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Question 1

A technician enables full disk encryption on a laptop that will be taken on a business trip. Which of the following does this process BEST protect?

A. Data in transit
B. Data in processing
C. Data at rest
D. Data tokenization

Answer 1

C. Data at rest

Question 2

A security analyst was called to investigate a file received directly from a hardware manufacturer. The analyst is trying to determine whether the file was modified in transit before installation on the user’s computer. Which of the following can be used to safely assess the file?

A. Check the hash of the installation file.
B. Match the file names.
C. Verify the URL download location.
D. Verify the code signing certificate.

Answer 2

A. Check the hash of the installation file.

Question 3

A help desk technician receives a phone call from someone claiming to be a part of the organization’s cybersecurity incident response team. The caller asks the technician to verify the network’s internal firewall IP Address. Which of the following is the technician’s BEST course of action?

A. Direct the caller to stop by the help desk in person and hang up declining any further requests from the caller.
B. Ask for the caller’s name, verify the person’s identity in the email directory, and provide the requested information over the phone.
C. Write down the phone number of the caller if possible, the name of the person requesting the information, hang up, and notify the organization’s cybersecurity officer.
D. Request the caller send an email for identity verification and provide the requested information via email to the caller.

Answer 3

C. Write down the phone number of the caller if possible, the name of the person requesting the information, hang up, and notify the organization’s cybersecurity officer.

Question 4

Which of the following would BEST provide detective and corrective controls for thermal regulation?

A. A smoke detector
B. A fire alarm
C. An HVAC system
D. A fire suppression system
E. Guards

Answer 4

C. An HVAC system

Question 5

Which of the following is a benefit of including a risk management framework into an organization’s security approach?

A. It defines expected service levels from participating supply chain partners to ensure system outages are remediated in a timely manner.
B. It identifies specific vendor products that have been tested and approved for use in a secure environment.
C. It provides legal assurances and remedies in the event a data breach occurs.
D. It incorporates control, development, policy, and management activities into IT operations.

Answer 5

D. It incorporates control, development, policy, and management activities into IT operations.

Question 6

An organization maintains several environments in which patches are developed and tested before being deployed to an operational status. Which of the following is the environment in which patches will be deployed just prior to being put into an operational status?

A. Development
B. Test
C. Production
D. Staging

Answer 6

D. Staging

Question 7

During a trial, a judge determined evidence gathered from a hard drive was not admissible. Which of the following BEST explains this reasoning?

A. The forensic investigator forgot to run a checksum on the disk image after creation.
B. The chain of custody form did not note time zone offsets between transportation regions.
C. The computer was turned off, and a RAM image could not be taken at the same time.
D. The hard drive was not properly kept in an antistatic bag when it was moved.

Answer 7

B. The chain of custody form did not note time zone offsets between transportation regions.

Question 8

An organization wants to implement a biometric system with the highest likelihood that an unauthorized user will be denied access. Which of the following should the organization use to compare biometric solutions?

A. FRR
B. Difficulty of use
C. Cost
D. FAR
E. CER

Answer 8

E. CER

Question 9

A company recently experienced a significant data loss when proprietary information was leaked to a competitor. The company took special precautions by using proper labels; however, email filter logs do not have any record of the incident. An investigation confirmed the corporate network was not breached, but documents were downloaded from an employee’s COPE tablet and passed to the competitor via cloud storage. Which of the following is the BEST remediation for this data leak?

A. User training
B. CASB
C. MDM
D. DLP

Answer 9

D. DLP

Question 10

An attacker was eavesdropping on a user who was shopping online. The attacker was able to spoof the IP address associated with the shopping site. Later, the user received an email regarding the credit card statement with unusual purchases. Which of the following attacks took place?

A. On-path attack
B. Protocol poisoning
C. Domain hijacking
D. Bluejacking

Answer 10

A. On-path attack

Question 11

A company is considering transitioning to the cloud. The company employs individuals from various locations around the world. The company does not want to increase its on premises infrastructure blueprint and only wants to pay for additional compute power required. Which of the following solutions would BEST meet the needs of the company?

A. Private cloud
B. Hybrid environment
C. Managed security service provider
D. Hot backup site

Answer 11

B. Hybrid environment

Question 12

After multiple on premises security solutions were migrated to the cloud, the incident response time increased. The analysts are spending a long time trying to trace information on different cloud consoles and correlating data in different formats. Which of the following can be used to optimize the incident response time?

A. CASB
B. VPC
C. SWG
D. CMS

Answer 12

A. CASB

Question 13

Which of the following control types would be BEST to use in an accounting department to reduce losses from fraudulent transactions?

A. Recovery
B. Deterrent
C. Corrective
D. Detective

Answer 13

D. Detective

Question 14

A company is receiving emails with links to phishing sites that look very similar to the company’s own website address and content. Which of the following is the
BEST way for the company to mitigate this attack?

A. Create a honeynet to trap attackers who access the VPN with credentials obtained by phishing.
B. Generate a list of domains similar to the company’s own and implement a DNS sinkhole for each.
C. Disable POP and IMAP on all Internet-facing email servers and implement SMTPS.
D. Use an automated tool to flood the phishing websites with fake usernames and passwords.

Answer 14

B. Generate a list of domains similar to the company’s own and implement a DNS sinkhole for each.

Question 15

A SOC operator is receiving continuous alerts from multiple Linux systems indicating that unsuccessful SSH attempts to a functional user ID have been attempted on each one of them in a short period of time. Which of the following BEST explains this behavior?

A. Rainbow table attack
B. Password spraying
C. Logic bomb
D. Malware bot

Answer 15

B. Password spraying

Question 16

A tax organization is working on a solution to validate the online submission of documents. The solution should be carried on a portable USB device that should be inserted on any computer that is transmitting a transaction securely. Which of the following is the BEST certificate for these requirements?

A. User certificate
B. Self-signed certificate
C. Computer certificate
D. Root certificate

Answer 16

B. Self-signed certificate

Question 17

A routine audit of medical billing claims revealed that several claims were submitted without the subscriber’s knowledge. A review of the audit logs for the medical billing company’s system indicated a company employee downloaded customer records and adjusted the direct deposit information to a personal bank account.
Which of the following does this action describe?

A. Insider threat
B. Social engineering
C. Third-party risk
D. Data breach

Answer 17

A. Insider threat

Question 18

A recent audit cited a risk involving numerous low-criticality vulnerabilities created by a web application using a third-party library. The development staff state there are still customers using the application even though it is end of life and it would be a substantial burden to update the application for compatibility with more secure libraries. Which of the following would be the MOST prudent course of action?

A. Accept the risk if there is a clear road map for timely decommission.
B. Deny the risk due to the end-of-life status of the application.
C. Use containerization to segment the application from other applications to eliminate the risk.
D. Outsource the application to a third-party developer group.

Answer 18

C. Use containerization to segment the application from other applications to eliminate the risk.

Question 19

A security analyst is evaluating solutions to deploy an additional layer of protection for a web application. The goal is to allow only encrypted communications without relying on network devices. Which of the following can be implemented?

A. HTTP security header
B. DNSSEC implementation
C. SRTP
D. S/MIME

Answer 19

A. HTTP security header

Question 20

A company labeled some documents with the public sensitivity classification. This means the documents can be accessed by:

A. employees of other companies and the press.
B. all members of the department that created the documents.
C. only the company’s employees and those listed in the document.
D. only the individuals listed in the documents.

Answer 20

C. only the company’s employees and those listed in the document.

Question 21

Which of the following is the MOST relevant security check to be performed before embedding third-party libraries in developed code?

A. Check to see if the third party has resources to create dedicated development and staging environments.
B. Verify the number of companies that downloaded the third-party code and the number of contributions on the code repository.
C. Assess existing vulnerabilities affecting the third-party code and the remediation efficiency of the libraries’ developers.
D. Read multiple penetration-testing reports for environments running software that reused the library.

Answer 21

A. Check to see if the third party has resources to create dedicated development and staging environments.

Question 22

A company needs to validate its updated incident response plan using a real-world scenario that will test decision points and relevant incident response actions without interrupting daily operations. Which of the following would BEST meet the company’s requirements?

A. Red-team exercise
B. Capture-the-flag exercise
C. Tabletop exercise
D. Phishing exercise

Answer 22

C. Tabletop exercise

Question 23

Security analysts are conducting an investigation of an attack that occurred inside the organization’s network. An attacker was able to collect network traffic between workstations throughout the network. The analysts review the following logs:

The Layer 2 address table has hundreds of entries similar to the ones above. Which of the following attacks has MOST likely occurred?

A. SQL injection
B. DNS spoofing
C. MAC flooding
D. ARP poisoning

Answer 23

C. MAC flooding

Question 24

A security policy states that common words should not be used as passwords. A security auditor was able to perform a dictionary attack against corporate credentials. Which of the following controls was being violated?

A. Password complexity
B. Password history
C. Password reuse
D. Password length

Answer 24

A. Password complexity

Question 25

A help desk technician receives an email from the Chief Information Officer (CIO) asking for documents. The technician knows the CIO is on vacation for a few weeks. Which of the following should the technician do to validate the authenticity of the email?

A. Check the metadata in the email header of the received path in reverse order to follow the email’s path.
B. Hover the mouse over the CIO’s email address to verify the email address.
C. Look at the metadata in the email header and verify the ג€From:ג€ line matches the CIO’s email address.
D. Forward the email to the CIO and ask if the CIO sent the email requesting the documents.

Answer 25

A. Check the metadata in the email header of the received path in reverse order to follow the email’s path.