Quix11 - D8 - 50Q

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?

What type of project management tool is shown in the figure?

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?

In the transaction shown here, what would happen if the database failed in between the first and second update statements?

In the diagram shown here, which is an example of an attribute?

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

David is working on developing a project schedule for a software development effort, and he comes across the chart shown here. What type of chart is this?

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 part of the security review process are the input parameters shown in the diagram used for?

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?

What software development model is shown in the figure?

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?

TJ is inspecting a system where the user reported a strange error message and the inability to access files. He sees the window shown in this figure. What type of malware should TJ suspect?

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?