EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following types of cloud infrastructures would allow several organizations with similar structures and interests to realize the benefits of shared storage and resources?

Question2: 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?

Question3: A security analyst is reviewing the following packet capture of an attack directed at a company's server located in the DMZ:

Which of the following ACLs provides the BEST protection against the above attack and any further attacks from the same IP, while minimizing service interruption?

Question4: 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?

Question5: Which of the following would MOST likely appear in an uncredentialed vulnerability scan?

Question6: An application was recently compromised after some malformed data came in via web form. Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this?

Question7: Which of the following solutions should an administrator use to reduce the risk from an unknown vulnerability in a third-party software application?

Question8: Which of the following is the BEST reason to run an untested application is a sandbox?

Question9: 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?

Question10: A security administrator is reviewing the following PowerShell script referenced in the Task Scheduler on a database server:

Which of the following did the security administrator discover?

Question11: The help desk is receiving numerous password change alerts from users in the accounting department.
These alerts occur multiple times on the same day for each of the affected users' accounts.
Which of the following controls should be implemented to curtail this activity?

Question12: 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?

Question13: An auditor is reviewing the following output from a password-cracking tool:

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

Question14: Which of the following is the BEST choice for a security control that represents a preventive and corrective logical control at the same time?

Question15: 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?

Question16: 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?

Question17: The help desk received a call after hours from an employee who was attempting to log into the payroll server remotely. When the help desk returned the call the next morning, the employee was able to log into the server remotely without incident. However, the incident occurred again the next evening.
Which of the following BEST describes the cause of the issue?

Question18: A malicious system continuously sends an extremely large number of SYN packets to a server. Which of the following BEST describes the resulting effect?

Question19: A systems administrator found a suspicious file in the root of the file system. The file contains URLs, usernames, passwords, and text from other documents being edited on the system. Which of the following types of malware would generate such a file?

Question20: 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?

Question21: 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?

Question22: 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?

Question23: A company has two wireless networks utilizing captive portals. Some employees report getting a trust error in their browsers when connecting to one of the networks.
Both captive portals are using the same server certificate for authentication, but the analyst notices the following differences between the two certificate details:
Certificate 1
Certificate Path:
Geotrust Global CA
*company.com
Certificate 2
Certificate Path:
*company.com
Which of the following would resolve the problem?

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: Which of the following is commonly used for federated identity management across multiple organizations?

Question27: 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?

Question28: A systems administrator has isolated an infected system from the network and terminated the malicious process from executing.
Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT according to the incident response process?

Question29: 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?

Question30: 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?

Question31: A consultant has been tasked to assess a client's network. The client reports frequent network outages.
Upon viewing the spanning tree configuration, the consultant notices that an old and law performing edge switch on the network has been elected to be the root bridge.
Which of the following explains this scenario?

Question32: 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?

Question33: 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?

Question34: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has tasked a security analyst with assessing the security posture of an organization and which internal factors would contribute to a security compromise. The analyst performs a walk-through of the organization and discovers there are multiple instances of unlabeled optical media on office desks. Employees in the vicinity either do not claim ownership or disavow any knowledge concerning who owns the media. Which of the following is the MOST immediate action to be taken?

Question35: 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?

Question36: The POODLE attack is an MITM exploit that affects:

Question37: Which of the following threats has sufficient knowledge to cause the MOST danger to an organization?

Question38: 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?

Question39: 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?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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)

Question42: 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?

Question43: 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?

Question44: Which of the following is the LEAST secure hashing algorithm?

Question45: 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?

Question46: Which of the following could occur when both strong and weak ciphers are configured on a VPN concentrator? (Select TWO)

Question47: Which of the following controls allows a security guard to perform a post-incident review?

Question48: Due to regulatory requirements, a security analyst must implement full drive encryption on a Windows file server.
Which of the following should the analyst implement on the system to BEST meet this requirement?
(Choose two.)

Question49: 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?

Question50: An incident response manager has started to gather all the facts related to a SIEM alert showing multiple systems may have been compromised.
The manager has gathered these facts:
The breach is currently indicated on six user PCs

One service account is potentially compromised

Executive management has been notified

In which of the following phases of the IRP is the manager currently working?

Question51: A wireless network has the following design requirements:
Authentication must not be dependent on enterprise directory service

It must allow background reconnection for mobile users

It must not depend on user certificates

Which of the following should be used in the design to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

Question52: 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?

Question53: A security administrator is evaluating three different services: radius, diameter, and Kerberos.
Which of the following is a feature that is UNIQUE to Kerberos?

Question54: 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?

Question55: A company wants to implement an access management solution that allows employees to use the same usernames and passwords for multiple applications without having to keep multiple credentials synchronized.
Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?

Question56: 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?

Question57: Phishing emails frequently take advantage of high-profile catastrophes reported in the news.
Which of the following principles BEST describes the weakness being exploited?

Question58: 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?

Question59: 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?

Question60: A vulnerability scanner that uses its running service's access level to better assess vulnerabilities across multiple assets within an organization is performing a:

Question61: 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?

Question62: Which of the following are used to increase the computing time it takes to brute force a password using an offline attack? (Select TWO)

Question63: 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?

Question64: 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?

Question65: 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?

Question66: 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?

Question67: A security engineer must install the same x.509 certificate on three different servers. The client application that connects to the server performs a check to ensure the certificate matches the host name. Which of the following should the security engineer use?

Question68: 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?

Question69: While working on an incident, Joe, a technician, finished restoring the OS and applications on a workstation from the original media. Joe is about to begin copying the user's files back onto the hard drive.
Which of the following incident response steps is Joe working on now?

Question70: 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?

Question71: 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?

Question72: A security analyst is reviewing the following output from an IPS:

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

Question73: 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?

Question74: Which of the following is the appropriate network structure used to protect servers and services that must be provided to external clients without completely eliminating access for internal users?

Question75: 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:

Question76: A network administrator adds an ACL to allow only HTTPS connections form host 192.168.2.3 to web server 192.168.5.2. After applying the rule, the host is unable to access the server. The network administrator runs the output and notices the configuration below:

Which of the following rules would be BEST to resolve the issue?
A:

B:

C:

D:

Question77: 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?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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?

Question81: When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on memory volatility? (Select two.)

Question82: After a user reports stow computer performance, a systems administrator detects a suspicious file, which was installed as part of a freeware software package.
The systems administrator reviews the output below:

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

Question83: A security administrator needs an external vendor to correct an urgent issue with an organization's physical access control system (PACS). The PACS does not currently have internet access because it is running a legacy operation system.
Which of the following methods should the security administrator select the best balances security and efficiency?

Question84: A security technician is configuring an access management system to track and record user actions.
Which of the following functions should the technician configure?

Question85: 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).

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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?

Question88: An attacker exploited a vulnerability on a mail server using the code below.

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

Question89: 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?

Question90: 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?

Question91: 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?

Question92: 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?

Question93: An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime. Which of the following has been specified?

Question94: Which of the following describes the key difference between vishing and phishing attacks?

Question95: 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?

Question96: The process of applying a salt and cryptographic hash to a password then repeating the process many times is known as which of the following?

Question97: A computer emergency response team is called at midnight to investigate a case in which a mail server was restarted. After an initial investigation, it was discovered that email is being exfiltrated through an active connection.
Which of the following is the NEXT step the team should take?

Question98: 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?

Question99: Six months into development, the core team assigned to implement a new internal piece of software must convene to discuss a new requirement with the stake holders. A stakeholder identified a missing feature critical to the organization, which must be implemented. The team needs to validate the feasibility of the newly introduced requirement and ensure it does not introduce new vulnerabilities to the software and other applications that will integrate with it.
Which of the following BEST describes what the company?

Question100: 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?

Question101: Which of the following types of penetration test will allow the tester to have access only to password hashes prior to the penetration test?

Question102: 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?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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?

Question105: 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?

Question106: Which of the following best describes routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed from a string?

Question107: Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test environment to production?

Question108: 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?

Question109: An external attacker can modify the ARP cache of an internal computer.
Which of the following types of attacks is described?

Question110: Which of the following penetration testing concepts is being used when an attacker uses public Internet databases to enumerate and learn more about a target?

Question111: 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?

Question112: Which of the following must be intact for evidence to be admissible in court?

Question113: The IT department needs to prevent users from installing untested applications.
Which of the following would provide the BEST solution?

Question114: 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?

Question115: 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?

Question116: An organization wants to conduct secure transactions of large data files. Before encrypting and exchanging the data files, the organization wants to ensure a secure exchange of keys.
Which of the following algorithms is appropriate for securing the key exchange?

Question117: A company wants to ensure confidential data from storage media is sanitized in such a way that the drive cannot be reused. Which of the following method should the technician use?

Question118: A security analyst is mitigating a pass-the-hash vulnerability on a Windows infrastructure.
Given the requirement, which of the following should the security analyst do to MINIMIZE the risk?

Question119: 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?

Question120: 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?

Question121: 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?

Question122: A company's loss control department identifies theft as a recurring loss type over the past year. Based on the department's report, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to detect theft of datacenter equipment.
Which of the following controls should be implemented?

Question123: Which of the following cryptographic algorithms is irreversible?

Question124: A user receives an email from ISP indicating malicious traffic coming from the user's home network is detected. The traffic appears to be Linux-based, and it is targeting a website that was recently featured on the news as being taken offline by an Internet attack. The only Linux device on the network is a home surveillance camera system.
Which of the following BEST describes what is happening?

Question125: An administrator has configured a new Linux server with the FTP service. Upon verifying that the service was configured correctly, the administrator has several users test the FTP service. Users report that they are able to connect to the FTP service and download their personal files, however, they cannot transfer new files to the server.
Which of the following will most likely fix the uploading issue for the users?

Question126: Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?

Question127: 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?

Question128: A company recently replaced its unsecure email server with a cloud-based email and collaboration solution that is managed and insured by a third party. Which of the following actions did the company take regarding risks related to its email and collaboration services?

Question129: An organization has implemented an IPSec VPN access for remote users.
Which of the following IPSec modes would be the MOST secure for this organization to implement?

Question130: 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?

Question131: 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?

Question132: 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?

Question133: An audit has revealed that database administrators are also responsible for auditing database changes and backup logs.
Which of the following access control methodologies would BEST mitigate this concern?

Question134: Which of the following specifically describes the exploitation of an interactive process to access otherwise restricted areas of the OS?

Question135: A technician is investigating a potentially compromised device with the following symptoms:
Browser slowness

Frequent browser crashes

Hourglass stuck

New search toolbar

Increased memory consumption

Which of the following types of malware has infected the system?

Question136: Which of the following are methods to implement HA in a web application server environment? (Select two.)

Question137: Which of the following is the proper order for logging a user into a system from the first step to the last step?

Question138: 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?

Question139: A forensic expert is given a hard drive from a crime scene and is asked to perform an investigation. Which of the following is the FIRST step the forensic expert needs to take the chain of custody?

Question140: Ann, a user, states that her machine has been behaving erratically over the past week. She has experienced slowness and input lag and found text files that appear to contain pieces of her emails or online conversations with coworkers. The technician runs a standard virus scan but detects nothing.
Which of the following types of malware has infected the machine?

Question141: 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?

Question142: Which of the following is the BEST reason for salting a password hash before it is stored in a database?

Question143: 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?

Question144: 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?

Question145: Company XYZ has decided to make use of a cloud-based service that requires mutual, certificate- based authentication with its users. The company uses SSL-inspecting IDS at its network boundary and is concerned about the confidentiality of the mutual authentication.
Which of the following model prevents the IDS from capturing credentials used to authenticate users to the new service or keys to decrypt that communication?

Question146: A company is performing an analysis of the corporate enterprise network with the intent of identifying what will cause losses in revenue, referrals, and/or reputation when out of commission. Which of the following is an element of a BIA that is being addressed?

Question147: 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?

Question148: An active/passive configuration has an impact on:

Question149: 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?

Question150: Which of the following is a deployment concept that can be used to ensure only the required OS access is exposed to software applications?

Question151: A security administrator wants to implement a company-wide policy to empower data owners to manage and enforce access control rules on various resources.
Which of the following should be implemented?

Question152: 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:

Question153: An organization is trying to decide which type of access control is most appropriate for the network. The current access control approach is too complex and requires significant overhead.
Management would like to simplify the access control and provide user with the ability to determine what permissions should be applied to files, document, and directories. The access control method that BEST satisfies these objectives is:

Question154: Every morning, a systems administrator monitors failed login attempts on the company's log management server. The administrator notices the DBAdmin account has five failed username and/or password alerts during a ten-minute window. The systems administrator determines the user account is a dummy account used to attract attackers.
Which of the following techniques should the systems administrator implement?

Question155: A systems administrator is configuring a system that uses data classification labels.
Which of the following will the administrator need to implement to enforce access control?

Question156: A technician is configuring a load balancer for the application team to accelerate the network performance of their applications. The applications are hosted on multiple servers and must be redundant.
Given this scenario, which of the following would be the BEST method of configuring the load balancer?

Question157: 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?

Question158: A security administrator wants to implement a logon script that will prevent MITM attacks on the local LAN.
Which of the following commands should the security administrator implement within the script to accomplish this task?

Question159: Several workstations on a network are found to be on OS versions that are vulnerable to a specific attack.
Which of the following is considered to be a corrective action to combat this vulnerability?

Question160: Which of the following types of attacks precedes the installation of a rootkit on a server?

Question161: 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?

Question162: 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?

Question163: A penetration tester is crawling a target website that is available to the public. Which of the following represents the actions the penetration tester is performing?

Question164: 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?

Question165: Which of the following would meet the requirements for multifactor authentication?

Question166: Ann, a user, reports she is unable to access an application from her desktop. A security analyst verifies Ann's access and checks the SIEM for any errors. The security analyst reviews the log file from Ann's system and notices the following output:

Which of the following is MOST likely preventing Ann from accessing the application from the desktop?

Question167: 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?

Question168: 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?

Question169: Which of the following could help detect trespassers in a secure facility? (Select TWO)

Question170: A company is deploying a new VoIP phone system. They require 99.999% uptime for their phone service and are concerned about their existing data network interfering with the VoIP phone system. The core switches in the existing data network are almost fully saturated.
Which of the following options will pro-vide the best performance and availability for both the VoIP traffic, as well as the traffic on the existing data network?

Question171: 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?

Question172: Which of the following should a security analyst perform FIRST to determine the vulnerabilities of a legacy system?

Question173: 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?

Question174: 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?

Question175: Which of the following BEST describes an attack where communications between two parties are intercepted and forwarded to each party with neither party being aware of the interception and potential modification to the communications?

Question176: Which of the following can affect electrostatic discharge in a network operations center?

Question177: 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:

Question178: A security analyst is diagnosing an incident in which a system was compromised from an external IP address. The socket identified on the firewall was traced to 207.46.130.0:6666. Which of the following should the security analyst do to determine if the compromised system still has an active connection?

Question179: An external contractor, who has not been given information about the software or network architecture, is conducting a penetration test. Which of the following BEST describes the test being performed?

Question180: Two users must encrypt and transmit large amounts of data between them.
Which of the following should they use to encrypt and transmit the data?

Question181: A network administrator needs to allocate a new network for the R&D group. The network must not be accessible from the Internet regardless of the network firewall or other external misconfigurations. Which of the following settings should the network administrator implement to accomplish this?

Question182: A remote user (User1) is unable to reach a newly provisioned corporate windows workstation. The system administrator has been given the following log files from the VPN, corporate firewall and workstation host.

Which of the following is preventing the remote user from being able to access the workstation?

Question183: 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?

Question184: Joe, a user, has been trying to send Ann, a different user, an encrypted document via email. Ann has not received the attachment but is able to receive the header information.
Which of the following is MOST likely preventing Ann from receiving the encrypted file?

Question185: 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?

Question186: 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?

Question187: Which of the following best describes the initial processing phase used in mobile device forensics?

Question188: 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?

Question189: In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand. Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?

Question190: 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?

Question191: Which of the following is an asymmetric function that generates a new and separate key every time it runs?

Question192: A number of employees report that parts of an ERP application are not working. The systems administrator reviews the following information from one of the employee workstations:
Execute permission denied: financemodule.dll
Execute permission denied: generalledger.dll
Which of the following should the administrator implement to BEST resolve this issue while minimizing risk and attack exposure?

Question193: 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)

Question194: When attackers use a compromised host as a platform for launching attacks deeper into a company's network, it is said that they are:

Question195: 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)

Question196: 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?

Question197: 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?

Question198: Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?

Question199: 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?

Question200: 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?

Question201: A security administrator determined that users within the company are installing unapproved software.
Company policy dictates that only certain applications may be installed or ran on the user's computers without exception.
Which of the following should the administrator do to prevent all unapproved software from running on the user's computer?

Question202: A company exchanges information with a business partner. An annual audit of the business partner is conducted against the SLA in order to verify:

Question203: Which of the following differentiates a collision attack from a rainbow table attack?

Question204: 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?

Question205: 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?

Question206: Which of the following delineates why it is important to perform egress filtering and monitoring on Internet connected security zones of interfaces on a firewall?

Question207: A security analyst is investigating a potential breach. Upon gathering, documenting, and securing the evidence, which of the following actions is the NEXT step to minimize the business impact?

Question208: 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?

Question209: 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?

Question210: 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?

Question211: 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?

Question212: 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?

Question213: Which of the following is the GREATEST risk to a company by allowing employees to physically bring their personal smartphones to work?

Question214: A software developer is concerned about DLL hijacking in an application being written. Which of the following is the MOST viable mitigation measure of this type of attack?

Question215: 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?

Question216: A datacenter recently experienced a breach. When access was gained, an RF device was used to access an air-gapped and locked server rack. Which of the following would BEST prevent this type of attack?

Question217: 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?

Question218: 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?

Question219: 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?

Question220: When generating a request for a new x.509 certificate for securing a website, which of the following is the MOST appropriate hashing algorithm?

Question221: 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?

Question222: When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:

Question223: A home invasion occurred recently in which an intruder compromised a home network and accessed a WiFI- enabled baby monitor while the baby's parents were sleeping.
Which of the following BEST describes how the intruder accessed the monitor?

Question224: Which of the following technologies would be MOST appropriate to utilize when testing a new software patch before a company-wide deployment?

Question225: A security engineer is configuring a system that requires the X.509 certificate information to be pasted into a form field in Base64 encoded format to import it into the system. Which of the following certificate formats should the engineer use to obtain the information in the required format?

Question226: A server administrator needs to administer a server remotely using RDP, but the specified port is closed on the outbound firewall on the network.
The access the server using RDP on a port other than the typical registered port for the RDP protocol?

Question227: Ann, a customer, is reporting that several important files are missing from her workstation. She recently received communication from an unknown party who is requesting funds to restore the files. Which of the following attacks has occurred?

Question228: 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?

Question229: A new hire wants to use a personally owned phone to access company resources. The new hire expresses concern about what happens to the data on the phone when they leave the company.
Which of the following portions of the company's mobile device management configuration would allow the company data to be removed from the device without touching the new hire's data?

Question230: Which of the following should identify critical systems and components?

Question231: 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?

Question232: 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?

Question233: A hacker has a packet capture that contains:

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

Question234: The administrator installs database software to encrypt each field as it is written to disk.
Which of the following describes the encrypted data?

Question235: 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?

Question236: 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?

Question237: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) recently saw on the news that a significant security flaws exists with a specific version of a technology the company uses to support many critical application. The CIO wants to know if this reported vulnerability exists in the organization and, if so, to what extent the company could be harmed.
Which of the following would BEST provide the needed information?

Question238: During a third-party audit, it is determined that a member of the firewall team can request, approve, and implement a new rule-set on the firewall.
Which of the following will the audit team most l likely recommend during the audit out brief?

Question239: 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?

Question240: Which of the following would verify that a threat does exist and security controls can easily be bypassed without actively testing an application?

Question241: A new security administrator ran a vulnerability scanner for the first time and caused a system outage.
Which of the following types of scans MOST likely caused the outage?

Question242: 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?

Question243: 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?

Question244: When designing a web based client server application with single application server and database cluster backend, input validation should be performed:

Question245: Which of the following would be considered multifactor authentication?

Question246: 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?

Question247: 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?

Question248: 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?

Question249: Which of the following encryption methods does PKI typically use to securely protect keys?

Question250: 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?

Question251: 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?

Question252: 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?

Question253: 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?

Question254: Which of the following should be used to implement voice encryption?

Question255: 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.)

Question256: A security analyst is working on a project that requires the implementation of a stream cipher. Which of the following should the analyst use?

Question257: 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?

Question258: A business sector is highly competitive, and safeguarding trade secrets and critical information is paramount. On a seasonal basis, an organization employs temporary hires and contractor personnel to accomplish its mission objectives. The temporary and contract personnel require access to network resources only when on the clock.
Which of the following account management practices are the BEST ways to manage these accounts?

Question259: A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior. Which of the following steps is MOST important in the process of disengagement from this employee?

Question260: 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.)

Question261: When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

Question262: 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?

Question263: While performing surveillance activities, an attacker determines that an organization is using 802.1X to secure LAN access.
Which of the following attack mechanisms can the attacker utilize to bypass the identified network security?

Question264: A company determines that it is prohibitively expensive to become compliant with new credit card regulations. Instead, the company decides to purchase insurance to cover the cost of any potential loss.
Which of the following is the company doing?

Question265: 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?

Question266: 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?

Question267: Which of the following is the BEST explanation of why control diversity is important in a defense-in-depth architecture?

Question268: 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?

Question269: 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:

Question270: Which of the following components of printers and MFDs are MOST likely to be used as vectors of compromise if they are improperly configured?

Question271: 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?

Question272: 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?

Question273: 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.)

Question274: 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?

Question275: Which of the following are MOST susceptible to birthday attacks?

Question276: Which of the following allows an auditor to test proprietary-software compiled code for security flaws?

Question277: A security administrator suspects that data on a server has been exhilarated as a result of un- authorized remote access.
Which of the following would assist the administrator in con-firming the suspicions? (Select TWO)

Question278: Ann, a college professor, was recently reprimanded for posting disparaging remarks re-grading her coworkers on a web site. Ann stated that she was not aware that the public was able to view her remakes.
Which of the following security-related trainings could have made Ann aware of the repercussions of her actions?

Question279: A security administrator suspects that a DDoS attack is affecting the DNS server. The administrator accesses a workstation with the hostname of workstation01 on the network and obtains the following output from the ipconfig command:

The administrator successfully pings the DNS server from the workstation. Which of the following commands should be issued from the workstation to verify the DDoS attack is no longer occuring?

Question280: 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?

Question281: Which of the following allows an application to securely authenticate a user by receiving credentials from a web domain?

Question282: 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?

Question283: Which of the following vulnerability types would the type of hacker known as a script kiddie be MOST dangerous against?

Question284: 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?

Question285: A security engineer wants to implement a site-to-site VPN that will require SSL certificates for mutual authentication. Which of the following should the engineer implement if the design requires client MAC address to be visible across the tunnel?

Question286: Which of the following locations contain the MOST volatile data?

Question287: 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?