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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 woiuld best meet this need?
CVSS
Common Vulnerability scoring system is a system widely used in bulnerability management programs. CVSS indicates the severity of an information security vulnerabvility, and is an integral component of many vulnerability scanning tools.
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?
SLA
Service Level Agreement.
Is an agreement between a company and a vendor that stipulates performance expectations, such as minimum uptime and maximum downtime levels.
Describe the BEST approach for deploying application patches.
Apply the patches to systems in a testing environment then to systems in a staging environment and finally to production systems.
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:
Disaster recovery Plan
An organization is developing an authentication service for use at the entry and exit ports of country borders. wThe 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 elimniate biometric enrollement processes while still allowing authorities to identify passengers with increasing accuracy over time. The more frequently passengers travel, the more accurately rthe service will identify them. Which of the follwoing biometrics will most likely be used, without the need for enrollment?
Gait
Facial
Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company’s IT/ Security operations?
Separation of duties - is a means of estabilshing checks and balances against the possibility that critical system or procedures can be compromised by insider threats. wDuties and responsibilities should be divided among individuals to prevent ethical conflicts or abuse of powers.
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?
Industry information- sharing and collaboration groups
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?
Mandatory
Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside?
VM escape
Cirtual machine escape is an exploit in which the attacker runs code on a vm that allows an operating system running within it to break out and interact directly with the hypervisor
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?
Smishing
A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate- owned mobile devices.
hich of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company’s data?
Contanerization
Which of the following best explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?
The data owner is responsible for determining how the data may be used, while the the data custodian is responsible for implementing the protection to the data.
An attacker sends multple SYN Packes from multiple sources
Target: Webserver
Attack Identified: Botnet
Prevention: Enable DDoS Proctection
The attack establishes a connection, which allow remote commands to be executed.
Target: USER
Attack: RAT
Prevention: Implement a host-based IPS
The attack is self propagating and compromises a SQL database using well-known credentials as it moves through the network.
Target: Datavase server
Attack: Worm
Prevention: Change the default application password
The attacker uses hardware to remotely monitor a user’s input activity to harvest credentials.
Target: executive
Attack: Keylogger
Prevention: Disable vulnerable services
The Attacker embeds hidden acces in a n internally developed application that bypasses account login
Target: Application
Attack: Backdoor
Prevention : Implement 2FA using push notification.
Which of the follwoing will provide the BEST physical security countermeasures to stop intruders?
Mantraps
Fencing
A small business just recovered from a ransome ware 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?
Scan the NAS for residual or dormant malware and take new daily backups that are tested on a frequent basis
A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert for the most approprate way to store credit card numbres to create an easy reordering process.
Which of th efollowing methods would best accomplish this goal.
Hashing the credit card numbrs upon entry
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 confimr the suspisions?
Nmap
NMAP scans runnig services and can tell you what services are running
An Auditor is performing an asessment of a security appliance with an embedded OS that was vulnerable during the last two assessment.
Which of th efollwoing BEST explains the appliance’s vulnerable state?
The vendor has not supplied a patch for the appliance.
Which of the following refers to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?
Shadow IT
Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data processors?
GDPR
A security engineer is reviewing log files after a third discovered usernames and passwords for the organization;s acconts. 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?
DNS Poising
A cyber security administrator needs to add disk redundancy for a critical server. The solution must have atwo-drive failure for better fault tolerance.
Which of the following RAID Levels should the administrator select?
RAID 1
Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows on hosts?
EDR
An organization just experienced a major cyberattack modem. The attack was well coordinated sophisticated and highly skilled.
Which of the following targeted the organization?
An advanced persistent threat.
A public relations team will be taking a group of guest on a tour thorugh 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 tprotect against.
A loss of proprietary information.
In the context of information security, social engineering is the psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information think phishing, spoofing.
That is not being demonstarted in this question. The company is protecting themselves from loss of proprietary information by clearing it all out. So that if anyone in the tour is looking to take it, they will be out of luck.
A company has limited storage available and online presence that cannot for more than four hours.
Which of the follwoing backup methodologies should the company implement to allow for the fastest database restore time in the event of a failure, which being mindful of the limited available storage space?
Implement different backups eery Sunday at 8:00 and nightly incremental backups at 8:00PM
The 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 flexibility and work from high-risk countries while on holdiays work to a third party organization in another country. The Chief information officer believes the company can implement some basic to mitigate the majority of the risk.
Which of the following would BEST to mitigate CEO’s concern?
Geolocation
Geotagging
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 mangaer use when implementing MFA?
Push Notifications
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:
“Hello Everyone,
I am having the same problem with my server. Can you help me?
onload=sqlexec();
Thank you.
joe
XSS attack
Cross-site scripting attacks may ocur anywere that possibly malicious users are allowed to post unregulated material to a trusted website for the consumption of other valid users. The most common example can be found in bulletin board websites which provide web based mailing list style functionality, https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/https://acunetix.com/websitesecurity/cross-site-scripting/
In which of the following risk management strategies would cybersecurity insurance be used?
Transference
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?
Dual power supply
Off-site backups
ffA 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 reoccuring?
Configure the perimeter firewall to deny inbound external connections to SMB ports.
A RAT that was userd to compromis 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 administator rights to the system as part of a remote management tool set.
Which of the following recommendations would BEST prevent this from reoccuring?
Enforce application whitelisting.
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?
SAML
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?
Phishing
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.
Segmentation
To secure an application after a large data breach, an e-commerce site will be resetting all users’ credentials.
Which of the follwoing will BEST ensure the site’s users are not compromised after the reset?
Encrypted credentials in transit.
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 mitgate the reported vulnerability.
Application whitelisting
During an incident response, a security analyst oberserves the following log entry on the web server.
Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack the analyst is experience?
Directory traversal
In the middle of a cybersaecurity engineer removes the infected devices from the network and lock down all compromised accounts. w
In which of the following incident response phases is the security engingeer currently operating?
Containement
An Organization suffered an outage and a critical system took 90 minutes to come back online.
dThough 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 :
RTO
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 quests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the internet.
Which of the following should the engineer employ to meet these requirements?
Install a captive portal
A document that appears to be malicious has been discovered in an email that was sent to a company’s Chief Financial Officer
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?
Detonate the document in an analysis sandbox.
Which of the following BEST describes a security exploit for which a vendor patch is not readily available
Zero-day
Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?
To identify the risk, the risk owner, and the risk measures.
The Risk Register displays a list of all risks recorded and displays various risk details, including the residual risk level, risk source, risk owner, risk stage, and the treatment status of the risk.
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
Containerization
Which of the follwoing would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hot spots?
Footprinting
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?
Trusted Platform Module
A host-based firewall
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?
nmp comptia, org -p 80 -aV
Nmap is used to discover hosts and services on a computer network by sending packets and analzing the responses. Nmap provides a number of features for probing computer networks, including host discovery and service and operating system detection
After a ransomware attack a forensics company needs to review a cryptocurrency transaction between the victim and the attackert.
Which of the following will the company MOST likely review to trace this transaction?
The public ledger
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?
SED
A network engineer has been asked to investigate why several wireless barcode scanners and wireless compputers 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?
Perform a site survey
Create a heat map
Heat map and site survey will provide the wifi strenth and identify the weakness areas… this will give the opportunity if we need to increase WiFi strength or give sugestions to the forklift drivers about the movement
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?
Somthing you have
something you are
