EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Company A acquired Company B. During an audit, a security engineer found Company B's environment was inadequately patched. In response, Company A placed a firewall between the two environments until Company B's infrastructure could be integrated into Company A's security program.
Which of the following risk-handling techniques was used?

Question2: Based on PCI DSS v3.4, One Particular database field can store data, but the data must be unreadable. which of the following data objects meets this requirement?

Question3: A large telecommunications equipment manufacturer needs to evaluate the strengths of security controls in a new telephone network supporting first responders. Which of the following techniques would the company use to evaluate data confidentiality controls?

Question4: A network architect is designing a new SD-WAN architecture to connect all local sites to a central hub site. The hub is then responsible for redirecting traffic to public cloud and datacenter applications. The SD-WAN routers are managed through a SaaS, and the same security policy is applied to staff whether working in the office or at a remote location. The main requirements are the following:
1. The network supports core applications that have 99.99% uptime.
2. Configuration updates to the SD-WAN routers can only be initiated from the management service.
3. Documents downloaded from websites must be scanned for malware.
Which of the following solutions should the network architect implement to meet the requirements?

Question5: An organization is preparing to migrate its production environment systems from an on-premises environment to a cloud service. The lead security architect is concerned that the organization's current methods for addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud environment.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why traditional methods of addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud?

Question6: An organization is prioritizing efforts to remediate or mitigate risks identified during the latest assessment. For one of the risks, a full remediation was not possible, but the organization was able to successfully apply mitigations to reduce the likelihood of impact.
Which of the following should the organization perform NEXT?

Question7: A systems administrator is in the process of hardening the host systems before connecting to the network. The administrator wants to add protection to the boot loader to ensure the hosts are secure before the OS fully boots.
Which of the following would provide the BEST boot loader protection?

Question8: The Chief information Officer (CIO) wants to establish a non-banding agreement with a third party that outlines the objectives of the mutual arrangement dealing with data transfers between both organizations before establishing a format partnership. Which of the follow would MOST likely be used?

Question9: A company plans to build an entirely remote workforce that utilizes a cloud-based infrastructure. The Chief Information Security Officer asks the security engineer to design connectivity to meet the following requirements:
Only users with corporate-owned devices can directly access servers hosted by the cloud provider.
The company can control what SaaS applications each individual user can access.
User browser activity can be monitored.
Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?

Question10: A high-severity vulnerability was found on a web application and introduced to the enterprise. The vulnerability could allow an unauthorized user to utilize an open-source library to view privileged user information. The enterprise is unwilling to accept the risk, but the developers cannot fix the issue right away.
Which of the following should be implemented to reduce the risk to an acceptable level until the issue can be fixed?

Question11: The goal of a Chief information Security Officer (CISO) providing up-to-date metrics to a bank's risk committee is to ensure:

Question12: 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?

Question13: An organization recently recovered from an attack that featured an adversary injecting Malicious logic into OS bootloaders on endpoint devices Therefore, the organization decided to require the use of TPM for measured boot and attestation, monitoring each component from the IJEFI through the full loading of OS components. of the following TPM structures enables this storage functionality?

Question14: A company Invested a total of $10 million lor a new storage solution Installed across live on-site datacenters. Fitly percent of the cost of this Investment was for solid-state storage. Due to the high rate of wear on this storage, the company Is estimating that 5% will need to be replaced per year. Which of the following is the ALE due to storage replacement?

Question15: The Chief information Security Officer (CISO) of a small locate bank has a compliance requirement that a third-party penetration test of the core banking application must be conducted annually. Which of the following services would fulfill the compliance requirement with the LOWEST resource usage?

Question16: A security analyst detected a malicious PowerShell attack on a single server. The malware used the Invoke-Expression function to execute an external malicious script. The security analyst scanned the disk with an antivirus application and did not find any IOCs. The security analyst now needs to deploy a protection solution against this type of malware.
Which of the following BEST describes the type of malware the solution should protect against?

Question17: A vulnerability assessment endpoint generated a report of the latest findings. A security analyst needs to review the report and create a priority list of items that must be addressed. Which of the following should the analyst use to create the list quickly?

Question18: An organization is researching the automation capabilities for systems within an OT network. A security analyst wants to assist with creating secure coding practices and would like to learn about the programming languages used on the PLCs. Which of the following programming languages is the MOST relevant for PLCs?

Question19: A software house is developing a new application. The application has the following requirements:
Reduce the number of credential requests as much as possible
Integrate with social networks
Authenticate users
Which of the following is the BEST federation method to use for the application?

Question20: After a security incident, a network security engineer discovers that a portion of the company's sensitive external traffic has been redirected through a secondary ISP that is not normally used.
Which of the following would BEST secure the routes while allowing the network to function in the event of a single provider failure?

Question21: A security team received a regulatory notice asking for information regarding collusion and pricing from staff members who are no longer with the organization. The legal department provided the security team with a list of search terms to investigate.
This is an example of:

Question22: A security architect was asked to modify an existing internal network design to accommodate the following requirements for RDP:
* Enforce MFA for RDP
* Ensure RDP connections are only allowed with secure ciphers.
The existing network is extremely complex and not well segmented. Because of these limitations, the company has requested that the connections not be restricted by network-level firewalls Of ACLs.
Which of the following should the security architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question23: A user from the sales department opened a suspicious file attachment. The sales department then contacted the SOC to investigate a number of unresponsive systems, and the team successfully identified the file and the origin of the attack.
Which of the following is t he NEXT step of the incident response plan?

Question24: A developer wants to develop a secure external-facing web application. The developer is looking for an online community that produces tools, methodologies, articles, and documentation in the field of web-application security Which of the following is the BEST option?

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: Which of the following allows computation and analysis of data within a ciphertext without knowledge of the plaintext?

Question28: A bank is working with a security architect to find the BEST solution to detect database management system compromises. The solution should meet the following requirements:
* Work at the application layer
* Send alerts on attacks from both privileged and malicious users
* Have a very low false positive
Which of the following should the architect recommend?

Question29: A security analyst discovered that a database administrator's workstation was compromised by malware. After examining the Jogs. the compromised workstation was observed connecting to multiple databases through ODBC. The following query behavior was captured:

Assuming this query was used to acquire and exfiltrate data, which of the following types of data was compromised, and what steps should the incident response plan contain?
A) Personal health information: Inform the human resources department of the breach and review the DLP logs.
B) Account history; Inform the relationship managers of the breach and create new accounts for the affected users.
C) Customer IDs: Inform the customer service department of the breach and work to change the account numbers.
D) PAN: Inform the legal department of the breach and look for this data in dark web monitoring.

Question30: An organization's hunt team thinks a persistent threats exists and already has a foothold in the enterprise network.
Which of the following techniques would be BEST for the hunt team to use to entice the adversary to uncover malicious activity?

Question31: As part of its risk strategy, a company is considering buying insurance for cybersecurity incidents.
Which of the following BEST describes this kind of risk response?

Question32: A company wants to improve Its active protection capabilities against unknown and zero-day malware. Which of the following Is the MOST secure solution?

Question33: 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.

Question34: A security auditor needs to review the manner in which an entertainment device operates. The auditor is analyzing the output of a port scanning tool to determine the next steps in the security review. Given the following log output.
The best option for the auditor to use NEXT is:

Question35: A company is implementing SSL inspection. During the next six months, multiple web applications that will be separated out with subdomains will be deployed.
Which of the following will allow the inspection of the data without multiple certificate deployments?

Question36: A security engineer needs to recommend a solution that will meet the following requirements:
Identify sensitive data in the provider's network
Maintain compliance with company and regulatory guidelines
Detect and respond to insider threats, privileged user threats, and compromised accounts Enforce datacentric security, such as encryption, tokenization, and access control Which of the following solutions should the security engineer recommend to address these requirements?

Question37: A review of the past year's attack patterns shows that attackers stopped reconnaissance after finding a susceptible system to compromise. The company would like to find a way to use this information to protect the environment while still gaining valuable attack information.
Which of the following would be BEST for the company to implement?

Question38: A company just released a new video card. Due to limited supply and high demand, attackers are employing automated systems to purchase the device through the company's web store so they can resell it on the secondary market. The company's intended customers are frustrated. A security engineer suggests implementing a CAPTCHA system on the web store to help reduce the number of video cards purchased through automated systems. Which of the following now describes the level of risk?

Question39: Clients are reporting slowness when attempting to access a series of load-balanced APIs that do not require authentication. The servers that host the APIs are showing heavy CPU utilization. No alerts are found on the WAFs sitting in front of the APIs.
Which of the following should a security engineer recommend to BEST remedy the performance issues in a timely manner?

Question40: An organization is designing a network architecture that must meet the following requirements:
Users will only be able to access predefined services.
Each user will have a unique allow list defined for access.
The system will construct one-to-one subject/object access paths dynamically.
Which of the following architectural designs should the organization use to meet these requirements?

Question41: A business stores personal client data of individuals residing in the EU in order to process requests for mortgage loan approvals.
Which of the following does the business's IT manager need to consider?

Question42: Which of the following controls primarily detects abuse of privilege but does not prevent it?

Question43: A security analyst is reviewing the following output:

Which of the following would BEST mitigate this type of attack?

Question44: A company's product site recently had failed API calls, resulting in customers being unable to check out and purchase products. This type of failure could lead to the loss of customers and damage to the company's reputation in the market.
Which of the following should the company implement to address the risk of system unavailability?

Question45: 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?

Question46: A small company recently developed prototype technology for a military program. The company's security engineer is concerned about potential theft of the newly developed, proprietary information.
Which of the following should the security engineer do to BEST manage the threats proactively?

Question47: An enterprise is undergoing an audit to review change management activities when promoting code to production. The audit reveals the following:
* Some developers can directly publish code to the production environment.
* Static code reviews are performed adequately.
* Vulnerability scanning occurs on a regularly scheduled basis per policy.
Which of the following should be noted as a recommendation within the audit report?

Question48: A security architect works for a manufacturing organization that has many different branch offices. The architect is looking for a way to reduce traffic and ensure the branch offices receive the latest copy of revoked certificates issued by the CA at the organization's headquarters location. The solution must also have the lowest power requirement on the CA.
Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question49: A security architect is implementing a web application that uses a database back end. Prior to the production, the architect is concerned about the possibility of XSS attacks and wants to identify security controls that could be put in place to prevent these attacks.
Which of the following sources could the architect consult to address this security concern?

Question50: A disaster recovery team learned of several mistakes that were made during the last disaster recovery parallel test. Computational resources ran out at 70% of restoration of critical services.
Which of the following should be modified to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

Question51: SIMULATION
You are a security analyst tasked with interpreting an Nmap scan output from company's privileged network.
The company's hardening guidelines indicate the following:
There should be one primary server or service per device.
Only default ports should be used.
Non-secure protocols should be disabled.
INSTRUCTIONS
Using the Nmap output, identify the devices on the network and their roles, and any open ports that should be closed.
For each device found by Nmap, add a device entry to the Devices Discovered list, with the following information:
The IP address of the device
The primary server or service of the device (Note that each IP should by associated with one service/port only) The protocol(s) that should be disabled based on the hardening guidelines (Note that multiple ports may need to be closed to comply with the hardening guidelines) If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question52: A security analyst notices a number of SIEM events that show the following activity:

Which of the following response actions should the analyst take FIRST?

Question53: A forensic investigator would use the foremost command for:

Question54: An organization mat provides a SaaS solution recently experienced an incident involving customer data loss. The system has a level of sell-healing that includes monitoring performance and available resources. When me system detects an issue, the self-healing process is supposed to restart pans of me software.
During the incident, when me self-healing system attempted to restart the services, available disk space on the data drive to restart all the services was inadequate. The self-healing system did not detect that some services did not fully restart and declared me system as fully operational. Which of the following BEST describes me reason why the silent failure occurred?

Question55: 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.

Question56: A company requires a task to be carried by more than one person concurrently. This is an example of:

Question57: A company processes data subject to NDAs with partners that define the processing and storage constraints for the covered dat a. The agreements currently do not permit moving the covered data to the cloud, and the company would like to renegotiate the terms of the agreements.
Which of the following would MOST likely help the company gain consensus to move the data to the cloud?

Question58: A company undergoing digital transformation is reviewing the resiliency of a CSP and is concerned about meeting SLA requirements in the event of a CSP incident.
Which of the following would be BEST to proceed with the transformation?

Question59: A company hired a third party to develop software as part of its strategy to be quicker to market. The company's policy outlines the following requirements:
The credentials used to publish production software to the container registry should be stored in a secure location.
Access should be restricted to the pipeline service account, without the ability for the third-party developer to read the credentials directly.
Which of the following would be the BEST recommendation for storing and monitoring access to these shared credentials?

Question60: Which of the following protocols is a low power, low data rate that allows for the creation of PAN networks?

Question61: A company based in the United States holds insurance details of EU citizens. Which of the following must be adhered to when processing EU citizens' personal, private, and confidential data?

Question62: An energy company is required to report the average pressure of natural gas used over the past quarter. A PLC sends data to a historian server that creates the required reports.
Which of the following historian server locations will allow the business to get the required reports in an OT and IT environment?

Question63: A security analyst is investigating a possible buffer overflow attack. The following output was found on a user's workstation:
graphic.linux_randomization.prg
Which of the following technologies would mitigate the manipulation of memory segments?

Question64: A security engineer was auditing an organization's current software development practice and discovered that multiple open-source libraries were Integrated into the organization's software. The organization currently performs SAST and DAST on the software it develops.
Which of the following should the organization incorporate into the SDLC to ensure the security of the open-source libraries?

Question65: A security analyst is researching containerization concepts for an organization. The analyst is concerned about potential resource exhaustion scenarios on the Docker host due to a single application that is overconsuming available resources.
Which of the following core Linux concepts BEST reflects the ability to limit resource allocation to containers?

Question66: A security is assisting the marketing department with ensuring the security of the organization's social media platforms. The two main concerns are:
The Chief marketing officer (CMO) email is being used department wide as the username The password has been shared within the department Which of the following controls would be BEST for the analyst to recommend?

Question67: A company Is adopting a new artificial-intelligence-based analytics SaaS solution. This Is the company's first attempt at using a SaaS solution, and a security architect has been asked to determine any future risks. Which of the following would be the GREATEST risk In adopting this solution?

Question68: Over the last 90 days, many storage services has been exposed in the cloud services environments, and the security team does not have the ability to see is creating these instance. Shadow IT is creating data services and instances faster than the small security team can keep up with them. The Chief information security Officer (CIASO) has asked the security officer (CISO) has asked the security lead architect to architect to recommend solutions to this problem.
Which of the following BEST addresses the problem best address the problem with the least amount of administrative effort?

Question69: 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?

Question70: A security consultant needs to set up wireless security for a small office that does not have Active Directory. Despite the lack of central account management, the office manager wants to ensure a high level of defense to prevent brute-force attacks against wireless authentication.
Which of the following technologies would BEST meet this need?

Question71: A developer implement the following code snippet.

Which of the following vulnerabilities does the code snippet resolve?

Question72: A technician is reviewing the logs and notices a large number of files were transferred to remote sites over the course of three months. This activity then stopped. The files were transferred via TLS-protected HTTP sessions from systems that do not send traffic to those sites.
The technician will define this threat as:

Question73: A company just released a new video card. Due to limited supply and nigh demand, attackers are employing automated systems to purchase the device through the company's web store so they can resell it on the secondary market. The company's Intended customers are frustrated. A security engineer suggests implementing a CAPTCHA system on the web store to help reduce the number of video cards purchased through automated systems. Which of the following now describes the level of risk?

Question74: A security analyst is investigating a series of suspicious emails by employees to the security team. The email appear to come from a current business partner and do not contain images or URLs. No images or URLs were stripped from the message by the security tools the company uses instead, the emails only include the following in plain text.

Which of the following should the security analyst perform?

Question75: Which of the following is the BEST disaster recovery solution when resources are running in a cloud environment?

Question76: A company is looking at sending historical backups containing customer PII to a cloud service provider to save on storage costs. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration before making this decision?

Question77: A security analyst wants to keep track of alt outbound web connections from workstations. The analyst's company uses an on-premises web filtering solution that forwards the outbound traffic to a perimeter firewall. When the security analyst gets the connection events from the firewall, the source IP of the outbound web traffic is the translated IP of the web filtering solution. Considering this scenario involving source NAT. which of the following would be the BEST option to inject in the HTTP header to include the real source IP from workstations?

Question78: A software development company makes Its software version available to customers from a web portal. On several occasions, hackers were able to access the software repository to change the package that is automatically published on the website. Which of the following would be the BEST technique to ensure the software the users download is the official software released by the company?

Question79: An organization is referencing NIST best practices for BCP creation while reviewing current internal organizational processes for mission-essential items.
Which of the following phases establishes the identification and prioritization of critical systems and functions?

Question80: A security administrator configured the account policies per security implementation guidelines. However, the accounts still appear to be susceptible to brute-force attacks. The following settings meet the existing compliance guidelines:
Must have a minimum of 15 characters
Must use one number
Must use one capital letter
Must not be one of the last 12 passwords used
Which of the following policies should be added to provide additional security?

Question81: A cybersecurity analyst receives a ticket that indicates a potential incident is occurring. There has been a large in log files generated by a generated by a website containing a ''Contact US'' form. The analyst must determine if the increase in website traffic is due to a recent marketing campaign of if this is a potential incident. Which of the following would BEST assist the analyst?

Question82: 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?

Question83: A cybersecurity analyst discovered a private key that could have been exposed.
Which of the following is the BEST way for the analyst to determine if the key has been compromised?