SEC + Questions 1-86 Flashcards
A user is attempting to navigate to a website from inside the company network using a desktop. When the user types in the URL, https://www.site.com, the user is presented with a certificate mismatch warning from the browser. The user does not receive a warning when visiting https://www.another site.com Which of the following describes this attack?
A) on-path
B) Domain Hijacking
C) DNS Poisoning
D) Evil TWin
B) Domain Hijacking
Which of the following tools is effective in preventing a user from accessing unauthorized removable media?
A) USB Data Blocker
B) Faraday Cage
C) Proximity Reader
D) Cable lock
A) USB data blocker
A chief security officer is looking for a solution that can provide increased scalability and flexibility for backend infrastructure, allowing it to be updated and modified without disruption to services. The security architect would like the solution selected to reduce the back-end server resources and has highlighted that session persistence is not important for the applications running on the back-end servers. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements?
A) Reverse Proxy
B) Automated patch management
C) Snapshots
D) NIC Teaming
A) Reverse Proxy
Which of the following describes a social engineering technique that seeks to exploit a persons sense of urgency?
A) A phishing email stating a cash settlement has been awarded but will expire soon
B) A smishing message stating a package is scheduled for pickup
C) A vishing call that requests a donation be made to a local charity
D) A SPIM notification claiming to be undercover law enforcement investigating a cybercrime
A) A phishing email stating a cash settlement has been awarded but will expire soon
A security analyst is reviewing application logs to determine the source of a breach and locates the following log:
HTTPS:// www.comptia.com/login.php?id=‘%20or%20’1’1=‘1
Which of the following has been observed ?
A) DLL Injection
B) API attack
C) SQLi
D) XSS
C) SQLi
An audit identified PII being utilized in the delevopment environment of a critical application. The chief privacy officer (CPO) is adamant that this data must be removed; however, the developers are concerned that without real data they cannot perform functionality tests and search for specific data. Which of the following should a security professional implement to BEST satisfy both the CPO’s and the development teams requirements?
A) Data anonymization
B) Data encryption
C) Data masking
D) Data tokenization
C) Data Masking
A company is implementing a DLP solution on the file server. The file server. The file server has PII, financial information, and health information stored on it. Depending on what type of data that is hosted on the file server, the company wants different DLP rules assigned to the data. Which of the following should the company do to help accomplish this goal?
A) Classify the data
B) Mask the data
C) Assign the application owner
D) Perform a risk analysis
A) Classify the data
A forensics investigator is examining a number of unauthorized payments that 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:
<ahref=“https://www.company.com/payto.do?routing+00001111&acct=222233334&amount=250”>click here to unsubscribe</a>
Which of the following will the forensics investigator MOST likely determine has occurred?
A) SQL injection
B) Broken Authentication
C) XXS
D) XSRF
D) XSRF
A report delivered to the chief information security officer (CISO) shows that some user credentials could be exfiltrated. The report also indicates that users tend to choose the same credentials on different systems and applications. Which of the following policies should the CISO use to prevent someone from using the exfiltrated credentials?
A) MFA
B) Lockout
C) Time-based logins
D) Password history
A) MFA
A company wants to simplify the certificate management process. The company has a single domain with several dozen subdomains, all of which are publicly accessible on the internet. Which of the following BEST describes the type of certificate the company should implement?
A) subject alternative name
B) Wildcard
C) Self-signed
D) Domain validation
B) wildcard
Which of the following is an effective tool to stop to prevent the exfiltration of data from a network?
A) DLP
B) NIDS
C) TPM
D) FDE
A) DLP
Several attempts have been made to pick the door lock of a secure facility. As a result, the security engineer has been assigned to implement a stronger preventative access control. Which of the following would BEST complete the engineers assignment?
A) Replacing the traditional key with an RFID key
B) Installing and monitoring a camera facing the door
C) setting motion-sensing lights to illuminate the door on activity
D) Surrounding the property with fencing and gates
A) replacing the traditional key with an RFID
Which of the following can be used by a monitoring tool to compare values and detect password leaks without providing the actual credentials ?
A) Hashing
B) tokenization
C) masking
D) encryption
A) Hashing
A security engineer is building a file transfer solution to send files to a business partner. The users would like to drop off the files in a specific directory and have the server send the files to the business partner. The connection to the business partner is over the internet and needs to be secure. Which of the following can be used?
A) S/MIME
B) LDAPS
C) SSH
D) SRTP
C) SSH
An administrator needs to protect user passwords and has been advise to hash the passwords. Which of the following BEST describes what the administrator is being advised to do?
A) Perform a mathematical operation on the passwords that will convert them into unique strings.
B) Add extra data to the passwords so their length is increased, making them harder to brute force.
C) Store all passwords in the systems in a rainbow table that has a centralized location
D) Enforce the use of one-time passwords that are changed for every login session
A) Perform a mathematical operation on the passwords that will convert them into unique strings.
Which of the following would be indicative of a hidden audio file found inside of a piece of source code?
A) Steganography
B) Homomorphic Encryption
C) Cipher Suite
D) Blockchain
A) steganography
A user enters a username and a password at the login screen for a web portal. A few seconds later the following messages appears on the screen.
PLEASE USE A COMBINATION OF NUMBERS, SPECIAL CHARACTERS, AND LETTERS IN THE PASSWORD FIELD.
Which of the following concepts does this message describe?
A) Password Complexity
B) Password reuse
C) Password history
D) Password Age
A) Password Complexity
A company recently experienced an inside attack using a corporate machine that resulted in data compromised. Analysis indicated an unauthorized change to the software circumvented technological protection measures. The analyst was tasked with determining the best method to ensure the integrity of the systems remains intact and local and remote boot attestation can take place. Which of the following would provide the BEST solution?
A) HIPS
B) FIM
C) TPM
D) DLP
C) TPM
Which of the following is a reason to publish files hashes?
A) to validate the integrity of the files
B) to verify if the software was digitally signed
C) to use the hash as a software activation key
D) to use the has a decryption pass phrase
A) to validated the integrity of the files
A security manager has taken the security operations center with locating all web servers that respond to an unsecur protocol. Which of the following commands could be an analyst run to find the requested servers?
A) ns lookup 10.10.10.0
B) nmap -p 80 10.10.10.0/24
C) pathping 10.10.10.0 -p 80
D) ne -L -P 80
B) nmap -p 80 10.10.10.0/24
Which biometric error would allow an unauthorized user to access a system?
A) False acceptance
B) False entrance
C) False Rejection
D) False denial
A) False Acceptance
A company is auditing the manner in which its European customers personal information is handled. Which of the following should the company consult?
A) GDPR
B) ISO
C) NIST
D) PCI DSS
A) GDPR
Which of the following are common VoIP- associated vulnerabilities? (Choose two)
A) SPIM
B) Vishing
C) Hopping
D) Phishing
E) Credential Harvesting
F) Tailgating
B) Vishing
E) Credential Harvesting
Which of the following describes the exploitation of an interactive process to gain access to restricted area?
A) Persistence
B) Buffer Overflow
C) Privileage escalation
D) Pharming
C) Privilege escalation
An Organization is planning to open other data centers to sustain operations in the event of a natural disasters. Which of the following considerations would BEST support the organizations resiliency?
A) Geographic dispersal
B) Generator power
C) Fire suppression
D) Facility automation
A) Geographic Dispersal
A security engineer is deploying a new wireless network for a company. The company shares office space with multiple tenants. Which of the following should the engineer configure on the wireless network to ensure that confidential data is not expose to unauthorized users?
A) EAP
B) TLS
C) HTTPS
D) AES
D) AES
The chief compliance officer from a bank has approved a background check policy for all new hires. Which of the following is the policy MOST likely protecting against?
A) Preventing any current employees siblings from working at the bank to prevent nepotism.
B) Hiring an employee who has been convicted of theft to adhere to industry compliance
C) Filtering applications who have added false information to resumes to they appear better qualified.
D) Ensuring no new hires have worked at other banks that may be trying to steal customer information.
D) Ensuring no new hires have worked at other banks that may be trying to steal customers information
An engineer recently deployed a group of 100 web servers in a cloud environment. Per the security policy, all web server ports except 443 should be disabled. Which of the following can be used to accomplish this task?
A) Application allow list
B) SWG
C) Host based firewall
D) VPN
C) host based firewall
A tech was dispatched to complete repairs on a server in data center. While locating the server, the tech entered a restricted area without authorization. Which of the following security controls would BEST prevent this in the future?
A) use appropriate signage to mark all areas
B) Utilize cameras monitored by guards
C) implement access control vestibules
D) enforce escorts to monitor all visitors
C) implement access control vestibules
Which of the following would BEST provide a systems administrator with the ability to more efficiently identify systems and mange permissions and policies based on location, role, and service level?
A) standard naming conventions
B) domain services
C) baseline configurations
D) Diagrams
B) domain services
Which of the following would detect intrusions at the perimeter of an airport?
A) Signage
B) Fencing
C) Motion Sensors
D) Lighting
E) Bollards
C) motion sensors
A security analyst is concerned about critical vulnerabilities that have been detected on some applications running inside containers. Which of the following is the BEST remediation strategy?
A) update the base container image and redeploy the environment
B) include the containers in the regular patching schedule for servers.
C) patch each running container individually and test the application
D) update the host in which the containers are running
A) update the base container image and redeploy the environment
An organization has decided to purchase an insurance policy because a risk assessment determined that the cost to remediate the risk is greater than the five year cost of the insurance policy. The organization is enabling risk:
A) avoidance
B) acceptance
C) mitigation
D) transference
D) transference
A security analyst receives an alert from the company SIEM that anomalous activity is coming from a local source IP address of 192.168.32.26. The chief information security officer asks the analyst to block the originating source. Several days later, anther employee opens an internal ticket stating that vulnerabilities scars are no longer being performed properly. The IP address the employee provides is 192.168.34.26 . Which of the following describes this type of alert?
A) true negative
B) true positive
C) false positive
D) false negative
C) false positive