Questão 1
Questão
A security administrator is asked to email an employee their password. Which of the following account policies
MUST be set to ensure the employee changes their password promptly?
Responda
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Password expiration
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Account lockout
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Password recovery
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Account enablement
Questão 2
Questão
Which of the following is the BEST way to mitigate data loss if a portable device is compromised?
Questão 3
Questão
Data can potentially be stolen from a disk encrypted, screen-lock protected, smartphone by which of the
following?
Responda
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Bluesnarfing
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IV attack
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Honeynet
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SIM cloning
Questão 4
Questão
A purpose of LDAP authentication services is:
Responda
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to implement mandatory access controls
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a single point of user management
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to prevent multifactor authentication
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to issue one-time hashed passwords
Questão 5
Questão
Which of the following allows an attacker to identify vulnerabilities within a closed source software application?
Responda
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Fuzzing
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Compiling
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Code reviews
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Vulnerability scanning
Questão 6
Questão
Which of the following should the security administrator look at FIRST when implementing an AP to gain more
coverage?
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Encryption methods
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Power levels
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SSID
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Radio frequency
Questão 7
Questão
Which of the following elements of PKI are found in a browser's trusted root CA?
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Private key
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Symmetric key
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Recovery key
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Public key
Questão 8
Questão
Which of the following protocols should be blocked at the network perimeter to prevent host enumeration by
sweep devices?
Questão 9
Questão
Which of the following security threats does shredding mitigate?
Responda
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Shoulder surfing
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Document retention
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Tailgating
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Dumpster diving
Questão 10
Questão
A thumbprint scanner is used to test which of the following aspects of human authentication?
Responda
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Something a user did
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Something a user has
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Something a user is
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Something a user knows
Questão 11
Questão
Which of the following protocols requires the use of a CA based authentication process?
Responda
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FTPS implicit
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FTPS explicit
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MD5
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PEAP-TLS
Questão 12
Questão
Which of the following malware types is an antivirus scanner MOST unlikely to discover? (Select TWO)
Responda
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Trojan
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Pharming
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Worms
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Virus
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Logic bomb
Questão 13
Questão
Which of the following is specific to a buffer overflow attack?
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Memory addressing
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Directory traversal
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Initial vector
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Session cookies
Questão 14
Questão
An existing application has never been assessed from a security perspective. Which of the following is the
BEST assessment technique in order to identify the application's security posture?
Responda
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Baseline reporting
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Protocol analysis
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Threat modeling
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Functional testing
Questão 15
Questão
A security administrator with full administrative rights on the network is forced to change roles on a quarterly
basis with another security administrator. Which of the following describes this form of access control?
Responda
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Job rotation
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Separation of duties
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Mandatory vacation
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Least privilege
Questão 16
Questão
DRPs should contain which of the following?
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Hierarchical list of non-critical personnel
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Hierarchical list of critical systems
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Hierarchical access control lists
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Identification of single points of failure
Questão 17
Questão
Which of the following is a security threat that hides itself within another piece of executable software?
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Botnet
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Logic Bomb
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Trojan
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Worm
Questão 18
Questão
A user was trying to update an open file but when they tried to access the file they were denied. Which of the
following would explain why the user could not access the file?
Questão 19
Questão
A technician is deciding between implementing a HIDS on the database server or implementing a NIDS. Which
of the following are reasons why a NIDS may be better to implement? (Select TWO)
Responda
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Many HIDS require frequent patches and updates
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Many HIDS are not able to detect network attacks
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Many HIDS have a negative impact on system performance
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Many HIDS only offer a low level of detection granularity
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Many HIDS are not good at detecting attacks on database servers
Questão 20
Questão
Which of the following organizational documentation describes step by step how tasks or job functions should
be conducted?
Responda
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Standards
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Guideline
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Policy
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Procedures
Questão 21
Questão
According to company policy an administrator must logically keep the Human Resources department separated
from the Accounting department. Which of the following would be the simplest way to accomplish this?
Questão 22
Questão
Which of the following is the MOST common logical access control method?
Questão 23
Questão
Which of the following access control methods could the administrator implement because of constant hiring of
new personnel?
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Rule-based
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Role-based
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Discretionary
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Decentralized
Questão 24
Questão
After a period of high employee turnover, which of the following should be implemented?
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A review of NTLM hashes on the domain servers
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A review of group policies
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A review of user access and rights
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A review of storage and retention policies
Questão 25
Questão
Multiple web servers are fed from a load balancer. Which of the following is this an example of?
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RAID
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Backup generator
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Hot site
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Redundant servers
Questão 26
Questão
An instance where an IDS identifies legitimate traffic as malicious activity is called which of the following?
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False positive
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True negative
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False negative
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True positive
Questão 27
Questão
Which of the following protocols are used to secure e-commerce transactions? (Select TWO).
Questão 28
Questão
Which of the following sends unsolicited messages to another user cell phone via Bluetooth?
Responda
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Blue jacking
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Smurfing
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Data emanation
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Bluesnarfing
Questão 29
Questão
Which of the following network protocols facilitates hiding internal addresses from the Internet?
Questão 30
Questão
An administrator wishes to deploy an IPSec VPN connection between two routers across a WAN. The
administrator wants to ensure that the VPN is encrypted in the most secure fashion possible. Which of the
following BEST identifies the correct IPSec mode and the proper configuration?
Responda
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IPSec in tunnel mode, using both the ESP and AH protocols
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IPSec in tunnel mode, using the ESP protocol
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IPSec in transport mode, using the AH protocol
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IPSec in transport mode, using both ESP and AH protocols
Questão 31
Questão
A company wants to ensure that users only use their accounts between 8AM and 6PM Monday thru Friday.
Which of the following access control methods would be MOST effective for this purpose?
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Account expiration
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Logical tokens
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Time of day restrictions
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Group policies
Questão 32
Questão
Which of the following sends data packets to various IP ports on a host to determine the responsive ports?
Responda
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OVAL
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Network sniffer
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Protocol analyzer
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Network mappers
Questão 33
Questão
Which of the following would be a benefit of testing a program of an unknown source on a virtual machine?
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Virtual machines render it impossible for the code to escape
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Virtual machines allow for faster performance, so the speed of benchmark testing is increased
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Virtual machines come equipped with a firewall by default, thus preventing outside contamination
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Virtual machines can easily be restored to an earlier point if the code is malicious or causes instability
Questão 34
Questão
A company has a problem with users inadvertently posting company information on the Internet. Which of the
following is the BEST method for the company to address it?
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Educate the users and perform awareness training
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Harden the password policies in case of future breaches
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Routinely audit all users browser history
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Implement HR policies with consequences
Questão 35
Questão
Which of the following describes what has occurred after a user has successfully gained access to a secure
system?
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Authentication
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Authenticity
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Identification
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Confidentiality
Questão 36
Questão
Which of the following is a benefit of applying operating system service packs, patches, and hotfixes?
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Protects systems from known vulnerabilities
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Minimizes the need to deploy honeypots
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Hardens systems against dictionary attacks
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Replaces default and guest accounts
Questão 37
Questão
Which of the following standards encodes messages blocks of 64-bit and uses 56 bits for the encryption key?
Questão 38
Questão
A user reports that after searching the Internet for office supplies and visiting one of the search engine results
websites, they began receiving unsolicited pop-ups on subsequent website visits. Which of the following is the
MOST likely cause of the unsolicited pop-ups?
Questão 39
Questão
Which of the following encryption methods uses prime number factoring to obtain its strength?
Responda
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Elliptic curve
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RSA
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AES
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3DES
Questão 40
Questão
An administrator is required to keep certain workstations free of malware at all times, but those workstations
need to be able to access any Internet site. Which of the following solutions would be the BEST choice?
Questão 41
Questão
A network administrator places a firewall between a file server and the public Internet and another firewall
between the file server and the company internal servers. This is an example of which of the following design
elements?
Questão 42
Questão
Which of the following redundancy planning concepts is generally the MOST expensive?
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Cold site
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Hot site
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Warm site
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Field site
Questão 43
Questão
Which of the following behavior-based security appliances are used to block suspicious activity from entering
the network?
Questão 44
Questão
Which of the following design elements could be set to only allow machines on the network if they are current
with patches and antivirus definitions?
Questão 45
Questão
Which of the following would be implemented to detect attacks on an individual system?
Responda
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Firewall
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Honeypot
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NIPS
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HIDS
Questão 46
Questão
Which of the following logs would MOST likely indicate that there is an ongoing brute force attack against a
server local administrator account?
Responda
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Firewall
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System
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Performance
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Access
Questão 47
Questão
Which of the following is a best practice for coding applications in a secure manner?
Questão 48
Questão
Which of the following may be an indication of a possible system compromise?
Responda
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A port monitor utility shows that there are many connections to port 8 on the Internet facing web server
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A performance monitor indicates a recent and ongoing drop in speed, disk space or memory utilization from the baseline
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A protocol analyzer records a high number of UDP packets to a streaming media server on the Internet
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The certificate for one of the web servers has expired and transactions on that server begins to drop rapidly
Questão 49
Questão
Which of the following authentication methods would MOST likely prevent an attacker from being able to
successfully deploy a replay attack?
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TACACS
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RAS
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RADIUS
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Kerberos
Questão 50
Questão
Which of the following allows an attacker to manipulate files by using the least significant bit(s) to secretly
embed data?
Responda
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Steganography
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Worm
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Trojan horse
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Virus