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1
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A network administrator wants to implement a method of securing internal routing. Which of the following
should the administrator implement?

DMZ
NAT
VPN
PAT

A

VPN

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Malicious traffic from an internal network has been detected on an unauthorized port on an application server.
Which of the following network-based security controls should the engineer consider implementing?

ACLs
HIPS
NAT
MAC filtering

A

ACLs

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Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test
environment to production?

Roll back changes in the test environment
Verify the hashes of files
Archive and compress the files
Update the secure baseline

A

Verify the hashes of files

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When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

Owner
System
Administrator
User

A

Administrator

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A company wants to host a publicity available server that performs the following functions:
Evaluates MX record lookup
Can perform authenticated requests for A and AAA records
Uses RRSIG
Which of the following should the company use to fulfill the above requirements?

LDAPS
DNSSEC
SFTP
nslookup
dig
A

DNSSEC

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Q

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?
URL hijacking
Reconnaissance
White box testing
Escalation of privilege

A

Reconnaissance

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In terms of encrypting data, which of the following is BEST described as a way to safeguard password data by adding random data to it in storage?

Using salt
Using hash algorithms
Implementing elliptical curve
Implementing PKI

A

Using Salt

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A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior. Which of the following steps is MOST important in
the process of disengagement from this employee?

Obtain a list of passwords used by the employee.
Generate a report on outstanding projects the employee handled.
Have the employee surrender company identification.
Have the employee sign an NDA before departing

A

Have an employee surrender company identification

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An employer requires that employees use a key-generating app on their smartphones to log into corporate
applications. In terms of authentication of an individual, this type of access policy is BEST defined as:

Something you have.
Something you know.
Something you do.
Something you are.

A

Something you have

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A user suspects someone has been accessing a home network without permission by spoofing the MAC
address of an authorized system. While attempting to determine if an authorized user is logged into the home
network, the user reviews the wireless router, which shows the following table for systems that are currently
on the home network.
Which of the following should be the NEXT step to determine if there is an unauthorized user on the network?
A. Apply MAC filtering and see if the router drops any of the systems.
B. Physically check each of the authorized systems to determine if they are logged onto the network.
C. Deny the “unknown” host because the hostname is not known and MAC filtering is not applied to this
host.
D. Conduct a ping sweep of each of the authorized systems and see if an echo response is received.

A

Deny the “unknown” host because the hostname is not known and MAC filtering is not applied to this
host.

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A company is developing a new secure technology and requires computers being used for development to be
isolated. Which of the following should be implemented to provide the MOST secure environment?
A perimeter firewall and IDS
An air gapped computer network
A honeypot residing in a DMZ
An ad hoc network with NAT
A bastion host

A

An air gapped computer network

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A security administrator has found a hash in the environment known to belong to malware. The administrator
then finds this file to be in in the preupdate area of the OS, which indicates it was pushed from the central
patch system.
File: winx86_adobe_flash_upgrade.exe
Hash: 99ac28bede43ab869b853ba62c4ea243
The administrator pulls a report from the patch management system with the following output:
Given the above outputs, which of the following MOST likely happened?

The file was corrupted after it left the patch system.
The file was infected when the patch manager downloaded it.
The file was not approved in the application whitelist system.
The file was embedded with a logic bomb to evade detection

A

The file was embedded with a logic bomb to evade detection.

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Which of the following encryption methods does PKI typically use to securely project keys?

Elliptic curve
Digital signatures
Asymmetric
Obfuscation

A

Asymmetric

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An organization needs to implement a large PKI. Network engineers are concerned that repeated transmission
of the OCSP will impact network performance. Which of the following should the security analyst recommend
is lieu of an OCSP?

CSR
CRL
CA
OID

A

CRL

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A systems administrator is attempting to recover from a catastrophic failure in the datacenter. To recover the
domain controller, the systems administrator needs to provide the domain administrator credentials. Which of
the following account types is the systems administrator using?

Shared account
Guest account
Service account
User account

A

Service account

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16
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When identifying a company’s most valuable assets as part of a BIA, which of the following should be the
FIRST priority?

Life
Intellectual property
Sensitive data
Public reputation

A

Life

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A security analyst is reviewing the following output from an IPS:
Given this output, which of the following can be concluded? (Select two.)
The source IP of the attack is coming from 250.19.18.22.
The source IP of the attack is coming from 250.19.18.71.
The attacker sent a malformed IGAP packet, triggering the alert.
The attacker sent a malformed TCP packet, triggering the alert.
The TTL value is outside of the expected range, triggering the alert.

A

The source IP of the attack is coming from 250.19.18.71

and

The attacker sent a malformed IGAP packet, triggering the alert.

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Joe, an employee, wants to show his colleagues how much he knows about smartphones. Joe demonstrates a
free movie application that he installed from a third party on his corporate smartphone. Joe’s colleagues were
unable to find the application in the app stores. Which of the following allowed Joe to install the application?
(Select two.)

Near-field communication
Rooting/jailbreaking
Ad-hoc connections
Tethering
Sideloading
A

Rooting/jailbreaking and Sideloading

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Two users need to send each other emails over unsecured channels. The system should support the principle of
non-repudiation. Which of the following should be used to sign the user’s certificates?

RA
CA
CRL
CSR

A

CA

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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.)
PAP
PEAP
MSCHAP
PEAP- MSCHAP
EAP
EAP-PEAP

A

PAP and MSCHAP

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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?

Transferring the risk
Accepting the risk
Avoiding the risk
Migrating the risk

A

Transferring the risk

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22
Q

Which of the following attack types BEST describes a client-side attack that is used to manipulate an HTML
iframe with JavaScript code via a web browser?
Buffer overflow
MITM
XSS
SQLi

A

XSS

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A system administrator wants to provide for and enforce wireless access accountability during events where
external speakers are invited to make presentations to a mixed audience of employees and non-employees.

Which of the following should the administrator implement?
Shared accounts
Preshared passwords
Least privilege
Sponsored guest
A

Sponsored Guest

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Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?

Brute force
Dictionary
Rainbow tables
Birthday

A

Rainbow tables

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Q

An organization’s file server has been virtualized to reduce costs. Which of the following types of backups
would be MOST appropriate for the particular file server?
Snapshot
Full
Incremental
Differential

A

Incremental

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A wireless network uses a RADIUS server that is connected to an authenticator, which in turn connects to a
supplicant. Which of the following represents the authentication architecture in use?

Open systems authentication
Captive portal
RADIUS federation
802.1x

A

802.1x

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A manager wants to distribute a report to several other managers within the company. Some of them reside in
remote locations that are not connected to the domain but have a local server. Because there is sensitive data
within the report and the size of the report is beyond the limit of the email attachment size, emailing the report
is not an option. Which of the following protocols should be implemented to distribute the report securely?
(Select three.)
S/MIME
SSH
SNMPv3
FTPS
SRTP
HTTPS
LDAPS

A

SSH, FTPS, and HTTPS

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An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime. Which of the
following has been specified?
RTO
RPO
MTBF
MTTR
A

RTO (Recovery Time Objective)

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Q

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?

SoC
ICS
IoT
MFD

A

IoT (internet of things)

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A company’s user lockout policy is enabled after five unsuccessful login attempts. The help desk notices a
user is repeatedly locked out over the course of a workweek. Upon contacting the user, the help desk discovers
the user is on vacation and does not have network access. Which of the following types of attacks are MOST
likely occurring? (Select two.)

Replay
Rainbow tables
Brute force
Pass the hash
Dictionary
A

Brute Force and Dictionary

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When connected to a secure WAP, which of the following encryption technologies is MOST likely to be
configured when connecting to WPA2-PSK?
DES
AES
MD5
WEP
A

AES

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32
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An organization finds that most help desk calls are regarding account lockout due to a variety of applications
running on different systems. Management is looking for a solution to reduce the number of account lockouts
while improving security. Which of the following is the BEST solution for this organization?
Create multiple application accounts for each user.
Provide secure tokens.
Implement SSO.
Utilize role-based access control.

A

Implement SSO (Single-sign on)

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33
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An administrator is replacing a wireless router. The configuration of the old wireless router was not
documented before it stopped functioning. The equipment connecting to the wireless network uses older
legacy equipment that was manufactured prior to the release of the 802.11i standard. Which of the following
configuration options should the administrator select for the new wireless router?
WPA+CCMP
WPA2+CCMP
WPA+TKIP
WPA2+TKIP

A

WPA2-TKIP

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An attacker compromises a public CA and issues unauthorized X.509 certificates for Company.com. In the
future, Company.com wants to mitigate the impact of similar incidents. Which of the following would assist
Company.com with its goal?

Certificate pinning
Certificate stapling
Certificate chaining
Certificate with extended validation

A

Certificate pinning

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35
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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?

Eradication
Containment
Recovery
Lessons learned

A

Recovery

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36
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Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?

The scan job is scheduled to run during off-peak hours.
The scan output lists SQL injection attack vectors.
The scan data identifies the use of privileged-user credentials.
The scan results identify the hostname and IP address.

A

The scan results identify the hostname and IP address

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37
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When trying to log onto a company’s new ticketing system, some employees receive the following message:
Access denied: too many concurrent sessions. The ticketing system was recently installed on a small VM with
only the recommended hardware specifications. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error
message?

Network resources have been exceeded.
The software is out of licenses.
The VM does not have enough processing power.
The firewall is misconfigured.

A

The VM does not have enough processing power

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38
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Ann, a security administrator, has been instructed to perform fuzz-based testing on the company’s applications.
Which of the following best describes what she will do?

Enter random or invalid data into the application in an attempt to cause it to fault
Work with the developers to eliminate horizontal privilege escalation opportunities
Test the applications for the existence of built-in- back doors left by the developers
Hash the application to verify it won’t cause a false positive on the HIPS

A

Enter random or invalid data into the application in an attempt to cause it to fault

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39
Q

A high-security defense installation recently begun utilizing large guard dogs that bark very loudly and
excitedly at the slightest provocation. Which of the following types of controls does this BEST describe?

Deterrent
Preventive
Detective
Compensating

A

Deterrent

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40
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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?
BYOD
VDI
COPE
CYOD

A

CYOD (Choose your own device)

41
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A security analyst is hardening a web server, which should allow a secure certificate-based session using the organization’s PKI infrastructure. The web server should also utilize the latest security techniques and
standards. Given this set of requirements, which of the following techniques should the analyst implement to
BEST meet these requirements? (Select two.)

Install an X- 509-compliant certificate.
Implement a CRL using an authorized CA.
Enable and configure TLS on the server.
Install a certificate signed by a public CA.
Configure the web server to use a host header.

A

Install an X-509-compliant certificate

and

Enable and configure TLS on the server.

42
Q

A network administrator at a small office wants to simplify the configuration of mobile clients connecting to
an encrypted wireless network. Which of the following should be implemented in the administrator does not
want to provide the wireless password or he certificate to the employees?

WPS
802.1x
WPA2-PSK
TKIP

A

WPS

43
Q 
Which of the following vulnerabilities would occur if this is executed?
Page exception
Pointer deference
NullPointerException
Missing null check
A

Missing null check

44
Q

An organization wishes to provide better security for its name resolution services. Which of the following
technologies BEST supports the deployment of DNSSEC at the organization?
LDAP
TPM
TLS
SSL
PKI

A

PKI

45
Q

An organization is using a tool to perform a source code review. Which of the following describes the case in
which the tool incorrectly identifies the vulnerability?

False negative
True negative
False positive
True positive

A

False positive

46
Q 
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?
Competitor
Hacktivist
Insider
Organized crime
A

Competitor

47
Q

Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a server’s
certificate?

CA public key
Server private key
CSR
OID

A

OID (object identifier)

48
Q

Which of the following implements two-factor authentication?
A phone system requiring a PIN to make a call
At ATM requiring a credit card and PIN
A computer requiring username and password
A datacenter mantrap requiring fingerprint and iris scan

A

At ATM requiring a credit card and PIN

49
Q

A database backup schedule consists of weekly full backups performed on Saturday at 12:00 a.m. and daily
differential backups also performed at 12:00 a.m. If the database is restored on Tuesday afternoon, which of
the following is the number of individual backups that would need to be applied to complete the database
recovery?
1
2
3
4

A

2

50
Q 
When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:
system sprawl
end-of-life systems
resource exhaustion
a default configuration
A

End of life systems

51
Q

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?
PFX
PEM
DER
CER

A

PEM (privacy-enhanced mail)

52
Q

An application team is performing a load-balancing test for a critical application during off-hours and has
requested access to the load balancer to review which servers are up without having the administrator on call.
The security analyst is hesitant to give the application team full access due to other critical applications
running on the load balancer. Which of the following is the BEST solution for security analyst to process the
request?

Give the application team administrator access during off-hours.
Disable other critical applications before granting the team access.
Give the application team read-only access.
Share the account with the application team.

A

Give the application team read-only access

53
Q

Adhering to a layered security approach, a controlled access facility employs security guards who verify the
authorization of all personnel entering the facility. Which of the following terms BEST describes the security
control being employed?

Administrative
Corrective
Deterrent
Compensating

A

Deterrent

54
Q

A senior incident response manager receives a call about some external IPs communicating with internal
computers during off hours. Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely causing this issue?

Botnet
Ransomware
Polymorphic malware
Armored virus

A

Botnet

55
Q

Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?

Sustainability
Homogeneity
Resiliency
Configurability

A

Resiliency

56
Q

Users report the following message appears when browsing to the company’s secure site: This website cannot
be trusted. Which of the following actions should a security analyst take to resolve these messages? (Select
two.)
Verify the certificate has not expired on the server.
Ensure the certificate has a .pfx extension on the server.
Update the root certificate into the client computer certificate store.
Install the updated private key on the web server.
Have users clear their browsing history and relaunch the session.

A

Verify the certificate has not expired on the server.

Update the root certificate into the client computer certificate store.

57
Q

A company hires a consulting firm to crawl its Active Directory network with a non-domain account looking
for unpatched systems. Actively taking control of systems is out of scope, as is the creation of new
administrator accounts. For which of the following is the company hiring the consulting firm?

Vulnerability scanning
Penetration testing
Application fuzzing
User permission auditing

A

Vulnerability scanning

58
Q 
Which of the following types of keys is found in a key escrow?
Public
Private
Shared
Session
A

Private

59
Q

A user has attempted to access data at a higher classification level than the user’s account is currently
authorized to access. Which of the following access control models has been applied to this user’s account?
MAC
DAC
RBAC
ABAC

A

MAC

60
Q

Which of the following occurs when the security of a web application relies on JavaScript for input validation?

The integrity of the data is at risk.
The security of the application relies on antivirus.
A host-based firewall is required.
The application is vulnerable to race conditions.

A

The integrity of the data is at risk

61
Q

A security analyst is hardening an authentication server. One of the primary requirements is to ensure there is
mutual authentication and delegation. Given these requirements, which of the following technologies should
the analyst recommend and configure?

LDAP services
Kerberos services
NTLM services
CHAP services

A

Kerberos services

62
Q

After a user reports stow computer performance, a systems administrator detects a suspicious file, which was
installed as part of a freeware software package.
The systems administrator reviews the output below:

Based on the above information, which of the following types of malware was installed on the user’s
computer?

RAT
Keylogger
Spyware
Worm
Bot
A

RAT (remote access trojan)

63
Q

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?

Shibboleth
RADIUS federation
SAML
OAuth
OpenID connect
A

RADIUS federation

64
Q 
Which of the following attacks specifically impact data availability?
DDoS
Trojan
MITM
Rootkit
A

DDoS

65
Q 
An organization’s internal auditor discovers that large sums of money have recently been paid to a vendor that
management does not recognize. The IT security department is asked to investigate the organizations the
organization’s ERP system to determine how the accounts payable module has been used to make these
vendor payments.
The IT security department finds the following security configuration for the accounts payable module:
New Vendor Entry – Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk
New Vendor Approval – Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk
Vendor Payment Entry – Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk
Vendor Payment Approval – Required Role: Accounts Payable Manager
Which of the following changes to the security configuration of the accounts payable module would BEST
mitigate the risk?

Option A
Option B
Option C
Option D

A

Option A

New Vendor Entry – Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk
New Vendor Approval – Required Role: Accounts Payable Manager
Vendor Payment Entry – Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk
Vendor Payment Approval – Required Role: Accounts Payable Manager

66
Q

A user clicked an email link that led to a website than infected the workstation with a virus. The virus
encrypted all the network shares to which the user had access. The virus was not deleted or blocked by the
company’s email filter, website filter, or antivirus. Which of the following describes what occurred?

The user’s account was over-privileged.
Improper error handling triggered a false negative in all three controls.
The email originated from a private email server with no malware protection.
The virus was a zero-day attack.

A

The virus was a zero-day attack

67
Q 
Which of the following technologies employ the use of SAML? (Select two.)
Single sign-on
Federation
LDAP
Secure token
RADIUS
A

Single sign-on

Federation

68
Q

A security analyst observes the following events in the logs of an employee workstation:
Given the information provided, which of the following MOST likely occurred on the workstation?

Application whitelisting controls blocked an exploit payload from executing.
Antivirus software found and quarantined three malware files.
Automatic updates were initiated but failed because they had not been approved
The SIEM log agent was not tuned properly and reported a false positive.

A

Application whitelisting controls blocked an exploit payload from executing

69
Q

An incident responder receives a call from a user who reports a computer is exhibiting symptoms consistent
with a malware infection. Which of the following steps should the responder perform NEXT?
Capture and document necessary information to assist in the response.
Request the user capture and provide a screenshot or recording of the symptoms.
Use a remote desktop client to collect and analyze the malware in real time.
Ask the user to back up files for later recovery.

A

Capture and document necessary information t o assist in the response

70
Q

Which of the following best describes routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed
from a string?

Error handling to protect against program exploitation
Exception handling to protect against XSRF attacks.
Input validation to protect against SQL injection.
Padding to protect against string buffer overflows.

A

Input validation to protect against SQL injection

71
Q

An auditor wants to test the security posture of an organization by running a tool that will display the
following:

JIMS <00> Unique Registered
WORKGROUP <00> Group Registered
JIMS <00> Unique Registered

Which of the following commands should be used?
nbtstat
nc
arp
ipconfig
A

nbstat

72
Q

Ann. An employee in the payroll department, has contacted the help desk citing multiple issues with her
device, including:
Slow performance
Word documents, PDFs, and images no longer opening
A pop-up
Ann states the issues began after she opened an invoice that a vendor emailed to her. Upon opening the
invoice, she had to click several security warnings to view it in her word processor. With which of the
following is the device MOST likely infected?

Spyware
Crypto-malware
Rootkit
Backdoor

A

Backdoor

73
Q

When considering a third-party cloud service provider, which of the following criteria would be the BEST to
include in the security assessment process? (Select two.)
Use of performance analytics
Adherence to regulatory compliance
Data retention policies
Size of the corporation
Breadth of applications support

A

Adherence to regulatory compliance

Data retention policies

74
Q

Which of the following characteristics differentiate a rainbow table attack from a brute force attack? (Select
two.)
Rainbow table attacks greatly reduce compute cycles at attack time.
Rainbow tables must include precomputed hashes.
Rainbow table attacks do not require access to hashed passwords.
Rainbow table attacks must be performed on the network.
Rainbow table attacks bypass maximum failed login restrictions.

A

Rainbow tables must include precomputed hashes.

Rainbow table attacks bypass maximum failed login restrictions.

75
Q

An analyst wants to implement a more secure wireless authentication for office access points. Which of the
following technologies allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS?
PEAP
EAP
WPA2
RADIUS

A

PEAP (protected extensible authentication protocol)

76
Q

An information security specialist is reviewing the following output from a Linux server.

user@server: ~$ crontab -1
5**** /usr/local/bin/backup.sh
user@server: ~$ cat /usr/local/bin/backup.sh
#!/bin/bash
if ! grep - - quiet joeuser/etc/passwd
then rm-rf/
fi
Based on the above information, which of the following types of malware was installed on the server?
Logic bomb
Trojan
Backdoor
Ransomware
Rootkit
A

Logic Bomb

77
Q

As part of a new industry regulation, companies are required to utilize secure, standardized OS settings. A
technical must ensure the OS settings are hardened. Which of the following is the BEST way to do this?

Use a vulnerability scanner.
Use a configuration compliance scanner.
Use a passive, in-line scanner.
Use a protocol analyzer.

A

User a configuration compliance scanner

78
Q

As part of a new industry regulation, companies are required to utilize secure, standardized OS settings. A
technical must ensure the OS settings are hardened. Which of the following is the BEST way to do this?

Use a vulnerability scanner.
Use a configuration compliance scanner.
Use a passive, in-line scanner.
Use a protocol analyzer.

A

Use a configuration compliance scanner

79
Q

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?
Private
Hybrid
Public
Community

A

Community

80
Q 
Which of the following can be provided to an AAA system for the identification phase?
Username
Permissions
One-time token
Private certificate
A

Username

81
Q

A security administrator is developing controls for creating audit trails and tracking if a PHI data breach is to
occur. The administrator has been given the following requirements:
All access must be correlated to a user account.
All user accounts must be assigned to a single individual.User access to the PHI data must be recorded.
Anomalies in PHI data access must be reported.
Logs and records cannot be deleted or modified.
Which of the following should the administrator implement to meet the above requirements? (Select three.)
Eliminate shared accounts.
Create a standard naming convention for accounts.
Implement usage auditing and review.
Enable account lockout thresholds.
Copy logs in real time to a secured WORM drive.
Implement time-of-day restrictions.
Perform regular permission audits and reviews.

A

Eliminate Shared Accounts
Implement usage auditing and review.
Perform regular permission audits and reviews.

82
Q

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?
Elasticity
Scalability
High availability
Redundancy

A

Elasticity

83
Q

See page 45 in PDF

A 
Spear Fishing
Hoax
Vishing
Phishing
Pharming
84
Q

A system administrator wants to provide balance between the security of a wireless network and usability. The
administrator is concerned with wireless encryption compatibility of older devices used by some employees.
Which of the following would provide strong security and backward compatibility when accessing the
wireless network?
Open wireless network and SSL VPN
WPA using a preshared key
WPA2 using a RADIUS back-end for 802.1x authentication
WEP with a 40-bit key

A

WPA2 using a RADIUS back-end for 802.1x authentication

85
Q 
An analyst is reviewing a simple program for potential security vulnerabilities before being deployed to a
Windows server. Given the following code:
void foo (char *bar)
{
  char random_user_input [12];
   strcpy (random_user_input, bar);
}
Which of the following vulnerabilities is present?
Bad memory pointer
Buffer overflow
Integer overflow
Backdoor
A

Buffer overflow

86
Q

A department head at a university resigned on the first day of the spring semester. It was subsequently
determined that the department head deleted numerous files and directories from the server-based home
directory while the campus was closed. Which of the following policies or procedures could have prevented
this from occurring?
Time-of-day restrictions
Permission auditing and review
Offboarding
Account expiration

A

Offboarding

87
Q

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.)
Password expiration
Password length
Password complexity
Password history
Password lockout

A

Password complexity

Password history

88
Q 
Which of the following security controls does an iris scanner provide?
Logical
Administrative
Corrective
Physical
Detective
Deterrent
A

Physical

89
Q

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?
Require the SFTP protocol to connect to the file server.
Use implicit TLS on the FTP server.
Use explicit FTPS for connections.
Use SSH tunneling to encrypt the FTP traffic.

A

Use explicit FTPS for connections

90
Q 
Which of the following specifically describes the exploitation of an interactive process to access otherwise
restricted areas of the OS?
Privilege escalation
Pivoting
Process affinity
Buffer overflow
A

Privilege escalation

91
Q

Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for
their customers to download over the Internet?

The recipient can verify integrity of the software patch.
The recipient can verify the authenticity of the site used to download the patch.
The recipient can request future updates to the software using the published MD5 value.
The recipient can successfully activate the new software patch.

A

The recipient can verify integrity of the software patch

92
Q

An auditor is reviewing the following output from a password-cracking tool:

user1: Password1
user2: Recovery!
user3: Alaskan10
user4: 4Private
user5: PerForMance2

Which of the following methods did the auditor MOST likely use?
Hybrid
Dictionary
Brute Force
Rainbow Table
A

Hybrid

93
Q

When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on
memory volatility? (Select two.)

USB-attached hard disk
Swap/pagefile
Mounted network storage
ROM
RAM
A

Swap/pagefile

RAM

94
Q

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?
tracert
netstat
ping
nslookup

A

Netstat

95
Q

A company has three divisions, each with its own networks and services. The company decides to make its secure web portal accessible to all employees utilizing their existing usernames and passwords. The security administrator has elected to use SAML to support authentication. In this scenario, which of the following will occur when users try to authenticate to the portal? (Select two.)

The portal will function as a service provider and request an authentication assertion.
The portal will function as an identity provider and issue an authentication assertion.
The portal will request an authentication ticket from each network that is transitively trusted.
The back-end networks will function as an identity provider and issue an authentication assertion.
The back-end networks will request authentication tickets from the portal, which will act as the
third-party service provider authentication store.
The back-end networks will verify the assertion token issued by the portal functioning as the identity
provider.

A

The portal will function as a service provider and request an authentication assertion.

The portal will function as an identity provider and issue an authentication assertion.

96
Q

A security consultant discovers that an organization is using the PCL protocol to print documents, utilizing the
default driver and print settings. Which of the following is the MOST likely risk in this situation?

An attacker can access and change the printer configuration.
SNMP data leaving the printer will not be properly encrypted.
An MITM attack can reveal sensitive information.
An attacker can easily inject malicious code into the printer firmware.
Attackers can use the PCL protocol to bypass the firewall of client computers.

A

SNMP Data leaving the printer will not be properly encrypted.

97
Q

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.)

Generate an X.509-compliant certificate that is signed by a trusted CA.
Install and configure an SSH tunnel on the LDAP server.
Ensure port 389 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.
Ensure port 636 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.
Remote the LDAP directory service role from the server

A

Generate an X.509-compliant certificate that is signed by a trusted CA.

Remote the LDAP directory service role from the server.

98
Q

A company has a data classification system with definitions for “Private” and “Public”. The company’s
security policy outlines how data should be protected based on type. The company recently added the data
type “Proprietary”.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the company added this data type?
Reduced cost
More searchable data
Better data classification
Expanded authority of the privacy officer

A

Better data classification

99
Q 
Which of the following would MOST likely appear in an uncredentialed vulnerability scan?
Self-signed certificates
Missing patches
Auditing parameters
Inactive local accounts
A

Inactive local accounts

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