EMT Practice Test

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Question1: The director of software development is concerned with recent web application security incidents, including the successful breach of a back-end database server. The director would like to work with the security team to implement a standardized way to design, build, and test web applications and the services that support them. Which of the following meets the criteria?

Question2: A Linux-based file encryption malware was recently discovered in the wild. Prior to running the malware on a preconfigured sandbox to analyze its behavior, a security professional executes the following command:
umount -a -t cifs,nfs
Which of the following is the main reason for executing the above command?

Question3: A security analyst is performing a review of Active Directory and discovers two new user accounts in the accounting department. Neither of the users has elevated permissions, but accounts in the group are given access to the company's sensitive financial management application by default. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?

Question4: A cybersecurity analyst is conducting a security test to ensure that information regarding the web server is protected from disclosure. The cybersecurity analyst requested an HTML file from the web server, and the response came back as follows:

Which of the following actions should be taken to remediate this security issue?

Question5: Nmap scan results on a set of IP addresses returned one or more lines beginning with "cpe:/o:" followed by a company name, product name, and version. Which of the following would this string help an administrator to identify?

Question6: A technician recently fixed a computer with several viruses and spyware programs on it and notices the Internet settings were set to redirect all traffic through an unknown proxy. This type of attack is known as which of the following?

Question7: 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?

Question8: A company's computer was recently infected with ransomware. After encrypting all documents, the malware logs a random AES-128 encryption key and associated unique identifier onto a compromised remote website. A ransomware code snippet is shown below:

Based on the information from the code snippet, which of the following is the BEST way for a cybersecurity professional to monitor for the same malware in the future?

Question9: A database administrator contacts a security administrator to request firewall changes for a connection to a new internal application.
The security administrator notices that the new application uses a port typically monopolized by a virus.
The security administrator denies the request and suggests a new port or service be used to complete the application's task.
Which of the following is the security administrator practicing in this example?

Question10: A company has decided to process credit card transactions directly. Which of the following would meet the requirements for scanning this type of data?

Question11: A security analyst received a compromised workstation. The workstation's hard drive may contain evidence of criminal activities. Which of the following is the FIRST thing the analyst must do to ensure the integrity of the hard drive while performing the analysis?

Question12: An organization has recently recovered from an incident where a managed switch had been accessed and reconfigured without authorization by an insider. The incident response team is working on developing a lessons learned report with recommendations. Which of the following recommendations will BEST prevent the same attack from occurring in the future?

Question13: The Chief Security Officer (CSO) has requested a vulnerability report of systems on the domain, identifying those running outdated OSs. The automated scan reports are not displaying OS version details, so the CSO cannot determine risk exposure levels from vulnerable systems. Which of the following should the cybersecurity analyst do to enumerate OS information as part of the vulnerability scanning process in the MOST efficient manner?

Question14: The business has been informed of a suspected breach of customer data. The internal audit team, in conjunction with the legal department, has begun working with the cybersecurity team to validate the report. To which of the following response processes should the business adhere during the investigation?

Question15: A vulnerability analyst needs to identify all systems with unauthorized web servers on the 10.1.1.0/24 network. The analyst uses the following default Nmap scan:
nmap -sV -p 1-65535 10.1.1.0/24
Which of the following would be the result of running the above command?

Question16: A company wants to update its acceptable use policy (AUP) to ensure it relates to the newly implemented password standard, which requires sponsored authentication of guest wireless devices. Which of the following is MOST likely to be incorporated in the AUP?

Question17: Joe, an analyst, has received notice that a vendor who is coming in for a presentation will require access to a server outside the network. Currently, users are only able to access remote sites through a VPN connection. Which of the following should Joe use to BEST accommodate the vendor?

Question18: In order to the leverage the power of data correlation with Nessus, a cybersecurity analyst must first be able to create a table for the scan results.
Given the following snippet of code:

Which of the following output items would be correct?
A:

B:

C:

D:

Question19: A security audit revealed that port 389 has been used instead of 636 when connecting to LDAP for the authentication of users. The remediation recommended by the audit was to switch the port to 636 wherever technically possible. Which of the following is the BEST response?

Question20: An organization is requesting the development of a disaster recovery plan. The organization has grown and so has its infrastructure. Documentation, policies, and procedures do not exist. Which of the following steps should be taken to assist in the development of the disaster recovery plan?

Question21: After running a packet analyzer on the network, a security analyst has noticed the following output:

Which of the following is occurring?

Question22: The board of directors made the decision to adopt a cloud-first strategy. The current security infrastructure was designed for on-premise implementation. A critical application that is subject to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 compliance has been identified as a candidate for a hybrid cloud deployment model. Which of the following should be conducted FIRST?

Question23: Several users have reported that when attempting to save documents in team folders, the following message is received:
The File Cannot Be Copied or Moved - Service Unavailable.
Upon further investigation, it is found that the syslog server is not obtaining log events from the file server to which the users are attempting to copy files. Which of the following is the MOST likely scenario causing these issues?

Question24: During the forensic a phase of a security investigation, it was discovered that an attacker was able to find private keys on a poorly secured team shared drive. The attacker used those keys to intercept and decrypt sensitive traffic on a web server. Which of the following describes this type of exploit and the potential remediation?

Question25: During a review of security controls, an analyst was able to connect to an external, unsecured FTP server from a workstation. The analyst was troubleshooting and reviewed the ACLs of the segment firewall the workstation is connected to:

Based on the ACLs above, which of the following explains why the analyst was able to connect to the FTP server?

Question26: A security analyst performed a review of an organization's software development life cycle. The analyst reports that the life cycle does not contain in a phase in which team members evaluate and provide critical feedback on another developer's code. Which of the following assessment techniques is BEST for describing the analyst's report?

Question27: A system administrator has reviewed the following output:

Which of the following can a system administrator infer from the above output?

Question28: A nuclear facility manager determined the need to monitor utilization of water within the facility. A startup company just announced a state-of-the-art solution to address the need for integrating the business and ICS network. The solution requires a very small agent to be installed on the ICS equipment. Which of the following is the MOST important security control for the manager to invest in to protect the facility?

Question29: While reviewing firewall logs, a security analyst at a military contractor notices a sharp rise in activity from a foreign domain known to have well-funded groups that specifically target the company's R&D department. Historical data reveals other corporate assets were previously targeted. This evidence MOST likely describes:

Question30: A security administrator recently deployed a virtual honeynet. The honeynet is not protected by the company's firewall, while all production networks are protected by a stateful firewall. Which of the following would BEST allow an external penetration tester to determine which one is the honeynet's network?

Question31: A company that is hiring a penetration tester wants to exclude social engineering from the list of authorized activities. Which of the following documents should include these details?

Question32: Which of the following policies BEST explains the purpose of a data ownership policy?

Question33: A company has established an ongoing vulnerability management program and procured the latest technology to support it. However, the program is failing because several vulnerabilities have not been detected. Which of the following will reduce the number of false negatives?

Question34: The security configuration management policy states that all patches must undergo testing procedures before being moved into production. The security analyst notices a single web application server has been downloading and applying patches during non-business hours without testing. There are no apparent adverse reactions, server functionality does not seem to be affected, and no malware was found after a scan.
Which of the following actions should the analyst take?

Question35: A cybersecurity analyst develops a regular expression to find data within traffic that will alarm on a hit.

The SIEM alarms on seeing this data in cleartext between the web server and the database server.

Which of the following types of data would the analyst MOST likely to be concerned with, and to which type of data classification does it belong?

Question36: Which of the following could be directly impacted by an unpatched vulnerability in vSphere ESXi?

Question37: A company provides wireless connectivity to the internal network from all physical locations for company- owned devices. Users were able to connect the day before, but now all users have reported that when they connect to an access point in the conference room, they cannot access company resources. Which of the following BEST describes the cause of the problem?

Question38: An analyst wants to use a command line tool to identify open ports and running services on a host along with the application that is associated with those services and port. Which of the following should the analyst use?

Question39: A security analyst is reviewing the following log after enabling key-based authentication.

Given the above information, which of the following steps should be performed NEXT to secure the system?

Question40: An analyst finds that unpatched servers have undetected vulnerabilities because the vulnerability scanner does not have the latest set of signatures. Management directed the security team to have personnel update the scanners with the latest signatures at least 24 hours before conducting any scans, but the outcome is unchanged. Which of the following is the BEST logical control to address the failure?

Question41: A recent vulnerability scan found four vulnerabilities on an organization's public Internet-facing IP addresses. Prioritizing in order to reduce the risk of a breach to the organization, which of the following should be remediated FIRST?

Question42: Which of the following stakeholders would need to be aware of an e-discovery notice received by the security office about an ongoing case within the manufacturing department?

Question43: The software development team pushed a new web application into production for the accounting department. Shortly after the application was published, the head of the accounting department informed IT operations that the application was not performing as intended. Which of the following SDLC best practices was missed?

Question44: A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing Apache logs on a web server and finds that some logs are missing.
The analyst has identified that the systems administrator accidentally deleted some log files. Which of the following actions or rules should be implemented to prevent this incident from reoccurring?

Question45: During an investigation, a computer is being seized. Which of the following is the FIRST step the analyst should take?

Question46: Which of the following is a feature of virtualization that can potentially create a single point of failure?

Question47: A company discovers an unauthorized device accessing network resources through one of many network drops in a common area used by visitors.
The company decides that it wants to quickly prevent unauthorized devices from accessing the network but policy prevents the company from making changes on every connecting client.
Which of the following should the company implement?

Question48: A security analyst is reviewing logs and discovers that a company-owned computer issued to an employee is generating many alerts and warnings. The analyst continues to review the log events and discovers that a non-company-owned device from a different, unknown IP address is generating the same events. The analyst informs the manager of these findings, and the manager explains that these activities are already known and part of an ongoing events. Given this scenario, which of the following roles are the analyst, the employee, and the manager filling?

Question49: Policy allows scanning of vulnerabilities during production hours, but production servers have been crashing lately due to unauthorized scans performed by junior technicians. Which of the following is the BEST solution to avoid production server downtime due to these types of scans?

Question50: A security analyst's company uses RADIUS to support a remote sales staff of more than 700 people. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) asked to have IPSec using ESP and 3DES enabled to ensure the confidentiality of the communication as per RFC 3162. After the implementation was complete, many sales users reported latency issues and other performance issues when attempting to connect remotely. Which of the following is occurring?

Question51: A cybersecurity professional typed in a URL and discovered the admin panel for the e-commerce application is accessible over the open web with the default password. Which of the following is the MOST secure solution to remediate this vulnerability?

Question52: An analyst has received unusual alerts on the SIEM dashboard. The analyst wants to get payloads that the hackers are sending toward the target systems without impacting the business operation. Which of the following should the analyst implement?

Question53: After scanning the main company's website with the OWASP ZAP tool, a cybersecurity analyst is reviewing the following warning:

The analyst reviews a snippet of the offending code:

Which of the following is the BEST course of action based on the above warning and code snippet?

Question54: Which of the following organizations would have to remediate embedded controller vulnerabilities?

Question55: A cybersecurity analyst is hired to review the security posture of a company. The cybersecurity analyst notices a very high network bandwidth consumption due to SYN floods from a small number of IP addresses.
Which of the following would be the BEST action to take to support incident response?

Question56: After analyzing and correlating activity from multiple sensors, the security analyst has determined a group from a high-risk country is responsible for a sophisticated breach of the company network and continuous administration of targeted attacks for the past three months. Until now, the attacks went unnoticed. This is an example of:

Question57: A security professional is analyzing the results of a network utilization report. The report includes the following information:

Which of the following servers needs further investigation?

Question58: During a recent audit, there were a lot of findings similar to and including the following:

Which of the following would be the BEST way to remediate these findings and minimize similar findings in the future?

Question59: A cybersecurity analyst wants to use ICMP ECHO_REQUESTon a machine while using Nmap. Which of the following is the correct command to accomplish this?

Question60: Which of the following utilities could be used to resolve an IP address to a domain name, assuming the address has a PTR record?

Question61: A cybersecurity analyst is completing an organization's vulnerability report and wants it to reflect assets accurately. Which of the following items should be in the report?

Question62: Which of the following describes why it is important to include scope within the rules of engagement of a penetration test?

Question63: A software patch has been released to remove vulnerabilities from company's software. A security analyst has been tasked with testing the software to ensure the vulnerabilities have been remediated and the application is still functioning properly. Which of the following tests should be performed NEXT?

Question64: Company A suspects an employee has been exfiltrating PII via a USB thumb drive. An analyst is tasked with attempting to locate the information on the drive. The PII in question includes the following:

Which of the following would BEST accomplish the task assigned to the analyst?

Question65: An organization uses Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores to prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities.
Management wants to modify the priorities based on a difficulty factor so that vulnerabilities with lower CVSS scores may get a higher priority if they are easier to implement with less risk to system functionality.
Management also wants to quantify the priority. Which of the following would achieve management's objective?

Question66: A network technician is concerned that an attacker is attempting to penetrate the network, and wants to set a rule on the firewall to prevent the attacker from learning which IP addresses are valid on the network.
Which of the following protocols needs to be denied?

Question67: A corporation employs a number of small-form-factor workstations and mobile devices, and an incident response team is therefore required to build a forensics kit with tools to support chip-off analysis. Which of the following tools would BEST meet this requirement?

Question68: A security analyst has noticed an alert from the SIEM. A workstation is repeatedly trying to connect to port
445 of a file server on the production network. All of the attempts are made with invalid credentials. Which of the following describes what is occurring?

Question69: An application development company released a new version of its software to the public. A few days after the release, the company is notified by end users that the application is notably slower, and older security bugs have reappeared in the new release. The development team has decided to include the security analyst during their next development cycle to help address the reported issues. Which of the following should the security analyst focus on to remedy the existing reported problems?

Question70: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) asks a security analyst to write a new SIEM search rule to determine if any credit card numbers are being written to log files. The CISO and security analyst suspect the following log snippet contains real customer card data:

Which of the following expressions would find potential credit card numbers in a format that matches the log snippet?

Question71: A cybersecurity professional wants to determine if a web server is running on a remote host with the IP address 192.168.1.100. Which of the following can be used to perform this task?

Question72: A SIEM analyst noticed a spike in activities from the guest wireless network to several electronic health record (EHR) systems. After further analysis, the analyst discovered that a large volume of data has been uploaded to a cloud provider in the last six months. Which of the following actions should the analyst do FIRST?

Question73: A company has implemented WPA2, a 20-character minimum for the WiFi passphrase, and a new WiFi passphrase every 30 days, and has disabled SSID broadcast on all wireless access points. Which of the following is the company trying to mitigate?

Question74: During which of the following NIST risk management framework steps would an information system security engineer identify inherited security controls and tailor those controls to the system?

Question75: A recently issued audit report highlighted exceptions related to end-user handling of sensitive data and access credentials. A security manager is addressing the findings. Which of the following activities should be implemented?

Question76: An organization is experiencing degradation of critical services and availability of critical external resources. Which of the following can be used to investigate the issue?

Question77: A security incident has been created after noticing unusual behavior from a Windows domain controller.
The server administrator has discovered that a user logged in to the server with elevated permissions, but the user's account does not follow the standard corporate naming scheme. There are also several other accounts in the administrators group that do not follow this naming scheme. Which of the following is the possible cause for this behavior and the BEST remediation step?

Question78: An analyst is troubleshooting a PC that is experiencing high processor and memory consumption.
Investigation reveals the following processes are running on the system:
lsass.exe

csrss.exe

wordpad.exe

notepad.exe

Which of the following tools should the analyst utilize to determine the rogue process?

Question79: As part of the SDLC, software developers are testing the security of a new web application by inputting large amounts of random data. Which of the following types of testing is being performed?

Question80: An employee at an insurance company is processing claims that include patient addresses, clinic visits, diagnosis information, and prescription. While forwarding documentation to the supervisor, the employee accidentally sends the data to a personal email address outside of the company due to a typo. Which of the following types of data has been compromised?

Question81: A threat intelligence feed has posted an alert stating there is a critical vulnerability in the kernel.
Unfortunately, the company's asset inventory is not current. Which of the following techniques would a cybersecurity analyst perform to find all affected servers within an organization?

Question82: A cybersecurity analyst is currently investigating a server outage. The analyst has discovered the following value was entered for the username: 0xbfff601a. Which of the following attacks may be occurring?

Question83: An organization is conducting penetration testing to identify possible network vulnerabilities. The penetration tester has received the following output from the latest scan:

The penetration tester knows the organization does not use Timbuktu servers and wants to have Nmap interrogate the ports on the target in more detail. Which of the following commands should the penetration tester use NEXT?

Question84: A security analyst has noticed that a particular server has consumed over 1TB of bandwidth over the course of the month. It has port 3333 open; however, there have not been any alerts or notices regarding the server or its activities. Which of the following did the analyst discover?

Question85: Which of the following actions should occur to address any open issues while closing an incident involving various departments within the network?

Question86: Given a packet capture of the following scan:

Which of the following should MOST likely be inferred on the scan's output?

Question87: A security analyst is adding input to the incident response communication plan. A company officer has suggested that if a data breach occurs, only affected parties should be notified to keep an incident from becoming a media headline. Which of the following should the analyst recommend to the company officer?

Question88: An organization wants to remediate vulnerabilities associated with its web servers. An initial vulnerability scan has been performed, and analysts are reviewing the results. Before starting any remediation, the analysts want to remove false positives to avoid spending time on issues that are not actual vulnerabilities.
Which of the following would be an indicator of a likely false positive?

Question89: A vulnerability scan has returned the following information:

Which of the following describes the meaning of these results?

Question90: Management is concerned with administrator access from outside the network to a key server in the company. Specifically, firewall rules allow access to the server from anywhere in the company. Which of the following would be an effective solution?

Question91: A server contains baseline images that are deployed to sensitive workstations on a regular basis. The images are evaluated once per month for patching and other fixes, but do not change otherwise. Which of the following controls should be put in place to secure the file server and ensure the images are not changed?

Question92: A computer has been infected with a virus and is sending out a beacon to command and control server through an unknown service. Which of the following should a security technician implement to drop the traffic going to the command and control server and still be able to identify the infected host through firewall logs?

Question93: Datacenter access is controlled with proximity badges that record all entries and exits from the datacenter.
The access records are used to identify which staff members accessed the data center in the event of equipment theft.
Which of the following MUST be prevented in order for this policy to be effective?

Question94: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to standardize the company's security program so it can be objectively assessed as part of an upcoming audit requested by management.
Which of the following would holistically assist in this effort?

Question95: A retail corporation with widely distributed store locations and IP space must meet PCI requirements relating to vulnerability scanning. The organization plans to outsource this function to a third party to reduce costs.
Which of the following should be used to communicate expectations related to the execution of scans?

Question96: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has asked the security staff to identify a framework on which to base the security program. The CISO would like to achieve a certification showing the security program meets all required best practices. Which of the following would be the BEST choice?

Question97: An incident response report indicates a virus was introduced through a remote host that was connected to corporate resources. A cybersecurity analyst has been asked for a recommendation to solve this issue.
Which of the following should be applied?

Question98: Given the following output from a Linux machine:
file2cable -i eth0 -f file.pcap
Which of the following BEST describes what a security analyst is trying to accomplish?

Question99: 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?

Question100: A security analyst is attempting to configure a vulnerability scan for a new segment on the network. Given the requirement to prevent credentials from traversing the network while still conducting a credentialed scan, which of the following is the BEST choice?

Question101: A company's asset management software has been discovering a weekly increase in non-standard software installed on end users' machines with duplicate license keys. The security analyst wants to know if any of this software is listening on any non-standard ports, such as 6667. Which of the following tools should the analyst recommend to block any command and control traffic?

Question102: Which of the following tools should a cybersecurity analyst use to verify the integrity of a forensic image before and after an investigation?
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Question103: Creating an isolated environment in order to test and observe the behavior of unknown software is also known as:

Question104: Which of the following is a vulnerability when using Windows as a host OS for virtual machines?

Question105: A security analyst has been asked to remediate a server vulnerability. Once the analyst has located a patch for the vulnerability, which of the following should happen NEXT?

Question106: An administrator has been investigating the way in which an actor had been exfiltrating confidential data from a web server to a foreign host. After a thorough forensic review, the administrator determined the server's BIOS had been modified by rootkit installation. After removing the rootkit and flashing the BIOS to a known good state, which of the following would BEST protect against future adversary access to the BIOS, in case another rootkit is installed?

Question107: A medical organization recently started accepting payments over the phone. The manager is concerned about the impact of the storage of different types of data. Which of the following types of data incurs the highest regulatory constraints?

Question108: The development team currently consists of three developers who each specialize in a specific programming language:
Developer 1 - C++/C#
Developer 2 - Python
Developer 3 - Assembly
Which of the following SDLC best practices would be challenging to implement with the current available staff?

Question109: Scan results identify critical Apache vulnerabilities on a company's web servers. A security analyst believes many of these results are false positives because the web environment mostly consists of Windows servers.
Which of the following is the BEST method of verifying the scan results?

Question110: In order to meet regulatory compliance objectives for the storage of PHI, vulnerability scans must be conducted on a continuous basis. The last completed scan of the network returned 5,682 possible vulnerabilities. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) would like to establish a remediation plan to resolve all known issues. Which of the following is the BEST way to proceed?

Question111: Company A's security policy states that only PKI authentication should be used for all SSH accounts. A security analyst from Company A is reviewing the following auth.log and configuration settings:

Which of the following changes should be made to the following sshd_config file to establish compliance with the policy?

Question112: The following IDS log was discovered by a company's cybersecurity analyst:

Which of the following was launched against the company based on the IDS log?

Question113: A security analyst is performing ongoing scanning and continuous monitoring of the corporate datacenter.
Over time, these scans are repeatedly showing susceptibility to the same vulnerabilities and an increase in new vulnerabilities on a specific group of servers that are clustered to run the same application. Which of the following vulnerability management processes should be implemented?

Question114: A technician is running an intensive vulnerability scan to detect which ports are open to exploit. During the scan, several network services are disabled and production is affected. Which of the following sources would be used to evaluate which network service was interrupted?

Question115: A staff member reported that a laptop has degraded performance. The security analyst has investigated the issue and discovered that CPU utilization, memory utilization, and outbound network traffic are consuming the laptop resources. Which of the following is the BEST course of actions to resolve the problem?

Question116: While a threat intelligence analyst was researching an indicator of compromise on a search engine, the web proxy generated an alert regarding the same indicator. The threat intelligence analyst states that related sites were not visited but were searched for in a search engine. Which of the following MOST likely happened in this situation?

Question117: A company has received the results of an external vulnerability scan from its approved scanning vendor.
The company is required to remediate these vulnerabilities for clients within 72 hours of acknowledgement of the scan results.
Which of the following contract breaches would result if this remediation is not provided for clients within the time frame?

Question118: A recent audit has uncovered several coding errors and a lack of input validation being used on a public portal. Due to the nature of the portal and the severity of the errors, the portal is unable to be patched.
Which of the following tools could be used to reduce the risk of being compromised?

Question119: Which of the following systems would be at the GREATEST risk of compromise if found to have an open vulnerability associated with perfect forward secrecy?

Question120: Which of the following principles describes how a security analyst should communicate during an incident?

Question121: A cybersecurity analyst has identified a new mission-essential function that utilizes a public cloud-based system. The analyst needs to classify the information processed by the system with respect to CIA. Which of the following should provide the CIA classification for the information?

Question122: A computer at a company was used to commit a crime. The system was seized and removed for further analysis. Which of the following is the purpose of labeling cables and connections when seizing the computer system?

Question123: An organization is requesting the development of a disaster recovery plan. The organization has grown and so has its infrastructure. Documentation, policies, and procedures do not exist. Which of the following steps should be taken to assist in the development of the disaster recovery plan?

Question124: A security analyst is reviewing output from a CVE-based vulnerability scanner. Before conducting the scan, the analyst was careful to select only Windows-based servers in a specific datacenter. The scan revealed that the datacenter includes 27 machines running Windows 2003 Server Edition (Win2003SE). In 2015, there were 36 new vulnerabilities discovered in the Win2003SE environment. Which of the following statements are MOST likely applicable? (Choose two.)

Question125: The new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is seeking recommendations for network monitoring services for the local intranet. The CTO would like the capability to monitor all traffic to and from the gateway, as well as the capability to block certain content. Which of the following recommendations would meet the needs of the organization?

Question126: An organization wants to remediate vulnerabilities associated with its web servers. An initial vulnerability scan has been performed, and analysts are reviewing the results. Before starting any remediation, the analysts want to remove false positives to avoid spending time on issues that are not actual vulnerabilities.
Which of the following would be an indicator of a likely false positive?

Question127: A security analyst has just completed a vulnerability scan of servers that support a business critical application that is managed by an outside vendor. The results of the scan indicate the devices are missing critical patches. Which of the following factors can inhibit remediation of these vulnerabilities? (Choose two.)

Question128: The development team recently moved a new application into production for the accounting department.
After this occurred, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) was contacted by the head of accounting because the application is missing a key piece of functionality that is needed to complete the corporation's quarterly tax returns. Which of the following types of testing would help prevent this from reoccurring?

Question129: Given the following access log:

Which of the following accurately describes what this log displays?

Question130: In order to leverage the power of data correlation within Nessus, a cybersecurity analyst needs to write an SQL statement that will provide how long a vulnerability has been present on the network.
Given the following output table:

Which of the following SQL statements would provide the resulted output needed for this correlation?

Question131: A newly discovered malware has a known behavior of connecting outbound to an external destination on port 27500 for the purposes of exfiltrating data. The following are four snippets taken from running netstat -anon separate Windows workstations:




Based on the above information, which of the following is MOST likely to be exposed to this malware?

Question132: A technician receives an alert indicating an endpoint is beaconing to a suspect dynamic DNS domain.
Which of the following countermeasures should be used to BEST protect the network in response to this alert? (Choose two.)

Question133: A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing the current BYOD security posture. The users must be able to synchronize their calendars, email, and contacts to a smartphone or other personal device. The recommendation must provide the most flexibility to users. Which of the following recommendations would meet both the mobile data protection efforts and the business requirements described in this scenario?

Question134: A company decides to move three of its business applications to different outsourced cloud providers. After moving the applications, the users report the applications time out too quickly and too much time is spent logging back into the different web-based applications throughout the day. Which of the following should a security architect recommend to improve the end-user experience without lowering the security posture?

Question135: File integrity monitoring states the following files have been changed without a written request or approved change. The following change has been made:
chmod 777 -Rv /usr
Which of the following may be occurring?

Question136: A security analyst at a small regional bank has received an alert that nation states are attempting to infiltrate financial institutions via phishing campaigns. Which of the following techniques should the analyst recommend as a proactive measure to defend against this type of threat?

Question137: A security analyst is performing a forensic analysis on a machine that was the subject of some historic SIEM alerts. The analyst noticed some network connections utilizing SSL on non-common ports, copies of svchost.exe and cmd.exe in %TEMP% folder, and RDP files that had connected to external IPs. Which of the following threats has the security analyst uncovered?

Question138: A web application has a newly discovered vulnerability in the authentication method used to validate known company users. The user ID of Admin with a password of "password" grants elevated access to the application over the Internet. Which of the following is the BEST method to discover the vulnerability before a production deployment?

Question139: A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing log data and sees the output below:

Which of the following technologies MOST likely generated this log?

Question140: A malware infection spread to numerous workstations within the marketing department. The workstations were quarantined and replaced with machines.
Which of the following represents a FINAL step in the eradication of the malware?

Question141: A threat intelligence analyst who works for a technology firm received this report from a vendor.
"There has been an intellectual property theft campaign executed against organizations in the technology industry. Indicators for this activity are unique to each intrusion. The information that appears to be targeted is R&D data. The data exfiltration appears to occur over months via uniform TTPs. Please execute a defensive operation regarding this attack vector." Which of the following combinations suggests how the threat should MOST likely be classified and the type of analysis that would be MOST helpful in protecting against this activity?

Question142: Which of the following represent the reasoning behind careful selection of the timelines and time-of-day boundaries for an authorized penetration test? (Select TWO).

Question143: An organization wants to harden its web servers. As part of this goal, leadership has directed that vulnerability scans be performed, and the security team should remediate the servers according to industry best practices. The team has already chosen a vulnerability scanner and performed the necessary scans, and now the team needs to prioritize the fixes. Which of the following would help to prioritize the vulnerabilities for remediation in accordance with industry best practices?

Question144: A software development company in the manufacturing sector has just completed the alpha version of its flagship application. The application has been under development for the past three years. The SOC has seen intrusion attempts made by indicators associated with a particular APT. The company has a hot site location for COOP. Which of the following threats would most likely incur the BIGGEST economic impact for the company?

Question145: A red team actor observes it is common practice to allow cell phones to charge on company computers, but access to the memory storage is blocked. Which of the following are common attack techniques that take advantage of this practice? (Choose two.)

Question146: A production web server is experiencing performance issues. Upon investigation, new unauthorized applications have been installed and suspicious traffic was sent through an unused port. Endpoint security is not detecting any malware or virus. Which of the following types of threats would this MOST likely be classified as?

Question147: A security analyst is preparing for the company's upcoming audit. Upon review of the company's latest vulnerability scan, the security analyst finds the following open issues:

Which of the following vulnerabilities should be prioritized for remediation FIRST?

Question148: A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing the following outputs:

Which of the following can the analyst infer from the above output?

Question149: Which of the following has the GREATEST impact to the data retention policies of an organization?

Question150: While reviewing proxy logs, the security analyst noticed a suspicious traffic pattern. Several internal hosts were observed communicating with an external IP address over port 80 constantly. An incident was declared, and an investigation was launched. After interviewing the affected users, the analyst determined the activity started right after deploying a new graphic design suite. Based on this information, which of the following actions would be the appropriate NEXT step in the investigation?

Question151: A zero-day crypto-worm is quickly spreading through the internal network on port 25 and exploiting a software vulnerability found within the email servers.
Which of the following countermeasures needs to be implemented as soon as possible to mitigate the worm from continuing to spread?

Question152: A security analyst is reviewing a report from the networking department that describes an increase in network utilization, which is causing network performance issues on some systems. A top talkers report over a five-minute sample is included.

Given the above output of the sample, which of the following should the security analyst accomplish FIRST to help track down the performance issues?

Question153: A cybersecurity analyst is hired to review the security measures implemented within the domain controllers of a company. Upon review, the cybersecurity analyst notices a brute force attack can be launched against domain controllers that run on a Windows platform. The first remediation step implemented by the cybersecurity analyst is to make the account passwords more complex. Which of the following is the NEXT remediation step the cybersecurity analyst needs to implement?

Question154: Which of the following are essential components within the rules of engagement for a penetration test?
(Select TWO).

Question155: Which of the following countermeasures should the security administrator apply to MOST effectively mitigate Bootkit-level infections of the organization's workstation devices?

Question156: An organization is attempting to harden its web servers and reduce the information that might be disclosed by potential attackers. A security analyst is reviewing vulnerability scan results from a recent web server scan.
Portions of the scan results are shown below:

Which of the following lines indicates information disclosure about the host that needs to be remediated?

Question157: A network administrator is attempting to troubleshoot an issue regarding certificates on a secure website.
During the troubleshooting process, the network administrator notices that the web gateway proxy on the local network has signed all of the certificates on the local machine.
Which of the following describes the type of attack the proxy has been legitimately programmed to perform?