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Which of the following technologies uses multiple devices to share work?

Which of the following protocols uses an asymmetric key to open a session and then establishes a symmetric key for the remainder of the session?

Which of the following describes how Sara, an attacker, can send unwanted advertisements to a mobile device?

Pete, an employee, is terminated from the company and the legal department needs documents from his encrypted hard drive. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task? (Select TWO).

Which of the following mitigation strategies is established to reduce risk when performing updates to business critical systems?

Which of the following can Pete, a security administrator, use to distribute the processing effort when generating hashes for a password cracking program?

Which of the following should Jane, a security administrator, perform before a hard drive is analyzed with forensics tools?

Jane, an administrator, needs to make sure the wireless network is not accessible from the parking area of their office. Which of the following would BEST help Jane when deploying a new access point?

Which of the following allows Pete, a security technician, to provide the MOST secure wireless implementation?

Which of the following is a management control?

Which of the following security strategies allows a company to limit damage to internal systems and provides loss control?

In order for Sara, a client, to logon to her desktop computer, she must provide her username, password, and a four digit PIN. Which of the following authentication methods is Sara using?

Using proximity card readers instead of the traditional key punch doors would help to mitigate:

Which of the following application attacks is used to gain access to SEH?

Which of the following is an authentication service that uses UDP as a transport medium?

Which of the following can be used on a smartphone to BEST protect against sensitive data loss if the device is stolen? (Select TWO)

Jane, a security analyst, is reviewing logs from hosts across the Internet which her company uses to gather data on new malware. Which of the following is being implemented by Jane's company?

Which of the following should Pete, a security manager, implement to reduce the risk of employees working in collusion to embezzle funds from their company?

Which of the following will allow Pete, a security analyst, to trigger a security alert because of a tracking cookie?

Which of the following protocols allows for secure transfer of files? (Select TWO).

Which of the following passwords is the LEAST complex?

During a penetration test from the Internet, Jane, the system administrator, was able to establish a connection to an internal router, but not successfully log in to it. Which ports and protocols are MOST likely to be open on the firewall? (Select FOUR).

Which of the following is an application security coding problem?

An IT security technician needs to establish host based security for company workstations. Which of the following will BEST meet this requirement?

Which of the following is the MOST specific plan for various problems that can arise within a system?

Which of the following BEST describes the weakness in WEP encryption?

Sara, the Chief Security Officer (CSO), has had four security breaches during the past two years. Each breach has cost the company $3,000. A third party vendor has offered to repair the security hole in the system for $25,000. The breached system is scheduled to be replaced in five years. Which of the following should Sara do to address the risk?

Which of the following is an authentication and accounting service that uses TCP for connecting to routers and switches?

Which of the following can BEST help prevent cross-site scripting attacks and buffer overflows on a production system?

Pete, an IT Administrator, needs to secure his server room. Which of the following mitigation methods would provide the MOST physical protection?

Which of the following should be connected to the fire alarm system in order to help prevent the spread of a fire in a server room without data loss to assist in an FM-200 deployment?

Matt, a security consultant, has been tasked with increasing server fault tolerance and has been given no budget to accomplish his task. Which of the following can Matt implement to ensure servers will withstand hardware failure?

Which of the following fire suppression systems is MOST likely used in a datacenter?

A security administrator has installed a new KDC for the corporate environment. Which of the following authentication protocols is the security administrator planning to implement across the organization?

While opening an email attachment, Pete, a customer, receives an error that the application has encountered an unexpected issue and must be shut down. This could be an example of which of the following attacks?

Jane has recently implemented a new network design at her organization and wishes to passively identify security issues with the new network. Which of the following should Jane perform?

A security technician is working with the network firewall team to implement access controls at the company's demarc as part of the initiation of configuration management processes. One of the network technicians asks the security technician to explain the access control type found in a firewall. With which of the following should the security technician respond?

Jane, a security administrator, has been tasked with explaining authentication services to the company's management team. The company runs an active directory infrastructure. Which of the following solutions BEST relates to the host authentication protocol within the company's environment?

Pete, the compliance manager, wants to meet regulations. Pete would like certain ports blocked only on all computers that do credit card transactions. Which of the following should Pete implement to BEST achieve this goal?

Pete, the system administrator, wants to restrict access to advertisements, games, and gambling web sites. Which of the following devices would BEST achieve this goal?

Pete, the system administrator, wishes to monitor and limit users' access to external websites. Which of the following would BEST address this?

Sara, the security administrator, must configure the corporate firewall to allow all public IP addresses on the internal interface of the firewall to be translated to one public IP address on the external interface of the same firewall. Which of the following should Sara configure?

Matt, a security analyst, needs to select an asymmetric encryption method that allows for the same level of encryption strength with a lower key length than is typically necessary. Which of the following encryption methods offers this capability?

Sara, a security analyst, is trying to prove to management what costs they could incur if their customer database was breached. This database contains 250 records with PII. Studies show that the cost per record for a breach is $300. The likelihood that their database would be breached in the next year is only 5%. Which of the following is the ALE that Sara should report to management for a security breach?

Methods to test the responses of software and web applications to unusual or unexpected inputs is known as:

Pete needs to open ports on the firewall to allow for secure transmission of files. Which of the following ports should be opened on the firewall?

Sara, a security architect, has developed a framework in which several authentication servers work together to increase processing power for an application. Which of the following does this represent?

Which statement is TRUE about the operation of a packet sniffer?

Which of the following firewall rules only denies DNS zone transfers?

Which of the following BEST explains the use of an HSM within the company servers?

Which of the following technologies can store multi-tenant data with different security requirements?

Matt, a security analyst, needs to implement encryption for company data and also prevent theft of company data. Where and how should Matt meet this requirement?

Which of the following types of encryption will help in protecting files on a PED?

Which of the following does full disk encryption prevent?

Pete, a security analyst, has been informed that the development team has plans to develop an application which does not meet the company's password policy. Which of the following should Pete do NEXT?

Sara, a security manager, has decided to force expiration of all company passwords by the close of business day. Which of the following BEST supports this reasoning?

Which of the following presents the STRONGEST access control?

Which of the following encompasses application patch management?

Sara, an application developer, implemented error and exception handling alongside input validation. Which of the following does this help prevent?

Which of the following is the LEAST volatile when performing incident response procedures?

Pete, a developer, writes an application. Jane, the security analyst, knows some things about the overall application but does not have all the details. Jane needs to review the software before it is released to production. Which of the following reviews should Jane conduct?

The information security team does a presentation on social media and advises the participants not to provide too much personal information on social media web sites. This advice would BEST protect people from which of the following?

Pete's corporation has outsourced help desk services to a large provider. Management has published a procedure that requires all users, when receiving support, to call a special number. Users then need to enter the code provided to them by the help desk technician prior to allowing the technician to work on their PC. Which of the following does this procedure prevent?

Pete, the security engineer, would like to prevent wireless attacks on his network. Pete has implemented a security control to limit the connecting MAC addresses to a single port. Which of the following wireless attacks would this address?

Which of the following can be implemented with multiple bit strength?

Pete, the system administrator, has blocked users from accessing social media web sites. In addition to protecting company information from being accidentally leaked, which additional security benefit does this provide?

Pete, the system administrator, is reviewing his disaster recovery plans. He wishes to limit the downtime in the event of a disaster, but does not have the budget approval to implement or maintain an offsite location that ensures 99.99% availability. Which of the following would be Pete's BEST option?

A network stream needs to be encrypted. Sara, the network administrator, has selected a cipher which will encrypt 8 bits at a time before sending the data across the network. Which of the following has Sara selected?

Which of the following is the BEST approach to perform risk mitigation of user access control rights?

Which of the following devices is BEST suited for servers that need to store private keys?

All of the following are valid cryptographic hash functions EXCEPT:

In regards to secure coding practices, why is input validation important?

Which of the following would be used when a higher level of security is desired for encryption key storage?

A security administrator needs to determine which system a particular user is trying to login to at various times of the day. Which of the following log types would the administrator check?

Employee badges are encoded with a private encryption key and specific personal information. The encoding is then used to provide access to the network. Which of the following describes this access control type?

Which of the following devices would MOST likely have a DMZ interface?

Which of the following application security testing techniques is implemented when an automated system generates random input data?

Which of the following can be used by a security administrator to successfully recover a user's forgotten password on a password protected file?

A security administrator wants to check user password complexity. Which of the following is the BEST tool to use?

Certificates are used for: (Select TWO).

An achievement in providing worldwide Internet security was the signing of certificates associated with which of the following protocols?

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to implement two-factor authentication within the company. Which of the following would fulfill the CISO's requirements?

Which of the following can a security administrator implement on mobile devices that will help prevent unwanted people from viewing the data if the device is left unattended?

Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to identify a problem between two systems that are not communicating properly?

Which of the following can result in significant administrative overhead from incorrect reporting?

A security administrator wants to perform routine tests on the network during working hours when certain applications are being accessed by the most people. Which of the following would allow the security administrator to test the lack of security controls for those applications with the least impact to the system?

Which of the following risk concepts requires an organization to determine the number of failures per year?

Three of the primary security control types that can be implemented are:

The helpdesk reports increased calls from clients reporting spikes in malware infections on their systems. Which of the following phases of incident response is MOST appropriate as a FIRST response?

A company is trying to implement physical deterrent controls to improve the overall security posture of their data center. Which of the following BEST meets their goal?

A company's employees were victims of a spear phishing campaign impersonating the CEO. The company would now like to implement a solution to improve the overall security posture by assuring their employees that email originated from the CEO. Which of the following controls could they implement to BEST meet this goal?

A security technician is attempting to improve the overall security posture of an internal mail server. Which of the following actions would BEST accomplish this goal?

A bank has recently deployed mobile tablets to all loan officers for use at customer sites. Which of the following would BEST prevent the disclosure of customer data in the event that a tablet is lost or stolen?

Which of the following is the primary security concern when deploying a mobile device on a network?

Which of the following technical controls is BEST used to define which applications a user can install and run on a company issued mobile device?

After a company has standardized to a single operating system, not all servers are immune to a well-known OS vulnerability. Which of the following solutions would mitigate this issue?

A security administrator discovers an image file that has several plain text documents hidden in the file. Which of the following security goals is met by camouflaging data inside of other files?

A company determines a need for additional protection from rogue devices plugging into physical ports around the building. Which of the following provides the highest degree of protection from unauthorized wired network access?

A company is preparing to decommission an offline, non-networked root certificate server. Before sending the server's drives to be destroyed by a contracted company, the Chief Security Officer (CSO) wants to be certain that the data will not be accessed. Which of the following, if implemented, would BEST reassure the CSO? (Select TWO)

During the analysis of a PCAP file, a security analyst noticed several communications with a remote server on port 53. Which of the following protocol types is observed in this traffic?

A compromised workstation utilized in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack has been removed from the network and an image of the hard drive has been created. However, the system administrator stated that the system was left unattended for several hours before the image was created. In the event of a court case, which of the following is likely to be an issue with this incident?

During which of the following phases of the Incident Response process should a security administrator define and implement general defense against malware?

Due to hardware limitation, a technician must implement a wireless encryption algorithm that uses the RC4 protocol. Which of the following is a wireless encryption solution that the technician should implement while ensuring the STRONGEST level of security?

Joe, a user, wants to send an encrypted email to Ann. Which of the following will Ann need to use to verify that the email came from Joe and decrypt it? (Select TWO).

Joe, a user, wants to send an encrypted email to Ann. Which of the following will Ann need to use to verify the validity's of Joe's certificate? (Select TWO).

A technician wants to implement a dual factor authentication system that will enable the organization to authorize access to sensitive systems on a need-to-know basis. Which of the following should be implemented during the authorization stage?

A security researcher wants to reverse engineer an executable file to determine if it is malicious. The file was found on an underused server and appears to contain a zero-day exploit. Which of the following can the researcher do to determine if the file is malicious in nature?

A recent spike in virus detections has been attributed to end-users visiting www.compnay.com. The business has an established relationship with an organization using the URL of www.company.com but not with the site that has been causing the infections. Which of the following would BEST describe this type of attack?

A company has proprietary mission critical devices connected to their network which are configured remotely by both employees and approved customers. The administrator wants to monitor device security without changing their baseline configuration. Which of the following should be implemented to secure the devices without risking availability?

An administrator has a network subnet dedicated to a group of users. Due to concerns regarding data and network security, the administrator desires to provide network access for this group only. Which of the following would BEST address this desire?