EMT Practice Test

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Question1: An administrator is replacing a wireless router. The configuration of the old wireless router was not documented before it stopped functioning. The equipment connecting to the wireless network uses older legacy equipment that was manufactured prior to the release of the 802.11i standard. Which of the following configuration options should the administrator select for the new wireless router?

Question2: A senior incident response manager receives a call about some external IPs communicating with internal computers during off hours. Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely causing this issue?

Question3: When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:

Question4: Two users need to send each other emails over unsecured channels. The system should support the principle of non-repudiation. Which of the following should be used to sign the user's certificates?

Question5: A user clicked an email link that led to a website than infected the workstation with a virus.
The virus encrypted all the network shares to which the user had access. The virus was not deleted or blocked by the company's email filter, website filter, or antivirus. Which of the following describes what occurred?

Question6: Which of the following best describes routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed from a string?

Question7: Which of the following BEST describes a network-based attack that can allow an attacker to take full control of a vulnerable host?

Question8: Which of the following implements two-factor authentication?

Question9: Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?

Question10: A company hires a consulting firm to crawl its Active Directory network with a non-domain account looking for unpatched systems. Actively taking control of systems is out of scope, as is the creation of new administrator accounts. For which of the following is the company hiring the consulting firm?

Question11: Which of the following characteristics differentiate a rainbow table attack from a brute force attack? (Select two.)

Question12: A user has attempted to access data at a higher classification level than the user's account is currently authorized to access. Which of the following access control models has been applied to this user's account?

Question13: Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a server's certificate?

Question14: A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all traffic to the FTP server is unencrypted. Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modern FTP client software.
The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing unencrypted connections. Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?

Question15: Refer to the following code:

Which of the following vulnerabilities would occur if this is executed?

Question16: In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand. Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?

Question17: Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test environment to production?

Question18: An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime.
Which of the following has been specified?

Question19: When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

Question20: Ann. An employee in the payroll department, has contacted the help desk citing multiple issues with her device, including:
Ann states the issues began after she opened an invoice that a vendor emailed to her.
Upon opening the invoice, she had to click several security warnings to view it in her word processor. With which of the following is the device MOST likely infected?

Question21: A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) suspects someone in the lab testing environment is stealing confidential information after working hours when no one else is around. Which of the following actions can help to prevent this specific threat?

Question22: An application team is performing a load-balancing test for a critical application during off- hours and has requested access to the load balancer to review which servers are up without having the administrator on call. The security analyst is hesitant to give the application team full access due to other critical applications running on the load balancer.
Which of the following is the BEST solution for security analyst to process the request?

Question23: An incident responder receives a call from a user who reports a computer is exhibiting symptoms consistent with a malware infection. Which of the following steps should the responder perform NEXT?

Question24: As part of a new industry regulation, companies are required to utilize secure, standardized OS settings. A technical must ensure the OS settings are hardened. Which of the following is the BEST way to do this?

Question25: Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company's proprietary information to gain a market edge and reduce time to market?

Question26: A company has a data system with definitions for "Private" and "Public". The company's security policy outlines how data should be protected based on type. The company recently added the data type "Proprietary". Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the company added this data type?

Question27: A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior. Which of the following steps is MOST important in the process of disengagement from this employee?

Question28: DRAG DROP
A Security administrator wants to implement strong security on the company smart phones and terminal servers located in the data center. Drag and Drop the applicable controls to each asset type.
Instructions: Controls can be used multiple times and not all placeholders needs to be filled. When you have completed the simul-ation, Please select Done to submit.

Question29: An auditor wants to test the security posture of an organization by running a tool that will display the following:

Which of the following commands should be used?

Question30: Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for their customers to download over the Internet?

Question31: A systems administrator is attempting to recover from a catastrophic failure in the datacenter. To recover the domain controller, the systems administrator needs to provide the domain administrator credentials. Which of the following account types is the systems administrator using?

Question32: Which of the following attacks specifically impact data availability?

Question33: DRAG DROP
A forensic analyst is asked to respond to an ongoing network attack on a server. Place the items in the list below in the correct order in which the forensic analyst should preserve them.

Question34: A database backup schedule consists of weekly full backups performed on Saturday at
12:00 a.m. and daily differential backups also performed at 12:00 a.m. If the database is restored on Tuesday afternoon, which of the following is the number of individual backups that would need to be applied to complete the database recovery?

Question35: A company is using a mobile device deployment model in which employees use their personal devices for work at their own discretion. Some of the problems the company is encountering include the following:
Which of the following is a deployment model that would help the company overcome these problems?

Question36: An analyst wants to implement a more secure wireless authentication for office access points. Which of the following technologies allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS?

Question37: Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical wants to provide seamless wireless access for their employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented if all the organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices?

Question38: A security administrator is reviewing the following network capture:
192.168.20.43:2043 -> 10.234.66.21:80
POST "192.168.20.43
https://www.banksite.com<ENTER>JoeUsr<BackSPACE>erPassword<ENTER>"
Which of the following malware is MOST likely to generate the above information?

Question39: An organization is using a tool to perform a source code review. Which of the following describes the case in which the tool incorrectly identifies the vulnerability?

Question40: HOTSPOT
Select the appropriate attack from each drop down list to label the corresponding illustrated attack.
Instructions: Attacks may only be used once, and will disappear from drop down list if selected. When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

Question41: DRAG DROP
Drag and drop the correct protocol to its default port.

Question42: A systems administrator is reviewing the following information from a compromised server:

Given the above information, which of the following processes was MOST likely exploited via a remote buffer overflow attack?

Question43: After a user reports slow computer performance, a system administrator detects a suspicious file, which was installed as part of a freeware software package. The systems administrator reviews the output below:

Based on the above information, which of the following types of malware was installed on the user's computer?

Question44: A high-security defense installation recently begun utilizing large guard dogs that bark very loudly and excitedly at the slightest provocation. Which of the following types of controls does this BEST describe?

Question45: Joe, an employee, wants to show his colleagues how much he knows about smartphones.
Joe demonstrates a free movie application that he installed from a third party on his corporate smartphone. Joe's colleagues were unable to find the application in the app stores. Which of the following allowed Joe to install the application? (Select two.)

Question46: Malicious traffic from an internal network has been detected on an unauthorized port on an application server.
Which of the following network-based security controls should the engineer consider implementing?

Question47: Which of the following can be provided to an AAA system for the identification phase?

Question48: A security administrator receives an alert from a third-party vendor that indicates a certificate that was installed in the browser has been hijacked at the root of a small public CA. The security administrator knows there are at least four different browsers in use on more than a thousand computers in the domain worldwide. Which of the following solution would be BEST for the security administrator to implement to most efficiently assist with this issue?