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Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a server’s certificate?
A. CA public key
B. Server private key
C. CSR
D. OID
D. OID
A security analyst is diagnosing an incident in which a system was compromised from an external IP address. The socket identified on the firewall was traced to
207.46.130.0:6666. Which of the following should the security analyst do to determine if the compromised system still has an active connection?
A. tracert
B. netstat
C. ping
D. nslookup
B. netstat
Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical want to provide seamless wireless access for their employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented if all the organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices?
A. Shibboleth B. RADIUS federation C. SAML D. OAuth E. OpenID connect
B. RADIUS federation
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Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?
A. Sustainability
B. Homogeneity
C. Resiliency
D. Configurability
C. Resiliency
In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand. Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?
A. Elasticity
B. Scalability
C. High availability
D. Redundancy
Correct Answer: A
Elasticity is defined as “the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by provisioning and de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time the available resources match the current demand as closely as possible”.
A security engineer is configuring a system that requires the X.509 certificate information to be pasted into a form field in Base64 encoded format to import it into the system. Which of the following certificate formats should the engineer use to obtain the information in the required format?
A. PFX
B. PEM
C. DER
D. CER
B. PEM
Which of the following attacks specifically impact data availability?
A. DDoS
B. Trojan
C. MITM
D. Rootkit
A. DDoS
A security analyst is hardening a server with the directory services role installed. The analyst must ensure LDAP traffic cannot be monitored or sniffed and maintains compatibility with LDAP clients. Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Select two.)
A. Generate an X.509-compliant certificate that is signed by a trusted CA.
B. Install and configure an SSH tunnel on the LDAP server.
C. Ensure port 389 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.
D. Ensure port 636 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.
E. Remote the LDAP directory service role from the server.
A. Generate an X.509-compliant certificate that is signed by a trusted CA.
D. Ensure port 636 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.
Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company’s proprietary information to gain a market edge and reduce time to market?
A. Competitor
B. Hacktivist
C. Insider
D. Organized crime.
A. Competitor
A penetration tester is crawling a target website that is available to the public. Which of the following represents the actions the penetration tester is performing?
A. URL hijacking
B. Reconnaissance
C. White box testing
D. Escalation of privilege
B. Reconnaissance
Which of the following characteristics differentiate a rainbow table attack from a brute force attack? (Select two.)
A. Rainbow table attacks greatly reduce compute cycles at attack time.
B. Rainbow tables must include precomputed hashes.
C. Rainbow table attacks do not require access to hashed passwords.
D. Rainbow table attacks must be performed on the network.
E. Rainbow table attacks bypass maximum failed login restrictions.
B. Rainbow tables must include precomputed hashes.
E. Rainbow table attacks bypass maximum failed login restrictions.
Which of the following best describes routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed from a string?
A. Error handling to protect against program exploitation
B. Exception handling to protect against XSRF attacks.
C. Input validation to protect against SQL injection.
D. Padding to protect against string buffer overflows.
C. Input validation to protect against SQL injection.
A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all traffic to the FTP server is unencrypted. Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modern FTP client software.
The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing unencrypted connections. Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?
A. Require the SFTP protocol to connect to the file server.
B. Use implicit TLS on the FTP server.
C. Use explicit FTPS for connections.
D. Use SSH tunneling to encrypt the FTP traffic.
C. Use explicit FTPS for connections.
Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for their customers to download over the Internet?
A. The recipient can verify integrity of the software patch.
B. The recipient can verify the authenticity of the site used to download the patch.
C. The recipient can request future updates to the software using the published MD5 value.
D. The recipient can successfully activate the new software patch.
A. The recipient can verify integrity of the software patch.
Refer to the following code:
public class rainbow {
public static void main (String [ ] args) {
object blue = null:
blue.hashcode ( ); }
{
Which of the following vulnerabilities would occur if this is executed?
A. Page exception
B. Pointer deference
C. NullPointerException
D. Missing null check
D. Missing null check
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Multiple employees receive an email with a malicious attachment that begins to encrypt their hard drives and mapped shares on their devices when it is opened.
The network and security teams perform the following actions:
✑ Shut down all network shares.
✑ Run an email search identifying all employees who received the malicious message.
✑ Reimage all devices belonging to users who opened the attachment.
Next, the teams want to re-enable the network shares. Which of the following BEST describes this phase of the incident response process?
A. Eradication
B. Containment
C. Recovery
D. Lessons learned
C. Recovery
An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime. Which of the following has been specified?
A. RTO
B. RPO
C. MTBF
D. MTTR
A. RTO stands for Recovery Time Objective. It’s a metric that helps to calculate how quickly you need to recover your IT infrastructure and services following a disaster in order to maintain business continuity.
MTBF, or Mean Time Between Failures, is a metric that concerns the average time elapsed between a failure and the next time it occurs.
MTTR, or Mean Time To Repair, is the time it takes to run a repair after the occurrence of the failure.
RPO, or Recovery Point Objective, is a measurement of the maximum tolerable amount of data to lose.
Which of the following types of keys is found in a key escrow?
A. Public
B. Private
C. Shared
D. Session
B. Private
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Despite having implemented password policies, users continue to set the same weak passwords and reuse old passwords. Which of the following technical controls would help prevent these policy violations? (Select two.)
A. Password expiration B. Password length C. Password complexity D. Password history E. Password lockout
C. Password complexity
D. Password history
Which of the following types of cloud infrastructures would allow several organizations with similar structures and interests to realize the benefits of shared storage and resources?
A. Private
B. Hybrid
C. Public
D. Community
D. Community
A company is currently using the following configuration:
✑ IAS server with certificate-based EAP-PEAP and MSCHAP
✑ Unencrypted authentication via PAP
A security administrator needs to configure a new wireless setup with the following configurations:
✑ PAP authentication method
✑ PEAP and EAP provide two-factor authentication
Which of the following forms of authentication are being used? (Select two.)
A. PAP
B. PEAP
C. MSCHAP
D. PEAP- MSCHAP
E. EAP
F. EAP-PEAP
A. PAP
C. MSCHAP
A company determines that it is prohibitively expensive to become compliant with new credit card regulations. Instead, the company decides to purchase insurance to cover the cost of any potential loss. Which of the following is the company doing?
A. Transferring the risk
B. Accepting the risk
C. Avoiding the risk
D. Migrating the risk
A. Transferring the risk
A company is using a mobile device deployment model in which employees use their personal devices for work at their own discretion. Some of the problems the company is encountering include the following:
✑ There is no standardization.
✑ Employees ask for reimbursement for their devices.
✑ Employees do not replace their devices often enough to keep them running efficiently.
✑ The company does not have enough control over the devices.
Which of the following is a deployment model that would help the company overcome these problems?
A. BYOD
B. VDI
C. COPE
D. CYOD
D. CYOD
A botnet has hit a popular website with a massive number of GRE-encapsulated packets to perform a DDoS attack. News outlets discover a certain type of refrigerator was exploited and used to send outbound packets to the website that crashed. To which of the following categories does the refrigerator belong?
A. SoC
B. ICS
C. IoT
D. MFD
C. IoT
