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CISSP (Brooks) (SY0-201) Quiz on SY0-201 Part 3, created by Brooks Thornhill on 15/08/2016.
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Question 1

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Which of the following is a goal of penetration testing?
Answer
  • Passively assess web vulnerabilities
  • To check compliance of the router configuration
  • Provide a passive check of the networks security
  • Actively assess deployed security controls

Question 2

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Using a smartcard and a physical token is considered how many factors of authentication?
Answer
  • One
  • Two
  • Three
  • Four

Question 3

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Which of the following increases availability during periods of electromagnetic interference? (Select TWO)
Answer
  • Fiber optic cable
  • Straight-through cable
  • STP cable
  • Crossover cable
  • UTP cable

Question 4

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A computer is displaying an MBR error upon restart. The technician is told the user has just installed new software. Which of the following threats is the MOST likely cause of this error?
Answer
  • Distributed DoS
  • Boot sector virus
  • ActiveX
  • Trojan

Question 5

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Which of the following should be disabled to help prevent boot sector viruses from launching when a computer boots?
Answer
  • SNMP
  • DMZ
  • USB
  • Hard Drive

Question 6

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Which of the following video surveillance systems should be installed on an existing network?
Answer
  • Microwave
  • Analog
  • CCTV
  • IP

Question 7

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Which of the following has a 128-bit message digest?
Answer
  • NTLM
  • MD5
  • SHA
  • 3DES

Question 8

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Which of the following is commonly used to secure HTTP and SMTP traffic?
Answer
  • SHA
  • SFTP
  • TLS
  • SCP

Question 9

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Which of the following uses an RC4 key that can be discovered by eavesdropping on plain text initialization vectors?
Answer
  • WEP
  • TKIP
  • SSH
  • WPA

Question 10

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A retinal scanner provides which of the following authentication types?
Answer
  • Biometric
  • Token
  • Two-factor
  • Optic

Question 11

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The accounting group, clinical group and operations group only have access to their own applications. The company often needs auditors to have access to all three groups applications with little notice. Which of the following would simplify the process of granting auditors permissions to all the applications?
Answer
  • Create an auditors group and merge the members of the accounting, clinical and operations groups
  • Create an auditors group and add each user to the accounting, clinical and operations groups individually
  • Create an auditors group and add each of the accounting, clinical and operations groups to the auditors group
  • Create an auditors group and add the group to each of the accounting, clinical and operations groups

Question 12

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Which of the following utilities would allow a system administrator to discover why an ISP is generating a large amount of TCP RST packets?
Answer
  • L0phtcrack
  • Wireshark
  • Nmap
  • Nessus

Question 13

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A large amount of continuous small transmissions are originating from multiple external hosts to the corporate web server, which is also inaccessible to users. Which of the following attacks is MOST likely the cause?
Answer
  • Spoofing
  • DNS poisoning
  • DDoS
  • DoS

Question 14

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A network security administrator is worried about potential man-in-the-middle attacks against users when they access a corporate website from their workstations. Which of the following is the BEST mitigation against this type of attack?
Answer
  • Implementing server-side PKI certificates for all connections
  • Mandating only client-side PKI certificates for all connections
  • Requiring client and server PKI certificates for all connections
  • Requiring strong authentication for all DNS queries

Question 15

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The security administrator at a small company is having trouble sending and receiving SMTP traffic from the network to the external gateway. Network utilization is very high with most traffic originating at one external IP address and ending at the SMTP server. Which of the following is MOST likely happening?
Answer
  • DoS attack
  • Open mail relays
  • Distributed DoS attack
  • Spear-phishing

Question 16

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The last company administrator failed to renew the registration for the corporate web site (e.g. https://www.comptia.org). When the new administrator tried to register the website it is discovered that the registration is being held by a series of small companies for very short periods of time. This is typical of which of the following?
Answer
  • Spoofing
  • TCP/IP hijacking
  • Domain name kiting
  • DNS poisoning

Question 17

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When used to encrypt transmissions, which of the following is the MOST resistant to brute force attacks?
Answer
  • SHA
  • MD5
  • 3DES
  • AES256

Question 18

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Which of the following is the BEST choice for whole disk encryption when confidentiality is the primary concern?
Answer
  • PGP
  • 3DES
  • DES
  • AES

Question 19

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The primary purpose of a hot site is to ensure which of the following?
Answer
  • Adequate HVAC to meet environmental initiatives
  • Recovery of operations within 30 days after a disaster
  • Transition of operations in a short time period in a disaster
  • Seamless operations in the event of a disaster

Question 20

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Which of the following is a component of a disaster recovery plan for a company that expects a site to be rendered non-usable during a disaster and needs a nearly transparent transfer of operations?
Answer
  • Warm site
  • Cold site
  • Hot site
  • Alternate site

Question 21

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Which of the following is the BEST mitigation method to implement when protecting against a discovered OS exploit?
Answer
  • NIDS
  • Patch
  • Antivirus update
  • HIDS

Question 22

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Which of the following MUST be taken into account when conducting risk assessments on necessary systems that are very old, costly to maintain, and very difficult to upgrade?
Answer
  • Likelihood vulnerability will be exploited
  • Frequency of patches published by the developer
  • Likelihood an attacker will notice the system
  • Maintenance costs associated with the system

Question 23

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Implicit deny is the practice of setting ACLs to which of the following conditions?
Answer
  • Verify all IP packets
  • Not allow by default
  • Transfer all traffic
  • Not allow by exception

Question 24

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Which of the following can virtualization technology provide with respect to availability?
Answer
  • The capability to manually transition hosts as hardware is added
  • The capacity to deploy more encrypted guests than hardware allows
  • The capability to automatically transition guests as hardware fails
  • The ability to provision more services during off peak hours

Question 25

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Which of the following is made possible by some commercial virtualization hosting applications?
Answer
  • Automatic redundancy for power in the event of a blackout
  • Seamless switching between telephony and IP telephony
  • Automatic transfer of applications when hardware fails
  • Transfer of network infrastructure components to meet demand

Question 26

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Cell phones with network access and the ability to store data files are susceptible to which of the following risks?
Answer
  • Input validation errors
  • SMTP open relays
  • Viruses
  • Logic bombs

Question 27

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If an administrator wanted to gather information about the tools and techniques used by attackers, which of the following could be used?
Answer
  • VLANs
  • Honeypot
  • Back door
  • Firewall

Question 28

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Shielded communications media is MOST often used to prevent electrical emanations from being detected and crosstalk between which of the following?
Answer
  • Networks
  • Cables
  • VLANs
  • VPNs

Question 29

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To prevent unintentional DoS, which of the following should network users be restricted from doing?
Answer
  • Printing to non-local printers
  • Restarting their own print jobs
  • Installing print management software
  • Deleting jobs from the print queue

Question 30

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Which of the following would a network administrator implement to control traffic being routed between networks or network segments in an effort to preserve data confidentiality?
Answer
  • NAT
  • Group policies
  • Password policies
  • ACLs

Question 31

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An employee reports that while at the airport an unknown user was taking pictures of the employees screen. This is commonly known as which of the following?
Answer
  • Shoulder surfing
  • Phishing
  • Spyware
  • Dumpster diving

Question 32

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The director of finance is worried about information being seen while working on a laptop at the local coffee shop. Which of the following can be used to avoid shoulder surfing?
Answer
  • Spyware
  • Antivirus
  • Privacy screen
  • Spam

Question 33

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A user needs to send bank account information to the Human Resource department for payroll. This type of information is considered which of the following?
Answer
  • Due care
  • Personally identifiable information
  • Due process
  • Classification of information

Question 34

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A user wants to send personally identifiable information to the security office via email, so they can perform a background check. Which of the following should be used to send the information to the security office?
Answer
  • Level of importance
  • Digital signature
  • Encryption
  • Signature line

Question 35

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A security administrator wants to prevent employees from sending unencrypted email with proprietary information. Which of the following can help mitigate this type of problem?
Answer
  • User awareness training
  • Dumpster diving
  • Personally identifiable information
  • Change management policy

Question 36

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A technician needs to setup a secure room to enable a private VTC system. Which of the following should be installed to prevent devices from listening to the VTC?
Answer
  • Shielding
  • HIDS
  • HVAC
  • MD5 hashing

Question 37

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A user reports that the workstation is going to obscure websites unexpectedly. Which of the following should a first responder do when arriving at the workstation?
Answer
  • Record the findings
  • Shutdown the workstation
  • Format the hard drive
  • Upgrade the operating system

Question 38

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A technician is setting up a secure laptop and wants to ensure that every log is captured for later evaluation. In which of the following locations would this information need to be noted?
Answer
  • Disaster recovery plan
  • Retention policy
  • Group policy
  • User review

Question 39

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The president of the company is trying to get to their banks website, and the browser is displaying that the webpage is being blocked by the system administrator.Which of the following logs would the technician review?
Answer
  • DNS
  • Performance
  • System
  • Content filter

Question 40

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A user reports that the spreadsheet they use for the department will not open. The spreadsheet is located on a server that was recently patched. Which of the following logs would the technician review FIRST?
Answer
  • Access
  • Firewall
  • Antivirus
  • DNS

Question 41

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Which of the following allows a users private IP address to be displayed as the firewall IP address when browsing the Internet?
Answer
  • Screened subnet
  • Dual-homed
  • DHCP
  • NAT

Question 42

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A user reports that each time they attempt to go to a legitimate website, they are sent to an inappropriate website. The security administrator suspects the user may have malware on the computer, which manipulated some of the users files. Which of the following files on the users system would need to be checked for unauthorized changes?
Answer
  • SAM
  • LMhosts
  • Services
  • Hosts

Question 43

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A security administrator responds to a report of a web server that has been compromised. The security administrator observes the background has been changed to an image of an attacker group. Which of the following would be the FIRST step in the incident response process?
Answer
  • Run an antivirus scan
  • Disable the network connection
  • Power down the server
  • Print a copy of the background

Question 44

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While responding to a confirmed breach of the organizations web server, the security administrator determines the source of the attack was from a rival organizations IP address range.Which of the following should the security administer do with this information?
Answer
  • Notify the Help Desk
  • Notify ICANN
  • Notify management
  • Notify the rival organizations IT department

Question 45

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Which of the following organizational disaster recovery types would provide a building and network equipment but not current application data?
Answer
  • Warm site
  • Field site
  • Cold site
  • Hot site

Question 46

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A security administrator is installing a new NIDS. For the NIDS to view all of the available traffic on a given segment, which of the following must the network administrator configure on the switch?
Answer
  • VLAN
  • Mirrored port
  • NAT
  • Management interface

Question 47

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Which of the following solutions will allow a security administrator to implement a white list of applications authorized on a users PC?
Answer
  • Antivirus
  • HIPS
  • HIDS
  • Anti-spam

Question 48

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Which of the following is an authentication method that uses symmetric key encryption and a key distribution center?
Answer
  • MS-CHAP
  • Kerberos
  • 802.1x
  • EAP
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