Which of the following is a goal of penetration testing?

Using a smartcard and a physical token is considered how many factors of authentication?

A computer is displaying an MBR error upon restart. The technician is told the user has just installed
new software. Which of the following threats is the MOST likely cause of this error?

Which of the following should be disabled to help prevent boot sector viruses from launching when a
computer boots?

Which of the following video surveillance systems should be installed on an existing network?

Which of the following has a 128-bit message digest?

Which of the following is commonly used to secure HTTP and SMTP traffic?

Which of the following uses an RC4 key that can be discovered by eavesdropping on plain text
initialization vectors?

A retinal scanner provides which of the following authentication types?

The accounting group, clinical group and operations group only have access to their own applications.
The company often needs auditors to have access to all three groups applications with little notice. Which
of the following would simplify the process of granting auditors permissions to all the applications?

Which of the following utilities would allow a system administrator to discover why an ISP is generating
a large amount of TCP RST packets?

A large amount of continuous small transmissions are originating from multiple external hosts to the
corporate web server, which is also inaccessible to users. Which of the following attacks is MOST likely the
cause?

A network security administrator is worried about potential man-in-the-middle attacks against users
when they access a corporate website from their workstations. Which of the following is the BEST
mitigation against this type of attack?

The security administrator at a small company is having trouble sending and receiving SMTP traffic
from the network to the external gateway. Network utilization is very high with most traffic originating at one
external IP address and ending at the SMTP server. Which of the following is MOST likely happening?

The last company administrator failed to renew the registration for the corporate web site (e.g.
https://www.comptia.org). When the new administrator tried to register the website it is discovered that the
registration is being held by a series of small companies for very short periods of time. This is typical of
which of the following?

When used to encrypt transmissions, which of the following is the MOST resistant to brute force attacks?

Which of the following is the BEST choice for whole disk encryption when confidentiality is the primary
concern?

The primary purpose of a hot site is to ensure which of the following?

Which of the following is a component of a disaster recovery plan for a company that expects a site to
be rendered non-usable during a disaster and needs a nearly transparent transfer of operations?

Which of the following is the BEST mitigation method to implement when protecting against a
discovered OS exploit?

Which of the following MUST be taken into account when conducting risk assessments on necessary
systems that are very old, costly to maintain, and very difficult to upgrade?

Implicit deny is the practice of setting ACLs to which of the following conditions?

Which of the following can virtualization technology provide with respect to availability?

Which of the following is made possible by some commercial virtualization hosting applications?

Cell phones with network access and the ability to store data files are susceptible to which of the
following risks?

If an administrator wanted to gather information about the tools and techniques used by attackers,
which of the following could be used?

Shielded communications media is MOST often used to prevent electrical emanations from being
detected and crosstalk between which of the following?

To prevent unintentional DoS, which of the following should network users be restricted from doing?

Which of the following would a network administrator implement to control traffic being routed between
networks or network segments in an effort to preserve data confidentiality?

An employee reports that while at the airport an unknown user was taking pictures of the employees
screen. This is commonly known as which of the following?

The director of finance is worried about information being seen while working on a laptop at the local
coffee shop. Which of the following can be used to avoid shoulder surfing?

A user needs to send bank account information to the Human Resource department for payroll. This
type of information is considered which of the following?

A user wants to send personally identifiable information to the security office via email, so they can
perform a background check. Which of the following should be used to send the information to the security
office?

A security administrator wants to prevent employees from sending unencrypted email with proprietary
information. Which of the following can help mitigate this type of problem?

A technician needs to setup a secure room to enable a private VTC system. Which of the following
should be installed to prevent devices from listening to the VTC?

A user reports that the workstation is going to obscure websites unexpectedly. Which of the following
should a first responder do when arriving at the workstation?

A technician is setting up a secure laptop and wants to ensure that every log is captured for later
evaluation. In which of the following locations would this information need to be noted?

The president of the company is trying to get to their banks website, and the browser is displaying that
the webpage is being blocked by the system administrator.Which of the following logs would the technician
review?

A user reports that the spreadsheet they use for the department will not open. The spreadsheet is
located on a server that was recently patched. Which of the following logs would the technician review
FIRST?

Which of the following allows a users private IP address to be displayed as the firewall IP address
when browsing the Internet?

A user reports that each time they attempt to go to a legitimate website, they are sent to an
inappropriate website. The security administrator suspects the user may have malware on the computer,
which manipulated some of the users files. Which of the following files on the users system would need to
be checked for unauthorized changes?

A security administrator responds to a report of a web server that has been compromised. The security
administrator observes the background has been changed to an image of an attacker group. Which of the
following would be the FIRST step in the incident response process?

While responding to a confirmed breach of the organizations web server, the security administrator
determines the source of the attack was from a rival organizations IP address range.Which of the following
should the security administer do with this information?

Which of the following organizational disaster recovery types would provide a building and network
equipment but not current application data?

A security administrator is installing a new NIDS. For the NIDS to view all of the available traffic on a
given segment, which of the following must the network administrator configure on the switch?

Which of the following solutions will allow a security administrator to implement a white list of
applications authorized on a users PC?

Which of the following is an authentication method that uses symmetric key encryption and a key
distribution center?