256 Q & A

Question 1

1.Which of the following will MOST likely adversely impact the operations of unpatched traditional programmable-logic controllers, running a back-end LAMP server and OT systems with human-management interfaces that are accessible over the Internet via a web interface? (Choose two.)

Answer 1

D. Weak encryption

F. Server-side request forgery

Question 2

2.A small business just recovered from a ransomware attack against its file servers by purchasing the decryption keys from the attackers. The issue was triggered by a phishing email and the IT administrator wants to ensure it does not happen again.
Which of the following should the IT administrator do FIRST after recovery?

Answer 2

A. Scan the NAS for residual or dormant malware and take new daily backups that are tested on a frequent basis

Question 3

3.An attacked is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL www.validwebsite.com. The attacker’s intent is to imitate the look and feel of a legitimate website to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users.
Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

Answer 3

D. Watering-hole attack

Question 4

4.Which of the following is a team of people dedicated testing the effectiveness of organizational security programs by emulating the techniques of potential attackers?

Answer 4

A. Red Team

Question 5

5.To reduce costs and overhead, an organization wants to move from an on-premises email solution to a cloud-based email solution. At this time, no other services will be moving.
Which of the following cloud models would BEST meet the needs of the organization?

Answer 5

C. SaaS

Question 6

6.A security engineer at an offline government facility is concerned about the validity of an SSL certificate. The engineer wants to perform the fastest check with the least delay to determine if the certificate has been revoked.
Which of the following would BEST these requirement?

Answer 6

B. OCSP

Question 7

7.A security analyst needs to complete an assessment. The analyst is logged into a server and must use native tools to map services running on it to the server’s listening ports.
Which of the following tools can BEST accomplish this talk?

Answer 7

B. Netstat

Question 8

8.On which of the following is the live acquisition of data for forensic analysis MOST dependent? (Choose two.)

Answer 8

E. Value and volatility of data

F. Right-to-audit clauses

Question 9

9.An organization’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) wants to validate the business’s involvement in the incident response plan to ensure its validity and thoroughness.
Which of the following will the CSO MOST likely use?

Answer 9

C. A tabletop exercise

Question 10

10.During a routine scan of a wireless segment at a retail company, a security administrator discovers several devices are connected to the network that do not match the company’s naming convention and are not in the asset Inventory. WiFi access Is protected with 255-Wt encryption via WPA2. Physical access to the company’s facility requires two-factor authentication using a badge and a passcode.
Which of the following should the administrator implement to find and remediate the Issue? (Select TWO).

Answer 10

B. Enable MAC filtering on the switches that support the wireless network.

E. Scan the wireless network for rogue access points.

Question 11

11.Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data processors?

Answer 11

C. GDPR

Question 12

12.An organization routes all of its traffic through a VPN Most users are remote and connect into a corporate datacenter that houses confidential information There is a firewall at the Internet border followed by a DIP appliance, the VPN server and the datacenter itself.
Which of the following is the WEAKEST design element?

Answer 12

C. Encrypted VPN traffic will not be inspected when entering or leaving the network

Question 13

13.Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe’s identity before sending him the prize.
Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?

Answer 13

C. Phishing

Question 14

14.A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public area.
Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this breach?

Answer 14

C. A USB data blocker

Question 15

15.A security analyst discovers several .jpg photos from a cellular phone during a forensics investigation involving a compromised system. The analyst runs a forensics tool to gather file metadata.
Which of the following would be part of the images if all the metadata is still intact?

Answer 15

A. The GPS location

Question 16

16.A security analyst discovers that a company username and password database was posted on an internet forum. The username and passwords are stored in plan text.
Which of the following would mitigate the damage done by this type of data exfiltration in the future?

Answer 16

A. Create DLP controls that prevent documents from leaving the network

Question 17

17.Which of the following would be BEST to establish between organizations that have agreed cooperate and are engaged in early discussion to define the responsibilities of each party, but do not want to establish a contractually binding agreement?

Answer 17

D. AnMOU

Question 18

18.A RAT that was used to compromise an organization’s banking credentials was found on a user’s computer. The RAT evaded antivirus detection. It was installed by a user who has local administrator rights to the system as part of a remote management tool set.
Which of the following recommendations would BEST prevent this from reoccurring?

Answer 18

C. Enforce application whitelisting.

Question 19

19.Users have been issued smart cards that provide physical access to a building. The cards also contain tokens that can be used to access information systems. Users can log into any thin client located throughout the building and see the same desktop each time.
Which of the following technologies are being utilized to provide these capabilities? (Select TWO)

Answer 19

B. VDI

E. RFID

Question 20

20.A malicious actor recently penetration a company’s network and moved laterally to the datacenter. Upon investigation, a forensics firm wants to know was in the memory on the compromised server. Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?

Answer 20

C. Dump

Question 21

21.A security administrator currently spends a large amount of time on common security tasks, such aa report generation, phishing investigations, and user provisioning and deprovisioning This prevents the administrator from spending time on other security projects. The business does not have the budget to add more staff members.
Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Answer 21

D. SOAR

Question 22

22.A security analyst needs to be proactive in understand the types of attacks that could potentially target the company’s execute.
Which of the following intelligence sources should to security analyst review?

Answer 22

D. Industry information-sharing and collaboration groups

Question 23

23.Which of the following organizational policies are MOST likely to detect fraud that is being conducted by existing employees? (Select TWO).

Answer 23

B. Mandatory vacation

C. Job rotation

Question 24

24.A user enters a password to log in to a workstation and is then prompted to enter an authentication code.
Which of the following MFA factors or attributes are being utilized in the authentication process? (Select TWO).

Answer 24

B. Something you have

E. Something you are

Question 25

25.A network engineer has been asked to investigate why several wireless barcode scanners and wireless computers in a warehouse have intermittent connectivity to the shipping server. The barcode scanners and computers are all on forklift trucks and move around the warehouse during their regular use.
Which of the following should the engineer do to determine the issue? (Choose two.)

Answer 25

A. Perform a site survey

C. Create a heat map

Question 26

26.Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows on hosts?

Answer 26

C. EDR

Question 27

27.A user recently attended an exposition and received some digital promotional materials The user later noticed blue boxes popping up and disappearing on the computer, and reported receiving several spam emails, which the user did not open.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the reported issue?

Answer 27

D. There was malicious code on the USB drive

Question 28

28.A company is upgrading its wireless infrastructure to WPA2-Enterprise using EAP-TLS. Which of the following must be part of the security architecture to achieve AAA? (Select TWO)

Answer 28

E. Active Directory

F. RADIUS

Question 29

29.A company recently experienced an attack in which a malicious actor was able to exfiltrate data by cracking stolen passwords, using a rainbow table the sensitive data.
Which of the following should a security engineer do to prevent such an attack in the future?

Answer 29

C. Implement password salting.

NOTE: Rainbow tables are fast and effective at cracking passwords because each password is hashed the same way. … You solve this issue with password salting. A salt randomizes each hash by adding random data that is unique to each user to their password hash, so even the same password has a unique hash.

Question 30

30.A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better.

Answer 30

D. prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities based on the possible impact.

Question 31

31.A company’s Chief Information Office (CIO) is meeting with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to plan some activities to enhance the skill levels of the company’s developers.
Which of the following would be MOST suitable for training the developers’?

Answer 31

B. A phishing simulation

Question 32

32.A database administrator needs to ensure all passwords are stored in a secure manner, so the administrate adds randomly generated data to each password before string.
Which of the following techniques BEST explains this action?

Answer 32

C. Salting

Question 33

33.A pharmaceutical sales representative logs on to a laptop and connects to the public WiFi to check emails and update reports.
Which of the following would be BEST to prevent other devices on the network from directly accessing the laptop? (Choose two.)

Answer 33

B. A host-based firewall

E. A VPN

Question 34

34.Which of the following control sets should a well-written BCP include? (Select THREE)

Answer 34

A. Preventive

D. Corrective

G. Recovery

Question 35

35.A smart switch has the ability to monitor electrical levels and shut off power to a building in the event of power surge or other fault situation. The switch was installed on a wired network in a hospital and is monitored by the facilities department via a cloud application. The security administrator isolated the switch on a separate VLAN and set up a patch routine.
Which of the following steps should also be taken to harden the smart switch?

Answer 35

B. Change the default password for the switch.

Question 36

36.A company recently moved sensitive videos between on-premises. Company-owned websites. The company then learned the videos had been uploaded and shared to the internet.
Which of the following would MOST likely allow the company to find the cause?

Answer 36

D. A log analysis

Question 37

37.In which of the following common use cases would steganography be employed?

Answer 37

A. Obfuscation

Question 38

38.An end user reports a computer has been acting slower than normal for a few weeks. During an investigation, an analyst determines the system is sending the user’s email address and a ten-digit number to an IP address once a day.
The only recent log entry regarding the user’s computer is the following:
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Answer 38

A. The end user purchased and installed a PUP from a web browser

Question 39

39.A cybersecurity department purchased o new PAM solution. The team is planning to randomize the service account credentials of the Windows server first.
Which of the following would be the BEST method to increase the security on the Linux server?

Answer 39

C. Use SSH keys and remove generic passwords

Question 40

40.Phishing and spear-phishing attacks have been occurring more frequently against a company’s staff. Which of the following would MOST likely help mitigate this issue?

Answer 40

A. DNSSEC and DMARC

Question 41

41.An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organization already uses a smart card and password.
Which of the following would meet the organization’s needs for a third factor?

Answer 41

B. Fingerprints

Question 42

42.Which of the following will MOST likely cause machine learning and Al-enabled systems to operate with unintended consequences?

Answer 42

C. Data bias. -fed “human bias ideas”

Explanation: https://lionbridge.ai/articles/7-types-of-data-bias-in-machine-learning/

Question 43

43.A manufacturer creates designs for very high security products that are required to be protected and controlled by the government regulations. These designs are not accessible by corporate networks or the Internet.
Which of the following is the BEST solution to protect these designs?

Answer 43

A. An air gap

Question 44

44.A security auditor is reviewing vulnerability scan data provided by an internal security team. Which of the following BEST indicates that valid credentials were used?

Answer 44

B. The scan enumerated software versions of installed programs

Question 45

45.After a ransomware attack a forensics company needs to review a cryptocurrency transaction between the victim and the attacker.
Which of the following will the company MOST likely review to trace this transaction?

Answer 45

A. The public ledger

Question 46

46.A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the amount of PII that is stored locally on each salesperson’s laptop. The sales department has a higher-than-average rate of lost equipment. Which of the following recommendations would BEST address the CSO’s concern?

Answer 46

B. Implement managed FDE.

Question 47

47.A company has decided to move its operations to the cloud. It wants to utilize technology that will prevent users from downloading company applications for personal use, restrict data that is uploaded, and have visibility into which applications are being used across the company.
Which of the following solutions will BEST meet these requirements?

Answer 47

B. A CASB

Question 48

48.A security analyst is reviewing the output of a web server log and notices a particular account is attempting to transfer large amounts of money: Which of the following types of attack is MOST likely being conducted?

Answer 48

C. Session replay

Question 49

49.A network technician is installing a guest wireless network at a coffee shop. When a customer purchases an Item, the password for the wireless network is printed on the recent so the customer can log in.
Which of the following will the technician MOST likely configure to provide the highest level of security with the least amount of overhead?

Answer 49

A. WPA-EAP

Question 50

50.When used at the design stage, which of the following improves the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of a database?

Answer 50

C. Normalization

Question 51

51.Employees are having issues accessing the company’s website. Some employees report very slow performance, while others cannot the website at all. The web and security administrators search the logs and find millions of half-open connections to port 443 on the web server. Further analysis reveals thousands of different source IPs initiating this traffic.
Which of the following attacks is MOST likely occurring?

Answer 51

A. DDoS

Question 52

52.A company has determined that if its computer-based manufacturing is not functioning for 12 consecutive hours, it will lose more money that it costs to maintain the equipment.
Which of the following must be less than 12 hours to maintain a positive total cost of ownership?

Answer 52

C. RTO

Question 53

53.Which of the following environments minimizes end-user disruption and is MOST likely to be used to assess the impacts of any database migrations or major system changes by using the final version of the code?

Answer 53

B. Test

Question 54

54.Which of the following ISO standards is certified for privacy?

Answer 54

C. ISO 27701

ISO/IEC 27701:2019 - Security techniques — Extension … - ISOwww.iso.org › standard This document specifies requirements and provides guidance for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving a Privacy Information .

Question 55

55.A network administrator needs to build out a new datacenter, with a focus on resiliency and uptime. Which of the following would BEST meet this objective? (Choose two.)

Answer 55

A. Dual power supply

B. Off-site backups

Question 56

56.An organization has implemented a policy requiring the use of conductive metal lockboxes for personal electronic devices outside of a secure research lab.
Which of the following did the organization determine to be the GREATEST risk to intellectual property when creating this policy?

Answer 56

D. Data exfiltration over a mobile hotspot

Question 57

57.A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate-owned mobile devices.
Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company’s data?

Answer 57

C. Full-disk encryption

Question 58

58.Several employees return to work the day after attending an industry trade show. That same day, the security manager notices several malware alerts coming from each of the employee’s workstations. The security manager investigates but finds no signs of an attack on the perimeter firewall or the NIDS. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the malware alerts?

Answer 58

D. A USB flash drive that is trying to run malicious code but is being blocked by the host firewall

Question 59

59.The IT department’s on-site developer has been with the team for many years. Each time an application is released, the security team is able to identify multiple vulnerabilities.
Which of the following would BEST help the team ensure the application is ready to be released to production?

Answer 59

D. Submit the application to QA before releasing it.

Question 60

60.A security analyst needs to implement an MDM solution for BYOD users that will allow the company to retain control over company emails residing on the devices and limit data exfiltration that might occur if the devices are lost or stolen.
Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

Answer 60

A. Full-device encryption

D. Containerization

Question 61

61.A recently discovered zero-day exploit utilizes an unknown vulnerability in the SMB network protocol to rapidly infect computers. Once infected, computers are encrypted and held for ransom. Which of the following would BEST prevent this attack from reoccurring?

Answer 61

A. Configure the perimeter firewall to deny inbound external connections to SMB ports.

Question 62

62.A system administrator needs to implement an access control scheme that will allow an object’s access policy be determined by its owner.
Which of the following access control schemes BEST fits the requirements?

Answer 62

B. Discretionary access control

Question 63

63.An information security incident recently occurred at an organization, and the organization was required to report the incident to authorities and notify the affected parties. When the organization’s customers became of aware of the incident, some reduced their orders or stopped placing orders entirely. Which of the following is the organization experiencing?

Answer 63

A. Reputation damage

Question 64

64.A security engineer needs to implement an MDM solution that complies with the corporate mobile device policy.
The policy states that in order for mobile users to access corporate resources on their devices the following requirements must be met:
• Mobile device OSs must be patched up to the latest release
• A screen lock must be enabled (passcode or biometric)
• Corporate data must be removed if the device is reported lost or stolen
Which of the following controls should the security engineer configure? (Select TWO)

Answer 64

D. Remote wipe

E. Full-device encryption

Question 65

65.The IT department at a university is concerned about professors placing servers on the university network in an attempt to bypass security controls.
Which of the following BEST represents this type of threat?

Answer 65

B. Shadow IT

Question 66

66.An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.
Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

Answer 66

C. nmap comptia.org -p 80 —sV

Question 67

67.An attacker is trying to gain access by installing malware on a website that is known to be visited by the target victims.
Which of the following is the attacker MOST likely attempting?

Answer 67

B. A watering-hole attack

Question 68

68.A critical file server is being upgraded and the systems administrator must determine which RAID level the new server will need to achieve parity and handle two simultaneous disk failures.
Which of the following RAID levels meets this requirements?

Answer 68

D. RAID 6

Question 69

69.Following a prolonged datacenter outage that affected web-based sales, a company has decided to move its operations to a private cloud solution.
The security team has received the following requirements:
• There must be visibility into how teams are using cloud-based services.
• The company must be able to identify when data related to payment cards is being sent to the cloud. • Data must be available regardless of the end user’s geographic location
• Administrators need a single pane-of-glass view into traffic and trends.
Which of the following should the security analyst recommend?

Answer 69

C. Implement a CASB solution.

CASB, is cloud-hosted software or on-premises software or hardware that act as an intermediary between users and cloud service providers. … CASBs have become a vital part of enterprise security, allowing businesses to safely use the cloud while protecting sensitive corporate data.

Question 70

70.Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

Answer 70

A. Asymmetric encryption

Question 71

71.An auditor is performing an assessment of a security appliance with an embedded OS that was vulnerable during the last two assessments.
Which of the following BEST explains the appliance’s vulnerable state?

Answer 71

C. The vendor has not supplied a patch for the appliance.

Question 72

72.A company wants to deploy PKI on its Internet-facing website. The applications that are currently deployed are:
✑ www.company.com (main website)
✑ contactus.company.com (for locating a nearby location)
✑ quotes.company.com (for requesting a price quote)
The company wants to purchase one SSL certificate that will work for all the existing applications and any future applications that follow the same naming conventions, such as store.company.com.
Which of the following certificate types would BEST meet the requirements?

Answer 72

B. Wildcard

Question 73

73.A cybersecurity analyst reviews the log files from a web server and sees a series of files that indicates a directory-traversal attack has occurred.
Which of the following is the analyst MOST likely seeing?

Answer 73

B. Option B

Question 74

74.A security analyst needs to determine how an attacker was able to use User3 to gain a foothold within a company’s network. The company’s lockout policy requires that an account be locked out for a minimum of 15 minutes after three unsuccessful attempts.
While reviewing the log files, the analyst discovers the following: Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred?

Answer 74

D. Brute-force

Question 75

75.A security analyst is logged into a Windows file server and needs to see who is accessing files and from which computers.
Which of the following tools should the analyst use?

Answer 75

A. netstat

Question 76

76.A Chief Security Office’s (CSO’s) key priorities are to improve preparation, response, and recovery practices to minimize system downtime and enhance organizational resilience to ransomware attacks. Which of the following would BEST meet the CSO’s objectives?

Answer 76

D. Implement application whitelisting and centralized event-log management, and perform regular testing and validation of full backups.

Question 77

77.A security manager for a retailer needs to reduce the scope of a project to comply with PCI DSS. The PCI data is located in different offices than where credit cards are accepted. All the offices are connected via MPLS back to the primary datacenter.
Which of the following should the security manager implement to achieve the objective?

Answer 77

A. Segmentation

Question 78

78.Which of the following describes the BEST approach for deploying application patches?

Answer 78

A. Apply the patches to systems in a testing environment then to systems in a staging environment, and finally to production systems.

Question 79

79.A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture. Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

Answer 79

A. MSSP

Question 80

80.Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

Answer 80

B. The data owner is responsible for determining how the data may be used, while the data custodian is responsible for implementing the protection to the data

Question 81

81.Which of the following provides the BEST protection for sensitive information and data stored in cloud-based services but still allows for full functionality and searchability of data within the cloud-based services?

Answer 81

A. Data encryption

Question 82

82.Which of the following incident response steps involves actions to protect critical systems while maintaining business operations?

Answer 82

B. Containment

Question 83

83.A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about the organization’s ability to continue business operation in the event of a prolonged DDoS attack on its local datacenter that consumes database resources.
Which of the following will the CISO MOST likely recommend to mitigate this risk?

Answer 83

B. Implement a hot-site failover location

Question 84

84.A company is implementing MFA for all applications that store sensitive data. The IT manager wants MFA to be non-disruptive and user friendly.
Which of the following technologies should the IT manager use when implementing MFA?

Answer 84

C. Push notifications

Question 85

85.Which of the following BEST explains the reason why a server administrator would place a document named password.txt on the desktop of an administrator account on a server?

Answer 85

A. The document is a honeyfile and is meant to attract the attention of a cyberintruder.

Question 86

86.A security analyst receives a SIEM alert that someone logged in to the appadmin test account, which is only used for the early detection of attacks.
The security analyst then reviews the following application log: Which of the following can the security analyst conclude?

Answer 86

B. An injection attack is being conducted against a user authentication system.

Question 87

87.A security assessment determines DES and 3DES at still being used on recently deployed production servers.
Which of the following did the assessment identify?

Answer 87

D. Weak encryption

Question 88

88.The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of an insurance company received an email from Ann, the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), requesting a transfer of $10,000 to an account. The email states Ann is on vacation and has lost her purse, containing cash and credit cards.
Which of the following social-engineering techniques is the attacker using?

Answer 88

B. Whaling

Question 89

89.A security analyst needs to perform periodic vulnerability scans on production systems. Which of the following scan Types would produce the BEST vulnerability scan report?

Answer 89

D. Credentialed

Question 90

90.A security modern may have occurred on the desktop PC of an organization’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) A duplicate copy of the CEO’s hard drive must be stored securely to ensure appropriate forensic processes and the chain of custody are followed.
Which of the following should be performed to accomplish this task?

Answer 90

B. Connect a write blocker to the hard drive Then leveraging a forensic workstation, utilize the dd command m a live Linux environment to create a duplicate copy

Question 91

91.A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the seventy levels of the organization’s vulnerabilities.
Which of the following would BEST meet this need?

Answer 91

D. CVSS

Question 92

92.An organization has been experiencing outages during holiday sales and needs to ensure availability of its point-of-sale systems The IT administrator has been asked to improve both server-data fault tolerance and site availability under high consumer load.
Which of the following are the BEST options to accomplish this objective’? (Select TWO)

Answer 92

A. Load balancing

D. RAID

Question 93

93.An organization is concerned that is hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.
Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

Answer 93

C. nmp comptia, org –p 80 –aV

Question 94

94.A security analyst is investigation an incident that was first reported as an issue connecting to network shares and the internet. While reviewing logs and tool output, the analyst sees the following:

Answer 94

E. ARP poisoning

Question 95

95.The CSIRT is reviewing the lessons learned from a recent incident. A worm was able to spread unhindered throughout the network and infect a large number of computers and servers.
Which of the following recommendations would be BEST to mitigate the impacts of a similar incident in the future?

Answer 95

B. Segment the network with firewalls.

Question 96

96.A security administrator suspects there may be unnecessary services running on a server. Which of the following tools will the administrator MOST likely use to confirm the suspicions?

Answer 96

A. Nmap

Question 97

97.A recent audit uncovered a key finding regarding the use of a specific encryption standard in a web application that is used to communicate with business customers. Due to the technical limitations of its customers the company is unable to upgrade the encryption standard.
Which of the following types of controls should be used to reduce the risk created by this scenario?

Answer 97

D. Compensating

Question 98

98.A retail executive recently accepted a job with a major competitor. The following week, a security analyst reviews the security logs and identifies successful logon attempts to access the departed executive’s accounts.
Which of the following security practices would have addressed the issue?

Answer 98

D. Offboarding

Question 99

99.Which of the following job roles would sponsor data quality and data entry initiatives that ensure business and regulatory requirements are met?

Answer 99

C. The data steward

Question 100

100.Which of the following types of controls is a turnstile?

Answer 100

A. Physical

Question 101

101.After consulting with the Chief Risk Officer (CRO). a manager decides to acquire cybersecurity insurance for the company.
Which of the following risk management strategies is the manager adopting?

Answer 101

C. Risk transference

Question 102

102.A nuclear plant was the victim of a recent attack, and all the networks were air gapped. A subsequent investigation revealed a worm as the source of the issue.
Which of the following BEST explains what happened?

Answer 102

A. A malicious USB was introduced by an unsuspecting employee.

Question 103

103.After entering a username and password, and administrator must gesture on a touch screen. Which of the following demonstrates what the administrator is providing?

Answer 103

A. Multifactor authentication

Question 104

104.An organization has hired a security analyst to perform a penetration test. The analyst captures 1Gb worth of inbound network traffic to the server and transfer the pcap back to the machine for analysis. Which of the following tools should the analyst use to further review the pcap?

Answer 104

D. Wireshark

Question 105

105.A security administrator checks the table of a network switch, which shows the following output: Which of the following is happening to this switch?

Answer 105

A. MAC Flooding

Question 106

106.The process of passively gathering information prior to launching a cyberattack is called: A. tailgating

Answer 106

B. reconnaissance

Question 107

107.A company is launching a new internet platform for its clients. The company does not want to implement its own authorization solution but instead wants to rely on the authorization provided by another platform.
Which of the following is the BEST approach to implement the desired solution?

Answer 107

A. OAuth

Question 108

108.A user recent an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank delays. Which of the following social-engineering techniques was used in this case?

Answer 108

D. Smishing

Question 109

109.Which of the following algorithms has the SMALLEST key size?

Answer 109

A. DES

Question 110

110.An attacker has successfully exfiltrated several non-salted password hashes from an online system. Given the logs below: Which of the following BEST describes the type of password attack the attacker is performing?

Answer 110

C. Brute-force

Question 111

111.A security engineer needs to Implement the following requirements:
• All Layer 2 switches should leverage Active Directory tor authentication.
• All Layer 2 switches should use local fallback authentication If Active Directory Is offline.
• All Layer 2 switches are not the same and are manufactured by several vendors.
Which of the following actions should the engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

Answer 111

A. Implement RADIUS.

B. Configure AAA on the switch with local login as secondary.

Question 112

112.A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platforms to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application.
Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

Answer 112

C. CASB

Question 113

113.A user is concerned that a web application will not be able to handle unexpected or random input without crashing.
Which of the following BEST describes the type of testing the user should perform?

Answer 113

B. Fuzzing

Question 114

114.A company recently set up an e-commerce portal to sell its product online. The company wants to start accepting credit cards for payment, which requires compliance with a security standard.
Which of the following standards must the company comply with before accepting credit cards on its e-commerce platform?

Answer 114

A. PCI DSS

Question 115

115.A security administrator needs to create a RAIS configuration that is focused on high read speeds and fault tolerance. It is unlikely that multiple drivers will fail simultaneously.
Which of the following RAID configurations should the administration use?

Answer 115

C. RAID 5

Question 116

116.A cybersecurity analyst needs to implement secure authentication to third-party websites without users’ passwords.
Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

Answer 116

C. SAML

Question 117

117.Which of the following allows for functional test data to be used in new systems for testing and training purposes to protect the read data?

Answer 117

B. Data masking

Question 118

118.Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but nothing else?

Answer 118

C. IaaS

Question 119

119.A smart retail business has a local store and a newly established and growing online storefront. A recent storm caused a power outage to the business and the local ISP, resulting in several hours of lost sales and delayed order processing.
The business owner now needs to ensure two things:
* Protection from power outages
* Always-available connectivity In case of an outage
The owner has decided to implement battery backups for the computer equipment. Which of the following would BEST fulfill the owner’s second need?

Answer 119

C. Purchase services from a cloud provider for high availability

Question 120

120.An organization needs to implement more stringent controls over administrator/root credentials and service accounts.
Requirements for the project include:
✑ Check-in/checkout of credentials
✑ The ability to use but not know the password ✑ Automated password changes
✑ Logging of access to credentials
Which of the following solutions would meet the requirements?

Answer 120

C. A privileged access management system

Question 121

121.A security analyst Is hardening a Linux workstation and must ensure It has public keys forwarded to remote systems for secure login.
Which of the following steps should the analyst perform to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

Answer 121

A. Forward the keys using ssh-copy-id.

B. Forward the keys using scp.

Question 122

122.Which of the following will provide the BEST physical security countermeasures to stop intruders? (Select TWO.)

Answer 122

D. Mantraps

E. Fencing

Question 123

123.The manager who is responsible for a data set has asked a security engineer to apply encryption to the data on a hard disk.
The security engineer is an example of a:

Answer 123

D. data processor

Question 124

124.An organization’s help desk is flooded with phone calls from users stating they can no longer access certain websites. The help desk escalates the issue to the security team, as these websites were accessible the previous day. The security analysts run the following command: ipconfig /flushdns, but the issue persists. Finally, an analyst changes the DNS server for an impacted machine, and the issue goes away.
Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred on the original DNS server?

Answer 124

A. DNS cache poisoning

Question 125

125.An attacker is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL users. Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

Answer 125

D. Watering-hole attack

*should be pharming

Question 126

126.A well-known organization has been experiencing attacks from APIs. The organization is concerned that custom malware is being created and emailed into the company or installed on USB sticks that are dropped in parking lots.
Which of the following is the BEST defense against this scenario?

Answer 126

C. Implementing application execution in a sandbox for unknown software.

Question 127

127.After reading a security bulletin, a network security manager is concerned that a malicious actor may have breached the network using the same software flaw. The exploit code is publicly available and has been reported as being used against other industries in the same vertical.
Which of the following should the network security manager consult FIRST to determine a priority list for forensic review?

Answer 127

A. The vulnerability scan output

Question 128

128.A security analyst receives the configuration of a current VPN profile and notices the authentication is only applied to the IP datagram portion of the packet.
Which of the following should the analyst implement to authenticate the entire packet?

Answer 128

A. AH

Question 129

129.The facilities supervisor for a government agency is concerned about unauthorized access to environmental systems in the event the staff WiFi network is breached.
Which of the blowing would BEST address this security concern?

Answer 129

D. Segment the staff WiFi network from the environmental systems network.

Question 130

130.A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platform to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application.
Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

Answer 130

C. CASB

Question 131

131. A security analyst needs to make a recommendation for restricting access to certain segments of the network using only data-link layer security.
     Which of the following controls will the analyst MOST likely recommend?

Answer 131

A MAC

Question 132

132.A network administrator would like to configure a site-to-site VPN utilizing iPSec. The administrator wants the tunnel to be established with data integrity encryption, authentication and anti- replay functions. Which of the following should the administrator use when configuring the VPN?

Answer 132

C. ESP

Question 133

133.CORRECT TEXT
A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on each firewall to do the following:
✑ Deny cleartext web traffic.
✑ Ensure secure management protocols are used.
✑ Resolve issues at the DR site.
The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Answer 133

Answer: Firewall #1

Question 134

134.A network engineer is troubleshooting wireless network connectivity issues that were reported by users. The issues are occurring only in the section of the building that is closest to the parking lot. Users are intermittently experiencing slow speeds when accessing websites and are unable to connect to network drives. The issues appear to increase when laptop users return desks after using their devices in other areas of the building. There have also been reports of users being required to enter their credentials on web pages in order to gain access to them.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Answer 134

A. An external access point is engaging in an evil-twin attack.

Question 135

135.Joe, a user at a company, clicked an email link led to a website that infected his workstation. Joe, was connected to the network, and the virus spread to the network shares. The protective measures failed to stop this virus, and It has continues to evade detection.
Which of the following should administrator implement to protect the environment from this malware?

Answer 135

C. Implement a heuristic behavior-detection solution.

Question 136

136.The following is an administrative control that would be MOST effective to reduce the occurrence of malware execution?

Answer 136

A. Security awareness training

Question 137

137.A cybersecurity manager has scheduled biannual meetings with the IT team and department leaders to discuss how they would respond to hypothetical cyberattacks. During these meetings, the manager presents a scenario and injects additional information throughout the session to replicate what might occur in a dynamic cybersecurity event involving the company, its facilities, its data, and its staff.
Which of the following describes what the manager is doing?

Answer 137

C. Conducting a tabletop exercise

Question 138

138.A financial organization has adopted a new secure, encrypted document-sharing application to help with its customer loan process. Some important PII needs to be shared across this new platform, but it is getting blocked by the DLP systems.
Which of the following actions will BEST allow the PII to be shared with the secure application without compromising the organization’s security posture?

Answer 138

D. Configure the DLP policies to whitelist this application with the specific PII

Question 139

139.An analyst needs to identify the applications a user was running and the files that were open before the user’s computer was shut off by holding down the power button.
Which of the following would MOST likely contain that information?

Answer 139

D. RAM

Question 140

140.A security analyst is configuring a large number of new company-issued laptops. The analyst received the following requirements:
• The devices will be used internationally by staff who travel extensively.
• Occasional personal use is acceptable due to the travel requirements.
• Users must be able to install and configure sanctioned programs and productivity suites.
• The devices must be encrypted
• The devices must be capable of operating in low-bandwidth environments.
Which of the following would provide the GREATEST benefit to the security posture of the devices?

Answer 140

A. Configuring an always-on VPN

Question 141

141.A user recently entered a username and password into a recruiting application website that had been forged to look like the legitimate site.
Upon investigation, a security analyst the identifies the following:
• The legitimate websites IP address is 10.1.1.20 and eRecruit local resolves to the IP
• The forged website’s IP address appears to be 10.2.12.99. based on NetFtow records
• ALL three at the organization’s DNS servers show the website correctly resolves to the legitimate IP • DNS query logs show one of the three DNS servers returned a result of 10.2.12.99 (cached) at the approximate time of the suspected compromise.
Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

Answer 141

B. An SSL strip MITM attack was performed

Question 142

142.While checking logs, a security engineer notices a number of end users suddenly downloading files with the.tar.gz extension. Closer examination of the files reveals they are PE32 files. The end users state they did not initiate any of the downloads. Further investigation reveals the end users all clicked on an external email containing an infected MHT file with an href link a week prior.
Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

Answer 142

A. A RAT was installed and is transferring additional exploit tools.

Question 143

143.A company uses wireless tor all laptops and keeps a very detailed record of its assets, along with a comprehensive list of devices that are authorized to be on the wireless network. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about a script kiddie potentially using an unauthorized device to brute force the wireless PSK and obtain access to the internal network.
Which of the following should the company implement to BEST prevent this from occurring?

Answer 143

B. WPA-EAP

Question 144

144.A security engineer has enabled two-factor authentication on all workstations. Which of the following approaches are the MOST secure? (Select TWO).

Answer 144

C. Password and smart card

D. Password and fingerprint

Question 145

145.A Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO) personal information was stolen in a social engineering attack. Which of the following sources would reveal if the CEO’s personal information is for sale?

Answer 145

C. The dark web

Question 146

146.An organization has a growing workforce that is mostly driven by additions to the sales department. Each newly hired salesperson relies on a mobile device to conduct business. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is wondering it the organization may need to scale down just as quickly as it scaled up. The ClO is also concerned about the organization’s security and customer privacy.
Which of the following would be BEST to address the ClO’s concerns?

Answer 146

C. Implement BYOD for the sates department while leveraging the MDM

Question 147

147.A workwide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromised. In one incident, a user logged in from the corporate office in France, but then seconds later, the same user account attempted a login from Brazil.
Which of the following account policies would BEST prevent this type of attack?

Answer 147

C. Geolocation

Question 148

148.A financial analyst is expecting an email containing sensitive information from a client. When the email arrives, the analyst receives an error and is unable to open the encrypted message.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Answer 148

B. The SLL certificate has expired.

Question 149

149.An organization suffered an outage and a critical system took 90 minutes to come back online. Though there was no data loss during the outage, the expectation was that the critical system would be available again within 60 minutes.
Which of the following is the 60-minute expectation an example of:

Answer 149

C. MTTR

Question 150

150.A security audit has revealed that a process control terminal is vulnerable to malicious users installing and executing software on the system. The terminal is beyond end-of-life support and cannot be upgraded, so it is placed on a projected network segment.
Which of the following would be MOST effective to implement to further mitigate the reported vulnerability?

Answer 150

D. Application whitelisting

Question 151

151.A researcher has been analyzing large data sets for the last ten months. The researcher works with colleagues from other institutions and typically connects via SSH to retrieve additional data.
Historically, this setup has worked without issue, but the researcher recently started getting the following message: Which of the following network attacks is the researcher MOST likely experiencing?

Answer 151

C. Man-in-the-middle

Question 152

152.Which of the following scenarios would make a DNS sinkhole effective in thwarting an attack?

Answer 152

D. Routing tables have been compromised, and an attacker is rerouting traffic to malicious websites

Question 153

153.An organization is developing a plan in the event of a complete loss of critical systems and data. Which of the following plans is the organization MOST likely developing?

Answer 153

C. Disaster recovery

Question 154

154.A security analyst is investigating an incident to determine what an attacker was able to do on a compromised laptop.
The analyst reviews the following SIEM log: Which of the following describes the method that was used to compromise the laptop?

Answer 154

B. An attacker was able to bypass application whitelisting by emailing a spreadsheet attachment with an embedded PowerShell in the file

Question 155

155.Local guidelines require that all information systems meet a minimum-security baseline to be compliant.
Which of the following can security administrators use to assess their system configurations against the baseline?

Answer 155

D. Benchmarks

Question 156

156.DRAG DROP
A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused. If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Answer 156

See document

Question 157

157.A company is designing the layout of a new datacenter so it will have an optimal environmental temperature.
Which of the following must be included? (Select TWO)

Answer 157

B. A cold aisle

D. A hot aisle

Question 158

158.A document that appears to be malicious has been discovered in an email that was sent to a company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Which of the following would be BEST to allow a security analyst to gather information and confirm it is a malicious document without executing any code it may contain?

Answer 158

D. Detonate the document in an analysis sandbox

Question 159

159.A recent malware outbreak across a subnet included successful rootkit installations on many PCs, ensuring persistence by rendering remediation efforts ineffective.
Which of the following would BEST detect the presence of a rootkit in the future?

Answer 159

C. EDR

Question 160

160.A security analyst is reviewing information regarding recent vulnerabilities.
Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely consult to validate which platforms have been affected?

Answer 160

D. CVE

Question 161

161.A public relations team will be taking a group of guest on a tour through the facility of a large e-commerce company. The day before the tour, the company sends out an email to employees to ensure all whiteboars are cleaned and all desks are cleared. The company is MOST likely trying to protect against.

Answer 161

C. Social engineering

Question 162

162.A privileged user at a company stole several proprietary documents from a server. The user also went into the log files and deleted all records of the incident. The systems administrator has Just informed investigators that other log files are available for review.
Which of the following did the administrator MOST likely configure that will assist the investigators?

Answer 162

B. The syslog server

Question 163

163.An organization hired a consultant to assist with an active attack, and the consultant was able to identify the compromised accounts and computers.
Which of the following is the consultant MOST likely to recommend to prepare for eradication?

Answer 163

B. Segmenting the compromised accounts and computers into a honeynet so as to not alert the attackers.

Question 164

164.In which of the following risk management strategies would cybersecurity insurance be used?

Answer 164

A. Transference

Question 165

165.Which of the following disaster recovery tests is The LEAST time-consuming for the disaster recovery team?

Answer 165

A. Tabletop

Question 166

166.A company is adopting a BYOD policy and is looking for a comprehensive solution to protect company information on user devices.
Which of the following solutions would BEST support the policy?

Answer 166

A. Mobile device management

Question 167

167.A symmetric encryption algorithm Is BEST suited for:

Answer 167

B. protecting large amounts of data.

Question 168

168.A company needs to centralize its logs to create a baseline and have visibility on its security events. Which of the following technologies will accomplish this objective?

Answer 168

A. Security information and event management

Question 169

169.Which of the following are requirements that must be configured for PCI DSS compliance? (Select TWO).

Answer 169

C. Assigning a unique ID to each person with computer access

D. Encrypting transmission of cardholder data across private networks

Question 170

170.Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company’s IT/security operations?

Answer 170

C. Separation of duties

Question 171

171.Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside

Answer 171

B. VM escape

Question 172

172.Which of the following would be BEST to establish between organizations to define the responsibilities of each party outline the key deliverables and include monetary penalties for breaches to manage third-party risk?

Answer 172

D.ABPA

Question 173

173.An analyst visits an internet forum looking for information about a tool. The analyst finds a threat that appears to contain relevant information.
One of the posts says the following:
Which of the following BEST describes the attack that was attempted against the forum readers?

Answer 173

C. XSS attack

Question 174

174.Which of the following should be put in place when negotiating with a new vendor about the timeliness of the response to a significant outage or incident?

Answer 174

Answer: C

Question 175

175.An analyst has determined that a server was not patched and an external actor exfiltrated data on port 139.
Which of the following sources should the analyst review to BEST ascertain how the Incident could have been prevented?

Answer 175

A. The vulnerability scan output

Question 176

176.A company processes highly sensitive data and senior management wants to protect the sensitive data by utilizing classification labels.
Which of the following access control schemes would be BEST for the company to implement?

Answer 176

D. Mandatory

Question 177

177.A large industrial system’s smart generator monitors the system status and sends alerts to third-party maintenance personnel when critical failures occur. While reviewing the network logs the company’s security manager notices the generator’s IP is sending packets to an internal file server’s IP.
Which of the following mitigations would be BEST for the security manager to implement while maintaining alerting capabilities?

Answer 177

A. Segmentation

Question 178

178.The SOC is reviewing process and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than 30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. The allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained.
Which of the following would be BEST to improve the incident response process?

Answer 178

A. Updating the playbooks with better decision points

Question 179

179.Which of the following BEST describes a security exploit for which a vendor patch is not readily available?

Answer 179

B. Zero-day

Question 180

180.A consultant is configuring a vulnerability scanner for a large, global organization in multiple countries. The consultant will be using a service account to scan systems with administrative privileges on a weekly basis, but there is a concern that hackers could gain access to account to the account and pivot through the global network.
Which of the following would be BEST to help mitigate this concern?

Answer 180

C. Create different accounts for each region. limit their logon times, and alert on risky logins

Question 181

181.During an incident response, a security analyst observes the following log entry on the web server.
Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack the analyst is experience?

Answer 181

D. Directory traversal

Question 182

182.The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an organization would like staff members to have the flexibility to work from home anytime during business hours, incident during a pandemic or crisis, However, the CEO is concerned that some staff members may take advantage of the of the flexibility and work from high-risk countries while on holidays work to a third-party organization in another country. The Chief information Officer (CIO) believes the company can implement some basic to mitigate the majority of the risk. Which of the following would be BEST to mitigate CEO’s concern? (Select TWO).

Answer 182

A. Geolocation

B. Time-of-day restrictions

Question 183

183.A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did not receive any emails with links, but he had been browsing the Internet all day.
Which of the following would MOST likely show where the malware originated?

Answer 183

A. The DNS logs

Question 184

184.An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or data theft.
Which of the following would be the MOST acceptable?

Answer 184

A. SED

Question 185

185.A network engineer needs to build a solution that will allow guests at the company’s headquarters to access the Internet via WiFi. This solution should not allow access to the internal corporate network, but it should require guests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the Internet.
Which of the following should the engineer employ to meet these requirements?

Answer 185

D. Install a captive portal

Question 186

186.Which of the following types of controls is a CCTV camera that is not being monitored?

Answer 186

A. Detective

Question 187

187.An engineer wants to access sensitive data from a corporate-owned mobile device. Personal data is not allowed on the device.
Which of the following MDM configurations must be considered when the engineer travels for business?

Answer 187

D. Containerization

Question 188

188.A security analyst reviews the datacenter access logs for a fingerprint scanner and notices an abundance of errors that correlate with users’ reports of issues accessing the facility.
Which of the following MOST likely the cause of the cause of the access issues?

Answer 188

A. False rejection

Question 189

189.A cybersecurity administrator has a reduced team and needs to operate an on-premises network and security infrastructure efficiently. To help with the situation, the administrator decides to hire a service provider.
Which of the following should the administrator use?

Answer 189

D. MSSP

Question 190

190.Under GDPR, which of the following is MOST responsible for the protection of privacy and website user rights?

Answer 190

C. The data owner

Question 191

191.An organization just experienced a major cyberattack modem. The attack was well coordinated sophisticated and highly skilled.
Which of the following targeted the organization?

Answer 191

D. An advanced persistent threat

Question 192

192.Given the following logs: Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack that is occurring?

Answer 192

B. Dictionary

Question 193

193.In which of the following situations would it be BEST to use a detective control type for mitigation?

Answer 193

D. A company purchased an IPS system, but after reviewing the requirements, the appliance was supposed to monitor, not block, any traffic.

Question 194

194.A security administrator suspects an employee has been emailing proprietary information to a competitor. Company policy requires the administrator to capture an exact copy of the employee’s hard disk.
Which of the following should the administrator use?

Answer 194

A. dd

Question 195

195.Company engineers regularly participate in a public Internet forum with other engineers throughout the industry.
Which of the following tactics would an attacker MOST likely use in this scenario?

Answer 195

A. Watering-hole attack

Question 196

196.Which of the following would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hot-spots?

Answer 196

A. Footprinting

Question 197

197.Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

Answer 197

C. To identify the risk, the risk owner, and the risk measures

Question 198

198.A university with remote campuses, which all use different service providers, loses Internet connectivity across all locations. After a few minutes, Internet and VoIP services are restored, only to go offline again at random intervals, typically within four minutes of services being restored. Outages continue throughout the day, impacting all inbound and outbound connections and services. Services that are limited to the local LAN or WiFi network are not impacted, but all WAN and VoIP services are affected. Later that day, the edge-router manufacturer releases a CVE outlining the ability of an attacker to exploit the SIP protocol handling on devices, leading to resource exhaustion and system reloads.
Which of the following BEST describe this type of attack? (Choose two.)

Answer 198

A. DoS

D. Race condition

Question 199

199.A security analyst is reviewing a new website that will soon be made publicly available. The analyst sees the following in the URL:
http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=77276554&loc=us
The analyst then sends an internal user a link to the new website for testing purposes, and when the user clicks the link, the analyst is able to browse the website with the following URL: http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=98988475&loc=us
Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

Answer 199

D. Cross-site request forgery

Question 200

200.Which of the following refers to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

Answer 200

A. Shadow IT

Question 201

201.A security analyst is performing a packet capture on a series of SOAP HTTP requests for a security assessment. The analyst redirects the output to a file After the capture is complete, the analyst needs to review the first transactions quickly and then search the entire series of requests for a particular string. Which of the following would be BEST to use to accomplish the task? (Select TWO).

Answer 201

A. head

C. grep

Question 202

202.Which of the following relets to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

Answer 202

A. Shadow IT

Question 203

203.Which of the following would BEST identify and remediate a data-loss event in an enterprise using third-party, web-based services and file-sharing platforms?

Answer 203

D. DLP

Question 204

204.A company’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) recently warned the security manager that the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is planning to publish a controversial option article in a national newspaper, which may result in new cyberattacks.
Which of the following would be BEST for the security manager to use in a threat mode?

Answer 204

A. Hacktivists

Question 205

205.A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output: Which of the following types of attacks does this MOST likely represent?

Answer 205

C. Password-spraying

Question 206

206.A security analyst is preparing a threat for an upcoming internal penetration test. The analyst needs to identify a method for determining the tactics, techniques, and procedures of a threat against the organization’s network.
Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely use to accomplish the objective?

Answer 206

C. MITRE ATTACK

Question 207

207.A root cause analysis reveals that a web application outage was caused by one of the company’s developers uploading a newer version of the third-party libraries that were shared among several applications.
Which of the following implementations would be BEST to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

Answer 207

C. Containerization

Question 208

208.A technician needs to prevent data loss in a laboratory. The laboratory is not connected to any external networks.
Which of the following methods would BEST prevent data? (Select TWO)

Answer 208

B. Drive encryption

E. USB blocker

Question 209

209.A network engineer notices the VPN concentrator overloaded and crashes on days when there are a lot of remote workers. Senior management has placed greater importance on the availability of VPN resources for the remote workers than the security of the end users’ traffic.
Which of the following would be BEST to solve this issue?

Answer 209

C. Split tunneling

Question 210

210.The Chief Security Officer (CSO) at a major hospital wants to implement SSO to help improve in the environment patient data, particularly at shared terminals. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned that training and guidance have been provided to frontline staff, and a risk analysis has not been performed. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the CRO’s concerns?

Answer 210

D. SSO would reduce the resilience and availability of system if the provider goes offline.

Question 211

211.An organization has decided to host its web application and database in the cloud. Which of the following BEST describes the security concerns for this decision?

Answer 211

B. The cloud vendor is a new attack vector within the supply chain

Question 212

212.A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to create a policy set that meets international standards for data privacy and sharing.
Which of the following should the CISO read and understand before writing the policies?

Answer 212

B. GDPR

Question 213

213.Which of the following are the MOST likely vectors for the unauthorized inclusion of vulnerable code in a software company’s final software releases? (Select TWO.)

Answer 213

D. Included third-party libraries

E. Vendors/supply chain

Question 214

214.A security analyst sees the following log output while reviewing web logs: Which of the following mitigation strategies would be BEST to prevent this attack from being successful?

Answer 214

B. Input validation

Question 215

215.A security analyst has received an alert about being sent via email. The analyst’s Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has made it clear that PII must be handle with extreme care.
From which of the following did the alert MOST likely originate?

Answer 215

B. DLP

Question 216

216.A company’s bank has reported that multiple corporate credit cards have been stolen over the past several weeks. The bank has provided the names of the affected cardholders to the company’s forensics team to assist in the cyber-incident investigation.
An incident responder learns the following information:
✑ The timeline of stolen card numbers corresponds closely with affected users making Internet-based purchases from diverse websites via enterprise desktop PCs.
✑ All purchase connections were encrypted, and the company uses an SSL inspection proxy for the inspection of encrypted traffic of the hardwired network.
✑ Purchases made with corporate cards over the corporate guest WiFi network, where no SSL inspection occurs, were unaffected.
Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?

Answer 216

A. HTTPS sessions are being downgraded to insecure cipher suites

Question 217

217.A security analyst is performing a forensic investigation compromised account credentials. Using the Event Viewer, the analyst able to detect the following message, ‘’Special privileges assigned to new login.’’ Several of these messages did not have a valid logon associated with the user before these privileges were assigned.
Which of the following attacks is MOST likely being detected?

Answer 217

A. Pass-the-hash

Question 218

218.An analyst needs to set up a method for securely transferring files between systems. One of the requirements is to authenticate the IP header and the payload.
Which of the following services would BEST meet the criteria?

Answer 218

C. ESP

Question 219

219.A cybersecurity administrator is using iptables as an enterprise firewall. The administrator created some rules, but the network now seems to be unresponsive All connections are being dropped by the firewall.
Which of the following would be the BEST option to remove the rules?

Answer 219

D. # iptables -P INPUT -j DROP

Question 220

220.An organization that is located in a flood zone is MOST likely to document the concerns associated with the restoration of IT operation in a:

Answer 220

C. disaster recovery plan.

Question 221

221.A network administrator has been asked to design a solution to improve a company’s security posture. The administrator is given the following, requirements?
• The solution must be inline in the network
• The solution must be able to block known malicious traffic
• The solution must be able to stop network-based attacks
Which of the following should the network administrator implement to BEST meet these requirements?

Answer 221

D. NIPS

Question 222

222.A forensics examiner is attempting to dump password cached in the physical memory of a live system but keeps receiving an error message.
Which of the following BEST describes the cause of the error?

Answer 222

A. The examiner does not have administrative privileges to the system

Question 223

223.An organization blocks user access to command-line interpreters but hackers still managed to invoke the interpreters using native administrative tools.
Which of the following should the security team do to prevent this from Happening in the future?

Answer 223

C. Disable the built-in OS utilities as long as they are not needed for functionality.

Question 224

224.A cybersecurity administrator needs to add disk redundancy for a critical server. The solution must have a two- drive failure for better fault tolerance.
Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator select?

Answer 224

D. 6

Question 225

225.A security analyst needs to produce a document that details how a security incident occurred, the steps that were taken for recovery, and how future incidents can be avoided.
During which of the following stages of the response process will this activity take place?

Answer 225

C. Lessons learned

Question 226

226.An organization’s RPO for a critical system is two hours. The system is used Monday through Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Currently, the organization performs a full backup every Saturday that takes four hours to complete.
Which of the following additional backup implementations would be the BEST way for the analyst to meet the business requirements?

Answer 226

A. Incremental backups Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m and differential backups hourly

Question 227

227.A technician needs to prevent data loss in a laboratory. The laboratory is not connected to any external networks.
Which of the following methods would BEST prevent the exfiltration of data? (Select TWO).

Answer 227

B. Drive encryption

E. USB blocker

Question 228

228.A network engineer needs to create a plan for upgrading the wireless infrastructure in a large office Priority must be given to areas that are currently experiencing latency and connection issues.
Which of the following would be the BEST resource for determining the order of priority?

Answer 228

B. Heat maps

Question 229

229.A user reports constant lag and performance issues with the wireless network when working at a local coffee shop. A security analyst walks the user through an installation of Wireshark and get a five-minute pcap to analyze.
The analyst observes the following output: Which of the following attacks does the analyst MOST likely see in this packet capture?

Answer 229

B. Evil twin

Question 230

230.HOTSPOT
Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation.
INSTRUCTIONS
Not all attacks and remediation actions will be used.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Answer 230

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Question 231

231.Which of the following would be the BEST resource lor a software developer who is looking to improve secure coding practices for web applications?

Answer 231

A. OWASP

Question 232

232.A security engineer is reviewing log files after a third discovered usernames and passwords for the organization’s accounts. The engineer sees there was a change in the IP address for a vendor website one earlier. This change lasted eight hours.
Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used?

Answer 232

D. DNS poising (pharming attack)

Question 233

233.A security analyst has been asked to investigate a situation after the SOC started to receive alerts from the SIEM.
The analyst first looks at the domain controller and finds the following events:
Based on the analyst’s findings, which of the following attacks is being executed?

Answer 233

D. Spraying

Question 234

234.An attacker is exploiting a vulnerability that does not have a patch available. Which of the following is the attacker exploiting?

Answer 234

A. Zero-day

Question 235

235.A security analyst is using a recently released security advisory to review historical logs, looking for the specific activity that was outlined in the advisory.
Which of the following is the analyst doing?

Answer 235

C. Threat hunting

Question 236

236.A security analyst needs to generate a server certificate to be used for 802.1X and secure RDP connections. The analyst is unsure what is required to perform the task and solicits help from a senior colleague.
Which of the following is the FIRST step the senior colleague will most likely tell the analyst to perform to accomplish this task?

Answer 236

B. Generate a CSR

Question 237

237.A forensics investigator is examining a number of unauthorized payments the were reported on the company’s website. Some unusual log entries show users received an email for an unwanted mailing list and clicked on a link to attempt to unsubscribe.
One of the users reported the email to the phishing team, and the forwarded email revealed the link to be: Which of the following will the forensics investigator MOST likely determine has occurred?

Answer 237

B. CSRF

Question 238

238.A security engineer needs to enhance MFA access to sensitive areas in a building. A key card and fingerprint scan are already in use.
Which of the following would add another factor of authentication?

Answer 238

D. Keypad PIN

Question 239

239.A security analyst is reviewing logs on a server and observes the following output: Which of the following is the security analyst observing?

Answer 239

C. A dictionary attack

Question 240

240.An employee has been charged with fraud and is suspected of using corporate assets.
As authorities collect evidence, and to preserve the admissibility of the evidence, which of the following forensic techniques should be used?

Answer 240

C. Chain of custody

Question 241

241.A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert for the most appropriate way to store credit card numbers to create an easy reordering process. Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?

Answer 241

D. Tokenizing the credit cards in the database

Question 242

242.An enterprise has hired an outside security firm to conduct penetration testing on its network and applications. The firm has only been given the documentation available to the customers of the applications.
Which of the following BEST represents the type of testing that will occur?

Answer 242

C. Gray-box

Question 243

243.Users at organization have been installing programs from the internet on their workstations
without first proper authorization. The organization maintains a portal from which users can install standardized programs. However, some users have administrative access on their workstations to enable legacy programs to function property.
Which of the following should the security administrator consider implementing to address this issue?

Answer 243

B. Application whitellsting

Question 244

244.To secure an application after a large data breach, an e-commerce site will be resetting all users’ credentials.
Which of the following will BEST ensure the site’s users are not compromised after the reset?

Answer 244

C. Encrypted credentials in transit

Question 245

245.A large enterprise has moved all its data to the cloud behind strong authentication and encryption A sales director recently had a laptop stolen and later, enterprise data was found to have been a compromised database.
Which of the following was the MOST likely cause?

Answer 245

A. Shadow IT

Question 246

246.An incident response technician collected a mobile device during an investigation. Which of the following should the technician do to maintain chain of custody?

Answer 246

A. Document the collection and require a sign-off when possession changes.

Question 247

247.The website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal Information, Including security question responses, for registration.
Which of the following would MOST likely cause a data breach?

Answer 247

C. Unsecure protocol

Question 248

248.A company has drafted an insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices. Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

Answer 248

D. Blocking removable-media devices and write capabilities using a host-based security tool

Question 249

249.A company has limited storage available and online presence that cannot for more than four hours. Which of the following backup methodologies should the company implement to allow for the FASTEST database restore time In the event of a failure, which being maindful of the limited available storage space?

Answer 249

D. Implement full backups every Sunday at 8:00 p.m and nightly differential backups at 8:00

Question 250

250.A company was recently breached .Part of the company’s new cybersecurity strategy is to centralize the logs from all security devices.
Which of the following components forwards the logs to a central source?

Answer 250

D. Log collector

Question 251

251.Which of the following scenarios BEST describes a risk reduction technique?

Answer 251

B. A security control objective cannot be met through a technical change, so the company
implements a policy to train users on a more secure method of operation.

Question 252

252.A network administrator is setting up wireless access points in all the conference rooms and wants to authenticate device using PKI.
Which of the following should the administrator configure?

Answer 252

C. 802.1X

Question 253

253.A remote user recently took a two-week vacation abroad and brought along a corporate-owned laptop. Upon returning to work, the user has been unable to connect the laptop to the VPN.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the user’s inability to connect the laptop to the VPN?

Answer 253

A. Due to foreign travel, the user’s laptop was isolated from the network.

Question 254

254.When selecting a technical solution for identity management, an architect chooses to go from an in-house to a third-party SaaS provider.
Which of the following risk management strategies is this an example of?

Answer 254

D. Transference

Question 255

255.A commercial cyber-threat intelligence organization observes IoCs across a variety of unrelated customers.
Prior to releasing specific threat intelligence to other paid subscribers, the organization is MOST likely obligated by contracts to:

Answer 255

B. anonymize any PII that is observed within the IoC data.

Question 256

256.A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce staffing at others.
Which of the following would be BEST to help the organization’s executives determine the next course of action?

Answer 256

D. A business continuity plan

Question 257

257.Some laptops recently went missing from a locked storage area that is protected by keyless RFID-enabled locks. There is no obvious damage to the physical space. The security manager identifies who unlocked the door, however, human resources confirms the employee was on vacation at the time of the incident. Which of the following describes what MOST likely occurred?

Answer 257

A. The employee’s physical access card was cloned.

Question 258

258.A user contacts the help desk to report the following:
- Two days ago, a pop-up browser window prompted the user for a name and password after connecting to the corporate wireless SSID. This had never happened before, but the user entered the information as requested.
- The user was able to access the Internet but had trouble accessing the department share until the next day.
- The user is now getting notifications from the bank about unauthorized transactions.
Which of the following attack vectors was MOST likely used in this scenario?

Answer 258

B. Evil twin

Question 259

259.A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times.
After determining it is not a routing or DNS issue, the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, and receives the following output: Which of the following is the router experiencing? D. Resource exhaustion

Answer 259

D. Resource exhaustion

Question 260

260.A network administrator has been asked to install an IDS to improve the security posture of an organization.
Which of the following control types is an IDS?

Answer 260

C. Detective

Question 261

261.A company provides mobile devices to its users to permit access to email and enterprise applications. The company recently started allowing users to select from several different vendors and device models. When configuring the MDM, which of the following is a key security implication of this heterogeneous device approach?

Answer 261

C. Certain devices are inherently less secure than others, so compensatory controls will be needed to address the delta between device vendors.

Question 262

262.In the middle of a cybersecurity, a security engineer removes the infected devices from the network and lock down all compromised accounts.
In which of the following incident response phases is the security engineer currently operating?

Answer 262

E. Containment

Question 263

263.A development team employs a practice of bringing all the code changes from multiple team members into the same development project through automation. A tool is utilized to validate the code and track source code through version control.
Which of the following BEST describes this process?

Answer 263

B. Continuous integration

Question 264

264.An organization is developing an authentication service for use at the entry and exit ports of country borders. The service will use data feeds obtained from passport systems, passenger manifests, and high-definition video feeds from CCTV systems that are located at the ports. The service will incorporate machine-learning techniques to eliminate biometric enrollment processes while still allowing authorities to identify passengers with increasing accuracy over time. The more frequently passengers travel, the more accurately the service will identify them.
Which of the following biometrics will MOST likely be used, without the need for enrollment? (Choose two.)

Answer 264

B. Gait

D. Facial

Question 265

265.A software developer needs to perform code-execution testing, black-box testing, and non-functional testing on a new product before its general release.
Which of the following BEST describes the tasks the developer is conducting?

Answer 265

A. Verification