EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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.)

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: 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?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) drafts an agreement between the organization and its employees. The agreement outlines ramifications for releasing information without consent and/for approvals. Which of the following BEST describes this type of agreement?

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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:

Question14: An auditor is reviewing the following output from a password-cracking tool:

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

Question15: 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?

Question16: 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?

Question17: Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test environment to production?

Question18: 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?

Question19: 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?

Question20: 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?

Question21: 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.)

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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.)

Question24: 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?

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

Question26: Which of the following occurs when the security of a web application relies on JavaScript for input validation?

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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?

Question29: Which of the following specifically describes the exploitation of an interactive process to access otherwise restricted areas of the OS?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: Which of the following must be intact for evidence to be admissible in court?

Question33: 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?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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?

Question36: 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?

Question37: 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?

Question38: Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?

Question39: 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?

Question40: When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

Question41: When connected to a secure WAP, which of the following encryption technologies is MOST likely to be configured when connecting to WPA2-PSK?

Question42: Which of the following AES modes of operation provide authentication? (Select two.)

Question43: 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?

Question44: 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?

Question45: An in-house penetration tester is using a packet capture device to listen in on network communications.
This is an example of:

Question46: 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?

Question47: 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?

Question48: 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?

Question49: Which of the following would meet the requirements for multifactor authentication?

Question50: 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?

Question51: When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on memory volatility? (Select two.)

Question52: 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?

Question53: 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?

Question54: 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?

Question55: 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?

Question56: 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?

Question57: 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?

Question58: 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?

Question59: 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?

Question60: Which of the following cryptography algorithms will produce a fixed-length, irreversible output?

Question61: Which of the following encryption methods does PKI typically use to securely project keys?

Question62: Which of the following would MOST likely appear in an uncredentialed vulnerability scan?

Question63: 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?

Question64: Which of the following technologies employ the use of SAML? (Select two.)

Question65: 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?

Question66: 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?

Question67: 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?

Question68: Which of the following vulnerability types would the type of hacker known as a script kiddie be MOST dangerous against?

Question69: 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? / local/

Question70: 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.)

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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?

Question73: 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?

Question74: 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?

Question75: Which of the following types of attacks precedes the installation of a rootkit on a server?

Question76: A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior. Which of the following steps is MOST important in the process of disengagement from this employee?

Question77: When identifying a company's most valuable assets as part of a BIA, which of the following should be the FIRST priority?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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?

Question81: 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?

Question82: 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?

Question83: When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:

Question84: 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?

Question85: 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?

Question86: A vulnerability scanner that uses its running service's access level to better assess vulnerabilities across multiple assets within an organization is performing a:

Question87: 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?

Question88: 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.)

Question89: 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?

Question90: 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.)

Question91: 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?

Question92: Which of the following cryptographic algorithms is irreversible?