EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A network administrator at a small office wants to simplify the configuration of mobile clients connecting to an encrypted wireless network. Which of the following should be implemented if the administrator does not want to provide the wireless password or certificate to the employees?

Question2: Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?

Question3: A database backup schedule consists of weekly full backups performed on Saturday at
12:00 a.m. and daily differential backups also performed at 12:00 a.m. If the database is restored on Tuesday afternoon, which of the following is the number of individual backups that would need to be applied to complete the database recovery?

Question4: When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

Question5: DRAG DROP
Drag and drop the correct protocol to its default port.

Question6: When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on memory volatility? (Select TWO).

Question7: A security analyst is hardening an authentication server. One of the primary requirements is to ensure there is mutual authentication and delegation. Given these requirements, which of the following technologies should the analyst recommend and configure?

Question8: A Security engineer is configuring a system that requires the X 509 certificate information to be pasted into a form field in Base64 encoded format to import it into the system. Which of the following certificate formats should the engineer use to obtain the information in the required format?

Question9: Two users need to send each other emails over unsecured channels. The system should support the principle of non-repudiation. Winch of the following should be used to sign the users' certificates?

Question10: A high-security defense installation recently began utilizing large guard dogs that bark very loudly and excitedly at the slightest provocation. Which of the following types of controls does this BEST describe?

Question11: After a user reports stow computer performance, a systems administrator detects a suspicious file, which was installed as part of a freeware software package. The systems administrator reviews the output below:

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

Question12: Refer to the following code:

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

Question13: A user suspects someone has been accessing a home network without permission by spoofing the MAC address of an authorized system While attempting to determine if an unauthorized user is togged into the home network, the user reviews the wireless router, which shows the following table for systems that are currently on the home network.

Which of the following should be the NEXT step to determine if there is an unauthorized user on the network?

Question14: When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:

Question15: Which of the following attack types BEST describes a client-side attack that is used to mandate an HTML iframe with JavaScript code via web browser?

Question16: A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior.
Which of the following steps is MOST important in the process of disengagement from this employee?

Question17: When connected to a secure WAP, which of the following encryption technologies is MOST likely to be configured when connecting to WPA2-PSK?

Question18: Which of the following attacks specifically impacts data availability?

Question19: In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief
Information Officer (CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand. Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?

Question20: Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company's proprietary information to gain a market edge and reduce time to market?

Question21: A security analyst is hardening a server with the directory services role installed. The analyst must ensure LDAP traffic cannot be monitored or sniffed and maintains compatibility with LDAP clients. Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

Question22: An administrator is replacing a wireless router. The configuration of the old wireless router was not documented before it stopped functioning. The equipment connecting to the wireless network uses older legacy equipment that was manufactured prior to the release of the 802.11i standard. Which of the following configuration options should the administrator select for the new wireless router?

Question23: Which of the following BEST describes a routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed from a string?

Question24: Which of the following encryption methods does PKI typically use to securely protect keys?

Question25: A penetration tester is crawling a target website that is available to the public. Which of the following represents the actions the penetration tester is performing?

Question26: Which of the following characteristics differentiate a rainbow table attack from a brute force attack? (Select TWO).

Question27: An organization wishes to provide better security for its name resolution services. Which of the following technologies BEST supports the deployment DNSSEC at the organization?

Question28: When trying to log onto a company's new ticketing system, some employees receive the following message: Access denied: too many concurrent sessions. The ticketing system was recently installed on a small VM with only the recommended hardware specifications.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error message?

Question29: Users report the following message appears when browsing to the company's secure site:
This website cannot be trusted. Which of the following actions should a security analyst take to resolve these messages? (Select TWO).

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

Question31: Which of the following types of keys is found in a key escrow?

Question32: A company is developing a new secure technology and requires computers being used for development to be isolated. Which of the following should be implemented to provide the
MOST secure environment?

Question33: An attacker compromises a public CA and issues unauthorized X.509 certificates for
Company.com. In the future, impact of similar incidents. Which of the following would assist
Company.com with its goal?

Question34: A systems administrator is attempting to recover from a catastrophic failure in the datacenter. To recover the domain controller, the systems administrator needs to provide the domain administrator credentials. Which of the following account types is the systems administrator using?

Question35: DRAG DROP
A forensic analyst is asked to respond to an ongoing network attack on a server. Place the items in the list below in the correct order in which the forensic analyst should preserve them.

Question36: An organization is using a tool to perform a source code review. Which of the following describes the case in which the tool incorrectly identifies the vulnerability?

Question37: A company wants to host a publicly available server that performs the following functions:
* Evaluates MX record lookup
* Can perform authenticated requests for A and AAA records
* Uses RRSIG
Which of the following should the company use to fulfill the above requirements?

Question38: Joe, an employee, wants to show his colleagues how much he knows about smartphones.
Joe demonstrates a free movie application that he installed from a third party on his corporate smartphone. Joe's colleagues were unable to find the application in the app stores. Which of the following allowed Joe to install the application? (Select TWO).

Question39: Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a server's certificate?

Question40: An application team is performing a load-balancing test for a critical application during off- hours and has requested access to the load balancer to review. Which servers are up without having the administrator on call. The security analyst is hesitant to give the application team full access due to other critical applications running on the road balancer.
Which of the following is the BEST solution for the security analyst to process the request?

Question41: Which of the following implements two-factor authentication?

Question42: Which of the following types of cloud Infrastructures would allow several organizations with similar structures and interests to realize shared storage and resources?

Question43: A security analyst is reviewing the following output from an IPS:

Given this output, which of the following can be concluded? (Select TWO).

Question44: A systems administrator is reviewing the following information from a compromised server:

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

Question45: A botnet has hit a popular website with a massive number of GRE-encapsulated packets to perform a DDoS attack News outlets discover a certain type of refrigerator was exploited and used to send outbound packets to the website that crashed. To which of the following categories does the refrigerator belong?

Question46: Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?

Question47: A company has a data classification system with definitions for "Private" and public." The company's security policy outlines how data should be protected based on type. The company recently added the data type "Proprietary" Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the company added this data type?

Question48: An organization's internal auditor discovers that large sums of money have recently been paid to a vendor that management does not recognize. The IT security department is asked to investigate the organization's ERP system to determine how the accounts payable module has been used to make these vendor payments.
The IT security department finds the following security configuration for the accounts payable module:

Which of the following changes to the security configuration of the accounts payable module would BEST mitigate this risk?
A)

B)

C)

D)

Question49: An organization finds that most help desk calls ate regarding account lockout due to a variety of applications running on different systems. Manager is looking for a solution to reduce the number of account lockouts while improving security. Which of the following is the BEST solution for this organization?

Question50: A senior incident response manager receives a call about some external IPs communicating with internal computers during off hours. Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely causing this issue?

Question51: Which of the following technologies employ the use of SAML? (Select TWO).

Question52: A user has attempted to access data at a higher classification level than the user's account is currency authorized to access. Which of the following access control models has been applied to this user's account?

Question53: An organization wishes to provide better security for its name resolution services. Which of the following technologies BEST supports the deployment DNSSEC at the organization?

Question54: An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime.
Which of the following has been specified?

Question55: Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?

Question56: A network administrator wants to implement a method of securing internal routing. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Question57: CORRECT TEXT
You have been tasked with designing a security plan for your company. Drag and drop the appropriate security controls on the floor plan-Instructions: All objects must be used and all place holders must be filled. Order does not matter. When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

Question58: An incident responder receives a call from a user who reports a computer is exhibiting symptoms consistent with a malware infection. Which of the following steps should the responder perform NEXT?

Question59: A company's user lockout policy is enabled after five unsuccessful login attempts. The help desk notices a user is repeatedly locked out over the course of a workweek. Upon contacting the user, the help desk discovers the user is on vacation and does not have network access. Which of the following types of attacks are MOST likely occurring? (Select TWO)

Question60: Multiple employees receive an email with a malicious attachment that begins to encrypt their hard drives and mapped shares on their devices when it is opened. The network and security teams perform the following actions:
*Shut down all network shares.
*Run an email search identifying all employees who received the malicious message.
*Reimage all devices belonging to users who opened the attachment.
Next, the teams want to re-enable the network shares. Which of the following BEST describes this phase of the incident response process?

Question61: DRAG DROP
A Security administrator wants to implement strong security on the company smart phones and terminal servers located in the data center. Drag and Drop the applicable controls to each asset type.
Instructions: Controls can be used multiple times and not all placeholders needs to be filled. When you have completed the simulation, Please select Done to submit.

Question62: HOTSPOT
Select the appropriate attack from each drop down list to label the corresponding illustrated attack
Instructions: Attacks may only be used once, and will disappear from drop down list if selected.
When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

Question63: A Security analyst is diagnosing an incident in which a system was compromised from an external IP address. The socket identified on the firewall was traced to 207.46.130.6666.
Which of the following should the security analyst do to determine if the compromised system still has an active connection?

Question64: A company hires a consulting firm to crawl its Active Directory network with a non-domain account looking for unpatched systems. Actively taking control of systems is out of scope, as is the creation of new administrator accounts. For which of the following is the company hiring the consulting firm?

Question65: DRAG DROP
A security administrator is given the security and availability profiles for servers that are being deployed.
Match each RAID type with the correct configuration and MINIMUM number of drives.
Review the server profiles and match them with the appropriate RAID type based on integrity, availability, I/O, storage requirements. Instructions:
All drive definitions can be dragged as many times as necessary
Not all placeholders may be filled in the RAID configuration boxes
If parity is required, please select the appropriate number of parity checkboxes
Server profiles may be dragged only once
Instructions: If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please select the Reset button. When you have completed the simulation, please select the
Done button to submit. Once the simulation is submitted, please select the Next button to continue.

Question66: As part of a new industry regulation, companies are required to utilize secure, standardized
OS settings. A technician must ensure the OS settings are hardened. Which of the following is the BEST way to do this?

Question67: An analyst wants to implement a more secure wifeless authentication for office access points.
Which of the following technologies allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS?

Question68: A company is using a mobile device deployment model in which employees use their personal devices for work at their own discretion. Some of the problems the company is encountering include the following:
*There is no standardization.
*Employees ask for reimbursement for their devices.
*Employees do not replace their devices often enough to keep them running efficiently.
*The company does not have enough control over the devices.
Which of the following is a deployment model that would help the company overcome these problems?

Question69: Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical want to provide seamless wireless access for their employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented if all the organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices?

Question70: Which of the following can be provided to an AAA system for the identification phase?

Question71: A user clicked an email link that led to a website that infected the workstation with a virus.
The virus encrypted all the network shares to which the user had access. The virus was not detected or blocked by the company's email filter, website filter, or antivirus.
Which of the following describes what occurred?

Question72: Which of the following specifically describes the exploitation of an interactive process to access otherwise restricted areas of the OS?

Question73: CORRECT TEXT
You have just received some room and WiFi access control recommendations from a security consulting company. Click on each building to bring up available security controls.
Please implement the following requirements:
* The Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) office had multiple redundant security measures installed on the door to the office. Remove unnecessary redundancies to deploy three- factor authentication, while retaining the expensive iris render.
* The Public Cafe has wireless available to customers. You need to secure the WAP with
WPA and place a passphrase on the customer receipts.
* In the Data Center you need to include authentication from the "something you know" category and take advantage of the existing smartcard reader on the door.
* In the Help Desk Office you need to require single factor authentication through the use of physical tokens given to guests by the receptionist.
* The PII Office has redundant security measures in place. You need to eliminate the redundancy while maintaining three-factor authentication and retaining the more expensive controls.

Instructions: The original security controls for each office can be reset at anytime by selecting the Reset button. Once you have met the above requirements for each office, select the Save button.
When you have completed the entire simulation, please select the Done button to submit.
Once the simulation is submitted, please select the Next button to continue.

Question74: Despite having implemented password policies, users continue to set the same weak passwords and reuse old passwords.
Which of the following technical controls would help prevent these policy violations? (Select TWO).

Question75: Ann, an employee in the payroll department, has contacted the help desk citing multiple issues with her device, including:
* Slow performance
* Word documents, PDFs, and images no longer opening
* A pop-up
Ann states the issues began after she opened an invoice that a vendor emailed to her.
Upon opening the invoice, she had to click several security warnings to view it in her word processor.
With which of the following is the device MOST likely infected?

Question76: DRAG DROP
Drag the items on the left to show the different types of security for the shown devices. Not all fields need to be filled. Not all items need to be used.

Question77: A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all trails to the FTP server is unencrypted. Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modem
FTP client software. The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing unencrypted connections. Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?

Question78: A company has three divisions, each with its own networks and services. The company decides to make its secure web portal accessible to all employees utilizing their existing usernames and passwords, The security administrator has elected to use SAML to support authentication. In this scenario, which of the following will occur when users try to authenticate to the portal? (Select TWO)

Question79: Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test environment to production?

Question80: An auditor wants to test the security posture of an organization by running a tool that will display the following:
JIMS <00> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered
JIMS <00> UNIQUE Registered
Which of the following commands should be used?

Question81: A company determines that it is prohibitively expensive to become compliant with new credit card regulations. Instead, the company decides to purchase insurance to cover the cost of any potential loss. Which of the following is the company doing?

Question82: DRAG DROP
Determine the types of attacks below by selecting an option from the dropdown list.
Determine the types of Attacks from right to specific action.