Quix14 - 125Q

Question 1

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What type of access control is intended to discover unwanted or unauthorized activity by providing information after the event has occurred?

Answer

A. Preventive
B. Corrective
C. Detective
D. Directive

Question 2

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Which one of the following presents the most complex decoy environment for an attacker to explore during an intrusion attempt?

Answer

A. Honeypot
B. Darknet
C. Honeynet
D. Pseudo flaw

Question 3

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Ben’s organization is adopting biometric authentication for their high-security building’s access control system. Ben’s company is considering configuring their systems to work at the level shown by point A on the diagram. What level are they setting the sensitivity to?

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Answer

A. The FRR crossover
B. The FAR point
C. The CER
D. The CFR

Question 4

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Ben’s organization is adopting biometric authentication for their high-security building’s access control system. At point B, what problem is likely to occur?

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Answer

A. False acceptance will be very high.
B. False rejection will be very high.
C. False rejection will be very low.
D. False acceptance will be very low.

Question 5

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Ben’s organization is adopting biometric authentication for their high-security building’s access control system. What should Ben do if the FAR and FRR shown in this diagram does not provide an acceptable performance level for his organization’s needs?

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Answer

A. Adjust the sensitivity of the biometric devices.
B. Assess other biometric systems to compare them.
C. Move the CER.
D. Adjust the FRR settings in software.

Question 6

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Ed is tasked with protecting information about his organization’s customers, including their name, Social Security number, birthdate, and place of birth, as well as a variety of other information. What is this information known as?

Answer

A. PHI
B. PII
C. Personal Protected Data
D. PID

Question 7

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What software development life-cycle model is shown in the following illustration?

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Answer

A. Spiral
B. Agile
C. Boehm
D. Waterfall

Question 8

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Encapsulation is the core concept that enables what type of protocol?

Answer

A. Bridging
B. Multilayer
C. Hashing
D. Storage

Question 9

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Which one of the following is not a key principle of the COBIT framework for IT security control objectives?

Answer

A. Meeting stakeholder needs
B. Performing exhaustive analysis
C. Covering the enterprise end-to-end
D. Separating governance from management

Question 10

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Roscommon Enterprises is an Irish company that handles personal information. They exchange information with many other countries. Which of the following countries would trigger the onward transfer provisions of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield?

Answer

A. United States
B. France
C. Italy
D. Germany

Question 11

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Susan provides a public RESTful API for her organization’s data but wants to limit its use to trusted partners. She intends to use API keys. What other recommendation would you give Susan to limit the potential abuse of the service?

Answer

A. Limit request rates
B. Force HTTP-only requests
C. Avoid tokens due to bandwidth constraints
D. Blacklist HTTP methods such as GET, POST, and PUT

Question 12

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NIST Special Publication 800-53A describes four types of objects that can be assessed. If Ben is reviewing a password standard, which of the four types of objects is he assessing?

Answer

A. A mechanism
B. A specification
C. An activity
D. An individual

Question 13

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What process is typically used to ensure data security for workstations that are being removed from service but that will be resold or otherwise reused?

Answer

A. Destruction
B. Erasing
C. Sanitization
D. Clearing

Question 14

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Colleen is conducting a software test that is evaluating code for both security flaws and usability issues. She is working with the application from an end-user perspective and referencing the source code as she works her way through the product. What type of testing is Colleen conducting?

Answer

A. White box
B. Blue box
C. Gray box
D. Black box

Question 15

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Harold is looking for a software development methodology that will help with a major issue he is seeing in his organization. Currently, developers and operations staff do not work together and are often seen as taking problems and “throwing them over the fence” to the other team. What technology management approach is designed to alleviate this problem?

Answer

A. ITIL
B. Lean
C. ITSM
D. DevOps

Question 16

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NIST Special Publication 800-92, the Guide to Computer Security Log Management, describes four types of common challenges to log management: Many log sources Inconsistent log content Inconsistent timestamps Inconsistent log formats Which of the following solutions is best suited to solving these issues?

Answer

A. Implement SNMP for all logging devices.
B. Implement a SIEM.
C. Standardize on the Windows event log format for all devices and use NTP.
D. Ensure that logging is enabled on all endpoints using their native logging formats and set their local time correctly.

Question 17

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Mike has a flash memory card that he would like to reuse. The card contains sensitive information. What technique can he use to securely remove data from the card and allow its reuse?

Answer

A. Degaussing
B. Physical destruction
C. Overwriting
D. Reformatting

Question 18

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Carlos is investigating the compromise of sensitive information in his organization. He believes that attackers managed to retrieve personnel information on all employees from the database and finds the following user-supplied input in a log entry for a web-based personnel management system: Collins’&1=1;–– What type of attack took place?

Answer

A. SQL injection
B. Buffer overflow
C. Cross-site scripting
D. Cross-site request forgery

Question 19

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Which one of the following is a detailed, step-by-step document that describes the exact actions that individuals must complete?

Answer

A. Policy
B. Standard
C. Guideline
D. Procedure

Question 20

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What principle of relational databases ensures the permanency of transactions that have successfully completed?

Answer

A. Atomicity
B. Consistency
C. Isolation
D. Durability

Question 21

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Bryan has a set of sensitive documents that he would like to protect from public disclosure. He would like to use a control that, if the documents appear in a public forum, may be used to trace the leak back to the person who was originally given the document copy. What security control would best fulfill this purpose?

Answer

A. Digital signature
B. Document staining
C. Hashing
D. Watermarking

Question 22

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Carlos is planning a design for a data center that will be constructed within a new four-story corporate headquarters. The building consists of a basement and three above-ground floors. What is the best location for the data center?

Answer

A. Basement
B. First floor
C. Second floor
D. Third floor

Question 23

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Chris is an information security professional for a major corporation and, as he is walking into the building, he notices that the door to a secure area has been left ajar. Physical security does not fall under his responsibility, but he takes immediate action by closing the door and informing the physical security team of his action. What principle is Chris demonstrating?

Answer

A. Due care
B. Due diligence
C. Separation of duties
D. Informed consent

Question 24

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Which one of the following investigation types always uses the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard of proof?

Answer

A. Civil investigation
B. Criminal investigation
C. Operational investigation
D. Regulatory investigation

Question 25

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Which one of the following backup types does not alter the status of the archive bit on a file?

Answer

A. Full backup
B. Incremental backup
C. Partial backup
D. Differential backup

Question 26

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What type of alternate processing facility contains the hardware necessary to restore operations but does not have a current copy of data?

Answer

A. Hot site
B. Warm site
C. Cold site
D. Mobile site

Question 27

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Which one of the following terms describes a period of momentary high voltage?

Answer

A. Sag
B. Brownout
C. Spike
D. Surge

Question 28

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A web application accesses information in a database to retrieve user information. What is the web application acting as?

Answer

A. A subject
B. An object
C. A user
D. A token

Question 29

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The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol is a routing protocol that keeps a map of all connected remote networks and uses that map to select the shortest path to a remote destination. What type of routing protocol is OSPF?

Answer

A. Link state
B. Shortest path first
C. Link mapping
D. Distance vector

Question 30

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Which one of the following categories consists of first-generation programming languages?

Answer

A. Machine languages
B. Assembly languages
C. Compiled languages
D. Natural language

Question 31

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Concho Controls is a midsized business focusing on building automation systems. They host a set of local file servers in their onpremises data center that store customer proposals, building plans, product information, and other data that is critical to their business operations. Tara works in the Concho Controls IT department and is responsible for designing and implementing the organization’s backup strategy, among other tasks. She currently conducts full backups every Sunday evening at 8 p.m. and differential backups on Monday through Friday at noon. Concho experiences a server failure at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Tara rebuilds the server and wants to restore data from the backups. What backup should Tara apply to the server first?

Answer

A. Sunday’s full backup
B. Monday’s differential backup
C. Tuesday’s differential backup
D. Wednesday’s differential backup

Question 32

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Answer

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

Question 33

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Answer

A. 3 hours.
B. 5 hours.
C. 8 hours.
D. No data will be lost.

Question 34

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Answer

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

Question 35

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Answer

A. Monday’s incremental backup
B. Tuesday’s incremental backup
C. Wednesday’s incremental backup
D. All three will be the same size.

Question 36

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Susan is conducting a STRIDE threat assessment by placing threats into one or more of the following categories: Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege. As part of her assessment, she has discovered an issue that allows transactions to be modified between a web browser and the application server that it accesses. What STRIDE categorization(s) best fit this issue?

Answer

A. Tampering and Information Disclosure
B. Spoofing and Tampering
C. Tampering and Repudiation
D. Information Disclosure and Elevation of Privilege

Question 37

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Bob has been tasked with writing a policy that describes how long data should be kept and when it should be purged. What concept does this policy deal with?

Answer

A. Data remanence
B. Record retention
C. Data redaction
D. Audit logging

Question 38

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Which component of IPsec provides authentication, integrity, and nonrepudiation?

Answer

A. L2TP
B. Encapsulating Security Payload
C. Encryption Security Header
D. Authentication Header

Question 39

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Renee notices that a system on her network recently received connection attempts on all 65,536 TCP ports from a single system during a short period of time. What type of attack did Renee most likely experience?

Answer

A. Denial of service
B. Reconnaissance
C. Malicious insider
D. Compromise

Question 40

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What type of Windows audit record describes events like an OS shutdown or a service being stopped?

Answer

A. An application log
B. A security log
C. A system log
D. A setup log

Question 41

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In the ring protection model shown here, what ring does not run in privileged mode?

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Answer

A. Ring 0
B. Ring 1
C. Ring 2
D. Ring 3

Question 42

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What level of RAID is also known as disk striping?

Answer

A. RAID 0
B. RAID 1
C. RAID 5
D. RAID 10

Question 43

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Jacob executes an attack against a system using a valid but lowprivilege user account by accessing a file pointer that the account has access to. After the access check, but before the file is opened, he quickly switches the file pointer to point to a file that the user account does not have access to. What type of attack is this?

Answer

A. TOCTOU
B. Permissions creep
C. Impersonation
D. Link swap

Question 44

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What is the minimum number of disks required to implement RAID level 0?

Answer

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5

Question 45

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Fred’s company wants to ensure the integrity of email messages sent via their central email servers. If the confidentiality of the messages is not critical, what solution should Fred suggest?

Answer

A. Digitally sign and encrypt all messages to ensure integrity.
B. Digitally sign but don’t encrypt all messages.
C. Use TLS to protect messages, ensuring their integrity.
D. Use a hashing algorithm to provide a hash in each message to prove that it hasn’t changed.

Question 46

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The leadership at Susan’s company has asked her to implement an access control system that can support rule declarations like “Only allow access to salespeople from managed devices on the wireless network between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.” What type of access control system would be Susan’s best choice?

Answer

A. ABAC
B. RBAC
C. DAC
D. MAC

Question 47

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What type of communications rely on a timing mechanism using either an independent clock or a time stamp embedded in the communications?

Answer

A. Analog
B. Digital
C. Synchronous
D. Asynchronous

Question 48

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Chris is deploying a gigabit Ethernet network using Category 6 cable between two buildings. What is the maximum distance he can run the cable according to the Category 6 standard?

Answer

A. 50 meters
B. 100 meters
C. 200 meters
D. 300 meters

Question 49

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Howard is a security analyst working with an experienced computer forensics investigator. The investigator asks him to retrieve a forensic drive controller, but Howard cannot locate a device in the storage room with this name. What is another name for a forensic drive controller?

Answer

A. RAID controller
B. Write blocker
C. SCSI terminator
D. Forensic device analyzer

Question 50

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The web application that Saria’s development team is working on needs to provide secure session management that can prevent hijacking of sessions using the cookies that the application relies on. Which of the following techniques would be the best for her to recommend to prevent this?

Answer

A. Set the Secure attribute for the cookies, thus forcing TLS.
B. Set the Domain cookie attribute to example.com to limit cookie access to servers in the same domain.
C. Set the Expires cookie attribute to less than a week.
D. Set the HTTPOnly attribute to require only unencrypted sessions.

Question 51

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Ben’s company has recently retired their fleet of multifunction printers. Their information security team has expressed concerns that the printers contain hard drives and that they may still have data from scans and print jobs. What is the technical term for this issue?

Answer

A. Data pooling
B. Failed clearing
C. Data permanence
D. Data remanence

Question 52

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What access control scheme labels subjects and objects, and allows subjects to access objects when the labels match?

Answer

A. DAC
B. MAC
C. Rule-based access control (RBAC)
D. Role-based access control (RBAC)

Question 53

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A cloud-based service that provides account provisioning, management, authentication, authorization, reporting, and monitoring capabilities is known as what type of service?

Answer

A. PaaS
B. IDaaS
C. IaaS
D. SaaS

Question 54

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Sally wants to secure her organization’s VoIP systems. Which of the following attacks is one that she shouldn’t have to worry about?

Answer

A. Eavesdropping
B. Denial of service
C. Blackboxing
D. Caller ID spoofing

Question 55

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Marty discovers that the access restrictions in his organization allow any user to log into the workstation assigned to any other user, even if they are from completely different departments. This type of access most directly violates which information security principle?

Answer

A. Separation of duties
B. Two-person control
C. Need to know
D. Least privilege

Question 56

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Fred needs to transfer files between two servers on an untrusted network. Since he knows the network isn’t trusted, he needs to select an encrypted protocol that can ensure that his data remains secure. What protocol should he choose?

Answer

A. SSH
B. TCP
C. SFTP
D. IPsec

Question 57

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Chris uses a packet sniffer to capture traffic from a TACACS+ server. What protocol should he monitor, and what data should he expect to be readable?

Answer

A. UDP; none—TACACS+ encrypts the full session
B. TCP; none—TACACS+ encrypts the full session
C. UDP; all but the username and password, which are encrypted
D. TCP; all but the username and password, which are encrypted

Question 58

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If the client has already authenticated to the KDC, what does the client workstation send to the KDC at point A when it wants to access a resource?

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Answer

A. It re-sends the password.
B. A TGR
C. Its TGT
D. A service ticket

Question 59

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What occurs between steps A and B?

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Answer

A. The KDC verifies the validity of the TGT and whether the user has the right privileges for the requested resource.
B. The KDC updates its access control list based on the data in the TGT.
C. The KDC checks its service listing and prepares an updated TGT based on the service request.
D. The KDC generates a service ticket to issue to the client.

Question 60

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What system or systems does the service that is being accessed use to validate the ticket?

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Answer

A. The KDC
B. The client workstation and the KDC
C. The client workstation supplies it in the form of a client-to-server ticket and an authenticator.
D. The KVS

Question 61

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What does a service ticket (ST) provide in Kerberos authentication?

Answer

A. It serves as the authentication host.
B. It provides proof that the subject is authorized to access an object.
C. It provides proof that a subject has authenticated through a KDC and can request tickets to access other objects.
D. It provides ticket granting services.

Question 62

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A password that requires users to answer a series of questions like “What is your mother’s maiden name?” or “What is your favorite color?” is known as what type of password?

Answer

A. A passphrase
B. Multifactor passwords
C. Cognitive passwords
D. Password reset questions

Question 63

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CDMA, GSM, and IDEN are all examples of what generation of cellular technology?

Answer

A. 1G
B. 2G
C. 3G
D. 4G

Question 64

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Which one of the following fire suppression systems poses the greatest risk of accidental discharge that damages equipment in a data center?

Answer

A. Closed head
B. Dry pipe
C. Deluge
D. Preaction

Question 65

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Lauren’s healthcare provider maintains such data as details about her health, treatments, and medical billing. What type of data is this?

Answer

A. Protected Health Information
B. Personally Identifiable Information
C. Protected Health Insurance
D. Individual Protected Data

Question 66

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What type of code review is best suited to identifying business logic flaws?

Answer

A. Mutational fuzzing
B. Manual
C. Generational fuzzing
D. Interface testing

Question 67

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Something you know is an example of what type of authentication factor?

Answer

A. Type 1
B. Type 2
C. Type 3
D. Type 4

Question 68

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Saria is the system owner for a healthcare organization. What responsibilities does she have related to the data that resides on or is processed by the systems she owns?

Answer

A. She has to classify the data.
B. She has to make sure that appropriate security controls are in place to protect the data.
C. She has to grant appropriate access to personnel.
D. She bears sole responsibility for ensuring that data is protected at rest, in transit, and in use.

Question 69

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During software testing, Jack diagrams how a hacker might approach the application he is reviewing and determines what requirements the hacker might have. He then tests how the system would respond to the attacker’s likely behavior. What type of testing is Jack conducting?

Answer

A. Misuse case testing
B. Use case testing
C. Hacker use case testing
D. Static code analysis

Question 70

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When a vendor develops a product that they wish to submit for Common Criteria evaluation, what do they complete to describe the claims of security for their product?

Answer

A. PP
B. ITSEC
C. TCSEC
D. ST

Question 71

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Chris has been assigned to scan a system on all of its possible TCP and UDP ports. How many ports of each type must he scan to complete his assignment?

Answer

A. 65,536 TCP ports and 32,768 UDP ports
B. 1024 common TCP ports and 32,768 ephemeral UDP ports
C. 65,536 TCP and 65,536 UDP ports
D. 16,384 TCP ports, and 16,384 UDP ports

Question 72

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CVE and the NVD both provide information about what?

Answer

A. Vulnerabilities
B. Markup languages
C. Vulnerability assessment tools
D. Penetration testing methodologies

Question 73

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What is the highest level of the military classification scheme?

Answer

A. Secret
B. Confidential
C. SBU
D. Top Secret

Question 74

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In what type of trusted recovery process does the system recover against one or more failure types without administrator intervention while protecting itself against data loss?

Answer

A. Automated recovery
B. Manual recovery
C. Function recovery
D. Automated recovery without undue data loss

Question 75

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What three important items should be considered if you are attempting to control the strength of signal for a wireless network as well as where it is accessible?

Answer

A. Antenna placement, antenna type, antenna power levels
B. Antenna design, power levels, use of a captive portal
C. Antenna placement, antenna design, use of a captive portal
D. Power levels, antenna placement, FCC minimum strength requirements

Question 76

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What is the best way to ensure that data is unrecoverable from a SSD?

Answer

A. Use the built-in erase commands
B. Use a random pattern wipe of 1s and 0s
C. Physically destroy the drive
D. Degauss the drive

Question 77

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Alice sends a message to Bob and wants to ensure that Mal, a third party, does not read the contents of the message while in transit. What goal of cryptography is Alice attempting to achieve?

Answer

A. Confidentiality
B. Integrity
C. Authentication
D. Nonrepudiation

Question 78

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Which one of the following metrics specifies the amount of time that business continuity planners find acceptable for the restoration of service after a disaster?

Answer

A. MTD
B. RTO
C. RPO
D. MTO

Question 79

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Gary would like to examine the text of a criminal law on computer fraud to determine whether it applies to a recent act of hacking against his company. Where should he go to read the text of the law?

Answer

A. Code of Federal Regulations
B. Supreme Court rulings
C. Compendium of Laws
D. United States Code

Question 80

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James has opted to implement a NAC solution that uses a postadmission philosophy for its control of network connectivity. What type of issues can’t a strictly post-admission policy handle?

Answer

A. Out-of-band monitoring
B. Preventing an unpatched laptop from being exploited immediately after connecting to the network
C. Denying access when user behavior doesn’t match an authorization matrix
D. Allowing user access when user behavior is allowed based on an authorization matrix

Question 81

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Ben has built an access control list that lists the objects that his users are allowed to access. When users attempt to access an object that they don’t have rights to, they are denied access, even though there isn’t a specific rule that prevents it. What access control principle is key to this behavior?

Answer

A. Least privilege
B. Implicit deny
C. Explicit deny
D. Final rule fall-through

Question 82

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Mary is a security risk analyst for an insurance company. She is currently examining a scenario where a hacker might use a SQL injection attack to deface a web server due to a missing patch in the company’s web application. In this scenario, what is the risk?

Answer

A. Unpatched web application
B. Web defacement
C. Hacker
D. Operating system

Question 83

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In the diagram shown here of security boundaries within a computer system, what component’s name has been replaced with XXX?

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Answer

A. Kernel
B. Privileged core
C. User monitor
D. Security perimeter

Question 84

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Val is attempting to review security logs but is overwhelmed by the sheer volume of records maintained in her organization’s central log repository. What technique can she use to select a representative set of records for further review?

Answer

A. Statistical sampling.
B. Clipping.
C. Choose the first 5% of records from each day.
D. Choose 5% of records from the middle of the day.

Question 85

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In Jen’s job as the network administrator for an industrial production facility, she is tasked with ensuring that the network is not susceptible to electromagnetic interference due to the large motors and other devices running on the production floor. What type of network cabling should she choose if this concern is more important than cost and difficulty of installation?

Answer

A. 10Base2
B. 100BaseT
C. 1000BaseT
D. Fiber-optic

Question 86

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Jasper Diamonds is a jewelry manufacturer that markets and sells custom jewelry through their website. Bethany is the manager of Jasper’s software development organization, and she is working to bring the company into line with industry standard practices. She is developing a new change management process for the organization and wishes to follow commonly accepted approaches. Bethany would like to put in place controls that provide an organized framework for company employees to suggest new website features that her team will develop. What change management process facilitates this?

Answer

A. Configuration control
B. Change control
C. Release control
D. Request control

Question 87

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Jasper Diamonds is a jewelry manufacturer that markets and sells custom jewelry through their website. Bethany is the manager of Jasper’s software development organization, and she is working to bring the company into line with industry standard practices. She is developing a new change management process for the organization and wishes to follow commonly accepted approaches. Bethany would also like to create a process that helps multiple developers work on code at the same time. What change management process facilitates this?

Answer

A. Configuration control
B. Change control
C. Release control
D. Request control

Question 88

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Jasper Diamonds is a jewelry manufacturer that markets and sells custom jewelry through their website. Bethany is the manager of Jasper’s software development organization, and she is working to bring the company into line with industry standard practices. She is developing a new change management process for the organization and wishes to follow commonly accepted approaches. Bethany is working with her colleagues to conduct user acceptance testing. What change management process includes this task?

Answer

A. Configuration control
B. Change control
C. Release control
D. Request control

Question 89

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Jasper Diamonds is a jewelry manufacturer that markets and sells custom jewelry through their website. Bethany is the manager of Jasper’s software development organization, and she is working to bring the company into line with industry standard practices. She is developing a new change management process for the organization and wishes to follow commonly accepted approaches. Bethany noticed that some problems arise when system administrators update libraries without informing developers. What change management process can assist with this problem?

Answer

A. Configuration control
B. Change control
C. Release control
D. Request control

Question 90

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Ben has written the password hashing system for the web application he is building. His hashing code function for passwords results in the following process for a series of passwords: hash (password1 + 07C98BFE4CF67B0BFE2643B5B22E2D7D) = 10B222970537B97919DB36EC757370D2 hash (password2 + 07C98BFE4CF67B0BFE2643B5B22E2D7D) = F1F16683F3E0208131B46D37A79C8921 What flaw has Ben introduced with his hashing implementation?

Answer

A. Plaintext salting
B. Salt reuse
C. Use of a short salt
D. Poor salt algorithm selection

Question 91

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Which one of the following is an example of risk transference?

Answer

A. Building a guard shack
B. Purchasing insurance
C. Erecting fences
D. Relocating facilities

Question 92

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What protocol takes the place of certificate revocation lists and adds real-time status verification?

Answer

A. RTCP
B. RTVP
C. OCSP
D. CSRTP

Question 93

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Jim performs lexical analysis on a program and produces control flow graphs. What type of software testing is he performing?

Answer

A. Dynamic
B. Fuzzing
C. Manual
D. Static

Question 94

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What process makes TCP a connection-oriented protocol?

Answer

A. It works via network connections.
B. It uses a handshake.
C. It monitors for dropped connections.
D. It uses a complex header.

Question 95

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What LDAP operation includes authentication to the LDAP server?

Answer

A. Bind
B. Auth
C. StartLDAP
D. AuthDN

Question 96

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You are conducting a qualitative risk assessment for your organization. The two important risk elements that should weigh most heavily in your analysis of risk are probability and ________________.

Answer

A. Likelihood
B. History
C. Impact
D. Cost

Question 97

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Using the OSI model, what format does the Data Link layer use to format messages received from higher up the stack?

Answer

A. A datastream
B. A frame
C. A segment
D. A datagram

Question 98

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What is the maximum penalty that may be imposed by an (ISC)2 peer review board when considering a potential ethics violation?

Answer

A. Revocation of certification
B. Termination of employment
C. Financial penalty
D. Suspension of certification

Question 99

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Which one of the following statements about the SDLC is correct?

Answer

A. The SDLC requires the use of an iterative approach to software development.
B. The SDLC requires the use of a sequential approach to software development.
C. The SDLC does not include training for end users and support staff.
D. The waterfall methodology is compatible with the SDLC.

Question 100

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In the diagram shown here, Harry is prevented from reading a file at a higher classification level than his security clearance. What security model prevents this behavior?

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A. Bell-LaPadula
B. Biba
C. Clark-Wilson
D. Brewer-Nash

Question 101

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Susan is setting up the network for a local coffee house and wants to ensure that users have to authenticate using an email address and agree to the coffee house’s acceptable use policy before being allowed on the network. What technology should she use to do this?

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A. 802.11
B. NAC
C. A captive portal
D. A wireless gateway

Question 102

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What is another term for active monitoring?

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A. Synthetic
B. Passive
C. Reactive
D. Span-based

Question 103

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The TCP header is made up of elements such as the source port, destination port, sequence number, and others. How many bytes long is the TCP header?

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A. 8 bytes
B. 20–60 bytes
C. 64 bytes
D. 64–128 bytes

Question 104

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The company that Fred works for is reviewing the security of their company-issued cell phones. They issue 4G-capable smartphones running Android and iOS and use a mobile device management solution to deploy company software to the phones. The mobile device management software also allows the company to remotely wipe the phones if they are lost. What security considerations should Fred’s company require for sending sensitive data over the cellular network?

Answer

A. They should use the same requirements as data over any public network.
B. Cellular provider networks are private networks and should not require special consideration.
C. Encrypt all traffic to ensure confidentiality.
D. Require the use of WAP for all data sent from the phone.

Question 105

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The company that Fred works for is reviewing the security of their company-issued cell phones. They issue 4G-capable smartphones running Android and iOS and use a mobile device management solution to deploy company software to the phones. The mobile device management software also allows the company to remotely wipe the phones if they are lost. Fred intends to attend a major hacker conference this year. What should he do when connecting to his cellular provider’s 4G network while at the conference?

Answer

A. Continue normal usage.
B. Discontinue all usage; towers can be spoofed.
C. Only use trusted Wi-Fi networks.
D. Connect to his company’s encrypted VPN service.

Question 106

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The company that Fred works for is reviewing the security of their company-issued cell phones. They issue 4G-capable smartphones running Android and iOS and use a mobile device management solution to deploy company software to the phones. The mobile device management software also allows the company to remotely wipe the phones if they are lost. What are the most likely circumstances that would cause a remote wipe of a mobile phone to fail?

Answer

A. The phone has a passcode on it.
B. The phone cannot contact a network.
C. The provider has not unlocked the phone.
D. The phone is in use.

Question 107

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Elaine is developing a business continuity plan for her organization. What value should she seek to minimize?

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A. AV
B. SSL
C. RTO
D. MTO

Question 108

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NIST Special Publication 800-53, revision 4, describes two measures of assurance. Which measure of developmental assurance is best described as measuring “the rigor, level of detail, and formality of the artifacts produced during the design and development of the hardware, software, and firmware components of information systems (e.g., functional specifications, high-level design, low-level design, source code)”?

Answer

A. Coverage
B. Suitability
C. Affirmation
D. Depth

Question 109

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Kathleen is reviewing the Ruby code shown here. What security technique is this code using?

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A. Parameterization
B. Typecasting
C. Gem cutting
D. Stored procedures

Question 110

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Chris is experiencing issues with the quality of network service on his organization’s network. The primary symptom is that packets are becoming corrupted as they travel from their source to their destination. What term describes the issue Chris is facing?

Answer

A. Latency
B. Jitter
C. Interference
D. Packet loss

Question 111

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Kathleen has been asked to choose a highly formalized code review process for her software quality assurance team to use. Which of the following software testing processes is the most rigorous and formal?

Answer

A. Fagan
B. Fuzzing
C. Over the shoulder
D. Pair programming

Question 112

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Frank is attempting to protect his web application against cross-site scripting attacks. Users do not need to provide input containing scripts, so he decided the most effective way to filter would be to write a filter on the server that watches for the <SCRIPT> tag and removes it. What is the issue with Frank’s approach?

Answer

A. Validation should always be performed on the client side.
B. Attackers may use XSS filter evasion techniques against this approach.
C. Server-side validation requires removing all HTML tags, not just the <SCRIPT> tag.
D. There is no problem with Frank’s approach.

Question 113

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Which one of the following is not an object-oriented programming language?

Answer

A. C++
B. Java
C. Fortran
D. C#

Question 114

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Uptown Records Management recently entered into a contract with a hospital for the secure storage of medical records. The hospital is a HIPAA-covered entity. What type of agreement must the two organizations sign to remain compliant with HIPAA?

Answer

A. NDA
B. NCA
C. BAA
D. SLA

Question 115

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Norm would like to conduct a disaster recovery test for his organization and wants to choose the most thorough type of test, recognizing that it may be quite disruptive. What type of test should Norm choose?

Answer

A. Full interruption test
B. Parallel test
C. Tabletop exercise
D. Checklist review

Question 116

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Ed is building a network that supports IPv6 but needs to connect it to an IPv4 network. What type of device should Ed place between the networks?

Answer

A. A switch
B. A router
C. A bridge
D. A gateway

Question 117

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What encryption standard won the competition for certification as the Advanced Encryption Standard?

Answer

A. Blowfish
B. Twofish
C. Rijndael
D. Skipjack

Question 118

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What application development method uses the cycle shown here?

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Answer

A. Waterfall
B. Spiral
C. Agile
D. RAD

Question 119

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Which one of the following actions is not required under the EU General Data Protection Regulation?

Answer

A. Organizations must allow individuals to opt out of information sharing.
B. Organizations must provide individuals with lists of employees with access to information.
C. Organizations must use proper mechanisms to protect data against unauthorized disclosure.
D. Organizations must have a dispute resolution process for privacy issues.

Question 120

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Tammy is selecting a disaster recovery facility for her organization. She would like to choose a facility that balances the time required to recover operations with the cost involved. What type of facility should she choose?

Answer

A. Hot site
B. Warm site
C. Cold site
D. Red site

Question 121

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What layer of the OSI model is associated with datagrams?

Answer

A. Session
B. Transport
C. Network
D. Data Link

Question 122

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Which one of the following is not a valid key length for the Advanced Encryption Standard?

Answer

A. 128 bits
B. 192 bits
C. 256 bits
D. 384 bits

Question 123

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Which one of the following technologies provides a function interface that allows developers to directly interact with systems without knowing the implementation details of that system?

Answer

A. Data dictionary
B. Object model
C. Source code
D. API

Question 124

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What email encryption technique is illustrated in this figure?

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Answer

A. MD5
B. Thunderbird
C. S/MIME
D. PGP

Question 125

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When Ben lists the files on a Linux system, he sees a set of attributes as shown in the following image. The letters rwx indicate different levels of what?

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Answer

A. Identification
B. Authorization
C. Authentication
D. Accountability

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