Question1: A company recently experienced several security breaches that resulted in confidential data being infiltrated form the network. The forensic investigation revealed that the data breaches were caused by an insider accessing files that resided in shared folders who then encrypted the data and sent it to contacts via third party email. Management is concerned that other employees may also be sending confidential files outside of the company to the same organization. Management has requested that the IT department implement a solution that will allow them to:
Track access and sue of files marked confidential, provide documentation that can be sued for investigations, prevent employees from sending confidential data via secure third party email, identify other employees that may be involved in these activities.
Which of the following would be the best choice to implement to meet the above requirements?
Question2: A hospital IT department wanted to secure its doctor's tablets. The IT department wants operating system level security and the ability to secure the data from alteration. Which of the following methods would MOST likely work?
Question3: A security administrator is reviewing the company's data backup plan. The plan implements nightly offsite data replication to a third party company. Which of the following documents specifies how much data can be stored offsite, and how quickly the data can be retrieved by the company from the third party?
Question4: The security manager reports that the process of revoking certificates authority is too slow and should be automated. Which of the following should be used to automate this process?
Question5: Which of the following is used to inform users of the repercussions of releasing proprietary information?
Question6: Which of the following tools will allow a technician to detect security-related TCP connection anomalies?
Question7: Joe, the security administrator, has determined that one of his web servers is under attack. Which of the following can help determine where the attack originated from?
Question8: A security administrator must implement a system that will support and enforce the following file system access control model:
FILE NAMESECURITY LABEL
Employees.docConfidential
Salary.xlsConfidential
OfficePhones.xlsUnclassified
PersonalPhones.xlsRestricted
Which of the following should the security administrator implement?
Question9: Which of the following passwords is the LEAST complex?
Question10: When viewing IPS logs the administrator see systems all over the world scanning the network for servers with port 22 open. The administrator concludes that this traffic is a(N):
Question11: Fuzzing is a security assessment technique that allows testers to analyze the behavior of software applications under which of the following conditions?
Question12: A security administrator is using a software program to test the security of a wireless access point. After running the program for a few hours, the access point sends the wireless secret key back to the software program. Which of the following attacks is this an example of?
Question13: Which of the following protocols is MOST likely to be leveraged by users who need additional information about another user?
Question14: Establishing a method to erase or clear cluster tips is an example of securing the following:
Question15: A security administrator wants to perform routine tests on the network during working hours when certain applications are being accessed by the most people. Which of the following would allow the security administrator to test the lack of security controls for those applications with the least impact to the system?
Question16: Which of the following protocols is used to validate whether trust is in place and accurate by returning responses of either "good", "unknown", or "revoked"?
Question17: A company requires that all wireless communication be compliant with the Advanced encryption standard.
The current wireless infrastructure implements WEP + TKIP. Which of the following wireless protocols should be implemented?
Question18: A recent audit of a company's identity management system shows that 30% of active accounts belong to people no longer with the firm. Which of the following should be performed to help avoid this scenario?
(Choose two.)
Question19: To mitigate the risk of intrusion, an IT Manager is concerned with using secure versions of protocols and services whenever possible. In addition, the security technician is required to monitor the types of traffic being generated. Which of the following tools is the technician MOST likely to use?
Question20: Which of the following provides additional encryption strength by repeating the encryption process with additional keys?
Question21: Ann, a security administrator, wishes to replace their RADIUS authentication with a more secure protocol, which can utilize EAP. Which of the following would BEST fit her objective?
Question22: Which of the following actions in PKI takes a certificate authority?
Question23: Account lockout is a mitigation strategy used by Jane, the administrator, to combat the following attacks:
(Choose two.)
Question24: Which of the following provides the HIGHEST level of confidentiality on a wireless network?
Question25: Which of the following components MUST be trusted by all parties in PKI?
Question26: Which of the following allows lower level domains to access resources in a separate Public Key Infrastructure?
Question27: After Matt, a user, enters his username and password at the login screen of a web enabled portal, the following appears on his screen:
`Please only use letters and numbers on these fields'
Which of the following is this an example of?
Question28: Mobile tablets are used by employees on the sales floor to access customer data. Ann a customer recently reported that another customer was able to access her personal information on the tablet after the employee left the area. Which of the following would BEST prevent these issues from reoccurring?
Question29: A security administrator wants to check user password complexity. Which of the following is the BEST tool to use?
Question30: Which of the following explains the difference between a public key and a private key?
Question31: Which of the following techniques describes the use of application isolation during execution to prevent system compromise if the application is compromised?
Question32: A Chief Security Officer (CSO) has been unsuccessful in attempts to access the website for a potential partner (www.example.net). Which of the following rules is preventing the CSO from accessing the site?
Blocked sites: *.nonews.com, *.rumorhasit.net, *.mars?
Question33: A computer is found to be infected with malware and a technician re-installs the operating system. The computer remains infected with malware. This is an example of:
Question34: Virtualization that allows an operating system kernel to run multiple isolated instances of the guest is called:
Question35: In order to maintain oversight of a third party service provider, the company is going to implement a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) system. This system is promising to provide overall security posture coverage. Which of the following is the MOST important activity that should be considered?
Question36: Which of the following is used to certify intermediate authorities in a large PKI deployment?
Question37: Which of the following protocols encapsulates an IP packet with an additional IP header?
Question38: An insurance company requires an account recovery process so that information created by an employee can be accessed after that employee is no longer with the firm. Which of the following is the BEST approach to implement this process?
Question39: A developer needs to utilize AES encryption in an application but requires the speed of encryption and decryption to be as fast as possible. The data that will be secured is not sensitive so speed is valued over encryption complexity. Which of the following would BEST satisfy these requirements?
Question40: In the course of troubleshooting wireless issues from users, a technician discovers that users are connecting to their home SSIDs while at work. The technician scans but detects none of those SSIDs. The technician eventually discovers a rouge access point that spoofs any SSID request. Which of the following allows wireless use while mitigating this type of attack?
Question41: A security administrator has deployed all laptops with Self Encrypting Drives (SED) and enforces key encryption. Which of the following represents the greatest threat to maintaining data confidentiality with these devices?
Question42: Company XYZ has encountered an increased amount of buffer overflow attacks. The programmer has been tasked to identify the issue and report any findings. Which of the following is the FIRST step of action recommended in this scenario?
Question43: An administrator is implementing a new management system for the machinery on the company's production line. One requirement is that the system only be accessible while within the production facility.
Which of the following will be the MOST effective solution in limiting access based on this requirement?
Question44: Joe an employee has reported to Ann a network technician an unusual device plugged into a USB port on a workstation in the call center. Ann unplugs the workstation and brings it to the IT department where an incident is opened. Which of the following should have been done first?
Question45: During a disaster recovery planning session, a security administrator has been tasked with determining which threats and vulnerabilities pose a risk to the organization.
Which of the following should the administrator rate as having the HIGHEST frequency of risk to the organization?
Question46: During a company-wide initiative to harden network security, it is discovered that end users who have laptops cannot be removed from the local administrator group. Which of the following could be used to help mitigate the risk of these machines becoming compromised?
Question47: A company has experienced problems with their ISP, which has failed to meet their informally agreed upon level of service. However the business has not negotiated any additional formal agreements beyond the standard customer terms. Which of the following is the BEST document that the company should prepare to negotiate with the ISP?
Question48: A forensic analyst is reviewing electronic evidence after a robbery. Security cameras installed at the site do not record any footage. Which of the following types of controls was being used?
Question49: Which of the following design components is used to isolate network devices such as web servers?
Question50: A new hire wants to use a personally owned phone to access company resources. The new hire expresses concern about what happens to the data on the phone when they leave the company. Which of the following portions of the company's mobile device management configuration would allow the company data to be removed from the device without touching the new hire's data?
Question51: An attacker unplugs the access point at a coffee shop. The attacker then runs software to make a laptop look like an access point and advertises the same network as the coffee shop normally does. Which of the following describes this type of attack?
Question52: A website is breached, exposing the usernames and MD5 password hashes of its entire user base. Many of these passwords are later cracked using rainbow tables. Which of the following actions could have helped prevent the use of rainbow tables on the password hashes?
Question53: The security consultant is assigned to test a client's new software for security, after logs show targeted attacks from the Internet. To determine the weaknesses, the consultant has no access to the application program interfaces, code, or data structures.
Which of the following types of testing is this an example of?
Question54: Which of the following would be a reason for developers to utilize an AES cipher in CCM mode (Counter with Chain Block Message Authentication Code)?
Question55: Which of the following BEST describes using a smart card and typing in a PIN to gain access to a system?
Question56: A software development company has hired a programmer to develop a plug-in module to an existing proprietary application. After completing the module, the developer needs to test the entire application to ensure that the module did not introduce new vulnerabilities. Which of the following is the developer performing when testing the application?
Question57: A customer has provided an email address and password to a website as part of the login process. Which of the following BEST describes the email address?
Question58: Which of the following is the GREATEST security concern of allowing employees to bring in their personally owned tablets and connecting to the corporate network?
Question59: Which of the following authentication provides users XML for authorization and authentication?
Question60: A security technician is attempting to access a wireless network protected with WEP. The technician does not know any information about the network. Which of the following should the technician do to gather information about the configuration of the wireless network?
Question61: The call center supervisor has reported that many employees have been playing preinstalled games on company computers and this is reducing productivity.
Which of the following would be MOST effective for preventing this behavior?
Question62: After correctly configuring a new wireless enabled thermostat to control the temperature of the company's meeting room, Joe, a network administrator determines that the thermostat is not connecting to the internet-based control system. Joe verifies that the thermostat received the expected network parameters and it is associated with the AP. Additionally, the other wireless mobile devices connected to the same wireless network are functioning properly. The network administrator verified that the thermostat works when tested at his residence. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the thermostat is not connecting to the internet?
Question63: Which of the following is an example of a false positive?
Question64: Which of the following is an application security coding problem?
Question65: An attacker is attempting to insert malicious code into an installer file that is available on the internet. The attacker is able to gain control of the web server that houses both the installer and the web page which features information about the downloadable file. To implement the attack and delay detection, the attacker should modify both the installer file and the:
Question66: Users report that after downloading several applications, their systems' performance has noticeably decreased. Which of the following would be used to validate programs prior to installing them?
Question67: Joe, an end user, has received a virus detection warning.
Which of the following is the first course of action that should be taken?
Question68: Identifying a list of all approved software on a system is a step in the following practices:
Question69: Users are trying to communicate with a network but are unable to do so. A network administrator sees connection attempts on port 20 from outside IP addresses that are being blocked. How can the administrator resolve this?
Question70: Which of the following is an authentication and accounting service that uses TCP for connecting to routers and switches?
Question71: A Windows- based computer is infected with malware and is running too slowly to boot and run a malware scanner. Which of the following is the BEST way to run the malware scanner?
Question72: A security administrator would like the corporate webserver to select perfect forward secrecy ciphers first.
Which of the following cipher suites should the administrator select to accomplish this goal?
Question73: A user has several random browser windows opening on their computer. Which of the following programs can be installed on his machine to help prevent this from happening?
Question74: Which of the following is an advantage of implementing individual file encryption on a hard drive which already deploys full disk encryption?
Question75: A security administrator needs a locally stored record to remove the certificates of a terminated employee.
Which of the following describes a service that could meet these requirements?
Question76: Joe, a network administrator, is able to manage the backup software console by using his network login credentials. Which of the following authentication services is the MOST likely using?
Question77: A company recently received accreditation for a secure network, In the accreditation letter, the auditor specifies that the company must keep its security plan current with changes in the network and evolve the systems to adapt to new threats. Which of the following security controls will BEST achieve this goal?
Question78: An organization is working with a cloud services provider to transition critical business applications to a hybrid cloud environment. The organization retains sensitive customer data and wants to ensure the provider has sufficient administrative and logical controls in place to protect its data. In which of the following documents would this concern MOST likely be addressed?
Question79: In order to use a two-way trust model the security administrator MUST implement which of the following?
Question80: Which of the following authentication protocols makes use of UDP for its services?
Question81: After a few users report problems with the wireless network, a system administrator notices that a new wireless access point has been powered up in the cafeteria. The access point has the same SSID as the corporate network and is set to the same channel as nearby access points. However, the AP has not been connected to the Ethernet network. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the user's wireless problems?
Question82: A software developer utilizes cryptographic functions to generate codes that verify message integrity. Due to the nature if the data that is being sent back and forth from the client application to the server, the developer would like to change the cryptographic function to one that verities both authentication and message integrity. Which of the following algorithms should the software developer utilize?
Question83: A wireless site survey has been performed at a company. One of the results of the report is that the wireless signal extends too far outside the building. Which of the following security issues could occur as a result of this finding?
Question84: While setting up a secure wireless corporate network, which of the following should Pete, an administrator, avoid implementing?
Question85: Ann, a security administrator is hardening the user password policies. She currently has the following in place.
Passwords expire every 60 days
Password length is at least eight characters
Passwords must contain at least one capital letter and one numeric character Passwords cannot be reused until the password has been changed eight times She learns that several employees are still using their original password after the 60-day forced change.
Which of the following can she implement to BEST mitigate this?
Question86: Which of the following technologies when applied to android and iOS environments, can an organization use to add security restrictions and encryption to existing mobile applications? (Choose Two)
Question87: Which of the following is considered the MOST effective practice when securing printers or scanners in an enterprise environment?
Question88: A security administrator implements a web server that utilizes an algorithm that requires other hashing standards to provide data integrity. Which of the following algorithms would meet the requirement?
Question89: During an audit, the security administrator discovers that there are several users that are no longer employed with the company but still have active user accounts. Which of the following should be performed?
Question90: A company hires outside security experts to evaluate the security status of the corporate network. All of the company's IT resources are outdated and prone to crashing. The company requests that all testing be performed in a way which minimizes the risk of system failures. Which of the following types of testing does the company want performed?
Question91: An organization uses a Kerberos-based LDAP service for network authentication. The service is also utilized for internal web applications. Finally access to terminal applications is achieved using the same authentication method by joining the legacy system to the Kerberos realm. This company is using Kerberos to achieve which of the following?
Question92: Attempting to inject 50 alphanumeric key strokes including spaces into an application input field that only expects four alpha characters in considered which of the following attacks?
Question93: A company uses port security based on an approved MAC list to secure its wired network and WPA2 to secure its wireless network. Which of the following prevents an attacker from learning authorized MAC addresses?
Question94: Joe has read and write access to his own home directory. Joe and Ann are collaborating on a project, and Joe would like to give Ann write access to one particular file in this home directory. Which of the following types of access control would this reflect?
Question95: A user, Ann, has been issued a smart card and is having problems opening old encrypted email. Ann published her certificates to the local windows store and to the global address list. Which of the following would still need to be performed?
Question96: A system administrator wants to confidentially send a user name and password list to an individual outside the company without the information being detected by security controls. Which of the following would BEST meet this security goal?
Question97: A technician reports a suspicious individual is seen walking around the corporate campus. The individual is holding a smartphone and pointing a small antenna, in order to collect SSIDs. Which of the following attacks is occurring?
Question98: Which of the following is an example of multifactor authentication?
Question99: A system administrator wants to implement an internal communication system that will allow employees to send encrypted messages to each other. The system must also support non-repudiation. Which of the following implements all these requirements?
Question100: An organization wants to conduct secure transactions of large data files. Before encrypting and exchanging the data files, the organization wants to ensure a secure exchange of keys. Which of the following algorithms is appropriate for securing the key exchange?
Question101: Joe the system administrator has noticed an increase in network activity from outside sources. He wishes to direct traffic to avoid possible penetration while heavily monitoring the traffic with little to no impact on the current server load. Which of the following would be BEST course of action?
Question102: A technician has been assigned a service request to investigate a potential vulnerability in the organization's extranet platform. Once the technician performs initial investigative measures, it is determined that the potential vulnerability was a false-alarm. Which of the following actions should the technician take in regards to the findings?
Question103: Which of the following is it MOST difficult to harden against?
Question104: A datacenter has suffered repeated burglaries which led to equipment theft and arson. In the past, the thieves have demonstrated a determination to bypass any installed safeguards. After mantraps were installed to prevent tailgating, the thieves crashed through the wall of datacenter with a vehicle after normal business hours. Which of the following options could improve the safety and security of the datacenter further? (Choose two)
Question105: Employees are reporting that they have been receiving a large number of emails advertising products and services. Links in the email direct the users' browsers to the websites for the items being offered. No reports of increased virus activity have been observed. A security administrator suspects that the users are the targets of:
Question106: The software developer is responsible for writing the code and promoting from the development network to the quality network. The network administrator is responsible for promoting code to the application servers.
Which of the following practices are they following to ensure application integrity?
Question107: The BEST methods for a web developer to prevent the website application code from being vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (XSRF) are to ____________. (Choose two.)
Question108: A user has called the help desk to report an enterprise mobile device was stolen. The technician receiving the call accesses the MDM administration portal to identify the device's last known geographic location.
The technician determines the device is still communicating with the MDM. After taking note of the last known location, the administrator continues to follow the rest of the checklist. Which of the following identifies a possible next step for the administrator?
Question109: Which of the following BEST describes part of the PKI process?
Question110: Searching for systems infected with malware is considered to be the following phases of incident response:
Question111: Which of the following allows a company to maintain access to encrypted resources when employee turnover is high?
Question112: After several thefts a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) wants to ensure unauthorized do not have to corporate grounds or its employees. The CEO just approved new budget line items for fences, lighting, locks and CCTVs. Which of the following is the primary focus?
Question113: A new mobile banking application is being developed and uses SSL / TLS certificates but penetration tests show that it is still vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, such as DNS hijacking. Which of the following would mitigate this attack?
Question114: One of the servers on the network stops responding due to lack of available memory. Server administrators did not have a clear definition of what action should have taken place based on the available memory. Which of the following would have BEST kept this incident from occurring?
Question115: A security administrator wishes to protect session leys should a private key become discovered. Which of the following should be enabled in IPSec to allow this?
Question116: RC4 is a strong encryption protocol that is generally used with the following:
Question117: Ann was reviewing her company's event logs and observed several instances of GUEST accessing the company print server, file server, and archive database. As she continued to investigate, Ann noticed that it seemed to happen at random intervals throughout the day, but mostly after the weekly automated patching and often logging in at the same time. Which of the following would BEST mitigate this issue?
Question118: A user attempts to install new and relatively unknown software recommended by a colleague. The user is unable to install the program, despite having successfully installed other programs previously. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause for the user's inability to complete the installation?
Question119: Without validating user input, an application becomes vulnerable to all of the following EXCEPT:
Question120: Which of the following can BEST help prevent cross-site scripting attacks and buffer overflows on a production system?
Question121: Which of the following is the BEST technology for the sender to use in order to secure the in-band exchange of a shared key?
Question122: A website administrator has received an alert from an application designed to check the integrity of the company's website. The alert indicated that the hash value for a particular MPEG file has changed. Upon further investigation, the media appears to be the same as it was before the alert. Which of the following methods has MOST likely been used?
Question123: Sara, a security manager, has decided to force expiration of all company passwords by the close of business day. Which of the following BEST supports this reasoning?
Question124: Which of the following authentication services uses a default TCP port of 88?
Question125: A security administrator is tackling issues related to authenticating users at a remote site. There have been a large number of security incidents that resulted from either tailgating or impersonation of authorized users with valid credentials. The security administrator has been told to implement multifactor authentication in order to control facility access. To secure access to the remote facility, which of the following could be implemented without increasing the amount of space required at the entrance?
Question126: A security administrator suspects that an employee in the IT department is utilizing a reverse proxy to bypass the company's content filter and browse unapproved and non-work related sites while at work.
Which of the following tools could BEST be used to determine how the employee is connecting to the reverse proxy?
Question127: A company wishes to prevent unauthorized employee access to the data center. Which of the following is the MOST secure way to meet this goal?
Question128: An attacker has gained access to the company's web server by using the administrator's credentials. The attacker then begins to work on compromising the sensitive data on other servers.
Which of the following BEST describes this type of attack?
Question129: A network inventory discovery application requires non-privileged access to all hosts on a network for inventory of installed applications. A service account is created by the network inventory discovery application for accessing all hosts. Which of the following is the MOST efficient method for granting the account non-privileged access to the hosts?
Question130: Users can authenticate to a company's web applications using their credentials form a popular social media site. Which of the following poses the greatest risk with this integration?
Question131: Ann has recently transferred from the payroll department to engineering. While browsing file shares, Ann notices she can access the payroll status and pay rates of her new coworkers. Which of the following could prevent this scenario from occurring?
Question132: Which of the following file systems is from Microsoft and was included with their earliest operating systems?
Question133: Joe, a user, upon arriving to work on Monday morning noticed several files were deleted from the system.
There were no records of any scheduled network outages or upgrades to the system. Joe notifies the security department of the anomaly found and removes the system from the network.
Question134: A major medical corporation is investigating deploying a web based portal for patients to access their medical records. The medical corporation has a long history of maintaining IT security but is considering having a third party vendor create the web portal. Which of the following areas is MOST important for the Chief Information Security Officer to focus on when reviewing proposal from vendors interested in creating the web portal?
Question135: Ann a new small business owner decides to implement WiFi access for her customers. There are several other businesses nearby who also have WiFi hot spots. Ann is concerned about security of the wireless network and wants to ensure that only her customers have access. Which of the following choices BEST meets her intent of security and access?
Question136: Which of the following concepts is used by digital signatures to ensure integrity of the data?
Question137: Which of the following should a company implement to BEST mitigate from zero-day malicious code executing on employees' computers?
Question138: Which of the following does full disk encryption prevent?
Question139: An information system owner has supplied a new requirement to the development team that calls for increased non-repudiation within the application. After undergoing several audits, the owner determined that current levels of non-repudiation were insufficient. Which of the following capabilities would be MOST appropriate to consider implementing is response to the new requirement?
Question140: During a recent audit, it was discovered that several user accounts belonging to former employees were still active and had valid VPN permissions. Which of the following would help reduce the amount of risk the organization incurs in this situation in the future?
Question141: In an effort to reduce data storage requirements, a company devices to hash every file and eliminate duplicates. The data processing routines are time sensitive so the hashing algorithm is fast and supported on a wide range of systems. Which of the following algorithms is BEST suited for this purpose?
Question142: A Human Resources user is issued a virtual desktop typically assigned to Accounting employees. A system administrator wants to disable certain services and remove the local accounting groups installed by default on this virtual machine.
Which of the following security best practices is the system administrator adhering to?
Question143: An organization has introduced token-based authentication to system administrators due to risk of password compromise. The tokens have a set of numbers that automatically change every 30 seconds.
Which of the following type of authentication mechanism is this?
Question144: An employee needs to connect to a server using a secure protocol on the default port. Which of the following ports should be used?
Question145: Which of the following is a best practice when setting up a client to use the LDAPS protocol with a server?
Question146: Which of the following protocols uses TCP instead of UDP and is incompatible with all previous versions?
Question147: A company has been attacked and their website has been altered to display false information. The security administrator disables the web server service before restoring the website from backup. An audit was performed on the server and no other data was altered. Which of the following should be performed after the server has been restored?
Question148: A network administrator has a separate user account with rights to the domain administrator group.
However, they cannot remember the password to this account and are not able to login to the server when needed. Which of the following is MOST accurate in describing the type of issue the administrator is experiencing?
Question149: Methods to test the responses of software and web applications to unusual or unexpected inputs are known as:
Question150: A video surveillance audit recently uncovered that an employee plugged in a personal laptop and used the corporate network to browse inappropriate and potentially malicious websites after office hours. Which of the following could BEST prevent a situation like this form occurring again?
Question151: The key management organization has implemented a key escrowing function. Which of the following technologies can provide protection for the PKI's escrowed keys?
Question152: Users in an organization are experiencing when attempting to access certain websites. The users report that when they type in a legitimate URL, different boxes appear on the screen, making it difficult to access the legitimate sites. Which of the following would best mitigate this issue?
Question153: Which of the following MUST be updated immediately when an employee is terminated to prevent unauthorized access?
Question154: Deploying a wildcard certificate is one strategy to:
Question155: An agent wants to create fast and efficient cryptographic keys to use with Diffie-Hellman without using prime numbers to generate the keys. Which of the following should be used?
Question156: Ann, the IT director, wants to ensure that as hoc changes are not making their way to the production applications.
Question157: In order for network monitoring to work properly, you need a PC and a network card running in what mode?
Question158: Verifying the integrity of data submitted to a computer program at or during run-time, with the intent of preventing the malicious exploitation of unintentional effects in the structure of the code, is BEST described as the following:
Question159: The act of magnetically erasing all of the data on a disk is known as:
Question160: Joe, an administrator, installs a web server on the Internet that performs credit card transactions for customer payments. Joe also sets up a second web server that looks like the first web server.
However, the second server contains fabricated files and folders made to look like payments were processed on this server but really were not. Which of the following is the second server?
Question161: Which of the following types of malware, attempts to circumvent malware detection by trying to hide its true location on the infected system?
Question162: A system administrator is notified by a staff member that their laptop has been lost. The laptop contains the user's digital certificate. Which of the following will help resolve the issue? (Choose two.)
Question163: Joe, a system administrator, receives reports that users attempting to reach the corporate website are arriving at an unfamiliar website instead. An investigation by a forensic analyst found that the name server log has several corporate IP addresses that were changed using Joe's credentials.
Which of the following is this attack called?
Question164: Which of the following is an important implementation consideration when deploying a wireless network that uses a shared password?
Question165: An employee from the fire Marshall's office arrives to inspect the data center. The operator allows him to bypass the multi-factor authentication to enter the data center. Which of the following types of attacks may be underway?
Question166: Which of the following can be used to ensure that sensitive records stored on a backend server can only be accessed by a front end server with the appropriate record key?
Question167: A company is implementing a system to transfer direct deposit information to a financial institution. One of the requirements is that the financial institution must be certain that the deposit amounts within the file have not been changed. Which of the following should be used to meet the requirement?
Question168: An internal auditing team would like to strengthen the password policy to support special characters.
Which of the following types of password controls would achieve this goal?
Question169: Which of the following security architecture elements also has sniffer functionality? (Choose two.)
Question170: Pete, an employee, is terminated from the company and the legal department needs documents from his encrypted hard drive. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
Question171: A new client application developer wants to ensure that the encrypted passwords that are stored in their database are secure from cracking attempts. To implement this, the developer implements a function on the client application that hashes passwords thousands of times prior to being sent to the database. Which of the following did the developer MOST likely implement?
Question172: A small company has a website that provides online customer support. The company requires an account recovery process so that customers who forget their passwords can regain access.
Which of the following is the BEST approach to implement this process?
Question173: A resent OS patch caused an extended outage. It took the IT department several hours to uncover the cause of the issue due to the system owner who installed the patch being out of the office. Which of the following could help reduce the likelihood of this situation occurring in the future?
Question174: A system administrator is configuring a new file server and has been instructed to configure writeable to by the department manager, and read only for the individual employee.
Which of the following is the name for the access control methodology used?
Question175: A technician wants to verify the authenticity of the system files of a potentially compromised system. Which of the following can the technician use to verify if a system file was compromised? (Choose two.)
Question176: Which of the following is an indication of an ongoing current problem?
Question177: A network administrator is responsible for securing applications against external attacks. Every month, the underlying operating system is updated. There is no process in place for other software updates.
Which of the following processes could MOST effectively mitigate these risks?
Question178: Which of the following types of authentication packages user credentials in a ticket?
Question179: Which of the following BEST describes an attack where communications between two parties are intercepted and forwarded to each party with neither party being aware of the interception and potential modification to the communications?
Question180: Ann a new security specialist is attempting to access the internet using the company's open wireless network. The wireless network is not encrypted: however, once associated, ANN cannot access the internet or other company resources. In an attempt to troubleshoot, she scans the wireless network with NMAP, discovering the only other device on the wireless network is a firewall. Which of the following BEST describes the company's wireless network solution?
Question181: A file on a Linux server has default permissions of rw-rw-r--. The system administrator has verified that Ann, a user, is not a member of the group owner of the file. Which of the following should be modified to assure that Ann has read access to the file?
Question182: Which of the following is replayed during wireless authentication to exploit a weak key infrastructure?
Question183: An administrator, Ann, wants to ensure that only authorized devices are connected to a switch. She decides to control access based on MAC addresses. Which of the following should be configured?
Question184: Which of the following devices is used for the transparent security inspection of network traffic by redirecting user packets prior to sending the packets to the intended destination?
Question185: A network technician is configuring clients for VLAN access. The network address for the sales department is 192.168.0.64 with a broadcast address of 192.168.0.71. Which of the following IP address/subnet mask combinations could be used to correctly configure a client machine in the sales department?
Question186: Which of the following would be MOST appropriate if an organization's requirements mandate complete control over the data and applications stored in the cloud?
Question187: Which of the following was based on a previous X.500 specification and allows either unencrypted authentication or encrypted authentication through the use of TLS?
Question188: A system administrator is setting up a file transfer server. The goal is to encrypt the user authentication and the files the user is sending using only a user ID and a key pair. Which of the following methods would achieve this goal?
Question189: A system security analyst using an enterprise monitoring tool notices an unknown internal host exfiltrating files to several foreign IP addresses. Which of the following would be an appropriate mitigation technique?
Question190: A way to assure data at-rest is secure even in the event of loss or theft is to use:
Question191: Ann, a college professor, was recently reprimanded for posting disparaging remarks re-grading her coworkers on a website. Ann stated that she was not aware that the public was able to view her remakes.
Which of the following security-related trainings could have made Ann aware of the repercussions of her actions?
Question192: In Kerberos, the Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) is used for the following:
Question193: A network administrator noticed various chain messages have been received by the company.
Which of the following security controls would need to be implemented to mitigate this issue?
Question194: A user attempting to log on to a workstation for the first time is prompted for the following information before being granted access: username, password, and a four-digit security pin that was mailed to him during account registration.
Which of the following is this an example of?
Question195: While working on a new project a security administrator wants to verify the integrity of the data in the organizations archive library. Which of the following is the MOST secure combination to implement to meet this goal? (Choose two.)
Question196: Which of the following types of trust models is used by a PKI?
Question197: A new employee has been hired to perform system administration duties across a large enterprise comprised of multiple separate security domains. Each remote location implements a separate security domain. The new employee has successfully responded to and fixed computer issues for the main office.
When the new employee tries to perform work on remote computers, the following messages appears.
You need permission to perform this action. Which of the following can be implemented to provide system administrators with the ability to perform administrative tasks on remote computers using their uniquely assigned account?
Question198: A security engineer discovers that during certain times of day, the corporate wireless network is dropping enough packets to significantly degrade service. Which of the following should be the engineer's FIRST step in troubleshooting the issues?
Question199: Which of the following cryptographic methods is most secure for a wireless access point?
Question200: Joe, an application developer, is building an external facing marketing site. There is an area on the page where clients may submit their feedback to articles that are posted. Joe filters client-side JAVA input.
Question201: A computer is suspected of being compromised by malware. The security analyst examines the computer and finds that a service called Telnet is running and connecting to an external website over port 443. This Telnet service was found by comparing the system's services to the list of standard services on the company's system image. This review process depends on:
Question202: Which of the following encompasses application patch management?
Question203: A server administrator discovers the web farm is using weak ciphers and wants to ensure that only stronger ciphers are accepted. Which of the following ciphers should the administrator implement in the load balancer? (Choose Two)
Question204: In PKI, a key pair consists of: (Choose two.)
Question205: The system administrator is tasked with changing the administrator password across all 2000 computers in the organization. Which of the following should the system administrator implement to accomplish this task?
Question206: While performing surveillance activities, an attacker determines that an organization is using 802.1X to secure LAN access. Which of the following attack mechanisms can the attacker utilize to bypass the identified network security controls?
Question207: Which of the following should an administrator implement to research current attack methodologies?
Question208: Which of the following algorithms has well documented collisions? (Choose two.)
Question209: An organization receives an email that provides instruction on how to protect a system from being a target of new malware that is rapidly infecting systems. The incident response team investigates the notification and determines it to invalid and notifies users to disregard the email. Which of the following Best describes this occurrence?
Question210: A forensics analyst is tasked identifying identical files on a hard drive. Due to the large number of files to be compared, the analyst must use an algorithm that is known to have the lowest collision rate. Which of the following should be selected?
Question211: Which of the following should a company deploy to prevent the execution of some types of malicious code?
Question212: A company hosts a web server that requires entropy in encryption initialization and authentication. To meet this goal, the company would like to select a block cipher mode of operation that allows an arbitrary length IV and supports authenticated encryption. Which of the following would meet these objectives?
Question213: A Chief Privacy Officer, Joe, is concerned that employees are sending emails to addresses outside of the company that contain PII. He asks that the security technician to implement technology that will mitigate this risk. Which of the following would be the best option?
Question214: Which of the following is the best practice to put at the end of an ACL?
Question215: A penetration tester is measuring a company's posture on social engineering. The penetration tester sends a phishing email claiming to be from IT asking employees to click a link to update their VPN software immediately. Which of the following reasons would explain why this attack could be successful?
Question216: An administrator requests a new VLAN be created to support the installation of a new SAN. Which of the following data transport?
Question217: During a code review a software developer discovers a security risk that may result in hundreds of hours of rework. The security team has classified these issues as low risk. Executive management has decided that the code will not be rewritten. This is an example of:
Question218: A technician wants to implement a dual factor authentication system that will enable the organization to authorize access to sensitive systems on a need-to-know basis. Which of the following should be implemented during the authorization stage?
Question219: A company would like to prevent the use of a known set of applications from being used on company computers. Which of the following should the security administrator implement?
Question220: When considering a vendor-specific vulnerability in critical industrial control systems which of the following techniques supports availability?
Question221: Joe, a network security engineer, has visibility to network traffic through network monitoring tools.
However, he's concerned that a disgruntled employee may be targeting a server containing the company's financial records. Which of the following security mechanism would be MOST appropriate to confirm Joe's suspicion?
Question222: Based on information leaked to industry websites, business management is concerned that unauthorized employees are accessing critical project information for a major, well-known new product. To identify any such users, the security administrator could:
Question223: A new security analyst is given the task of determining whether any of the company's servers are vulnerable to a recently discovered attack on an old version of SSH. Which of the following is the quickest FIRST step toward determining the version of SSH running on these servers?
Question224: Joe, a user, reports to the system administrator that he is receiving an error stating his certificate has been revoked. Which of the following is the name of the database repository for these certificates?
Question225: An administrator would like users to authenticate to the network using only UDP protocols. Which of the following would meet this goal?
Question226: An employee finds a USB drive in the employee lunch room and plugs the drive into a shared workstation to determine who owns the drive. When the drive is inserted, a command prompt opens and a script begins to run. The employee notifies a technician, who determines that data on a server have been compromised. This is an example of:
Question227: Which of the following application security principles involves inputting random data into a program?
Question228: Which of the following provides a user ID and password together?
Question229: A one-time security audit revealed that employees do not have the appropriate access to system resources. The auditor is concerned with the fact that most of the accounts audited have unneeded elevated permission to sensitive resources. Which of the following was implemented to detect this issue?
Question230: Which of the following is BEST described by a scenario where management chooses not to implement a security control for a given risk?
Question231: A database administrator would like to start encrypting database exports stored on the SAN, but the storage administrator warns that this may drastically increase the amount of disk space used by the exports. Which of the following explains the reason for the increase in disk space usage?
Question232: A user tries to visit a website with a revoked certificate. In the background a server from the certificate authority only sends the browser revocation information about the domain the user is visiting.
Which of the following is being used by the certificate authority in this exchange?
Question233: After an audit, it was discovered that an account was not disabled in a timely manner after an employee has departed from the organization. Which of the following did the organization fail to properly implement?
Question234: Which of the following types of data encryption would Matt, a security administrator, use to encrypt a specific table?
Question235: Having adequate lighting on the outside of a building is an example of which of the following security controls?
Question236: An administrator uses a server with a trusted OS and is configuring an application to go into production tomorrow, In order to make a new application work properly, the administrator creates a new policy that labels the application and assigns it a security context within the trusted OS. Which of the following control methods is the administrator using by configuring this policy?
Question237: Human Resources suspects an employee is accessing the employee salary database. The administrator is asked to find out who it is. In order to complete this task, which of the following is a security control that should be in place?
Question238: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned that users could bring their personal laptops to work and plug them directly into the network port under their desk. Which of the following should be configured on the network switch to prevent this from happening?
Question239: Which of the following is an XML based open standard used in the exchange of authentication and authorization information between different parties?
Question240: An administrator must select an algorithm to encrypt data at rest. Which of the following could be used?
Question241: An organization is required to log all user internet activity. Which of the following would accomplish this requirement?
Question242: Which of the following security concepts identifies input variables which are then used to perform boundary testing?
Question243: A company's password and authentication policies prohibit the use of shared passwords and transitive trust. Which of the following if implemented would violate company policy? (Choose two.)
Question244: An organization must implement controls to protect the confidentiality of its most sensitive data. The company is currently using a central storage system and group based access control for its sensitive information. Which of the following controls can further secure the data in the central storage system?
Question245: A security administrator is responsible for ensuring that there are no unauthorized devices utilizing the corporate network. During a routine scan, the security administrator discovers an unauthorized device belonging to a user in the marketing department. The user is using an android phone in order to browse websites. Which of the following device attributes was used to determine that the device was unauthorized?
Question246: A system administrator has noticed network performance issues and wants to gather performance data from the gateway router. Which of the following can be used to perform this action?
Question247: Which of the following is BEST utilized to identify common misconfigurations throughout the enterprise?
Question248: Which device monitors network traffic in a passive manner?
Question249: A security administrator needs to implement a technology that creates a secure key exchange. Neither party involved in the key exchange will have pre-existing knowledge of one another. Which of the following technologies would allow for this?
Question250: Which of the following incident response plan steps would MOST likely engaging business professionals with the security team to discuss changes to existing procedures?
Question251: Four weeks ago, a network administrator applied a new IDS and allowed it to gather baseline data. As rumors of a layoff began to spread, the IDS alerted the network administrator that access to sensitive client files had risen far above normal. Which of the following kind of IDS is in use?
Question252: Which of the following common access control models is commonly used on systems to ensure a "need to know" based on classification levels?
Question253: Use of a smart card to authenticate remote servers remains MOST susceptible to the following attacks:
Question254: A custom PKI application downloads a certificate revocation list (CRL) once per day. Management requests the list be checked more frequently. Which of the following is the BEST solution?
Question255: A business has recently adopted a policy allowing employees to use personal cell phones and tablets to access company email accounts while out of the office. Joe, an employee, was using a personal cell phone for email access and was recently terminated. It is suspected that Joe saved confidential client emails on his personal cell phone. Joe claims that the data on the phone is completely personal and refuse to allow the company access to inspect the cell phone. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this dispute?
Question256: Which of the following is built into the hardware of most laptops but is not setup for centralized management by default?
Question257: Which of the following can be mitigated with proper secure coding techniques?
Question258: A Company transfers millions of files a day between their servers. A programmer for the company has created a program that indexes and verifies the integrity of each file as it is replicated between servers.
The programmer would like to use the fastest algorithm to ensure integrity. Which of the following should the programmer use?
Question259: Which of the following is the BEST method for ensuring all files and folders are encrypted on all corporate laptops where the file structures are unknown?
Question260: Ann, a security administrator at a call center, has been experiencing problems with users intentionally installing unapproved and occasionally malicious software on their computers. Due to the nature of their jobs, Ann cannot change their permissions. Which of the following would BEST alleviate her concerns?
Question261: Joe needs to track employees who log into a confidential database and edit files. In the past, critical files have been edited, and no one admits to making the edits. Which of the following does Joe need to implement in order to enforce accountability?
Question262: Which of the following access control methodologies provides an individual with the most restrictive access rights to successfully perform their authorized duties?
Question263: A recent audit has revealed that several users have retained permissions to systems they should no longer have rights to after being promoted or changed job positions. Which of the following controls would BEST mitigate this issue?
Question264: Recent data loss on financial servers due to security breaches forced the system administrator to harden their systems. Which of the following algorithms with transport encryption would be implemented to provide the MOST secure web connections to manage and access these servers?
Question265: Which of the following concepts is enforced by certifying that email communications have been sent by who the message says it has been sent by?
Question266: A company has had several security incidents in the past six months. It appears that the majority of the incidents occurred on systems with older software on development workstations. Which of the following should be implemented to help prevent similar incidents in the future?
Question267: Which of the following is a vulnerability associated with disabling pop-up blockers?
Question268: Input validation is an important security defense because it:
Question269: An administrator has concerns regarding the company's server rooms. Proximity badge readers were installed, but it is discovered this is not preventing unapproved personnel from tailgating into these areas.
Which of the following would BEST address this concern?
Question270: Which of the following is the BEST practice when dealing with user accounts that will only need to be active for a limited time period?
Question271: Which of the following can take advantage of man-in-the-middle techniques to prevent data exfiltration?
Question272: A company uses SSH to support internal users. They want to block external SSH connections from reaching internal machines. Which of the following should be blocked on the firewall?
Question273: A malicious user has collected the following list of information:
192.168.1.5 OpenSSH-Server_5.8
192.168.1.7 OpenSSH-Server_5.7
192.168.1.9 OpenSSH-Server_5.7
Which of the following techniques is MOST likely to gather this type of data?
Question274: Matt, a security analyst, needs to select an asymmetric encryption method that allows for the same level of encryption strength with a lower key length than is typically necessary. Which of the following encryption methods offers this capability?
Question275: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a major defense contracting company a traveling overseas for a conference. The CEO will be taking a laptop. Which of the following should the security administrator implement to ensure confidentiality of the data if the laptop were to be stolen or lost during the trip?
Question276: The IT department needs to prevent users from installing untested applications. Which of the following would provide the BEST solution?
Question277: Which of the following is the BEST way to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF) attacks?
Question278: A project manager is evaluating proposals for a cloud commuting project. The project manager is particularly concerned about logical security controls in place at the service provider's facility. Which of the following sections of the proposal would be MOST important to review, given the project manager's concerns?
Question279: A security technician received notification of a remotely exploitable vulnerability affecting all multifunction printers firmware installed throughout the organization. The vulnerability allows a malicious user to review all the documents processed by the affected printers. Which of the following compensating controls can the security technician to mitigate the security risk of a sensitive document leak?
Question280: A system administrator wants to use open source software but is worried about the source code being comprised. As a part of the download and installation process, the administrator should verify the integrity of the software by:
Question281: A bank Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is responsible for a mobile banking platform that operates natively on iOS and Android. Which of the following security controls helps protect the associated publicly accessible API endpoints?
Question282: Which of the following is a black box testing methodology?
Question283: A network engineer is configuring a VPN tunnel connecting a company's network to a business partner.
Which of the following protocols should be used for key exchange?
Question284: A company has had their web application become unavailable several times in the past few months due to increased demand. Which of the following should the company perform to increase availability?
Question285: Company A and Company B both supply contractual services to a fast paced and growing auto parts manufacturer with a small local Area Network (LAN) at its local site. Company A performs in-house billing and invoices services for the local auto parts manufactacturer. Company B provides in-house parts and widgets services for the local auto parts manufacturers. Which of the following is the BEST method to mitigate security risk within the environment?
Question286: Which of the following allows a network administrator to implement an access control policy based on individual user characteristics and NOT on job function?
Question287: Which of the following, if implemented, would improve security of remote users by reducing vulnerabilities associated with data-in-transit?
Question288: Which of the following is a software vulnerability that can be avoided by using input validation?
Question289: A large corporation has data centers geographically distributed across multiple continents. The company needs to securely transfer large amounts of data between the data center. The data transfer can be accomplished physically or electronically, but must prevent eavesdropping while the data is on transit.
Which of the following represents the BEST cryptographic solution?
Question290: Which of the following would be used to identify the security posture of a network without actually exploiting any weaknesses?
Question291: Ann a network administrator has been tasked with strengthening the authentication of users logging into systems in area containing sensitive information. Users log in with usernames and passwords, following by a retinal scan. Which of the following could she implement to add an additional factor of authorization?
Question292: Which of the following access controls enforces permissions based on data labeling at specific levels?
Question293: A security administrator wants to deploy security controls to mitigate the threat of company employees' personal information being captured online. Which of the following would BEST serve this purpose?
Question294: A system administrator has noticed that users change their password many times to cycle back to the original password when their passwords expire. Which of the following would BEST prevent this behavior?
Question295: Pete, a security auditor, has detected clear text passwords between the RADIUS server and the authenticator. Which of the following is configured in the RADIUS server and what technologies should the authentication protocol be changed to?
Question296: Sara, an application developer, implemented error and exception handling alongside input validation.
Which of the following does this help prevent?
Question297: Users report that they are unable to access network printing services. The security technician checks the router access list and sees that web, email, and secure shell are allowed. Which of the following is blocking network printing?
Question298: The librarian wants to secure the public Internet kiosk PCs at the back of the library. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate? (Choose two.)
Question299: Which of the following metrics is important for measuring the extent of data required during backup and recovery?
Question300: A security administrator is notified that users attached to a particular switch are having intermittent connectivity issues. Upon further research, the administrator finds evidence of an ARP spoofing attack.
Which of the following could be utilized to provide protection from this type of attack?
Question301: Which of the following is an authentication method that can be secured by using SSL?
Question302: Which of the following is a measure of biometrics performance which rates the ability of a system to correctly authenticate an authorized user?
Question303: Ann, a security administrator at a call center, has been experiencing problems with users intentionally installing unapproved and occasionally malicious software on their computers. Due to the nature of their jobs, Ann cannot change their permissions. Which of the following would BEST alleviate her concerns?
Question304: The fundamental information security principals include confidentiality, availability and ____________?
Question305: A user has reported inadvertently sending an encrypted email containing PII to an incorrect distribution group. Which of the following potential incident types is this?
Question306: A review of administrative access has discovered that too many accounts have been granted administrative rights. Which of the following will alert the security team when elevated access is applied?
Question307: Which of the following is true about the recovery agent?
Question308: Jane, a security administrator, has observed repeated attempts to break into a server. Which of the following is designed to stop an intrusion on a specific server?
Question309: Users in the HR department were recently informed that they need to implement a user training and awareness program which is tailored to their department. Which of the following types of training would be the MOST appropriate for this department?
Question310: An administrator is concerned that a company's web server has not been patched. Which of the following would be the BEST assessment for the administrator to perform?
Question311: An organizations' security policy requires that users change passwords every 30 days. After a security audit, it was determined that users were recycling previously used passwords. Which of the following password enforcement policies would have mitigated this issue?
Question312: The system administrator wishes to implement a hardware-based encryption method that could also be used to sign code. They can achieve this by:
Question313: Which of the following controls can be implemented together to prevent data loss in the event of theft of a mobile device storing sensitive information? (Choose two.)
Question314: Which of the following would an attacker use to generate and capture additional traffic prior to performing an IV attack?
Question315: After connecting to the corporate network a user types the URL if a popular social media website in the browser but reports being redirected to a login page with the corporate logo. Which of the following is this an example of?
Question316: Which of the following provides RADIUS?
Question317: Given the following list of corporate access points, which of the following attacks is MOST likely underway if the company wireless network uses the same wireless hardware throughout?
MACSID
00:01:AB:FA:CD:34Corporate AP
00:01:AB:FA:CD:35Corporate AP
00:01:AB:FA:CD:36Corporate AP
00:01:AB:FA:CD:37Corporate AP
00:01:AB:FA:CD:34Corporate AP
Question318: Which of the following assessment techniques would a security administrator implement to ensure that systems and software are developed properly?
Question319: A supervisor in the human resources department has been given additional job duties in the accounting department. Part of their new duties will be to check the daily balance sheet calculations on spreadsheets that are restricted to the accounting group. In which of the following ways should the account be handled?
Question320: A project manager is working with an architectural firm that focuses on physical security. The project manager would like to provide requirements that support the primary goal of safely. Based on the project manager's desires, which of the following controls would the BEST to incorporate into the facility design?
Question321: Which of the following internal security controls is aimed at preventing two system administrators from completing the same tasks?
Question322: An administrator wants to provide onboard hardware based cryptographic processing and secure key storage for full-disk encryption. Which of the following should the administrator use to fulfil the requirements?
Question323: An administrator deploys a WPA2 Enterprise wireless network with EAP-PEAP-MSCHAPv2. The deployment is successful and company laptops are able to connect automatically with no user intervention.
A year later, the company begins to deploy phones with wireless capabilities. Users report that they are receiving a warning when they attempt to connect to the wireless network from their phones. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the warning message?
Question324: A router was shut down as a result of a DoS attack. Upon review of the router logs, it was determined that the attacker was able to connect to the router using a console cable to complete the attack. Which of the following should have been implemented on the router to prevent this attack? (Choose two)
Question325: A user attempts to install a new and relatively unknown software program recommended by a colleague.
The user is unable to install the program, dispute having successfully installed other programs previously.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause for the user's inability to complete the installation?
Question326: A security technician is working with the network firewall team to implement access controls at the company's demarc as part of the initiation of configuration management processes. One of the network technicians asks the security technician to explain the access control type found in a firewall. With which of the following should the security technician respond?
Question327: Joe, a technician, is tasked with finding a way to test operating system patches for a wide variety of servers before deployment to the production environment while utilizing a limited amount of hardware resources.
Which of the following would provide the BEST environment for performing this testing?
Question328: A system administrator is using a packet sniffer to troubleshoot remote authentication. The administrator detects a device trying to communicate to TCP port 49. Which of the following authentication methods is MOST likely being attempted?
Question329: A software development company wants to implement a digital rights management solution to protect its intellectual property. Which of the following should the company implement to enforce software digital rights?
Question330: The ore-sales engineering team needs to quickly provide accurate and up-to-date information to potential clients. This information includes design specifications and engineering data that is developed and stored using numerous applications across the enterprise. Which of the following authentication technique is MOST appropriate?
Question331: Which of the following is the BEST reason for placing a password lock on a mobile device?
Question332: The database server used by the payroll system crashed at 3 PM and payroll is due at 5 PM. Which of the following metrics is MOST important is this instance?
Question333: Several users report to the administrator that they are having issues downloading files from the file server.
Which of the following assessment tools can be used to determine if there is an issue with the file server?
Question334: A network security engineer notices unusual traffic on the network from a single IP attempting to access systems on port 23. Port 23 is not used anywhere on the network. Which of the following should the engineer do to harden the network from this type of intrusion in the future?
Question335: Which of the following uses both a public and private key?
Question336: After disabling SSID broadcast, a network administrator still sees the wireless network listed in available networks on a client laptop. Which of the following attacks may be occurring?
Question337: A company is about to release a very large patch to its customers. An administrator is required to test patch installations several times prior to distributing them to customer PCs.
Which of the following should the administrator use to test the patching process quickly and often?
Question338: Which of the following attacks initiates a connection by sending specially crafted packets in which multiple TCP flags are set to 1?
Question339: Which of the following is BEST utilized to actively test security controls on a particular system?
Question340: Pete, an employee, needs a certificate to encrypt data. Which of the following would issue Pete a certificate?
Question341: Which of the following is a hardware-based security technology included in a computer?
Question342: A company is deploying a new video conferencing system to be used by the executive team for board meetings. The security engineer has been asked to choose the strongest available asymmetric cipher to be used for encryption of board papers, and chose the strongest available stream cipher to be configured for video streaming.
Which of the following ciphers should be chosen? (Choose two)
Question343: Which of the following exploits either a host file on a target machine or vulnerabilities on a DNS server in order to carry out URL redirection?
Question344: Which of the following devices is BEST suited for servers that need to store private keys?
Question345: A new employee has joined the accounting department and is unable to access the accounting server. The employee can access other network resources and the Internet. Other accounting employees are able to access the accounting server without any issues. Which of the following is the MOST likely issue?
Question346: A company has identified a watering hole attack. Which of the following Best describes this type of attack?
Question347: An administrator has two servers and wants them to communicate with each other using a secure algorithm.
Which of the following choose to provide both CRC integrity checks and RCA encryption?
Question348: Which of the following is commonly LDAP and Kerberos used for?
Question349: Ann has taken over as the new head of the IT department. One of her first assignments was to implement AAA in preparation for the company's new telecommuting policy. When she takes inventory of the organizations existing network infrastructure, she makes note that it is a mix of several different vendors.
Ann knows she needs a method of secure centralized access to the company's network resources. Which of the following is the BEST service for Ann to implement?
Question350: A load balancer has the ability to remember which server a particular client is using and always directs that client to the same server. This feature is called:
Question351: Which of the following types of encryption will help in protecting files on a PED?
Question352: Which of the following techniques can be used to prevent the disclosure of system information resulting from arbitrary inputs when implemented properly?
Question353: A company's security administrator wants to manage PKI for internal systems to help reduce costs. Which of the following is the FIRST step the security administrator should take?
Question354: Which of the following forms of software testing can best be performed with no knowledge of how a system is internally structured or functions? (Choose Two.)
Question355: Which of the following technical controls helps to prevent Smartphones from connecting to a corporate network?
Question356: Which of the following provides Digital Signatures?
Question357: Which of the following can be used as an equipment theft deterrent?
Question358: While responding to an incident on a new Windows server, the administrator needs to disable unused services. Which of the following commands can be used to see processes that are listening on a TCP port?
Question359: A process in which the functionality of an application is tested without any knowledge of the internal mechanisms of the application is known as:
Question360: The firewall administrator is adding a new certificate for the company's remote access solution. The solution requires that the uploaded file contain the entire certificate chain for the certificate to load properly.
The administrator loads the company certificate and the root CA certificate into the file. The file upload is rejected. Which of the following is required to complete the certificate chain?
Question361: A security administrator wants to test the reliability of an application which accepts user provided parameters. The administrator is concerned with data integrity and availability. Which of the following should be implemented to accomplish this task?
Question362: A security administrator is reviewing the below output from a password auditing tool:
P@ss.
@pW1.
S3cU4
Which of the following additional policies should be implemented based on the tool's output?
Question363: A security analyst implemented group-based privileges within the company active directory. Which of the following account management techniques should be undertaken regularly to ensure least privilege principles?
Question364: Given the following set of firewall rules:
From the inside to outside allow source any destination any port any
From inside to dmz allow source any destination any port tcp-80
From inside to dmz allow source any destination any port tcp-443
Which of the following would prevent FTP traffic from reaching a server in the DMZ from the inside network?
Question365: Joe, a computer forensic technician, responds to an active compromise of a database server. Joe first collects information in memory, then collects network traffic and finally conducts an image of the hard drive. Which of the following procedures did Joe follow?
Question366: A thief has stolen mobile device and removed its battery to circumvent GPS location tracking. The device user is a four-digit PIN.
Which of the following is a mobile device security control that ensures the confidentiality of company data?
Question367: Which of the following relies on the use of shared secrets to protect communication?
Question368: Which of the following is an authentication service that uses UDP as a transport medium?
Question369: A recent audit has revealed that all employees in the bookkeeping department have access to confidential payroll information, while only two members of the bookkeeping department have job duties that require access to the confidential information. Which of the following can be implemented to reduce the risk of this information becoming compromised in this scenario? (Choose two.)
Question370: An administrator needs to renew a certificate for a web server. Which of the following should be submitted to a CA?
Question371: In regard to secure coding practices, why is input validation important?
Question372: Two users need to securely share encrypted files via email. Company policy prohibits users from sharing credentials or exchanging encryption keys. Which of the following can be implemented to enable users to share encrypted data while abiding by company policies?
Question373: Joe, a website administrator, believes he owns the intellectual property for a company invention and has been replacing image files on the company's public facing website in the DMZ. Joe is using steganography to hide stolen data. Which of the following controls can be implemented to mitigate this type of inside threat?
Question374: During a routine audit it is discovered that someone has been using a state administrator account to log into a seldom used server. The person used server. The person has been using the server to view inappropriate websites that are prohibited to end users. Which of the following could BEST prevent this from occurring again?
Question375: A bank has a fleet of aging payment terminals used by merchants for transactional processing. The terminals currently support single DES but require an upgrade in order to be compliant with security standards. Which of the following is likely to be the simplest upgrade to the aging terminals which will improve in-transit protection of transactional data?
Question376: A security administrator would like to ensure that some members of the building's maintenance staff are only allowed access to the facility during weekend hours. Access to the facility is controlled by badge swipe and a man trap. Which of the following options will BEST accomplish this goal?
Question377: A company's BYOD policy requires the installation of a company provide mobile agent on their personally owned devices which would allow auditing when an employee wants to connect a device to the corporate email system.
Which of the following concerns will MOST affect the decision to use a personal device to receive company email?
Question378: A company is planning to encrypt the files in several sensitive directories of a file server with a symmetric key. Which of the following could be used?
Question379: A security administrator wants to implement a company-wide policy to empower data owners to manage and enforce access control rules on various resources. Which of the following should be implemented?
Question380: A system administrator is conducting baseline audit and determines that a web server is missing several critical updates. Which of the following actions should the administrator perform first to correct the issue?
Question381: The information security technician wants to ensure security controls are deployed and functioning as intended to be able to maintain an appropriate security posture. Which of the following security techniques is MOST appropriate to do this?
Question382: Which of the following password attacks involves attempting all kinds of keystroke combinations on the keyboard with the intention to gain administrative access?
Question383: One of the senior managers at a company called the help desk to report a problem. The manager could no longer access data on a laptop equipped with FDE. The manager requested that the FDE be removed and the laptop restored from a backup. The help desk informed the manager that the recommended solution was to decrypt the hard drive prior to reinstallation and recovery. The senior manager did not have a copy of the private key associated with the FDE on the laptop. Which of the following tools or techniques did the help desk use to avoid losing the data on the laptop?
Question384: A security analyst is working on a project team responsible for the integration of an enterprise SSO solution. The SSO solution requires the use of an open standard for the exchange of authentication and authorization across numerous web based applications. Which of the following solutions is most appropriate for the analyst to recommend in this scenario?
Question385: Which of the following is MOST critical in protecting control systems that cannot be regularly patched?
Question386: When Ann an employee returns to work and logs into her workstation she notices that, several desktop configuration settings have changed. Upon a review of the CCTV logs, it is determined that someone logged into Ann's workstation. Which of the following could have prevented this from happening?
Question387: The chief information officer (CIO) of a major company intends to increase employee connectivity and productivity by issuing employees mobile devices with access to their enterprise email, calendar, and contacts. The solution the CIO intends to use requires a PKI that automates the enrollment of mobile device certificates. Which of the following, when implemented and configured securely, will meet the CIO's requirement?
Question388: A rogue programmer included a piece of code in an application to cause the program to halt at 2:00 PM on Monday afternoon when the application is most utilized.
Which of the following types of malware is this?
Question389: A system administrator wants to prevent password compromises from offline password attacks. Which of the following controls should be configured to BEST accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
Question390: Which of the following types of security services are used to support authentication for remote users and devices?
Question391: Which of the following authentication services combines authentication and authorization in a use profile and use UDP?
Question392: The access control list (ACL) for a file on a server is as follows:
User: rwx
User: Ann: r- -
User: Joe: r- -
Group: rwx
Group: sales: r-x
Other: r-x
Joe and Ann are members of the Human Resources group. Will Ann and Joe be able to run the file?
Question393: Speaking a passphrase into a voice print analyzer is an example of the following security concepts:
Question394: Which of the following types of malware is designed to provide access to a system when normal authentication fails?
Question395: The security manager wants to unify the storage of credential, phone numbers, office numbers, and address information into one system. Which of the following is a system that will support the requirement on its own?
Question396: Public key certificates and keys that are compromised or were issued fraudulently are listed on the following:
Question397: A user has plugged in a wireless router from home with default configurations into a network jack at the office. This is known as:
Question398: An administrator is building a development environment and requests that three virtual servers are cloned and placed in a new virtual network isolated from the production network. Which of the following describes the environment the administrator is building?
Question399: Software developers at a company routinely make changes to production systems they maintain based on code deliveries that are only peer reviewed and are not rigorously tested by the test engineering group.
These changes frequently result in a loss of service.
Which of the following risk migration controls or strategies should be implemented to prevent these ad hoc changes from occurring in the future?
Question400: An attacker Joe configures his service identifier to be the same as an access point advertised on a billboard. Joe then conducts a denial of service attack against the legitimate AP causing users to drop their connections and then reconnect to Joe's system with the same SSID. Which of the following Best describes this type of attack?
Question401: A corporate wireless guest network uses an open SSID with a captive portal to authenticate guest users.
Guests can obtain their portal password at the service desk. A security consultant alerts the administrator that the captive portal is easily bypassed, as long as one other wireless guest user is on the network.
Which of the following attacks did the security consultant use?
Question402: Ann is a member of the Sales group. She needs to collaborate with Joe, a member of the IT group, to edit a file. Currently, the file has the following permissions:
Ann:read/write
Sales Group:read
IT Group:no access
If a discretionary access control list is in place for the files owned by Ann, which of the following would be the BEST way to share the file with Joe?
Question403: Which of the following BEST allows Pete, a security administrator, to determine the type, source, and flags of the packet traversing a network for troubleshooting purposes?
Question404: The IT department has installed new wireless access points but discovers that the signal extends far into the parking lot. Which of the following actions should be taken to correct this?
Question405: Jane has recently implemented a new network design at her organization and wishes to passively identify security issues with the new network. Which of the following should Jane perform?
Question406: A product manager is concerned about continuing operations at a facility located in a region undergoing significant political unrest. After consulting with senior management, a decision is made to suspend operations at the facility until the situation stabilizes. Which of the following risk management strategies BEST describes management's response?
Question407: A network administrator identifies sensitive files being transferred from a workstation in the LAN to an unauthorized outside IP address in a foreign country. An investigation determines that the firewall has not been altered, and antivirus is up-to-date on the workstation. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the incident?
Question408: A security manager is preparing the training portion of an incident plan. Which of the following job roles should receive training on forensics, chain of custody, and the order of volatility?
Question409: While testing a new host based firewall configuration a security administrator inadvertently blocks access to localhost which causes problems with applications running on the host. Which of the following addresses refer to localhost?
Question410: Privilege creep among long-term employees can be mitigated by the following procedures:
Question411: A security administrator is investigating a recent server breach. The breach occurred as a result of a zero- day attack against a user program running on the server. Which of the following logs should the administrator search for information regarding the breach?
Question412: The security administrator notices a user logging into a corporate Unix server remotely as root. Which of the following actions should the administrator take?
Question413: A new security policy in an organization requires that all file transfers within the organization be completed using applications that provide secure transfer. Currently, the organization uses FTP and HTTP to transfer files. Which of the following should the organization implement in order to be compliant with the new policy?
Question414: A technician is configuring a switch to support VOPIP phones. The technician wants to ensure the phones do not require external power packs. Which of the following would allow the phones to be powered using the network connection?
Question415: Which of the following is an important step in the initial stages of deploying a host-based firewall?
Question416: Which of the following is public keys used for?
Question417: Ann, a security administrator, has been tasked by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to have the company's application servers tested using black box methodology.
Which of the following BEST describes what Ann has been asked to do?
Question418: A security analyst performs the following activities: monitors security logs, installs surveillance cameras and analyzes trend reports. Which of the following job responsibilities is the analyst performing? (Choose two.)
Question419: Joe, the information security manager, is tasked with calculating risk and selecting controls to protect a new system. He has identified people, environmental conditions, and events that could affect the new system. Which of the following does he need to estimate NEXT in order to complete his risk calculations?
Question420: Joe, a technician, is tasked with finding a way to test operating system patches for a wide variety of servers before deployment to the production environment while utilizing a limited amount of hardware resources. Which of the following would provide the BEST environment for performing this testing?
Question421: Four weeks ago a network administrator applied a new IDS and allowed it to gather baseline data. As rumors of a layoff begins to spread, the IDS alerted the network administrator that access to sensitive client files had risen for above normal. Which of the following kind of IDS is in use?
Question422: A technician is reviewing the logical access control method an organization uses. One of the senior managers requests that the technician prevent staff members from logging on during nonworking days.
Which of the following should the technician implement to meet managements request?
Question423: Which of the following tests a number of security controls in the least invasive manner?
Question424: A company's application is hosted at a data center. The data center provides security controls for the infrastructure. The data center provides a report identifying serval vulnerabilities regarding out of date OS patches. The company recommends the data center assumes the risk associated with the OS vulnerabilities. Which of the following concepts is being implemented?
Question425: During a Linux security audit at a local college, it was noted that members of the dean's group were able to modify employee records in addition to modifying student records, resulting in an audit exception. The college security policy states that the dean's group should only have the ability to modify student records.
Assuming that the correct user and group ownerships are in place, which of the following sets of permissions should have been assigned to the directories containing the employee records?
Question426: A programmer has allocated a 32-bit variable to store the results of an operation between two user supplied 4 byte operands.
To which of the following types of attack is this application susceptible?
Question427: A security analyst has a sample of malicious software and needs to know what the sample in a carefully controlled and monitored virtual machine to observe the software's behavior. After the software has run, the analyst returns the virtual machines OS to a pre-defined know good state using what feature of virtualization?
Question428: A security administrator wants to implement a solution which will allow some applications to run under the user's home directory and only have access to files stored within the same user's folder, while other applications have access to shared folders. Which of the following BEST addresses these requirements if the environment is concurrently shared by multiple users?
Question429: Which of the following is a document that contains detailed information about actions that include how something will be done, when the actions will be performed, and penalties for failure?
Question430: Which of the following would provide the STRONGEST encryption?
Question431: A company must send sensitive data over a non-secure network via web services. The company suspects that competitors are actively trying to intercept all transmissions. Some of the information may be valuable to competitors, even years after it has been sent. Which of the following will help mitigate the risk in the scenario?
Question432: A network technician has received comments from several users that cannot reach a particular website.
Which of the following commands would provide the BEST information about the path taken across the network to this website?
Question433: Which of the following hardware based encryption devices is used as a part of multi-factor authentication to access a secured computing system?
Question434: An auditing team has found that passwords do not meet the best business practices.
Which of the following will MOST increase the security of the passwords? (Choose two.)
Question435: Allowing unauthorized removable devices to connect to computers increases the risk of the following:
Question436: Recently, the desktop support group has been performing a hardware refresh and has replaced numerous computers. An auditor discovered that a number of the new computers did not have the company's antivirus software installed on them. Which of the following could be utilized to notify the network support group when computers without the antivirus software are added to the network?
Question437: When designing a corporate NAC solution, which of the following is the MOST relevant integration issue?
Question438: A risk assessment team is concerned about hosting data with a cloud service provider (CSP) which of the following findings would justify this concern?
Question439: An employee reports work was being completed on a company owned laptop using a public wireless hot- spot. A pop-up screen appeared and the user closed the pop-up. Seconds later the desktop background was changed to the image of a padlock with a message demanding immediate payment to recover the data. Which of the following types of malware MOST likely caused this issue?
Question440: Which of the following is the difference between identification and authentication of a user?
Question441: A security administrator has been tasked to ensure access to all network equipment is controlled by a central server such as TACACS+.
Which of the following risk mitigation strategies supports this type of implementation?
Question442: If an organization wants to implement a BYOD policy, which of the following administrative control policy considerations MUST be addressed? (Choose two)
Question443: The security administration team at a company has been tasked with implementing a data-at-rest solution for its company storage. Due to the large amount of storage the Chief Information Officer (CISO) decides that a 128-bit cipher is needed but the CISO also does not want to degrade system performance any more than necessary. Which of the following encryptions needs BOTH of these needs?
Question444: An application developer has coded a new application with a module to examine all user entries for the graphical user interface. The module verifies that user entries match the allowed types for each field and that OS and database commands are rejected before entries are sent for further processing within the application. These are example of:
Question445: Which of the following is a proprietary protocol commonly used for router authentication across an enterprise?
Question446: To ensure compatibility with their flagship product, the security engineer is tasked to recommend an encryption cipher that will be compatible with the majority of third party software and hardware vendors.
Which of the following should be recommended?
Question447: Joe has hired several new security administrators and have been explaining the4 design of the company's network. He has described the position and descriptions of the company's firewalls, IDS sensors, antivirus server, DMZs, and HIPS. Which of the following best describes the incorporation of these elements?
Question448: An incident occurred when an outside attacker was able to gain access to network resources. During the incident response, investigation security logs indicated multiple failed login attempts for a network administrator. Which of the following controls, if in place could have BEST prevented this successful attack?
Question449: Which of the following pseudocodes can be used to handle program exceptions?
Question450: Which of the following must a user implement if they want to send a secret message to a coworker by embedding it within an image?
Question451: Matt, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), tells the network administrator that a security company has been hired to perform a penetration test against his network. The security company asks Matt which type of testing would be most beneficial for him. Which of the following BEST describes what the security company might do during a black box test?
Question452: Which of the following is mainly used for remote access into the network?
Question453: An internal audit has detected that a number of archived tapes are missing from secured storage. There was no recent need for restoration of data from the missing tapes. The location is monitored by access control and CCTV systems. Review of the CCTV system indicates that it has not been recording for three months. The access control system shows numerous valid entries into the storage location during that time. The last audit was six months ago and the tapes were accounted for at that time. Which of the following could have aided the investigation?
Question454: A security assurance officer is preparing a plan to measure the technical state of a customer's enterprise.
The testers employed to perform the audit will be given access to the customer facility and network. The testers will not be given access to the details of custom developed software used by the customer.
However, the testers with have access to the source code for several open source applications and pieces of networking equipment used at the facility, but these items will not be within the scope of the audit.
Which of the following BEST describes the appropriate method of testing or technique to use in this scenario? (Choose two.)
Question455: The security team would like to gather intelligence about the types of attacks being launched against the organization. Which of the following would provide them with the MOST information?
Question456: The recovery agent is used to recover the:
Question457: A hacker has discovered a simple way to disrupt business for the day in a small company which relies on staff working remotely. In a matter of minutes, the hacker was able to deny remotely working staff access to company systems with a script. Which of the following security controls is the hacker exploiting?
Question458: Which of the following would be used when a higher level of security is desired for encryption key storage?
Question459: Which of the following is the below pseudo-code an example of?
IF VARIABLE (CONTAINS NUMBERS = TRUE) THEN EXIT
Question460: Which of the following is a hardware based encryption device?
Question461: A set of standardized system images with a pre-defined set of applications is used to build end-user workstations. The security administrator has scanned every workstation to create a current inventory of all applications that are installed on active workstations and is documenting which applications are out-of-date and could be exploited. The security administrator is determining the:
Question462: Which of the following can be used to maintain a higher level of security in a SAN by allowing isolation of mis-configurations or faults?
Question463: An organization's security policy states that users must authenticate using something you do. Which of the following would meet the objectives of the security policy?
Question464: Various employees have lost valuable customer data due to hard drives failing in company provided laptops. It has been discovered that the hard drives used in one model of laptops provided by the company has been recalled by the manufactory. The help desk is only able to replace the hard drives after they fail because there is no centralized record of the model of laptop given to each specific user. Which of the following could have prevented this situation from occurring?
Question465: Which of the following describes the process of removing unnecessary accounts and services from an application to reduce risk exposure?
Question466: Which of the following is a security advantage of using NoSQL vs. SQL databases in a three-tier environment?
Question467: Which of the following should be enabled in a laptop's BIOS prior to full disk encryption?
Question468: A server crashes at 6 pm. Senior management has determined that data must be restored within two hours of a server crash. Additionally, a loss of more than one-hour worth of data is detrimental to the company's financial well-being.
Which of the following is the RTO?
Question469: In order for Sara, a client, to logon to her desktop computer, she must provide her username, password, and a four-digit PIN.
Which of the following authentication methods is Sara using?
Question470: A group of users from multiple departments are working together on a project and will maintain their digital output in a single location. Which of the following is the BEST method to ensure access is restricted to use by only these users?
Question471: Which of the following is a penetration testing method?
Question472: An attacker Joe configures his service identifier to be as an access point advertised on a billboard. Joe then conducts a denial of service attack against the legitimate AP causing users to drop their connections and then reconnect to Joe's system with the same SSID. Which of the following BEST describes this of attack?
Question473: A company requires that a user's credentials include providing something they know and something they are in order to gain access to the network. Which of the following types of authentication is being described?
Question474: A user has forgotten their account password. Which of the following is the BEST recovery strategy?
Question475: A company is starting to allow employees to use their own personal devices without centralized management. Employees must contact IT to have their devices configured to use corporate email; access is also available to the corporate cloud-based servers. Which of the following is the BEST policy to implement under these circumstances?
Question476: When implementing a mobile security strategy for an organization which of the following is the MOST influential concern that contributes to that organization's ability to extend enterprise policies to mobile devices?
Question477: Which of the following are unique to white box testing methodologies? (Choose two)
Question478: A corporation has experienced several media leaks of proprietary data on various web forums. The posts were made during business hours and it is believed that the culprit is posting during work hours from a corporate machine. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to scan internet traffic and keep records for later use in legal proceedings once the culprit is found. Which of the following provides the BEST solution?
Question479: A user contacts the help desk after being unable to log in to a corporate website. The user can log into the site from another computer in the next office, but not from the PC. The user's PC was able to connect earlier in the day. The help desk has user restart the NTP service. Afterwards the user is able to log into the website. The MOST likely reason for the initial failure was that the website was configured to use which of the following authentication mechanisms?
Question480: The Quality Assurance team is testing a third party application. They are primarily testing for defects and have some understanding of how the application works. Which of the following is the team performing?
Question481: Ann, a security analyst, is preparing for an upcoming security audit.
Which of the following would Ann use to ensure that she identifies unapplied security controls and patches without attacking or compromising the system?
Question482: Which of the following means a password history value of three?
Question483: Which of the following authentication services uses a ticket granting system to provide access?
Question484: Which of the following is a concern when encrypting wireless data with WEP?
Question485: A company would like to implement two-factor authentication for its vulnerability management database to require system administrators to use their token and random PIN codes. Which of the following authentication services accomplishes this objective?
Question486: A security administrator is required to submit a detailed implementation plan and back out plan to get approval prior to updating the firewall and other security devices. Which of the following types of risk mitigation strategies is being followed?
Question487: A security manager must remain aware of the security posture of each system. Which of the following supports this requirement?
Question488: A company is looking to improve their security posture by addressing risks uncovered by a recent penetration test.
Which of the following risks is MOST likely to affect the business on a day-to-day basis?
Question489: Company XYZ's laptops was recently stolen from a user which led to the exposure if confidential information. Which of the following should the security team implement on laptops to prevent future compromise?
Question490: A security administrator is selecting an MDM solution for an organization, which has strict security requirements for the confidentiality of its data on end user devices. The organization decides to allow BYOD, but requires that users wishing to participate agree to the following specific device configurations; camera disablement, password enforcement, and application whitelisting. The organization must be able to support a device portfolio of differing mobile operating systems. Which of the following represents the MOST relevant technical security criteria for the MDM?
Question491: A company used a partner company to develop critical components of an application. Several employees of the partner company have been arrested for cybercrime activities. Which of the following should be done to protect the interest of the company?
Question492: An administrator would like to utilize encryption that has comparable speed and strength to the AES cipher without using AES itself. The cipher should be able to operate in the same modes as AES and utilize the same minimum bit strength. Which of the following algorithms should the administrator select?
Question493: Mike, a security professional, is tasked with actively verifying the strength of the security controls on a company's live modem pool. Which of the following activities is MOST appropriate?
Question494: A security architect is designing an enterprise solution for the sales force of a corporation which handles sensitive customer data. The solution must allow users to work from remote offices and support traveling users. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate control for the architect to focus onto ensure confidentiality of data stored on laptops?
Question495: A company has recently begun to provide internal security awareness for employees. Which of the following would be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the training?
Question496: A security administrator finds that an intermediate CA within the company was recently breached. The certificates held on this system were lost during the attack, and it is suspected that the attackers had full access to the system. Which of the following is the NEXT action to take in this scenario?
Question497: Which of the following would allow users from outside of an organization to have access to internal resources?
Question498: Which of the following protocols provides transport security for virtual terminal emulation?
Question499: Which of the following steps in incident response procedures entails of the incident and identification of knowledge gained that can be applied to future handling of incidents?
Question500: Company XYZ has suffered leaks of internally distributed confidential documents. Ann the network security analyst has been tasked to track down the culprit. She has decided to embed a four letter string of characters in documents containing proprietary information. Which of the following initial steps should Ann implement before sending documents?
Question501: The finance department just procured a software application that needs to communicate back to the vendor server via SSL. Which of the following default ports on the firewall must the security engineer open to accomplish this task?
Question502: Which of the following is the best practice for error and exception handling?
Question503: A university has a building that holds the power generators for the entire campus. A risk assessment was completed for the university and the generator building was labeled as a high risk. Fencing and lighting was installed to reduce risk. Which of the following security goals would this meet?
Question504: After Ann, a user, logs into her banking websites she has access to her financial institution mortgage, credit card, and brokerage websites as well. Which of the following is being described?
Question505: Which of the following can Joe, a security administrator, implement on his network to capture attack details that are occurring while also protecting his production network?
Question506: A systems administrator has implemented PKI on a classified government network. In the event that a disconnect occurs from the primary CA, which of the following should be accessible locally from every site to ensure users with bad certificates cannot gain access to the network?
Question507: Suspicious traffic without a specific signature was detected. Under further investigation, it was determined that these were false indicators. Which of the following security devices needs to be configured to disable future false alarms?
Question508: A new MPLS network link has been established between a company and its business partner.
The link provides logical isolation in order to prevent access from other business partners. Which of the following should be applied in order to achieve confidentiality and integrity of all data across the link?
Question509: Ann a user has been promoted from a sales position to sales manager. Which of the following risk mitigation strategies would be MOST appropriate when a user changes job roles?
Question510: An attack that is using interference as its main attack to impede network traffic is the following:
Question511: An administrator is having difficulty configuring WPA2 Enterprise using EAP-PEAP-MSCHAPv2. The administrator has configured the wireless access points properly, and has configured policies on the RADIUS server and configured settings on the client computers. Which of the following is missing?
Question512: A company has several public conference room areas with exposed network outlets. In the past, unauthorized visitors and vendors have used the outlets for internet access. The help desk manager does not want the outlets to be disabled due to the number of training sessions in the conference room and the amount of time it takes to get the ports either patched in or enabled. Which of the following is the best option for meeting this goal?
Question513: A new network administrator is setting up a new file server for the company. Which of the following would be the BEST way to manage folder security?
Question514: A malicious individual used an unattended customer service kiosk in a busy store to change the prices of several products. The alteration was not noticed until several days later and resulted in the loss of several thousand dollars for the store. Which of the following would BEST prevent this from occurring again?
Question515: Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to identify a problem between two systems that are not communicating properly?
Question516: A security administrator wants to get a real time look at what attackers are doing in the wild, hoping to lower the risk of zero-day attacks. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this goal?
Question517: In order to gain an understanding of the latest attack tools being used in the wild, an administrator puts a Unix server on the network with the root user's password to set root. Which of the following best describes this technique?
Question518: The security administrator generates a key pair and sends one key inside a request file to a third party.
The third party sends back a signed file. In this scenario, the file sent by the administrator is a:
Question519: Which of the following will allow Pete, a security analyst, to trigger a security alert because of a tracking cookie?
Question520: An employee reports work was being completed on a company-owned laptop using a public wireless hot- spot. A pop-up screen appeared, and the user closed the pop-up. Seconds later, the desktop background was changed to the image of a padlock with a message demanding immediate payment to recover the data. Which of the following types of malware MOST likely caused this issue?
Question521: Which of the following documents outlines the responsibility of both participants in an agreement between two organizations?
Question522: Which of the following is a requirement when implementing PKI if data loss is unacceptable?
Question523: A classroom utilizes workstations running virtualization software for a maximum of one virtual machine per working station. The network settings on the virtual machines are set to bridged. Which of the following describes how the switch in the classroom should be configured to allow for the virtual machines and host workstation to connect to network resources?
Question524: A security administrator working for a law enforcement organization is asked to secure a computer system at the scene of a crime for transport to the law enforcement forensic facility. In order to capture as much evidence as possible, the computer system has been left running.
The security administrator begins information by image which of the following system components FIRST?
Question525: Which of the following is the MOST intrusive type of testing against a production system?
Question526: The security administrator receives a service ticket saying a host based firewall is interfering with the operation of a new application that is being tested in development. The administrator asks for clarification on which ports need to be open. The software vendor replies that it could use up to 20 ports and many customers have disabled the host based firewall. After examining the system, the administrator sees several ports that are open for database and application servers that only used locally. The vendor continues to recommend disabling the host based firewall.
Which of the following is the best course of action for the administrator to take?
Question527: A security administrator must implement a secure key exchange protocol that will allow company clients to autonomously exchange symmetric encryption keys over an unencrypted channel. Which of the following MUST be implemented?
Question528: A security administrator wishes to implement a secure a method of file transfer when communicating with outside organizations. Which of the following protocols would BEST facilitate secure file transfers?
(Choose two.)
Question529: An organization is implementing a password management application which requires that all local administrator passwords be stored and automatically managed. Auditors will be responsible for monitoring activities in the application by reviewing the logs. Which of the following security controls is the BEST option to prevent auditors from accessing or modifying passwords in the application?
Question530: A user reports being unable to access a file on a network share. The security administrator determines that the file is marked as confidential and that the user does not have the appropriate access level for that file.
Which of the following is being implemented?
Question531: A security administrator determined that users within the company are installing unapproved software.
Company policy dictates that only certain applications may be installed or ran on the user's computers without exception. Which of the following should the administrator do to prevent all unapproved software from running on the user's computer?
Question532: During a recent investigation, an auditor discovered that an engineer's compromised workstation was being used to connect to SCADA systems while the engineer was not logged in. The engineer is responsible for administering the SCADA systems and cannot be blocked from connecting to them. The SCADA systems cannot be modified without vendor approval which requires months of testing.
Which of the following is MOST likely to protect the SCADA systems from misuse?
Question533: Which of the following should be used to authenticate and log connections from wireless users connecting with EAP-TLS?
Question534: Which of the following would Jane, an administrator, use to detect an unknown security vulnerability?
Question535: While responding to an incident on a Linux server, the administrator needs to disable unused services.
Which of the following commands can be used to see processes that are listening on a TCP port?
Question536: Which of the following is a common coding error in which boundary checking is not performed?
Question537: A security technician is implementing PKI on a Network. The technician wishes to reduce the amount of bandwidth used when verifying the validity of a certificate. Which of the following should the technician implement?
Question538: A security specialist has been asked to evaluate a corporate network by performing a vulnerability assessment. Which of the following will MOST likely be performed?
Question539: Joe, a security technician, is configuring two new firewalls through the web on each. Each time Joe connects, there is a warning message in the browser window about the certificate being untrusted. Which of the following will allow Joe to configure a certificate for the firewall so that firewall administrators are able to connect both firewalls without experiencing the warning message?
Question540: A technician has been tasked with installing and configuring a wireless access point for the engineering department. After the AP has been installed, there have been reports the employees from other departments have been connecting to it without approval. Which of the following would BEST address these concerns?
Question541: An information bank has been established to store contacts, phone numbers and other records.
An application running on UNIX would like to connect to this index server using port 88. Which of the following authentication services would this use this port by default?
Question542: A software developer places a copy of the source code for a sensitive internal application on a company laptop to work remotely. Which of the following policies is MOST likely being violated?
Question543: An administrator is investigating a system that may potentially be compromised, and sees the following log entries on the router.
*Jul 15 14:47:29.779:%Router1: list 101 permitted tcp 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) -> 10.10.1.5 (6667), 3 packets.
*Jul 15 14:47:38.779:%Router1: list 101 permitted tcp 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) -> 10.10.1.5 (6667), 6 packets.
*Jul 15 14:47:45.779:%Router1: list 101 permitted tcp 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) -> 10.10.1.5 (6667), 8 packets.
Which of the following BEST describes the compromised system?
Question544: Joe must send Ann a message and provide Ann with assurance that he was the actual sender. Which of the following will Joe need to use to BEST accomplish the objective?
Question545: 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 is 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?
Question546: Joe, an employee, reports to the security manager that several files in a research and development folder that only JOE has access to have been improperly modified. The modified data on the files in recent and the modified by account is Joe's. The permissions on the folder have not been changed, and there is no evidence of malware on the server hosting the folder or on Joe's workstation. Several failed login attempts to Joe's account were discovered in the security log of the LDAP server.
Given this scenario, which of the following should the security manager implement to prevent this in the future?
Question547: An employee connects a wireless access point to the only jack in the conference room to provide Internet access during a meeting. The access point is configured to use WPA2-TKIP. A malicious user is able to intercept clear text HTTP communication between the meeting attendees and the Internet. Which of the following is the reason the malicious user is able to intercept and see the clear text communication?
Question548: Which of the following would Matt, a security administrator, use to encrypt transmissions from an internal database to an internal server, keeping in mind that the encryption process must add as little latency to the process as possible?
Question549: Which of the following is the FIRST step in a forensics investigation when a breach of a client's workstation has been confirmed?
Question550: A security manager received reports of several laptops containing confidential data stolen out of a lab environment. The lab is not a high security area and is secured with physical key locks. The security manager has no information to provide investigators related to who may have stolen the laptops. Which of the following should the security manager implement to improve legal and criminal investigations in the future?
Question551: A CRL is comprised of.
Question552: Company A sends a PGP encrypted file to company B. If company A used company B's public key to encrypt the file, which of the following should be used to decrypt data at company B?
Question553: RC4 is a strong encryption protocol that is general used with which of the following?
Question554: Which of the following security benefits would be gained by disabling a terminated user account rather than deleting it?
Question555: Which of the following password attacks is MOST likely to crack the largest number of randomly generated passwords?
Question556: A security engineer would like to analyze the effect of deploying a system without patching it to discover potential vulnerabilities. Which of the following practices would best allow for this testing while keeping the corporate network safe?
Question557: Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to identify change from the standard configuration on a server?
Question558: The process of applying a salt and cryptographic hash to a password then repeating the process many times is known as which of the following?
Question559: A network administrator is looking for a way to automatically update company browsers so they import a list of root certificates from an online source. This online source will then be responsible for tracking which certificates are to be trusted or not trusted. Which of the following BEST describes the service that should be implemented to meet these requirements?
Question560: Which of the following transportation encryption protocols should be used to ensure maximum security between a web browser and a web server?
Question561: Joe, a technician, initiated scans if the company's 10 routers and discovered that half if the routers were not changed from their default configuration prior installed on the network.
Which of the following would address this?
Question562: Which of the following services are used to support authentication services for several local devices from a central location without the use of tokens?
Question563: Pete, the system administrator, has concerns regarding users losing their company provided smartphones.
Pete's focus is on equipment recovery. Which of the following BEST addresses his concerns?
Question564: A network technician at a company, Joe is working on a network device. He creates a rule to prevent users from connecting to a toy website during the holiday shopping season. This website is blacklisted and is known to have SQL injections and malware. Which of the following has been implemented?
Question565: An SSL/TLS private key is installed on a corporate web proxy in order to inspect HTTPS requests. Which of the following describes how this private key should be stored so that it is protected from theft?
Question566: During a routine configuration audit, a systems administrator determines that a former employee placed an executable on an application server. Once the system was isolated and diagnosed, it was determined that the executable was programmed to establish a connection to a malicious command and control server.
Which of the following forms of malware is best described in the scenario?
Question567: A software company sends their offsite backup tapes to a third party storage facility. To meet confidentiality, the tapes should be:
Question568: A quality assurance analyst is reviewing a new software product for security, and has complete access to the code and data structures used by the developers.
Which of the following types of testing is this an example of?
Question569: Which of the following can hide confidential or malicious data in the whitespace of other files (e.g. JPEGs)?
Question570: After working on his doctoral dissertation for two years, Joe, a user, is unable to open his dissertation file.
The screen shows a warning that the dissertation file is corrupted because it is infected with a backdoor, and can only be recovered by upgrading the antivirus software from the free version to the commercial version. Which of the following types of malware is the laptop MOST likely infected with?
Question571: While preparing for an audit a security analyst is reviewing the various controls in place to secure the operation of financial processes within the organization. Based on the pre assessment report, the department does not effectively maintain a strong financial transaction control environment due to conflicting responsibilities held by key personnel. If implemented, which of the following security concepts will most effectively address the finding?
Question572: The process of making certain that an entity (operating system, application, etc.) is as secure as it can be known as:
Question573: Jane, a security administrator, has been tasked with explaining authentication services to the company's management team. The company runs an active directory infrastructure. Which of the following solutions BEST relates to the host authentication protocol within the company's environment?
Question574: Using a protocol analyzer, a security consultant was able to capture employee's credentials. Which of the following should the consultant recommend to the company, in order to mitigate the risk of employees credentials being captured in the same manner in the future?
Question575: A security technician wants to implement stringent security controls over web traffic by restricting the client source TCP ports allowed through the corporate firewall. Which of the following should the technician implement?
Question576: A technician has deployed a new VPN concentrator. The device needs to authenticate users based on a backend directory service. Which of the following services could be run on the VPN concentrator to perform this authentication?
Question577: A security administrator discovers an image file that has several plain text documents hidden in the file.
Which of the following security goals is met by camouflaging data inside of other files?
Question578: Which of the following provides the strongest authentication security on a wireless network?
Question579: An administrator needs to submit a new CSR to a CA. Which of the following is a valid FIRST step?
Question580: A company wants to ensure that all credentials for various systems are saved within a central database so that users only have to login once for access to all systems. Which of the following would accomplish this?
Question581: An application developer has tested some of the known exploits within a new application. Which of the following should the administrator utilize to test for unidentified faults or memory leaks?
Question582: Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to identify a problem between two applications that are not communicating properly?
Question583: A web administrator has just implemented a new web server to be placed in production. As part of the company's security plan, any new system must go through a security test before it is placed in production.
The security team runs a port scan resulting in the following data:
21 tcp open FTP
23 tcp open Telnet
22 tcp open SSH
25 UDP open smtp
110 tcp open pop3
443 tcp open https
Which of the following is the BEST recommendation for the web administrator?
Question584: To protect corporate data on removable media, a security policy should mandate that all removable devices use the following:
Question585: A security administrator has installed a new KDC for the corporate environment. Which of the following authentication protocols is the security administrator planning to implement across the organization?
Question586: Symmetric encryption utilizes __________, while asymmetric encryption utilizes _________.
Question587: Which of the following is considered an environmental control?
Question588: The system administrator notices that many employees are using passwords that can be easily guessed or are susceptible to brute force attacks.
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this risk?
Question589: Company XYZ recently salvaged company laptops and removed all hard drives, but the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about disclosure of confidential information. Which of the following is the MOST secure method to dispose of these hard drives?
Question590: Ann, the software security engineer, works for a major software vendor. Which of the following practices should be implemented to help prevent race conditions, buffer overflows, and other similar vulnerabilities prior to each production release?
Question591: An assessment too reports that the company's web server may be susceptible to remote buffer overflow.
The web server administrator insists that the finding is a false positive. Which of the following should the administrator do to verify if this is indeed a false positive?
Question592: In order to securely communicate using PGP, the sender of an email must do which of the following when sending an email to a recipient for the first time?
Question593: A new intern was assigned to the system engineering department, which consists of the system architect and system software developer's teams. These two teams have separate privileges. The intern requires privileges to view the system architectural drawings and comment on some software development projects.
Which of the following methods should the system administrator implement?
Question594: Which of the following is the term for a fix for a known software problem?
Question595: A security administrator wishes to prevent certain company devices from using specific access points, while still allowing them on others. All of the access points use the same SSID and wireless password.
Which of the following would be MOST appropriate in this scenario?
Question596: A security administrator needs a method to ensure that only employees can get onto the internal network when plugging into a network switch. Which of the following BEST meets that requirement?
Question597: A Company has recently identified critical systems that support business operations. Which of the following will once defined, be the requirement for restoration of these systems within a certain period of time?
Question598: A security administrator must implement a network that is immune to ARP spoofing attacks. Which of the following should be implemented to ensure that a malicious insider will not be able to successfully use ARP spoofing techniques?
Question599: A security analyst discovered data such as images and word documents hidden within different types of files. Which of the following cryptographic concepts describes what was discovered?
Question600: Ann, a technician, wants to implement a single protocol on a remote server which will enable her to encrypt and proxy all of her traffic though the remote server via SOCKS5. Which of the following should Ann enable to support both encryption and proxy services?
Question601: Which of the following ports will be used for logging into secure websites?
Question602: An organization is trying to decide which type of access control is most appropriate for the network. The current access control approach is too complex and requires significant overhead. Management would like to simplify the access control and provide user with the ability to determine what permissions should be applied to files, document, and directories. The access control method that BEST satisfies these objectives is:
Question603: An administrator is configuring a new Linux web server where each user account is confined to a cheroot jail. Which of the following describes this type of control?
Question604: Which of the following best describes the reason for using hot and cold aisles?
Question605: Which of the following types of technologies is used by security and research personnel for identification and analysis of new security threats in a networked environment by using false data/hosts for information collection?
Question606: Each server on a subnet is configured to only allow SSH access from the administrator's workstation.
Which of the following BEST describes this implementation?
Question607: While troubleshooting a new wireless 802.11 ac network an administrator discovers that several of the older systems cannot connect. Upon investigation the administrator discovers that the older devices only support 802.11 and RC4. The administrator does not want to affect the performance of the newer 802.11 ac devices on the network. Which of the following should the administrator do to accommodate all devices and provide the MOST security?
Question608: An organization has an internal PKI that utilizes client certificates on each workstation. When deploying a new wireless network, the security engineer has asked that the new network authenticate clients by utilizes the existing client certificates. Which of the following authentication mechanisms should be utilized to meet this goal?
Question609: A company wants to prevent end users from plugging unapproved smartphones into PCs and transferring data. Which of the following would be the BEST control to implement?
Question610: Which of the following has a storage root key?
Question611: When employing PKI to send signed and encrypted data the individual sending the data must have:
(Choose two.)
Question612: A CA is compromised and attacks start distributing maliciously signed software updates. Which of the following can be used to warn users about the malicious activity?
Question613: An attacker crafts a message that appears to be from a trusted source, but in reality it redirects the recipient to a malicious site where information is harvested. The message is narrowly tailored so it is effective on only a small number of victims.
Which of the following describes this?
Question614: A small company has recently purchased cell phones for managers to use while working outside if the office.
The company does not currently have a budget for mobile device management and is primarily concerned with deterring leaks if sensitive information obtained by unauthorized access to unattended phones. Which of the following would provide the solution that BEST meets the company's requirements?
Question615: A new application needs to be deployed on a virtual server. The virtual server hosts a SQL server that is used by several employees.
Which of the following is the BEST approach for implementation of the new application on the virtual server?
Question616: Which of the following BEST explains Platform as a Service?
Question617: A chief information officer (CIO) is concerned about PII contained in the organization's various data warehouse platforms. Since not all of the PII transferred to the organization is required for proper operation of the data warehouse application, the CIO requests the in needed PII data be parsed and securely discarded. Which of the following controls would be MOST appropriate in this scenario?
Question618: After receiving the hard drive from detectives, the forensic analyst for a court case used a log to capture corresponding events prior to sending the evidence to lawyers. Which of the following do these actions demonstrate?
Question619: A network administrator argues that WPA2 encryption is not needed, as MAC filtering is enabled on the access point. Which of the following would show the administrator that wpa2 is also needed?
Question620: Which of the following describes the implementation of PAT?
Question621: A network stream needs to be encrypted. Sara, the network administrator, has selected a cipher which will encrypt 8 bits at a time before sending the data across the network. Which of the following has Sara selected?
Question622: Which of the following protocols is the security administrator observing in this packet capture?
12:33:43, SRC 192.168.4.3:3389, DST 10.67.33.20:8080, SYN/ACK
Question623: Which of the following presents the STRONGEST access control?
Question624: The finance department works with a bank which has recently had a number of cyber attacks. The finance department is concerned that the banking website certificates have been compromised. Which of the following can the finance department check to see if any of the bank's certificates are still valid?
Question625: After encrypting all laptop hard drives, an executive officer's laptop has trouble booting to the operating system. Now that it is successfully encrypted the helpdesk cannot retrieve the data.
Which of the following can be used to decrypt the information for retrieval?
Question626: Ann is traveling for business and is attempting to use the hotel's wireless network to check for new messages. She selects the hotel's wireless SSID from a list of networks and successfully connects. After opening her email client and waiting a few minutes, the connection times out. Which of the following should Ann do to retrieve her email messages?
Question627: A security administrator wants to block unauthorized access to a web server using a locally installed software program. Which of the following should the administrator deploy?
Question628: Which of the following MUST Matt, a security administrator, implement to verify both the integrity and authenticity of a message while requiring a shared secret?
Question629: Which of the following can be used for both encryption and digital signatures?
Question630: Which of the following technologies was developed to allow companies to use less-expensive storage while still maintaining the speed and redundancy required in a business environment?
Question631: Which of the following is true about an email that was signed by User A and sent to User B?
Question632: Use of group accounts should be minimized to ensure the following:
Question633: Ann, a system analyst, discovered the following log. Which of the following or techniques does this indicate?
{bp1@localmachine}$ Is-al
Total 12
Drwxrwxr-x
Question634: Which of the following BEST represents the goal of a vulnerability assessment?
Question635: The IT department has setup a website with a series of questions to allow end users to reset their own accounts. Which of the following account management practices does this help?
Question636: The below report indicates that the system is MOST likely infected by the following:
Protocol LOCAL IP FOREIGN IP STATE
TCP 0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 Listening
TCP 0.0.0.0:3390 0.0.0.0:0 Listening
Question637: Which of the following practices reduces the management burden of access management?
Question638: A security administrator wants to ensure that the message the administrator sends out to their Chief Financial Officer (CFO) does not get changed in route. Which of the following is the administrator MOST concerned with?
Question639: Joe, a security analyst, is attempting to determine if a new server meets the security requirements of his organization. As a step in this process, he attempts to identify a lack of security controls and to identify common misconfigurations on the server. Which of the following is Joe attempting to complete?
Question640: A password audit has revealed that a significant percentage if end-users have passwords that are easily cracked. Which of the following is the BEST technical control that could be implemented to reduce the amount of easily "crackable" passwords in use?
Question641: A system administrator runs a network inventory scan every Friday at 10:00 am to track the progress of a large organization's operating system upgrade of all laptops. The system administrator discovers that some laptops are now only being reported as IP addresses. Which of the following options is MOST likely the cause of this issue?
Question642: Which of the following is commonly used for federated identity management across multiple organizations?
Question643: A webpage displays a potentially offensive advertisement on a computer. A customer walking by notices the displayed advertisement and files complaint. Which of the following can BEST reduce the likelihood of this incident occurring again?
Question644: Joe, a sales employee, is connecting to a wireless network and has entered the network information correctly. His computer remains connected to the network but he cannot access any resources on the network.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
Question645: A security administrator is designing an access control system, with an unlimited budget, to allow authenticated users access to network resources. Given that a multifactor authentication solution is more secure, which of the following is the BEST combination of factors?
Question646: Which of the following controls should critical application servers implement to protect themselves from other potentially compromised application services?
Question647: A security administrator at a company which implements key escrow and symmetric encryption only, needs to decrypt an employee's file. The employee refuses to provide the decryption key to the file. Which of the following can the administrator do to decrypt the file?
Question648: Which of the following should be used when a business needs a block cipher with minimal key size for internal encryption?
Question649: Ann is the data owner of financial records for a company. She has requested that she have the ability to assign read and write privileges to her folders. The network administrator is tasked with setting up the initial access control system and handing Ann's administrative capabilities. Which of the following systems should be deployed?
Question650: An attacker went to a local bank and collected disposed paper for the purpose of collecting data that could be used to steal funds and information from the bank's customers. This is an example of:
Question651: During the information gathering stage of a deploying role-based access control model, which of the following information is MOST likely required?
Question652: A government agency wants to ensure that the systems they use have been deployed as security as possible. Which of the following technologies will enforce protections on these systems to prevent files and services from operating outside of a strict rule set?
Question653: Which of the following is replayed during wireless authentication to exploit a weal key infrastructure?
Question654: A consultant has been tasked to assess a client's network. The client reports frequent network outages.
Upon viewing the spanning tree configuration, the consultant notices that an old and law performing edge switch on the network has been elected to be the root bridge. Which of the following explains this scenario?
Question655: Which of the following cryptographic algorithms is MOST often used with IPSec?
Question656: A network administrator uses an RFID card to enter the datacenter, a key to open the server rack, and a username and password to logon to a server.
Which of the following is these examples of?
Question657: Jane, a VPN administrator, was asked to implement an encryption cipher with a MINIMUM effective security of 128-bits. Which of the following should Jane select for the tunnel encryption?
Question658: Which of the following can be implemented in hardware or software to protect a web server from cross-site scripting attacks?
Question659: Which of the following are examples of network segmentation? (Choose two.)
Question660: In an effort to test the effectiveness of an organization's security awareness training, a penetrator tester crafted an email and sent it to all of the employees to see how many of them clicked on the enclosed links.
Which of the following is being tested?
Question661: Access mechanisms to data on encrypted USB hard drives must be implemented correctly otherwise:
Question662: Jane, an IT security technician, needs to create a way to secure company mobile devices. Which of the following BEST meets this need?
Question663: Which of the following protocols uses an asymmetric key to open a session and then establishes a symmetric key for the remainder of the session?
Question664: Joe a company's new security specialist is assigned a role to conduct monthly vulnerability scans across the network. He notices that the scanner is returning a large amount of false positives or failed audits.
Which of the following should Joe recommend to remediate these issues?
Question665: During an anonymous penetration test, Jane, a system administrator, was able to identify a shared print spool directory, and was able to download a document from the spool. Which statement BEST describes her privileges?
Question666: An administrator wants to configure a switch port so that it separates voice and data traffic. Which of the following MUST be configured on the switch port to enforce separation of traffic?
Question667: A technician needs to implement a system which will properly authenticate users by their username and password only when the users are logging in from a computer in the office building. Any attempt to authenticate from a location other than the office building should be rejected. Which of the following MUST the technician implement?
Question668: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) receives a suspicious voice mail warning of credit card fraud. No one else received the voice mail. Which of the following BEST describes this attack?
Question669: A bank has recently deployed mobile tablets to all loan officers for use at customer sites. Which of the following would BEST prevent the disclosure of customer data in the event that a tablet is lost or stolen?
Question670: A merchant acquirer has the need to store credit card numbers in a transactional database in a high performance environment. Which of the following BEST protects the credit card data?
Question671: A security administrator has concerns that employees are installing unapproved applications on their company provide smartphones. Which of the following would BEST mitigate this?
Question672: Sara, a security engineer, is testing encryption ciphers for performance. Which of the following ciphers offers strong encryption with the FASTEST speed?
Question673: Ann is concerned that the application her team is currently developing is vulnerable to unexpected user input that could lead to issues within the memory is affected in a detrimental manner leading to potential exploitation. Which of the following describes this application threat?
Question674: Vendors typically ship software applications with security settings disabled by default to ensure a wide range of interoperability with other applications and devices.
Which of the following should a security administrator perform before deploying new software?
Question675: Internet banking customers currently use an account number and password to access their online accounts. The bank wants to improve security on high value transfers by implementing a system which call users back on a mobile phone to authenticate the transaction with voice verification. Which of the following authentication factors are being used by the bank?
Question676: Which of the following will allow the live state of the virtual machine to be easily reverted after a failed upgrade?
Question677: Which of the following is true about the CRL?
Question678: Recently clients are stating they can no longer access a secure banking site's webpage. In reviewing the clients' web browser settings, the certificate chain is showing the following:
Certificate Chain:
X Digi Cert
Digi Cert High assurance C3
* banksite.com
Certificate Store:
Digi Cert - Others Certificate Store
Digi Cert High assurance C3 - Others Certificate Store
Based on the information provided, which of the following is the problem when connecting to the website?
Question679: Given the log output:
Max 15 00:15:23.431 CRT: #SEC_LOGIN-5-LOGIN_SUCCESS: Login Success [user: msmith] [Source:
10.0.12.45]
[localport: 23] at 00:15:23:431 CET Sun Mar 15 2015
Which of the following should the network administrator do to protect data security?
Question680: A company needs to provide a secure backup mechanism for key storage in a PKI. Which of the following should the company implement?
Question681: Matt, a developer, recently attended a workshop on a new application. The developer installs the new application on a production system to test the functionality. Which of the following is MOST likely affected?
Question682: In performing an authorized penetration test of an organization's system security, a penetration tester collects information pertaining to the application versions that reside on a server. Which of the following is the best way to collect this type of information?
Question683: Log file analysis on a router reveals several unsuccessful telnet attempts to the virtual terminal (VTY) lines.
Which of the following represents the BEST configuration used in order to prevent unauthorized remote access while maintaining secure availability for legitimate users?
Question684: A company is exploring the option of letting employees use their personal laptops on the internal network.
Which of the following would be the MOST common security concern in this scenario?
Question685: A company with a US-based sales force has requested that the VPN system be configured to authenticate the sales team based on their username, password and a client side certificate.
Additionally, the security administrator has restricted the VPN to only allow authentication from the US territory. How many authentication factors are in use by the VPN system?
Question686: A financial company requires a new private network link with a business partner to cater for realtime and batched data flows.
Which of the following activities should be performed by the IT security staff member prior to establishing the link?
Question687: Ann a security technician receives a report from a user that is unable to access an offsite SSN server. Ann checks the firewall and sees the following rules:
Allow TCP 80
Allow TCP 443
Deny TCP 23
Deny TCP 20
Deny TCP 21
Which of the following is preventing the users from accessing the SSH server?
Question688: After a security incident involving a physical asset, which of the following should be done at the beginning?
Question689: Which of the following can a security administrator implement on mobile devices that will help prevent unwanted people from viewing the data if the device is left unattended?
Question690: A system administrator needs to ensure that certain departments have more restrictive controls to their shared folders than other departments. Which of the following security controls would be implemented to restrict those departments?
Question691: An administrator was asked to review user accounts. Which of the following has the potential to cause the MOST amount of damage if the account was compromised?
Question692: An employee's mobile device associates with the company's guest WiFi SSID, but then is unable to retrieve email. The email settings appear to be correct. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
Question693: A company wants to prevent unauthorized access to its secure data center. Which of the following security controls would be MOST appropriate?
Question694: Which of the following allows an organization to store a sensitive PKI component with a trusted third party?
Question695: Which of the following would provide the MOST objective results when performing penetration testing for an organization?
Question696: It has been discovered that students are using kiosk tablets intended for registration and scheduling to play games and utilize instant messaging. Which of the following could BEST eliminate this issue?
Question697: An administrator performs a risk calculation to determine if additional availability controls need to be in place. The administrator estimates that a server fails and needs to be replaced once every 2 years at a cost of $8,000. Which of the following represents the factors that the administrator would use to facilitate this calculation?
Question698: Which of the following represents a cryptographic solution where the encrypted stream cannot be captured by a sniffer without the integrity of the stream being compromised?
Question699: Which of the following assessments would Pete, the security administrator, use to actively test that an application's security controls are in place?
Question700: A user Ann has her assigned token but she forgotten her password. Which of the following appropriately categorizes the authentication factor that will fail in this scenario?
Question701: A company hired Joe, an accountant. The IT administrator will need to create a new account for Joe. The company uses groups for ease of management and administration of user accounts.
Joe will need network access to all directories, folders and files within the accounting department.
Which of the following configurations will meet the requirements?
Question702: A company hires a penetration testing team to test its overall security posture. The organization has not disclosed any information to the penetration testing team and has allocated five days for testing. Which of the following types of testing will the penetration testing team have to conduct?
Question703: Which of the following types of cryptography should be used when minimal overhead is necessary for a mobile device?
Question704: Which of the following ports is used for TELNET by default?
Question705: Which of the following authentication methods requires the user, service provider and an identity provider to take part in the authentication process?
Question706: In which of the following scenarios is PKI LEAST hardened?
Question707: An IT security technician needs to establish host based security for company workstations. Which of the following will BEST meet this requirement?
Question708: The chief Risk officer is concerned about the new employee BYOD device policy and has requested the security department implement mobile security controls to protect corporate data in the event that a device is lost or stolen. The level of protection must not be compromised even if the communication SIM is removed from the device. Which of the following BEST meets the requirements? (Choose two.)
Question709: Which of the following security concepts can prevent a user from logging on from home during the weekends?
Question710: A company uses PGP to ensure that sensitive email is protected. Which of the following types of cryptography is being used here for the key exchange?
Question711: Which of the following is true about PKI? (Choose two.)
Question712: Which of the following BEST describes disk striping with parity?
Question713: Protecting the confidentiality of a message is accomplished by encrypting the message with the following:
Question714: The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has asked a security analyst to determine the estimated costs associated with each potential breach of their database that contains customer information. Which of the following is the risk calculation that the CIO is asking for?
Question715: Ann wants to send a file to Joe using PKI. Which of the following should Ann use in order to sign the file?
Question716: Joe, the system administrator, is setting up a wireless network for his team's laptops only and needs to prevent other employees from accessing it. Which of the following would BEST address this?
Question717: A recent audit has discovered that at the time of password expiration clients are able to recycle the previous credentials for authentication. Which of the following controls should be used together to prevent this from occurring? (Choose two.)
Question718: Joe, a company's network engineer, is concerned that protocols operating at the application layer of the OSI model are vulnerable to exploitation on the network. Which of the following protocols should he secure?
Question719: Joe is a helpdesk specialist. During a routine audit, a company discovered that his credentials were used while he was on vacation. The investigation further confirmed that Joe still has his badge and it was last used to exit the facility. Which of the following access control methods is MOST appropriate for preventing such occurrences in the future?
Question720: Which of the following techniques enables a highly secured organization to assess security weaknesses in real time?
Question721: The IT department has been tasked with reducing the risk of sensitive information being shared with unauthorized entities from computers it is saved on, without impeding the ability of the employees to access the internet. Implementing which of the following would be the best way to accomplish this objective?
Question722: A system administrator is configuring UNIX accounts to authenticate against an external server. The configuration file asks for the following information DC=ServerName and DC=COM. Which of the following authentication services is being used?
Question723: Which of the following best describes the objectives of succession planning?
Question724: An attacker impersonates a fire marshal and demands access to the datacenter under the threat of a fine.
Which of the following reasons make this effective? (Choose two.)
Question725: A security administrator has concerns regarding employees saving data on company provided mobile devices. Which of the following would BEST address the administrator's concerns?
Question726: A security technician wants to improve the strength of a weak key by making it more secure against brute force attacks. Which of the following would achieve this?
Question727: Which of the following will provide data encryption, key management and secure application launching?
Question728: Which of the following types of authentication solutions use tickets to provide access to various resources from a central location?
Question729: A network administrator is configuring access control for the sales department which has high employee turnover. Which of the following is BEST suited when assigning user rights to individuals in the sales department?
Question730: Which of the following are MOST susceptible to birthday attacks?
Question731: Which of the following should a security technician implement to identify untrusted certificates?
Question732: The company's sales team plans to work late to provide the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with a special report of sales before the quarter ends. After working for several hours, the team finds they cannot save or print the reports.
Which of the following controls is preventing them from completing their work?
Question733: A technician installed two ground plane antennae on 802.11n bridges connecting two buildings 500 feet apart. After configuring both radios to work at 2.4ghz and implementing the correct configuration, connectivity tests between the two buildings are unsuccessful. Which of the following should the technician do to resolve the connectivity problem?
Question734: One month after a software developer was terminated, the helpdesk started receiving calls that several employees' computers were being infected with malware. Upon further research, it was determined that these employees had downloaded a shopping toolbar. It was this toolbar that downloaded and installed the errant code. Which of the following attacks has taken place?
Question735: During a recent audit, the auditors cited the company's current virtual machine infrastructure as a concern.
The auditors cited the fact that servers containing sensitive customer information reside on the same physical host as numerous virtual machines that follow less stringent security guild lines. Which of the following would be the best choice to implement to address this audit concern while maintain the current infrastructure?
Question736: Joe notices there are several user accounts on the local network generating spam with embedded malicious code. Which of the following technical control should Joe put in place to BEST reduce these incidents?
Question737: A software security concern when dealing with hardware and devices that have embedded software or operating systems is:
Question738: A periodic update that corrects problems in one version of a product is called a
Question739: Which of the following should Matt, a security administrator, include when encrypting smartphones?
(Choose two.)
Question740: Which of the following devices will help prevent a laptop from being removed from a certain location?
Question741: Company employees are required to have workstation client certificates to access a bank website. These certificates were backed up as a precautionary step before the new computer upgrade. After the upgrade and restoration, users state they can access the bank's website, but not login. Which is the following is MOST likely the issue?
Question742: Which of the following types of cloud computing would be MOST appropriate if an organization required complete control of the environment?
Question743: A group policy requires users in an organization to use strong passwords that must be changed every 15 days. Joe and Ann were hired 16 days ago. When Joe logs into the network, he is prompted to change his password; when Ann logs into the network, she is not prompted to change her password. Which of the following BEST explains why Ann is not required to change her password?
Question744: An administrator wants to ensure that the reclaimed space of a hard drive has been sanitized while the computer is in use. Which of the following can be implemented?
Question745: What is a system that is intended or designed to be broken into by an attacker?
Question746: An attacker captures the encrypted communication between two parties for a week, but is unable to decrypt the messages. The attacker then compromises the session key during one exchange and successfully compromises a single message. The attacker plans to use this key to decrypt previously captured and future communications, but is unable to. This is because the encryption scheme in use adheres to:
Question747: Which of the following practices is used to mitigate a known security vulnerability?
Question748: A network administrator was to implement a solution that will allow authorized traffic, deny unauthorized traffic and ensure that appropriate ports are being used for a number of TCP and UDP protocols. Which of the following network controls would meet these requirements?
Question749: a malicious attacker has intercepted HTTP traffic and inserted an ASCII line that sets the referrer URL.
Which of the following is the attacker most likely utilizing?
Question750: An administrator is implementing a security control that only permits the execution of allowed programs.
Which of the following are cryptography concepts that should be used to identify the allowed programs?
(Choose two.)
Question751: Users need to exchange a shared secret to begin communicating securely. Which of the following is another name for this symmetric key?
Question752: A server administrator notes that a fully patched application often stops running due to a memory error.
When reviewing the debugging logs, they notice code being run calling an internal process to exploit the machine.
Which of the following attacks does this describes?
Question753: Joe, a network administrator, is setting up a virtualization host that has additional storage requirements.
Which of the following protocols should be used to connect the device to the company SAN? (Choose two.)
Question754: By hijacking unencrypted cookies an application allows an attacker to take over existing web sessions that do not use SSL or end to end encryption. Which of the following choices BEST mitigates the security risk of public web surfing? (Choose two.)
Question755: An outside security consultant produces a report of several vulnerabilities for a particular server. Upon further investigation, it determines that the vulnerability reported does not apply to the platform the server is running on.
Which of the following should the consultant do in order to produce more accurate results?
Question756: Which of the following BEST explains the use of an HSM within the company servers?
Question757: When reviewing a digital certificate for accuracy, which of the following would Matt, a security administrator, focus on to determine who affirms the identity of the certificate owner?
Question758: The marketing department wants to distribute pens with embedded USB drives to clients. In the past this client has been victimized by social engineering attacks which led to a loss of sensitive data.
The security administrator advises the marketing department not to distribute the USB pens due to the following:
Question759: One of the findings of risk assessment is that many of the servers on the data center subnet contain data that is in scope for PCI compliance, Everyone in the company has access to these servers, regardless of their job function. Which of the following should the administrator do?
Question760: A company has purchased an application that integrates into their enterprise user directory for account authentication. Users are still prompted to type in their usernames and passwords. Which of the following types of authentication is being utilized here?
Question761: Which of the following access methods uses radio frequency waves for authentication?
Question762: Which of the following would prevent a user from installing a program on a company-owned mobile device?
Question763: A security administrator has been tasked with setting up a new internal wireless network that must use end to end TLS. Which of the following may be used to meet this objective?
Question764: Ann, the security administrator, wishes to implement multifactor security. Which of the following should be implemented in order to compliment password usage and smart cards?
Question765: The helpdesk is receiving numerous reports that a newly installed biometric reader at the entrance of the data center has a high of false negatives. Which of the following is the consequence of this reported problem?
Question766: In order to enter a high-security data center, users are required to speak the correct password into a voice recognition system. Ann, a member of the sales department, overhears the password and later speaks it into the system. The system denies her entry and alerts the security team. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for her failure to enter the data center?
Question767: One of the most basic ways to protect the confidentiality of data on a laptop in the event the device is physically stolen is to implement the following:
Question768: A security administrator implements access controls based on the security classification of the data and need-to-know information. Which of the following BEST describes this level of access control?
Question769: Which of the following attacks involves the use of previously captured network traffic?
Question770: A network administrator has identified port 21 being open and the lack of an IDS as a potential risk to the company. Due to budget constraints, FTP is the only option that the company can is to transfer data and network equipment cannot be purchased. Which of the following is this known as?
Question771: Which of the following controls mitigates the risk of Matt, an attacker, gaining access to a company network by using a former employee's credential?
Question772: Ann, a member of the Sales Department, has been issued a company-owned laptop for use when traveling to remote sites.
Which of the following would be MOST appropriate when configuring security on her laptop?
Question773: Which of the following steps of incident response does a team analyze the incident and determine steps to prevent a future occurrence?
Question774: Pete, the compliance manager, wants to meet regulations. Pete would like certain ports blocked only on all computers that do credit card transactions. Which of the following should Pete implement to BEST achieve this goal?
Question775: A security analyst is reviewing the following packet capture of an attack directed at a company's server located in the DMZ:
Which of the following ACLs provides the BEST protection against the above attack and any further attacks from the same IP, while minimizing service interruption?
Question776: When employees that use certificates leave the company they should be added to the following:
Question777: Joe, the chief technical officer (CTO) is concerned that the servers and network devices may not be able to handle the growing needs of the company. He has asked his network engineer to being monitoring the performance of these devices and present statistics to management for capacity planning. Which of the following protocols should be used to this?
Question778: A security Operations Center was scanning a subnet for infections and found a contaminated machine.
One of the administrators disabled the switch port that the machine was connected to, and informed a local technician of the infection. Which of the following steps did the administrator perform?
Question779: A team of firewall administrators have access to a `master password list' containing service account passwords. Which of the following BEST protects the master password list?
Question780: Which of the following protocols provides for mutual authentication of the client and server?
Question781: The security administrator runs an rpm verify command which records the MD5 sum, permissions, and timestamp of each file on the system. The administrator saves this information to a separate server. Which of the following describes the procedure the administrator has performed?
Question782: All of the following are valid cryptographic hash functions EXCEPT:
Question783: Which of the following authentication services uses a default TCP of 389?
Question784: Which of the following would be used as a secure substitute for Telnet?
Question785: Joe wants to employ MD5 hashing on the company file server. Which of the following is Joe trying to achieve?
Question786: Which of the following types of attacks is based on coordinating small slices of a task across multiple systems?
Question787: Users require access to a certain server depending on their job function. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate strategy for securing the server?
Question788: The security department has implemented a new laptop encryption product in the environment. The product requires one user name and password at the time of boot up and also another password after the operating system has finished loading.
Which of the following authentication types is this setup using?
Question789: A company often processes sensitive data for the government. The company also processes a large amount of commercial work and as such is often providing tours to potential customers that take them into various workspaces. Which of the following security methods can provide protection against tour participants viewing sensitive information at minimal cost?
Question790: Which of the following is considered a risk management BEST practice of succession planning?
Question791: A security technician is concerned there4 is not enough security staff available the web servers and database server located in the DMZ around the clock. Which of the following technologies, when deployed, would provide the BEST round the clock automated protection?
Question792: Which of the following should be done before resetting a user's password due to expiration?
Question793: When creating a public / private key pair, for which of the following ciphers would a user need to specify the key strength?
Question794: An IT auditor tests an application as an authenticated user.
Which of the following types of testing is this an example of?
Question795: In which of the following scenarios would it be preferable to implement file level encryption instead of whole disk encryption?
Question796: A program displays:
ERROR: this program has caught an exception and will now terminate.
Which of the following is MOST likely accomplished by the program's behavior?
Question797: The chief security officer (CSO) has issued a new policy to restrict generic or shared accounts on company systems. Which of the following sections of the policy requirements will have the most impact on generic and shared accounts?
Question798: Which of the following attacks impact the availability of a system? (Choose two.)
Question799: Which of the following is a way to implement a technical control to mitigate data loss in case of a mobile device theft?
Question800: Failure to validate the size of a variable before writing it to memory could result in which of the following application attacks?
Question801: The security manager must store a copy of a sensitive document and needs to verify at a later point in time that the document has not been altered. Which of the following will accomplish the security manager's objective?
Question802: While an Internet café a malicious user is causing all surrounding wireless connected devices to have intermittent and unstable connections to the access point. Which of the following is MOST likely being used?
Question803: A security administrator has implemented a policy to prevent data loss. Which of the following is the BEST method of enforcement?
Question804: Company policy requires employees to change their passwords every 60 days. The security manager has verified all systems are configured to expire passwords after 60 days. Despite the policy and technical configuration, weekly password audits suggest that some employees have had the same weak passwords in place longer than 60 days. Which of the following password parameters is MOST likely misconfigured?
Question805: One of the most consistently reported software security vulnerabilities that leads to major exploits is:
Question806: A cyber security administrator receives a list of IPs that have been reported as attempting to access the network. To identify any possible successful attempts across the enterprise, which of the following should be implemented?
Question807: When an authorized application is installed on a server, the application triggers an alert on the HIDS. This is known as a:
Question808: Which of the following is an attack designed to activate based on date?
Question809: A system requires administrators to be logged in as the "root" in order to make administrator changes.
Which of the following controls BEST mitigates the risk associated with this scenario?
Question810: Which of the following describes purposefully injecting extra input during testing, possibly causing an application to crash?
Question811: Which of the following would be used to allow a subset of traffic from a wireless network to an internal network?
Question812: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to implement two-factor authentication within the company. Which of the following would fulfill the CISO's requirements?
Question813: A system administrator has noticed vulnerability on a high impact production server. A recent update was made available by the vendor that addresses the vulnerability but requires a reboot of the system afterwards. Which of the following steps should the system administrator implement to address the vulnerability?
Question814: An application developer needs to allow employees to use their network credentials to access a new application being developed. Which of the following should be configured in the new application to enable this functionality?
Question815: A security administrator is reviewing the web logs and notices multiple attempts by users to access: http:// www.comptia.org/idapsearch?user-* Having identified the attack, which of the following will prevent this type of attack on the web server?
Question816: A security administrator is tasked with implementing centralized management of all network devices.
Network administrators will be required to logon to network devices using their LDAP credentials. All command executed by network administrators on network devices must fall within a preset list of authorized commands and must be logged to a central facility. Which of the following configuration commands should be implemented to enforce this requirement?
Question817: Full disk encryption is MOST effective against the following threats:
Question818: A security analyst, while doing a security scan using packet capture security tools, noticed large volumes of data images of company products being exfiltrated to foreign IP addresses. Which of the following is the FIRST step in responding to scan results?
Question819: A company has 5 users. Users 1, 2 and 3 need access to payroll and users 3, 4 and 5 need access to sales. Which of the following should be implemented to give the appropriate access while enforcing least privilege?
Question820: A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is steering company towards cloud computing. The CEO is requesting a federated sign-on method to have users sign into the sales application. Which of the following methods will be effective for this purpose?
Question821: A risk management team indicated an elevated level of risk due to the location of a corporate datacenter in a region with an unstable political climate. The chief information officer (CIO) accepts the recommendation to transition the workload to an alternate datacenter in a more stable region. Which of the following forms of risk mitigation has the CIO elected to pursue?
Question822: Given a class C network a technician has been tasked with creating a separate subnet for each of the eight departments in the company. Which of the following network masks would allow for each department to have a unique network space and what is the maximum number of hosts each department could have?
Question823: Which of the following is a control that allows a mobile application to access and manipulate information which should only be available by another application on the same mobile device (e.g. a music application posting the name of the current song playing on the device on a social media site)?
Question824: Which of the following can be performed when an element of the company policy cannot be enforced by technical means?
Question825: A network manager needs a cost-effective solution to allow for the restoration of information with a RPO of
24 hours. The disaster recovery plan also requires that backups occur within a restricted timeframe during the week and be take offsite weekly. Which of the following should the manager choose to BEST address these requirements?
Question826: Due to hardware limitation, a technician must implement a wireless encryption algorithm that uses the RC4 protocol. Which of the following is a wireless encryption solution that the technician should implement while ensuring the STRONGEST level of security?
Question827: The Quality Assurance team is testing a new third party developed application. The Quality team does not have any experience with the application. Which of the following is the team performing?
Question828: A security technician has been asked to recommend an authentication mechanism that will allow users to authenticate using a password that will only be valid for a predefined time interval. Which of the following should the security technician recommend?
Question829: Malware that changes its binary pattern on specific dates at specific times to avoid detection is known as a (n):
Question830: Which of the following is a notification that an unusual condition exists and should be investigated?
Question831: Encryption used by RADIUS is BEST described as:
Question832: A security administrator is troubleshooting an authentication issues using a network sniffer. The security administrator reviews a packet capture of the authentication process and notices that authentication is performed using extensible markup over SOAP. Which of the following authentication services is the security administrator troubleshooting?
Question833: A recent online password audit has identified that stale accounts are at risk to brute force attacks. Which the following controls would best mitigate this risk?
Question834: A company is rolling out a new e-commerce website. The security analyst wants to reduce the risk of the new website being comprised by confirming that system patches are up to date, application hot fixes are current, and unneeded ports and services have been disabled. To do this, the security analyst will perform a:
Question835: During an office move a sever containing the employee information database will be shut down and transported to a new location. Which of the following would BEST ensure the availability of the employee database should happen to the server during the move?
Question836: An employee in the accounting department recently received a phishing email that instructed them to click a link in the email to view an important message from the IRS which threatened penalties if a response was not received by the end of the business day. The employee clicked on the link and the machine was infected with malware. Which of the following principles BEST describes why this social engineering ploy was successful?
Question837: A security administrator has been asked to implement a VPN that will support remote access over IPSEC.
Which of the following is an encryption algorithm that would meet this requirement?
Question838: A news and weather toolbar was accidently installed into a web browser. The toolbar tracks users' online activities and sends them to a central logging server. Which of the following attacks took place?
Question839: A security administrator is concerned about the strength of user's passwords. The company does not want to implement a password complexity policy. Which of the following can the security Administrator implement to mitigate the risk of an online password attack against users with weak passwords?
Question840: In an environment where availability is critical such as Industrial control and SCADA networks, which of the following technologies in the MOST critical layer of defense for such systems?
Question841: Which of the following may be used with a BNC connector?
Question842: Joe, a web developer, wants to make sure his application is not susceptible to cross-site request forgery attacks. Which of the following is one way to prevent this type of attack?
Question843: Which of the following ciphers would be BEST used to encrypt streaming video?
Question844: A small IT security form has an internal network composed of laptops, servers, and printers. The network has both wired and wireless segments and supports VPN access from remote sites. To protect the network from internal and external threats, including social engineering attacks, the company decides to implement stringent security controls. Which of the following lists is the BEST combination of security controls to implement?
Question845: An administrator is instructed to disable IP-directed broadcasts on all routers in an organization. Which of the following attacks does this prevent?
Question846: A new security policy being implemented requires all email within the organization be digitally signed by the author using PGP. Which of the following would needs to be created for each user?
Question847: Users are utilizing thumb drives to connect to USB ports on company workstations. A technician is concerned that sensitive files can be copied to the USB drives. Which of the following mitigation techniques would address this concern? (Choose two.)
Question848: A system security analyst wants to capture data flowing in and out of the enterprise. Which of the following would MOST likely help in achieving this goal?
Question849: The security administrator installed a newly generated SSL certificate onto the company web server. Due to a misconfiguration of the website, a downloadable file containing one of the pieces of the key was available to the public. It was verified that the disclosure did not require a reissue of the certificate. Which of the following was MOST likely compromised?
Question850: An administrator receives a security alert that appears to be from one of the company's vendors. The email contains information and instructions for patching a serious flaw that has not been publicly announced.
Which of the following can an employee use to validate the authenticity if the email?
Question851: Which of the following provides dedicated hardware-based cryptographic functions to an operating system and its applications running on laptops and desktops?
Question852: Ann works at a small company and she is concerned that there is no oversight in the finance department; specifically, that Joe writes, signs and distributes paycheques, as well as other expenditures. Which of the following controls can she implement to address this concern?
Question853: Client computers login at specified times to check and update antivirus definitions using a dedicated account configured by the administrator. One day the clients are unable to login with the account, but the server still responds to ping requests. The administrator has not made any changed. Which of the following most likely happened?
Question854: A company wants to improve its overall security posture by deploying environmental controls in its datacenter. Which of the following is considered an environmental control that can be deployed to meet this goal?
Question855: Which of the following would MOST likely involve GPS?
Question856: On a train, an individual is watching a proprietary video on Joe's laptop without his knowledge.
Which of the following describes this?
Question857: Which of the following devices would be the MOST efficient way to filter external websites for staff on an internal network?
Question858: The concept of rendering data passing between two points over an IP based network impervious to all but the most sophisticated advanced persistent threats is BEST categorized as which of the following?
Question859: Which of the following tools would a security administrator use in order to identify all running services throughout an organization?
Question860: A company plans to expand by hiring new engineers who work in highly specialized areas. Each engineer will have very different job requirements and use unique tools and applications in their job. Which of the following is MOST appropriate to use?
Question861: Data confidentiality must be enforced on a secure database.
Which of the following controls meets this goal? (Choose two.)
Question862: After visiting a website, a user receives an email thanking them for a purchase which they did not request.
Upon investigation the security administrator sees the following source code in a pop-up window:
<HTML>
<body onload="document.getElementByID('badForm').submit()">
<form id="badForm" action="shoppingsite.company.com/purchase.php" method="post" >
<input name="Perform Purchase" value="Perform Purchase"/>
</form>
</body>
</HTML>
Which of the following has MOST likely occurred?
Question863: Which of the following MOST interferes with network-based detection techniques?
Question864: The help desk is experiencing a higher than normal amount of calls from users reporting slow response from the application server. After analyzing the data from a packet capturing tool, the head of the network engineering department determines that the issue is due, in part from the increase of personnel recently hired to perform application development. Which of the following would BEST assist in correcting this issue?
Question865: A user authenticates to a local directory server. The user then opens a virtualization client to connect to a virtual server. Instead of supplying a username/password combination, the user simply checks a "use directory credentials" checkbox to authenticate to the virtual server. Which of the following authentication types has been utilized?
Question866: ABC company has a lot of contractors working for them. The provisioning team does not always get notified that a contractor has left the company. Which of the following policies would prevent contractors from having access to systems in the event a contractor has left?
Question867: Which of the following can use RC4 for encryption? (Choose two.)
Question868: A company needs to provide web-based access to shared data sets to mobile users, while maintaining a standardized set of security controls. Which of the following technologies is the MOST appropriate storage?
Question869: A security director has contracted an outside testing company to evaluate the security of a newly developed application. None of the parameters or internal workings of the application have been provided to the testing company prior to the start of testing. The testing company will be using:
Question870: Which of the following can affect electrostatic discharge in a network operations center?
Question871: A security administrator is reviewing logs and notices multiple attempts to access the HVAC controls by a workstation with an IP address from the open wireless network. Which of the following would be the best way to prevent this type of attack from occurring again?
Question872: Which of the following is true about asymmetric encryption?
Question873: A company wants to ensure that all aspects if data are protected when sending to other sites within the enterprise. Which of the following would ensure some type of encryption is performed while data is in transit?
Question874: Which of the following application security testing techniques is implemented when an automated system generates random input data?
Question875: An administrator is investigating a system that may potentially be compromised and sees the following log entries on the router.
*Jul 15 14:47:29.779: %Router1: list 101 permitted TCP 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) ->
10.10.1.5 (6667), 3 packets.
*Jul 15 14:47:38.779: %Router1: list 101 permitted TCP 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) ->
10.10.1.5 (6667), 6 packets.
*Jul 15 14:47:45.779: %Router1: list 101 permitted TCP 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) ->
10.10.1.5 (6667), 8 packets.
Which of the following BEST describes the compromised system?
Question876: Which of the following can be implemented with multiple bit strength?
Question877: In order to enter a high-security datacenter, users are required to speak the password into a voice recognition system. Ann a member if the sales department over hears the password and upon speaks it into the system. The system denies her entry and alerts the security team. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for her failure to enter the data center?
Question878: A small company wants to employ PKI. The company wants a cost effective solution that must be simple and trusted. They are considering two options: X.509 and PGP. Which of the following would be the BEST option?
Question879: A security administrator is aware that a portion of the company's Internet-facing network tends to be non- secure due to poorly configured and patched systems. The business owner has accepted the risk of those systems being compromised, but the administrator wants to determine the degree to which those systems can be used to gain access to the company intranet. Which of the following should the administrator perform?
Question880: A workstation is exhibiting symptoms of malware and the network security analyst has decided to remove the system from the network.
Which of the following stages of the Incident Handling Response represents this?
Question881: Many employees are receiving email messages similar to the one shown below:
From IT department
To employee
Subject email quota exceeded
Please click on the following link http:www.website.info/email.php?quota=1Gb and provide your username and password to increase your email quota. Upon reviewing other similar emails, the security administrator realized that all the phishing URLs have the following common elements; they all use HTTP, they all come from .info domains, and they all contain the same URI.
Which of the following should the security administrator configure on the corporate content filter to prevent users from accessing the phishing URL, while at the same time minimizing false positives?
Question882: Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to discover comprehensive security threats on a network?
Question883: Which of the following data security techniques will allow Matt, an IT security technician, to encrypt a system with speed as its primary consideration?
Question884: An administrator finds that non-production servers are being frequently compromised, production servers are rebooting at unplanned times and kernel versions are several releases behind the version with all current security fixes.
Which of the following should the administrator implement?
Question885: Devices on the SCADA network communicate exclusively at Layer 2. Which of the following should be used to prevent unauthorized systems using ARP-based attacks to compromise the SCADA network?
Question886: The network security manager has been notified by customer service that employees have been sending unencrypted confidential information via email. Which of the following should the manager select to BEST detect and provide notification of these occurrences?
Question887: Joe uses his badge to enter the server room, Ann follows Joe entering without using her badge. It is later discovered that Ann used a USB drive to remove confidential data from a server. Which of the following principles is potentially being violated? (Choose two.)
Question888: A company is concerned that a compromised certificate may result in a man-in-the-middle attack against backend financial servers. In order to minimize the amount of time a compromised certificate would be accepted by other servers, the company decides to add another validation step to SSL/TLS connections.
Which of the following technologies provides the FASTEST revocation capability?
Question889: Which of the following solutions provides the most flexibility when testing new security controls prior to implementation?
Question890: Which of the following offers the LEAST secure encryption capabilities?
Question891: The new Chief Information Officer (CIO) of company ABC, Joe has noticed that company XWY is always one step ahead with similar products. He tasked his Chief Security Officer to implement new security controls to ensure confidentiality of company ABC's proprietary data and complete accountability for all data transfers. Which of the following security controls did the Chief Security Officer implement to BEST meet these requirements? (Choose Two)
Question892: Which of the following identifies certificates that have been compromised or suspected of being compromised?
Question893: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Joe notices an increase in the wireless signal in this office and thanks the IT director for the increase in network speed, Upon investigation the IT department finds an access point hidden in the dropped ceiling outside of joe's office. Which of the following types of attack is MOST likely occurring?
Question894: A company has a BYOD policy that includes tablets and smart phones. In the case of a legal investigation, which of the following poses the greatest security issues?
Question895: When confidentiality is the primary concern, which of the following types of encryption should be chosen?
Question896: A breach at a credit card company resulted in customer's credit card information being exposed. The company has conducted a full forensic investigation and identified the source of the breach.
Which of the following should the company do NEXT?
Question897: After analyzing and correlating activity from multiple sensors, the security administrator has determined that a group of very well organized individuals from an enemy country is responsible for various attempts to breach the company network, through the use of very sophisticated and targeted attacks. Which of the following is this an example of?
Question898: Which of the following is used to verify data integrity?
Question899: Disabling unnecessary services, restricting administrative access, and enabling auditing controls on a server are forms of the following:
Question900: A company has a corporate infrastructure where end users manage their own certificate keys. Which of the following is considered the MOST secure way to handle master keys associated with these certificates?
Question901: A security administrator must implement a wireless encryption system to secure mobile devices' communication. Some users have mobile devices which only support 56-bit encryption. Which of the following wireless encryption methods should be implemented?
Question902: Which of the following tools would allow Ann, the security administrator, to be able to BEST quantify all traffic on her network?
Question903: Jane, a security administrator, needs to implement a secure wireless authentication method that uses a remote RADIUS server for authentication.
Which of the following is an authentication method Jane should use?
Question904: Which of the following authentication methods can use the SCTP and TLS protocols for reliable packet transmissions?
Question905: Which of the following is an attack designed to activate based on time?
Question906: A switch is set up to allow only 2 simultaneous MAC addresses per switch port. An administrator is reviewing a log and determines that a switch ort has been deactivated in a conference room after it detected 3 or more MAC addresses on the same port. Which of the following reasons could have caused this port to be disabled?
Question907: A system administrator is implementing a firewall ACL to block specific communication to and from a predefined list of IP addresses, while allowing all other communication. Which of the following rules is necessary to support this implementation?
Question908: An IT security technician is actively involved in identifying coding issues for her company.
Which of the following is an application security technique that can be used to identify unknown weaknesses within the code?
Question909: A security technician has removed the sample configuration files from a database server. Which of the following application security controls has the technician attempted?
Question910: Which of the following authenticate connections using point-to-point protocol? (Choose two.)
Question911: Which of the following is synonymous with a server's certificate?
Question912: A defense contractor wants to use one of its classified systems to support programs from multiple intelligence agencies. Which of the following MUST be in place between the intelligence agencies to allow this?
Question913: A large multinational corporation with networks in 30 countries wants to establish an understanding of their overall public-facing network attack surface. Which of the following security techniques would be BEST suited for this?
Question914: Which of the following authentication services should be replaced with a more secure alternative?
Question915: When information is shared between two separate organizations, which of the following documents would describe the sensitivity as well as the type and flow of the information?
Question916: A chief information security officer (CISO) is providing a presentation to a group of network engineers. In the presentation, the CISO presents information regarding exploit kits. Which of the following might the CISO present?
Question917: A BYOD policy in which employees are able to access the wireless guest network is in effect in an organization. Some users however are using the Ethernet port in personal laptops to the wired network.
Which of the following could an administrator use to ensure that unauthorized devices are not allowed to access the wired network?
Question918: Which of the following provides a static record of all certificates that are no longer valid?
Question919: Which of the following can be used to mitigate risk if a mobile device is lost?
Question920: Employee badges are encoded with a private encryption key and specific personal information.
The encoding is then used to provide access to the network. Which of the following describes this access control type?
Question921: A security administrator is evaluating three different services: radius, diameter, and Kerberos. Which of the following is a feature that is UNIQUE to Kerberos?
Question922: If Organization A trusts Organization B and Organization B trusts Organization C, then Organization A trusts Organization C. Which of the following PKI concepts is this describing?
Question923: A security administrator must implement a system to allow clients to securely negotiate encryption keys with the company's server over a public unencrypted communication channel.
Which of the following implements the required secure key negotiation? (Choose two.)
Question924: A security analyst has been investigating an incident involving the corporate website. Upon investigation, it has been determined that users visiting the corporate website would be automatically redirected to a, malicious site. Further investigation on the corporate website has revealed that the home page on the corporate website has been altered to include an unauthorized item. Which of the following would explain why users are being redirected to the malicious site?
Question925: A network administrator, Joe, arrives at his new job to find that none of the users have changed their network passwords since they were initially hired. Joe wants to have everyone change their passwords immediately. Which of the following policies should be enforced to initiate a password change?
Question926: Joe noticed that there is a larger than normal account of network on the printer VLAN of his organization, causing users to have to wait a long time for a print job. Upon investigation Joe discovers that printers were ordered and added to the network without his knowledge. Which of the following will reduce the risk of this occurring again in the future?
Question927: Ann, a security administrator, is strengthening the security controls of the company's campus. Her goal is to prevent people from accessing open locations that are not supervised, such as around the receiving dock. She is also concerned that employees are using these entry points as a way of bypassing the security guard at the main entrance. Which of the following should Ann recommend that would BEST address her concerns?
Question928: A technician has implemented a system in which all workstations on the network will receive security updates on the same schedule. Which of the following concepts does this illustrate?
Question929: Sara, the Chief Information Officer (CIO), has requested an audit take place to determine what services and operating systems are running on the corporate network. Which of the following should be used to complete this task?
Question930: Which of the following cryptographic related browser settings allows an organization to communicate securely?
Question931: An organization has a need for security control that identifies when an organizational system has been unplugged and a rouge system has been plugged in. The security control must also provide the ability to supply automated notifications. Which of the following would allow the organization to BEST meet this business requirement?
Question932: Which of the following authentication services requires the use of a ticket-granting ticket (TGT) server in order to complete the authentication process?
Question933: A system administrator has made several unauthorized changes to the server cluster that resulted in a major outage. This event has been brought to the attention of the Chief Information Office (CIO) and he has requested immediately implement a risk mitigation strategy to prevent this type of event from reoccurring.
Which of the following would be the BEST risk mitigation strategy to implement in order to meet this request?
Question934: A security analyst has a sample of malicious software and needs to know what the sample does. The analyst runs the sample in a carefully-controlled and monitored virtual machine to observe the software's behavior. The approach of malware analysis can BEST be described as:
Question935: Pete, a developer, writes an application. Jane, the security analyst, knows some things about the overall application but does not have all the details. Jane needs to review the software before it is released to production. Which of the following reviews should Jane conduct?
Question936: When confidentiality is the primary concern, and a secure channel for key exchange is not available, which of the following should be used for transmitting company documents?
Question937: The IT department has set up a share point site to be used on the intranet. Security has established the groups and permissions on the site. No one may modify the permissions and all requests for access are centrally managed by the security team.
Which of the following control types is this an example of?
Question938: Which of the following is BEST used to capture and analyze network traffic between hosts on the same network segment?
Question939: A network security administrator is trying to determine how an attacker gained access to the corporate wireless network. The network is configured with SSID broadcast disabled. The senior network administrator explains that this configuration setting would only have deterred an unsophisticated attacker because of the following:
Question940: An administrator has to determine host operating systems on the network and has deployed a transparent proxy. Which of the following fingerprint types would this solution use?
Question941: A recently installed application update caused a vital application to crash during the middle of the workday.
The application remained down until a previous version could be reinstalled on the server, and this resulted in a significant loss of data and revenue.
Which of the following could BEST prevent this issue from occurring again?
Question942: Which of the following is true about input validation in a client-server architecture, when data integrity is critical to the organization?
Question943: Anne, an employee, receives the following email:
From: Human Resources
To: Employee
Subject: Updated employee code of conduct
Please click on the following link: http//external.site.com/codeofconduct.exe to review the updated code of conduct at your earliest convenience.
After clicking the email link, her computer is compromised. Which of the following principles of social engineering was used to lure Anne into clicking the phishing link in the above email?
Question944: Which of the following must be kept secret for a public key infrastructure to remain secure?
Question945: During a security assessment, an administrator wishes to see which services are running on a remote server. Which of the following should the administrator use?
Question946: A system administrator is configuring shared secrets on servers and clients. Which of the following authentication services is being deployed by the administrator? (Choose two.)
Question947: The internal audit group discovered that unauthorized users are making unapproved changes to various system configuration settings. This issue occurs when previously authorized users transfer from one department to another and maintain the same credentials. Which of the following controls can be implemented to prevent such unauthorized changes in the future?
Question948: A worker dressed in a fire suppression company's uniform asks to be let into the server room to perform the annual check in the fire extinguishers. The system administrator allows the worker into the room, only to discover hours later that the worker was actually a penetration tester. Which of the following reasons allowed the penetration tester to access the server room?
Question949: The user of a news service accidently accesses another user's browsing history. From this the user can tell what competitors are reading, querying, and researching. The news service has failed to properly implement which of the following?
Question950: Users have reported receiving unsolicited emails in their inboxes, often times with malicious links embedded. Which of the following should be implemented in order to redirect these messages?
Question951: A bank is planning to implement a third factor to protect customer ATM transactions. Which of the following could the bank implement?
Question952: The system administrator is reviewing the following logs from the company web server:
12:34:56 GET /directory_listing.php?user=admin&pass=admin1
12:34:57 GET /directory_listing.php?user=admin&pass=admin2
12:34:58 GET /directory_listing.php?user=admin&pass=1admin
12:34:59 GET /directory_listing.php?user=admin&pass=2admin
Which of the following is this an example of?
Question953: A technician wants to secure communication to the corporate web portal, which is currently using HTTP.
Which of the following is the FIRST step the technician should take?
Question954: The chief security officer (CSO) has reported a rise in data loss but no break-ins have occurred. By doing which of the following would the CSO MOST likely to reduce the number of incidents?
Question955: Prior to leaving for an extended vacation, Joe uses his mobile phone to take a picture of his family in the house living room. Joe posts the picture on a popular social media site together with the message:
"Heading to our two weeks' vacation to Italy." Upon returning home, Joe discovers that the house was burglarized.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the house was burglarized if nobody knew Joe's home address?
Question956: Which of the following is primarily used to provide fault tolerance at the application level? (Choose two.)
Question957: A security manager is discussing change in the security posture of the network, if a proposed application is approved for deployment. Which of the following is the MOST important the security manager must rely upon to help make this determination?
Question958: Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of users being unable to verify a single user's email signature and that user being unable to decrypt sent messages?
Question959: Jane, a security analyst, is reviewing logs from hosts across the Internet which her company uses to gather data on new malware. Which of the following is being implemented by Jane's company?