EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Although a web enabled application appears to only allow letters in the comment field of a web form, malicious user was able to carry a SQL injection attack by sending special characters through the web comment field.
Which of the following has the application programmer failed to implement?

Question2: A security analyst observes the following events in the logs of an employee workstation:

Given the information provided, which of the following MOST likely occurred on the workstation?

Question3: A company's AUP requires:
Passwords must meet complexity requirements.

Passwords are changed at least once every six months.

Passwords must be at least eight characters long.

An auditor is reviewing the following report:

Which of the following controls should the auditor recommend to enforce the AUP?

Question4: During a monthly vulnerability scan, a server was flagged for being vulnerable to an Apache Struts exploit.
Upon further investigation, the developer responsible for the server informs the security team that Apache Struts is not installed on the server. Which of the following BEST describes how the security team should reach to this incident?

Question5: A user of the wireless network is unable to gain access to the network. The symptoms are:
1.) Unable to connect to both internal and Internet resources
2.) The wireless icon shows connectivity but has no network access
The wireless network is WPA2 Enterprise and users must be a member of the wireless security group to authenticate.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the connectivity issues?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: An organization has hired a penetration tester to test the security of its ten web servers. The penetration tester is able to gain root/administrative access in several servers by exploiting vulnerabilities associated with the implementation of SMTP, POP, DNS, FTP, Telnet, and IMAP.
Which of the following recommendations should the penetration tester provide to the organization to better protect their web servers in the future?

Question12: 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?

Question13: A security engineer is faced with competing requirements from the networking group and database administrators. The database administrators would like ten application servers on the same subnet for ease of administration, whereas the networking group would like to segment all applications from one another.
Which of the following should the security administrator do to rectify this issue?

Question14: A security administrator must implement a system to ensure that invalid certificates are not used by a custom developed application. The system must be able to check the validity of certificates even when internet access is unavailable.
Which of the following MUST be implemented to support this requirement?

Question15: Joe, a security administrator, needs to extend the organization's remote access functionality to be used by staff while travelling. Joe needs to maintain separate access control functionalities for internal, external, and VOIP services. Which of the following represents the BEST access technology for Joe to use?

Question16: 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?

Question17: 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 security analyst reports the following:

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the hash being found in other areas?

Question18: Which of the following can be provided to an AAA system for the identification phase?

Question19: 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?

Question20: A software development company needs to share information between two remote servers, using encryption to protect it. A programmer suggests developing a new encryption protocol, arguing that using an unknown protocol with secure, existing cryptographic algorithm libraries will provide strong encryption without being susceptible to attacks on other known protocols.
Which of the following summarizes the BEST response to the programmer's proposal?

Question21: 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?

Question22: 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?

Question23: A mobile device user is concerned about geographic positioning information being included in messages sent between users on a popular social network platform. The user turns off the functionality in the application, but wants to ensure the application cannot re-enable the setting without the knowledge of the user.
Which of the following mobile device capabilities should the user disable to achieve the stated goal?

Question24: 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?

Question25: Two users need to send each other emails over unsecured channels. The system should support the principle of non-repudiation. Which of the following should be used to sign the user's certificates?

Question26: Which of the following implements two-factor authentication?

Question27: Adhering to a layered security approach, a controlled access facility employs security guards who verify the authorization of all personnel entering the facility. Which of the following terms BEST describes the security control being employed?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A security analyst notices anomalous activity coming from several workstations in the organizations. Upon identifying and containing the issue, which of the following should the security analyst do NEXT?

Question30: A member of a digital forensics team, Joe arrives at a crime scene and is preparing to collect system data.
Before powering the system off, Joe knows that he must collect the most volatile date first.
Which of the following is the correct order in which Joe should collect the data?

Question31: 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?

Question32: Which of the following attack types is being carried out where a target is being sent unsolicited messages via Bluetooth?

Question33: A network administrator wants to implement a method of securing internal routing. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Question34: The Chief Security Officer (CISO) at a multinational banking corporation is reviewing a plan to upgrade the entire corporate IT infrastructure. The architecture consists of a centralized cloud environment hosting the majority of data, small server clusters at each corporate location to handle the majority of customer transaction processing, ATMs, and a new mobile banking application accessible from smartphones, tablets, and the Internet via HTTP. The corporation does business having varying data retention and privacy laws.
Which of the following technical modifications to the architecture and corresponding security controls should be implemented to provide the MOST complete protection of data?

Question35: Which of the following would verify that a threat does exist and security controls can easily be bypassed without actively testing an application?

Question36: An administrator has concerns regarding the traveling sales team who works primarily from smart phones.
Given the sensitive nature of their work, which of the following would BEST prevent access to the data in case of loss or theft?

Question37: An organization's primary datacenter is experiencing a two-day outage due to an HVAC malfunction. The node located in the datacenter has lost power and is no longer operational, impacting the ability of all users to connect to the alternate datacenter. Which of the following BIA concepts BEST represents the risk described in this scenario?

Question38: A bank requires tellers to get manager approval when a customer wants to open a new account. A recent audit shows that there have been four cases in the previous year where tellers opened accounts without management approval. The bank president thought separation of duties would prevent this from happening.
In order to implement a true separation of duties approach the bank could:

Question39: A Security Officer on a military base needs to encrypt several smart phones that will be going into the field.
Which of the following encryption solutions should be deployed in this situation?

Question40: A technician must configure a firewall to block external DNS traffic from entering a network.
Which of the following ports should they block on the firewall?

Question41: 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.)

Question42: A black hat hacker is enumerating a network and wants to remain convert during the process. The hacker initiates a vulnerability scan. Given the task at hand the requirement of being convert, which of the following statements BEST indicates that the vulnerability scan meets these requirements?

Question43: 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?

Question44: 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?

Question45: 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?

Question46: A security administrator has been tasked with improving the overall security posture related to desktop machines on the network. An auditor has recently that several machines with confidential customer information displayed in the screens are left unattended during the course of the day.
Which of the following could the security administrator implement to reduce the risk associated with the finding?

Question47: An audit takes place after company-wide restricting, in which several employees changed roles. The following deficiencies are found during the audit regarding access to confidential data:

Which of the following would be the BEST method to prevent similar audit findings in the future?

Question48: The security administrator receives an email on a non-company account from a coworker stating that some reports are not exporting correctly. Attached to the email was an example report file with several customers' names and credit card numbers with the PIN.
Which of the following is the BEST technical controls that will help mitigate this risk of disclosing sensitive data?

Question49: A system administrator needs to implement 802.1x whereby when a user logs into the network, the authentication server communicates to the network switch and assigns the user to the proper VLAN.
Which of the following protocols should be used?

Question50: 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?

Question51: A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior. Which of the following steps is MOST important in the process of disengagement from this employee?

Question52: Which of the following must be intact for evidence to be admissible in court?

Question53: Which of the following would meet the requirements for multifactor authentication?

Question54: Which of the following are MOST susceptible to birthday attacks?

Question55: 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?

Question56: An information security analyst needs to work with an employee who can answer questions about how data for a specific system is used in the business. The analyst should seek out an employee who has the role of:

Question57: An organization requires users to provide their fingerprints to access an application. To improve security, the application developers intend to implement multifactor authentication. Which of the following should be implemented?

Question58: An in-house penetration tester is using a packet capture device to listen in on network communications.
This is an example of:

Question59: A copy of a highly confidential salary report was recently found on a printer in the IT department. The human resources department does not have this specific printer mapped to its devices, and it is suspected that an employee in the IT department browsed to the share where the report was located and printed it without authorization. Which of the following technical controls would be the BEST choice to immediately prevent this from happening again?

Question60: 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?

Question61: Which of the following technologies employ the use of SAML? (Select two.)

Question62: When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:

Question63: The availability of a system has been labeled as the highest priority. Which of the following should be focused on the MOST to ensure the objective?

Question64: A security analyst has received the following alert snippet from the HIDS appliance:

Given the above logs, which of the following is the cause of the attack?

Question65: A security administrator receives notice that a third-party certificate authority has been compromised, and new certificates will need to be issued.
Which of the following should the administrator submit to receive a new certificate?

Question66: A new mobile application is being developed in-house. Security reviews did not pick up any major flaws, however vulnerability scanning results show fundamental issues at the very end of the project cycle.
Which of the following security activities should also have been performed to discover vulnerabilities earlier in the lifecycle?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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?

Question69: Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?

Question70: A network administrator wants to ensure that users do not connect any unauthorized devices to the company network. Each desk needs to connect a VoIP phone and computer.
Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this?

Question71: A group of non-profit agencies wants to implement a cloud service to share resources with each other and minimize costs. Which of the following cloud deployment models BEST describes this type of effort?

Question72: 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?

Question73: Which of the following would MOST likely appear in an uncredentialed vulnerability scan?

Question74: Which of the following differentiates a collision attack from a rainbow table attack?

Question75: A web application is configured to target browsers and allow access to bank accounts to siphon money to a foreign account.
This is an example of which of the following attacks?

Question76: 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?

Question77: In terms of encrypting data, which of the following is BEST described as a way to safeguard password data by adding random data to it in storage?

Question78: 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?

Question79: An administrator intends to configure an IPSec solution that provides ESP with integrity protection, but not confidentiality protection.
Which of the following AES modes of operation would meet this integrity-only requirement?

Question80: A business has recently deployed laptops to all sales employees. The laptops will be used primarily from home offices and while traveling, and a high amount of wireless mobile use is expected.
To protect the laptops while connected to untrusted wireless networks, which of the following would be the BEST method for reducing the risk of having the laptops compromised?

Question81: A security administrator is developing training for corporate users on basic security principles for personal email accounts.
Which of the following should be mentioned as the MOST secure way for password recovery?

Question82: A company wants to ensure that the validity of publicly trusted certificates used by its web server can be determined even during an extended internet outage.
Which of the following should be implemented?

Question83: A system administrator wants to provide for and enforce wireless access accountability during events where external speakers are invited to make presentations to a mixed audience of employees and non- employees. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Question84: 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?

Question85: A security analyst has been asked to perform a review of an organization's software development lifecycle.
The analyst reports that the lifecycle does not contain a phase in which team members evaluate and provide critical feedback of another developer's code.
Which of the following assessment techniques is BEST described in the analyst's report?

Question86: 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?

Question87: Recently several employees were victims of a phishing email that appeared to originate from the company president. The email claimed the employees would be disciplined if they did not click on a malicious link in the message.
Which of the following principles of social engineering made this attack successful?

Question88: 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?

Question89: In an effort to reduce data storage requirements, some 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?

Question90: Which of the following is the GREATEST risk to a company by allowing employees to physically bring their personal smartphones to work?

Question91: A system's administrator has finished configuring firewall ACL to allow access to a new web answer.

The security administrator confirms form the following packet capture that there is network traffic from the internet to the web server:

The company's internal auditor issues a security finding and requests that immediate action be taken. With which of the following is the auditor MOST concerned?

Question92: 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?

Question93: 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?

Question94: While reviewing the monthly internet usage it is noted that there is a large spike in traffic classified as
"unknown" and does not appear to be within the bounds of the organizations Acceptable Use Policy.
Which of the following tool or technology would work BEST for obtaining more information on this traffic?

Question95: 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.)

Question96: An information security specialist is reviewing the following output from a Linux server.

Based on the above information, which of the following types of malware was installed on the server?

Question97: When considering a third-party cloud service provider, which of the following criteria would be the BEST to include in the security assessment process? (Select two.)

Question98: Which of the following types of cloud Infrastructures would allow several organizations with similar structures and interests to realize shared storage and resources?

Question99: Which of the following is the summary of loss for a given year?

Question100: When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

Question101: 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.)

Question102: Which of the following vulnerability types would the type of hacker known as a script kiddie be MOST dangerous against?

Question103: 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?

Question104: After a routine audit, a company discovers that engineering documents have been leaving the network on a particular port. The company must allow outbound traffic on this port, as it has a legitimate business use.
Blocking the port would cause an outage. Which of the following technology controls should the company implement?

Question105: 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?

Question106: A security administrator has been assigned to review the security posture of the standard corporate system image for virtual machines. The security administrator conducts a thorough review of the system logs, installation procedures, and network configuration of the VM image. Upon reviewing the access logs and user accounts, the security administrator determines that several accounts will not be used in production.
Which of the following would correct the deficiencies?

Question107: Company policy requires the use if passphrases instead if passwords.
Which of the following technical controls MUST be in place in order to promote the use of passphrases?

Question108: An organization finds that most help desk calls are regarding account lockout due to a variety of applications running on different systems. Management 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?

Question109: Which of the following are methods to implement HA in a web application server environment? (Select two.)

Question110: A security analyst is investigating a suspected security breach and discovers the following in the logs of the potentially compromised server:

Which of the following would be the BEST method for preventing this type of suspected attack in the future?

Question111: An attacker compromises a public CA and issues unauthorized X.509 certificates for Company.com. In the future, Company.com wants to mitigate the impact of similar incidents. Which of the following would assist Company.com with its goal?

Question112: A security administrator returning from a short vacation receives an account lock-out message when attempting to log into the computer. After getting the account unlocked the security administrator immediately notices a large amount of emails alerts pertaining to several different user accounts being locked out during the past three days. The security administrator uses system logs to determine that the lock-outs were due to a brute force attack on all accounts that has been previously logged into that machine.
Which of the following can be implemented to reduce the likelihood of this attack going undetected?

Question113: A supervisor in your organization was demoted on Friday afternoon. The supervisor had the ability to modify the contents of a confidential database, as well as other managerial permissions. On Monday morning, the database administrator reported that log files indicated that several records were missing from the database.
Which of the following risk mitigation strategies should have been implemented when the supervisor was demoted?

Question114: 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.)

Question115: A dumpster diver recovers several hard drives from a company and is able to obtain confidential data from one of the hard drives. The company then discovers its information is posted online. Which of the following methods would have MOST likely prevented the data from being exposed?

Question116: Which of the following should identify critical systems and components?

Question117: A systems administrator wants to protect data stored on mobile devices that are used to scan and record assets in a warehouse. The control must automatically destroy the secure container of mobile devices if they leave the warehouse. Which of the following should the administrator implement? (Select two.)

Question118: 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?

Question119: When identifying a company's most valuable assets as part of a BIA, which of the following should be the FIRST priority?

Question120: A computer on a company network was infected with a zero-day exploit after an employee accidently opened an email that contained malicious content. The employee recognized the email as malicious and was attempting to delete it, but accidently opened it.
Which of the following should be done to prevent this scenario from occurring again in the future?

Question121: 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?

Question122: 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?

Question123: 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?

Question124: Malware that changes its binary pattern on specific dates at specific times to avoid detection is known as a (n):

Question125: Which of the following occurs when the security of a web application relies on JavaScript for input validation?

Question126: Which of the following encryption methods does PKI typically use to securely project keys?

Question127: An employer requires that employees use a key-generating app on their smartphones to log into corporate applications. In terms of authentication of an individual, this type of access policy is BEST defined as:

Question128: Joe is exchanging encrypted email with another party. Joe encrypts the initial email with a key. When Joe receives a response, he is unable to decrypt the response with the same key he used initially.
Which of the following would explain the situation?

Question129: A security program manager wants to actively test the security posture of a system. The system is not yet in production and has no uptime requirement or active user base.
Which of the following methods will produce a report which shows vulnerabilities that were actually exploited?

Question130: A security technician would like to obscure sensitive data within a file so that it can be transferred without causing suspicion.
Which of the following technologies would BEST be suited to accomplish this?

Question131: A company researched the root cause of a recent vulnerability in its software. It was determined that the vulnerability was the result of two updates made in the last release. Each update alone would not have resulted in the vulnerability.
In order to prevent similar situations in the future, the company should improve which of the following?

Question132: Which of the following technologies would be MOST appropriate to utilize when testing a new software patch before a company-wide deployment?

Question133: 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?

Question134: A vulnerability scanner that uses its running service's access level to better assess vulnerabilities across multiple assets within an organization is performing a:

Question135: 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 organizations 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:
New Vendor Entry - Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk

New Vendor Approval - Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk

Vendor Payment Entry - Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk

Vendor Payment Approval - Required Role: Accounts Payable Manager

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

B:

C:

D:

Question136: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) drafts an agreement between the organization and its employees. The agreement outlines ramifications for releasing information without consent and/or approvals. Which of the following BEST describes this type of agreement?

Question137: 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?

Question138: 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?

Question139: 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?

Question140: 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:

Question141: 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?

Question142: A network administrator is attempting to troubleshoot an issue regarding certificates on a secure website.
During the troubleshooting process, the network administrator notices that the web gateway proxy on the local network has signed all of the certificates on the local machine.
Which of the following describes the type of attack the proxy has been legitimately programmed to perform?

Question143: A security administrator is tasked with conducting an assessment made to establish the baseline security posture of the corporate IT infrastructure. The assessment must report actual flaws and weaknesses in the infrastructure. Due to the expense of hiring outside consultants, the testing must be performed using in- house or cheaply available resource. There cannot be a possibility of any requirement being damaged in the test.
Which of the following has the administrator been tasked to perform?

Question144: 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?

Question145: 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?

Question146: An organization needs to implement a large PKI. Network engineers are concerned that repeated transmission of the OCSP will impact network performance. Which of the following should the security analyst recommend is lieu of an OCSP?

Question147: 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.)

Question148: 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?

Question149: Which of the following cryptography algorithms will produce a fixed-length, irreversible output?

Question150: A penetration tester finds that a company's login credentials for the email client were being sent in clear text. Which of the following should be done to provide encrypted logins to the email server?

Question151: Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?

Question152: 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?

Question153: Which of the following works by implanting software on systems but delays execution until a specific set of conditions is met?

Question154: 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.)

Question155: 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?

Question156: A technician has installed new vulnerability scanner software on a server that is joined to the company domain. The vulnerability scanner is able to provide visibility over the patch posture of all company's clients.
Which of the following is being used?

Question157: 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?

Question158: 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?

Question159: When connected to a secure WAP, which of the following encryption technologies is MOST likely to be configured when connecting to WPA2-PSK?

Question160: An employee receives an email, which appears to be from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), asking for a report of security credentials for all users.
Which of the following types of attack is MOST likely occurring?

Question161: New magnetic locks were ordered for an entire building. In accordance with company policy, employee safety is the top priority.
In case of a fire where electricity is cut, which of the following should be taken into consideration when installing the new locks?

Question162: A security analyst accesses corporate web pages and inputs random data in the forms. The response received includes the type of database used and SQL commands that the database accepts. Which of the following should the security analyst use to prevent this vulnerability?

Question163: A user clicked an email link that led to a website than infected the workstation with a virus. The virus encrypted all the network shares to which the user had access. The virus was not deleted or blocked by the company's email filter, website filter, or antivirus. Which of the following describes what occurred?

Question164: Which of the following specifically describes the exploitation of an interactive process to access otherwise restricted areas of the OS?

Question165: 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?
Which of the following should the company use to fulfill the above requirements?

Question166: An attacker wearing a building maintenance uniform approached a company's receptionist asking for access to a secure area. The receptionist asks for identification, a building access badge and checks the company's list approved maintenance personnel prior to granting physical access to the secure are.
The controls used by the receptionist are in place to prevent which of the following types of attacks?

Question167: 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?

Question168: A new intern in the purchasing department requires read access to shared documents. Permissions are normally controlled through a group called "Purchasing", however, the purchasing group permissions allow write access.
Which of the following would be the BEST course of action?

Question169: 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?

Question170: A portable data storage device has been determined to have malicious firmware.
Which of the following is the BEST course of action to ensure data confidentiality?

Question171: When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on memory volatility? (Select two.)

Question172: 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?

Question173: An organization wishes to provide better security for its name resolution services. Which of the following technologies BEST supports the deployment of DNSSEC at the organization?

Question174: Which of the following AES modes of operation provide authentication? (Select two.)

Question175: The chief security officer (CS0) has issued a new policy that requires that all internal websites be configured for HTTPS traffic only. The network administrator has been tasked to update all internal sites without incurring additional costs.
Which of the following is the best solution for the network administrator to secure each internal website?

Question176: Ann, a security administrator, has been instructed to perform fuzz-based testing on the company's applications.
Which of the following best describes what she will do?

Question177: 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?

Question178: During a data breach cleanup, it is discovered that not all of the sites involved have the necessary data wiping tools. The necessary tools are quickly distributed to the required technicians, but when should this problem BEST be revisited?

Question179: A new firewall has been places into service at an organization. However, a configuration has not been entered on the firewall. Employees on the network segment covered by the new firewall report they are unable to access the network. Which of the following steps should be completed to BEST resolve the issue?

Question180: A technician is configuring a wireless guest network. After applying the most recent changes the technician finds the new devices can no longer find the wireless network by name but existing devices are still able to use the wireless network.
Which of the following security measures did the technician MOST likely implement to cause this Scenario?

Question181: A company is developing a new system that will unlock a computer automatically when an authorized user sits in front of it, and then lock the computer when the user leaves. The user does not have to perform any action for this process to occur. Which of the following technologies provides this capability?

Question182: 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?

Question183: A security team wants to establish an Incident Response plan. The team has never experienced an incident.
Which of the following would BEST help them establish plans and procedures?

Question184: 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?

Question185: An attacker discovers a new vulnerability in an enterprise application. The attacker takes advantage of the vulnerability by developing new malware. After installing the malware, the attacker is provided with access to the infected machine.
Which of the following is being described?

Question186: 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?

Question187: A security administrator is creating a subnet on one of the corporate firewall interfaces to use as a DMZ which is expected to accommodate at most 14 physical hosts.
Which of the following subnets would BEST meet the requirements?

Question188: 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?

Question189: An administrator discovers the following log entry on a server:
Nov 12 2013 00:23:45 httpd[2342]: GET
/app2/prod/proc/process.php?input=change;cd%20../../../etc;cat%20shadow Which of the following attacks is being attempted?

Question190: Anne, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), has reported that she is getting multiple telephone calls from someone claiming to be from the helpdesk. The caller is asking to verify her network authentication credentials because her computer is broadcasting across the network.
This is MOST likely which of the following types of attacks?

Question191: Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test environment to production?

Question192: 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?

Question193: 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?

Question194: An organization relies heavily on an application that has a high frequency of security updates. At present, the security team only updates the application on the first Monday of each month, even though the security updates are released as often as twice a week.
Which of the following would be the BEST method of updating this application?

Question195: 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?

Question196: During a routine audit, it is discovered that someone has been using a stale administrator account to log into a seldom 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?

Question197: A security administrator is trying to encrypt communication. For which of the following reasons should administrator take advantage of the Subject Alternative Name (SAM) attribute of a certificate?

Question198: An auditor is reviewing the following output from a password-cracking tool:

Which of the following methods did the author MOST likely use?

Question199: 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?

Question200: Technicians working with servers hosted at the company's datacenter are increasingly complaining of electric shocks when touching metal items which have been linked to hard drive failures.
Which of the following should be implemented to correct this issue?

Question201: A help desk is troubleshooting user reports that the corporate website is presenting untrusted certificate errors to employees and customers when they visit the website. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this error, provided the certificate has not expired?

Question202: After a user reports slow computer performance, a system administrator detects a suspicious file, which was installed as part of a freeware software package. The systems administrator reviews the output below:

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