EMT Practice Test

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Question1: An analyst wants to implement a more secure wireless authentication for office access points. Which of the following technologies allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS?

Question2: A company is using a mobile device deployment model in which employees use their personal devices for work at their own discretion. Some of the problems the company is encountering include the following:
Which of the following is a deployment model that would help the company overcome these problems?

Question3: When connected to a secure WAP, which of the following encryption technologies is MOST likely to be configured when connecting to WPA2-PSK?

Question4: Which of the following vulnerability types would the type of hacker known as a script kiddie be MOST dangerous against?

Question5: When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

Question6: DRAG DROP
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.

Question7: 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?

Question8: Which of the following are methods to implement HA in a web application server environment? (Select two.)

Question9: 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.)

Question10: 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 authorized user is logged 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?

Question11: A wireless network uses a RADIUS server that is connected to an authenticator, which in turn connects to a supplicant. Which of the following represents the authentication architecture in use?

Question12: 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?

Question13: A company has a data system with definitions for "Private" and "Public". The company's security policy outlines how data should be protected based on type. The company recently added the data type "Proprietary". Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the company added this data type?

Question14: Which of the following must be intact for evidence to be admissible in court?

Question15: A director of IR is reviewing a report regarding several recent breaches. The director compiles the following statistic's
-Initial IR engagement time frame
-Length of time before an executive management notice went out
-Average IR phase completion
The director wants to use the data to shorten the response time. Which of the following would accomplish this?

Question16: A company hires a third-party firm to conduct an assessment of vulnerabilities exposed to the Internet. The firm informs the company that an exploit exists for an FTP server that had a version installed from eight years ago. The company has decided to keep the system online anyway, as no upgrade exists form the vendor. Which of the following BEST describes the reason why the vulnerability exists?

Question17: 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?

Question18: 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.

Question19: A system administrator wants to provide balance between the security of a wireless network and usability. The administrator is concerned with wireless encryption compatibility of older devices used by some employees. Which of the following would provide strong security and backward compatibility when accessing the wireless network?

Question20: When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:

Question21: An application developer is designing an application involving secure transports from one service to another that will pass over port 80 for a request.
Which of the following secure protocols is the developer MOST likely to use?

Question22: A security engineer is configuring a wireless network that must support mutual authentication of the wireless client and the authentication server before users provide credentials. The wireless network must also support authentication with usernames and passwords. Which of the following authentication protocols MUST the security engineer select?

Question23: A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) suspects someone in the lab testing environment is stealing confidential information after working hours when no one else is around. Which of the following actions can help to prevent this specific threat?

Question24: A high-security defense installation recently begun utilizing large guard dogs that bark very loudly and excitedly at the slightest provocation. Which of the following types of controls does this BEST describe?

Question25: Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?

Question26: Joe, a user, wants to send Ann, another user, a confidential document electronically. Which of the following should Joe do to ensure the document is protected from eavesdropping?

Question27: A security administrator has found a hash in the environment known to belong to malware.
The administrator then finds this file to be in in the preupdate area of the OS, which indicates it was pushed from the central patch system.
File: winx86_adobe_flash_upgrade.exe
Hash: 99ac28bede43ab869b853ba62c4ea243
The administrator pulls a report from the patch management system with the following output:

Given the above outputs, which of the following MOST likely happened?

Question28: An analyst is reviewing a simple program for potential security vulnerabilities before being deployed to a Windows server. Given the following code:

Which of the following vulnerabilities is present?

Question29: As part of a new industry regulation, companies are required to utilize secure, standardized OS settings. A technical must ensure the OS settings are hardened. Which of the following is the BEST way to do this?

Question30: After an identified security breach, an analyst is tasked to initiate the IR process. Which of the following is the NEXT step the analyst should take?

Question31: A security analyst is performing a quantitative risk analysis. The risk analysis should show the potential monetary loss each time a threat or event occurs. Given this requirement, which of the following concepts would assist the analyst in determining this value? (Select two.)

Question32: 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.

Question33: A security analyst is hardening a web server, which should allow a secure certificate-based session using the organization's PKI infrastructure. The web server should also utilize the latest security techniques and standards. Given this set of requirements, which of the following techniques should the analyst implement to BEST meet these requirements?
(Select two.)

Question34: An organization's file server has been virtualized to reduce costs. Which of the following types of backups would be MOST appropriate for the particular file server?

Question35: 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?

Question36: A network administrator wants to implement a method of securing internal routing. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Question37: A vulnerability scanner that uses its running service's access level to better assess vulnerabilities across multiple assets within an organization is performing a:

Question38: Which of the following types of keys is found in a key escrow?

Question39: DRAG DROP
A Security administrator wants to implement strong security on the company smart phones and terminal servers located in the data center. Drag and Drop the applicable controls to each asset type.
Instructions: Controls can be used multiple times and not all placeholders needs to be filled. When you have completed the simul-ation, Please select Done to submit.

Question40: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) drafts an agreement between the organization and its employees. The agreement outlines ramifications for releasing information without consent and/for approvals. Which of the following BEST describes this type of agreement?

Question41: Which of the following cryptographic algorithms is irreversible?

Question42: When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on memory volatility? (Select two.)

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 security analyst receives a notification from the IDS after working hours, indicating a spike in network traffic. Which of the following BEST describes this type of IDS?

Question45: A company was recently audited by a third party. The audit revealed the company's network devices were transferring files in the clear. Which of the following protocols should the company use to transfer files?

Question46: A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) suspects someone in the lab testing environment is stealing confidential information after working hours when no one else is around. Which of the following actions can help to prevent this specific threat?

Question47: 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 in the administrator does not want to provide the wireless password or he certificate to the employees?

Question48: Which of the following are the MAIN reasons why a systems administrator would install security patches in a staging environment before the patches are applied to the production server? (Select two.)

Question49: 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 types?
Instructions: Controls can be used multiple times and not all placeholders need to be filled.
When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

Question50: A development team has adopted a new approach to projects in which feedback is iterative and multiple iterations of deployments are provided within an application's full life cycle.
Which of the following software development methodologies is the development team using?

Question51: Which of the following BEST describes a network-based attack that can allow an attacker to take full control of a vulnerable host?

Question52: A system administrator is reviewing the following information from a compromised server.

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

Question53: Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for their customers to download over the Internet?

Question54: An in-house penetration tester is using a packet capture device to listen in on network communications. This is an example of:

Question55: An organization is comparing and contrasting migration from its standard desktop configuration to the newest version of the platform. Before this can happen, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) voices the need to evaluate the functionality of the newer desktop platform to ensure interoperability with existing software in use by the organization. In which of the following principles of architecture and design is the CISO engaging?

Question56: Refer to the following code:

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

Question57: Which of the following attack types BEST describes a client-side attack that is used to manipulate an HTML iframe with JavaScript code via a web browser?

Question58: When identifying a company's most valuable assets as part of a BIA, which of the following should be the FIRST priority?

Question59: A datacenter recently experienced a breach. When access was gained, an RF device was used to access an air-gapped and locked server rack. Which of the following would Best prevent this type of attack?

Question60: 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?

Question61: Which of the following occurs when the security of a web application relies on JavaScript for input validation?

Question62: 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.)

Question63: Which of the following can be provided to an AAA system for the identification phase?

Question64: Ann. An employee in the payroll department, has contacted the help desk citing multiple issues with her device, including:
Ann states the issues began after she opened an invoice that a vendor emailed to her.
Upon opening the invoice, she had to click several security warnings to view it in her word processor. With which of the following is the device MOST likely infected?

Question65: 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?

Question66: A security consultant discovers that an organization is using the PCL protocol to print documents, utilizing the default driver and print settings. Which of the following is the MOST likely risk in this situation?

Question67: A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior. Which of the following steps is MOST important in the process of disengagement from this employee?

Question68: As part of the SDLC, a third party is hired to perform a penetration test. The third party will have access to the source code, integration tests, and network diagrams. Which of the following BEST describes the assessment being performed?

Question69: Malicious traffic from an internal network has been detected on an unauthorized port on an application server.
Which of the following network-based security controls should the engineer consider implementing?

Question70: 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?

Question71: Before an infection was detected, several of the infected devices attempted to access a URL that was similar to the company name but with two letters transported. Which of the following BEST describes the attack vector used to infect the devices?

Question72: A department head at a university resigned on the first day of the spring semester. It was subsequently determined that the department head deleted numerous files and directories from the server-based home directory while the campus was closed. Which of the following policies or procedures could have prevented this from occurring?

Question73: A company wants to host a publicity 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?

Question74: A company's loss control department identifies theft as a recurring loss type over the past year. Based on the department's report, the Chief information Office (CIO) wants to detect theft of datacenter equipment. Which of the following controls should be implemented?

Question75: 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?

Question76: A user has attempted to access data at a higher classification level than the user's account is currently authorized to access. Which of the following access control models has been applied to this user's account?

Question77: A technician suspects that a system has been compromised.
The technician reviews the following log entry:
WARNING- hash mismatch: C:\Window\SysWOW64\user32.dll
WARNING- hash mismatch: C:\Window\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll
Based solely ono the above information, which of the following types of malware is MOST likely installed on the system?

Question78: Which of the following would MOST likely appear in an uncredentialed vulnerability scan?

Question79: DRAG DROP
Drag and drop the correct protocol to its default port.

Question80: Which of the following precautions MINIMIZES the risk from network attacks directed at multifunction printers, as well as the impact on functionality at the same time?

Question81: To reduce disk consumption, an organization's legal department has recently approved a new policy setting the data retention period for sent email at six months. Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure this goal is met?

Question82: A security analyst receives an alert from a WAF with the following payload:
var data= "<test test test>" ++ <../../../../../../etc/passwd>"
Which of the following types of attacks is this?

Question83: Which of the following cryptography algorithms will produce a fixed-length, irreversible output?

Question84: A security analyst reviews the following output:

The analyst loads the hash into the SIEM to discover if this hash is seen in other parts of the network. After inspecting a large number of files, the SIEM reports the following.
File hash: E289F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2
File found: somestuff.xls, somefile.pdf, nofile.doc
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the hash being found in other areas?

Question85: 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 207.46.130.0:6666.
Which of the following should the security analyst do to determine if the compromised system still has an active connection?

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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?

Question88: A security administrator receives an alert from a third-party vendor that indicates a certificate that was installed in the browser has been hijacked at the root of a small public CA. The security administrator knows there are at least four different browsers in use on more than a thousand computers in the domain worldwide. Which of the following solution would be BEST for the security administrator to implement to most efficiently assist with this issue?

Question89: A user is presented with the following items during the new-hire onboarding process:
-Laptop
-Secure USB drive
-Hardware OTP token
-External high-capacity HDD
-Password complexity policy
-Acceptable use policy
-HASP key
-Cable lock
Which of the following is one component of multifactor authentication?

Question90: A company hired a third-party firm to conduct as assessment of vulnerabilities exposed to the Internet. The firm informs the company that an exploit exists for an FTP server that has a version installed from eight years ago. The company has decided to keep the system online anyway, as no upgrade exists from the vendor. Which of the following BEST describes the reason why the vulnerability exists?

Question91: A manager suspects that an IT employee with elevated database access may be knowingly modifying financial transactions for the benefit of a competitor. Which of the following practices should the manager implement to validate the concern?

Question92: Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?

Question93: An application team is performing a load-balancing test for a critical application during off- hours and has requested access to the load balancer to review which servers are up without having the administrator on call. The security analyst is hesitant to give the application team full access due to other critical applications running on the load balancer.
Which of the following is the BEST solution for security analyst to process the request?

Question94: Which of the following would meet the requirements for multifactor authentication?

Question95: A network technician is setting up a segmented network that will utilize a separate ISP to provide wireless access to the public area for a company. Which of the following wireless security methods should the technician implement to provide basic accountability for access to the public network?

Question96: Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test environment to production?