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Question1: The security administrator is responsible for the confidentiality of all corporate data. The company's servers are located in a datacenter run by a different vendor. The vendor datacenter hosts servers for many different clients, all of whom have access to the datacenter. None of the racks are physically secured. Recently, the company has been the victim of several attacks involving data injection and exfiltatration. The security administrator suspects these attacks are due to several new network based attacks facilitated by having physical access to a system. Which of the following BEST describes how to adapt to the threat?

Question2: After the install process, a software application executed an online activation process. After a few months, the system experienced a hardware failure. A backup image of the system was restored on a newer revision of the same brand and model device. After the restore, the specialized application no longer works. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem?

Question3: An internal development team has migrated away from Waterfall development to use Agile development.
Overall, this has been viewed as a successful initiative by the stakeholders as it has improved time-to- market. However, some staff within the security team have contended that Agile development is not secure. Which of the following is the MOST accurate statement?

Question4: A security administrator at Company XYZ is trying to develop a body of knowledge to enable heuristic and behavior based security event monitoring of activities on a geographically distributed network.
Instrumentation is chosen to allow for monitoring and measuring the network. Which of the following is the BEST methodology to use in establishing this baseline?

Question5: The DLP solution has been showing some unidentified encrypted data being sent using FTP to a remote server. A vulnerability scan found a collection of Linux servers that are missing OS level patches. Upon further investigation, a technician notices that there are a few unidentified processes running on a number of the servers. What would be a key FIRST step for the data security team to undertake at this point?

Question6: A small company is developing a new Internet-facing web application. The security requirements are:
1. Users of the web application must be uniquely identified and authenticated.
2. Users of the web application will not be added to the company's directory services.
3. Passwords must not be stored in the code.
Which of the following meets these requirements?

Question7: A security administrator is assessing a new application. The application uses an API that is supposed to encrypt text strings that are stored in memory. How might the administrator test that the strings are indeed encrypted in memory?

Question8: An IT manager is working with a project manager from another subsidiary of the same multinational organization. The project manager is responsible for a new software development effort that is being outsourced overseas, while customer acceptance testing will be performed in house. Which of the following capabilities is MOST likely to cause issues with network availability?

Question9: The helpdesk is receiving multiple calls about slow and intermittent Internet access from the finance department. The following information is compiled:
Caller 1, IP 172.16.35.217, NETMASK 255.255.254.0
Caller 2, IP 172.16.35.53, NETMASK 255.255.254.0
Caller 3, IP 172.16.35.173, NETMASK 255.255.254.0
All callers are connected to the same switch and are routed by a router with five built-in interfaces. The upstream router interface's MAC is 00-01-42-32-ab-1a
A packet capture shows the following:
09:05:15.934840 arp reply 172.16.34.1 is-at 00:01:42:32:ab:1a (00:01:42:32:ab:1a)
09:06:16.124850 arp reply 172.16.34.1 is-at 00:01:42:32:ab:1a (00:01:42:32:ab:1a)
09:07:25.439811 arp reply 172.16.34.1 is-at 00:01:42:32:ab:1a (00:01:42:32:ab:1a)
09:08:10.937590 IP 172.16.35.1 > 172.16.35.255: ICMP echo request, id 2305, seq 1, length 65534
09:08:10.937591 IP 172.16.35.1 > 172.16.35.255: ICMP echo request, id 2306, seq 2, length 65534
09:08:10.937592 IP 172.16.35.1 > 172.16.35.255: ICMP echo request, id 2307, seq 3, length 65534 Which of the following is occurring on the network?

Question10: A security auditor suspects two employees of having devised a scheme to steal money from the company.
While one employee submits purchase orders for personal items, the other employee approves these purchase orders. The auditor has contacted the human resources director with suggestions on how to detect such illegal activities. Which of the following should the human resource director implement to identify the employees involved in these activities and reduce the risk of this activity occurring in the future?

Question11: An organization has had six security incidents over the past year against their main web application. Each time the organization was able to determine the cause of the incident and restore operations within a few hours to a few days. Which of the following provides the MOST comprehensive method for reducing the time to recover?

Question12: When attending the latest security conference, an information security administrator noticed only a few people carrying a laptop around. Most other attendees only carried their smartphones.
Which of the following would impact the security of conference's resources?

Question13: The lead systems architect on a software development project developed a design which is optimized for a distributed computing environment. The security architect assigned to the project has concerns about the integrity of the system, if it is deployed in a commercial cloud. Due to poor communication within the team, the security risks of the proposed design are not being given any attention. A network engineer on the project has a security background and is concerned about the overall success of the project. Which of the following is the BEST course of action for the network engineer to take?

Question14: A trust relationship has been established between two organizations with web based services. One organization is acting as the Requesting Authority (RA) and the other acts as the Provisioning Service Provider (PSP). Which of the following is correct about the trust relationship?

Question15: An organization has several production critical SCADA supervisory systems that cannot follow the normal
30-day patching policy. Which of the following BEST maximizes the protection of these systems from malicious software?

Question16: ABC Corporation has introduced token-based authentication to system administrators due to the risk of password compromise. The tokens have a set of HMAC counter-based codes and are valid until they are used. Which of the following types of authentication mechanisms does this statement describe?

Question17: Company A has a remote work force that often includes independent contractors and out of state full time employees.
Company A's security engineer has been asked to implement a solution allowing these users to collaborate on projects with the following goals:
All communications between parties need to be encrypted in transport Users must all have the same application sets at the same version All data must remain at Company A's site All users must not access the system between 12:00 and 1:00 as that is the maintenance window Easy to maintain, patch and change application environment.
Which of the following solutions should the security engineer recommend to meet the MOST goals?

Question18: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a major consulting firm has significantly increased the company's security posture; however, the company is still plagued by data breaches of misplaced assets.
These data breaches as a result have led to the compromise of sensitive corporate and client data on at least 25 occasions. Each employee in the company is provided a laptop to perform company business.
Which of the following actions can the CISO take to mitigate the breaches?

Question19: A company receives an e-discovery request for the Chief Information Officer's (CIO's) email data. The storage administrator reports that the data retention policy relevant to their industry only requires one year of email data. However the storage administrator also reports that there are three years of email data on the server and five years of email data on backup tapes. How many years of data MUST the company legally provide?

Question20: An organization is preparing to upgrade its firewall and NIPS infrastructure and has narrowed the vendor choices down to two platforms. The integrator chosen to assist the organization with the deployment has many clients running a mixture of the possible combinations of environments. Which of the following is the MOST comprehensive method for evaluating the two platforms?

Question21: An investigator wants to collect the most volatile data first in an incident to preserve the data that runs the highest risk of being lost. After memory, which of the following BEST represents the remaining order of volatility that the investigator should follow?

Question22: A security administrator is conducting network forensic analysis of a recent defacement of the company's secure web payment server (HTTPS). The server was compromised around the New Year's holiday when all the company employees were off. The company's network diagram is summarized below:
Internet
Gateway Firewall
IDS
Web SSL Accelerator
Web Server Farm
Internal Firewall
Company Internal Network
The security administrator discovers that all the local web server logs have been deleted. Additionally, the Internal Firewall logs are intact but show no activity from the internal network to the web server farm during the holiday.
Which of the following is true?

Question23: An international shipping company discovered that deliveries left idle are being tampered with. The company wants to reduce the idle time associated with international deliveries by ensuring that personnel are automatically notified when an inbound delivery arrives at the transit dock. Which of the following should be implemented to help the company increase the security posture of its operations?

Question24: A multi-national company has a highly mobile workforce and minimal IT infrastructure. The company utilizes a BYOD and social media policy to integrate presence technology into global collaboration tools by individuals and teams. As a result of the dispersed employees and frequent international travel, the company is concerned about the safety of employees and their families when moving in and out of certain countries. Which of the following could the company view as a downside of using presence technology?

Question25: Wireless users are reporting issues with the company's video conferencing and VoIP systems. The security administrator notices internal DoS attacks from infected PCs on the network causing the VoIP system to drop calls. The security administrator also notices that the SIP servers are unavailable during these attacks. Which of the following security controls will MOST likely mitigate the VoIP DoS attacks on the network? (Select TWO).

Question26: A financial institution wants to reduce the costs associated with managing and troubleshooting employees' desktops and applications, while keeping employees from copying data onto external storage. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has asked the security team to evaluate four solutions submitted by the change management group. Which of the following BEST accomplishes this task?

Question27: An accountant at a small business is trying to understand the value of a server to determine if the business can afford to buy another server for DR. The risk manager only provided the accountant with the SLE of
$24,000, ARO of 20% and the exposure factor of 25%. Which of the following is the correct asset value calculated by the accountant?

Question28: A medium-sized company has recently launched an online product catalog. It has decided to keep the credit card purchasing in-house as a secondary potential income stream has been identified in relation to sales leads. The company has decided to undertake a PCI assessment in order to determine the amount of effort required to meet the business objectives. Which compliance category would this task be part of?

Question29: A startup company offering software on demand has hired a security consultant to provide expertise on data security. The company's clients are concerned about data confidentiality. The security consultant must design an environment with data confidentiality as the top priority, over availability and integrity.
Which of the following designs is BEST suited for this purpose?

Question30: Company XYZ has had repeated vulnerability exploits of a critical nature released to the company's flagship product. The product is used by a number of large customers. At the Chief Information Security Officer's (CISO's) request, the product manager now has to budget for a team of security consultants to introduce major product security improvements.
Here is a list of improvements in order of priority:
1. A noticeable improvement in security posture immediately.
2. Fundamental changes to resolve systemic issues as an ongoing process
3. Improvements should be strategic as opposed to tactical
4. Customer impact should be minimized
Which of the following recommendations is BEST for the CISO to put forward to the product manager?

Question31: A storage as a service company implements both encryption at rest as well as encryption in transit of customers' data. The security administrator is concerned with the overall security of the encrypted customer data stored by the company servers and wants the development team to implement a solution that will strengthen the customer's encryption key. Which of the following, if implemented, will MOST increase the time an offline password attack against the customers' data would take?

Question32: An audit at a popular on-line shopping site reveals that a flaw in the website allows customers to purchase goods at a discounted rate. To improve security the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has requested that the web based shopping cart application undergo testing to validate user input in both free form text fields and drop down boxes.
Which of the following is the BEST combination of tools and / or methods to use?

Question33: An administrator is notified that contract workers will be onsite assisting with a new project. The administrator wants each worker to be aware of the corporate policy pertaining to USB storage devices.
Which of the following should each worker review and understand before beginning work?

Question34: A senior network security engineer has been tasked to decrease the attack surface of the corporate network. Which of the following actions would protect the external network interfaces from external attackers performing network scanning?

Question35: A bank has decided to outsource some existing IT functions and systems to a third party service provider.
The third party service provider will manage the outsourced systems on their own premises and will continue to directly interface with the bank's other systems through dedicated encrypted links. Which of the following is critical to ensure the successful management of system security concerns between the two organizations?

Question36: A large enterprise introduced a next generation firewall appliance into the Internet facing DMZ. All Internet traffic passes through this appliance. Four hours after implementation the network engineering team discovered that traffic through the DMZ now has un-acceptable latency, and is recommending that the new firewall be taken offline. At what point in the implementation process should this problem have been discovered?

Question37: A security engineer is troubleshooting a possible virus infection, which may have spread to multiple desktop computers within the organization. The company implements enterprise antivirus software on all desktops, but the enterprise antivirus server's logs show no sign of a virus infection. The border firewall logs show suspicious activity from multiple internal hosts trying to connect to the same external IP address.
The security administrator decides to post the firewall logs to a security mailing list and receives confirmation from other security administrators that the firewall logs indicate internal hosts are compromised with a new variant of the Trojan.Ransomcrypt.G malware not yet detected by most antivirus software. Which of the following would have detected the malware infection sooner?

Question38: A security services company is scoping a proposal with a client. They want to perform a general security audit of their environment within a two week period and consequently have the following requirements:
Requirement 1 - Ensure their server infrastructure operating systems are at their latest patch levels Requirement 2 - Test the behavior between the application and database
Requirement 3 - Ensure that customer data can not be exfiltrated
Which of the following is the BEST solution to meet the above requirements?

Question39: A vulnerability research team has detected a new variant of a stealth Trojan that disables itself when it detects that it is running on a virtualized environment. The team decides to use dedicated hardware and local network to identify the Trojan's behavior and the remote DNS and IP addresses it connects to. Which of the following tools is BEST suited to identify the DNS and IP addresses the stealth Trojan communicates with after its payload is decrypted?

Question40: Which of the following BEST explains SAML?

Question41: A security consultant is hired by a company to determine if an internally developed web application is vulnerable to attacks. The consultant spent two weeks testing the application, and determines that no vulnerabilities are present. Based on the results of the tools and tests available, which of the following statements BEST reflects the security status of the application?

Question42: SIMULATION
Compliance with company policy requires a quarterly review of firewall rules. A new administrator is asked to conduct this review on the internal firewall sitting between several Internal networks. The intent of this firewall is to make traffic more restrictive. Given the following information answer the questions below:
User Subnet: 192.168.1.0/24 Server Subnet: 192.168.2.0/24 Finance Subnet:192.168.3.0/24 Instructions: To perform the necessary tasks, please modify the DST port, Protocol, Action, and/or Rule Order columns. Firewall ACLs are read from the top down
Task 1) An administrator added a rule to allow their machine terminal server access to the server subnet.
This rule is not working. Identify the rule and correct this issue.
Task 2) All web servers have been changed to communicate solely over SSL. Modify the appropriate rule to allow communications.
Task 3) An administrator added a rule to block access to the SQL server from anywhere on the network.
This rule is not working. Identify and correct this issue.
Task 4) Other than allowing all hosts to do network time and SSL, modify a rule to ensure that no other traffic is allowed.

Question43: The marketing department at Company A regularly sends out emails signed by the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with announcements about the company. The CEO sends company and personal emails from a different email account. During legal proceedings against the company, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) must prove which emails came from the CEO and which came from the marketing department. The email server allows emails to be digitally signed and the corporate PKI provisioning allows for one certificate per user. The CEO did not share their password with anyone. Which of the following will allow the CIO to state which emails the CEO sent and which the marketing department sent?

Question44: The security manager of a company has hired an external consultant to conduct a security assessment of the company network. The contract stipulates that the consultant is not allowed to transmit any data on the company network while performing wired and wireless security assessments. Which of the following technical means can the consultant use to determine the manufacturer and likely operating system of the company wireless and wired network devices, as well as the computers connected to the company network?

Question45: A new web application system was purchased from a vendor and configured by the internal development team. Before the web application system was moved into production, a vulnerability assessment was conducted. A review of the vulnerability assessment report indicated that the testing team discovered a minor security issue with the configuration of the web application. The security issue should be reported to:

Question46: About twice a year a switch fails in a company's network center. Under the maintenance contract, the switch would be replaced in two hours losing the business $1,000 per hour. The cost of a spare switch is
$3,000 with a 12-hour delivery time and would eliminate downtime costs if purchased ahead of time. The maintenance contract is $1,500 per year.
Which of the following is true in this scenario?

Question47: A bank provides single sign on services between its internally hosted applications and externally hosted CRM. The following sequence of events occurs:
1. The banker accesses the CRM system, a redirect is performed back to the organization's internal systems.
2. A lookup is performed of the identity and a token is generated, signed and encrypted.
3. A redirect is performed back to the CRM system with the token.
4. The CRM system validates the integrity of the payload, extracts the identity and performs a lookup.
5. If the banker is not in the system and automated provisioning request occurs.
6. The banker is authenticated and authorized and can access the system.
This is an example of which of the following?

Question48: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has requested that a SIEM solution be implemented. The CISO wants to know upfront what the projected TCO would be before looking further into this concern. Two vendor proposals have been received:
Vendor A: product-based solution which can be purchased by the pharmaceutical company.

Capital expenses to cover central log collectors, correlators, storage and management consoles

expected to be $150,000. Operational expenses are expected to be a 0.5 full time employee (FTE) to manage the solution, and 1 full time employee to respond to incidents per year.
Vendor B: managed service-based solution which can be the outsourcer for the pharmaceutical

company's needs.
Bundled offering expected to be $100,000 per year.
Operational expenses for the pharmaceutical company to partner with the vendor are expected to be a 0.5 FTE per year.
Internal employee costs are averaged to be $80,000 per year per FTE. Based on calculating TCO of the two vendor proposals over a 5 year period, which of the following options is MOST accurate?

Question49: A university Chief Information Security Officer is analyzing various solutions for a new project involving the upgrade of the network infrastructure within the campus. The campus has several dorms (two-four person rooms) and administrative buildings. The network is currently setup to provide only two network ports in each dorm room and ten network ports per classroom. Only administrative buildings provide 2.4 GHz wireless coverage.
The following three goals must be met after the new implementation:
1. Provide all users (including students in their dorms) connections to the Internet.
2. Provide IT department with the ability to make changes to the network environment to improve performance.
3. Provide high speed connections wherever possible all throughout campus including sporting event areas.
Which of the following risk responses would MOST likely be used to reduce the risk of network outages and financial expenditures while still meeting each of the goals stated above?

Question50: An educational institution would like to make computer labs available to remote students. The labs are used for various IT networking, security, and programming courses. The requirements are:
1. Each lab must be on a separate network segment.
2. Labs must have access to the Internet, but not other lab networks.
3. Student devices must have network access, not simple access to hosts on the lab networks.
4. Students must have a private certificate installed before gaining access.
5. Servers must have a private certificate installed locally to provide assurance to the students.
6. All students must use the same VPN connection profile.
Which of the following components should be used to achieve the design in conjunction with directory services?

Question51: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at a large organization has been reviewing some security- related incidents at the organization and comparing them to current industry trends. The desktop security engineer feels that the use of USB storage devices on office computers has contributed to the frequency of security incidents. The CISO knows the acceptable use policy prohibits the use of USB storage devices.
Every user receives a popup warning about this policy upon login. The SIEM system produces a report of USB violations on a monthly basis; yet violations continue to occur. Which of the following preventative controls would MOST effectively mitigate the logical risks associated with the use of USB storage devices?

Question52: An organization recently upgraded its wireless infrastructure to support 802.1x and requires all clients to use this method. After the upgrade, several critical wireless clients fail to connect because they are only pre-shared key compliant. For the foreseeable future, none of the affected clients have an upgrade path to put them into compliance with the 802.1x requirement. Which of the following provides the MOST secure method of integrating the non-compliant clients into the network?

Question53: The <nameID> element in SAML can be provided in which of the following predefined formats? (Select TWO).

Question54: A company decides to purchase commercially available software packages. This can introduce new security risks to the network. Which of the following is the BEST description of why this is true?

Question55: Which of the following protocols only facilitates access control?

Question56: A large corporation which is heavily reliant on IT platforms and systems is in financial difficulty and needs to drastically reduce costs in the short term to survive. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has mandated that all IT and architectural functions will be outsourced and a mixture of providers will be selected. One provider will manage the desktops for five years, another provider will manage the network for ten years, another provider will be responsible for security for four years, and an offshore provider will perform day to day business processing functions for two years. At the end of each contract the incumbent may be renewed or a new provider may be selected. Which of the following are the MOST likely risk implications of the CFO's business decision?

Question57: A WAF without customization will protect the infrastructure from which of the following attack combinations?

Question58: A corporation implements a mobile device policy on smartphones that utilizes a white list for allowed applications. Recently, the security administrator notices that a consumer cloud based storage application has been added to the mobile device white list. Which of the following security implications should the security administrator cite when recommending the application's removal from the white list?

Question59: SIMULATION
An administrator wants to install a patch to an application. Given the scenario, download, verify and install the patch in the most secure manner.
Instructions: The last install that is completed will be the final submission.

Question60: Which of the following should be used to identify overflow vulnerabilities?

Question61: A software developer and IT administrator are focused on implementing security in the organization to protect OSI layer 7. Which of the following security technologies would BEST meet their requirements?
(Select TWO).

Question62: SIMULATION
Company A has noticed abnormal behavior targeting their SQL server on the network from a rogue IP address. The company uses the following internal IP address ranges: 192.10.1.0/24 for the corporate site and 192.10.2.0/24 for the remote site. The Telco router interface uses the 192.10.5.0/30 IP range.
Instructions: Click on the simulation button to refer to the Network Diagram for Company A.
Click on Router 1, Router 2, and the Firewall to evaluate and configure each device.
Task 1: Display and examine the logs and status of Router 1, Router 2, and Firewall interfaces.
Task 2: Reconfigure the appropriate devices to prevent the attacks from continuing to target the SQL server and other servers on the corporate network.

Question63: Which of the following is an example of single sign-on?

Question64: A port in a fibre channel switch failed, causing a costly downtime on the company's primary website. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the downtime?

Question65: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a small bank wants to embed a monthly testing regiment into the security management plan specifically for the development area. The CISO's requirements are that testing must have a low risk of impacting system stability, can be scripted, and is very thorough. The development team claims that this will lead to a higher degree of test script maintenance and that it would be preferable if the testing was outsourced to a third party. The CISO still maintains that third-party testing would not be as thorough as the third party lacks the introspection of the development team. Which of the following will satisfy the CISO requirements?

Question66: An Association is preparing to upgrade their firewalls at five locations around the United States. Each of the three vendor's RFP responses is in-line with the security and other requirements. Which of the following should the security administrator do to ensure the firewall platform is appropriate for the Association?

Question67: Company A is purchasing Company B Company A uses a change management system for all IT processes while Company B does not have one in place. Company B's IT staff needs to purchase a third party product to enhance production. Which of the following NEXT steps should be implemented to address the security impacts this product may cause?

Question68: An administrator receives a notification from legal that an investigation is being performed on members of the finance department. As a precaution, legal has advised a legal hold on all documents for an unspecified period of time. Which of the following policies will MOST likely be violated? (Select TWO).

Question69: Part of the procedure for decommissioning a database server is to wipe all local disks, as well as SAN LUNs allocated to the server, even though the SAN itself is not being decommissioned. Which of the following is the reason for wiping the SAN LUNs?

Question70: Company XYZ plans to donate 1,000 used computers to a local school. The company has a large research and development section and some of the computers were previously used to store proprietary research.
The security administrator is concerned about data remnants on the donated machines, but the company does not have a device sanitization section in the data handling policy.
Which of the following is the BEST course of action for the security administrator to take?

Question71: During an incident involving the company main database, a team of forensics experts is hired to respond to the breach. The team is in charge of collecting forensics evidence from the company's database server.
Which of the following is the correct order in which the forensics team should engage?

Question72: A security administrator was recently hired in a start-up company to represent the interest of security and to assist the network team in improving security in the company. The programmers are not on good terms with the security team and do not want to be distracted with security issues while they are working on a major project. Which of the following is the BEST time to make them address security issues in the project?

Question73: VPN users cannot access the active FTP server through the router but can access any server in the data center.
Additional network information:
DMZ network - 192.168.5.0/24 (FTP server is 192.168.5.11)
VPN network - 192.168.1.0/24
Datacenter - 192.168.2.0/24
User network - 192.168.3.0/24
HR network - 192.168.4.0/24\
Traffic shaper configuration:
VLAN Bandwidth Limit (Mbps)
VPN 50
User 175
HR 250
Finance 250
Guest 0
Router ACL:
Action Source Destination
Permit 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
Permit 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.3.0/24
Permit 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.5.0/24
Permit 192.168.2.0/24 192.168.1.0/24
Permit 192.168.3.0/24 192.168.1.0/24
Permit 192.168.5.1/32 192.168.1.0/24
Deny 192.168.4.0/24 192.168.1.0/24
Deny 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.4.0/24
Deny any any
Which of the following solutions would allow the users to access the active FTP server?

Question74: A security architect has been engaged during the implementation stage of the SDLC to review a new HR software installation for security gaps. With the project under a tight schedule to meet market commitments on project delivery, which of the following security activities should be prioritized by the security architect?
(Select TWO).

Question75: Using SSL, an administrator wishes to secure public facing server farms in three subdomains:
dc1.east.company.com, dc2.central.company.com, and dc3.west.company.com. Which of the following is the number of wildcard SSL certificates that should be purchased?

Question76: A company has implemented data retention policies and storage quotas in response to their legal department's requests and the SAN administrator's recommendation. The retention policy states all email data older than 90 days should be eliminated. As there are no technical controls in place, users have been instructed to stick to a storage quota of 500Mb of network storage and 200Mb of email storage. After being presented with an e- discovery request from an opposing legal council, the security administrator discovers that the user in the suit has 1Tb of files and 300Mb of email spanning over two years. Which of the following should the security administrator provide to opposing council?

Question77: A UNIX administrator notifies the storage administrator that extra LUNs can be seen on a UNIX server.
The LUNs appear to be NTFS file systems. Which of the following MOST likely happened?

Question78: A risk manager has decided to use likelihood and consequence to determine the risk of an event occurring to a company asset. Which of the following is a limitation of this approach to risk management?

Question79: Two storage administrators are discussing which SAN configurations will offer the MOST confidentiality.
Which of the following configurations would the administrators use? (Select TWO).

Question80: Which of the following does SAML uses to prevent government auditors or law enforcement from identifying specific entities as having already connected to a service provider through an SSO operation?

Question81: A security auditor is conducting an audit of a corporation where 95% of the users travel or work from non- corporate locations a majority of the time. While the employees are away from the corporate offices, they retain full access to the corporate network and use of corporate laptops. The auditor knows that the corporation processes PII and other sensitive data with applications requiring local caches of any data being manipulated. Which of the following security controls should the auditor check for and recommend to be implemented if missing from the laptops?

Question82: A system administrator is troubleshooting a possible denial of service on a sensitive system. The system seems to run properly for a few hours after it is restarted, but then it suddenly stops processing transactions. The system administrator suspects an internal DoS caused by a disgruntled developer who is currently seeking a new job while still working for the company. After looking into various system logs, the system administrator looks at the following output from the main system service responsible for processing incoming transactions.
DATE/TIMEPIDCOMMAND%CPUMEM
031020141030002055com.proc10.2920K
031020141100002055com.proc12.35.2M
031020141230002055com.proc22.022M
031020141300002055com.proc33.01.6G
031020141330002055com.proc30.28.0G
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for the DoS?

Question83: A trucking company delivers products all over the country. The executives at the company would like to have better insight into the location of their drivers to ensure the shipments are following secure routes.
Which of the following would BEST help the executives meet this goal?

Question84: An administrator is implementing a new network-based storage device. In selecting a storage protocol, the administrator would like the data in transit's integrity to be the most important concern. Which of the following protocols meets these needs by implementing either AES-CMAC or HMAC-SHA256 to sign data?

Question85: -- Exhibit --

-- Exhibit --
Company management has indicated that instant messengers (IM) add to employee productivity.
Management would like to implement an IM solution, but does not have a budget for the project. The security engineer creates a feature matrix to help decide the most secure product. Click on the Exhibit button.
Which of the following would the security engineer MOST likely recommend based on the table?

Question86: A medical device manufacturer has decided to work with another international organization to develop the software for a new robotic surgical platform to be introduced into hospitals within the next 12 months. In order to ensure a competitor does not become aware, management at the medical device manufacturer has decided to keep it secret until formal contracts are signed. Which of the following documents is MOST likely to contain a description of the initial terms and arrangement and is not legally enforceable?

Question87: A company is preparing to upgrade its NIPS at five locations around the world. The three platforms the team plans to test, claims to have the most advanced features and lucrative pricing.
Assuming all platforms meet the functionality requirements, which of the following methods should be used to select the BEST platform?

Question88: The IT Security Analyst for a small organization is working on a customer's system and identifies a possible intrusion in a database that contains PII. Since PII is involved, the analyst wants to get the issue addressed as soon as possible. Which of the following is the FIRST step the analyst should take in mitigating the impact of the potential intrusion?

Question89: A morphed worm carrying a 0-day payload has infiltrated the company network and is now spreading across the organization. The security administrator was able to isolate the worm communication and payload distribution channel to TCP port 445. Which of the following can the administrator do in the short term to minimize the attack?

Question90: At 10:35 a.m. a malicious user was able to obtain a valid authentication token which allowed read/write access to the backend database of a financial company. At 10:45 a.m. the security administrator received multiple alerts from the company's statistical anomaly- based IDS about a company database administrator performing unusual transactions. At
10:55 a.m. the security administrator resets the database administrator's password.
At 11:00 a.m. the security administrator is still receiving alerts from the IDS about unusual transactions from the same user. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the alerts?

Question91: The risk committee has endorsed the adoption of a security system development life cycle (SSDLC) designed to ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and meet the organization's mission. Which of the following BEST describes the correct order of implementing a five phase SSDLC?

Question92: A company has noticed recently that its corporate information has ended up on an online forum. An investigation has identified that internal employees are sharing confidential corporate information on a daily basis. Which of the following are the MOST effective security controls that can be implemented to stop the above problem? (Select TWO).

Question93: An administrator believes that the web servers are being flooded with excessive traffic from time to time.
The administrator suspects that these traffic floods correspond to when a competitor makes major announcements. Which of the following should the administrator do to prove this theory?

Question94: A security analyst, Ann, states that she believes Internet facing file transfer servers are being attacked.
Which of the following is evidence that would aid Ann in making a case to management that action needs to be taken to safeguard these servers?

Question95: A security administrator at a Lab Company is required to implement a solution which will provide the highest level of confidentiality possible to all data on the lab network.
The current infrastructure design includes:
Two-factor token and biometric based authentication for all users

Attributable administrator accounts

Logging of all transactions

Full disk encryption of all HDDs

Finely granular access controls to all resources

Full virtualization of all servers

The use of LUN masking to segregate SAN data

Port security on all switches

The network is protected with a firewall implementing ACLs, a NIPS device, and secured wireless access points.
Which of the following cryptographic improvements should be made to the current architecture to achieve the stated goals?

Question96: A critical system audit shows that the payroll system is not meeting security policy due to missing OS security patches. Upon further review, it appears that the system is not being patched at all. The vendor states that the system is only supported on the current OS patch level. Which of the following compensating controls should be used to mitigate the vulnerability of missing OS patches on this system?

Question97: An employee is performing a review of the organization's security functions and noticed that there is some cross over responsibility between the IT security team and the financial fraud team. Which of the following security documents should be used to clarify the roles and responsibilities between the teams?

Question98: Company ABC is planning to outsource its Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) and marketing / leads management to Company XYZ.
Which of the following is the MOST important to be considered before going ahead with the service?

Question99: A firm's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is concerned that IT staff lacks the knowledge to identify complex vulnerabilities that may exist in a payment system being internally developed. The payment system being developed will be sold to a number of organizations and is in direct competition with another leading product. The CEO highlighted that code base confidentiality is of critical importance to allow the company to exceed the competition in terms of the product's reliability, stability, and performance. Which of the following would provide the MOST thorough testing and satisfy the CEO's requirements?

Question100: A large bank deployed a DLP solution to detect and block customer and credit card data from leaving the organization via email. A disgruntled employee was able to successfully exfiltrate data through the corporate email gateway by embedding a word processing document containing sensitive data as an object in a CAD file. Which of the following BEST explains why it was not detected and blocked by the DLP solution? (Select TWO).

Question101: Within the company, there is executive management pressure to start advertising to a new target market.
Due to the perceived schedule and budget inefficiencies of engaging a technology business unit to commission a new micro-site, the marketing department is engaging third parties to develop the site in order to meet time-to-market demands. From a security perspective, which of the following options BEST balances the needs between marketing and risk management?

Question102: A company that must comply with regulations is searching for a laptop encryption product to use for its
40,000 end points. The product must meet regulations but also be flexible enough to minimize overhead and support in regards to password resets and lockouts. Which of the following implementations would BEST meet the needs?

Question103: An administrator has a system hardening policy to only allow network access to certain services, to always use similar hardware, and to protect from unauthorized application configuration changes.
Which of the following technologies would help meet this policy requirement? (Select TWO).

Question104: An external auditor has found that IT security policies in the organization are not maintained and in some cases are nonexistent. As a result of the audit findings, the CISO has been tasked with the objective of establishing a mechanism to manage the lifecycle of IT security policies. Which of the following can be used to BEST achieve the CISO's objectives?

Question105: A security solutions architect has argued consistently to implement the most secure method of encrypting corporate messages. The solution has been derided as not being cost effective by other members of the IT department. The proposed solution uses symmetric keys to encrypt all messages and is very resistant to unauthorized decryption. The method also requires special handling and security for all key material that goes above and beyond most encryption systems.
Which of the following is the solutions architect MOST likely trying to implement?

Question106: The latest independent research shows that cyber attacks involving SCADA systems grew an average of
15% per year in each of the last four years, but that this year's growth has slowed to around 7%. Over the same time period, the number of attacks against applications has decreased or stayed flat each year. At the start of the measure period, the incidence of PC boot loader or BIOS based attacks was negligible.
Starting two years ago, the growth in the number of PC boot loader attacks has grown exponentially.
Analysis of these trends would seem to suggest which of the following strategies should be employed?

Question107: A new IT company has hired a security consultant to implement a remote access system, which will enable employees to telecommute from home using both company issued as well as personal computing devices, including mobile devices. The company wants a flexible system to provide confidentiality and integrity for data in transit to the company's internally developed application GUI. Company policy prohibits employees from having administrative rights to company issued devices. Which of the following remote access solutions has the lowest technical complexity?

Question108: During a new desktop refresh, all hosts are hardened at the OS level before deployment to comply with policy. Six months later, the company is audited for compliance to regulations. The audit discovers that 40 percent of the desktops do not meet requirements. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the noncompliance?

Question109: An administrator at a small company replaces servers whenever budget money becomes available. Over the past several years the company has acquired and still uses 20 servers and 50 desktops from five different computer manufacturers. Which of the following are management challenges and risks associated with this style of technology lifecycle management?

Question110: An intrusion detection system logged an attack attempt from a remote IP address. One week later, the attacker successfully compromised the network. Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

Question111: An IT manager is working with a project manager to implement a new ERP system capable of transacting data between the new ERP system and the legacy system. As part of this process, both parties must agree to the controls utilized to secure data connections between the two enterprise systems. This is commonly documented in which of the following formal documents?

Question112: A bank now has a major initiative to virtualize as many servers as possible, due to power and rack space capacity at both data centers. The bank has prioritized by virtualizing older servers first as the hardware is nearing end-of-life.
The two initial migrations include:
Windows 2000 hosts: domain controllers and front-facing web servers RHEL3 hosts: front-facing web servers
Which of the following should the security consultant recommend based on best practices?

Question113: DRAG DROP
Company A has experienced external attacks on their network and wants to minimize the attacks from reoccurring. Modify the network diagram to prevent SQL injections, XSS attacks, smurf attacks, e-mail spam, downloaded malware, viruses and ping attacks. The company can spend a MAXIMUM of $50,000 USD. A cost list for each item is listed below:
1. Anti-Virus Server - $10,000
2. Firewall-$15,000
3. Load Balanced Server - $10,000
4. NIDS/NIPS-$10,000
5. Packet Analyzer - $5,000
6. Patch Server-$15,000
7. Proxy Server-$20,000
8. Router-$10,000
9. Spam Filter-$5,000
10. Traffic Shaper - $20,000
11. Web Application Firewall - $10,000
Instructions: Not all placeholders in the diagram need to be filled and items can only be used once. If you place an object on the network diagram, you can remove it by clicking the (x) in the upper right-hand of the object.
Select and Place:

Question114: A hosting company provides inexpensive guest virtual machines to low-margin customers. Customers manage their own guest virtual machines. Some customers want basic guarantees of logical separation from other customers and it has been indicated that some customers would like to have configuration control of this separation; whereas others want this provided as a value-added service by the hosting company. Which of the following BEST meets these requirements?

Question115: A company has a difficult time communicating between the security engineers, application developers, and sales staff. The sales staff tends to overpromise the application deliverables. The security engineers and application developers are falling behind schedule. Which of the following should be done to solve this?

Question116: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) regularly receives reports of a single department repeatedly violating the corporate security policy. The head of the department in question informs the CISO that the offending behaviors are a result of necessary business activities. The CISO assigns a junior security administrator to solve the issue. Which of the following is the BEST course of action for the junior security administrator to take?

Question117: A company provides on-demand cloud computing resources for a sensitive project. The company implements a fully virtualized datacenter and terminal server access with two-factor authentication for customer access to the administrative website. The security administrator at the company has uncovered a breach in data confidentiality. Sensitive data from customer A was found on a hidden directory within the VM of company B.
Company B is not in the same industry as company A and the two are not competitors.
Which of the following has MOST likely occurred?

Question118: A company receives a subpoena for email that is four years old. Which of the following should the company consult to determine if it can provide the email in question?

Question119: Customer Need:
"We need the system to produce a series of numbers with no discernible mathematical progression for use by our Java based, PKI-enabled, customer facing website."
Which of the following BEST restates the customer need?

Question120: An administrator attempts to install the package "named.9.3.6-12-x86_64.rpm" on a server. Even though the package was downloaded from the official repository, the server states the package cannot be installed because no GPG key is found. Which of the following should the administrator perform to allow the program to be installed?

Question121: A new startup company with very limited funds wants to protect the organization from external threats by implementing some type of best practice security controls across a number of hosts located in the application zone, the production zone, and the core network. The 50 hosts in the core network are a mixture of Windows and Linux based systems, used by development staff to develop new applications.
The single Windows host in the application zone is used exclusively by the production team to control software deployments into the production zone. There are 10 UNIX web application hosts in the production zone which are publically accessible.
Development staff is required to install and remove various types of software from their hosts on a regular basis while the hosts in the zone rarely require any type of configuration changes.
Which of the following when implemented would provide the BEST level of protection with the LEAST amount of disruption to staff?

Question122: The Linux server at Company A hosts a graphical application widely used by the company designers. One designer regularly connects to the server from a Mac laptop in the designer's office down the hall. When the security engineer learns of this it is discovered the connection is not secured and the password can easily be obtained via network sniffing. Which of the following would the security engineer MOST likely implement to secure this connection?
Linux Server: 192.168.10.10/24
Mac Laptop: 192.168.10.200/24

Question123: Warehouse users are reporting performance issues at the end of each month when trying to access cloud applications to complete their end of the month financial reports. They have no problem accessing those applications at the beginning of the month.
Network information:
DMZ network - 192.168.5.0/24
VPN network - 192.168.1.0/24
Datacenter - 192.168.2.0/24
User network - 192.168.3.0/24
HR network - 192.168.4.0/24
Warehouse network - 192.168.6.0/24
Finance network - 192.168.7.0/24
Traffic shaper configuration:
VLAN Bandwidth limit (Mbps)
VPN50
User175
HR220
Finance230
Warehouse75
Guest50
External firewall allows all networks to access the Internet.
Internal Firewall Rules:
ActionSourceDestination
Permit192.168.1.0/24192.168.2.0/24
Permit192.168.1.0/24192.168.3.0/24
Permit192.168.1.0/24192.168.5.0/24
Permit192.168.2.0/24192.168.1.0/24
Permit192.168.3.0/24192.168.1.0/24
Permit192.168.5.0/24192.168.1.0/24
Permit192.168.4.0/24192.168.7.0/24
Permit192.168.7.0/24192.168.4.0/24
Permit192.168.7.0/24any
Deny192.168.4.0/24any
Deny192.168.1.0/24192.168.4.0/24
Denyanyany
Which of the following restrictions is the MOST likely cause?

Question124: A security administrator must implement a SCADA style network overlay to ensure secure remote management of all network management and infrastructure devices. Which of the following BEST describes the rationale behind this architecture?

Question125: An organization has had component integration related vulnerabilities exploited in consecutive releases of the software it hosts. The only reason the company was able to identify the compromises was because of a correlation of slow server performance and an attentive security analyst noticing unusual outbound network activity from the application servers. End-to-end management of the development process is the responsibility of the applications development manager and testing is done by various teams of programmers. Which of the following will MOST likely reduce the likelihood of similar incidents?

Question126: After being informed that the company DNS is unresponsive, the system administrator issues the following command from a Linux workstation:
SSH -p 2020 -l user dnsserver.company.com
Once at the command prompt, the administrator issues the below command.
Service bind restart
The system returns the below response:
Unable to restart BIND
Which of the following is true about the above situation?

Question127: Company XYZ has just purchased Company ABC through a new acquisition. A business decision has been made to integrate the two company's networks, application, and several basic services.
The initial integration of the two companies has specified the following requirements:
Company XYZ requires access to the web intranet, file, print, secure FTP server, and authentication domain resources
Company XYZ is being on boarded into Company ABC's authentication domain Company XYZ is considered partially trusted
Company XYZ does not want performance issues when accessing ABC's systems Which of the following network security solutions will BEST meet the above requirements?

Question128: A database administrator comes across the below records in one of the databases during an internal audit of the payment system:
UserIDAddressCredit Card No.Password
jsmith123 fake street55XX-XXX-XXXX-1397Password100
jqdoe234 fake street42XX-XXX-XXXX-202717DEC12
From a security perspective, which of the following should be the administrator's GREATEST concern, and what will correct the concern?

Question129: Ann is testing the robustness of a marketing website through an intercepting proxy. She has intercepted the following HTTP request:
POST /login.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: comptia.org
Content-type: text/html
txtUsername=ann&txtPassword=ann&alreadyLoggedIn=false&submit=true
Which of the following should Ann perform to test whether the website is susceptible to a simple authentication bypass?

Question130: The risk manager at a small bank wants to use quantitative analysis to determine the ALE of running a business system at a location which is subject to fires during the year. A risk analyst reports to the risk manager that the asset value of the business system is $120,000 and, based on industry data, the exposure factor to fires is only 20% due to the fire suppression system installed at the site. Fires occur in the area on average every four years. Which of the following is the ALE?

Question131: A recently hired security administrator is advising developers about the secure integration of a legacy in- house application with a new cloud based processing system. The systems must exchange large amounts of fixed format data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers, as well as occasional chunks of data in unpredictable formats. The developers want to construct a new data format and create custom tools to parse and process the data. The security administrator instead suggests that the developers:

Question132: An IT Manager is concerned about errors made during the deployment process for a new model of tablet.
Which of the following would suggest best practices and configuration parameters that technicians could follow during the deployment process?

Question133: An IT administrator wants to restrict DNS zone transfers between two geographically dispersed, external company DNS name servers, and has decided to use TSIG. Which of the following are critical when using TSIG? (Select TWO).

Question134: After reviewing a company's NAS configuration and file system access logs, the auditor is advising the security administrator to implement additional security controls on the NFS export. The security administrator decides to remove the no_root_squash directive from the export and add the nosuid directive. Which of the following is true about the security controls implemented by the security administrator?

Question135: DRAG DROP
A manufacturer is planning to build a segregated network. There are requirements to segregate development and test infrastructure from production and the need to support multiple entry points into the network depending on the service being accessed. There are also strict rules in place to only permit user access from within the same zone. Currently, the following access requirements have been identified:
1. Developers have the ability to perform technical validation of development applications.
2. End users have the ability to access internal web applications.
3. Third-party vendors have the ability to support applications.
In order to meet segregation and access requirements, drag and drop the appropriate network zone that the user would be accessing and the access mechanism to meet the above criteria. Options may be used once or not at all. All placeholders must be filled.
Select and Place:

Question136: A security manager is developing new policies and procedures. Which of the following is a best practice in end user security?

Question137: An organization uses IP address block 203.0.113.0/24 on its internal network. At the border router, the network administrator sets up rules to deny packets with a source address in this subnet from entering the network, and to deny packets with a destination address in this subnet from leaving the network. Which of the following is the administrator attempting to prevent?

Question138: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a technology company is likely to move away from a de- perimeterized model for employee owned devices. This is because there were too many issues with lack of patching, malware incidents, and data leakage due to lost/stolen devices which did not have full-disk encryption. The `bring your own computing' approach was originally introduced because different business units preferred different operating systems and application stacks. Based on the issues and user needs, which of the following is the BEST recommendation for the CIO to make?

Question139: A Linux security administrator is attempting to resolve performance issues with new software installed on several baselined user systems. After investigating, the security administrator determines that the software is not initializing or executing correctly. For security reasons, the company has implemented trusted operating systems with the goal of preventing unauthorized changes to the configuration baseline. The MOST likely cause of this problem is that SE Linux is set to:

Question140: A company's security policy states that its own internally developed proprietary Internet facing software must be resistant to web application attacks. Which of the following methods provides the MOST protection against unauthorized access to stored database information?

Question141: Company XYZ has experienced a breach and has requested an internal investigation be conducted by the IT Department. Which of the following represents the correct order of the investigation process?

Question142: A system administrator has installed a new Internet facing secure web application that consists of a Linux web server and Windows SQL server into a new corporate site. The administrator wants to place the servers in the most logical network security zones and implement the appropriate security controls. Which of the following scenarios BEST accomplishes this goal?

Question143: A security tester is testing a website and performs the following manual query:
https://www.comptia.com/cookies.jsp?products=5%20and%201=1
The following response is received in the payload:
"ORA-000001: SQL command not properly ended"
Which of the following is the response an example of?

Question144: A developer is coding the crypto routine of an application that will be installed on a standard headless and diskless server connected to a NAS housed in the datacenter. The developer has written the following six lines of code to add entropy to the routine:
1 - If VIDEO input exists, use video data for entropy
2 - If AUDIO input exists, use audio data for entropy 3 - If MOUSE input exists, use mouse data for entropy
4 - IF KEYBOARD input exists, use keyboard data for entropy
5 - IF IDE input exists, use IDE data for entropy
6 - IF NETWORK input exists, use network data for entropy
Which of the following lines of code will result in the STRONGEST seed when combined?

Question145: An administrator has four virtual guests on a host server. Two of the servers are corporate SQL servers, one is a corporate mail server, and one is a testing web server for a small group of developers. The administrator is experiencing difficulty connecting to the host server during peak network usage times.
Which of the following would allow the administrator to securely connect to and manage the host server during peak usage times?

Question146: A bank is in the process of developing a new mobile application. The mobile client renders content and communicates back to the company servers via REST/JSON calls. The bank wants to ensure that the communication is stateless between the mobile application and the web services gateway. Which of the following controls MUST be implemented to enable stateless communication?

Question147: A newly-appointed risk management director for the IT department at Company XYZ, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, needs to conduct a risk analysis regarding a new system which the developers plan to bring on-line in three weeks. The director begins by reviewing the thorough and well- written report from the independent contractor who performed a security assessment of the system. The report details what seem to be a manageable volume of infrequently exploited security vulnerabilities. The director decides to implement continuous monitoring and other security controls to mitigate the impact of the vulnerabilities. Which of the following should the director require from the developers before agreeing to deploy the system?

Question148: A large financial company has a team of security-focused architects and designers that contribute into broader IT architecture and design solutions. Concerns have been raised due to the security contributions having varying levels of quality and consistency. It has been agreed that a more formalized methodology is needed that can take business drivers, capabilities, baselines, and re-usable patterns into account. Which of the following would BEST help to achieve these objectives?

Question149: Customers have recently reported incomplete purchase history and other anomalies while accessing their account history on the web server farm. Upon investigation, it has been determined that there are version mismatches of key e-commerce applications on the production web servers. The development team has direct access to the production servers and is most likely the cause of the different release versions. Which of the following process level solutions would address this problem?

Question150: A security manager is looking into the following vendor proposal for a cloud-based SIEM solution. The intention is that the cost of the SIEM solution will be justified by having reduced the number of incidents and therefore saving on the amount spent investigating incidents.
Proposal:
External cloud-based software as a service subscription costing $5,000 per month. Expected to reduce the number of current incidents per annum by 50%.
The company currently has ten security incidents per annum at an average cost of $10,000 per incident.
Which of the following is the ROI for this proposal after three years?

Question151: After three vendors submit their requested documentation, the CPO and the SPM can better understand what each vendor does and what solutions that they can provide. But now they want to see the intricacies of how these solutions can adequately match the requirements needed by the firm. Upon the directive of the CPO, the CISO should submit which of the following to the three submitting firms?

Question152: A system worth $100,000 has an exposure factor of eight percent and an ARO of four. Which of the following figures is the system's SLE?

Question153: A security administrator has noticed that an increased number of employees' workstations are becoming infected with malware. The company deploys an enterprise antivirus system as well as a web content filter, which blocks access to malicious web sites where malware files can be downloaded. Additionally, the company implements technical measures to disable external storage. Which of the following is a technical control that the security administrator should implement next to reduce malware infection?

Question154: A team of security engineers has applied regulatory and corporate guidance to the design of a corporate network. The engineers have generated an SRTM based on their work and a thorough analysis of the complete set of functional and performance requirements in the network specification. Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of an SRTM in this scenario?

Question155: A large organization has gone through several mergers, acquisitions, and de-mergers over the past decade. As a result, the internal networks have been integrated but have complex dependencies and interactions between systems. Better integration is needed in order to simplify the underlying complexity.
Which of the following is the MOST suitable integration platform to provide event-driven and standards- based secure software architecture?

Question156: A well-known retailer has experienced a massive credit card breach. The retailer had gone through an audit and had been presented with a potential problem on their network. Vendors were authenticating directly to the retailer's AD servers, and an improper firewall rule allowed pivoting from the AD server to the DMZ where credit card servers were kept. The firewall rule was needed for an internal application that was developed, which presents risk. The retailer determined that because the vendors were required to have site to site VPN's no other security action was taken.
To prove to the retailer the monetary value of this risk, which of the following type of calculations is needed?

Question158: A company Chief Information Officer (CIO) is unsure which set of standards should govern the company's IT policy. The CIO has hired consultants to develop use cases to test against various government and industry security standards. The CIO is convinced that there is large overlap between the configuration checks and security controls governing each set of standards. Which of the following selections represent the BEST option for the CIO?

Question159: Joe is a security architect who is tasked with choosing a new NIPS platform that has the ability to perform SSL inspection, analyze up to 10Gbps of traffic, can be centrally managed and only reveals inspected application payload data to specified internal security employees. Which of the following steps should Joe take to reach the desired outcome?

Question160: A helpdesk manager at a financial company has received multiple reports from employees and customers that their phone calls sound metallic on the voice system. The helpdesk has been using VoIP lines encrypted from the handset to the PBX for several years. Which of the following should be done to address this issue for the future?

Question161: A security administrator is tasked with securing a company's headquarters and branch offices move to unified communications. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to integrate the corporate users' email, voice mail, telephony, presence and corporate messaging to internal computers, mobile users, and devices. Which of the following actions would BEST meet the CIO's goals while providing maximum unified communications security?

Question162: Company XYZ finds itself using more cloud-based business tools, and password management is becoming onerous. Security is important to the company; as a result, password replication and shared accounts are not acceptable. Which of the following implementations addresses the distributed login with centralized authentication and has wide compatibility among SaaS vendors?

Question163: The security administrator at a company has received a subpoena for the release of all the email received and sent by the company Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the past three years. The security administrator is only able to find one year's worth of email records on the server and is now concerned about the possible legal implications of not complying with the request. Which of the following should the security administrator check BEFORE responding to the request?

Question164: In developing a new computing lifecycle process for a large corporation, the security team is developing the process for decommissioning computing equipment. In order to reduce the potential for data leakage, which of the following should the team consider? (Select TWO).

Question165: Continuous monitoring is a popular risk reduction technique in many large organizations with formal certification processes for IT projects. In order to implement continuous monitoring in an effective manner which of the following is correct?

Question166: ODBC access to a database on a network-connected host is required. The host does not have a security mechanism to authenticate the incoming ODBC connection, and the application requires that the connection have read/write permissions. In order to further secure the data, a nonstandard configuration would need to be implemented. The information in the database is not sensitive, but was not readily accessible prior to the implementation of the ODBC connection. Which of the following actions should be taken by the security analyst?

Question167: The internal audit department is investigating a possible breach of security. One of the auditors is sent to interview the following employees:
Employee A Works in the accounts receivable office and is in charge of entering data into the finance system.
Employee B Works in the accounts payable office and is in charge of approving purchase orders.
Employee C Is the manager of the finance department, supervises Employee A and Employee B, and can perform the functions of both Employee A and Employee B.
Which of the following should the auditor suggest be done to avoid future security breaches?

Question168: An administrator is reviewing logs and sees the following entry:
Message: Access denied with code 403 (phase 2). Pattern match "\bunion\b.{1,100}?\bselect\b" at ARGS:$id. [data "union all select"] [severity "CRITICAL"] [tag "WEB_ATTACK"] [tag "WASCTC/WASC-19"]
[tag "OWASP_TOP_10/A1"] [tag "OWASP_AppSensor/CIE1"]
Action: Intercepted (phase 2) Apache-Handler: php5-script
Which of the following attacks was being attempted?

Question169: A user is suspected of engaging in potentially illegal activities. Law enforcement has requested that the user continue to operate on the network as normal. However, they would like to have a copy of any communications from the user involving certain key terms. Additionally, the law enforcement agency has requested that the user's ongoing communication be retained in the user's account for future investigations. Which of the following will BEST meet the goals of law enforcement?

Question170: The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has decided that servers in the company datacenter should be virtualized to conserve physical space. The risk assurance officer is concerned that the project team in charge of virtualizing servers plans to co-mingle many guest operating systems with different security requirements to speed up the rollout and reduce the number of host operating systems or hypervisors required.
Which of the following BEST describes the risk assurance officer's concerns?

Question171: An administrator receives reports that the network is running slow for users connected to a certain switch.
Viewing the network traffic, the administrator reviews the following:
18:51:59.042108 IP linuxwksta.55467 > dns.company.com.domain: 39462+ PTR? 222.17.4.10.in- addr.arpa. (42)
18:51:59.055732 IP dns.company.com.domain > linuxwksta.55467: 39462 NXDomain 0/0/0 (42)
18:51:59.055842 IP linuxwksta.48287 > dns.company.com.domain: 46767+ PTR? 255.19.4.10.in- addr.arpa. (42)
18:51:59.069816 IP dns.company.com.domain > linuxwksta.48287: 46767 NXDomain 0/0/0 (42)
18:51:59.159060 IP linuxwksta.42491 > 10.4.17.72.iscsi-target: Flags [P.], seq 1989625106:1989625154, ack 2067334822, win 1525, options [nop,nop,TS val 16021424 ecr 215646227], length 48
18:51:59.159145 IP linuxwksta.48854 > dns.company.com.domain: 3834+ PTR? 72.17.4.10.in-addr.arpa.
(41)
18:51:59.159314 IP 10.4.17.72.iscsi-target > linuxwksta.42491: Flags [P.], seq 1:49, ack 48, win 124, options [nop,nop,TS val 215647479 ecr 16021424], length 48
18:51:59.159330 IP linuxwksta.42491 > 10.4.17.72.iscsi-target: Flags [.], ack 49, win 1525, options
[nop,nop,TS val 16021424 ecr 215647479], length 0
18:51:59.165342 IP dns.company.com.domain > linuxwksta.48854: 3834 NXDomain 0/0/0 (41)
18:51:59.397461 ARP, Request who-has 10.4.16.58 tell 10.4.16.1, length 46
18:51:59.397597 IP linuxwksta.37684 > dns.company.com.domain: 15022+ PTR? 58.16.4.10.in-addr.arpa.
(41)
Given the traffic report, which of the following is MOST likely causing the slow traffic?

Question172: The security administrator has just installed an active\passive cluster of two firewalls for enterprise perimeter defense of the corporate network. Stateful firewall inspection is being used in the firewall implementation. There have been numerous reports of dropped connections with external clients.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this problem?

Question173: A Physical Security Manager is ready to replace all 50 analog surveillance cameras with IP cameras with built-in web management. The Security Manager has several security guard desks on different networks that must be able to view the cameras without unauthorized people viewing the video as well. The selected IP camera vendor does not have the ability to authenticate users at the camera level. Which of the following should the Security Manager suggest to BEST secure this environment?

Question174: A security administrator is performing VDI traffic data collection on a virtual server which migrates from one host to another. While reviewing the data collected by the protocol analyzer, the security administrator notices that sensitive data is present in the packet capture. Which of the following should the security administrator recommend to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive information during live VM migration, while minimizing latency issues?

Question175: An information security assessor for an organization finished an assessment that identified critical issues with the human resource new employee management software application. The assessor submitted the report to senior management but nothing has happened. Which of the following would be a logical next step?

Question176: Which of the following BEST describes the implications of placing an IDS device inside or outside of the corporate firewall?

Question177: A project manager working for a large city government is required to plan and build a WAN, which will be required to host official business and public access. It is also anticipated that the city's emergency and first response communication systems will be required to operate across the same network. The project manager has experience with enterprise IT projects, but feels this project has an increased complexity as a result of the mixed business / public use and the critical infrastructure it will provide. Which of the following should the project manager release to the public, academia, and private industry to ensure the city provides due care in considering all project factors prior to building its new WAN?

Question178: A company runs large computing jobs only during the overnight hours. To minimize the amount of capital investment in equipment, the company relies on the elastic computing services of a major cloud computing vendor. Because the virtual resources are created and destroyed on the fly across a large pool of shared resources, the company never knows which specific hardware platforms will be used from night to night.
Which of the following presents the MOST risk to confidentiality in this scenario?

Question179: A security administrator is redesigning, and implementing a service-oriented architecture to replace an old, in-house software processing system, tied to a corporate sales website. After performing the business process analysis, the administrator decides the services need to operate in a dynamic fashion. The company has also been the victim of data injection attacks in the past and needs to build in mitigation features. Based on these requirements and past vulnerabilities, which of the following needs to be incorporated into the SOA?

Question180: A security engineer is implementing a new solution designed to process e-business transactions and record them in a corporate audit database. The project has multiple technical stakeholders. The database team controls the physical database resources, the internal audit division controls the audit records in the database, the web hosting team is responsible for implementing the website front end and shopping cart application, and the accounting department is responsible for processing the transaction and interfacing with the payment processor. As the solution owner, the security engineer is responsible for ensuring which of the following?

Question181: The finance department for an online shopping website has discovered that a number of customers were able to purchase goods and services without any payments. Further analysis conducted by the security investigations team indicated that the website allowed customers to update a payment amount for shipping. A specially crafted value could be entered and cause a roll over, resulting in the shipping cost being subtracted from the balance and in some instances resulted in a negative balance. As a result, the system processed the negative balance as zero dollars. Which of the following BEST describes the application issue?

Question182: An enterprise must ensure that all devices that connect to its networks have been previously approved.
The solution must support dual factor mutual authentication with strong identity assurance. In order to reduce costs and administrative overhead, the security architect wants to outsource identity proofing and second factor digital delivery to the third party. Which of the following solutions will address the enterprise requirements?

Question183: A company has adopted a BYOD program. The company would like to protect confidential information.
However, it has been decided that when an employee leaves, the company will not completely wipe the personal device. Which of the following would MOST likely help the company maintain security when employees leave?

Question184: Several business units have requested the ability to use collaborative web-based meeting places with third party vendors. Generally these require user registration, installation of client-based ActiveX or Java applets, and also the ability for the user to share their desktop in read-only or read-write mode. In order to ensure that information security is not compromised, which of the following controls is BEST suited to this situation?

Question185: An architect has been engaged to write the security viewpoint of a new initiative. Which of the following BEST describes a repeatable process that can be used for establishing the security architecture?

Question186: The security administrator is reviewing the business continuity plan which consists of virtual infrastructures at corporate headquarters and at the backup site. The administrator is concerned that the VLAN used to perform live migrations of virtual machines to the backup site is across the network provider's MPLS network. This is a concern due to which of the following?

Question187: ABC Corporation uses multiple security zones to protect systems and information, and all of the VM hosts are part of a consolidated VM infrastructure. Each zone has different VM administrators. Which of the following restricts different zone administrators from directly accessing the console of a VM host from another zone?

Question188: The organization has an IT driver on cloud computing to improve delivery times for IT solution provisioning.
Separate to this initiative, a business case has been approved for replacing the existing banking platform for credit card processing with a newer offering. It is the security practitioner's responsibility to evaluate whether the new credit card processing platform can be hosted within a cloud environment. Which of the following BEST balances the security risk and IT drivers for cloud computing?

Question189: New zero-day attacks are announced on a regular basis against a broad range of technology systems.
Which of the following best practices should a security manager do to manage the risks of these attack vectors? (Select TWO).

Question190: Which of the following is the BEST place to contractually document security priorities, responsibilities, guarantees, and warranties when dealing with outsourcing providers?

Question191: A system administrator has just installed a new Linux distribution. The distribution is configured to be
"secure out of the box". The system administrator cannot make updates to certain system files and services. Each time changes are attempted, they are denied and a system error is generated. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the security administrator suggest?

Question192: The network administrator at an enterprise reported a large data leak. One compromised server was used to aggregate data from several critical application servers and send it out to the Internet using HTTPS.
Upon investigation, there have been no user logins over the previous week and the endpoint protection software is not reporting any issues. Which of the following BEST provides insight into where the compromised server collected the information?

Question193: A security researcher is about to evaluate a new secure VoIP routing appliance. The appliance manufacturer claims the new device is hardened against all known attacks and several un-disclosed zero day exploits. The code base used for the device is a combination of compiled C and TC/TKL scripts. Which of the following methods should the security research use to enumerate the ports and protocols in use by the appliance?

Question194: In order for a company to boost profits by implementing cost savings on non-core business activities, the IT manager has sought approval for the corporate email system to be hosted in the cloud. The compliance officer has been tasked with ensuring that data lifecycle issues are taken into account. Which of the following BEST covers the data lifecycle end- to-end?

Question195: A pentester must attempt to crack passwords on a windows domain that enforces strong complex passwords. Which of the following would crack the MOST passwords in the shortest time period?