EMT Practice Test

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Question1: The board of a financial services company has requested that the senior security analyst acts as a cybersecurity advisor in order to comply with recent federal legislation. The analyst is required to give a report on current cybersecurity and threat trends in the financial services industry at the next board meeting. Which of the following would be the BEST methods to prepare this report? (Choose two.)

Question2: Two competing companies experienced similar attacks on their networks from various threat actors. To improve response times, the companies wish to share some threat intelligence about the sources and methods of attack.
Which of the following business documents would be BEST to document this engagement?

Question3: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO is reviewing and revising system configuration and hardening guides that were developed internally and have been used several years to secure the organization's systems. The CISO knows improvements can be made to the guides.
Which of the following would be the BEST source of reference during the revision process?

Question4: An international e-commerce company has identified attack traffic originating from a whitelisted third party's IP address used to mask the third party's internal network. The security team needs to block the attack traffic without impacting the vendor's services. Which of the following is the BEST approach to identify the threat?

Question5: Within change management, winch of the following ensures functions are earned out by multiple employees?

Question6: A managed service provider is designing a log aggregation service for customers who no longer want to manage an internal SIEM infrastructure. The provider expects that customers will send all types of logs to them, and that log files could contain very sensitive entries. Customers have indicated they want on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure logs to be stored in this new service. An engineer, who is designing the new service, is deciding how to segment customers.
Which of the following is the BEST statement for the engineer to take into consideration?

Question7: A security engineer is performing an assessment again for a company. The security engineer examines the following output from the review:
Which of the following tools is the engineer utilizing to perform this assessment?

Question8: Which of the following is an external pressure that causes companies to hire security assessors and penetration testers?

Question9: Due to a recent breach, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has requested the following activities be conducted during incident response planning:
Involve business owners and stakeholders
Create an applicable scenario
Conduct a biannual verbal review of the incident response plan
Report on the lessons learned and gaps identified
Which of the following exercises has the CEO requested?

Question10: A recent security assessment revealed a web application may be vulnerable to clickjacking. According to the application developers, a fix may be months away. Which of the following should a security engineer configure on the web server to help mitigate the issue?

Question11: Following a recent data breach, a company has hired a new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The CISO is very concerned about the response time to the previous breach and wishes to know how the security team expects to react to a future attack. Which of the following is the BEST method to achieve this goal while minimizing disruption?

Question12: A company relies on an ICS to perform equipment monitoring functions that are federally mandated for operation of the facility. Fines for non-compliance could be costly. The ICS has known vulnerabilities and can no longer be patched or updated. Cyber-liability insurance cannot be obtained because insurance companies will not insure this equipment.
Which of the following would be the BEST option to manage this risk to the company's production environment?

Question13: An organization relies heavily on third-party mobile applications for official use within a BYOD deployment scheme. An excerpt from an approved text-based-chat client application AndroidManifest.xml is as follows:

Which of the following would restrict application permissions while minimizing the impact to normal device operations?

Question14: An agency has implemented a data retention policy that requires tagging data according to type before storing it in the data repository. The policy requires all business emails be automatically deleted after two years. During an open records investigation, information was found on an employee's work computer concerning a conversation that occurred three years prior and proved damaging to the agency's reputation. Which of the following MOST likely caused the data leak?

Question15: An investigation showed a worm was introduced from an engineer's laptop. It was determined the company does not provide engineers with company-owned laptops, which would be subject to a company policy and technical controls. Which of the following would be the MOST secure control implement?

Question16: An organization is in the process of evaluating service providers for an upcoming migration to cloud-based services for the organization's ERP system. As part of the requirements defined by the project team, regulatory requirements specify segmentation and isolation of the organization's dat a. Which of the following should the vendor management team identify as a requirement during the procurement process?

Question17: The Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from two different companies are discussing the highly sensitive prospect of merging their respective companies together. Both have invited their Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to discern how they can securely and digitally communicate, and the following criteria are collectively determined:
Must be encrypted on the email servers and clients
Must be OK to transmit over unsecure Internet connections
Which of the following communication methods would be BEST to recommend?

Question18: Users have reported that an internally developed web application is acting erratically, and the response output is inconsistent. The issue began after a web application dependency patch was applied to improve security. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate tool to help identify the issue?

Question19: A security engineer has been hired to design a device that will enable the exfiltration of data from within a well-defended network perimeter during an authorized test. The device must bypass all firewalls and NIDS in place, as well as allow for the upload of commands from a centralized command and control answer. The total cost of the device must be kept to a minimum in case the device is discovered during an assessment. Which of the following tools should the engineer load onto the device being designed?

Question20: Designing a system in which only information that is essential for a particular job task is allowed to be viewed can be accomplished successfully by using:

Question21: The email administrator must reduce the number of phishing emails by utilizing more appropriate security controls The following configurations already are in place
* Keyword Mocking based on word lists
* URL rewriting and protection
* Stopping executable files from messages
Which of the following is the BEST configuration change for the administrator to make?

Question22: After analyzing code, two developers al a company bring these samples to the security operations manager.

Which of the following would BEST solve these coding problems?

Question23: A vulnerability scan with the latest definitions was performed across Sites A and B.
Match each relevant finding to the affected host-After associating the finding with the appropriate host(s), click the host to select the appropriate corrective action for that finding.

Question24: A laptop is recovered a few days after it was stolen.
Which of the following should be verified during incident response activities to determine the possible impact of the incident?

Question25: A security analyst has requested network engineers integrate sFlow into the SOC's overall monitoring picture. For this to be a useful addition to the monitoring capabilities, which of the following must be considered by the engineering team?

Question26: A network engineer is upgrading the network perimeter and installing a new firewall, IDS, and external edge router. The IDS is reporting elevated UDP traffic, and the internal routers are reporting high utilization. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question27: A security engineer must establish a method to assess compliance with company security policies as they apply to the unique configuration of individual endpoints, as well as to the shared configuration policies of common devices.

Which of the following tools is the security engineer using to produce the above output?

Question28: A network administrator is concerned about a particular server that is attacked occasionally from hosts on the Internet. The server is not critical; however, the attacks impact the rest of the network. While the company's current ISP is cost effective, the ISP is slow to respond to reported issues. The administrator needs to be able to mitigate the effects of an attack immediately without opening a trouble ticket with the ISP. The ISP is willing to accept a very small network route advertised with a particular BGP community string. Which of the following is the BESRT way for the administrator to mitigate the effects of these attacks?

Question29: A deployment manager is working with a software development group to assess the security of a new version of the organization's internally developed ERP tool. The organization prefers to not perform assessment activities following deployment, instead focusing on assessing security throughout the life cycle. Which of the following methods would BEST assess the security of the product?

Question30: The director of sales asked the development team for some small changes to increase the usability of an application used by the sales team. Prior security reviews of the code showed no significant vulnerabilities, and since the changes were small, they were given a peer review and then pushed to the live environment. Subsequent vulnerability scans now show numerous flaws that were not present in the previous versions of the code. Which of the following is an SDLC best practice that should have been followed?

Question31: A recent penetration test identified that a web server has a major vulnerability. The web server hosts a critical shipping application for the company and requires 99.99% availability. Attempts to fix the vulnerability would likely break the application. The shipping application is due to be replaced in the next three months. Which of the following would BEST secure the web server until the replacement web server is ready?

Question32: A manufacturing company recently recovered from an attack on its ICS devices. It has since reduced the attack surface by isolating the affected components. The company now wants to implement detection capabilities. It is considering a system that is based on machine learning. Which of the following features would BEST describe the driver to adopt such nascent technology over mainstream commercial IDSs?

Question33: Several days after deploying an MDM for smartphone control, an organization began noticing anomalous behavior across the enterprise Security analysts observed the following:
* Unauthorized certificate issuance
* Access to mutually authenticated resources utilizing valid but unauthorized certificates
* Granted access to internal resources via the SSL VPN
To address the immediate problem security analysts revoked the erroneous certificates. Which of the following describes the MOST likely root cause of the problem and offers a solution?

Question34: A company recently deployed an agent-based DLP solution to all laptop in the environment. The DLP solution is configured to restrict the following:
* USB ports
* FTP connections
* Access to cloud-based storage sites
* Outgoing email attachments
* Saving data on the local C: drive
Despite these restrictions, highly confidential data was from a secure fileshare in the research department. Which of the following should the security team implement FIRST?

Question35: There have been several exploits to critical devices within the network. However, there is currently no process to perform vulnerability analysis. Which the following should the security analyst implement during production hours to identify critical threats and vulnerabilities?

Question36: A software development team is conducting functional and user acceptance testing of internally developed web applications using a COTS solution. For automated testing, the solution uses valid user credentials from the enterprise directory to authenticate to each application. The solution stores the username in plain text and the corresponding password as an encoded string in a script within a file, located on a globally accessible network share. The account credentials used belong to the development team lead.
To reduce the risks associated with this scenario while minimizing disruption to ongoing testing, which of the following are the BEST actions to take? (Choose two.)

Question37: During the decommissioning phase of a hardware project, a security administrator is tasked with ensuring no sensitive data is released inadvertently. All paper records are scheduled to be shredded in a crosscut shredded, and the waste will be burned. The system drives and removable media have been removed prior to e-cycling the hardware.
Which of the following would ensure no data is recovered from the system droves once they are disposed of?

Question38: A security manager is determining the best DLP solution for an enterprise. A list of requirements was created to use during the source selection. The security manager wants to confirm a solution exists for the requirements that have been defined. Which of the following should the security manager use?

Question39: After an employee was terminated, the company discovered the employee still had access to emails and attached content that should have been destroyed during the off-boarding. The employee's laptop and cell phone were confiscated and accounts were disabled promptly. Forensic investigation suggests the company's DLP was effective, and the content in question was not sent outside of work or transferred to removable medi a. Personality owned devices are not permitted to access company systems or information.
Which of the following would be the MOST efficient control to prevent this from occurring in the future?

Question40: A forensic analyst suspects that a buffer overflow exists in a kernel module. The analyst executes the following command:
dd if=/dev/ram of=/tmp/mem/dmp
The analyst then reviews the associated output:
^34^#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/bin/bash^21^03#45
However, the analyst is unable to find any evidence of the running shell. Which of the following of the MOST likely reason the analyst cannot find a process ID for the shell?

Question41: Ann, a corporate executive, has been the recent target of increasing attempts to obtain corporate secrets by competitors through advanced, well-funded means. Ann frequently leaves her laptop unattended and physically unsecure in hotel rooms during travel. A security engineer must find a practical solution for Ann that minimizes the need for user training. Which of the following is the BEST solution in this scenario?

Question42: An organization based in the United States is planning to expand its operations into the European market later in the year Legal counsel is exploring the additional requirements that must be established as a result of the expansion. The BEST course of action would be to

Question43: Following a complete outage of the electronic medical record system for more than 18 hours, the hospital's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has requested that the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) perform an investigation into the possibility of a disgruntled employee causing the outage maliciously. To begin the investigation, the CISO pulls all event logs and device configurations from the time of the outage. The CISO immediately notices the configuration of a top-of-rack switch from one day prior to the outage does not match the configuration that was in place at the time of the outage. However, none of the event logs show who changed the switch configuration, and seven people have the ability to change it. Because of this, the investigation is inconclusive.
Which of the following processes should be implemented to ensure this information is available for future investigations?

Question44: A secure facility has a server room that currently is controlled by a simple lock and key. and several administrators have copies of the key. To maintain regulatory compliance, a second lock, which is controlled by an application on the administrators' smartphones, is purchased and installed. The application has various authentication methods that can be used. The criteria for choosing the most appropriate method are:
* It cannot be invasive to the end user
* It must be utilized as a second factor.
* Information sharing must be avoided
* It must have a low false acceptance rate
Which of the following BEST meets the criteria?

Question45: As part of the development process for a new system, the organization plans to perform requirements analysis and risk assessment. The new system will replace a legacy system, which the organization has used to perform data analytics. Which of the following is MOST likely to be part of the activities conducted by management during this phase of the project?

Question46: Drag and drop the cloud deployment model to the associated use-case scenario. Options may be used only once or not at all.

Question47: A company makes consumer health devices and needs to maintain strict confidentiality of unreleased product designs Recently unauthorized photos of products still in development have been for sale on the dark web. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) suspects an insider threat, but the team that uses the secret outdoor testing area has been vetted many times and nothing suspicious has been found Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the unauthorized photos?

Question48: Given the following output from a local PC:

Which of the following ACLs on a stateful host-based firewall would allow the PC to serve an intranet website?

Question49: A security technician receives a copy of a report that was originally sent to the board of directors by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
The report outlines the following KPVKRI data for the last 12 months:

Which of the following BEST describes what could be interpreted from the above data?

Question50: A security analyst is reviewing the following pseudo-output snippet after running the command less /tmp/file,tmp.

The information above was obtained from a public-facing website and used to identify military assets. Which of the following should be implemented to reduce the risk of a similar compromise?

Question51: A technician is configuring security options on the mobile device manager for users who often utilize public Internet connections while travelling. After ensuring that full disk encryption is enabled, which of the following security measures should the technician take? (Choose two.)

Question52: A manufacturing company's security engineer is concerned a remote actor may be able to access the ICS that is used to monitor the factory lines. The security engineer recently proposed some techniques to reduce the attack surface of the ICS to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Which of the following would BEST track the reductions to show the CISO the engineer's plan is successful during each phase?

Question53: A penetration tester is trying to gain access to a remote system. The tester is able to see the secure login page and knows one user account and email address, but has not yet discovered a password.
Which of the following would be the EASIEST method of obtaining a password for the known account?

Question54: A company enlists a trusted agent to implement a way to authenticate email senders positively Which of the following is the BEST method for the company to prove Vie authenticity of the message?

Question55: As part of a systems modernization program, the use of a weak encryption algorithm is identified m a wet se-vices API The client using the API is unable to upgrade the system on its end which would support the use of a secure algorithm set As a temporary workaround the client provides its IP space and the network administrator Limits access to the API via an ACL to only the IP space held by the client. Which of the following is the use of the ACL in this situation an example of?

Question56: An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of software. Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

Question57: A company is in the process of re-architecting its sensitive system infrastructure to take advantage of on-demand computing through a public cloud provider The system to be migrated is sensitive with respect to latency availability, and integrity The infrastructure team agreed to the following
* Application and middleware servers will migrate to the cloud " Database servers will remain on-site
* Data backup wilt be stored in the cloud
Which of the following solutions would ensure system and security requirements are met?

Question58: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to establish a KRI for a particular system. The system holds archives of contracts that are no longer in use. The contracts contain intellectual property and have a data classification of non-public. Which of the following be the BEST risk indicator for this system?

Question59: A company's human resources department recently had its own shadow IT department spin up ten VMs that host a mixture of differently labeled data types (confidential and restricted) on the same VMs Which of the following cloud and visualization considerations would BEST address the issue presented in this scenario?

Question60: A government contractor was the victim of a malicious attack that resulted in the theft of sensitive information. An analyst's subsequent investigation of sensitive systems led to the following discoveries:
There was no indication of the data owner's or user's accounts being compromised.
No database activity outside of previous baselines was discovered.
All workstations and servers were fully patched for all known vulnerabilities at the time of the attack.
It was likely not an insider threat, as all employees passed polygraph tests.
Given this scenario, which of the following is the MOST likely attack that occurred?

Question61: To prepare for an upcoming audit, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) asks for all 1200 vulnerabilities on production servers to be remediated. The security engineer must determine which vulnerabilities represent real threats that can be exploited so resources can be prioritized to migrate the most dangerous risks. The CISO wants the security engineer to act in the same manner as would an external threat, while using vulnerability scan results to prioritize any actions.
Which of the following approaches is described?

Question62: A security analyst is troubleshooting a scenario in which an operator should only be allowed to reboot remote hosts but not perform other activities. The analyst inspects the following portions of different configuration files:
Configuration file 1:
Operator ALL=/sbin/reboot
Configuration file 2:
Command="/sbin/shutdown now", no-x11-forwarding, no-pty, ssh-dss
Configuration file 3:
Operator:x:1000:1000::/home/operator:/bin/bash
Which of the following explains why an intended operator cannot perform the intended action?

Question63: A security engineer is attempting to convey the importance of including job rotation in a company's standard security policies. Which of the following would be the BEST justification?

Question64: Which of the following is the GREATEST security concern with respect to BYOD?

Question65: A security manager needed to protect a high-security data center, so the manager installed a mantrap that can detect an employee's heartbeat, weight, and badge. Which of the following did the security manager implement?

Question66: Joe, a penetration tester, is assessing the security of an application binary provided to him by his client. Which of the following methods would be the MOST effective in reaching this objective?

Question67: A security consultant is considering authentication options for a financial institution. The following authentication options are available. Drag and drop the security mechanism to the appropriate use case. Options may be used once.

Question68: A security is testing a server finds the following in the output of a vulnerability scan:

Which of the following will the security analyst most likely use NEXT to explore this further?

Question69: An attacker exploited an unpatched vulnerability in a web framework, and then used an application service account that had an insecure configuration to download a rootkit The attacker was unable to obtain root privileges Instead the attacker then downloaded a crypto-currency mining program and subsequently was discovered The server was taken offline, rebuilt, and patched. Which of the following should the security engineer suggest to help prevent a similar scenario in the future?

Question70: A company wants to implement a cloud-based security solution that will sinkhole malicious DNS requests. The security administrator has implemented technical controls to direct DNS requests to the cloud servers but wants to extend the solution to all managed and unmanaged endpoints that may have user-defined DNS manual settings Which of the following should the security administrator implement to ensure the solution will protect all connected devices?
A) Implement firewall ACLs as follows

B) Implement NAT as follows:

C) Implement DHCP options as follows:

D) Implement policy routing as follows:

Question71: A security incident responder discovers an attacker has gained access to a network and has overwritten key system files with backdoor software. The server was reimaged and patched offline.
Which of the following tools should be implemented to detect similar attacks?

Question72: An internal penetration tester finds a legacy application that takes measurement input made in a text box and outputs a specific string of text related to industry requirements. There is no documentation about how this application works, and the source code has been lost. Which of the following would BEST allow the penetration tester to determine the input and output relationship?

Question73: A security administrator wants to stand up a NIPS that is multilayered and can incorporate many security technologies into a single platform The product should have diverse capabilities, such as antivirus, VPN, and firewall services, and be able to be updated in a timely manner to meet evolving threats. Which of the following network prevention system types can be used to satisfy the requirements?

Question74: An enterprise is configuring an SSL client-based VPN for certificate authentication. The trusted root certificate from the CA is imported into the firewall, and the VPN configuration in the firewall is configured for certificate authentication. Signed certificates from the trusted CA are distributed to user devices. The CA certificate is set as trusted on the end-user devices, and the VPN client is configured on the end-user devices When the end users attempt to connect however, the firewall rejects the connection after a brief period Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the firewall rejects the connection?

Question75: A smart switch has the ability to monitor electrical levels and shut off power to a building in the event of power surge or other fault situation. The switch was installed on a wired network in a hospital and is monitored by the facilities department via a cloud application. The security administrator isolated the switch on a separate VLAN and set up a patching routine. Which of the following steps should also be taken to harden the smart switch?

Question76: A network engineer is attempting to design-in resiliency characteristics for an enterprise network's VPN services.
If the engineer wants to help ensure some resilience against zero-day vulnerabilities exploited against the VPN implementation, which of the following decisions would BEST support this objective?

Question77: A recent assessment identified that several users' mobile devices are running outdated versions of endpoint security software that do not meet the company's security policy. Which of the following should be performed to ensure the users can access the network and meet the company's security requirements?

Question78: While investigating suspicious activity on a server, a security administrator runs the following report:

In addition, the administrator notices changes to the /etc/shadow file that were not listed in the report. Which of the following BEST describe this scenario? (Choose two.)

Question79: A system owner has requested support from data owners to evaluate options for the disposal of equipment containing sensitive dat a. Regulatory requirements state the data must be rendered unrecoverable via logical means or physically destroyed. Which of the following factors is the regulation intended to address?

Question80: A red team is able to connect a laptop with penetration testing tools directly into an open network port The team then is able to take advantage of a vulnerability on the domain controller to create and promote a new enterprise administrator. Which of the following technologies would MOST likely eliminate this attack vector m the future?

Question81: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is working with a consultant to perform a gap assessment prior to an upcoming audit. It is determined during the assessment that the organization lacks controls to effectively assess regulatory compliance by third-party service providers. Which of the following should be revised to address this gap?

Question82: During a recent incident, sensitive data was disclosed and subsequently destroyed through a properly secured, cloud-based storage platform. An incident response technician is working with management to develop an after action report that conveys critical metrics regarding the incident.
Which of the following would be MOST important to senior leadership to determine the impact of the breach?

Question83: While attending a meeting with the human resources department, an organization's information security officer sees an employee using a username and password written on a memo pad to log into a specific service. When the information security officer inquires further as to why passwords are being written down, the response is that there are too many passwords to remember for all the different services the human resources department is required to use.
Additionally, each password has specific complexity requirements and different expiration time frames. Which of the following would be the BEST solution for the information security officer to recommend?

Question84: Joe an application security engineer is performing an audit of an environmental control application He has implemented a robust SDLC process and is reviewing API calls available to the application During the review. Joe finds the following in a log file.

Which of the following would BEST mitigate the issue Joe has found?

Question85: An enterprise with global sites processes and exchanges highly sensitive information that is protected under several countries' arms trafficking laws. There is new information that malicious nation-state-sponsored activities are targeting the use of encryption between the geographically disparate sites. The organization currently employs ECDSA and ECDH with P-384, SHA-384, and AES-256-GCM on VPNs between sites.
Which of the following techniques would MOST likely improve the resilience of the enterprise to attack on cryptographic implementation?

Question86: In the past, the risk committee at Company A has shown an aversion to even minimal amounts of risk acceptance. A security engineer is preparing recommendations regarding the risk of a proposed introducing legacy ICS equipment. The project will introduce a minor vulnerability into the enterprise. This vulnerability does not significantly expose the enterprise to risk and would be expensive against.
Which of the following strategies should the engineer recommended be approved FIRST?

Question87: A large, multinational company currently has two separate databases One is used for ERP while the second is used for CRM To consolidate services and infrastructure, it is proposed to combine the databases The company's compliance manager is asked to review the proposal and is concerned about this integration Which of the following would pose the MOST concern to the compliance manager?

Question88: The Chief Information Officer (CISO) is concerned that certain systems administrators will privileged access may be reading other users' emails. Review of a tool's output shows the administrators have used web mail to log into other users' inboxes.
Which of the following tools would show this type of output?

Question89: A consultant is planning an assessment of a customer-developed system. The system consists of a custom-engineered board with modified open-source drivers and a one-off management GUI The system relies on two- factor authentication for interactive sessions, employs strong certificate-based data-in-transit encryption, and randomly switches ports for each session. Which of the following would yield the MOST useful information'?

Question90: A systems administrator has installed a disk wiping utility on all computers across the organization and configured it to perform a seven-pass wipe and an additional pass to overwrite the disk with zeros. The company has also instituted a policy that requires users to erase files containing sensitive information when they are no longer needed.
To ensure the process provides the intended results, an auditor reviews the following content from a randomly selected decommissioned hard disk:

Which of the following should be included in the auditor's report based on the above findings?

Question91: Following the merger of two large companies the newly combined security team is overwhelmed by the volume of logs flowing from the IT systems The company's data retention schedule complicates the issue by requiring detailed logs to be collected and available for months Which of the following designs BEST meets the company's security and retention requirement?

Question92: An engineer is assisting with the design of a new virtualized environment that will house critical company services and reduce the datacenter's physical footprint. The company has expressed concern about the integrity of operating systems and wants to ensure a vulnerability exploited in one datacenter segment would not lead to the compromise of all others.
Which of the following design objectives should the engineer complete to BEST mitigate the company's concerns? (Choose two.)

Question93: A team is at the beginning stages of designing a new enterprise-wide application. The new application will have a large database and require a capital investment in hardware. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has directed the team to save money and reduce the reliance on the datacenter, and the vendor must specialize in hosting large databases in the cloud. Which of the following cloud-hosting options would BEST meet these needs?

Question94: A security administrator receives reports that several workstations are unable to access resources within one network segment. A packet capture shows the segment is flooded with ICMPv6 traffic from the source fe80::21ae;4571:42ab:1fdd and for the destination ff02::1. Which of the following should the security administrator integrate into the network to help prevent this from occurring?

Question95: A cybersecurity analyst has received an alert that well-known "call home" messages are continuously observed by network sensors at the network boundary. The proxy firewall successfully drops the massages. After determining the alert was a true positive, which of the following represents OST likely cause?

Question96: After multiple service interruptions caused by an older datacenter design, a company decided to migrate away from its datacenter. The company has successfully completed the migration of all datacenter servers and services to a cloud provider. The migration project includes the following phases:
Selection of a cloud provider
Architectural design
Microservice segmentation
Virtual private cloud
Geographic service redundancy
Service migration
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is still concerned with the availability requirements of critical company applications.
Which of the following should the company implement NEXT?

Question97: Engineers at a company believe a certain type of data should be protected from competitors, but the data owner insists the information is not sensitive. An information security engineer is implementing controls to secure the corporate SAN. The controls require dividing data into four groups: non-sensitive, sensitive but accessible, sensitive but export-controlled, and extremely sensitive. Which of the following actions should the engineer take regarding the data?

Question98: A company's chief cybersecurity architect wants to configure mutual authentication to access an internal payroll website. The architect has asked the administration team to determine the configuration that would provide the best defense against MITM attacks. Which of the following implementation approaches would BEST support the architect's goals?

Question99: A firewall specialist has been newly assigned to participate in red team exercises and needs to ensure the skills represent real-world threats. Which of the following would be the BEST choice to help the new team member learn bleeding-edge techniques?

Question100: A cybersecurity analyst is hired to review the security the posture of a company. The cybersecurity analyst notice a very high network bandwidth consumption due to SYN floods from a small number of IP addresses. Which of the following would be the BEST action to take to support incident response?

Question101: A security analyst is attempting to break into a client's secure network. The analyst was not given prior information about the client, except for a block of public IP addresses that are currently in use. After network enumeration, the analyst's NEXT step is to perform:

Question102: A company has completed the implementation of technical and management controls as required by its adopted security, ponies and standards. The implementation took two years and consumed s the budget approved to security projects. The board has denied any further requests for additional budget. Which of the following should the company do to address the residual risk?

Question103: An engineer is evaluating the control profile to assign to a system containing PII, financial, and proprietary data.

Based on the data classification table above, which of the following BEST describes the overall classification?

Question104: A company recently experienced a period of rapid growth, and it now needs to move to a more scalable cloud-based solution Historically. salespeople have maintained separate systems for information on competing customers to prevent the inadvertent disclosure of one customer's information to another customer Which of the following would be the BEST method to provide secure data separation?

Question105: During an audit, it was determined from a sample that four out of 20 former employees were still accessing their email accounts An information security analyst is reviewing the access to determine if the audit was valid Which of the following would assist with the validation and provide the necessary documentation to audit?

Question106: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is reviewing the results of a gap analysis with an outside cybersecurity consultant. The gap analysis reviewed all procedural and technical controls and found the following:
High-impact controls implemented: 6 out of 10
Medium-impact controls implemented: 409 out of 472
Low-impact controls implemented: 97 out of 1000
The report includes a cost-benefit analysis for each control gap. The analysis yielded the following information:
Average high-impact control implementation cost: $15,000; Probable ALE for each high-impact control gap: $95,000 Average medium-impact control implementation cost: $6,250; Probable ALE for each medium-impact control gap: $11,000 Due to the technical construction and configuration of the corporate enterprise, slightly more than 50% of the medium-impact controls will take two years to fully implement. Which of the following conclusions could the CISO draw from the analysis?

Question107: A project manager is working with a software development group to collect and evaluate user stories related to the organization's internally designed CRM tool. After defining requirements, the project manager would like to validate the developer's interpretation and understanding of the user's request. Which of the following would BEST support this objective?

Question108: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) requests the following external hosted services be scanned for malware, unsecured PII, and healthcare data:
Corporate intranet site
Online storage application
Email and collaboration suite
Security policy also is updated to allow the security team to scan and detect any bulk downloads of corporate data from the company's intranet and online storage site. Which of the following is needed to comply with the corporate security policy and the CISO's request?

Question109: A security engineer is deploying an IdP to broker authentication between applications. These applications all utilize SAML 2.0 for authentication. Users log into the IdP with their credentials and are given a list of applications they may access. One of the application's authentications is not functional when a user initiates an authentication attempt from the IdP. The engineer modifies the configuration so users browse to the application first, which corrects the issue. Which of the following BEST describes the root cause?

Question110: A security assessor is working with an organization to review the policies and procedures associated with managing the organization's virtual infrastructure. During a review of the virtual environment, the assessor determines the organization is using servers to provide more than one primary function, which violates a regulatory requirement. The assessor reviews hardening guides and determines policy allows for this configuration. It would be MOST appropriate for the assessor to advise the organization to:

Question111: First responders, who are part of a core incident response team, have been working to contain an outbreak of ransomware that also led to data loss in a rush to isolate the three hosts that were calling out to the NAS to encrypt whole directories, the hosts were shut down immediately without investigation and then isolated. Which of the following were missed? (Choose two.)

Question112: An enterprise is trying to secure a specific web-based application by forcing the use of multifactor authentication. Currently, the enterprise cannot change the application's sign-in page to include an extra field. However, the web-based application supports SAML. Which of the following would BEST secure the application?

Question113: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has asked the security team to determine whether the organization is susceptible to a zero-day exploit utilized in the banking industry and whether attribution is possible. The CISO has asked what process would be utilized to gather the information, and then wants to apply signatureless controls to stop these kinds of attacks in the future. Which of the following are the MOST appropriate ordered steps to take to meet the CISO's request?

Question114: A developer needs to provide feedback on a peer's work during the SDLC. While reviewing the code changes, the developers session ID tokens for a web application will be transmitted over an unsecure connection. Which of the following code snippets should the developer recommend implement to correct the vulnerability?
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Question115: Users have been reporting unusual automated phone calls, including names and phone numbers, that appear to come from devices internal to the company. Which of the following should the systems administrator do to BEST address this problem?

Question116: A technician is validating compliance with organizational policies. The user and machine accounts in the AD are not set to expire, which is non-compliant. Which of the following network tools would provide this type of information?

Question117: A healthcare company wants to increase the value of the data it collects on its patients by making the data available to third-party researchers for a fee Which of the following BEST mitigates the risk to the company?

Question118: An organization is implementing a virtualized thin-client solution for normal user computing and access. During a review of the architecture, concerns were raised that an attacker could gain access to multiple user environments by simply gaining a foothold on a single one with malware. Which of the following reasons BEST explains this?

Question119: Given the code snippet below:

Which of the following vulnerability types in the MOST concerning?

Question120: A security administrator is concerned about employees connecting their personal devices to the company network. Doing so is against company policy. The network does not have a NAC solution. The company uses a GPO that disables the firewall on all company-owned devices while they are connected to the internal network Additionally, all company-owned devices implement a standard naming convention that uses the device's serial number. The security administrator wants to identify active personal devices and write a custom script to disconnect them from the network Which of the following should the script use to BEST accomplish this task?

Question121: Which of the following is a feature of virtualization that can potentially create a single point of failure?

Question122: The legal department has required that all traffic to and from a company's cloud-based word processing and email system is logged. To meet this requirement, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has implemented a next-generation firewall to perform inspection of the secure traffic and has decided to use a cloud-based log aggregation solution for all traffic that is logged. Which of the following presents a long-term risk to user privacy in this scenario?

Question123: Which of the following describes a contract that is used to define the various levels of maintenance to be provided by an external business vendor in secure environment?

Question124: A security consultant is performing a penetration test on www.comptia.org and wants to discover the DNS administrator's email address to use in a later social engineering attack. The information listed with the DNS registrar is private. Which of the following commands will also disclose the email address?

Question125: A company has created a policy to allow employees to use their personally owned devices. The Chief Information Officer (CISO) is getting reports of company data appearing on unapproved forums and an increase in theft of personal electronic devices. Which of the following security controls would BEST reduce the risk of exposure?

Question126: A security administrator wants to allow external organizations to cryptographically validate the company's domain name in email messages sent by employees. Which of the following should the security administrator implement?

Question127: A security controls assessor intends to perform a holistic configuration compliance test of networked assets. The assessor has been handed a package of definitions provided in XML format, and many of the files have two common tags within them: "<object object_ref=... />" and "<state state_ref=... />". Which of the following tools BEST supports the use of these definitions?

Question128: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a small startup company has an urgent need for a security policy and assessment to address governance, risk management, and compliance. The company has a resource-constrained IT department, but has no information security staff. The CEO has asked for this to be completed in three months.
Which of the following would be the MOST cost-effective solution to meet the company's needs?

Question129: An organization implemented a secure boot on its most critical application servers which produce content and capability for other consuming servers A recent incident, however led the organization to implement a centralized attestation service for these critical servers. Which of the following MOST likely explains the nature of the incident that caused the organization to implement this remediation?

Question130: A security administrator is performing an audit of a local network used by company guests and executes a series of commands that generates the following output:

Which of the following actions should the security administrator take to BEST mitigate the issue that transpires from the above information?

Question131: A breach was caused by an insider threat in which customer PII was compromised. Following the breach, a lead security analyst is asked to determine which vulnerabilities the attacker used to access company resources. Which of the following should the analyst use to remediate the vulnerabilities?

Question132: An attacker has been compromising banking institution targets across a regional are a. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at a local bank wants to detect and prevent an attack before the bank becomes a victim. Which of the following actions should the CISO take?

Question133: Providers at a healthcare system with many geographically dispersed clinics have been fined five times this year after an auditor received notice of the following SMS messages:

Which of the following represents the BEST solution for preventing future fines?

Question134: An administrator wants to install a patch to an application.
INSTRUCTIONS
Given the scenario, download, verify, and install the patch in the most secure manner.
The last install that is completed will be the final submission.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question135: An engineer wants to assess the OS security configurations on a company's servers. The engineer has downloaded some files to orchestrate configuration checks When the engineer opens a file in a text editor, the following excerpt appears:

Which of the following capabilities would a configuration compliance checker need to support to interpret this file?

Question136: A company has gone through a round of phishing attacks. More than 200 users have had their workstation infected because they clicked on a link in an email. An incident analysis has determined an executable ran and compromised the administrator account on each workstation. Management is demanding the information security team prevent this from happening again. Which of the following would BEST prevent this from happening again?

Question137: A company is purchasing an application that will be used to manage all IT assets as well as provide an incident and problem management solution for IT activity The company narrows the search to two products. Application A and Application B; which meet all of its requirements. Application A is the most cost-effective product, but it is also the riskiest so the company purchases Application B.
Which of the following types of strategies did the company use when determining risk appetite?

Question138: An information security officer is responsible for one secure network and one office network. Recent intelligence suggests there is an opportunity for attackers to gain access to the secure network due to similar login credentials across networks. To determine the users who should change their information, the information security officer uses a tool to scan a file with hashed values on both networks and receives the following data:

Which of the following tools was used to gather this information from the hashed values in the file?

Question139: A security architect is determining the best solution for a new project. The project is developing a new intranet with advanced authentication capabilities, SSO for users, and automated provisioning to streamline Day 1 access to systems. The security architect has identified the following requirements:
1. Information should be sourced from the trusted master data source.
2. There must be future requirements for identity proofing of devices and users.
3. A generic identity connector that can be reused must be developed.
4. The current project scope is for internally hosted applications only.
Which of the following solution building blocks should the security architect use to BEST meet the requirements?

Question140: An information security manager conducted a gap analysis, which revealed a 75% implementation of security controls for high-risk vulnerabilities, 90% for medium vulnerabilities, and 10% for low-risk vulnerabilities. To create a road map to close the identified gaps, the assurance team reviewed the likelihood of exploitation of each vulnerability and the business impact of each associated control. To determine which controls to implement, which of the following is the MOST important to consider?

Question141: A PaaS provider deployed a new product using a DevOps methodology Because DevOps is used to support both development and production assets inherent separation of duties is limited To ensure compliance with security frameworks that require a specific set of controls relating to separation of duties the organization must design and implement an appropriate compensating control Which of the following would be MOST suitable in this scenario?

Question142: An organization wants to arm its cybersecurity defensive suite automatically with intelligence on zero-day threats shortly after they emerge. Acquiring tools and services that support which of the following data standards would BEST enable the organization to meet this objective?

Question143: A security architect has been assigned to a new digital transformation program. The objectives are to provide better capabilities to customers and reduce costs. The program has highlighted the following requirements:
Long-lived sessions are required, as users do not log in very often.
The solution has multiple SPs, which include mobile and web applications.
A centralized IdP is utilized for all customer digital channels.
The applications provide different functionality types such as forums and customer portals.
The user experience needs to be the same across both mobile and web-based applications.
Which of the following would BEST improve security while meeting these requirements?

Question144: A core router was manipulated by a credentialed bypass to send all network traffic through a secondary router under the control of an unauthorized user connected to the network by WiFi.
Which of the following would BEST reduce the risk of this attack type occurring?

Question145: A vendor develops a mobile application for global customers. The mobile application supports advanced encryption of data between the source (the mobile device) and the destination (the organization's ERP system).
As part of the vendor's compliance program, which of the following would be important to take into account?

Question146: A company has adopted and established a continuous-monitoring capability, which has proven to be effective in vulnerability management, diagnostics, and mitigation. The company wants to increase the likelihood that it is able to discover and therefore respond to emerging threats earlier in the life cycle.
Which of the following methodologies would BEST help the company to meet this objective? (Choose two.)

Question147: A security engineer is making certain URLs from an internal application available on the Internet The development team requires the following
* The URLs are accessible only from internal IP addresses
* Certain countries are restricted
* TLS is implemented.
* System users transparently access internal application services in a round robin to maximize performance Which of the following should the security engineer deploy7

Question148: With which of the following departments should an engineer for a consulting firm coordinate when determining the control and reporting requirements for storage of sensitive, proprietary customer information?

Question149: A cloud architect needs to isolate the most sensitive portion of the network while maintaining hosting in a public cloud Which of the following configurations can be employed to support this effort?

Question150: A company wants to secure a newly developed application that is used to access sensitive information and data from corporate resources The application was developed by a third-party organization, and it is now being used heavily despite lacking the following controls:
* Certificate pinning
* Tokenization
* Biometric authentication
The company has already implemented the following controls:
* Full device encryption
* Screen lock
* Device password
* Remote wipe
The company wants to defend against interception of data attacks Which of the following compensating controls should the company implement NEXT?

Question151: A remote user reports the inability to authenticate to the VPN concentrator. During troubleshooting, a security administrate captures an attempted authentication and discovers the following being presented by the user's VPN client:

Which of the following BEST describes the reason the user is unable to connect to the VPN service?

Question152: A creative services firm has a limited security budget and staff. Due to its business model, the company sends and receives a high volume of files every day through the preferred method defined by its customers. These include email, secure file transfers, and various cloud service providers. Which of the following would BEST reduce the risk of malware infection while meeting the company's resource requirements and maintaining its current workflow?

Question153: An application development company implements object reuse to reduce life-cycle costs for the company and its clients Despite the overall cost savings, which of the following BEST describes a security risk to customers inherent within this model?