EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following are methods to implement HA in a web application server environment? (Select two.)

Question2: A company is developing a new system that will unlock a computer automatically when an authorized user sits in front of it, and then lock the computer when the user leaves. The user does not have to perform any action for this process to occur. Which of the following technologies provides this capability?

Question3: A company is evaluating cloud providers to reduce the cost of its internal IT operations. The company's aging systems are unable to keep up with customer demand. Which of the following cloud models will the company MOST likely select?

Question4: After surfing the Internet, Joe, a user, woke up to find all his files were corrupted. His wallpaper was replaced by a message stating the files were encrypted and he needed to transfer money to a foreign country to recover them. Joe is a victim of:

Question5: A security analyst wants to harden the company's VoIP PBX. The analyst is worried that credentials may be intercepted and compromised when IP phones authenticate with the BPX. Which of the following would best prevent this from occurring?

Question6: When it comes to cloud computing, if one of the requirements for a project is to have the most control over the systems in the cloud, which of the following is a service model that would be BEST suited for this goal?

Question7: 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?

Question8: An office manager found a folder that included documents with various types of data relating to corporate clients. The office manager notified the data included dates of birth, addresses, and phone numbers for the clients. The office manager then reported this finding to the security compliance officer. Which of the following portions of the policy would the security officer need to consult to determine if a breach has occurred?

Question9: Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for their customers to download over the Internet?

Question10: A penetration tester harvests potential usernames from a social networking site. The penetration tester then uses social engineering to attempt to obtain associated passwords to gain unauthorized access to shares on a network server.
Which of the following methods is the penetration tester MOST likely using?

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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?

Question13: Which of the following is commonly done as part of a vulnerability scan?

Question14: Which of the following should be used to implement voice encryption?

Question15: 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?

Question16: A recent internal audit is forcing a company to review each internal business unit's VMs because the cluster they are installed on is in danger of running out of computer resources. Which of the following vulnerabilities exist?

Question17: 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?

Question18: 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?

Question19: Which of the following is used to validate the integrity of data?

Question20: The computer resource center issued smartphones to all first-level and above managers. The managers have the ability to install mobile tools. Which of the following tools should be implemented to control the types of tools the managers install?

Question21: When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on memory volatility? (Select two.)

Question22: 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?

Question23: An administrator intends to configure an IPSec solution that provides ESP with integrity protection, but not confidentiality protection.
Which of the following AES modes of operation would meet this integrity-only requirement?

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: A security administrator needs to address the following audit recommendations for a public-facing SFTP server:
Users should be restricted to upload and download files to their own home directories only.
Users should not be allowed to use interactive shell login.
Which of the following configuration parameters should be implemented? (Select TWO).

Question27: A security administrator receives an alert from a third-party vendor that indicates a certificate that was installed in the browser has been hijacked at the root of a small public CA. The security administrator knows there are at least four different browsers in use on more than a thousand computers in the domain worldwide.
Which of the following solutions would be BEST for the security administrator to implement to most efficiently assist with this issue?

Question28: 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?

Question29: 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?

Question30: 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:

Question31: The IT department needs to prevent users from installing untested applications.
Which of the following would provide the BEST solution?

Question32: 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?

Question33: Which of the following is the proper way to quantify the total monetary damage resulting from an exploited vulnerability?

Question34: Which of the following best describes routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed from a string?

Question35: Multiple employees receive an email with a malicious attachment that begins to encrypt their hard drives and mapped shares on their devices when it is opened. The network and security teams perform the following actions:
Shut down all network shares.

Run an email search identifying all employees who received the malicious message.

Reimage all devices belonging to users who opened the attachment.

Next, the teams want to re-enable the network shares. Which of the following BEST describes this phase of the incident response process?

Question36: When designing a web based client server application with single application server and database cluster backend, input validation should be performed:

Question37: An attack that is using interference as its main attack to impede network traffic is which of the following?

Question38: 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?

Question39: Which of the following are used to increase the computing time it takes to brute force a password using an offline attack? (Select TWO)

Question40: Which of the following is commonly used for federated identity management across multiple organizations?

Question41: 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?

Question42: A hacker has a packet capture that contains:

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

Question43: Which of the following best describes the initial processing phase used in mobile device forensics?

Question44: 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:

Question45: 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?

Question46: 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?

Question47: Malware that changes its binary pattern on specific dates at specific times to avoid detection is known as a (n):

Question48: An external attacker can modify the ARP cache of an internal computer.
Which of the following types of attacks is described?

Question49: 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?

Question50: A group of non-profit agencies wants to implement a cloud service to share resources with each other and minimize costs. Which of the following cloud deployment models BEST describes this type of effort?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A bank requires tellers to get manager approval when a customer wants to open a new account. A recent audit shows that there have been four cases in the previous year where tellers opened accounts without management approval. The bank president thought separation of duties would prevent this from happening.
In order to implement a true separation of duties approach the bank could:

Question53: A Chief Security Officer (CSO) has been unsuccessful in attempts to access the website for a potential partner (www.example.net).
Which of the following rules is preventing the CSO from accessing the site?
Blocked sites: *.nonews.com, *.rumorhasit.net, *.mars?

Question54: 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.)

Question55: A web application is configured to target browsers and allow access to bank accounts to siphon money to a foreign account.
This is an example of which of the following attacks?

Question56: Joe, the security administrator, sees this in a vulnerability scan report:
" The server 10.1.2.232 is running Apache 2.2.20 which may be vulnerable to a mod_cgi exploit." Joe verifies that the mod_cgi module is not enabled on 10.1.2.232. This message is an example of:

Question57: 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?

Question58: While reviewing the monthly internet usage it is noted that there is a large spike in traffic classified as
"unknown" and does not appear to be within the bounds of the organizations Acceptable Use Policy.
Which of the following tool or technology would work BEST for obtaining more information on this traffic?

Question59: Which of the following would be considered multifactor authentication?

Question60: 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?

Question61: 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?

Question62: A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all traffic to the FTP server is unencrypted. Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modern FTP client software.
The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing unencrypted connections. Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?

Question63: 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?

Question64: A security administrator is tasked with conducting an assessment made to establish the baseline security posture of the corporate IT infrastructure. The assessment must report actual flaws and weaknesses in the infrastructure. Due to the expense of hiring outside consultants, the testing must be performed using in- house or cheaply available resource. There cannot be a possibility of any requirement being damaged in the test.
Which of the following has the administrator been tasked to perform?

Question65: 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?

Question66: A software development manager is taking over an existing software development project. The team currently suffers from poor communication due to a long delay between requirements documentation and feature delivery. This gap is resulting in an above average number of security-related bugs making it into production.
Which of the following development methodologies is the team MOST likely using now?

Question67: 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?

Question68: An organization is expanding its network team. Currently, it has local accounts on all network devices, but with growth, it wants to move to centrally managed authentication. Which of the following are the BEST solutions for the organization? (Select TWO)

Question69: Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?

Question70: 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?

Question71: 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?

Question72: Which of the following can affect electrostatic discharge in a network operations center?

Question73: A security technician has been receiving alerts from several servers that indicate load balancers have had a significant increase in traffic. The technician initiates a system scan. The scan results illustrate that the disk space on several servers has reached capacity. The scan also indicates that incoming internet traffic to the servers has increased.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the decreased disk space?

Question74: Which of the following would verify that a threat does exist and security controls can easily be bypassed without actively testing an application?

Question75: 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?

Question76: Attackers have been using revoked certificates for MITM attacks to steal credentials from employees of Company.com.
Which of the following options should Company.com implement to mitigate these attacks?

Question77: A new security policy in an organization requires that all file transfers within the organization be completed using applications that provide secure transfer. Currently, the organization uses FTP and HTTP to transfer files.
Which of the following should the organization implement in order to be compliant with the new policy?

Question78: An attacker discovers a new vulnerability in an enterprise application. The attacker takes advantage of the vulnerability by developing new malware. After installing the malware, the attacker is provided with access to the infected machine.
Which of the following is being described?

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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.)

Question81: 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)

Question82: 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?

Question83: 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?

Question84: 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?

Question85: 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?

Question86: A technician is configuring a wireless guest network. After applying the most recent changes the technician finds the new devices can no longer find the wireless network by name but existing devices are still able to use the wireless network.
Which of the following security measures did the technician MOST likely implement to cause this Scenario?

Question87: 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?

Question88: In determining when it may be necessary to perform a credentialed scan against a system instead of a non-credentialed scan, which of the following requirements is MOST likely to influence this decision?

Question89: 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?

Question90: 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?

Question91: A penetration tester is conducting an assessment on Comptia.org and runs the following command from a coffee shop while connected to the public Internet: c:\nslookup -querytype=MX comptia.org Server: Unknown Address: 198.51.100.45 comptia.org MX preference=10, mail exchanger = 92.68.102.33 comptia.org MX preference=20, mail exchanger = exchg1.comptia.org exchg1.comptia.org internet address = 192.168.102.67 Which of the following should the penetration tester conclude about the command output?

Question92: A security technician is configuring an access management system to track and record user actions.
Which of the following functions should the technician configure?

Question93: 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:

Question94: 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?

Question95: 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?

Question96: A network administrator wants to implement a method of securing internal routing. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Question97: Which of the following AES modes of operation provide authentication? (Select two.)

Question98: Many employees are receiving email messages similar to the one shown below:
From IT department
To employee
Subject email quota exceeded
Pease click on the following link http:www.website.info/email.php?quota=1Gb and provide your username and password to increase your email quota. Upon reviewing other similar emails, the security administrator realized that all the phishing URLs have the following common elements; they all use HTTP, they all come from .info domains, and they all contain the same URI.
Which of the following should the security administrator configure on the corporate content filter to prevent users from accessing the phishing URL, while at the same time minimizing false positives?

Question99: An in-house penetration tester is using a packet capture device to listen in on network communications.
This is an example of:

Question100: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) has decided it is not cost effective to implement safeguards against a known vulnerability.
Which of the following risk responses does this BEST describe?

Question101: Joe, a salesman, was assigned to a new project that requires him to travel to a client site. While waiting for a flight, Joe, decides to connect to the airport wireless network without connecting to a VPN, and the sends confidential emails to fellow colleagues. A few days later, the company experiences a data breach. Upon investigation, the company learns Joe's emails were intercepted. Which of the following MOST likely caused the data breach?

Question102: 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?

Question103: 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?

Question104: Which of the following components of printers and MFDs are MOST likely to be used as vectors of compromise if they are improperly configured?

Question105: Which of the following is the BEST reason for salting a password hash before it is stored in a database?

Question106: An organization wants to upgrade its enterprise-wide desktop computer solution. The organization currently has 500 PCs active on the network. the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) suggests that the organization employ desktop imaging technology for such a large scale upgrade. Which of the following is a security benefit of implementing an imaging solution?

Question107: 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?

Question108: A company is investigating a data compromise where data exfiltration occurred. Prior to the investigation, the supervisor terminates an employee as a result of the suspected data loss. During the investigation, the supervisor is absent for the interview, and little evidence can be provided form the role-based authentication system in use by the company.
The situation can be identified for future mitigation as which of the following?

Question109: 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?

Question110: An analyst receives an alert from the SIEM showing an IP address that does not belong to the assigned network can be seen sending packets to the wrong gateway.
Which of the following network devices is misconfigured and which of the following should be done to remediate the issue?

Question111: A security analyst accesses corporate web pages and inputs random data in the forms. The response received includes the type of database used and SQL commands that the database accepts. Which of the following should the security analyst use to prevent this vulnerability?

Question112: A security administrator must implement a system to ensure that invalid certificates are not used by a custom developed application. The system must be able to check the validity of certificates even when internet access is unavailable.
Which of the following MUST be implemented to support this requirement?

Question113: 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?

Question114: A systems administrator wants to implement a wireless protocol that will allow the organization to authenticate mobile devices prior to providing the user with a captive portal login. Which of the following should the systems administrator configure?

Question115: 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?

Question116: Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?

Question117: 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?

Question118: 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?

Question119: An organization is comparing and contrasting migration from its standard desktop configuration to the newest version of the platform. Before this can happen, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) voices the need to evaluate the functionality of the newer desktop platform to ensure interoperability with existing software in use by the organization. In which of the following principles of architecture and design is the CISO engaging?

Question120: 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?

Question121: 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?

Question122: A security administrator is developing training for corporate users on basic security principles for personal email accounts.
Which of the following should be mentioned as the MOST secure way for password recovery?

Question123: An audit reported has identifies a weakness that could allow unauthorized personnel access to the facility at its main entrance and from there gain access to the network. Which of the following would BEST resolve the vulnerability?

Question124: 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?

Question125: An attacker exploited a vulnerability on a mail server using the code below.

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

Question126: 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?

Question127: 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?

Question128: Joe a website administrator believes he owns the intellectual property for a company invention and has been replacing image files on the company's public facing website in the DMZ. Joe is using steganography to hide stolen data.
Which of the following controls can be implemented to mitigate this type of inside threat?

Question129: 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?

Question130: Which of the following is the BEST explanation of why control diversity is important in a defense-in-depth architecture?

Question131: 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?

Question132: 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?

Question133: Which of the following differentiates a collision attack from a rainbow table attack?

Question134: After correctly configuring a new wireless enabled thermostat to control the temperature of the company's meeting room, Joe, a network administrator determines that the thermostat is not connecting to the internet-based control system. Joe verifies that the thermostat received the expected network parameters and it is associated with the AP. Additionally, the other wireless mobile devices connected to the same wireless network are functioning properly. The network administrator verified that the thermostat works when tested at his residence.
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the thermostat is not connecting to the internet?

Question135: An auditor wants to test the security posture of an organization by running a tool that will display the following:

Which of the following commands should be used?

Question136: 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?

Question137: 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?

Question138: 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?

Question139: Which of the following occurs when the security of a web application relies on JavaScript for input validation?

Question140: After a merger, it was determined that several individuals could perform the tasks of a network administrator in the merged organization. Which of the following should have been performed to ensure that employees have proper access?

Question141: User from two organizations, each with its own PKI, need to begin working together on a joint project.
Which of the following would allow the users of the separate PKIs to work together without connection errors?

Question142: 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?

Question143: A security administrator returning from a short vacation receives an account lock-out message when attempting to log into the computer. After getting the account unlocked the security administrator immediately notices a large amount of emails alerts pertaining to several different user accounts being locked out during the past three days. The security administrator uses system logs to determine that the lock-outs were due to a brute force attack on all accounts that has been previously logged into that machine.
Which of the following can be implemented to reduce the likelihood of this attack going undetected?

Question144: 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?

Question145: 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?

Question146: A security analyst is reviewing the following output from an IPS:

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

Question147: Which of the following cryptographic algorithms is irreversible?

Question148: 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?

Question149: The administrator installs database software to encrypt each field as it is written to disk.
Which of the following describes the encrypted data?

Question150: 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?

Question151: 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?

Question152: A remote intruder wants to take inventory of a network so exploits can be researched. The intruder is looking for information about software versions on the network. Which of the following techniques is the intruder using?

Question153: A product manager is concerned about continuing operations at a facility located in a region undergoing significant political unrest. After consulting with senior management, a decision is made to suspend operations at the facility until the situation stabilizes.
Which of the following risk management strategies BEST describes management's response?

Question154: 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?

Question155: 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.)

Question156: Malicious traffic from an internal network has been detected on an unauthorized port on an application server.
Which of the following network-based security controls should the engineer consider implementing?

Question157: Which of the following should identify critical systems and components?

Question158: 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.)

Question159: A bank uses a wireless network to transmit credit card purchases to a billing system.
Which of the following would be MOST appropriate to protect credit card information from being accessed by unauthorized individuals outside of the premises?

Question160: 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?

Question161: Which of the following scenarios BEST describes an implementation of non-repudiation?

Question162: Which of the following refers to the term used to restore a system to its operational state?

Question163: 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?

Question164: 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).

Question165: Due to regulatory requirements, server in a global organization must use time synchronization. Which of the following represents the MOST secure method of time synchronization?

Question166: Which of the following would allow for the QUICKEST restoration of a server into a warm recovery site in a case in which server data mirroring is not enabled?

Question167: During a recent audit, it was discovered that many services and desktops were missing security patches.
Which of the following BEST describes the assessment that was performed to discover this issue?

Question168: 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?

Question169: 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?

Question170: Which of the following is the BEST reason to run an untested application is a sandbox?

Question171: 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?

Question172: 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?

Question173: As part of the SDLC, a third party is hired to perform a penetration test. The third party will have access to the source code, integration tests, and network diagrams. Which of the following BEST describes the assessment being performed?

Question174: 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?

Question175: Which of the following specifically describes the exploitation of an interactive process to access otherwise restricted areas of the OS?

Question176: 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?

Question177: Users report the following message appears when browsing to the company's secure site: This website cannot be trusted.Which of the following actions should a security analyst take to resolve these messages? (Select two.)

Question178: To determine the ALE of a particular risk, which of the following must be calculated? (Select two.)

Question179: 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?

Question180: 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?

Question181: Having adequate lighting on the outside of a building is an example of which of the following security controls?

Question182: Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a server's certificate?

Question183: Phishing emails frequently take advantage of high-profile catastrophes reported in the news.
Which of the following principles BEST describes the weakness being exploited?

Question184: 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?

Question185: 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?

Question186: 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?

Question187: 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?

Question188: 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?

Question189: Which of the following could help detect trespassers in a secure facility? (Select TWO)

Question190: Which of the following is the LEAST secure hashing algorithm?

Question191: Which of the following could occur when both strong and weak ciphers are configured on a VPN concentrator? (Select TWO)

Question192: 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?

Question193: A network technician is setting up a segmented network that will utilize a separate ISP to provide wireless access to the public area for a company. Which of the following wireless security methods should the technician implement to provide basic accountability for access to the public network?

Question194: 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?

Question195: 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?

Question196: 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?

Question197: 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?

Question198: 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?

Question199: 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?

Question200: 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?

Question201: 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?

Question202: 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?

Question203: 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?

Question204: 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?

Question205: 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?

Question206: A company offers SaaS, maintaining all customers' credentials and authenticating locally. Many large customers have requested the company offer some form of federation with their existing authentication infrastructures.
Which of the following would allow customers to manage authentication and authorizations from within their existing organizations?

Question207: 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?

Question208: 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?

Question209: A company is using a mobile device deployment model in which employees use their personal devices for work at their own discretion. Some of the problems the company is encountering include the following:
There is no standardization.

Employees ask for reimbursement for their devices.

Employees do not replace their devices often enough to keep them running efficiently.

The company does not have enough control over the devices.

Which of the following is a deployment model that would help the company overcome these problems?

Question210: Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test environment to production?

Question211: Which of the following techniques can be bypass a user or computer's web browser privacy settings?
(Select Two)

Question212: 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?

Question213: 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?

Question214: An in-house penetration tester has been asked to evade a new DLP system. The tester plans to exfiltrate data through steganography.
Discovery of which of the following would help catch the tester in the act?

Question215: 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?

Question216: 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?

Question217: 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?

Question218: Which of the following should a security analyst perform FIRST to determine the vulnerabilities of a legacy system?

Question219: An incident involving a workstation that is potentially infected with a virus has occurred. The workstation may have sent confidential data to an unknown internet server.
Which of the following should a security analyst do FIRST?

Question220: 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?

Question221: An organization identifies a number of hosts making outbound connections to a known malicious IP over port TCP 80. The organization wants to identify the data being transmitted and prevent future connections to this IP.
Which of the following should the organization do to achieve this outcome?

Question222: 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?

Question223: A penetration tester has written an application that performs a bit-by-bit XOR 0xFF operation on binaries prior to transmission over untrusted media. Which of the following BEST describes the action performed by this type of application?

Question224: A security analyst is hardening a server with the directory services role installed. The analyst must ensure LDAP traffic cannot be monitored or sniffed and maintains compatibility with LDAP clients. Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Select two.)

Question225: 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?

Question226: 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?

Question227: 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?

Question228: 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?

Question229: Two users need to securely share encrypted files via email. Company policy prohibits users from sharing credentials or exchanging encryption keys.
Which of the following can be implemented to enable users to share encrypted data while abiding by company policies?

Question230: A Chief Information Officer (CIO) asks the company's security specialist if the company should spend any funds on malware protection for a specific server. Based on a risk assessment, the ARO value of a malware infection for a server is 5 and the annual cost for the malware protection is $2500.
Which of the following SLE values warrants a recommendation against purchasing the malware protection?

Question231: The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a company, Ann, is putting together a hardware budget for the next
10 years. She is asking for the average lifespan of each hardware device so that she is able to calculate when she will have to replace each device.
Which of the following categories BEST describes what she is looking for?

Question232: A company stores highly sensitive data files used by the accounting system on a server file share.
The accounting system uses a service account named accounting-svc to access the file share.
The data is protected will a full disk encryption, and the permissions are set as follows:
File system permissions: Users = Read Only
Share permission: accounting-svc = Read Only
Given the listed protections are in place and unchanged, to which of the following risks is the data still subject?

Question233: Which of the following attacks specifically impact data availability?

Question234: 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?

Question235: 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?

Question236: Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company's proprietary information to gain a market edge and reduce time to market?

Question237: Which of the following cryptography algorithms will produce a fixed-length, irreversible output?

Question238: 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?

Question239: A company is allowing a BYOD policy for its staff.
Which of the following is a best practice that can decrease the risk of users jailbreaking mobile devices?

Question240: 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.)

Question241: 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:

Question242: 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?

Question243: 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?

Question244: Which of the following works by implanting software on systems but delays execution until a specific set of conditions is met?

Question245: 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?

Question246: 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?

Question247: During a monthly vulnerability scan, a server was flagged for being vulnerable to an Apache Struts exploit.
Upon further investigation, the developer responsible for the server informs the security team that Apache Struts is not installed on the server. Which of the following BEST describes how the security team should reach to this incident?

Question248: Which of the following strategies should a systems architect use to minimize availability risks due to insufficient storage capacity?

Question249: 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?

Question250: When trying to log onto a company's new ticketing system, some employees receive the following message: Access denied: too many concurrent sessions. The ticketing system was recently installed on a small VM with only the recommended hardware specifications. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error message?

Question251: 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?

Question252: Which of the following attack types is being carried out where a target is being sent unsolicited messages via Bluetooth?

Question253: 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?

Question254: An organization's employees currently use three different sets of credentials to access multiple internal resources. Management wants to make this process less complex. Which of the following would be the BEST option to meet this goal?

Question255: 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?

Question256: Which of the following vulnerability types would the type of hacker known as a script kiddie be MOST dangerous against?

Question257: An application was recently compromised after some malformed data came in via web form. Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this?

Question258: 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?

Question259: An auditor is reviewing the following output from a password-cracking tool:

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

Question260: An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime. Which of the following has been specified?

Question261: 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:

Question262: A Security Officer on a military base needs to encrypt several smart phones that will be going into the field.
Which of the following encryption solutions should be deployed in this situation?

Question263: 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?

Question264: 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?

Question265: Which of the following characteristics differentiate a rainbow table attack from a brute force attack? (Select two.)

Question266: 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?

Question267: An attacker wearing a building maintenance uniform approached a company's receptionist asking for access to a secure area. The receptionist asks for identification, a building access badge and checks the company's list approved maintenance personnel prior to granting physical access to the secure are.
The controls used by the receptionist are in place to prevent which of the following types of attacks?

Question268: An application developer is designing an application involving secure transports from one service to another that will pass over port 80 for a request.
Which of the following secure protocols is the developer MOST likely to use?

Question269: 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?

Question270: Which of the following is a deployment concept that can be used to ensure only the required OS access is exposed to software applications?

Question271: 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?

Question272: 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?

Question273: A system administrator is configuring a site-to-site VPN tunnel.
Which of the following should be configured on the VPN concentrator during the IKE phase?

Question274: During a recent audit, it was discovered that several user accounts belonging to former employees were still active and had valid VPN permissions.
Which of the following would help reduce the amount of risk the organization incurs in this situation in the future?

Question275: An administrator is testing the collision resistance of different hashing algorithms.
Which of the following is the strongest collision resistance test?

Question276: Which of the following threats has sufficient knowledge to cause the MOST danger to an organization?

Question277: 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?

Question278: Which of the following would meet the requirements for multifactor authentication?

Question279: A security administrator receives notice that a third-party certificate authority has been compromised, and new certificates will need to be issued.
Which of the following should the administrator submit to receive a new certificate?

Question280: 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?

Question281: A security analyst is reviewing an assessment report that includes software versions, running services, supported encryption algorithms, and permission settings. Which of the following produced the report?

Question282: 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?

Question283: The POODLE attack is an MITM exploit that affects:

Question284: 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?

Question285: An administrator thinks the UNIX systems may be compromised, but a review of system log files provides no useful information. After discussing the situation with the security team, the administrator suspects that the attacker may be altering the log files and removing evidence of intrusion activity.
Which of the following actions will help detect attacker attempts to further alter log files?

Question286: The SSID broadcast for a wireless router has been disabled but a network administrator notices that unauthorized users are accessing the wireless network. The administer has determined that attackers are still able to detect the presence of the wireless network despite the fact the SSID has been disabled.
Which of the following would further obscure the presence of the wireless network?

Question287: A black hat hacker is enumerating a network and wants to remain covert during the process. The hacker initiates a vulnerability scan. Given the task at hand the requirement of being covert, which of the following statements BEST indicates that the vulnerability scan meets these requirements?

Question288: Which of the following types of keys is found in a key escrow?

Question289: 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?

Question290: During a data breach cleanup, it is discovered that not all of the sites involved have the necessary data wiping tools. The necessary tools are quickly distributed to the required technicians, but when should this problem BEST be revisited?

Question291: A help desk technician receives a phone call from an individual claiming to be an employee of the organization and requesting assistance to access a locked account. The help desk technician asks the individual to provide proof of identity before access can be granted. Which of the following types of attack is the caller performing?

Question292: The chief Security Officer (CSO) has reported a rise in data loss but no break ins have occurred.
By doing which of the following is the CSO most likely to reduce the number of incidents?

Question293: An organization requires users to provide their fingerprints to access an application. To improve security, the application developers intend to implement multifactor authentication. Which of the following should be implemented?

Question294: A security analyst is working on a project that requires the implementation of a stream cipher. Which of the following should the analyst use?