EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Following a recent and very large corporate merger, the number of log files an SOC needs to review has approximately tripled. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has not been allowed to hire any more staff for the SOC, but is looking for other ways to automate the log review process so the SOC receives less noise. Which of the following would BEST reduce log noise for the SOC?

Question2: A university's help desk is receiving reports that Internet access on campus is not functioning. The network administrator looks at the management tools and sees the 1Gbps Internet is completely saturated with ingress traffic. The administrator sees the following output on the Internet router:

The administrator calls the university's ISP for assistance, but it takes more than four hours to speak to a network engineer who can resolve the problem. Based on the information above, which of the following should the ISP engineer do to resolve the issue?

Question3: Company leadership believes employees are experiencing an increased number of cyber attacks; however, the metrics do not show this. Currently, the company uses "Number of successful phishing attacks" as a KRI, but it does not show an increase.
Which of the following additional information should be the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) include in the report?

Question4: A security analyst is classifying data based on input from data owners and other stakeholders. The analyst has identified three data types:
Financially sensitive data
Project data
Sensitive project data
The analyst proposes that the data be protected in two major groups, with further access control separating the financially sensitive data from the sensitive project dat a. The normal project data will be stored in a separate, less secure location. Some stakeholders are concerned about the recommended approach and insist that commingling data from different sensitive projects would leave them vulnerable to industrial espionage.
Which of the following is the BEST course of action for the analyst to recommend?

Question5: 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?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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?

Question9: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company has considered implementing a cost-saving measure that might result in new risk to the company. When deciding whether to implement this measure, which of the following would be the BEST course of action to manage the organization's risk?

Question10: A company wants to extend its help desk availability beyond business hours. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) decides to augment the help desk with a third-party service that will answer calls and provide Tier 1 problem resolution, such as password resets and remote assistance. The security administrator implements the following firewall change:

The administrator provides the appropriate path and credentials to the third-party company. Which of the following technologies is MOST likely being used to provide access to the third company?

Question11: 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?

Question12: A company is concerned about disgruntled employees transferring its intellectual property data through covert channels. Which of the following tools would allow employees to write data into ICMP echo response packets?

Question13: 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?

Question14: Following a recent network intrusion, a company wants to determine the current security awareness of all of its employees. Which of the following is the BEST way to test awareness?

Question15: 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?

Question16: A project manager is working with system owners to develop maintenance windows for system pathing and upgrades in a cloud-based PaaS environment. Management has indicated one maintenance windows will be authorized per month, but clients have stated they require quarterly maintenance windows to meet their obligations. Which of the following documents should the project manager review?

Question17: Following a security assessment, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is reviewing the results of the assessment and evaluating potential risk treatment strategies. As part of the CISO's evaluation, a judgment of potential impact based on the identified risk is performed. To prioritize response actions, the CISO uses past experience to take into account the exposure factor as well as the external accessibility of the weakness identified.
Which of the following is the CISO performing?

Question18: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is preparing a requirements matrix scorecard for a new security tool the company plans to purchase Feedback from which of the following documents will provide input for the requirements matrix scorecard during the vendor selection process?

Question19: After several industry comnpetitors suffered data loss as a result of cyebrattacks, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a company reached out to the information security manager to review the organization's security stance. As a result of the discussion, the COO wants the organization to meet the following criteria:
Blocking of suspicious websites
Prevention of attacks based on threat intelligence
Reduction in spam
Identity-based reporting to meet regulatory compliance
Prevention of viruses based on signature
Protect applications from web-based threats
Which of the following would be the BEST recommendation the information security manager could make?

Question20: 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?

Question21: When implementing a penetration testing program, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) designates different organizational groups within the organization as having different responsibilities, attack vectors, and rules of engagement. First, the CISO designates a team to operate from within the corporate environment. This team is commonly referred to as:

Question22: A technician receives the following security alert from the firewall's automated system:
Match_Time: 10/10/16 16:20:43
Serial: 002301028176
Device_name: COMPSEC1
Type: CORRELATION
Scrusex: domain\samjones
Scr: 10.50.50.150
Object_name: beacon detection
Object_id: 6005
Category: compromised-host
Severity: medium
Evidence: host repeatedly visited a dynamic DNS domain (17 time)
After reviewing the alert, which of the following is the BEST analysis?

Question23: An administrator has noticed mobile devices from an adjacent company on the corporate wireless network. Malicious activity is being reported from those devices. To add another layer of security in an enterprise environment, an administrator wants to add contextual authentication to allow users to access enterprise resources only while present in corporate buildings. Which of the following technologies would accomplish this?

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: Given the following code snippet:

Which of the following failure modes would the code exhibit?

Question27: A malware infection spread to numerous workstations within the marketing department. The workstations were quarantined and replaced with machines. Which of the following represents a FINAL step in the prediction of the malware?

Question28: Given the following output from a security tool in Kali:

Question29: A security analyst is comparing two virtual servers that were bum from the same image and patched at the same regular intervals Server A is used to host a public-facing website, and Server B runs accounting software inside the firewalled accounting network. The analyst runs the same command and obtains the following output from Server A and Server B.
respectively:

Which of the following will the analyst most likely use NEXT?

Question30: 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?

Question31: A Chief Information Securiy Officer (CISO) is reviewing technical documentation from various regional offices and notices some key differences between these groups. The CISO has not discovered any governance documentation. The CISO creates the following chart to visualize the differences among the networking used.

Which of the following would be the CISO's MOST immediate concern?

Question32: A penetration tester has been contracted to conduct a physical assessment of a site. Which of the following is the MOST plausible method of social engineering to be conducted during this engagement?

Question33: 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?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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?

Question36: Click on the exhibit buttons to view the four messages.





A security architect is working with a project team to deliver an important service that stores and processes customer banking details. The project, internally known as ProjectX, is due to launch its first set of features publicly within a week, but the team has not been able to implement encryption-at-rest of the customer records. The security architect is drafting an escalation email to senior leadership.
Which of the following BEST conveys the business impact for senior leadership?

Question37: A security analyst is validating the MAC policy on a set of Android devices. The policy was written to ensure non-critical applications are unable to access certain resources. When reviewing dmesg, the analyst notes many entries such as:
Despite the deny message, this action was still permit following is the MOST likely fix for this issue?

Question38: An organization is attempting to harden its web servers and reduce the information that might be disclosed by potential attackers. A security anal... reviewing vulnerability scan result from a recent web server scan.
Portions of the scan results are shown below:
Finding# 5144322
First time detected 10 nov 2015 09:00 GMT_0600
Last time detected 10 nov 2015 09:00 GMT_0600
CVSS base: 5
Access path: http://myorg.com/mailinglist.htm
Request: GET http://mailinglist.aspx?content=volunteer
Response: C:\Docments\MarySmith\malinglist.pdf
Which of the following lines indicates information disclosure about the host that needs to be remediated?

Question39: 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?

Question40: 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:

Question41: 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.)

Question42: A company's Chief Operating Officer (COO) is concerned about the potential for competitors to infer proprietary information gathered from employees' social media accounts.
Which of the following methods should the company use to gauge its social media threat level without targeting individual employees?

Question43: 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?

Question44: An organization's mobile device inventory recently provided notification that a zero-day vulnerability was identified in the code used to control the baseband of the devices. The device manufacturer is expediting a patch, but the rollout will take several months Additionally several mobile users recently returned from an overseas trip and report their phones now contain unknown applications, slowing device performance Users have been unable to uninstall these applications, which persist after wiping the devices Which of the following MOST likely occurred and provides mitigation until the patches are released?

Question45: The government is concerned with remote military missions being negatively being impacted by the use of technology that may fail to protect operational security. To remediate this concern, a number of solutions have been implemented, including the following:
End-to-end encryption of all inbound and outbound communication, including personal email and chat sessions that allow soldiers to securely communicate with families.
Layer 7 inspection and TCP/UDP port restriction, including firewall rules to only allow TCP port 80 and 443 and approved applications A host-based whitelist of approved websites and applications that only allow mission-related tools and sites The use of satellite communication to include multiple proxy servers to scramble the source IP address Which of the following is of MOST concern in this scenario?

Question46: When reviewing KRIs of the email security appliance with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of an insurance company, the security engineer notices the following:

Which of the following measures should the security engineer take to ensure PII is not intercepted in transit while also preventing interruption to business?

Question47: 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?

Question48: A developer emails the following output to a security administrator for review:

Which of the following tools might the security administrator use to perform further security assessment of this issue?

Question49: 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.)

Question50: An internal staff member logs into an ERP platform and clicks on a record. The browser URL changes to:
URL: http://192.168.0.100/ERP/accountId=5&action=SELECT
Which of the following is the MOST likely vulnerability in this ERP platform?

Question51: 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?

Question52: The marketing department has developed a new marketing campaign involving significant social media outreach. The campaign includes allowing employees and customers to submit blog posts and pictures of their day-to-day experiences at the company. The information security manager has been asked to provide an informative letter to all participants regarding the security risks and how to avoid privacy and operational security issues. Which of the following is the MOST important information to reference in the letter?

Question53: 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?

Question54: 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?

Question55: During a criminal investigation, the prosecutor submitted the original hard drive from the suspect's computer as evidence. The defense objected during the trial proceedings, and the evidence was rejected. Which of the following practices should the prosecutor's forensics team have used to ensure the suspect's data would be admissible as evidence? (Select TWO.)

Question56: 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?

Question57: A security engineer is designing a system in which offshore, outsourced staff can push code from the development environment to the production environment securely. The security engineer is concerned with data loss, while the business does not want to slow down its development process. Which of the following solutions BEST balances security requirements with business need?

Question58: 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?

Question59: A company in the financial sector receives a substantial number of customer transaction requests via email. While doing a root-cause analysis conceding a security breach, the CIRT correlates an unusual spike in port 80 traffic from the IP address of a desktop used by a customer relations employee who has access to several of the compromised accounts. Subsequent antivirus scans of the device do not return an findings, but the CIRT finds undocumented services running on the device. Which of the following controls would reduce the discovery time for similar in the future.

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Question61: 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?

Question62: A security analyst is reviewing an endpoint that was found to have a rookit installed. The rootkit survived multiple attempts to clean the endpoints, as well as an attempt to reinstall the QS. The security analyst needs to implement a method to prevent other endpoint from having similar issues. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this objective?

Question63: 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?

Question64: A company has entered into a business agreement with a business partner for managed human resources services. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has been asked to provide documentation that is required to set up a business-to-business VPN between the two organizations.
Which of the following is required in this scenario?

Question65: An architect was recently hired by a power utility to increase the security posture of the company's power generation and distribution sites. Upon review, the architect identifies legacy hardware with highly vulnerable and unsupported software driving critical operations. These systems must exchange data with each other, be highly synchronized, and pull from the Internet time sources. Which of the following architectural decisions would BEST reduce the likelihood of a successful attack without harming operational capability? (Choose two.)

Question66: Ann, a terminated employee, left personal photos on a company-issued laptop and no longer has access to them. Ann emails her previous manager and asks to get her personal photos back. Which of the following BEST describes how the manager should respond?

Question67: A malware infection spread to numerous workstations within the marketing department. The workstations were quarantined and replaced with machines. Which of the following represents a FINAL step in the prediction of the malware?

Question68: 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?

Question69: Which of the following system would be at the GREATEST risk of compromise if found to have an open vulnerability associated with perfect ... secrecy?

Question70: Immediately following the report of a potential breach, a security engineer creates a forensic image of the server in question as part of the organization incident response procedure. Which of the must occur to ensure the integrity of the image?

Question71: An external red team is brought into an organization to perform a penetration test of a new network-based application. The organization deploying the network application wants the red team to act like remote, external attackers, and instructs the team to use a black-box approach. Which of the following is the BEST methodology for the red team to follow?

Question72: An administrator is working with management to develop policies related to the use of the cloud-based resources that contain corporate dat a. Management plans to require some control over organizational data stored on personal devices, such as tablets. Which of the following controls would BEST support management's policy?

Question73: Which of the following is the GREATEST security concern with respect to BYOD?

Question74: Which of the following is the MOST likely reason an organization would decide to use a BYOD policy?

Question75: 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?

Question76: A company is developing requirements for a customized OS build that will be used in an embedded environment. The company procured hardware that is capable of reducing the likelihood of successful buffer overruns while executables are processing. Which of the following capabilities must be included for the OS to take advantage of this critical hardware-based countermeasure?

Question77: 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?

Question78: A company's existing forward proxies support software-based TLS decryption, but are currently at 60% load just dealing with AV scanning and content analysis for HTTP traffic. More than 70% outbound web traffic is currently encrypted. The switching and routing network infrastructure precludes adding capacity, preventing the installation of a dedicated TLS decryption system. The network firewall infrastructure is currently at 30% load and has software decryption modules that can be activated by purchasing additional license keys. An existing project is rolling out agent updates to end-user desktops as part of an endpoint security refresh.
Which of the following is the BEST way to address these issues and mitigate risks to the organization?

Question79: An analyst has noticed unusual activities in the SIEM to a .cn domain name. Which of the following should the analyst use to identify the content of the traffic?

Question80: Company A is establishing a contractual with Company B.
The terms of the agreement are formalized in a document covering the payment terms, limitation of liability, and intellectual property rights. Which of the following documents will MOST likely contain these elements

Question81: A company that all mobile devices be encrypted, commensurate with the full disk encryption scheme of assets, such as workstation, servers, and laptops. Which of the following will MOST likely be a limiting factor when selecting mobile device managers for the company?

Question82: 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?

Question83: 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?

Question84: A security engineer is analyzing an application during a security assessment to ensure it is configured to protect against common threats. Given the output below:

Which of the following tools did the security engineer MOST likely use to generate this output?

Question85: A security administrator wants to implement an MDM solution to secure access to company email and files in a BYOD environment. The solution must support the following requirements:
* Company administrators should not have access to employees' personal information.
* A rooted or jailbroken device should not have access to company sensitive information.
Which of the following BEST addresses the associated risks?

Question86: 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?

Question87: An enterprise solution requires a central monitoring platform to address the growing networks of various departments and agencies that connect to the network. The current vendor products are not adequate due to the growing number of heterogeneous devices. Which of the following is the primary concern?

Question88: Given the code snippet below:

Which of the following vulnerability types in the MOST concerning?

Question89: 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?

Question90: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is reviewing the controls in place to support the organization's vulnerability management program. The CISO finds patching and vulnerability scanning policies and procedures are in place. However, the CISO is concerned the organization is siloed and is not maintaining awareness of new risks to the organization. The CISO determines systems administrators need to participate in industry security events. Which of the following is the CISO looking to improve?

Question91: 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?

Question92: A security administrator is opening connectivity on a firewall between Organization A and Organization B Organization B just acquired Organization A.
Which of the following risk mitigation strategies should the administrator implement to reduce the risk involved with this change?

Question93: 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?

Question94: A security administrator is advocating for enforcement of a new policy that would require employers with privileged access accounts to undergo periodic inspections and review of certain job performance dat a. To which of the following policies is the security administrator MOST likely referring?

Question95: 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?

Question96: 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?

Question97: Following the successful response to a data-leakage incident, the incident team lead facilitates an exercise that focuses on continuous improvement of the organization's incident response capabilities. Which of the following activities has the incident team lead executed?

Question98: 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?

Question99: The security administrator of a small firm wants to stay current on the latest security vulnerabilities and attack vectors being used by crime syndicates and nation-states. The information must be actionable and reliable. Which of the following would BEST meet the needs of the security administrator?

Question100: 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?

Question101: A system engineer is reviewing output from a web application vulnerability scan. The engineer has determined data is entering the application from an untrusted source and is being used to construct a query dynamically. Which of the following code snippets would BEST protect the application against an SQL injection attack?
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Question102: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) publicly announces the implementation of a new financial system. As part of a security assessment that includes a social engineering task, which of the following tasks should be conducted to demonstrate the BEST means to gain information to use for a report on social vulnerability details about the financial system?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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?

Question105: A company is deploying a DIP solution and scanning workstations and network drives for documents that contain potential Pll and payment card dat a. The results of the first scan are as follows:

The security learn is unable to identify the data owners for the specific files in a timely manner and does not suspect malicious activity with any of the detected files. Which of the following would address the inherent risk until the data owners can be formally identified?

Question106: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to increase security and accessibility among the organization's cloud SaaS applications. The applications are configured to use passwords, and two-factor authentication is not provided natively. Which of the following would BEST address the CIO's concerns?

Question107: 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?

Question108: A technician is reviewing the following log:

Which of the following tools should the organization implement to reduce the highest risk identified in this log?

Question109: 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?

Question110: A security analyst who is concerned about sensitive data exfiltration reviews the following:

Which of the following tools would allow the analyst to confirm if data exfiltration is occuring?

Question111: A company is repeatedly being breached by hackers who valid credentials. The company's Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has installed multiple controls for authenticating users, including biometric and token-based factors. Each successive control has increased overhead and complexity but has failed to stop further breaches. An external consultant is evaluating the process currently in place to support the authentication controls. Which of the following recommendation would MOST likely reduce the risk of unauthorized access?

Question112: A user asks a security practitioner for recommendations on securing a home network. The user recently purchased a connected home assistant and multiple IoT devices in an effort to automate the home. Some of the IoT devices are wearables, and other are installed in the user's automobiles. The current home network is configured as a single flat network behind an ISP-supplied router. The router has a single IP address, and the router performs NAT on incoming traffic to route it to individual devices.
Which of the following security controls would address the user's privacy concerns and provide the BEST level of security for the home network?

Question113: A security analyst for a bank received an anonymous tip on the external banking website showing the following:
Protocols supported
TLS 1.0
SSL 3
SSL 2
Cipher suites supported
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA-ECDH p256r1
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA-DH 1024bit
TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV non supported
POODLE
Weak PFS
OCSP stapling supported
Which of the following should the analyst use to reproduce these findings comprehensively?

Question114: 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?

Question115: The SOC is reviewing processes and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than 30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. This allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained. Which of the following would BEST to improve the incident response process?

Question116: The SOC has noticed an unusual volume of traffic coming from an open WiFi guest network that appears correlated with a broader network slowdown The network team is unavailable to capture traffic but logs from network services are available
* No users have authenticated recently through the guest network's captive portal
* DDoS mitigation systems are not alerting
* DNS resolver logs show some very long domain names
Which of the following is the BEST step for a security analyst to take next?

Question117: As part of the asset management life cycle, a company engages a certified equipment disposal vendor to appropriately recycle and destroy company assets that are no longer in use. As part of the company's vendor due diligence, which of the following would be MOST important to obtain from the vendor?

Question118: During a routine network scan, a security administrator discovered an unidentified service running on a new embedded and unmanaged HVAC controller, which is used to monitor the company's datacenter Port state
161/UDP open
162/UDP open
163/TCP open
The enterprise monitoring service requires SNMP and SNMPTRAP connectivity to operate. Which of the following should the security administrator implement to harden the system?

Question119: A security engineer is working with a software development team. The engineer is tasked with ensuring all security requirements are adhered to by the developers. Which of the following BEST describes the contents of the supporting document the engineer is creating?

Question120: An organization enables BYOD but wants to allow users to access the corporate email, calendar, and contacts from their devices. The data associated with the user's accounts is sensitive, and therefore, the organization wants to comply with the following requirements:
Active full-device encryption
Enabled remote-device wipe
Blocking unsigned applications
Containerization of email, calendar, and contacts
Which of the following technical controls would BEST protect the data from attack or loss and meet the above requirements?

Question121: 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?

Question122: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for an organization wants to develop custom IDS rulesets faster, prior to new rules being released by IDS vendors. Which of the following BEST meets this objective?

Question123: Following a recent outage a systems administrator is conducting a study to determine a suitable bench stock of server hard drives. Which of the following metrics is MOST valuable to the administrator in determining how many hard drives to keep on hand?

Question124: A consultant is hired to perform a passive vulnerability assessment of a company to determine what information might be collected about the company and its employees. The assessment will be considered successful if the consultant can discover the name of one of the IT administrators. Which of the following is MOST likely to produce the needed information?

Question125: Legal authorities notify a company that its network has been compromised for the second time in two years. The investigation shows the attackers were able to use the same vulnerability on different systems in both attacks. Which of the following would have allowed the security team to use historical information to protect against the second attack?

Question126: A regional business is expecting a severe winter storm next week. The IT staff has been reviewing corporate policies on how to handle various situations and found some are missing or incomplete. After reporting this gap in documentation to the information security manager, a document is immediately drafted to move various personnel to other locations to avoid downtime in operations. This is an example of:

Question127: Compliance with company policy requires a quarterly review of firewall rules. You are asked to conduct a review on the internal firewall sitting between several internal networks. The intent of this firewall is to make traffic more secure. Given the following information perform the tasks listed below:
Untrusted zone: 0.0.0.0/0
User zone: USR 10.1.1.0/24
User zone: USR2 10.1.2.0/24
DB zone: 10.1.4.0/24
Web application zone: 10.1.5.0/24
Management zone: 10.1.10.0/24
Web server: 10.1.5.50
MS-SQL server: 10.1.4.70
MGMT platform: 10.1.10.250
Instructions: To perform the necessary tasks, please modify the DST port, SRC zone, Protocol, Action, and/or Rule Order columns. Type ANY to include all ports. Firewall ACLs are read from the top down. Once you have met the simulation requirements, click Save. When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit. Once the simulation is submitted, please select the Next button to continue.

Task 1) A rule was added to prevent the management platform from accessing the internet. This rule is not working. Identify the rule and correct this issue.
Task 2) The firewall must be configured so that the SQL server can only receive requests from the web server.
Task 3) The web server must be able to receive unencrypted requests from hosts inside and outside the corporate network.
Task 4) Ensure the final rule is an explicit deny.
Task 5) Currently the user zone can access internet websites over an unencrypted protocol. Modify a rule so that user access to websites is over secure protocols only.
Instructions: To perform the necessary tasks, please modify the DST port, SRC zone, Protocol, Action, and/or Rule Order columns. Type ANY to include all ports. Firewall ACLs are read from the top down. Once you have met the simulation requirements, click Save. When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit. Once the simulation is submitted, please select the Next button to continue.

Question128: A financial services company has proprietary trading algorithms, which were created and are maintained by a team of developers on their private source code repository. If the details of this operation became known to competitors, the company's ability to profit from its trading would disappear immediately. Which of the following would the company MOST likely use to protect its trading algorithms?

Question129: 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?

Question130: 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?

Question131: 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?

Question132: An analyst execute a vulnerability scan against an internet-facing DNS server and receives the following report:

Which of the following tools should the analyst use FIRST to validate the most critical vulnerability?

Question133: An application developer is including third-party background security fixes in an application. The fixes seem to resolve a currently identified security issue. However, when the application is released to the public, report come In that a previously vulnerability has returned. Which of the following should the developer integrate into the process to BEST prevent this type of behavior?

Question134: 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.)

Question135: A newly hired Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is reviewing the organization's security budget from the previous year. The CISO notices $100,000 worth of fines were paid for not properly encrypting outbound email messages. The CISO expects next year's costs associated with fines to double and the volume of messages to increase by 100%. The organization sent out approximately 25,000 messages per year over the last three years. Given the table below:

Which of the following would be BEST for the CISO to include in this year's budget?

Question136: An internal penetration tester was assessing a recruiting page for potential issues before it was pushed to the production website. The penetration tester discovers an issue that must be corrected before the page goes live. The web host administrator collects the log files below and gives them to the development team so improvements can be made to the security design of the website.

Which of the following types of attack vector did the penetration tester use?

Question137: An customers that their IP netblocks are on blacklists and they cannot send email. The SaaS has confirmed that affected customers typically have IP addresses within broader network ranges and some abusive customers within the same IP ranges may have performed spam campaigns. Which of the following actions should the SaaS provider perform to minimize legitimate customer impact?

Question138: 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?

Question139: During a sprint, developers are responsible for ensuring the expected outcome of a change is thoroughly evaluated for any security impacts. Any impacts must be reported to the team lead. Before changes are made to the source code, which of the following MUST be performed to provide the required information to the team lead?

Question140: A security analyst sees some suspicious entries in a log file from a web server website, which has a form that allows customers to leave feedback on the company's products. The analyst believes a malicious actor is scanning the web form. To know which security controls to put in place, the analyst first needs to determine the type of activity occurring to design a control. Given the log below:

Which of the following is the MOST likely type of activity occurring?

Question141: 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?
A)

B)

C)

D)

Question142: Ann, a member of the finance department at a large corporation, has submitted a suspicious email she received to the information security team. The team was not expecting an email from Ann, and it contains a PDF file inside a ZIP compressed archive. The information security learn is not sure which files were opened. A security team member uses an air-gapped PC to open the ZIP and PDF, and it appears to be a social engineering attempt to deliver an exploit.
Which of the following would provide greater insight on the potential impact of this attempted attack?

Question143: A security administrator is concerned about the increasing number of users who click on malicious links contained within phishing emails. Although the company has implemented a process to block these links at the network perimeter, many accounts are still becoming compromised. Which of the following should be implemented for further reduce the number of account compromises caused by remote users who click these links?

Question144: 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?

Question145: After a large organization has completed the acquisition of a smaller company, the smaller company must implement new host-based security controls to connect its employees' devices to the network. Given that the network requires 802.1X EAP-PEAP to identify and authenticate devices, which of the following should the security administrator do to integrate the new employees' devices into the network securely?

Question146: A company contracts a security engineer to perform a penetration test of its client-facing web portal. Which of the following activities would be MOST appropriate?

Question147: A security consultant is conducting a penetration test against a customer enterprise local comprises local hosts and cloud-based servers The hosting service employs a multitenancy model with elastic provisioning to meet customer demand The customer runs multiple virtualized servers on each provisioned cloud host. The security consultant is able to obtain multiple sets of administrator credentials without penetrating the customer network. Which of the following is the MOST likely risk the tester exploited?

Question148: A hospital uses a legacy electronic medical record system that requires multicast for traffic between the application servers and databases on virtual hosts that support segments of the application. Following a switch upgrade, the electronic medical record is unavailable despite physical connectivity between the hypervisor and the storage being in place. The network team must enable multicast traffic to restore access to the electronic medical record. The ISM states that the network team must reduce the footprint of multicast traffic on the network.

Using the above information, on which VLANs should multicast be enabled?

Question149: A small company needs to reduce its operating costs. vendors have proposed solutions, which all focus on management of the company's website and services. The Chief information Security Officer (CISO) insist all available resources in the proposal must be dedicated, but managing a private cloud is not an option. Which of the following is the BEST solution for this company?

Question150: An organization is considering the use of a thin client architecture as it moves to a cloud-hosted environment. A security analyst is asked to provide thoughts on the security advantages of using thin clients and virtual workstations. Which of the following are security advantages of the use of this combination of thin clients and virtual workstations?

Question151: 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?

Question152: An engineering team is developing and deploying a fleet of mobile devices to be used for specialized inventory management purposes. These devices should:
* Be based on open-source Android for user familiarity and ease.
* Provide a single application for inventory management of physical assets.
* Permit use of the camera be only the inventory application for the purposes of scanning
* Disallow any and all configuration baseline modifications.
* Restrict all access to any device resource other than those requirement ?

Question153: 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.)

Question154: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a fast-growing company no longer knows all the employees and is concerned about the company's intellectual property being stolen by an employee. Employees are allowed to work remotely with flexible hours, creating unpredictable schedules. Roles are poorly defined due to frequent shifting needs across the company. Which of the following new initiatives by the information security team would BEST secure the company and mitigate the CEO's concerns?

Question155: A security researcher is gathering information about a recent spoke in the number of targeted attacks against multinational banks. The spike is on top of already sustained attacks against the banks. Some of the previous attacks have resulted in the loss of sensitive data, but as of yet the attackers have not successfully stolen any funds.
Based on the information available to the researcher, which of the following is the MOST likely threat profile?

Question156: An internal application has been developed to increase the efficiency of an operational process of a global manufacturer. New code was implemented to fix a security bug, but it has caused operations to halt. The executive team has decided fixing the security bug is less important than continuing operations.
Which of the following would BEST support immediate rollback of the failed fix? (Choose two.)

Question157: 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'?

Question158: A security consultant is attempting to discover if the company is utilizing databases on client machines to store the customer dat a. The consultant reviews the following information:

Which of the following commands would have provided this output?

Question159: 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?

Question160: Company.org has requested a black-box security assessment be performed on key cyber terrain. On area of concern is the company's SMTP services. The security assessor wants to run reconnaissance before taking any additional action and wishes to determine which SMTP server is Internet-facing.
Which of the following commands should the assessor use to determine this information?

Question161: 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?

Question162: A company wants to perform analysis of a tool that is suspected to contain a malicious payload. A forensic analyst is given the following snippet:
^32^[34fda19(fd^43gfd/home/user/lib/module.so.343jk^rfw(342fds43g
Which of the following did the analyst use to determine the location of the malicious payload?

Question163: A hospital's security team recently determined its network was breached and patient data was accessed by an external entity. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the hospital approaches the executive management team with this information, reports the vulnerability that led to the breach has already been remediated, and explains the team is continuing to follow the appropriate incident response plan. The executive team is concerned about the hospital's brand reputation and asks the CISO when the incident should be disclosed to the affected patients. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate response?

Question164: A regional transportation and logistics company recently hired its first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The CISO's first project after onboarding involved performing a vulnerability assessment against the company's public facing network. The completed scan found a legacy collaboration platform application with a critically rated vulnerability. While discussing this issue with the line of business, the CISO learns the vulnerable application cannot be updated without the company incurring significant losses due to downtime or new software purchases.
Which of the following BEST addresses these concerns?

Question165: A cybersecurity analyst created the following tables to help determine the maximum budget amount the business can justify spending on an improved email filtering system:


Which of the following meets the budget needs of the business?

Question166: An organization is preparing to develop a business continuity plan. The organization is required to meet regulatory requirements relating to confidentiality and availability, which are well-defined. Management has expressed concern following initial meetings that the organization is not fully aware of the requirements associated with the regulations.
Which of the following would be MOST appropriate for the project manager to solicit additional resources for during this phase of the project?

Question167: A corporate forensic investigator has been asked to acquire five forensic images of an employee database application. There are three images to capture in the United States, one in the United Kingdom, and one in Germany. Upon completing the work, the forensics investigator saves the images to a local workstation. Which of the following types of concerns should the forensic investigator have about this work assignment?

Question168: A systems security engineer is assisting an organization's market survey team in reviewing requirements for an upcoming acquisition of mobile devices. The engineer expresses concerns to the survey team about a particular class of devices that uses a separate SoC for baseband radio I/O. For which of the following reasons is the engineer concerned?

Question169: 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?

Question170: A company's claims processed department has a mobile workforce that receives a large number of email submissions from personal email addresses. An employees recently received an email that approved to be claim form, but it installed malicious software on the employee's laptop when was opened.