EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A security guard has informed the Chief Information Security Officer that a person with a tablet has been walking around the building. The guard also noticed strange white markings in different areas of the parking lot.
The person is attempting which of the following types of attacks?

Question2: A technician receives a device with the following anomalies:
Frequent pop-up ads
Show response-time switching between active programs Unresponsive peripherals The technician reviews the following log file entries:
File Name Source MD5 Target MD5
Status
antivirus.exe F794F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2 F794F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2 Automatic iexplore.exe 7FAAF21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF29CCEA AA87F21CD33E4F57890DDEAEE2197333 Automatic service.exe
77FF390CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28881F 77FF390CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28881F Manual USB.exe E289F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28EDC0 E289F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28EDC0 Stopped Based on the above output, which of the following should be reviewed?

Question3: A forensic investigator has run into difficulty recovering usable files from a SAN drive. Which of the following SAN features might have caused the problem?

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: 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?

Question6: 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?

Question7: A web developer improves client access to the company's REST API. Authentication needs to be tokenized but not expose the client's password.
Which of the following methods would BEST meet the developer's requirements?

Question8: 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?

Question9: Which of the following is used to validate the integrity of data?

Question10: 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?

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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?

Question13: A small company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has asked its Chief Security Officer (CSO) to improve the company's security posture quickly with regard to targeted attacks.
Which of the following should the CSO conduct FIRST?

Question14: 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?

Question15: 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?

Question16: An incident involving a workstation that is potentially infected with a virus has occurred. The workstation may have sent confidential data to an unknown internet server.
Which of the following should a security analyst do FIRST?

Question17: A system's administrator has finished configuring firewall ACL to allow access to a new web server.

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?

Question18: Which of the following AES modes of operation provide authentication? (Select two.)

Question19: An organization plans to implement multifactor authentication techniques within the enterprise network architecture. Each authentication factor is expected to be a unique control.
Which of the following BEST describes the proper employment of multifactor authentication?

Question20: 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?

Question21: A web server, which is configured to use TLS with AES-GCM-256, SHA-384, and ECDSA, recently suffered an information loss breach.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

Question22: A third-party penetration testing company was able to successfully use an ARP cache poison technique to gain root access on a server. The tester successfully moved to another server that was not in the original network.
Which of the following is the MOST likely method used to gain access to the other host?

Question23: Which of the following differentiates a collision attack from a rainbow table attack?

Question24: A hacker has a packet capture that contains:

Which of the following tools will the hacker use against this type of capture?

Question25: Which of the following controls allows a security guard to perform a post-incident review?

Question26: Having adequate lighting on the outside of a building is an example of which of the following security controls?

Question27: When it comes to cloud computing, if one of the requirements for a project is to have the most control over the systems in the cloud, which of the following is a service model that would be BEST suited for this goal?

Question28: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is asking for ways to protect against zero-day exploits. The CISO is concerned that an unrecognized threat could compromise corporate data and result in regulatory fines as well as poor corporate publicity. The network is mostly flat, with split staff/guest wireless functionality.
Which of the following equipment MUST be deployed to guard against unknown threats?

Question29: 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?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: 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:

Question33: An in-house penetration tester has been asked to evade a new DLP system. The tester plans to exfiltrate data through steganography.
Discovery of which of the following would help catch the tester in the act?

Question34: An organization wants to utilize a common, Internet-based third-party provider for authorization and authentication. The provider uses a technology based on OAuth 2.0 to provide required services. To which of the following technologies is the provider referring?

Question35: Which of the following are used to increase the computing time it takes to brute force a password using an offline attack? (Select TWO)

Question36: Ann is the IS manager for several new systems in which the classification of the systems' data are being decided. She is trying to determine the sensitivity level of the data being processed. Which of the following people should she consult to determine the data classification?

Question37: A security technician has been receiving alerts from several servers that indicate load balancers have had a significant increase in traffic. The technician initiates a system scan. The scan results illustrate that the disk space on several servers has reached capacity. The scan also indicates that incoming internet traffic to the servers has increased.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the decreased disk space?

Question38: Which of the following technologies would be MOST appropriate to utilize when testing a new software patch before a company-wide deployment?

Question39: A vice president at a manufacturing organization is concerned about desktops being connected to the network. Employees need to log onto the desktops' local account to verify that a product is being created within specifications; otherwise, the desktops should be as isolated as possible. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this?

Question40: Which of the following is commonly done as part of a vulnerability scan?

Question41: A user typically works remotely over the holidays using a web-based VPN to access corporate resources.
The user reports getting untrusted host errors and being unable to connect. Which of the following is MOST likely the case?

Question42: A penetration tester harvests potential usernames from a social networking site. The penetration tester then uses social engineering to attempt to obtain associated passwords to gain unauthorized access to shares on a network server.
Which of the following methods is the penetration tester MOST likely using?

Question43: 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?

Question44: 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?

Question45: A company is deploying smartphones for its mobile salesforce. These devices are for personal and business use but are owned by the company. Sales personnel will save new customer data via a custom application developed for the company. This application will integrate with the contact information stored in the smartphones and will populate new customer records onto it.
The customer application's data is encrypted at rest, and the application's connection to the back office system is considered secure. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has concerns that customer contact information may be accidentally leaked due to the limited security capabilities of the devices and the planned controls.
Which of the following will be the MOST efficient security control to implement to lower this risk?

Question46: 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?

Question47: 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?

Question48: Ann a security analyst is monitoring the IDS console and noticed multiple connections from an internal host to a suspicious call back domain.
Which of the following tools would aid her to decipher the network traffic?

Question49: 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?

Question50: Joe, the security administrator, sees this in a vulnerability scan report:
"The server 10.1.2.232 is running Apache 2.2.20 which may be vulnerable to a mod_cgi exploit." Joe verifies that the mod_cgi module is not enabled on 10.1.2.232. This message is an example of:

Question51: Phishing emails frequently take advantage of high-profile catastrophes reported in the news.
Which of the following principles BEST describes the weakness being exploited?

Question52: A system administrator is configuring a site-to-site VPN tunnel.
Which of the following should be configured on the VPN concentrator during the IKE phase?

Question53: A security administrator needs to address the following audit recommendations for a public-facing SFTP server:
Users should be restricted to upload and download files to their own home directories only.
Users should not be allowed to use interactive shell login.
Which of the following configuration parameters should be implemented? (Select TWO).

Question54: Audit logs from a small company's vulnerability scanning software show the following findings:
Destinations scanned:
-Server001- Internal human resources payroll server
-Server101-Internet-facing web server
-Server201- SQL server for Server101
-Server301-Jumpbox used by systems administrators accessible from the internal network Validated vulnerabilities found:
-Server001- Vulnerable to buffer overflow exploit that may allow attackers to install software
-Server101- Vulnerable to buffer overflow exploit that may allow attackers to install software
-Server201-OS updates not fully current
-Server301- Accessible from internal network without the use of jumpbox
-Server301-Vulnerable to highly publicized exploit that can elevate user privileges Assuming external attackers who are gaining unauthorized information are of the highest concern, which of the following servers should be addressed FIRST?

Question55: 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?

Question56: The chief Security Officer (CSO) has reported a rise in data loss but no break ins have occurred.
By doing which of the following is the CSO most likely to reduce the number of incidents?

Question57: 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:

Question58: A user downloads and installs an MP3 converter, and runs the application. Upon running the application, the antivirus detects a new port in a listening state. Which of the following has the user MOST likely executed?

Question59: A company exchanges information with a business partner. An annual audit of the business partner is conducted against the SLA in order to verify:

Question60: A security architect has convened a meeting to discuss an organization's key management policy. The organization has a reliable internal key management system, and some argue that it would be best to manage the cryptographic keys internally as opposed to using a solution from a third party. The company should use:

Question61: 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?

Question62: A black hat hacker is enumerating a network and wants to remain covert during the process. The hacker initiates a vulnerability scan. Given the task at hand the requirement of being covert, which of the following statements BEST indicates that the vulnerability scan meets these requirements?

Question63: Upon entering an incorrect password, the logon screen displays a message informing the user that the password does not match the username provided and is not the required length of 12 characters.
Which of the following secure coding techniques should a security analyst address with the application developers to follow security best practices?

Question64: After attempting to harden a web server, a security analyst needs to determine if an application remains vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.
Which of the following would BEST assist the analyst in making this determination?

Question65: 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?

Question66: A cybersecurity analyst is looking into the payload of a random packet capture file that was selected for analysis. The analyst notices that an internal host had a socket established with another internal host over a non-standard port.
Upon investigation, the origin host that initiated the socket shows this output:

Given the above output, which of the following commands would have established the questionable socket?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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.)

Question69: Which of the following is the GREATEST risk to a company by allowing employees to physically bring their personal smartphones to work?

Question70: 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?

Question71: Company A agrees to provide perimeter protection, power, and environmental support with measurable goals for Company B, but will not be responsible for user authentication or patching of operating systems within the perimeter.
Which of the following is being described?

Question72: A member of the admins group reports being unable to modify the "changes" file on a server.
The permissions on the file are as follows:
Permissions User Group File
-rwxrw-r--+ Admins Admins changes
Based on the output above, which of the following BEST explains why the user is unable to modify the
"changes" file?

Question73: 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?

Question74: 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?

Question75: 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?

Question76: The data backup window has expanded into the morning hours and has begun to affect production users.
The main bottleneck in the process is the time it takes to replicate the backups to separate severs at the offsite data center.
Which of the following uses of deduplication could be implemented to reduce the backup window?

Question77: 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?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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?

Question81: 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?

Question82: 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?

Question83: 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?

Question84: 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?

Question85: A software developer wants to ensure that the application is verifying that a key is valid before establishing SSL connections with random remote hosts on the Internet.
Which of the following should be used in the code? (Select TWO.)

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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.)

Question88: A company is evaluating cloud providers to reduce the cost of its internal IT operations. The company's aging systems are unable to keep up with customer demand. Which of the following cloud models will the company MOST likely select?

Question89: 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?

Question90: 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?

Question91: 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?

Question92: An organization identifies a number of hosts making outbound connections to a known malicious IP over port TCP 80. The organization wants to identify the data being transmitted and prevent future connections to this IP.
Which of the following should the organization do to achieve this outcome?

Question93: Which of the following would verify that a threat does exist and security controls can easily be bypassed without actively testing an application?

Question94: 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?

Question95: The SSID broadcast for a wireless router has been disabled but a network administrator notices that unauthorized users are accessing the wireless network. The administer has determined that attackers are still able to detect the presence of the wireless network despite the fact the SSID has been disabled.
Which of the following would further obscure the presence of the wireless network?

Question96: 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?

Question97: 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?

Question98: 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?

Question99: 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?

Question100: An organization recently moved its custom web applications to the cloud, and it is obtaining managed services of the back-end environment as part of its subscription. Which of the following types of services is this company now using?

Question101: 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?

Question102: A software development manager is taking over an existing software development project. The team currently suffers from poor communication due to a long delay between requirements documentation and feature delivery. This gap is resulting in an above average number of security-related bugs making it into production.
Which of the following development methodologies is the team MOST likely using now?

Question103: During a routine vulnerability assessment, the following command was successful:
echo "vrfy 'perl -e 'print "hi" x 500 ' ' " | nc www.company.com 25
Which of the following vulnerabilities is being exploited?

Question104: A security administrator learns that PII, which was gathered by the organization, has been found in an open forum. As a result, several C-level executives found their identities were compromised, and they were victims of a recent whaling attack.
Which of the following would prevent these problems in the future? (Select TWO).

Question105: 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?

Question106: 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?

Question107: 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?

Question108: 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?

Question109: Which of the following is the BEST reason to run an untested application is a sandbox?

Question110: 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?

Question111: The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a company, Ann, is putting together a hardware budget for the next
10 years. She is asking for the average lifespan of each hardware device so that she is able to calculate when she will have to replace each device.
Which of the following categories BEST describes what she is looking for?

Question112: 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?

Question113: 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?

Question114: An administrator is configuring access to information located on a network file server named "Bowman".
The files are located in a folder named "BalkFiles". The files are only for use by the "Matthews" division and should be read-only. The security policy requires permissions for shares to be managed at the file system layer and also requires those permissions to be set according to a least privilege model. Security policy for this data type also dictates that administrator-level accounts on the system have full access to the files.
The administrator configures the file share according to the following table:

Which of the following rows has been misconfigured?

Question115: A security analyst is inspecting the results of a recent internal vulnerability scan that was performed against intranet services.
The scan reports include the following critical-rated vulnerability: Title: Remote Command Execution vulnerability in web server Rating: Critical (CVSS 10.0) Threat actor: any remote user of the web server Confidence: certain Recommendation: apply vendor patches Which of the following actions should the security analyst perform FIRST?

Question116: 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?

Question117: An organization uses SSO authentication for employee access to network resources. When an employee resigns, as per the organization's security policy, the employee's access to all network resources is terminated immediately. Two weeks later, the former employee sends an email to the help desk for a password reset to access payroll information from the human resources server. Which of the following represents the BEST course of action?

Question118: 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?

Question119: Which of the following vulnerability types would the type of hacker known as a script kiddie be MOST dangerous against?

Question120: A user needs to send sensitive information to a colleague using PKI.
Which of the following concepts apply when a sender encrypts the message hash with the sender's private key? (Select TWO)

Question121: 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?

Question122: 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?

Question123: Which of the following is the proper way to quantify the total monetary damage resulting from an exploited vulnerability?

Question124: Which of the following types of attacks precedes the installation of a rootkit on a server?

Question125: An auditor has identified an access control system that can incorrectly accept an access attempt from an unauthorized user. Which of the following authentication systems has the auditor reviewed?

Question126: A security administrator is configuring a new network segment, which contains devices that will be accessed by external users, such as web and FTP server. Which of the following represents the MOST secure way to configure the new network segment?

Question127: 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?

Question128: Which of the following works by implanting software on systems but delays execution until a specific set of conditions is met?

Question129: The IT department is deploying new computers. To ease the transition, users will be allowed to access their old and new systems.
The help desk is receive reports that users are experiencing the following error when attempting to log in to their previous system:
Logon Failure: Access Denied
Which of the following can cause this issue?

Question130: A security analyst conducts a manual scan on a known hardened host that identifies many non-compliant items.
Which of the following BEST describe why this has occurred? (Select TWO)

Question131: Which of the following would meet the requirements for multifactor authentication?

Question132: 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?

Question133: Which of the following could occur when both strong and weak ciphers are configured on a VPN concentrator? (Select TWO)

Question134: 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?

Question135: 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?

Question136: Which of the following should identify critical systems and components?

Question137: A security administrator needs to implement a system that detects possible intrusions based upon a vendor provided list.
Which of the following BEST describes this type of IDS?

Question138: 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?

Question139: An actor downloads and runs a program against a corporate login page. The program imports a list of usernames and passwords, looking for a successful attempt.
Which of the following terms BEST describes the actor in this situation?

Question140: An administrator is testing the collision resistance of different hashing algorithms.
Which of the following is the strongest collision resistance test?

Question141: 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?

Question142: 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?

Question143: Attackers have been using revoked certificates for MITM attacks to steal credentials from employees of Company.com.
Which of the following options should Company.com implement to mitigate these attacks?

Question144: 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?

Question145: To determine the ALE of a particular risk, which of the following must be calculated? (Select two.)

Question146: Joe, a technician, is working remotely with his company provided laptop at the coffee shop near his home.
Joe is concerned that another patron of the coffee shop may be trying to access his laptop.
Which of the following is an appropriate control to use to prevent the other patron from accessing Joe's laptop directly?

Question147: Users in a corporation currently authenticate with a username and password. A security administrator wishes to implement two-factor authentication to improve security.
Which of the following authentication methods should be deployed to achieve this goal?

Question148: An attacker exploited a vulnerability on a mail server using the code below.

Which of the following BEST explains what the attacker is doing?

Question149: 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?

Question150: Which of the following are methods to implement HA in a web application server environment? (Select two.)

Question151: An organization has several production-critical SCADA supervisory systems that cannot follow the normal
30- day patching policy.
Which of the following BEST maximizes the protection of these systems from malicious software?

Question152: A vulnerability scan is being conducted against a desktop system. The scan is looking for files, versions, and registry values known to be associated with system vulnerabilities. Which of the following BEST describes the type of scan being performed?

Question153: A security manager is creating an account management policy for a global organization with sales personnel who must access corporate network resources while traveling all over the world.
Which of the following practices is the security manager MOST likely to enforce with the policy? (Select TWO)

Question154: An in-house penetration tester is using a packet capture device to listen in on network communications.
This is an example of:

Question155: A security engineer is configuring a wireless network with EAP-TLS. Which of the following activities is a requirement for this configuration?

Question156: 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?

Question157: 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?

Question158: 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?

Question159: 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?

Question160: Which of the following attack types is being carried out where a target is being sent unsolicited messages via Bluetooth?

Question161: 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?

Question162: 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?

Question163: Which of the following is the LEAST secure hashing algorithm?

Question164: An attacker uses a network sniffer to capture the packets of a transaction that adds $20 to a gift card. The attacker then user a function of the sniffer to push those packets back onto the network again, adding another $20 to the gift card. This can be done many times.
Which of the following describes this type of attack?

Question165: A workstation puts out a network request to locate another system. Joe, a hacker on the network, responds before the real system does, and he tricks the workstation into communicating with him. Which of the following BEST describes what occurred?

Question166: 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?

Question167: 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?

Question168: 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?

Question169: Which of the following components of printers and MFDs are MOST likely to be used as vectors of compromise if they are improperly configured?

Question170: 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?

Question171: Which of the following could help detect trespassers in a secure facility? (Select TWO)

Question172: 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?

Question173: Which of the following best describes the initial processing phase used in mobile device forensics?

Question174: 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?

Question175: Which of the following should a security analyst perform FIRST to determine the vulnerabilities of a legacy system?

Question176: A network operations manager has added a second row of server racks in the datacenter. These racks face the opposite direction of the first row of racks.
Which of the following is the reason the manager installed the racks this way?

Question177: Which of the following should be used to implement voice encryption?

Question178: 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 transposed. Which of the following BEST describes the attack vector used to infect the devices?

Question179: Which of the following is the summary of loss for a given year?

Question180: A company is allowing a BYOD policy for its staff.
Which of the following is a best practice that can decrease the risk of users jailbreaking mobile devices?

Question181: Which of the following is the BEST choice for a security control that represents a preventive and corrective logical control at the same time?

Question182: The POODLE attack is an MITM exploit that affects:

Question183: A security analyst is acquiring data from a potential network incident.
Which of the following evidence is the analyst MOST likely to obtain to determine the incident?

Question184: After a recent internal breach, a company decided to regenerate and reissue all certificates used in the transmission of confidential information. The company places the greatest importance on confidentiality and non-repudiation, and decided to generate dual key pairs for each client. Which of the following BEST describes how the company will use these certificates?

Question185: During a recent audit, it was discovered that several user accounts belonging to former employees were still active and had valid VPN permissions.
Which of the following would help reduce the amount of risk the organization incurs in this situation in the future?

Question186: An organization is moving its human resources system to a cloud services provider.
The company plans to continue using internal usernames and passwords with the service provider, but the security manager does not want the service provider to have a company of the passwords.
Which of the following options meets all of these requirements?

Question187: 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?

Question188: A penetration testing is preparing for a client engagement in which the tester must provide data that proves and validates the scanning tools' results.
Which of the following is the best method for collecting this information?

Question189: 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?

Question190: An employee uses RDP to connect back to the office network.
If RDP is misconfigured, which of the following security exposures would this lead to?

Question191: 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?

Question192: 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?

Question193: A penetration tester is conducting an assessment on Comptia.org and runs the following command from a coffee shop while connected to the public Internet: c:\nslookup -querytype=MX comptia.org Server: Unknown Address: 198.51.100.45 comptia.org MX preference=10, mail exchanger = 92.68.102.33 comptia.org MX preference=20, mail exchanger = exchg1.comptia.org exchg1.comptia.org internet address = 192.168.102.67 Which of the following should the penetration tester conclude about the command output?

Question194: Which of the following describes the key difference between vishing and phishing attacks?

Question195: 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?

Question196: 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?

Question197: During an application design, the development team specifics a LDAP module for single sign-on communication with the company's access control database.
This is an example of which of the following?

Question198: 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?

Question199: 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?

Question200: After a security incident, management is meeting with involved employees to document the incident and its aftermath.
Which of the following BEST describes this phase of the incident response process?

Question201: A security administrator is diagnosing a server where the CPU utilization is at 100% for 24 hours. The main culprit of CPU utilization is the antivirus program.
Which of the following issue could occur if left unresolved? (Select TWO)

Question202: A security analyst wants to harden the company's VoIP PBX. The analyst is worried that credentials may be intercepted and compromised when IP phones authenticate with the BPX. Which of the following would best prevent this from occurring?

Question203: Legal authorities notify a company that its network has been compromised for the second time in two years. The investigation shows the attackers were able to use the same vulnerability on different systems in both attacks.
Which of the following would have allowed the security team to use historical information to protect against the second attack?

Question204: 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?

Question205: As part of a new BYOD rollout, a security analyst has been asked to find a way to securely store company data on personal devices.
Which of the following would BEST help to accomplish this?

Question206: 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?

Question207: Which of the following cryptographic algorithms is irreversible?

Question208: 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?

Question209: 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?

Question210: 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?

Question211: A company offers SaaS, maintaining all customers' credentials and authenticating locally. Many large customers have requested the company offer some form of federation with their existing authentication infrastructures.
Which of the following would allow customers to manage authentication and authorizations from within their existing organizations?

Question212: 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.)

Question213: 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?

Question214: 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?

Question215: 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?

Question216: 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?

Question217: 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?

Question218: A security analyst is attempting to break into a client's secure network. The analyst was not given prior information about the client, except for a block of public IP addresses that are currently in use. After network enumeration, the analyst's NEXT step is to perform:

Question219: 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?

Question220: 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?

Question221: Following the successful response to a data-leakage incident, the incident team lead facilitates an exercise that focuses on continuous improvement of the organization's incident response capabilities. Which of the following activities has the incident team lead executed?

Question222: A security analyst is securing smartphones and laptops for a highly mobile workforce.
Priorities include:
Remote wipe capabilities

Geolocation services

Patch management and reporting

Mandatory screen locks

Ability to require passcodes and pins

Ability to require encryption

Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

Question223: After a merger, it was determined that several individuals could perform the tasks of a network administrator in the merged organization. Which of the following should have been performed to ensure that employees have proper access?