EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following BEST sets expectation between the security team and business units within an organization?

Question2: A security analyst at a global financial firm was reviewing the design of a cloud-based system to identify opportunities to improve the security of the architecture. The system was recently involved in a data breach after a vulnerability was exploited within a virtual machine's operating system. The analyst observed the VPC in which the system was located was not peered with the security VPC that contained the centralized vulnerability scanner due to the cloud provider's limitations. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to help prevent this situation m the near future?

Question3: Which of the following best describes what happens if chain of custody is broken?

Question4: After a cybersecurity incident, a judge found that a company did not conduct a proper forensic investigation. The company was ordered to pay penalties. Which of the following forensic steps would be best to prevent this from happening again?

Question5: A client is adding scope to a project. Which of the following processes should be used when requesting updates or corrections to the client's systems?

Question6: The general counsel at an organization has received written notice of upcoming litigation. The general counsel has issued a legal records hold. Which of the following actions should the organization take to comply with the request?

Question7: 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?

Question8: A security administrator needs to recommend an encryption protocol after a legacy stream cipher was deprecated when a security flaw was discovered. The legacy cipher excelled at maintaining strong cryptographic security and provided great performance for a streaming video service. Which of the following AES modes should the security administrator recommend given these requirements?

Question9: A university issues badges through a homegrown identity management system to all staff and students. Each week during the summer, temporary summer school students arrive and need to be issued a badge to access minimal campus resources. The security team received a report from an outside auditor indicating the homegrown system is not consistent with best practices in the security field.
Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?

Question10: A security engineer has been informed by the firewall team that a specific Windows workstation is part of a command-and-control network. The only information the security engineer is receiving is that the traffic is occurring on a non-standard port (TCP 40322). Which of the following commands should the security engineer use FIRST to find the malicious process?

Question11: After the latest risk assessment, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) decides to meet with the development and security teams to find a way to reduce the security task workload The CISO would like to:
* Have a solution that uses API to communicate with other security tools
* Use the latest technology possible
* Have the highest controls possible on the solution
Which of following is the best option to meet these requirements?

Question12: A company recently deployed a SIEM and began importing logs from a firewall, a file server, a domain controller a web server, and a laptop. A security analyst receives a series of SIEM alerts and prepares to respond. The following is the alert information:

Which of the following should the security analyst do FIRST?

Question13: A satellite communications ISP frequently experiences outages and degraded modes of operation over one of its legacy satellite links due to the use of deprecated hardware and software. Three days per week, on average, a contracted company must follow a checklist of 16 different high-latency commands that must be run in serial to restore nominal performance. The ISP wants this process to be automated.
Which of the following techniques would be BEST suited for this requirement?

Question14: A company recently acquired a SaaS provider and needs to integrate its platform into the company's existing infrastructure without impact to the customer's experience. The SaaS provider does not have a mature security program A recent vulnerability scan of the SaaS provider's systems shows multiple critical vulnerabilities attributed to very old and outdated Oss. Which of the following solutions would prevent these vulnerabilities from being introduced into the company's existing infrastructure?

Question15: A security engineer performed an assessment on a recently deployed web application. The engineer was able to exfiltration a company report by visiting the following URL:
www.intranet.abc.com/get-files.jsp?file=report.pdf
Which of the following mitigation techniques would be BEST for the security engineer to recommend?

Question16: 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?

Question17: An engineering team is developing and deploying a fleet of mobile devices to be used for specialized inventory management purposes. These devices should:
* Be based on open-source Android for user familiarity and ease.
* Provide a single application for inventory management of physical assets.
* Permit use of the camera be only the inventory application for the purposes of scanning
* Disallow any and all configuration baseline modifications.
* Restrict all access to any device resource other than those requirement ?

Question18: 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?

Question19: Which of the following is the BEST disaster recovery solution when resources are running in a cloud environment?

Question20: A security consultant has been asked to identify a simple, secure solution for a small business with a single access point. The solution should have a single SSID and no guest access. The customer facility is located in a crowded area of town, so there is a high likelihood that several people will come into range every day. The customer has asked that the solution require low administrative overhead and be resistant to offline password attacks. Which of the following should the security consultant recommend?

Question21: A forensics investigator is analyzing an executable file extracted from storage media that was submitted (or evidence The investigator must use a tool that can identify whether the executable has indicators, which may point to the creator of the file Which of the following should the investigator use while preserving evidence integrity?

Question22: A new web server must comply with new secure-by-design principles and PCI DSS. This includes mitigating the risk of an on-path attack. A security analyst is reviewing the following web server configuration:

Which of the following ciphers should the security analyst remove to support the business requirements?

Question23: 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?

Question24: A security administrator needs to implement a security solution that will
* Limit the attack surface in case of an incident
* Improve access control for external and internal network security.
* Improve performance with less congestion on network traffic
Which of the following should the security administrator do?

Question25: All staff at a company have started working remotely due to a global pandemic. To transition to remote work, the company has migrated to SaaS collaboration tools. The human resources department wants to use these tools to process sensitive information but is concerned the data could be:
Leaked to the media via printing of the documents
Sent to a personal email address
Accessed and viewed by systems administrators
Uploaded to a file storage site
Which of the following would mitigate the department's concerns?

Question26: A customer reports being unable to connect to a website at www.test.com to consume services. The customer notices the web application has the following published cipher suite:

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the customer's inability to connect?

Question27: 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?

Question28: An organization recently started processing, transmitting, and storing its customers' credit card information. Within a week of doing so, the organization suffered a massive breach that resulted in the exposure of the customers' information.
Which of the following provides the BEST guidance for protecting such information while it is at rest and in transit?

Question29: A company is migrating from company-owned phones to a BYOD strategy for mobile devices. The pilot program will start with the executive management team and be rolled out to the rest of the staff in phases. The company's Chief Financial Officer loses a phone multiple times a year.
Which of the following will MOST likely secure the data on the lost device?

Question30: An analyst has prepared several possible solutions to a successful attack on the company. The solutions need to be implemented with the LEAST amount of downtime. Which of the following should the analyst perform?

Question31: An IPSec solution is being deployed. The configuration files for both the VPN concentrator and the AAA server are shown in the diagram.
Complete the configuration files to meet the following requirements:
* The EAP method must use mutual certificate-based authentication (With issued client certificates).
* The IKEv2 Cipher suite must be configured to the MOST secure
authenticated mode of operation,
* The secret must contain at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character, one numeric character, and one special character, and it must meet a minimum length requirement of eight characters, INSTRUCTIONS Click on the AAA server and VPN concentrator to complete the configuration.
Fill in the appropriate fields and make selections from the drop-down menus.

VPN Concentrator:

AAA Server:

Question32: A security analyst sees that a hacker has discovered some keys and they are being made available on a public website. The security analyst is then able to successfully decrypt the data using the keys from the website. Which of the following should the security analyst recommend to protect the affected data?

Question33: An organization's finance system was recently attacked. A forensic analyst is reviewing the contents Of the compromised files for credit card dat a.
Which of the following commands should the analyst run to BEST determine whether financial data was lost?

Question34: A security architect updated the security policy to require a proper way to verify that packets received between two parties have not been tampered with and the connection remains private. Which of the following cryptographic techniques can be used to ensure the security policy is being enforced properly?

Question35: A security engineer investigates an incident and determines that a rogue device is on the network. Further investigation finds that an employee's personal device has been set up to access company resources and does not comply with standard security controls. Which of the following should the security engineer recommend to reduce the risk of future reoccurrence?

Question36: A vulnerability scanner detected an obsolete version of an open-source file-sharing application on one of a company's Linux servers. While the software version is no longer supported by the OSS community, the company's Linux vendor backported fixes, applied them for all current vulnerabilities, and agrees to support the software in the future.
Based on this agreement, this finding is BEST categorized as a:

Question37: A penetration tester inputs the following command:

This command will allow the penetration tester to establish a:

Question38: An organization is deploying a new, online digital bank and needs to ensure availability and performance. The cloud-based architecture is deployed using PaaS and SaaS solutions, and it was designed with the following considerations:
- Protection from DoS attacks against its infrastructure and web applications is in place.
- Highly available and distributed DNS is implemented.
- Static content is cached in the CDN.
- A WAF is deployed inline and is in block mode.
- Multiple public clouds are utilized in an active-passive architecture.
With the above controls in place, the bank is experiencing a slowdown on the unauthenticated payments page. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question39: 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?

Question40: An organization requires a contractual document that includes
* An overview of what is covered
* Goals and objectives
* Performance metrics for each party
* A review of how the agreement is managed by all parties
Which of the following BEST describes this type of contractual document?

Question41: 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?

Question42: A new requirement for legislators has forced a government security team to develop a validation process to verify the integrity of a downloaded file and the sender of the file Which of the following is the BEST way for the security team to comply with this requirement?

Question43: In order to save money, a company has moved its data to the cloud with a low-cost provider. The company did not perform a security review prior to the move; however, the company requires all of its data to be stored within the country where the headquarters is located. A new employee on the security team has been asked to evaluate the current provider against the most important requirements. The current cloud provider that the company is using offers:
* Only multitenant cloud hosting
* Minimal physical security
* Few access controls
* No access to the data center
The following information has been uncovered:
* The company is located in a known floodplain, which flooded last year.
* Government regulations require data to be stored within the country.
Which of the following should be addressed first?

Question44: 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?

Question45: A security analyst is reviewing a new IOC in which data is injected into an online process. The IOC shows the data injection could happen in the following ways:
* Five numerical digits followed by a dash, followed by four numerical digits; or
* Five numerical digits
When one of these IOCs is identified, the online process stops working. Which of the following regular expressions should be implemented in the NIPS?

Question46: A junior developer is informed about the impact of new malware on an Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) CPU, and the code must be fixed accordingly. Based on the debug, the malware is able to insert itself in another process memory location.
Which of the following technologies can the developer enable on the ARM architecture to prevent this type of malware?

Question47: Which of the following is a benefit of using steganalysis techniques in forensic response?

Question48: A security engineer is hardening a company's multihomed SFTP server. When scanning a public-facing network interface, the engineer finds the following ports are open:
22
25
110
137
138
139
445
Internal Windows clients are used to transferring files to the server to stage them for customer download as part of the company's distribution process.
Which of the following would be the BEST solution to harden the system?

Question49: A systems engineer needs to develop a solution that uses digital certificates to allow authentication to laptops. Which of the following authenticator types would be most appropriate for the engineer to include in the design?

Question50: A host on a company's network has been infected by a worm that appears to be spreading via SMB. A security analyst has been tasked with containing the incident while also maintaining evidence for a subsequent investigation and malware analysis.
Which of the following steps would be best to perform FIRST?

Question51: An engineering team has deployed a new VPN service that requires client certificates to be used in order to successfully connect. On iOS devices, however, the following error occurs after importing the .p12 certificate file:
mbedTLS: ca certificate undefined
Which of the following is the root cause of this issue?

Question52: A security engineer is working for a service provider and analyzing logs and reports from a new EDR solution, which is installed on a small group of workstations. Later that day, another security engineer receives an email from two developers reporting the software being used for development activities is now blocked. The developers have not made any changes to the software being used. Which of the following is the EDR reporting?

Question53: A security solution uses a sandbox environment to execute zero-day software and collect indicators of compromise. Which of the following should the organization do to BEST take advantage of this solution?

Question54: An attacker infiltrated an electricity-generation site and disabled the safety instrumented system. Ransomware was also deployed on the engineering workstation. The environment has back-to-back firewalls separating the corporate and OT systems. Which of the following is the MOST likely security consequence of this attack?

Question55: A security analyst for a managed service provider wants to implement the most up-to-date and effective security methodologies to provide clients with the best offerings. Which of the following resources would the analyst MOST likely adopt?

Question56: As part of the customer registration process to access a new bank account, customers are required to upload a number of documents, including their passports and driver's licenses. The process also requires customers to take a current photo of themselves to be compared against provided documentation.
Which of the following BEST describes this process?

Question57: During a review of events, a security analyst notes that several log entries from the FIM system identify changes to firewall rule sets. While coordinating a response to the FIM entries, the analyst receives alerts from the DLP system that indicate an employee is sending sensitive data to an external email address. Which of the following would be the most relevant to review in order to gain a better understanding of whether these events are associated with an attack?

Question58: An application server was recently upgraded to prefer TLS 1.3, and now users are unable to connect their clients to the server. Attempts to reproduce the error are confirmed, and clients are reporting the following:
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Which of the following is MOST likely the root cause?

Question59: A Chief Information Officer is considering migrating all company data to the cloud to save money on expensive SAN storage.
Which of the following is a security concern that will MOST likely need to be addressed during migration?

Question60: 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.

Question61: A company requires a task to be carried by more than one person concurrently. This is an example of:

Question62: Which of the following terms refers to the delivery of encryption keys to a CASB or a third-party entity?

Question63: A third-party organization has implemented a system that allows it to analyze customers' data and deliver analysis results without being able to see the raw dat a. Which of the following is the organization implementing?

Question64: A forensic investigator would use the foremost command for:

Question65: A security review of the architecture for an application migration was recently completed. The following observations were made:
* External inbound access is blocked.
* A large amount of storage is available.
* Memory and CPU usage are low.
* The load balancer has only a single server assigned.
* Multiple APIs are integrated.
Which of the following needs to be addressed?

Question66: 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?

Question67: A security engineer needs to review the configurations of several devices on the network to meet the following requirements:
* The PostgreSQL server must only allow connectivity in the 10.1.2.0/24 subnet.
* The SSH daemon on the database server must be configured to listen
to port 4022.
* The SSH daemon must only accept connections from a Single
workstation.
* All host-based firewalls must be disabled on all workstations.
* All devices must have the latest updates from within the past eight
days.
* All HDDs must be configured to secure data at rest.
* Cleartext services are not allowed.
* All devices must be hardened when possible.
Instructions:
Click on the various workstations and network devices to review the posture assessment results. Remediate any possible issues or indicate that no issue is found.
Click on Server A to review output dat
a. Select commands in the appropriate tab to remediate connectivity problems to the pOSTGREsql DATABASE VIA ssh

WAP A

PC A

Laptop A

Switch A

Switch B:

Laptop B

PC B

PC C

Server A

Question68: A security operations center analyst is investigating anomalous activity between a database server and an unknown external IP address and gathered the following data:
* dbadmin last logged in at 7:30 a.m. and logged out at 8:05 a.m.
* A persistent TCP/6667 connection to the external address was established at 7:55 a.m. The connection is still active.
* Other than bytes transferred to keep the connection alive, only a few kilobytes of data transfer every hour since the start of the connection.
* A sample outbound request payload from PCAP showed the ASCII content: "JOIN #community".
Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?

Question69: A significant weather event caused all systems to fail over to the disaster recovery site successfully. However, successful data replication has not occurred in the last six months, which has resulted in the service being unavailable. V*Vh1ch of the following would BEST prevent this scenario from happening again?

Question70: 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?

Question71: 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?

Question72: A security architect for a large, multinational manufacturer needs to design and implement a security solution to monitor traffic.
When designing the solution, which of the following threats should the security architect focus on to prevent attacks against the OT network?

Question73: 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.

Question74: Due to internal resource constraints, the management team has asked the principal security architect to recommend a solution that shifts partial responsibility for application-level controls to the cloud provider. In the shared responsibility model, which of the following levels of service meets this requirement?

Question75: The Chief information Officer (CIO) of a large bank, which uses multiple third-party organizations to deliver a service, is concerned about the handling and security of customer data by the parties. Which of the following should be implemented to BEST manage the risk?

Question76: Which of the following is the MOST important cloud-specific risk from the CSP's viewpoint?

Question77: 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?

Question78: In a shared responsibility model for PaaS, which of the following is a customer's responsibility?

Question79: Which of the following is required for an organization to meet the ISO 27018 standard?

Question80: A security analyst is reviewing the following output:

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

Question81: A company wants to quantify and communicate the effectiveness of its security controls but must establish measures. Which of the following is MOST likely to be included in an effective assessment roadmap for these controls?

Question82: An analyst received a list of IOCs from a government agency. The attack has the following characteristics:
1. The attack starts with bulk phishing.
2. If a user clicks on the link, a dropper is downloaded to the computer.
3. Each of the malware samples has unique hashes tied to the user.
The analyst needs to identify whether existing endpoint controls are effective. Which of the following risk mitigation techniques should the analyst use?

Question83: A university issues badges through a homegrown identity management system to all staff and students. Each week during the summer, temporary summer school students arrive and need to be issued a badge to access minimal campus resources. The security team received a report from an outside auditor indicating the homegrown system is not consistent with best practices in the security field and leaves the institution vulnerable.
Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?

Question84: Due to budget constraints, an organization created a policy that only permits vulnerabilities rated high and critical according to CVSS to be fixed or mitigated. A security analyst notices that many vulnerabilities that were previously scored as medium are now breaching higher thresholds. Upon further investigation, the analyst notices certain ratings are not aligned with the approved system categorization. Which of the following can the analyst do to get a better picture of the risk while adhering to the organization's policy?

Question85: An organization is implementing a new identity and access management architecture with the following objectives:
Supporting MFA against on-premises infrastructure
Improving the user experience by integrating with SaaS applications
Applying risk-based policies based on location
Performing just-in-time provisioning
Which of the following authentication protocols should the organization implement to support these requirements?

Question86: A networking team was asked to provide secure remote access to all company employees. The team decided to use client-to-site VPN as a solution. During a discussion, the Chief Information Security Officer raised a security concern and asked the networking team to route the Internet traffic of remote users through the main office infrastructure. Doing this would prevent remote users from accessing the Internet through their local networks while connected to the VPN.
Which of the following solutions does this describe?

Question87: The information security manager at a 24-hour manufacturing facility is reviewing a contract for potential risks to the organization. The contract pertains to the support of printers and multifunction devices during non-standard business hours. Which of the following will the security manager most likely identify as a risk?

Question88: A mobile application developer is creating a global, highly scalable, secure chat application. The developer would like to ensure the application is not susceptible to on-path attacks while the user is traveling in potentially hostile regions. Which of the following would BEST achieve that goal?

Question89: Ransomware encrypted the entire human resources fileshare for a large financial institution. Security operations personnel were unaware of the activity until it was too late to stop it. The restoration will take approximately four hours, and the last backup occurred 48 hours ago. The management team has indicated that the RPO for a disaster recovery event for this data classification is 24 hours.
Based on RPO requirements, which of the following recommendations should the management team make?

Question90: 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:

Question91: A security engineer is assessing the security controls of loT systems that are no longer supported for updates and patching. Which of the following is the best mitigation for defending these loT systems?

Question92: 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.

Question93: A help desk technician just informed the security department that a user downloaded a suspicious file from internet explorer last night. The user confirmed accessing all the files and folders before going home from work. the next morning, the user was no longer able to boot the system and was presented a screen with a phone number. The technician then tries to boot the computer using wake-on-LAN, but the system would not come up. which of the following explains why the computer would not boot?

Question94: A networking team asked a security administrator to enable Flash on its web browser. The networking team explained that an important legacy embedded system gathers SNMP information from various devices. The system can only be managed through a web browser running Flash. The embedded system will be replaced within the year but is still critical at the moment.
Which of the following should the security administrator do to mitigate the risk?

Question95: Company A acquired Company B. During an initial assessment, the companies discover they are using the same SSO system. To help users with the transition, Company A is requiring the following:
* Before the merger is complete, users from both companies should use a single set of usernames and passwords.
* Users in the same departments should have the same set of rights and privileges, but they should have different sets of rights and privileges if they have different IPs.
* Users from Company B should be able to access Company A's available resources.
Which of the following are the BEST solutions? (Select TWO).

Question96: A developer implement the following code snippet.

Which of the following vulnerabilities does the code snippet resolve?

Question97: An e-commerce company is running a web server on premises, and the resource utilization is usually less than 30%. During the last two holiday seasons, the server experienced performance issues because of too many connections, and several customers were not able to finalize purchase orders. The company is looking to change the server configuration to avoid this kind of performance issue.
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question98: An HVAC contractor requested network connectivity permission to remotely support/troubleshoot equipment issues at a company location. Currently, the company does not have a process that allows vendors remote access to the corporate network Which of the following solutions represents the BEST course of action to allow the contractor access?

Question99: 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?

Question100: A security engineer has been asked to close all non-secure connections from the corporate network. The engineer is attempting to understand why the corporate UTM will not allow users to download email via IMAPS. The engineer formulates a theory and begins testing by creating the firewall ID 58, and users are able to download emails correctly by using IMAP instead. The network comprises three VLANs:

The security engineer looks at the UTM firewall rules and finds the following:

Which of the following should the security engineer do to ensure IMAPS functions properly on the corporate user network?

Question101: 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?

Question102: Ann, a CIRT member, is conducting incident response activities on a network that consists of several hundred virtual servers and thousands of endpoints and users. The network generates more than 10,000 log messages per second. The enterprise belong to a large, web-based cryptocurrency startup, Ann has distilled the relevant information into an easily digestible report for executive management . However, she still needs to collect evidence of the intrusion that caused the incident. Which of the following should Ann use to gather the required information?

Question103: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned that a company's current data disposal procedures could result in data remanence. The company uses only SSDs. Which of the following would be the MOST secure way to dispose of the SSDs given the CISO's concern?

Question104: A local university that has a global footprint is undertaking a complete overhaul of its website and associated systems. Some of the requirements are:
* Handle an increase in customer demand of resources
* Provide quick and easy access to information
* Provide high-quality streaming media
* Create a user-friendly interface
Which of the following actions should be taken FIRST?

Question105: 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.

Question106: Which of the following agreements includes no penalties and can be signed by two entities that are working together toward the same goal?

Question107: Which of the following technologies would benefit the most from the use of biometric readers proximity badge entry systems, and the use of hardware security tokens to access various environments and data entry systems?

Question108: 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:

Question109: Which of the following describes the system responsible for storing private encryption/decryption files with a third party to ensure these files are stored safely?

Question110: A security architect is designing a solution for a new customer who requires significant security capabilities in its environment. The customer has provided the architect with the following set of requirements:
* Capable of early detection of advanced persistent threats.
* Must be transparent to users and cause no performance degradation.
+ Allow integration with production and development networks seamlessly.
+ Enable the security team to hunt and investigate live exploitation techniques.
Which of the following technologies BEST meets the customer's requirements for security capabilities?

Question111: A company's finance department acquired a new payment system that exports data to an unencrypted file on the system. The company implemented controls on the file so only appropriate personnel are allowed access. Which of the following risk techniques did the department use in this situation?

Question112: Which of the following processes involves searching and collecting evidence during an investigation or lawsuit?

Question113: A cloud security architect has been tasked with selecting the appropriate solution given the following:
* The solution must allow the lowest RTO possible.
* The solution must have the least shared responsibility possible.
* Patching should be a responsibility of the CSP.
Which of the following solutions can BEST fulfill the requirements?

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: A hospital has fallen behind with patching known vulnerabilities due to concerns that patches may cause disruptions in the availability of data and impact patient care. The hospital does not have a tracking solution in place to audit whether systems have been updated or to track the length of time between notification of the weakness and patch completion Since tracking is not in place the hospital lacks accountability with regard to who is responsible for these activities and the timeline of patching efforts. Which of the following should the hospital do first to mitigate this risk?

Question116: A large number of emails have been reported, and a security analyst is reviewing the following information from the emails:

As part of the image process, which of the following is the FIRST step the analyst should take?

Question117: 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?

Question118: A recent data breach revealed that a company has a number of files containing customer data across its storage environment. These files are individualized for each employee and are used in tracking various customer orders, inquiries, and issues. The files are not encrypted and can be accessed by anyone. The senior management team would like to address these issues without interrupting existing processes.
Which of the following should a security architect recommend?

Question119: 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

Question120: A cloud security engineer is setting up a cloud-hosted WAF. The engineer needs to implement a solution to protect the multiple websites the organization hosts. The organization websites are:
* www.mycompany.org
* www.mycompany.com
* campus.mycompany.com
* wiki. mycompany.org
The solution must save costs and be able to protect all websites. Users should be able to notify the cloud security engineer of any on-path attacks. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question121: A security analyst observes the following while looking through network traffic in a company's cloud log:

Which of the following steps should the security analyst take FIRST?

Question122: Which of the following is record-level encryption commonly used to do?

Question123: The Chief information Officer (CIO) asks the system administrator to improve email security at the company based on the following requirements:
* Transaction being requested by unauthorized individuals.
* Complete discretion regarding client names, account numbers, and investment information.
* Malicious attackers using email to malware and ransomeware.
* Exfiltration of sensitive company information.
The cloud-based email solution will provide anti-malware reputation-based scanning, signature-based scanning, and sandboxing. Which of the following is the BEST option to resolve the boar's concerns for this email migration?

Question124: Given the following log snippet from a web server:

Which of the following BEST describes this type of attack?

Question125: An organization is assessing the security posture of a new SaaS CRM system that handles sensitive PI I and identity information, such as passport numbers. The SaaS CRM system does not meet the organization's current security standards. The assessment identifies the following:
1) There will be a 520,000 per day revenue loss for each day the system is delayed going into production.
2) The inherent risk is high.
3) The residual risk is low.
4) There will be a staged deployment to the solution rollout to the contact center.
Which of the following risk-handling techniques will BEST meet the organization's requirements?

Question126: 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?

Question127: A bank hired a security architect to improve its security measures against the latest threats The solution must meet the following requirements
* Recognize and block fake websites
* Decrypt and scan encrypted traffic on standard and non-standard ports
* Use multiple engines for detection and prevention
* Have central reporting
Which of the following is the BEST solution the security architect can propose?

Question128: A company wants to use a process to embed a sign of ownership covertly inside a proprietary document without adding any identifying attributes. Which of the following would be best to use as part of the process to support copyright protections of the document?

Question129: The principal security analyst for a global manufacturer is investigating a security incident related to abnormal behavior in the ICS network. A controller was restarted as part of the troubleshooting process, and the following issue was identified when the controller was restarted:

During the investigation, this modified firmware version was identified on several other controllers at the site. The official vendor firmware versions do not have this checksum. Which of the following stages of the MITRE ATT&CK framework for ICS includes this technique?

Question130: Law enforcement officials informed an organization that an investigation has begun. Which of the following is the FIRST step the organization should take?

Question131: 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?

Question132: Which of the following is a security concern for DNP3?

Question133: A security engineer is concerned about the threat of side-channel attacks The company experienced a past attack that degraded parts of a SCADA system, causing a fluctuation to 20,000rpm from its normal operating range As a result, the part deteriorated more quickly than the mean time to failure A further investigation revealed the attacker was able to determine the acceptable rpm range, and the malware would then fluctuate the rpm until the pan failed Which of the following solutions would be best to prevent a side-channel attack in the future?

Question134: An organization's assessment of a third-party, non-critical vendor reveals that the vendor does not have cybersecurity insurance and IT staff turnover is high. The organization uses the vendor to move customer office equipment from one service location to another. The vendor acquires customer data and access to the business via an API.
Given this information, which of the following is a noted risk?

Question135: A small business requires a low-cost approach to theft detection for the audio recordings it produces and sells.
Which of the following techniques will MOST likely meet the business's needs?

Question136: 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?

Question137: 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?

Question138: An analyst execute a vulnerability scan against an internet-facing DNS server and receives the following report:

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

Question139: A developer is creating a new mobile application for a company. The application uses REST API and TLS 1.2 to communicate securely with the external back-end server. Due to this configuration, the company is concerned about HTTPS interception attacks.
Which of the following would be the BEST solution against this type of attack?

Question140: An IT administrator is reviewing all the servers in an organization and notices that a server is missing crucial practice against a recent exploit that could gain root access.
Which of the following describes the administrator's discovery?

Question141: Which of the following indicates when a company might not be viable after a disaster?

Question142: in a situation where the cost of anti-malware exceeds the potential loss from a malware threat, which of the following is the most cost-effective risk response?

Question143: A security architect Is analyzing an old application that is not covered for maintenance anymore because the software company is no longer in business. Which of the following techniques should have been Implemented to prevent these types of risks?

Question144: A company has hired a security architect to address several service outages on the endpoints due to new malware. The Chief Executive Officer's laptop was impacted while working from home. The goal is to prevent further endpoint disruption. The edge network is protected by a web proxy.
Which of the following solutions should the security architect recommend?

Question145: After a server was compromised an incident responder looks at log files to determine the attack vector that was used The incident responder reviews the web server log files from the time before an unexpected SSH session began:

Which of the following is the most likely vulnerability that was exploited based on the log files?

Question146: An employee's device was missing for 96 hours before being reported. The employee called the help desk to ask for another device Which of the following phases of the incident response cycle needs improvement?

Question147: Which of the following objectives BEST supports leveraging tabletop exercises in business continuity planning?

Question148: A company has decided to purchase a license for software that is used to operate a mission-critical process. The third-party developer is new to the industry but is delivering what the company needs at this time.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why utilizing a source code escrow will reduce the operational risk to the company if the third party stops supporting the application?

Question149: Which of the following protocols is a low power, low data rate that allows for the creation of PAN networks?

Question150: An loT device implements an encryption module built within its SoC where the asymmetric private key has been defined in a write-once read-many portion of the SoC hardware Which of the following should the loT manufacture do if the private key is compromised?

Question151: During a recent security incident investigation, a security analyst mistakenly turned off the infected machine prior to consulting with a forensic analyst. upon rebooting the machine, a malicious script that was running as a background process was no longer present. As a result, potentially useful evidence was lost. Which of the following should the security analyst have followed?

Question152: During a system penetration test, a security engineer successfully gained access to a shell on a Linux host as a standard user and wants to elevate the privilege levels.
Which of the following is a valid Linux post-exploitation method to use to accomplish this goal?

Question153: A security administrator wants to enable a feature that would prevent a compromised encryption key from being used to decrypt all the VPN traffic. Which of the following should the security administrator use?

Question154: A company underwent an audit in which the following issues were enumerated:
* Insufficient security controls for internet-facing services, such as VPN and extranet
* Weak password policies governing external access for third-party vendors Which of the following strategies would help mitigate the risks of unauthorized access?

Question155: An architectural firm is working with its security team to ensure that any draft images that are leaked to the public can be traced back to a specific external party. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this goal?

Question156: A company that all mobile devices be encrypted, commensurate with the full disk encryption scheme of assets, such as workstation, servers, and laptops. Which of the following will MOST likely be a limiting factor when selecting mobile device managers for the company?

Question157: An multinational organization was hacked, and the incident response team's timely action prevented a major disaster Following the event, the team created an after action report. Which of the following is the primary goal of an after action review?

Question158: 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?

Question159: A security analyst is reviewing network connectivity on a Linux workstation and examining the active TCP connections using the command line.
Which of the following commands would be the BEST to run to view only active Internet connections?