Practice Test 1-1

Question 1 of 200

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During an IT meeting, your colleague Anne-Marie suggests that there is a single point of failure in the single load balancer in place for the company website ordering system. She suggests having two load balancers configured, with only one in service at a given time. What type of load balancing configuration is Anne-Marie recommending?

Select one of the following:

Round robin
Active-active
Active-passive
Least Connections

Explanation

Question 2 of 200

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You are a business networking consultant and have a large retail outlet as a client. Your project for them consists of configuring a wireless router at their coffee shop area. The wireless connection will be used by waiting customers to connect to the Internet. You want to ensure that wireless clients can connect to the Internet but cannot connect to internal computers owned by the retail outlet’s offices. Where will you plug in the wireless router?

Select one of the following:

LAN
Port 24 on the switch
Port 1 on the switch
DMZ

Explanation

Question 3 of 200

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The Microsoft Group Policy setting for password complexity is “Password must meet complexity requirements.” The policy states that when the setting is enabled, the user password must contain:

English uppercase characters (A through Z),

English lowercase characters (a through z),

Digits (0 through 9), and

Non-alphabetic characters (!, $, #, %).

According to the policy, passwords must contain characters from how many of these different groups?

Select one of the following:

Four
Three
Two
One

Explanation

Question 4 of 200

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You are an IT consultant for a business located in a coastal area that is susceptible to storms and occasional flooding. Because of your company’s location, there is an emphasis on continued business operation. Which of the following plans focus on ensuring that personnel, customers, and IT systems are minimally affected after a disaster?

Select one of the following:

Risk Management
Fault Tolerance
Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity

Explanation

Question 5 of 200

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You are a computer security consultant, and your latest client is a military contractor who requires the utmost in security for transmitting messages during wartime. Which of the following provides the best security?

Select one of the following:

AES
3DES
One-time Pad
RSA

Explanation

Question 6 of 200

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Which of the following types of malware delivery, usually through a Trojan, includes demands for payment?

Select one of the following:

Backdoors
Ransomware
Botnets
Logic Bombs

Explanation

Question 7 of 200

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Review the malware related compromises listed. Which type of malware can make its presence and that of its accompanying payload invisible to the system?

Select one of the following:

Crypto-malware
Worm
Rootkit
Ransomware

Explanation

Question 8 of 200

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The act of pretending to be the proper owner of an address or the provider of a service, when another system is actually the true provider, is referred to as ___________.

Select one of the following:

Man in the Middle (MitM)
Spoofing
Denial of Service (DoS)
Zombie Attack

Explanation

Question 9 of 200

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Which type of network penetration attack model requires an attacker to have the highest skill level?

Select one of the following:

Black box
Gray box
White box
Yellow box

Explanation

Question 10 of 200

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Which one of the listed tools scans for known security threats on groups of computers?

Select one of the following:

Packet sniffer
Vulnerability Scanner
Risk scanner
Port Scanner

Explanation

Question 11 of 200

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The IPsec protocol suite uses all but one of the choices listed below. Which of these is NOT relevant to IPsec?

Select one of the following:

Tunnel mode
TLS
ESP
AH
Transport mode

Explanation

Question 12 of 200

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You have a multilayer switch. Which layers does it operate at?

Select one of the following:

1 and 2
2 and 3
3 and 4
5 and 6

Explanation

Question 13 of 200

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Which choice listed below describes the deployment of a network device in order to conduct academic research or detect attackers inside the organization’s network perimeter?

Select one of the following:

DMZ
Honeypot
IDS
SIRT

Explanation

Question 14 of 200

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A service on a local server cannot communicate with its database server running on another machine. The database server is functioning correctly and all network connections are working properly. What is most likely causing this issue?

Select one of the following:

Insider threat
Unauthorized software
UTM
Misconfigured firewall

Explanation

Question 15 of 200

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The host-based intrusion detection system can be referred to as which of the following?

Select one of the following:

NDIS
HDIS
HIDS
NIDS

Explanation

Question 16 of 200

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A simple way to keep virus, spyware and other malware from attacking your network while allowing BYOD is to use which of the following?

Select one of the following:

Application control
Asset tracking
Guest network
Device access controls

Explanation

Question 17 of 200

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Which of the following methods would generally speaking be the most basic method to mitigate security risks on a network?

Select one of the following:

Updates
Network segmentation and security layers
Application firewalls
Wrappers

Explanation

Question 18 of 200

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Which of the following BYOD security measures would allow separation between work and personal data?

Select one of the following:

Device encryption
Remote wipe
Application control
Storage segmentation

Explanation

Question 19 of 200

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UEFI is a new technology that is starting to replace the system BIOS and has several additional features. Which of these best identifies the security standard used along with UEFI to confirm that only trusted software and firmware is used to access a trusted operating system?

Select one of the following:

HSM
Secure Boot checking each digital certificate
Attestation
Hardware root of trust

Explanation

Question 20 of 200

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Deploying least functionality along with disabling unnecessary ports and services are two methods of ________________. (Choose the best answer.)

Select one of the following:

Attestation
HSM
Software trust
Secure system design

Explanation

Question 21 of 200

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The three step process of authentication, authorization, and accounting, is usually referred to as which of the following choices below?

Select one of the following:

Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
Ticket-granting
The AAA model
Nonrepudiation

Explanation

Question 22 of 200

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Which term describes the automatic creation of a two-way relationship between child and parent domains in a Microsoft AD forest?

Select one of the following:

OAuth
Open ID Connect
Transitive Trust
Shibboleth

Explanation

Question 23 of 200

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Multifactor authentication uses at least two of three possible authentication methods to identify a user. Which of the following is not one of the generally accepted methods?

Select one of the following:

Passwords
Biometrics
Digital Signatures
Tokens

Explanation

Question 24 of 200

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Also known as LDAPS, which protocol enabled connection allows authentication to the Microsoft DC and provides additional services?

Select one of the following:

LDAP +
XTACACS
Secure LDAP
LDAP

Explanation

Question 25 of 200

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Choose the biometric authentication method that uses nodal points to identify the user.

Select one of the following:

Iris scanner
Retinal scanner
Facial Recognition
All choices

Explanation

Question 26 of 200

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Your company’s standard operating procedure for onboarding includes an agreement targeted at minimizing the security risks involving transmitted data. What is the name of this agreement?

Select one of the following:

MOU
ISA
BPA
SLA
NDA

Explanation

Question 27 of 200

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Which personnel management policy involves securing all sensitive data regardless of format (paper or digital) when an employee’s workspace will be unattended?

Select one of the following:

Job rotation
Mandatory vacations
Separation of duties
None of these

Explanation

Question 28 of 200

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Which risk strategy is in use if a company is NOT implementing a countermeasure to a risk while realizing the potential risk?

Select one of the following:

Risk acceptance
Risk assessment
Risk transference
Risk mitigation

Explanation

Question 29 of 200

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What is considered an acceptable level of risk?

Select one of the following:

There is an industry standard risk level (RFC 1027-59b).
Generally there are three (3) standard risk level designations. Tier 1 has the best balance of security and accessibility.
The acceptable risk level is determined by each organization individually.
No level of risk is acceptable.

Explanation

Question 30 of 200

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Which of the following is an internal threat?

Select one of the following:

System failure
Flood
Fire
Burglar

Explanation

Question 31 of 200

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In a corporation where computer 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?

Select one of the following:

Elasticity
Scalability
High availability
Redundancy

Explanation

Question 32 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

PEAP
EAP
WPA2
RADIUS

Explanation

Question 33 of 200

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A security technician would like to obscure sensitive data within a file so that it can be transferred without causing suspicion. Which of the following technologies would BEST be suited to accomplish this?

Select one of the following:

Transport Encryption
Steam Encryption
Digital Signature
Steganography

Explanation

Question 34 of 200

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Which of the following attack types is being carried out where a target is being sent unsolicited messages via Bluetooth?

Select one of the following:

War chalking
Bluejacking
Bluesnarfing
Rogue tethering

Explanation

Question 35 of 200

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Joe is exchanging an encrypted email with another party. Joe encrypts the initial email with a key. When Joe receives a response, he is unable to decrypt the response with the same key he initially used. Which of the following would explain this situation?

Select one of the following:

An ephemeral key was used for one of the messages
A stream cipher was used for the initial email; a block cipher was used for the reply
Out-of- band key exchange has taken place
Asymmetric encryption is being used.

Explanation

Question 36 of 200

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Which of the following would verify that a threat does exist and security controls can be easily bypassed without actively testing an application?

Select one of the following:

Protocol analyzer
Vulnerability scan
Penetration test
Port scanner

Explanation

Question 37 of 200

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Which of the following technologies would be MOST appropriate to utilize when testing a new software patch before a company-wide deployment?

Select one of the following:

Clout computing
Virtualization
Redundancy
Application control

Explanation

Question 38 of 200

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A company wants to host a publicly available server that perfoms the following functions:

-Evaluates maintenance record lookup
-Performs authenticated requests for A and AAA records
-Uses RRSIG

Which of the following should the company use to fulfill the above requirements?

Select one of the following:

DNSSEC
SFTP
nslookup
dig
LDAPS

Explanation

Question 39 of 200

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The chief security officer (CSO) has issued a new policy that requires that all internal websites be configured for HTTPS traffic only. The network administrator has been tasked to update all internal sites without incurring additional costs. Which of the following is the best solution for the network administrator to secure each internal website?

Select one of the following:

Use certificates signed by the company CA
Use a signing certificate as a wild card certificate
Use certificates signed by a public CA
Use a self-signed certificate on each internal server

Explanation

Question 40 of 200

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Security administrators attempted corrective action after a phishing attack. Users are still experiencing trouble logging in, as well as an increase in account lockouts. Users' email contacts complaining of an increase in spam and social networking requests. Due to the large number of affected accounts, remdiation must be accomplished quickly. Which of the following actions should be taken first?

(Select two answers)

Select one or more of the following:

Disable the compromised accounts
Update WAF rules to block social networks
Remove the compromised accounts with all AD groups
Change the compromised accounts' passwords
Disable the open relay on the email server
Enable sender policy framework

Explanation

Question 41 of 200

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To determine the annualized loss expectancy (ALE) of a particular risk, which of the following must be calculated? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

Annualized Rate of Occurence (ARO
Return on Investment (RIO)
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Single Loss Expectancy (SLE)
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Explanation

Question 42 of 200

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A vice president at a manufacturing organization is concerned about desktops being connected to the network. Employees need to log onto the desktops' local account to verify that a product is being created within specifications; otherwise, the desktops should be as isolated as possible. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this?

Select one of the following:

Put the desktops in the DMZ
Create a separate VLAN for the desktops
Air gap the desktops
Join the desktops to an ad-hoc network

Explanation

Question 43 of 200

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After attempting to harden a web server, a security analyst needs to determine if an application remains vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Which of the following would BEST assist the analyst in making this determination?

Select one of the following:

tracert
Fuzzer
nslookup
Nmap
netcat

Explanation

Question 44 of 200

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A technician receives a device with the following anomalies:

-Frequent pop-up ads
-Show response-time switching between active programs
-Unresponsive peripherals

The technician reviews the following log file entries:

File Name Source MD5
Target MD5
Status
antivirus.exe F794F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2
F794F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2
Automatic
iexplore.exe 7FAAF21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF29CCEA
AA87F21CD33E4F57890DDEAEE2197333
Automatic
service.exe 77FF390CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28881F
77FF390CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28881F
Manual
USB.exe E289F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28EDC0
E289F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28EDC0
Stopped

Based on the above output, which of the following should be reviewed?

Select one of the following:

The web application firewall
The file integrity check
The data execution prevention
The removable media control

Explanation

Question 45 of 200

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An active/passive configuration has an impact on:

Select one of the following:

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Non-repudiation

Explanation

Question 46 of 200

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Company A has acquired Company B. Company A has different domains spread globally, and typically migrates its acquisitions infrastructure under its own domain infrastructure. Company B, however, cannot be merged into Company A's domain infrastructure. Which of the following methods would allow the two companies to access one another's resources?

Select one of the following:

Attestation
Federation
Single Sign-on (SSO)
Kerberos

Explanation

Question 47 of 200

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A procedure differs from a policy in that it:

Select one of the following:

is a high-level statement regarding the company's position on a topic.
sets a minimum expected baseline of behavior.
provides step-by-step instructions for performing a task.
describes adverse actions when violations occur.

Explanation

Question 48 of 200

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A security auditor is testing perimeter security in a building that is protected by badge readers. Which of the following types of attacks would MOST likely gain access?

Select one of the following:

Phishing
Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)
Tailgaiting
Watering hole
Shoulder surfing

Explanation

Question 49 of 200

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

Select one of the following:

Elliptic curve
Digital signatures
Asymmetric
Obfuscation

Explanation

Question 50 of 200

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A department head at a university resigned on the first day of 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?

Select one of the following:

Time-of-day restrictions
Permissions auditing and review
Offboarding
Account expiration

Explanation

Question 51 of 200

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An organization wants to upgrade its enterprise-wide desktop computer solution. The organization currently has 500 PCs active on the network. the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) suggests that the organization employ desktop imaging technology for such a large scale upgrade. Which of the following is a security benefit of implementing an imaging solution?

Select one of the following:

it allows for faster deployment
it provides for a consistent baseline
it reduces the number of vulnerabilities
it decreases the boot time

Explanation

Question 52 of 200

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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?

Select one of the following:

Botnet
Ransomware
Polymorphic malware
Armored virus

Explanation

Question 53 of 200

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An organization has implemented an IPSec VPN access for remote users. Which of the following IPSec modes would be the MOST secure for this organization to implement?

Select one of the following:

Tunnel mode
Transport mode
AH-only mode (Authentication Header)
ESP-only mode (Encapsulated Security Payload)

Explanation

Question 54 of 200

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A security engineer is configuring a wireless network with EAP-TLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security). Which of the following activities is a requirement for this configuration?

Select one of the following:

Setting up a TACACS+ server
Configuring federation between authentication servers
Enabling TOTP (Time-based One-time Password)
Deploying certificates to endpoint devices

Explanation

Question 55 of 200

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Several workstations on a network are found to be on OS versions that are vulnerable to a specific attack. Which of the following is considered to be a corrective action to combat this vulnerability?

Select one of the following:

Install an antivirus patch
Educate the workstation users
Leverage server isolation
install a vendor-supplied patch
install an intrusion detection system (IDS)

Explanation

Question 56 of 200

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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 unauthorized user is logging into the home network, the user reviews the wireless router, which shows the following table for systems that are currently on the home network:

Hostname IP Address MAC MAC Filter
DadPC 192.168.1.15 00:1D:1A:44:17:B5 On
MomPC 192.168.1.15 21:13:D6:C5:42:A2 Off
JuniorPC 192.168.2.16 42:A7:D1:25:11:52 On
Unknown 192.168.1.18 10:B3:22:1A:FF:21 Off

Which of the following should be the NEXT step to determine if there is an unauthorized user on the network?

Select one of the following:

Apply MAC filtering and see if the router drops any of the systems
Physically check each of the authorized systems to determine if they are logged onto the network
Deny the "unknown" host because the hostname is not known and MAC filtering is not applied to this host
Conduct a ping sweep of each of the authorized systems and see if an echo response is received

Explanation

Question 57 of 200

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The POODLE attack is an MITM exploit that affects:

TLS - Transport Layer Security
SSL - Secure Sockers Layer

Select one of the following:

TLS1.0 with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode cipher
SSLv2.0 with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode cipher
SSLv3.0 with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode cipher
SSLv3.0 with Electronic Code Book (ECB) mode cipher

Explanation

Question 58 of 200

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Ann, a security administrator, wants to ensure credentials are encrypted in transit when implementing a RADIUS server for SSO. Which of the following are needed given these requirements? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

Public key
Shared key
Elliptic curve
Message Digest 5 (MD5)
Private key
Digital Encryption Standard (DES)

Explanation

Question 59 of 200

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Which of the following allows an auditor to test proprietary-software compiled code for security flaws?

Select one of the following:

Fuzzing
Static review
Code signing
Regression testing

Explanation

Question 60 of 200

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Which of the following is the BEST reason to run an untested application is a sandbox?

Select one of the following:

To allow the application to take full advantage of the host system's resources and storage
To utilize the host systems antivirus and firewall applications instead of running it own protection
To prevent the application from acquiring escalated privileges and accessing its host system
To increase application processing speed so the host system can perform real-time logging

Explanation

Question 61 of 200

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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 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)

Select one or more of the following:

S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
SSH (Secure Shell)
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol)
FTPS (FTP over SSL)
SRTP (Secure Real-Time Protocol)
HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL/TLS)
LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)

Explanation

Question 62 of 200

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A company is performing an analysis of the corporate enterprise network with the intent of identifying what will cause losses in revenue, referrals, and/or reputation when out of commission. Which of the following is an element of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) that is being addressed?

Select one of the following:

Mission-essential function
Single point of failure
Backup and restoration plans
Identification of critical systems

Explanation

Question 63 of 200

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Ann, a user, states that her machine has been behaving erratically over the past week. She has experienced slowness and input lag and found text files that appear to contain pieces of her emails or online conversations with coworkers. The technician runs a standard virus scan but detects nothing. Which of the following types of malware has infected the machine?

Select one of the following:

Ransomware
Rootkit
Backdoor
Keylogger

Explanation

Question 64 of 200

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A security analyst is attempting to identify vulnerabilities in a customer's web application without impacting the system or its data. Which of the following BEST describes the vulnerability scanning concept performed?

Select one of the following:

Aggressive scan
Passive scan
Non-credentialed scan
Compliance scan

Explanation

Question 65 of 200

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A systems administrator wants to implement a wireless protocol that will allow the organization to authenticate mobile devices prior to providing the user with a captive portal login. Which of the following should the systems administrator configure?

Select one of the following:

L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) with MAC filtering
EAP-TTLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security)
WPA2-CCMP (WiFi Protected Access 2-Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol) with PSK (Pre-shared Key)
RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server) Federation

Explanation

Question 66 of 200

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A user receives an email from ISP indicating malicious traffic coming from the user's home network is detected. The traffic appears to be Linux-based, and it is targeting a website that was recently featured on the news as being taken offline by an Internet attack. The only Linux device on the network is a home surveillance camera system. Which of the following BEST describes what is happening?

Select one of the following:

The camera system is infected with a bot.
The camera system is infected with a RAT.
The camera system is infected with a Trojan.
The camera system is infected with a backdoor.

Explanation

Question 67 of 200

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A company has developed a business critical system for its core automation process with a software vendor. Which of the following can provide access to the source code if the licencor declares bankruptcy?

Select one of the following:

Software escrow
Software code review
Software change control
Software configuration management

Explanation

Question 68 of 200

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An administrator is configuring a wireless network. Security policy states that deprecated cryptography should not be used when there is an alternative choice. Which of the following should the administrator use for the wireless network's cryptographic protocol?

Select one of the following:

MD5 (Message Digest 5)
RC4 (Rivest Cipher v4)
TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)
CCMP (Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol)
Diffie-Hellman

Explanation

Question 69 of 200

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A security analyst is securing a Proxy Auto Configuration (PACS). One of the requirements is network isolation with no access to the Internet or networked computers. Given this scenario, which of the following should the analyst implement to BEST address this requirement?

Select one of the following:

Set up a firewall rule blocking ports 80 and 443.
Set up an air-gapped environment.
Set up router and configure an ACL (Access Control List).
Set up a segmented VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network).

Explanation

Question 70 of 200

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Which of the following are the primary differences between an incremental and differential backup? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

Incremental backups take more time to complete.
Incremental backups take less time to complete.
Differential backups only back up files since the last full backup.
Differential backups use less disk space on the storage drive.
Incremental backups are less secure than differential backups.
Differential backups are faster than incremental backups.

Explanation

Question 71 of 200

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When developing an application, executing a preconfigured set of instructions is known as:

Select one of the following:

a code library.
code signing.
stored procedure.
infrastructure as code.

Explanation

Question 72 of 200

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A group of developers is collaborating to write software for a company. The developers need to work in subgroups and restrict access to their modules. Which of the following access control methods is considered user-centric?

Select one of the following:

Role-based
Mandatory
Rule-based
Discretionary

Explanation

Question 73 of 200

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Which of the following BEST implements control diversity to reduce the risks associated with the authentication of employees into company resources?

Select one of the following:

Enforcing the use of something you know and something you have for authentication
Requiring employees to sign the company's password and acceptable use policies
Implementing LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) authentication for some systems and RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server) authentication for others
Publishing a password policy and enforcing password requirements via a GPO (Group Policy Object)

Explanation

Question 74 of 200

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A security analyst is conducting a web application vulnerability scan against the company website. Which of the following is considered an intrusive scan?

Select one of the following:

Ping sweep
Time-delay port scanning
Service identification
Cipher suite order

Explanation

Question 75 of 200

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A company wishes to deploy a wireless network. Management insists that each individual user should have to authenticate with a unique username and password before being able to associate with the wireless access points. Which of the following wireless features would be the MOST appropriate to achieve this objective?

Select one of the following:

WPA2 PSK (WiFi Protected Access 2 Pre-shared Key)
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
802.11r
Captive portal
WPA Enterprise

Explanation

Question 76 of 200

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Joe, a senior systems administrator, must leave for a family emergency. While Joe is absent, another systems administrator discovers Joe stole confidential company information. Which of the following organizational procedures would have detected this breach sooner?

Select one of the following:

Background check
Separation of duties
Job rotation
Rules of behavior
Non-disclosure agreement

Explanation

Question 77 of 200

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Some of the legacy systems in an organization are running old versions of the Windows OS and others are running Linux OSs, while new systems are running the latest release of the Windows OS. The systems are not running any legacy custom applications. The organization's Chief Information Officer (CIO) wishes to unify all systems to reduce cost and enhance the security posture of the organization, without losing data or causing data leakage. Which of the following would be the BEST course of action to take?

Select one of the following:

Reconfigure all existing machines to have the latest release of Windows OS.
Restore all machines to default configurations.
Upgrade part of the legacy systems' infrastructure and perform OS updates.
Treat all legacy machines as end-of-life systems and replace them.

Explanation

Question 78 of 200

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Finance department employees are reporting slow network connectivity and SSL/TLS certificate errors when they access secure websites. A security administrator suspects a computer in the finance VLAN may have been compromised and is impersonating the router's IP address using an MITM attack. Which of the following commands should the security administrator use to verify this finding?

Select one of the following:

arp
route
tracert
nmap
nslookup

Explanation

Question 79 of 200

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The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of an organization has tasked the security analysis team with researching and developing a multifactor authentication alternative to the existing single-factor version. The team decides that multifactor, for this organization, will mean three separate and distinct authentication methods. Which of the following options BEST meets this requirement?

Select one of the following:

Retina scan, blood sample, token
Token, certificate, voice recognition
Fingerprint, token, challenge question
PIV, token, challenge question

Explanation

Question 80 of 200

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A security consultant is gathering information about the frequency of a security threat's impact to an organization. Which of the following should the consultant use to label the number of times an attack can be expected to impact the organization in a 365-day period?

Select one of the following:

ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence)
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
ALE (Annualized Loss Expectancy)
MTTR (Mean Time to Recover or Mean Time to Repair)
SLA (Service Level Agreement)

Explanation

Question 81 of 200

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A security specialist must confirm file backups match the original copy. Which of the following should the security specialist use to accomplish the objective?

Select one of the following:

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
3DES (Triple Digital Encryption Standard)
MD5 (Message Digest 5)
RSA (Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman)

Explanation

Question 82 of 200

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Which of the following BEST describes the impact of an unremediated session timeout vulnerability?

Select one of the following:

The credentials of a legitimate user could be intercepted and reused to log in when the legitimate user is offline.
An attacker has more time to attempt brute-force password cracking.
More than one user may be allowed to concurrently connect to the system, and an attacker can use one of those concurrent connections.
An attacker could use an existing session that has been initiated by a legitimate user.

Explanation

Question 83 of 200

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The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a university is concerned about potential transmission of usernames and passwords in cleartext when authenticating to a directory server. Which of the following would BEST mitigate the CISO's concerns?

Select one of the following:

SFTP (Secured File Transfer Protocol)
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol ver 3)
LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol using SSL/TLS encryption)
SMB (Server Message Block)

Explanation

Question 84 of 200

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A company has been experiencing many successful email phishing attacks, which have been resulting in the compromise of multiple employees' accounts when employees reply with their credentials. The security administrator has been notifying each user and resetting the account passwords when accounts become compromised. Regardless of this process, the same accounts continue to be compromised even when the users do not respond to the phishing attacks. Which of the following are MOST likely to prevent similar account compromises? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

Enforce password reuse limitations.
Enable password complexity.
Reset the account security questions.
Configure account lockout.
implement time-of-day restrictions.

Explanation

Question 85 of 200

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After an employee reported slow network speeds and application responsiveness, the help desk asked the company's security administrator to review the following firewall logs from the employee's computer:

2017-05-30 12:12:31 ALLOW TCP 192.168.1.236 192.168.1.1 30295 21
2017-05-30 12:12:32 ALLOW TCP 192.168.1.236 192.168.1.1 30296 22
2017-05-30 12:12:33 ALLOW TCP 192.168.1.236 192.168.1.1 30296 25
2017-05-30 12:12:33 ALLOW TCP 192.168.1.236 192.168.1.1 30297 80
2017-05-30 12:12:33 DROP TCP 84.176.55.103 192.168.1.236 10434 445

Which of the following can the security administrator infer and report to the help desk based on the above logs?

Select one of the following:

The employee's computer is being actively scanned.
The employee's computer is infected with a worm.
The employee's computer firewall should be enabled.
The computer's router is actively listening to unneeded services.

Explanation

Question 86 of 200

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A penetration tester uses an exploited network printer as a base of operations to expand access to various workstations. Which of the following BEST describes the tester's actions?

Select one of the following:

Pivoting
Passive reconnaissance
Active reconnaissance
Persistence

Explanation

Question 87 of 200

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A security engineer is making changes to a corporate network to facilitate the expansion of corporate connectivity to guest users. The security engineer is concerned with unauthorized users accessing sensitive systems that also require network connectivity. Given the engineer's requirements, which of the following is the BEST method of securing the sensitive systems?

Select one of the following:

Place the sensitive systems in an isolated VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network).
Place an air gap around the sensitive systems.
Virtualize the guest wireless infrastructure.
Place the guest WAPS (wireless access point) on a honeypot.

Explanation

Question 88 of 200

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A network technician must update the company's wireless configuration settings to comply with new requirements, which means the use of AES encryption. Which of the following settings would BEST ensure the requirements are met?

Select one of the following:

Configure CCMP (Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol).
Require TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol).
Implement WPA (WiFi Protected Access).
Implement 802.1x.

Explanation

Question 89 of 200

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After a significant amount of hiring, an organization would like to simplify the connection process to its wireless network for employees while ensuring maximum security. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to get rid of any shared network passwords and require employees to use their company credentials when connecting. Which of the following should be implemented to BEST meet this requirement?

Select one of the following:

PSK (Pre-shared Key)
802.1x
CCMP (Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol)
TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)

Explanation

Question 90 of 200

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An auditor confirms the risk associated with a Windows-specific vulnerability, which was discovered by the company's security tool, does not apply due to the server running a LInux OS. Which of the following does this BEST describe?

Select one of the following:

Inherent risk
Attack vector
False positive
Remediation

Explanation

Question 91 of 200

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An employee has been writing a secure shell around software used to secure executable files. The employee has conducted the appropriate self-test and is ready to move the software into the next environment. Within which of the following environments is the employee currently working?

Select one of the following:

Staging
Test
Development
Production

Explanation

Question 92 of 200

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A security administrator wants to prevent standard users from running software they downloaded or copied to the computer. The security administrator find the following permissions on the computer:

Folder Location Administrator Permissions Standard User Permissions
C:\ RW RW
C:\OperatingSystem\ RW R
C:\Programs\ RW R
C:\TEMP\ RW RW
C:\ShippingDATA RW RW
C:\Users\User1 R RW
C:\Users\Admin RW .

The administrator needs to create a policy that specifies from which folders a low-privilege user can run applications. Which of the following application whitelist configurations would BEST accomplish this task?

Select one of the following:

Allow: *
Block: C:\TEMP, C:\Shipping DATA, C:\Users\User1
Allow: C:\, C:\OperatingSystem, C:\Programs, C:\Users\User1
Block: C:\TEMP, C:\ShippingDATA, C:\Users\User1
Allow: C:\
Block: C:\TEMP, C:\ShippingDATA, C:\Users\User1
Allow: C:\OperatingSystem\, C: Programs
Block: *

Explanation

Question 93 of 200

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A network administrator is downloading the latest software for the organization's core switch. The downloads page allows users to view the checksum values for the available files. The network administrator is shows the following when viewing the checksum values for the TB_16.swi.file:

Checksum values for the downloaded file:

MD5 d50b2b04cfb168eec8
SHA1 6a49065705a43de83dfa9e94
SHA256 7123fb644fbabdda6a73f6e6bc833e2cf12

After downloading the file, the network administrator runs a command to show the following output:

Algorithm Hash Patch
SHA256 5fdbbfb644fbabdda000006e6bc833e2c968 C:\Users\bsmith\YB_16.swi
SHA256 64ccbfbaf4fb96dda6a7373e9bcf62e3c244 C:\Users\bsmith\AA_15.swi
SHA1 12fec6aabc9ce87fee654abc C:\Users\bsmith\KB_09.swi
MD5 5fdbbfb644fbadda6 C:\Users\bsmith\KA_01.swi

Which of the following can be determined from the above output?

Select one of the following:

The download file was only hashed with SHA-256.
The download file has been corrupted or tampered with.
The download file should not be used because it was not hashed with MD5.
The download file should not be used because its hash differs from the hash of AA_15.swi

Explanation

Question 94 of 200

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A security engineer at a manufacturing company is implementing a third-party cloud application. Rather than create users manually in the application, the engineer decides to use the SAML protocol. Which of the following is being used for this implementation?

Select one of the following:

The manufacturing company is the service provider, and the cloud company is the identity provider.
The manufacturing company is the authorization provider, and the cloud company is the service provider.
The manufacturing company is the identity provider, and the cloud company is the OAuth provider.
The manufacturing company is the identity provider, and the cloud company is the service provider.
The manufacturing company is the service provider, and the cloud company is the authorization provider.

Explanation

Question 95 of 200

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An energy company is in the final phase of testing its new billing service. The testing team wants to use production data in the test system for stress testing. Which of the following is the BEST way to use production data without sending false notification to the customers?

Select one of the following:

Back up and archive the production data to an external source.
Disable notifications in the production system
Scrub the confidential information.
Encrypt the data prior to the stress test.

Explanation

Question 96 of 200

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A company is looking for an authentication protocol that uses tickets and time stamps to ensure the validity of requests and prevent against replay attacks. Which of the following would be BEST suited to meet this requirement?

Select one of the following:

TACACS+ (Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus)
Kerberos
RADUIS (Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server)
MSCHAP (Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)

Explanation

Question 97 of 200

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The payroll department has contacted the security team regarding an anomaly with amounts paid via the weekly payroll file. The security analyst is provided the following log from the server (see image).

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the anomaly?

Select one of the following:

The file was corrupted in transit.
The file was transferred to the wrong destination.
The connection was refused by the destination.
The file was compromised before being sent.

Explanation

Question 98 of 200

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A network administrator is reviewing the following IDS logs:

ALERT: 192.168.1.20:1027 -> 192.168.1.21:445 malicious payload detected
ALERT: 192.168.1.20:1034 -> 192.168.1.21:445 malicious payload detected
ALERT: 192.168.1.20:2041 -> 192.168.1.21:445 malicious payload detected
ALERT: 192.168.1.20:1165 -> 192.168.1.21:445 malicious payload detected

Based on the above information, which of the following types of malware is triggering the IDS?

Select one of the following:

Worm
Logic Bomb
Rootkit
Backdoor

Explanation

Question 99 of 200

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Which of the following security controls provides an alternative solution to a control that would be considered unpractical or excessively expensive?

Select one of the following:

Deterrent
Compensating
Technical
Administrative

Explanation

Question 100 of 200

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An organization has an account management policy that defines parameters around each type of account. The policy specifies different security attributes, such as longevity, usage auditing, password complexity, and identity proofing. The goal of the account management policy is to ensure the highest level of security while providing the greatest availability without compromising data integrity for users. Which of the following account types should the policy specify for service technicians from corporate partners?

Select one of the following:

Guest account
User account
Shared account
Privileged user account
Default account
Service account

Explanation

Question 101 of 200

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The network team has detected a large amount of traffic between workstations on the network. The traffic was initially very light, but it is increasing exponentially as the day progresses. Which of the following types of malware might be suspected?

Select one of the following:

Backdoor
Rootkit
Worm
Spyware

Explanation

Question 102 of 200

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A security analyst has been dealing with a large number of malware infections on workstations with legacy operating systems. The infections are not being detected by the current AV suite. Further analysis shows that the signatures are up-to-date and the AV engines are functioning correctly. The company is unable to afford next-generation AV that prevents these types of attacks. Which of the following methods should the security analyst employ to prevent future outbreaks?

Select one of the following:

Application whitelisting
Patch management
Host-based intrusion detection
File integrity monitoring

Explanation

Question 103 of 200

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An organization wants to ensure servers and applications can be deployed rapidly, in a consistent manner, and allow for flexible configuration changes. Which of the following should the organization use to make this process repeatable across multiple locations?

Select one of the following:

Redundancy
Templates
Snapshots
Elasticity
Configuration validation

Explanation

Question 104 of 200

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Which of the following staging environments is MOST likely to be a one-to-one mapping with the production environment and used for testing and validation prior to "go live"?

Select one of the following:

Quality assurance
Development
Production
Test

Explanation

Question 105 of 200

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Which of the following would be MOST effective in reducing tailgating incidents?

Select one of the following:

Mantrap
Faraday cage
Motion detection
Bollards

Explanation

Question 106 of 200

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The human resources department is outsourcing much of its operations to a third party. As part of the process, the local human resources data needs to be transmitted to the third party over the Internet. Which of the following is the BEST way to transmit the data?

Select one of the following:

SFTP (Secured File Transfer Protocol)
DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions)
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol)
LDAPs (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Secure)

Explanation

Question 107 of 200

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Management wishes to add another authentication factor in addition to fingerprints and passwords in order to have three-factor authentication. Which of the following would BEST satisfy this request?

Select one of the following:

Retinal scan
Passphrase
Token fob
Security question

Explanation

Question 108 of 200

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Vendor diversity is considered an architectural best practice because:

Select one of the following:

it prevents vulnerabilities from spreading from device to device in a crisis.
it mitigates the risk of a programming flaw affecting the entire architecture.
it allows for more user training to be conducted on different equipment.
it transfers the risk associated with vulnerable devices to multiple vendors.

Explanation

Question 109 of 200

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A recent audit contained significant findings for several servers, including those included on the attached table.

In the future, which of the following capabilities would enable administrators to detect these issues proactively?

Select one of the following:

Credentialed vulnerability scan
Non-credentialed vulnerability scan
Automatic file integrity checking
Manual file integrity checking
Log collection and correlation

Explanation

Question 110 of 200

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Which of the following are used to substantially increase the computation time required to crack a password? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

BCRYPT
Substitution cipher
ECDHE (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral)
PBKDF2 (Password-based Key Derivation Function 2)
Diffe-Hellman

Explanation

Question 111 of 200

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A security analyst wants to limit the use of USB and external drives to protect against malware, as well as protect files leaving a user's computer. Which of the following is the BEST method to use?

Select one of the following:

Firewall
Router
Antivirus software
Data loss prevention

Explanation

Question 112 of 200

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An organization would like to grant access to its wireless network to users who are visiting from another trusted organization by authenticating the visiting users at their home organization. Which of the following is the organization's BEST option?

Select one of the following:

Radius Federation
Captive portal
OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol)
Certificate chaining

Explanation

Question 113 of 200

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A network technician is trying to set up a secure method for managing users and groups across the enterprise. Which of the following protocols is MOST likely to be used?

Select one of the following:

LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Secure)
SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol)
NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager)
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol)

Explanation

Question 114 of 200

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A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an organization receives an email stating the CEO's account may have been compromised. The email further directs the CEO to click on a link to update the account credentials. Which of the following types of attacks has MOST likely occurred?

Select one of the following:

Pharming
Hoax
Whaling
Spear phishing

Explanation

Question 115 of 200

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A security analyst identified an SQL injection attack. Which of the following is the FIRST step in remediating the vulnerability?

Select one of the following:

Implement stored procedures.
Implement input validations.
Implement proper error handling.
Implement a WAF (Web Application Firewall).

Explanation

Question 116 of 200

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To get the most accurate results on the security posture of a system, which of the following actions should the security analyst do prior to scanning?

Select one of the following:

Log all users out of the system.
Patch the scanner.
Reboot the target host.
Update the plugins.

Explanation

Question 117 of 200

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When using a cryptographic function to store a password, which of the following should be used to avoid similar output from similar passwords?

Select one of the following:

Hashing
Field Padding
Salting
Key rotating

Explanation

Question 118 of 200

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A security administrator is performing a test to determine if a server is vulnerable to compromise through unnecessary ports. Which of the following tools would assist the security administrator in gathering the required information?

Select one of the following:

tcpdump
netcat
nslookup
nmap
dig

Explanation

Question 119 of 200

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A security consultant wants to see what information can be obtained by banner grabbing the company's web servers. There are more than 100 web servers, and the consultant would like to perform and aggregate the information quickly. Which of the following is the MOST time-efficient way to accomplish this task?

Select one of the following:

Use netcat to establish a connection to each web server.
Run tcpdump on each web server for the organization.
Use dig to return results for each web server address.
Run netstat on each webserver in the organization.
Use ssh to connect to port 80 on each web server.

Explanation

Question 120 of 200

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A third-party penetration testing company was able to successfully use an ARP cache poison technique to gain root access on a server. The tester successfully moved to another server that was not in the original network. Which of the following is the MOST likely method used to gain access to the other host?

Select one of the following:

Backdoor
Pivoting
Persistence
Logic bomb

Explanation

Question 121 of 200

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A company was recently audited by a third party. The audit revealed the company's network devices were transferring files in the clear. Which of the following protocols should the company use to transfer files?

Select one of the following:

HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL/TLS)
LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Secure)
SCP (Secure Copy)
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol)

Explanation

Question 122 of 200

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A security administrator is configuring a RADIUS server for wireless authentication. The configuration must ensure client credentials are encrypted end-to-end between the client and the authenticator. Which of the following protocols should be configured on the RADIUS server? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)
MSCHAP (Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol)
NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager)
SAML (Security Assertions Markup Language)

Explanation

Question 123 of 200

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A security engineer is working with the CSIRT to investigate a recent breach of client data to the improper use of cloud-based tools. The engineer finds that an employee was able to access cloud-based storage platform from the office and upload data for the purposes of doing work from home after hours. Such activity is prohibited by policy, but no preventive control is in place to block such activities. Which of the following controls would have prevented this breach?

Select one of the following:

Network-based IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)
Host-based DLP (Data Loss Prevention)
Host-based IDS (Intrusion Detection System)
NAC-based TACACS+ (Network Access Control / Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus)

Explanation

Question 124 of 200

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A security analyst reviews the following log entry:

2017-01-13 1622CST 10.11.24.18 93242 148 TCP_HIT 200.200.0.223 _
OBSERVED POST HTTP/1.1.0. "Mozilla 1." www.dropbox.com
Financial_Report_2016_CONFID.pdf, 13MB, MS-RTC LM8; .NET
CLR 3.0.4509.1392, Jane.Doe

Which of the following security issues can the analyst identify?

Select one of the following:

Data exfiltration
Access violation
Social engineering
Unencrypted credentials

Explanation

Question 125 of 200

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A network administrator receives a support ticket from the security operations team to implement secure access to the domain. The support ticket contains the following information:

Source: 192.168.1.137
Destination: 10.113.10.8
Protocol: TCP
Ports: 636
Time-of-day restriction: None
Proxy bypass required: Yes

Which of the following is being requested to be implemented?

Select one of the following:

DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions)
S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Secure)
RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)

Explanation

Question 126 of 200

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A CSIRT has completed restoration procedures related to a breach of sensitive data and is creating documentation used to improve future response activities and coordination among team members. Which of the following information would be MOST beneficial to include in lessons learned documentation? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

A summary of approved policy changes based on the outcome of the incident
Details of any communication challenges that hampered initial response times
Details of man-hours and related costs associated with the breach, including lost revenue
Details regarding system restoration activities completed during the response activity
Suggestions for potential areas of focus during quarterly training activities
Suggestions of tools that would provide improved monitoring and auditing of system access

Explanation

Question 127 of 200

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A consumer purchases an exploit from the dark web. The exploit targets the online shopping cart of popular website, allowing the shopper to modify the price of an item at checkout. Which of the following BEST describes this type of user?

Select one of the following:

Insider
Script Kiddie
Competitor
Hacktivist
APT

Explanation

Question 128 of 200

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As part of a corporate merger, two companies are combining resources. As a result, they must transfer files through the internet in a secure manner. Which of the following protocols would BEST meet this objective? (Select Two)

Select one or more of the following:

LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Secure)
SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol)
HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL/TLS)
DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions)
SRTP (Secure Real-Time Protocol)

Explanation

Question 129 of 200

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A security analyst is doing a vulnerability assessment on a database server. The scanning tool returns the following information:

Database: CustomerAccess1
Column: Password
Data type: MD5 Hash
Salted?: No

There have been several security breaches on the web server that accesses this database. The security team is instructed to mitigate the impact of any possible breaches. The security team is also instructed to improve the security on this database by making it less vulnerable to offline attacks. Which of the following would BEST
accomplish these goals? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

Start using salts to generate MD5 password hashes.
Generate password hashes using SHA-256.
Force users to change passwords the next time they log on.
Limit users to five attempted logins before they are locked out.
Require the web server to only use TLS 1.2 encryption.

Explanation

Question 130 of 200

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A user needs to transmit confidential information to a third party. Which of the following should be used to encrypt the message?

Select one of the following:

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
SHA-2 (Secure Hashing Algorithm ver 2)
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
RSA (Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman)

Explanation

Question 131 of 200

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Which of the following BEST describes the process of altering the bits of a media file to embed a hidden message?

Select one of the following:

Encryption
Diffusion
Stenography
Hashing

Explanation

Question 132 of 200

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An incident response analyst at a large corporation is reviewing proxy log data. The analyst believes a malware infection may have occurred. Upon further review, the analyst determines the computer responsible for the suspicious network traffic is used by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Which of the following is the best NEXT step for the analyst to take?

Select one of the following:

Call the CEO directly to ensure awareness of the event.
Run a malware scan on the CEO's workstation.
Reimage the CEO's workstations.
Disconnect the CEO's workstation from the network.

Explanation

Question 133 of 200

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An organization is providing employees on the shop floor with computers that will log their time based on when they sign on and off the network. Which of the following account types should the employee receive?

Select one of the following:

Shared account
Privileged account
User account
Service account

Explanation

Question 134 of 200

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While troubleshooting a client application connecting to the network, the security administrator notices the following error: Certificate is not valid. Which of the following is the BEST way to check if the digital certificate is valid?

Select one of the following:

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
CSR (Certificate Signing Request)
IPSec (Internet Protocol Security)

Explanation

Question 135 of 200

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Which of the following types of embedded systems is required in manufacturing environments with life safety requirements?

Select one of the following:

MFD (Multi-Function Device)
RTOS (Real-time Operating System)
SoC (System on Chip)
RTU

Explanation

Question 136 of 200

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Which of the following access management concepts is MOST closely associated with the use of a password or PIN?

Select one of the following:

Authorization
Authentication
Accounting
Identification

Explanation

Question 137 of 200

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A security administrator wants to determine if a company's web servers have the latest operating system and application patches installed. Which of the following types of vulnerability scan should be conducted?

Select one of the following:

Non-credentialed
Passive
Port
Credentialed
Red team
Active

Explanation

Question 138 of 200

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A security analyst, who is analyzing the security of the company's web server, receives the following output:

POST http://www.acme.com/AuthenticationServlet HTTP/1.1
HOST: www.acme.com
accept: text/xml, application/xml, application/xhtml + xml
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http//acme.com/index.jsp
Cookie: JSESSIONID+LvzZRJJXgwyWPWEQMhS49vtW1yJdvn78CG1Kp5jTvvChDyPknm4t !
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-length: 64
delegate_service=131&user=acme1&pass=test&submit=SUBMIT

Which of the following is the issue:

Select one of the following:

Code signing
Stored procedures
Access violations
Unencrypted credentials

Explanation

Question 139 of 200

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Which of the following is a compensating control that will BEST reduce the risk of weak passwords?

Select one of the following:

Requiring the use of one-time tokens
Increasing password history retention count
Disable user accounts after exceeding maximum attempts
Setting expiration of user passwords to a shorter time

Explanation

Question 140 of 200

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A DFIR analyst is collecting log data from multiple global locations. Which of the following must the DFIR analyst do to properly utilize the logs for forensic analysis?

Select one of the following:

Log encryption
Filling out chain of custody
Time normalization
Time-sheet update

Explanation

Question 141 of 200

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Which of the following access management concepts is associated with file permissions?

Select one of the following:

Authentication
Accounting
Authorization
Identification

Explanation

Question 142 of 200

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Which of the following differentiates ARP poisoning from a MAC spoofing attack?

Select one of the following:

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) poisoning uses unsolicited ARP replies.
ARP poisoning overflows a switch CAM table.
MAC spoofing uses DHCPOFFER/DHCPACK packets.
MAC spoofing can be performed across multiple routers.

Explanation

Question 143 of 200

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A technician is evaluating malware that was found on the enterprise network. After reviewing samples of the malware binaries, the technician finds each has a different hash associated with it. Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely present in the environment?

Select one of the following:

Trojan
Polymorphic worm
Logic bomb
Armored virus

Explanation

Question 144 of 200

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An employee is having issues when attempting to access files on a laptop. The machine was previously running slow, and many files were not accessible. The employee is not able to access the hard drive the next day, and all file names were changed to some random names. Which of the following BEST represents what compromised the machine?

Select one of the following:

Ransomware
Worm
Crypto-malware
RAT

Explanation

Question 145 of 200

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An organization employee resigns without giving adequate notice. The following day, it is determined that the employee is still in possession of several company-owned mobile devices. Which of the following could have reduced the risk of this occurring? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

Proper offboarding procedures
Acceptable use policies
Non-disclosure agreements
Exit interviews
Background checks
Separation of duties

Explanation

Question 146 of 200

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A website form is used to register new students at a university. The form passed the unsanitized values entered by the user and uses them to directly add the student's information to several core systems. Which of the following attacks can be used to gain further access due to this practice?

Select one of the following:

Cross-site request forgeries
XSS (Cross-site Scripting) attacks
MitM (Man-in-the-Middle) attacks
SQL (Structured Query Language) injection

Explanation

Question 147 of 200

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A penetration testing team deploys a specifically crafted payload to a web server, which results in opening a new session as the web server daemon. This session has full read/write access to the file system and the admin console. Which of the following BEST describes the attack?

Select one of the following:

Domain hijacking
Injection
Buffer overflow
Privilege escalation

Explanation

Question 148 of 200

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An organization wants to move its operations to the cloud. The organization's systems administrator will still maintain control of the servers, firewalls and load balancers in the cloud environment. Which of the following models is the organization considering?

Select one of the following:

SaaS (Service as a Software)
IaaS (infrastructure as a Service)
PaaS (Platform as a Service)
MaaS (Monitoring as a Service)

Explanation

Question 149 of 200

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After a recent security breach at a hospital, it was discovered that nursing staff members, who were working the overnight shift, searched for and accessed private health information for local celebrities who were patients at the hospital. Which of the following would have enabled the hospital to discover this behavior BEFORE a breach occurred?

Select one of the following:

Time-of-day restrictions
Usage reviews
Periodic permission audits
Location-based policy enforcement

Explanation

Question 150 of 200

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To help prevent against a SQL injection, which of the following functions should the application developer implement?

Select one of the following:

Error handling
Code signing
Input validation
Model verification

Explanation

Question 151 of 200

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The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has asked a junior technician to create a folder in which the CEO can place sensitive files. The technician later finds the information within these files is the topic of conversation around the company. When this information gets back to the CEO, the technician is called in to explain. Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

Select one of the following:

Access violations
Permission issues
Data exfiltration
Certificate issues

Explanation

Question 152 of 200

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A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about insider threats compromising credentials related to service accounts on internal servers. A security analyst is tasked with developing a solution that will allow for the collection and analysis of log data in a simulated environment, which represents the production environment. Which of the following solutions would BEST satisfy the CISO's requirements?

Select one of the following:

Bastion host
Evil twin
Honeynet
Vampire tap
Script kiddie

Explanation

Question 153 of 200

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Users are able to reach the login page of their company website from home using HTTP. A network administrator disables HTTP and implements SSL. However, after the implementation, home users cannot access the login page of the company website. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the site is unavailable?

Select one of the following:

The user's browsers are not equipped for SSL (Secure Socket Layer).
The company website implements HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) redirects.
The company firewall is blocking port 443 traffic.
The company web server is using an expired certificates

Explanation

Question 154 of 200

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During a routine review of firewall log reports, a security technician notices multiple successful logins for the admin user during unusual hours. The technician contacts the network administrator, who confirms the logins were not related to the administrator's activities. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for these logins?

Select one of the following:

Firewall maintenance service windows were scheduled.
Default credentials were still in place.
The entries in the log were created by the file integrity monitoring system.
A blue team was conducting a penetration test on the firewall.

Explanation

Question 155 of 200

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An organization is deploying a new system to the production environment. A security analyst discovers the system is not properly hardened or patched. Which of the following BEST describes the scenario?

Select one of the following:

A secure baseline was not established early in the process.
User acceptance testing was not completed.
Integrity checks were not conducted to ensure it was in the correct system.
An application code error was introduced during the development phase.

Explanation

Question 156 of 200

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Which of the following computer recovery sites is the least expensive and the most difficult to test at the same time?

Select one of the following:

Non-mobile hot site
Mobile hot site
Warm site
Cold site

Explanation

Question 157 of 200

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A security specialist is notified about a certificate warning that users receive when using a new internal website. After being given the URL from one of the users and seeing the warning, the security specialist inspects the certificate and realizes it has been issued to the IP address, which is how the developers reach the site. Which of the following would BEST resolve the issue?

Select one of the following:

OSCP (Online Certificate Status Protocol)
OID (Object Identifier)
PEM (Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail)
SAN (Alternative Name)

Explanation

Question 158 of 200

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Compared to a non-credentialed scan, which of the following is a unique result of a credentialed scan?

Select one of the following:

Uncommon open ports on the host
Outdated software versions on the host
Self-signed certificate on the host
Fully qualified domain name

Explanation

Question 159 of 200

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A company is implementing an internal PKI. The design will include a CA and a subordinate CA. Which of the following CA design choices should be considered prior to implementation?

Select one of the following:

Wildcard vs. standard certificate
Subject field vs. subject alternative name field
Private vs. public
Online vs. offline
Stapling vs. pinning

Explanation

Question 160 of 200

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An employee in the finance department receives an email, which appears to come from the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), instructing the employee to immediately wire a large sum of money to a vendor. Which of the following BEST describes the principles of social engineering used? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

Familiarity
Scarcity
Urgency
Authority
Consensus

Explanation

Question 161 of 200

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A member of the IR team has identified an infected computer. Which of the following IR phases should the team member conduct NEXT?

Select one of the following:

Eradication
Recovery
Lessons learned
Containment

Explanation

Question 162 of 200

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A retail store recently deployed tablets for sales employees to use while assisting customers. Two of the tablets have already been lost or stolen. Which of the following would be the BEST way for the store to secure the tablets against future loss or theft?

Select one of the following:

Cable locks
Screen filters
Geocaching
Remote wipe

Explanation

Question 163 of 200

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A company has just adopted the BYOD deployment methodology. The company is unsure how to address the new trend and has requested assistance from a consultant. Given this scenario, which of the following should the consultant recommend? (Select TWO).

Select one or more of the following:

Use password-enabled lock screens.
Implement an MDM solution.
Configure time-of-day restrictions.
Disable personal email.
Implement application whitelisting.
Deny access to the corporate portal.

Explanation

Question 164 of 200

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A security engineer at a manufacturing company is implementing a third-party cloud application. Rather than create users manually in the application, the engineer decides to use the SAML protocol. Which of the following is being used for this implementation?

Select one of the following:

The manufacturing company is the service provider, and the cloud company is the identity provider.
The manufacturing company is the authorization provider, and the cloud company is the service provider.
The manufacturing company is the identity provider, and the cloud company is the OAuth provider.
The manufacturing company is the identity provider, and the cloud company is the service provider.
The manufacturing company is the service provider, and the cloud company is the authorization provider.

Explanation

Question 165 of 200

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A security engineer is configuring a wireless network. The security requirements for the network are:

- Mutual authentication of wireless clients and the authentication server
- Client authentication must be username and password
- Cannot use a certificate on the authentication server

Which of the following protocols BEST meets these requirements?

Select one of the following:

EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol)
EAP-TLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security)
EAP-TTLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol-Tunneled Transport Layer Security)
EAP-FAST (Extensible Authentication Protocol-Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling)

Explanation

Question 166 of 200

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A security administrator wants to implement least privilege access for a network share that stores sensitive company data. The organization is particularly concerned with the integrity of data and implementing discretionary access control. The following controls are available:

Read = A user can read the content of an existing file.
Write = A user can modify the content of an existing file and delete an existing file.
Create = A user can create a new file and place data with the file.

A missing control means the users does not have that access. Which of the following configurations provides the appropriate control to support the organization's requirements?

Select one of the following:

Owners: Read, Write, Create
Group Members: Read, Write
Others: Read, Write
Owners: Read, Write, Create
Group Members: Read, Write, Create
Others: Read
Owners: Read, Write
Group Members: Read, Create
Others: Read, Create
Owners: Write, Create
Group Members: Read, Create
Others: Read, Write, Create

Explanation

Question 167 of 200

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A security team has deployed a new UTM to connect different segments of the corporate network. In addition to the UTM, each host has its own firewall and HIPS. The new UTM implements many of the same protections as the host-based firewall and HIPS, but the security team plans to leave both of these protections in place. Which of the following BEST describes the reason for this redundancy?

Select one of the following:

Having multiple security devices can result in faster performance.
The UTM cannot protect against threats from outside the network.
Multiple forms of protection is preferred over single points of failure.
A UTM cannot perform malware analysis, but a HIPS can.

Explanation

Question 168 of 200

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A security consultant is gathering information about the frequency of a security threat's impact to an organization. Which of the following should the consultant use to label the number of times an attack can be expected to impact the organization in a 365-day period?

Select one of the following:

ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurnce
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
ALE (Annualized Loss Expectancy)
MTTR (Mean Time to Recover or Mean Time to Repair)
SLA (Service Level Agreement)

Explanation

Question 169 of 200

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When sending messages using symmetric encryption, which of the following must happen FIRST?

Select one of the following:

Echange encryption key
Establish digital signatures
Agree on an encryption method
Install digital certificate

Explanation

Question 170 of 200

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While troubleshooting a client application connecting to the network, the security administrator notices the following error: Certificate is not valid. Which of the following is the BEST way to check if the digital certificate is valid?

Select one of the following:

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
CSR (Certificate Signing Request)
IPSec (Internet Protocol Security)

Explanation

Question 171 of 200

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When attempting to secure a mobile workstation, which of the following authentication technologies rely on the user's physical characteristics? (Select TWO)

Select one or more of the following:

MAC address table
Retina scan
Fingerprint scan
Two-factor authentication
CAPTCHA
Password string

Explanation

Question 172 of 200

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A penetration tester has written an application that performs a bit-by-bit XOR 0xFF operation on binaries prior to transmission over untrusted media. Which of the following BEST describes the action performed by this type of application?

Select one of the following:

Hashing
Key exchange
Encryption
Obfuscation

Explanation

Question 173 of 200

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Two users must encrypt and transmit large amounts of data between them. Which of the following should they use to encrypt and transmit the data?

Select one of the following:

Symmetric algorithm
Hash function
Digital signature
Obfuscation

Explanation

Question 174 of 200

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A new Chief Information Officer (CIO) has been reviewing the badging and decides to write a policy that all employees must have their badges rekeyed at least annually. Which of the following controls BEST describes this policy?

Select one of the following:

Physical
Corrective
Technical
Administrative

Explanation

Question 175 of 200

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A security analyst is mitigating a pass-the-hash vulnerability on a Windows infrastructure. Given the requirement, which of the following should the security analyst do to MINIMIZE the risk?

Select one of the following:

Enable CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
Disable NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager)
Enable Kerberos
Disable PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)

Explanation

Question 176 of 200

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A stock trading company had the budget for enhancing its secondary datacenter approved. Since the main site is a hurricane-affected area and the disaster recovery site is 100 mi (161 km) away, the company wants to ensure its business is always operational with the least amount of man hours needed. Which of the following types of disaster recovery sites should the company implement?

Select one of the following:

Hot site
Warm site
Cold site
Cloud-based site

Explanation

Question 177 of 200

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A company wants to ensure confidential data from storage media is sanitized in such a way that the drive cannot be reused. Which of the following method should the technician use?

Select one of the following:

Shredding
Wiping
Low-level formatting
Repartitioning
Overwriting

Explanation

Question 178 of 200

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An active/passive configuration has an impact on:

Select one of the following:

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Non-repudiation

Explanation

Question 179 of 200

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A cybersecurity analyst is looking into the payload of a random packet capture file that was selected for analysis. The analyst notices that an internal host had a socket established with another internal host over a non-standard port. Upon investigation, the origin host that initiated the socket shows this output:

usera@host>history
mkdir /local/usr/bin/somedirectory
nc -1 192.168.5.1 -p 9856
ping -c 30 8.8.8.8 -a 600
rm /etc/dir2/somefile
rm -rm /etc/dir2/
traceroute 8.8.8.8
pakill pid 9487
usera@host>

Given the above output, which of the following commands would have established the questionable socket?

Select one of the following:

traceroute 8.8.8.8
ping -1 30 8.8.8.8 -a 600
nc -1 192.168.5.1 -p 9856
pskill pid 9487

Explanation

Question 180 of 200

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A company was recently audited by a third party. The audit revealed the company's network devices were transferring files in the clear. Which of the following protocols should the company use to transfer files?

Select one of the following:

HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL/TLS)
LDAPS (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Secure)
SCP (Secure Copy)
SNMPv3 (Simple Network Management Protocol ver 3)

Explanation

Question 181 of 200

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Which of the following is used to validate the integrity of data?

Select one of the following:

CBC (Cipher Block Chaining)
Blowfish
MD5 (Message Digest 5)
RSA (Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman)

Explanation

Question 182 of 200

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A security technician has been receiving alerts from several servers that indicate load balancers have had a significant increase in traffic. The technician initiates a system scan. The scan results illustrate that the disk space on several servers has reached capacity. The scan also indicates that incoming internet traffic to the servers has increased. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the decreased disk space?

Select one of the following:

Misconfigured devices
Logs and events anomalies
Authentication issues
Unauthorized software

Explanation

Question 183 of 200

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A vice president at a manufacturing organization is concerned about desktops being connected to the network. Employees need to log onto the desktops' local account to verify that a product is being created within specifications; otherwise, the desktops should be as isolated as possible. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this?

Select one of the following:

Put the desktops in the DMZ.
Create a separate VLAN for the desktops.
Air gap the desktops.
Join the desktops to an ad-hoc network.

Explanation

Question 184 of 200

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A security analyst is assigned to perform a penetration test for one of the company’s clients. During the scope discussion, the analyst is notified that the client is not going to share any information related to the environment to be tested. Which of the following BEST identifies this type of penetration testing?

Select one of the following:

Black box
Grey box
White box
Blue Teaming

Explanation

Question 185 of 200

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A security consultant is setting up a new electronic messaging platform and wants to ensure the platform supports message integrity validation. Which of the following protocols should the consultant recommend?

Select one of the following:

S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
DNSSEC (Domain Name Server Security Extension)
RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-in User Server)
802.11x

Explanation

Question 186 of 200

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QUESTION 148
A bank is experiencing a DoS attack against an application designed to handle 500 IP-based sessions. In addition, the perimeter router can only handle 1Gbps of traffic. Which of the following should be implemented to prevent DoS attacks in the future?

Select one of the following:

Deploy multiple web servers and implement a load balancer.
Increase the capacity of the perimeter router to 10Gbps.
Implement a forwarding proxy and URL filtering for the organization's applications.
Implement an active/passive high availability solution.

Explanation

Question 187 of 200

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A systems administrator has created network file shares for each department with associated security groups for each role within the organization. Which of the following security concepts is the administrator implementing?

Select one of the following:

Separation of duties
Permission auditing
Least privilege
Standard naming convention

Explanation

Question 188 of 200

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An organization electronically processes sensitive data within a controlled facility. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to limit emissions from emanating from the facility. Which of the following mitigates this risk?

Select one of the following:

Upgrading facility cabling to a higher standard of protected cabling to reduce the likelihood of emission spillage.
Hardening the facility through the use of secure cabinetry to block emissions.
Hardening the facility with a Faraday cage to contain emissions produced from data processing.
Employing security guards to ensure unauthorized personnel remain outside of the facility.

Explanation

Question 189 of 200

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A security manager discovers the most recent vulnerability scan report illustrates low-level, non-critical findings. Which of the following scanning concepts would BEST report critical threats?

Select one of the following:

Non-credentialed scan
Compliance scan
Intrusive scan
Application scan

Explanation

Question 190 of 200

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A security administrator has replaced the firewall and notices a number of dropped connections. After looking at the data the security administrator sees the following information that was flagged as a possible issue:

"SELECT "FROM" and '1' = '1'

Which of the following can the security administrator determine from this?

Select one of the following:

A SQL injection attack is being attempted.
Legitimate connections are being dropped.
A network scan is being done on the system.
An XSS (Cross-site Scripting) attack is being attempted.

Explanation

Question 191 of 200

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A user loses a COPE (Company Owned, Personally Enabled) device. Which of the following should the user do NEXT to protect the data on the device?

Select one of the following:

Call the company help desk to remotely wipe the device.
Report the loss to authorities.
Check with corporate physical security for the device.
Identify files that are potentially missing on the device.

Explanation

Question 192 of 200

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Which of the following uses tokens between the identity provider and the service provider to authenticate and authorize users to resources?

Select one of the following:

RADIUS
Kerberos
OATH
MSCHAP

Explanation

Question 193 of 200

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Which of the following is used to encrypt web application data?

Select one of the following:

RSA (Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman)
RC4 (Rivest Cipher version 4)
SHA (Secure Hashing Algorithm)
DHA

Explanation

Question 194 of 200

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A systems administrator wants to implement a secure wireless network requiring wireless clients to pre-register with the company and install a PKI client certificate prior to being able to connect to the wireless network. Which of the following should the systems administrator configure?

Select one of the following:

EAP-TTLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol - Tunneled Transport Layer Security)
EAP-TLS (Extensible Authentication Protocol - Transport Layer Security)
EAP-FAST (Extensible Authentication Protocol - Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling)
EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) with PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol)
EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) with MSCHAPv2 (Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol ver 2)

Explanation

Question 195 of 200

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During an assessment of a manufacturing plant, security analyst finds several end-of-life programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which have firmware that was last updated three years ago and have known vulnerabilities. Which of the following BEST mitigates the risks associated with the PLCs?

Select one of the following:

Deploy HIDS (Host-based Intrusion Detection System) on each device.
Remove the PLCs from the manufacturing infrastructure.
Implement network segmentation to isolate the devices.
Perform file integrity monitoring against the devices.

Explanation

Question 196 of 200

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A security administrator needs to configure remote access to a file share so it can only be accessed between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Files in the share can only be accessed by members of the same department as the data owner. Users should only be able to create files with approved extensions, which may differ by department. Which of the following access controls would be the MOST appropriate for this situation?

Select one of the following:

RBAC (Role-based Access Control)
MAC (Mandatory Access Control)
ABAC (Attribute-based Access Control)
DAC (Discretionary Access Control)

Explanation

Question 197 of 200

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An organization has had problems keeping track of new devices being placed on the network. Which of the following tools should be used to identify where devices reside on the network?

Select one of the following:

Tcpdump
NSlookup
Nmap
Tracert

Explanation

Question 198 of 200

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Following incident response best practices and processes, a forensic analyst compiles and selects artifacts requested by the legal team for litigation purposes. Given this scenario, which of the following steps should the analyst perform NEXT in the forensic process?

Select one of the following:

Recovery procedures
Containment procedures
Eradication procedures
Lessons learned procedures

Explanation

Question 199 of 200

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Which of the following occurs when a vulnerability scan fails to identify a existing vulnerability?

Select one of the following:

False negative
False positive
True positive
True negative

Explanation

Question 200 of 200

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A company policy regarding the shredding of proprietary documents is MOST likely designed to prevent:

Select one of the following:

impersonation
dumpster diving
piggybacking
identity theft

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