Questions 1 - 100

Question 1

Bonney’s system has been compromised by a gruesome malware. What is the primary step that is advisable to Bonney in order to contain the malware incident from spreading?

A. Complaint to police in a formal way regarding the incident

B. Turn off the infected machine

C. Leave it to the network administrators to handle

D. Call the legal department in the organization and inform about the incident

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to the forensics investigation process, what is the next step carried out right after collecting the evidence?

A. Create a Chain of Custody Document
B. Send it to the nearby police station
C. Set a Forensic lab
D. Call Organizational Disciplinary Team

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which one of the following is the correct flow for Setting Up a Computer Forensics Lab?

A. Planning and budgeting –> Physical location and structural design considerations –> Work area considerations –> Human resource considerations –> Physical security recommendations –> Forensics lab licensing

B. Planning and budgeting –> Physical location and structural design considerations–> Forensics lab
licensing –> Human resource considerations –> Work area considerations –> Physical security recommendations

C. Planning and budgeting –> Forensics lab licensing –> Physical location and structural design considerations –> Work area considerations –> Physical security recommendations –> Human resource considerations

D. Planning and budgeting –> Physical location and structural design considerations –> Forensics lab licensing –>Work area considerations –> Human resource considerations –> Physical security recommendations

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following directory will contain logs related to printer access?

A. /var/log/cups/Printer_log file
B. /var/log/cups/access_log file
C. /var/log/cups/accesslog file
D. /var/log/cups/Printeraccess_log file

Answer 4

B

Question 5

Which of the following command is used to enable logging in iptables?

A. $ iptables -B INPUT -j LOG
B. $ iptables -A OUTPUT -j LOG
C. $ iptables -A INPUT -j LOG
D. $ iptables -B OUTPUT -j LOG

Answer 5

C

Question 6

Ray is a SOC analyst in a company named Queens Tech. One Day, Queens Tech is affected by a DoS/DDoS attack. For the containment of this incident, Ray and his team are trying to provide additional bandwidth to the network devices and increasing the capacity of the servers.
What is Ray and his team doing?

A. Blocking the Attacks
B. Diverting the Traffic
C. Degrading the services
D. Absorbing the Attack

Answer 6

D

Question 7

Identify the attack when an attacker by several trial and error can read the contents of a password file present in the restricted etc folder just by manipulating the URL in the browser as shown:

http://www.terabytes.com/process.php./../../../../etc/passwd

A. Directory Traversal Attack
B. SQL Injection Attack
C. Denial-of-Service Attack
D. Form Tampering Attack

Answer 7

A

Question 8

Which encoding replaces unusual ASCII characters with “%” followed by the character’s two-digit ASCII code expressed in hexadecimal?

A. Unicode Encoding
B. UTF Encoding
C. Base64 Encoding
D. URL Encoding

Answer 8

D

Question 9

Which of the following formula represents the risk?
A. Risk = Likelihood × Severity × Asset Value
B. Risk = Likelihood × Consequence × Severity
C. Risk = Likelihood × Impact × Severity
D. Risk = Likelihood × Impact × Asset Value

Answer 9

D

Question 10

The Syslog message severity levels are labelled from level 0 to level 7. What does level 0 indicate?

A. Alert
B. Notification
C. Emergency
D. Debugging

Answer 10

C

Question 11

Where will you find the reputation IP database, if you want to monitor traffic from known bad IP reputation using OSSIM SIEM?

A. /etc/ossim/reputation
B. /etc/ossim/siem/server/reputation/data
C. /etc/siem/ossim/server/reputation.data
D. /etc/ossim/server/reputation.data

Answer 11

D

Question 12

According to the Risk Matrix table, what will be the risk level when the probability of an attack is very low and the impact of that attack is major?

A. High
B. Extreme
C. Low
D. Medium

Answer 12

D

Question 13

Which of the following command is used to view iptables logs on Ubuntu and Debian distributions?

A. $ tailf /var/log/sys/kern.log
B. $ tailf /var/log/kern.log
C. # tailf /var/log/messages
D. # tailf /var/log/sys/messages

Answer 13

B

Question 14

Which of the following technique involves scanning the headers of IP packets leaving a network to make sure that the unauthorized or malicious traffic never leaves the internal network?

A. Egress Filtering
B. Throttling
C. Rate Limiting
D. Ingress Filtering

Answer 14

A

Question 15

Which of the following formula is used to calculate the EPS of the organization?

A. EPS = average number of correlated events / time in seconds
B. EPS = number of normalized events / time in seconds
C. EPS = number of security events / time in seconds
D. EPS = number of correlated events / time in seconds

Answer 15

C

Question 16

Juliea a SOC analyst, while monitoring logs, noticed large TXT, NULL payloads.
What does this indicate?
A. Concurrent VPN Connections Attempt
B. DNS Exfiltration Attempt
C. Covering Tracks Attempt
D. DHCP Starvation Attempt

Answer 16

B

Question 17

An organization is implementing and deploying the SIEM with following capabilities.
….

What kind of SIEM deployment architecture the organization is planning to implement?

A. Cloud, MSSP Managed
B. Self-hosted, Jointly Managed
C. Self-hosted, Self-Managed
D. Self-hosted, MSSP Managed

Answer 17

C

Question 18

What is the process of monitoring and capturing all data packets passing through a given network using different tools?

A. Network Scanning
B. DNS Footprinting
C. Network Sniffing
D. Port Scanning

Answer 18

C

Question 19

Which of the following is a report writing tool that will help incident handlers to generate efficient reports on detected incidents during incident response process?

A. threat_note
B. MagicTree
C. IntelMQ
D. Malstrom

Answer 19

B

Question 20

Which of the following Windows features is used to enable Security Auditing in Windows?
A. Bitlocker
B. Windows Firewall
C. Local Group Policy Editor
D. Windows Defende

Answer 20

C

Question 21

Which of the following attack can be eradicated by filtering improper XML syntax?
A. CAPTCHA Attacks
B. SQL Injection Attacks
C. Insufficient Logging and Monitoring Attacks
D. Web Services Attacks

Answer 21

D

Question 22

Which of the following attack can be eradicated by using a safe API to avoid the use of the interpreter entirely?
A. Command Injection Attacks
B. SQL Injection Attacks
C. File Injection Attacks
D. LDAP Injection Attacks

Answer 22

A

Question 23

Shawn is a security manager working at Lee Inc Solution. His organization wants to develop threat intelligent strategy plan. As a part of threat intelligent strategy plan, he suggested various components, such as threat intelligence requirement analysis, intelligence and collection planning,
asset identification, threat reports, and intelligence buy-in.

Which one of the following components he should include in the above threat intelligent strategy plan to make it effective?

A. Threat pivoting
B. Threat trending
C. Threat buy-in
D. Threat boosting

Answer 23

B

Question 24

Which of the following can help you eliminate the burden of investigating false positives?
A. Keeping default rules
B. Not trusting the security devices
C. Treating every alert as high level
D. Ingesting the context data

Answer 24

D

Question 25

Which of the following event detection techniques uses User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)? A. Rule-based detection B. Heuristic-based detection C. Anomaly-based detection D. Signature-based detection

Answer 25

C

Question 26

Identify the password cracking attempt involving a precomputed dictionary of plaintext passwords and their corresponding hash values to crack the password. A. Dictionary Attack B. Rainbow Table Attack C. Bruteforce Attack D. Syllable Attack

Answer 26

B

Question 27

Which of the log storage method arranges event logs in the form of a circular buffer? A. FIFO B. LIFO C. non-wrapping D. wrapping

Answer 27

D

Question 28

An organization wants to implement a SIEM deployment architecture. However, they have the capability to do only log collection and the rest of the SIEM functions must be managed by an MSSP. Which SIEM deployment architecture will the organization adopt? A. Cloud, MSSP Managed B. Self-hosted, Jointly Managed C. Self-hosted, MSSP Managed D. Self-hosted, Self-Managed

Answer 28

C

Question 29

Banter is a threat analyst in Christine Group of Industries. As a part of the job, he is currently formatting and structuring the raw data. He is at which stage of the threat intelligence life cycle? A. Dissemination and Integration B. Processing and Exploitation C. Collection D. Analysis and Production

Answer 29

B

Question 30

Which of the following attacks causes sudden changes in file extensions or increase in file renames at rapid speed? A. Ransomware Attack B. DoS Attack C. DHCP starvation Attack D. File Injection Attack

Answer 30

A

Question 31

Which of the following security technology is used to attract and trap people who attempt unauthorized or illicit utilization of the host system? A. De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) B. Firewall C. Honeypot D. Intrusion Detection System

Answer 31

C

Question 32

Identify the event severity level in Windows logs for the events that are not necessarily significant, but may indicate a possible future problem. A. Failure Audit B. Warning C. Error D. Information

Answer 32

B

Question 33

Which of the following factors determine the choice of SIEM architecture? A. SMTP Configuration B. DHCP Configuration C. DNS Configuration D. Network Topology

Answer 33

D

Question 34

What does HTTPS Status code 403 represents? A. Unauthorized Error B. Not Found Error C. Internal Server Error D. Forbidden Error

Answer 34

D

Question 35

Which of the following Windows event is logged every time when a user tries to access the "Registry" key? A. 4656 B. 4663 C. 4660 D. 4657

Answer 35

A

Question 36

Which of the following are the responsibilities of SIEM Agents? 1. Collecting data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine. 2. Normalizing data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine. 3. Co-relating data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine. 4. Visualizing data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine. A. 1 and 2 B. 2 and 3 C. 1 and 4 D. 3 and 1

Answer 36

A

Question 37

Sam, a security analyst with INFOSOL INC., while monitoring and analyzing IIS logs, detected an event matching regex /\\w*((\%27)|(\’))((\%6F)|o|(\%4F))((\%72)|r|(\%52))/ix. What does this event log indicate? A. SQL Injection Attack B. Parameter Tampering Attack C. XSS Attack D. Directory Traversal Attack

Answer 37

A

Question 38

Which of the following framework describes the essential characteristics of an organization's security engineering process that must exist to ensure good security engineering? A. COBIT B. ITIL C. SSE-CMM D. SOC-CMM

Answer 38

C

Question 39

What does Windows event ID 4740 indicate? A. A user account was locked out. B. A user account was disabled. C. A user account was enabled. D. A user account was created

Answer 39

A

Question 40

Which of the following is a Threat Intelligence Platform? A. SolarWinds MS B. TC Complete C. Keepnote D. Apility.io

Answer 40

B

Question 41

A type of threat intelligent that find out the information about the attacker by misleading them is known as . A. Threat trending Intelligence B. Detection Threat Intelligence C. Operational Intelligence D. Counter Intelligence

Answer 41

D

Question 42

Chloe, a SOC analyst with Jake Tech, is checking Linux systems logs. She is investigating files at /var/log/ wtmp. What Chloe is looking at? A. Error log B. System boot log C. General message and system-related stuff D. Login records

Answer 42

D

Question 43

Which of the following threat intelligence is used by a SIEM for supplying the analysts with context and "situational awareness" by using threat actor TTPs, malware campaigns, tools used by threat actors. 1. Strategic threat intelligence 2. Tactical threat intelligence 3. Operational threat intelligence 4. Technical threat intelligence A. 2 and 3 B. 1 and 3 C. 3 and 4 D. 1 and 2

Answer 43

A

Question 44

Properly applied cyber threat intelligence to the SOC team help them in discovering TTPs. What does these TTPs refer to? A. Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures B. Tactics, Threats, and Procedures C. Targets, Threats, and Process D. Tactics, Targets, and Process

Answer 44

A

Question 45

Which of the following data source can be used to detect the traffic associated with Bad Bot UserAgents? A. Windows Event Log B. Web Server Logs C. Router Logs D. Switch Logs

Answer 45

B

Question 46

Daniel is a member of an IRT, which was started recently in a company named Mesh Tech. He wanted to find the purpose and scope of the planned incident response capabilities. A. Incident Response Intelligence B. Incident Response Mission C. Incident Response Vision D. Incident Response Resources

Answer 46

B

Question 47

John, a SOC analyst, while monitoring and analyzing Apache web server logs, identified an event log matching Regex /(\.|(%|%25)2E)(\.|(%|%25)2E)(\/|(%|%25)2F|\\|(%|%25)5C)/i. What does this event log indicate? A. XSS Attack B. SQL injection Attack C. Directory Traversal Attack D. Parameter Tampering Attack

Answer 47

C

Question 48

According to the Risk Matrix table, what will be the risk level when the probability of an attack is very high, and the impact of that attack is major? NOTE: It is mandatory to answer the question before proceeding to the next one. A. High B. Extreme C. Low D. Medium

Answer 48

B

Question 49

Jason, a SOC Analyst with Maximus Tech, was investigating Cisco ASA Firewall logs and came across the following log entry: May 06 2018 21:27:27 asa 1: %ASA -5 – 11008: User 'enable_15' executed the 'configure term' command What does the security level in the above log indicates? A. Warning condition message B. Critical condition message C. Normal but significant message D. Informational message

Answer 49

C

Question 50

What is the correct sequence of SOC Workflow? A. Collect, Ingest, Validate, Document, Report, Respond B. Collect, Ingest, Document, Validate, Report, Respond C. Collect, Respond, Validate, Ingest, Report, Document D. Collect, Ingest, Validate, Report, Respond, Document

Answer 50

D

Question 51

Wesley is an incident handler in a company named Maddison Tech. One day, he was learning techniques for eradicating the insecure deserialization attacks. What among the following should Wesley avoid from considering? A. Deserialization of trusted data must cross a trust boundary B. Understand the security permissions given to serialization and deserialization C. Allow serialization for security-sensitive classes D. Validate untrusted input, which is to be serialized to ensure that serialized data contain only trusted classes

Answer 51

C

Question 52

An attacker, in an attempt to exploit the vulnerability in the dynamically generated welcome page, inserted code at the end of the company’s URL as follows: http://technosoft.com.com/. Identify the attack demonstrated in the above scenario. A. Cross-site Scripting Attack B. SQL Injection Attack C. Denial-of-Service Attack D. Session Attack

Answer 52

A

Question 53

Which of the following formula represents the risk levels? A. Level of risk = Consequence × Severity B. Level of risk = Consequence × Impact C. Level of risk = Consequence × Likelihood D. Level of risk = Consequence × Asset Value

Answer 53

C

Question 54

In which of the following incident handling and response stages, the root cause of the incident must be found from the forensic results? A. Evidence Gathering B. Evidence Handling C. Eradication D. Systems Recovery

Answer 54

A

Question 55

Jane, a security analyst, while analyzing IDS logs, detected an event matching Regex /((\%3C)|<)((\%69)|i|(\% 49))((\%6D)|m|(\%4D))((\%67)|g|(\%47))[^\n]+((\%3E)|>)/|. What does this event log indicate? A. Directory Traversal Attack B. Parameter Tampering Attack C. XSS Attack D. SQL Injection Attack

Answer 55

C

Question 56

Which of the following Windows Event Id will help you monitors file sharing across the network? A. 7045 B. 4625 C. 5140 D. 4624

Answer 56

C

Question 57

The threat intelligence, which will help you, understand adversary intent and make informed decision to ensure appropriate security in alignment with risk. What kind of threat intelligence described above? A. Tactical Threat Intelligence B. Strategic Threat Intelligence C. Functional Threat Intelligence D. Operational Threat Intelligence

Answer 57

B

Question 58

Identify the type of attack, an attacker is attempting on www.example.com website ... url