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?

A system security analyst using an enterprise monitoring tool notices an unknown internal host exfiltrating files to several foreign IP addresses. Which of the following would be an appropriate mitigation technique?

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?

Which of the following protocols operates at the HIGHEST level of the OSI model?

Joe, the system administrator, has been asked to calculate the Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE) for a $5,000 server, which often crashes. In the past year, the server has crashed 10 times, requiring a system reboot to recover with only 10% loss of data or function. Which of the following is the ALE of this server?

Which of the following should an administrator implement to research current attack methodologies?

Which of the following can be implemented in hardware or software to protect a web server from cross-site scripting attacks?

Which of the following means of wireless authentication is easily vulnerable to spoofing?

Jane, a security administrator, needs to implement a secure wireless authentication method that uses a remote RADIUS server for authentication. Which of the following is an authentication method Jane should use?

Computer evidence at a crime scene is documented with a tag stating who had possession of the evidence at a given time. Which of the following does this illustrate?

A network administrator is configuring access control for the sales department which has high employee turnover. Which of the following is BEST suited when assigning user rights to individuals in the sales department?

Which of the following is being tested when a company’s payroll server is powered off for eight hours?

A security analyst, Ann, is reviewing an IRC channel and notices that a malicious exploit has been created for a frequently used application. She notifies the software vendor and asks them for remediation steps, but is alarmed to find that no patches are available to mitigate this vulnerability. Which of the following BEST describes this exploit?

A security administrator has concerns about new types of media which allow for the mass distribution of personal comments to a select group of people. To mitigate the risks involved with this media, employees should receive training on which of the following?

A network administrator is responsible for securing applications against external attacks. Every month, the underlying operating system is updated. There is no process in place for other software updates. Which of the following processes could MOST effectively mitigate these risks?

A software developer is responsible for writing the code on an accounting application. Another software developer is responsible for developing code on a system in human resources. Once a year they have to switch roles for several weeks. Which of the following practices is being implemented?

A network engineer is designing a secure tunneled VPN. Which of the following protocols would be the MOST secure?

Which of the following implementation steps would be appropriate for a public wireless hot-spot?

Which of the following is a step in deploying a WPA2-Enterprise wireless network?

Which of the following controls would allow a company to reduce the exposure of sensitive systems from unmanaged devices on internal networks?

Which of the following preventative controls would be appropriate for responding to a directive to reduce the attack surface of a specific host?

A security manager must remain aware of the security posture of each system. Which of the following supports this requirement?

Deploying a wildcard certificate is one strategy to:

The security administrator needs to manage traffic on a layer 3 device to support FTP from a new remote site. Which of the following would need to be implemented?

Which of the following ports is used for SSH, by default?

A network administrator has been tasked with securing the WLAN. Which of the following cryptographic products would be used to provide the MOST secure environment for the WLAN?

A server with the IP address of 10.10.2.4 has been having intermittent connection issues. The logs show repeated connection attempts from the following IPs: 10.10.3.16, 10.10.3.23, 212.178.24.26, 212.178.24.26, 217.24.94.83. These attempts are overloading the server to the point that it cannot respond to traffic. Which of the following attacks is occurring?

Which of the following ciphers would be BEST used to encrypt streaming video?

A user attempting to log on to a workstation for the first time is prompted for the following information before being granted access: username, password, and a four-digit security pin that was mailed to him during account registration. This is an example of which of the following?

After analyzing and correlating activity from multiple sensors, the security administrator has determined that a group of very well organized individuals from an enemy country is responsible for various attempts to breach the company network, through the use of very sophisticated and

targeted attacks. Which of the following is this an example of?

Which of the following is true about input validation in a client-server architecture, when data integrity is critical to the organization?

A merchant acquirer has the need to store credit card numbers in a transactional database in a high performance environment. Which of the following BEST protects the credit card data?

A bank has a fleet of aging payment terminals used by merchants for transactional processing. The terminals currently support single DES but require an upgrade in order to be compliant with security standards. Which of the following is likely to be the simplest upgrade to the aging terminals which will improve in-transit protection of transactional data?

Which of the following is BEST at blocking attacks and providing security at layer 7 of the OSI model?

Which of the following is BEST used to capture and analyze network traffic between hosts on the same network segment?

After a number of highly publicized and embarrassing customer data leaks as a result of social engineering attacks by phone, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has decided user training will reduce the risk of another data leak. Which of the following would be MOST effective in reducing data leaks in this situation?

Which of the following functions provides an output which cannot be reversed and converts data into a string of characters?

Which of the following encrypts data a single bit at a time?

Which of the following is used to verify data integrity?

Access mechanisms to data on encrypted USB hard drives must be implemented correctly otherwise:

Maintenance workers find an active network switch hidden above a dropped-ceiling tile in the CEO’s office with various connected cables from the office. Which of the following describes the type of attack that was occurring?