EMT Practice Test

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Question1: The information security manager of an e-commerce company receives an alert over the weekend that all the servers in a datacenter have gone offline Upon discussing this situation with the facilities manager, the information security manager learns there was planned electrical maintenance. The information security manager is upset at not being part of the maintenance planning, as this could have resulted in a loss of:

Question2: A system administrator recently conducted a vulnerability scan of the internet. Subsequently, the organization was successfully attacked by an adversary. Which of the following in the MOST likely explanation for why the organization network was compromised?

Question3: 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?

Question4: A development team releases updates to an application regularly. The application is compiled with several standard open-source security products that require a minimum version for compatibility. During the security review portion of the development cycle, which of the following should be done to minimize possible application vulnerabilities?

Question5: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is creating a security committee involving multiple business units of the corporation.
Which of the following is the BEST justification to ensure collaboration across business units?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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?

Question9: An organization just merged with an organization in another legal jurisdiction and must improve its network security posture in ways that do not require additional resources to implement data isolation. One recommendation is to block communication between endpoint PCs. Which of the following would be the BEST solution?

Question10: 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.)

Question11: A security analyst is reviewing the following company requirements prior to selecting the appropriate technical control configuration and parameter:
RTO:2 days
RPO:36 hours
MTTR:24 hours
MTBF:60 days
Which of the following solutions will address the RPO requirements?

Question12: A security architect is implementing security measures in response to an external audit that found vulnerabilities in the corporate collaboration tool suite. The report identified the lack of any mechanism to provide confidentiality for electronic correspondence between users and between users and group mailboxes. Which of the following controls would BEST mitigate the identified vulnerability?

Question13: 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?

Question14: 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?

Question15: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has been asked to develop a security dashboard with the relevant metrics. The board of directors will use the dashboard to monitor and track the overall security posture of the organization. The CIO produces a basic report containing both KPI and KRI data in two separate sections for the board to review.
Which of the following BEST meets the needs of the board?

Question16: 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?

Question17: 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?

Question18: An electric car company hires an IT consulting company to improve the cybersecurity of us vehicles. Which of the following should achieve the BEST long-term result for the company?

Question19: 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?

Question20: 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?

Question21: An information security manager is concerned that connectivity used to configure and troubleshoot critical network devices could be attacked. The manager has tasked a network security engineer with meeting the following requirements:
Encrypt all traffic between the network engineer and critical devices.
Segregate the different networking planes as much as possible.
Do not let access ports impact configuration tasks.
Which of the following would be the BEST recommendation for the network security engineer to present?

Question22: 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?

Question23: A developer implement the following code snippet.

Which of the following vulnerabilities does the code snippet resolve?

Question24: An organization, which handles large volumes of PII, allows mobile devices that can process, store, and transmit PII and other sensitive data to be issued to employees. Security assessors can demonstrate recovery and decryption of remnant sensitive data from device storage after MDM issues a successful wipe command. Assuming availability of the controls, which of the following would BEST protect against the loss of sensitive data in the future?

Question25: A global company has decided to implement a cross-platform baseline of security settings for all company laptops. A security engineer is planning and executing the project. Which of the following should the security engineer recommend?

Question26: A network service on a production system keeps crashing at random times. The systems administrator suspects a bug in the listener is causing the service to crash, resuming in the a DoS. Which the service crashes, a core dump is left in the /tmp directory. Which of the following tools can the systems administrator use to reproduction these symptoms?

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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?

Question29: The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a major hospital system has received a ransom letter that demands a large sum of cryptocurrency be transferred to an anonymous account. If the transfer does not take place within ten hours, the letter states that patient information will be released on the dark web. A partial listing of recent patients is included in the letter. This is the first indication that a breach took place. Which of the following steps should be done FIRST?

Question30: A hospital is using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, which is controlled legacy desktop connected to the network. The manufacturer of the fMRI will not support patching of the legacy system. The legacy desktop needs to be network accessible on TCP port 445 A security administrator is concerned the legacy system will be vulnerable to exploits Which of the following would be the BEST strategy to reduce the risk of an outage while still providing for security?

Question31: A security architect is designing a system to satisfy user demand for reduced transaction time, increased security and message integrity, and improved cryptographic security. The resultant system will be used in an environment with a broad user base where many asynchronous transactions occur every minute and must be publicly verifiable.
Which of the following solutions BEST meets all of the architect's objectives?

Question32: 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?

Question33: A security analyst is reviewing weekly email reports and finds an average of 1.000 emails received daily from the internal security alert email address. Which of the following should be implemented?

Question34: An organization is in the process of integrating its operational technology and information technology areas. As part of the integration, some of the cultural aspects it would like to see include more efficient use of resources during change windows, better protection of critical infrastructure, and the ability to respond to incidents. The following observations have been identified:
The ICS supplier has specified that any software installed will result in lack of support.
There is no documented trust boundary defined between the SCADA and corporate networks.
Operational technology staff have to manage the SCADA equipment via the engineering workstation.
There is a lack of understanding of what is within the SCADA network.
Which of the following capabilities would BEST improve the security position?

Question35: A software development firm wants to validate the use of standard libraries as part of the software development process Each developer performs unit testing prior to committing changes to the code repository. Which of the following activities would be BEST to perform after a commit but before the creation of a branch?

Question36: A penetration tester noticed special characters in a database table. The penetration tester configured the browser to use an HTTP interceptor to verify that the front-end user registration web form accepts invalid input in the user's age field. The developer was notified and asked to fix the issue.
Which of the following is the MOST secure solution for the developer to implement?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A company's Internet connection is commonly saturated during business hours, affecting Internet availability. The company requires all Internet traffic to be business related After analyzing the traffic over a period of a few hours, the security administrator observes the following:

The majority of the IP addresses associated with the TCP/SSL traffic resolve to CDNs Which of the following should the administrator recommend for the CDN traffic to meet the corporate security requirements?

Question39: 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?

Question40: A financial services company wants to migrate its email services from on-premises servers to a cloud-based email solution. The Chief information Security Officer (CISO) must brief board of directors on the potential security concerns related to this migration. The board is concerned about the following.
* Transactions being required by unauthorized individual
* Complete discretion regarding client names, account numbers, and investment information.
* Malicious attacker using email to distribute malware and ransom ware.
* Exfiltration of sensitivity company information.
The cloud-based email solution will provide an6-malware, reputation-based scanning, signature-based scanning, and sandboxing. Which of the following is the BEST option to resolve the board's concerns for this email migration?

Question41: Which of the following attacks can be used to exploit a vulnerability that was created by untrained users?

Question42: The security configuration management policy states that all patches must undergo testing procedures before being moved into production. The sec... analyst notices a single web application server has been downloading and applying patches during non-business hours without testing. There are no apparent adverse reaction, server functionality does not seem to be affected, and no malware was found after a scan. Which of the following action should the analyst take?

Question43: 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:

Question44: A DevOps team wants to move production data into the QA environment for testing. This data contains credit card numbers and expiration dates that are not tied to any individuals The security analyst wants to reduce risk. Which of the following will lower the risk before moving the data''

Question45: 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?

Question46: 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?

Question47: Which of the following is an external pressure that causes companies to hire security assessors and penetration testers?

Question48: 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?

Question49: 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?

Question50: A company recently implemented a new cloud storage solution and installed the required synchronization client on all company devices. A few months later, a breach of sensitive data was discovered. Root cause analysis shows the data breach happened from a lost personal mobile device.
Which of the following controls can the organization implement to reduce the risk of similar breaches?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A security engineer is troubleshooting an issue in which an employee is getting an IP address in the range on the wired network. The engineer plus another PC into the same port, and that PC gets an IP address in the correct range. The engineer then puts the employee' PC on the wireless network and finds the PC still not get an IP address in the proper range. The PC is up to date on all software and antivirus definitions, and the IP address is not an APIPA address. Which of the following is MOST likely the problem?

Question53: 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?

Question54: A company's user community is being adversely affected by various types of emails whose authenticity cannot be trusted. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) must address the problem.
Which of the following solutions would BEST support trustworthy communication solutions?

Question55: 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?

Question56: A company has made it a spending priority to implement security architectures that will be resilient during an attack. Recent incidents have involved attackers leveraging latent vulnerabilities in cryptographic implementations and VPN concentrators to be able to compromise sensitive information. Patches have been slowly released for these emergent vulnerabilities, leaving weeks to months of exposed and vulnerable attack surface. Which of the following approaches would be BEST to increase enterprise resilience during similar future attacks?

Question57: A new corporate policy requires that all employees have access to corporate resources on personal mobile devices The information assurance manager is concerned about the potential for inadvertent and malicious data disclosure if a device is lost, while users are concerned about corporate overreach. Which of the following controls would address these concerns and should be reflected in the company's mobile device policy?

Question58: After the departure of a developer under unpleasant circumstances, the company is concerned about the security of the software to which the developer has access. Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure security of the code following the incident?

Question59: An analyst is investigating behavior on a corporate-owned, corporate-managed mobile device with application whitelisting enabled, based on a name string. The employee to whom the device is assigned reports the approved email client is displaying warning messages that can launch browser windows and is adding unrecognized email addresses to the "compose" window.
Which of the following would provide the analyst the BEST chance of understanding and characterizing the malicious behavior?

Question60: 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?

Question61: 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

Question62: 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?

Question63: An application has been through a peer review and regression testing and is prepared for release. A security engineer is asked to analyze an application binary to look for potential vulnerabilities prior to wide release. After thoroughly analyzing the application, the engineer informs the developer it should include additional input sanitation in the application to prevent overflows. Which of the following tools did the security engineer MOST likely use to determine this recommendation?

Question64: 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?

Question65: A technician receives the following security alert from the firewall's automated system:

After reviewing the alert, which of the following is the BEST analysis?

Question66: 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.

Question67: 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?

Question68: An organization designs and develops safety-critical embedded firmware (inclusive of embedded OS and services) for the automotive industry. The organization has taken great care to exercise secure software development practices for the firmware Of paramount importance is the ability to defeat attacks aimed at replacing or corrupting running firmware once the vehicle leaves production and is in the field Integrating, which of the following host and OS controls would BEST protect against this threat?

Question69: 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?

Question70: A forensics analyst suspects that a breach has occurred. Security logs show the company's OS patch system may be compromised, and it is serving patches that contain a zero-day exploit and backdoor. The analyst extracts an executable file from a packet capture of communication between a client computer and the patch server.
Which of the following should the analyst use to confirm this suspicion?

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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.)

Question73: A security administrator adding a NAC requirement for all VPN users to ensure the connecting devices are compliant with company policy. Which of the following items provides the HIGHEST assurance to meet this requirement?

Question74: An online bank has contracted with a consultant to perform a security assessment of the bank's web portal. The consultant notices the login page is linked from the main page with HTTPS, but when the URL is changed to HTTP, the browser is automatically redirected back to the HTTPS site. Which of the following is a concern for the consultant, and how can it be mitigated?

Question75: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is developing a new BIA for the organization. The CISO wants to gather requirements to determine the appropriate RTO and RPO for the organization's ERP. Which of the following should the CISO interview as MOST qualified to provide RTO/RPO metrics?

Question76: 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?

Question77: 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?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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?

Question81: A company has hired an external security consultant to conduct a thorough review of all aspects of corporate security. The company is particularly concerned about unauthorized access to its physical offices resulting in network compromises. Which of the following should the consultant recommend be performed to evaluate potential risks?

Question82: During a security assessment, an organization is advised of inadequate control over network segmentation. The assessor explains that the organization's reliance on VLANs to segment traffic is insufficient to provide segmentation based on regulatory standards.
Which of the following should the organization consider implementing along with VLANs to provide a greater level of segmentation?

Question83: 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:

Question84: A company uses an application in its warehouse that works with several commercially available tablets and can only be accessed inside the warehouse. The support department would like the selection of tablets to be limited to three models to provide better support and ensure spares are on hand. Users often keep the tablets after they leave the department, as many of them store personal media items.
Which of the following should the security engineer recommend to meet these requirements?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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?

Question88: 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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Question89: Which of the following attacks can be mitigated by proper data retention policies?

Question90: A pharmacy gives its clients online access to their records and the ability to review bills and make payments. A new SSL vulnerability on a special platform was discovered, allowing an attacker to capture the data between the end user and the web server providing these services. After invest the new vulnerability, it was determined that the web services providing are being impacted by this new threat. Which of the following data types a MOST likely at risk of exposure based on this new threat? (Select TWO)

Question91: 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?

Question92: 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?

Question93: 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?

Question94: 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:

Question95: 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?

Question96: A security analyst is reading the results of a successful exploit that was recently conducted by third-party penetration testers. The testers reverse engineered a privileged executable. In the report, the planning and execution of the exploit is detailed using logs and outputs from the test However, the attack vector of the exploit is missing, making it harder to recommend remediation's. Given the following output:

The penetration testers MOST likely took advantage of:

Question97: Staff members are reporting an unusual number of device thefts associated with time out of the office. Thefts increased soon after the company deployed a new social networking app. Which of the following should the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) recommend implementing?

Question98: While conducting online research about a company to prepare for an upcoming penetration test, a security analyst discovers detailed financial information on an investor website the company did not make public. The analyst shares this information with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), who confirms the information is accurate, as it was recently discussed at a board of directors meeting. Many of the details are verbatim discussion comments captured by the board secretary for purposes of transcription on a mobile device. Which of the following would MOST likely prevent a similar breach in the future?

Question99: A recent CRM upgrade at a branch office was completed after the desired deadline. Several technical issues were found during the upgrade and need to be discussed in depth before the next branch office is upgraded.
Which of the following should be used to identify weak processes and other vulnerabilities?

Question100: Ann, a security administrator, is conducting an assessment on a new firewall, which was placed at the perimeter of a network containing PII. Ann runs the following commands on a server (10.0.1.19) behind the firewall:

From her own workstation (192.168.2.45) outside the firewall, Ann then runs a port scan against the server and records the following packet capture of the port scan:

Connectivity to the server from outside the firewall worked as expected prior to executing these commands.
Which of the following can be said about the new firewall?

Question101: 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?

Question102: Given the following code snippet:

Of which of the following is this snippet an example?

Question103: A health company has reached the physical and computing capabilities in its datacenter, but the computing demand continues to increase. The infrastructure is fully virtualized and runs custom and commercial healthcare application that process sensitive health and payment information. Which of the following should the company implement to ensure it can meet the computing demand while complying with healthcare standard for virtualization and cloud computing?

Question104: 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?

Question105: While traveling to another state, the Chief Financial (CFO) forgot to submit payroll for the company. The CFO quickly gained to the corporate through the high-speed wireless network provided by the hotel and completed the desk. Upon returning from the business trip, the CFO was told no one received their weekly pay due to a malware on attack on the system. Which of the following is the MOST likely of the security breach?

Question106: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of an organization is concerned with the transmission of cleartext authentication information across the enterprise. A security assessment has been performed and has identified the use of ports 80. 389. and 3268. Which of the following solutions would BEST address the CISO's concerns?

Question107: 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?

Question108: During a security event investigation, a junior analyst fails to create an image of a server's hard drive before removing the drive and sending it to the forensics analyst. Later, the evidence from the analysis is not usable in the prosecution of the attackers due to the uncertainty of tampering. Which of the following should the junior analyst have followed?

Question109: An organization is evaluating options related to moving organizational assets to a cloud-based environment using an IaaS provider. One engineer has suggested connecting a second cloud environment within the organization's existing facilities to capitalize on available datacenter space and resources. Other project team members are concerned about such a commitment of organizational assets, and ask the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for input. The CSO explains that the project team should work with the engineer to evaluate the risks associated with using the datacenter to implement:

Question110: The risk subcommittee of a corporate board typically maintains a master register of the most prominent risks to the company. A centralized holistic view of risk is particularly important to the corporate Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) because:

Question111: An infrastructure team is at the end of a procurement process and has selected a vendor. As part of the final negotiations, there are a number of outstanding issues, including:
1. Indemnity clauses have identified the maximum liability
2. The data will be hosted and managed outside of the company's geographical location The number of users accessing the system will be small, and no sensitive data will be hosted in the solution. As the security consultant on the project, which of the following should the project's security consultant recommend as the NEXT step?

Question112: During a security assessment, activities were divided into two phases; internal and external exploitation. The security assessment team set a hard time limit on external activities before moving to a compromised box within the enterprise perimeter.
Which of the following methods is the assessment team most likely to employ NEXT?

Question113: 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?

Question114: A security engineer at a company is designing a system to mitigate recent setbacks caused competitors that are beating the company to market with the new products. Several of the products incorporate propriety enhancements developed by the engineer's company. The network already includes a SEIM and a NIPS and requires 2FA for all user access. Which of the following system should the engineer consider NEXT to mitigate the associated risks?

Question115: Drag and drop the cloud deployment model to the associated use-case scenario. Options may be used only once or not at all.

Question116: 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?

Question117: 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?

Question118: 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?

Question119: 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?

Question120: 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?

Question121: 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?

Question122: A security administrator wants to implement two-factor authentication for network switches and routers. The solution should integrate with the company's RADIUS server, which is used for authentication to the network infrastructure devices. The security administrator implements the following:
An HOTP service is installed on the RADIUS server.
The RADIUS server is configured to require the HOTP service for authentication.
The configuration is successfully tested using a software supplicant and enforced across all network devices. Network administrators report they are unable to log onto the network devices because they are not being prompted for the second factor.
Which of the following should be implemented to BEST resolve the issue?

Question123: 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?

Question124: 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?

Question125: An organization is deploying IoT locks, sensors, and cameras, which operate over 802.11, to replace legacy building access control systems. These devices are capable of triggering physical access changes, including locking and unlocking doors and gates. Unfortunately, the devices have known vulnerabilities for which the vendor has yet to provide firmware updates.
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this risk?

Question126: A project manager is working with a team that is tasked to develop software applications in a structured environment and host them in a vendor's cloud-based infrastructure. The organization will maintain responsibility for the software but will not manage the underlying server applications. Which of the following does the organization plan to leverage?

Question127: A product owner is reviewing the output of a web-application penetration test and has identified an application that is presenting sensitive information in cleartext on a page. Which of the following code snippets would be BEST to use to remediate the vulnerability?

Question128: 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?

Question129: 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?

Question130: An incident responder wants to capture volatile memory comprehensively from a running machine for forensic purposes. The machine is running a very recent release of the Linux OS.
Which of the following technical approaches would be the MOST feasible way to accomplish this capture?

Question131: The government is concerned with remote military missions being negatively 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 solders 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?

Question132: Several recent ransomware outbreaks at a company have cost a significant amount of lost revenue. The security team needs to find a technical control mechanism that will meet the following requirements and aid in preventing these outbreaks:
Stop malicious software that does not match a signature
Report on instances of suspicious behavior
Protect from previously unknown threats
Augment existing security capabilities
Which of the following tools would BEST meet these requirements?

Question133: 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?

Question134: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) instructed the new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to provide a list of enhancements to the company's cybersecurity operation. As a result, the CISO has identified the need to align security operations with industry best practices. Which of the following industry references is appropriate to accomplish this?

Question135: 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?

Question136: A newly hired systems administrator is trying to connect a new and fully updated, but very customized, Android device to access corporate resources. However, the MDM enrollment process continually fails. The administrator asks a security team member to look into the issue.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the MDM is not allowing enrollment?

Question137: A security manager wants to implement a policy that will management with the ability to monitor employees' activities with minimum impact to productivity. Which of the following policies Is BEST suited for this scenario?

Question138: While an employee is on vacation, suspicion arises that the employee has been involved in malicious activity on the network. The security engineer is concerned the investigation may need to continue after the employee returns to work. Given this concern, which of the following should the security engineer recommend to maintain the integrity of the investigation?

Question139: A development team is testing an in-house-developed application for bugs. During the test, the application crashes several times due to null pointer exceptions. Which of the following tools, if integrated into an IDE during coding, would identify these bugs routinely?

Question140: A security engineer is assessing the controls that are in place to secure the corporate-Internet-facing DNS server. The engineer notices that security ACLs exist but are not being used properly. The DNS server should respond to any source but only provide information about domains it has authority over. Additionally, the DNS administrator have identified some problematic IP addresses that should not be able to make DNS requests. Given the ACLs below:

Which of the following should the security administrator configure to meet the DNS security needs?

Question141: 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?

Question142: During the migration of a company's human resources application to a PaaS provider, the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) expresses concern the vendor's staff may be able to access data within the migrating applications. The application stack includes a multitier architecture and uses commercially available, vendor-supported software packages. Which of the following BEST addresses the CPO's concerns?

Question143: 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?

Question144: A company wants to configure its wireless network to require username and password authentication. Which of the following should the system administrator implement?

Question145: Given the following output from a security tool in Kali:

Question146: 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?

Question147: A company uses AD and RADIUS to authenticate VPN and WiFi connections The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) initiates a project to extend a third-party MFA solution to VPN. During the pilot phase, VPN users successfully get an MFA challenge, however they also get the challenge when connecting to WiFi. which is not desirable Which of the following BEST explains why users are getting the MFA challenge when using WiFi?

Question148: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) implemented MFA for all accounts in parallel with the BYOD policy. After the implementation, employees report the increased authentication method is causing increased time to tasks. This applies both to accessing the email client on the workstation and the online collaboration portal. Which of the following should be the CISO implement to address the employees' concerns?

Question149: 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?

Question150: As part of incident response, a technician is taking an image of a compromised system and copying the image to a remote image server (192.168.45.82). The system drive is very large but does not contain the sensitive dat a. The technician has limited time to complete this task. Which of the following is the BEST command for the technician to run?

Question151: 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?

Question152: A financial institution would like to store its customer data in a cloud but still allow the data to be accessed and manipulated while encrypted. Doing so would prevent the cloud service provider from being able to decipher the data due to its sensitivity. The financial institution is not concerned about computational overheads and slow speeds. Which of the following cryptographic techniques would BEST meet the requirement?

Question153: A server (10.0.0.2) on the corporate network is experiencing a DoS from a number of marketing desktops that have been compromised and are connected to a separate network segment. The security engineer implements the following configuration on the management router:

Which of the following is the engineer implementing?

Question154: 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?

Question155: 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?

Question156: A legacy web application, which is being used by a hospital, cannot be upgraded for 12 months. A new vulnerability is found in the legacy application, and the networking team is tasked with mitigation. Middleware for mitigation will cost $100,000 per year. Which of the following must be calculated to determine ROI? (Choose two.)

Question157: A security appliance vendor is reviewing an RFP that is requesting solutions for the defense of a set of web-based applications. This RFP is from a financial institution with very strict performance requirements. The vendor would like to respond with its solutions.
Before responding, which of the following factors is MOST likely to have an adverse effect on the vendor's qualifications?

Question158: A security analyst has been assigned incident response duties and must instigate the response on a Windows device that appears to be compromised. Which of the following commands should be executed on the client FIRST?
A)

B)

C)

D)

Question159: 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?

Question160: While the code is still in the development environment, a security architect is testing the code stored in the code repository to ensure the top ten OWASP secure coding practices are being followed. Which of the following code analyzers will produce the desired results?

Question161: 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?