user forum on her company’s website
and, when she browses a certain post, a message pops up in a
dialog box on her screen reading “Alert.” She reviews the source
code for the post and finds the following code snippet:
<script>alert(‘Alert’);</script>

What was the likely motivation of the user who posted the message on
the forum containing this code?

Linda is reviewing posts to a user forum on her company’s website
and, when she browses a certain post, a message pops up in a
dialog box on her screen reading “Alert.” She reviews the source
code for the post and finds the following code snippet:
<script>alert(‘Alert’);</script>

In further discussions with the vendor, Linda finds that they are
willing to correct the issue but do not know how to update their
software. What technique would be most effective in mitigating the
vulnerability of the application to this type of attack?

What property of relational databases ensures that once a database
transaction is committed to the database, it is preserved?

Lauren wants to use software review process for the application she is
working on. Which of the following processes would work best if she
is a remote worker who works different hours from the rest of her
team?

Which one of the following is not a technique used by virus authors to
hide the existence of their virus from antimalware software?

Which one of the following types of software testing usually occurs
last and is executed against test scenarios?

What type of requirement specifies what software must do by
describing the inputs, behavior, and outputs of software?

Which of the following organizations is widely considered as the
definitive source for information on web-based attack vectors?

If Chris is writing code for an application, what phase of the Agile
process is he in?

Lisa is attempting to prevent her network from being targeted by IP
spoofing attacks as well as preventing her network from being the
source of those attacks. Which one of the following rules is NOT a
best practice that Lisa can configure at her network border?

What type of attack is demonstrated in the following C programming
language example?
int myarray[10];
myarray[10] = 8;

Which one of the following database issues occurs when one
transaction writes a value to the database that overwrites a value that
was needed by transactions with earlier precedence?

Which one of the following is the most effective control against
session hijacking attacks?

Faith is looking at the /etc/passwd file on a system configured to use
shadowed passwords. When she examines a line in the file for a user
with interactive login permissions, what should she expect to see in
the password field?

What type of vulnerability does a TOCTOU attack target?

While evaluating a potential security incident, Harry comes across a
log entry from a web server request showing that a user entered the
following input into a form field:
CARROT’&1=1;--
What type of attack was attempted?

Which one of the following is not an effective control against SQL
injection attacks?

In what software testing technique does the evaluator retest a large
number of scenarios each time that the software changes to verify that
the results are consistent with a standard baseline?

Which one of the following conditions may make an application most
vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack?

Roger is conducting a software test for a tax preparation application
developed by his company. End users will access the application over
the Web, but Roger is conducting his test on the back end, evaluating
the source code on the web server. What type of test is Roger
conducting?

Which of the following statements is true about heuristic-based
antimalware software?

Martin is inspecting a system where the user reported unusual
activity, including disk activity when the system is idle and abnormal
CPU and network usage. He suspects that the machine is infected by a
virus but scans come up clean. What malware technique might be in
use here that would explain the clean scan results?

Tomas discovers a line in his application log that appears to
correspond with an attempt to conduct a directory traversal attack.
He believes the attack was conducted using URL encoding. The line
reads:
%252E%252E%252F%252E%252E%252Fetc/passwd
What character is represented by the %252E value?

An attacker posted a message to a public discussion forum that
contains an embedded malicious script that is not displayed to the
user but executes on the user’s system when read. What type of attack
is this?

Which one of the following is not a principle of the Agile software
development process?

What are the two components of an expert system?

Neal is working with a DynamoDB database. The database is not
structured like a relational database but allows Neal to store data
using a key-value store. What type of database is DynamoDB?

Which one of the following statements is true about software testing?

Barry is a software tester who is working with a new gaming
application developed by his company. He is playing the game on a
smartphone to conduct his testing in an environment that best
simulates a normal end user, but he is referencing the source code as
he conducts his test. What type of test is Barry conducting?

Miguel recently completed a penetration test of the applications that
his organization uses to handle sensitive information. During his
testing, he discovered a condition where an attacker can exploit a
timing condition to manipulate software into allowing him to perform
an unauthorized action. Which one of the following attack types fits
this scenario?

What application security process can be described in these three
major steps?
1. Decomposing the application
2. Determining and ranking threats
3. Determining countermeasures and mitigation

Which one of the following approaches to failure management is the
most conservative from a security perspective?

Which of the following database keys is used by an RDBMS to
uniquely identify each row in a database table?

Which one of the following change management processes is initiated
by users rather than developers?

Which one of the following techniques is an effective countermeasure
against some inference attacks?

Ursula is a government web developer who recently created a public
application that offers property records. She would like to make it
available for other developers to integrate into their applications.
What can Ursula create to make it easiest for developers to call her
code directly and integrate the output into their applications?

During what phase of the IDEAL model do organizations develop a
specific plan of action for implementing change?

Charles is developing a mission-critical application that has a direct
impact on human safety. Time and cost are less important than
correctly functioning software. Which of the following software
development methodologies should he choose given these
requirements?

Which one of the following types of artificial intelligence attempts to
use complex computations to replicate the partial function of the
human mind?

At which level of the Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM)
does an organization introduce basic life-cycle management
processes?

Lucas runs the accounting systems for his company. The morning
after a key employee was fired, systems began mysteriously losing
information. Lucas suspects that the fired employee tampered with
the systems prior to his departure. What type of attack should Lucas
suspect?

Which one of the following principles would not be favored in an
Agile approach to software development?