EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following should be put in place when negotiating with a new vendor about the timeliness of the response to a significant outage or incident?

Question2: Which of the following would be the BEST resource lor a software developer who is looking to improve secure coding practices for web applications?

Question3: The following is an administrative control that would be MOST effective to reduce the occurrence of malware execution?

Question4: When implementing automation with loT devices, which of the following should be considered FIRST to keep the network secure?

Question5: The concept of connecting a user account across the systems of multiple enterprises is BEST known as:

Question6: An attacked is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL www.validwebsite.com. The attacker's intent is to imitate the look and feel of a legitimate website to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users. Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

Question7: Several large orders of merchandise were recently purchased on an e-commerce company's website. The totals for each of the transactions were negative values, resulting in credits on the customers' accounts. Which of the following should be implemented to prevent similar situations in the future?

Question8: A public relations team will be taking a group of guest on a tour through the facility of a large e-commerce company. The day before the tour, the company sends out an email to employees to ensure all whiteboars are cleaned and all desks are cleared. The company is MOST likely trying to protect against.

Question9: A security administrator is setting up a SIEM to help monitor for notable events across the enterprise. Which of the following control types does this BEST represent?

Question10: Which of the following is the MOST secure but LEAST expensive data destruction method for data that is stored on hard drives?

Question11: A company just developed a new web application for a government agency. The application must be assessed and authorized prior to being deployed. Which of the following is required to assess the vulnerabilities resident in the application?

Question12: Which of the following should a data owner require all personnel to sign to legally protect intellectual property?

Question13: A systems administrator needs to install the same X.509 certificate on multiple servers. Which of the following should the administrator use?

Question14: An attacker is exploiting a vulnerability that does not have a patch available. Which of the following is the attacker exploiting?

Question15: A company uses specially configured workstations tor any work that requires administrator privileges to its Tier 0 and Tier 1 systems. The company follows a strict process to harden systems immediately upon delivery. Even with these strict security measures in place, an incident occurred from one of the workstations. The root cause appears to be that the SoC was tampered with or replaced. Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

Question16: Which of the following is MOST likely to contain ranked and ordered information on the likelihood and potential impact of catastrophic events that may affect business processes and systems, while also highlighting the residual risks that need to be managed after mitigating controls have been implemented?

Question17: An end user reports a computer has been acting slower than normal for a few weeks. During an investigation, an analyst determines the system is sending the user's email address and a ten-digit number to an IP address once a day. The only recent log entry regarding the user's computer is the following:

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question18: A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the volume and integrity of sensitive information that is exchanged between the organization and a third party through email. The CSO is particularly concerned about an unauthorized party who is intercepting information that is in transit between the two organizations. Which of the following would address the CSO's concerns?

Question19: A company's help desk received several AV alerts indicating Mimikatz attempted to run on the remote systems. Several users also reported that the new company flash drives they picked up in the break room only have 512KB of storage. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

Question20: A customer called a company's security team to report that all invoices the customer has received over the last five days from the company appear to have fraudulent banking details. An investigation into the matter reveals the following
* The manager of the accounts payable department is using the same password across multiple external websites and the corporate account.
* One of the websites the manager used recently experienced a data breach.
* The manager's corporate email account was successfully accessed in the last five days by an IP address located in a foreign country Which of the following attacks has MOST likely been used to compromise the manager's corporate account?

Question21: A security administrator is analyzing the corporate wireless network The network only has two access points running on channels 1 and 11. While using airodump-ng. the administrator notices other access points are running with the same corporate ESSID on all available channels and with the same BSSID of one of the legitimate access ports Which erf the following attacks in happening on the corporate network?

Question22: A RAT that was used to compromise an organization's banking credentials was found on a user's computer. The RAT evaded antivirus detection. It was installed by a user who has local administrator rights to the system as part of a remote management tool set. Which of the following recommendations would BEST prevent this from reoccurring?

Question23: A company wants to modify its current backup strategy to minimize the number of backups that would need to be restored in case of data loss. Which of the following would be the BEST backup strategy to implement?

Question24: A network engineer notices the VPN concentrator overloaded and crashes on days when there are a lot of remote workers. Senior management has placed greater importance on the availability of VPN resources for the remote workers than the security of the end users' traffic. Which of the following would be BEST to solve this issue?

Question25: A privileged user at a company stole several proprietary documents from a server. The user also went into the log files and deleted all records of the incident. The systems administrator has Just informed investigators that other log files are available for review. Which of the following did the administrator MOST likely configure that will assist the investigators?

Question26: A financial analyst is expecting an email containing sensitive information from a client. When the email arrives, the analyst receives an error and is unable to open the encrypted message. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

Question27: Which of the following provides the BEST protection for sensitive information and data stored in cloud-based services but still allows for full functionality and searchability of data within the cloud-based services?

Question28: Employees are having issues accessing the company's website. Some employees report very slow performance, while others cannot the website at all. The web and security administrators search the logs and find millions of half-open connections to port 443 on the web server. Further analysis reveals thousands of different source IPs initiating this traffic. Which of the following attacks is MOST likely occurring?

Question29: An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software. Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

Question30: A user contacts the help desk to report the following:
Two days ago, a pop-up browser window prompted the user for a name and password after connecting to the corporate wireless SSID. This had never happened before, but the user entered the information as requested.
The user was able to access the Internet but had trouble accessing the department share until the next day.
The user is now getting notifications from the bank about unauthorized transactions.
Which of the following attack vectors was MOST likely used in this scenario?

Question31: Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but nothing else?

Question32: A network administrator has been asked to install an IDS to improve the security posture of an organization. Which of the following control types is an IDS?

Question33: Which of the following types of controls is a turnstile?

Question34: organization's vulnerabilities. Which of the following would BEST meet this need?

Question35: Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

Question36: While reviewing the wireless router, the systems administrator of a small business determines someone is spoofing the MAC address of an authorized device. Given the table below:

Which of the following should be the administrator's NEXT step to detect if there is a rogue system without impacting availability?

Question37: A company is required to continue using legacy software to support a critical service. Which of the following BEST explains a risk of this practice?

Question38: Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe's identity before sending him the prize. Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?

Question39: Following a prolonged datacenter outage that affected web-based sales, a company has decided to move its operations to a private cloud solution. The security team has received the following requirements:
* There must be visibility into how teams are using cloud-based services.
* The company must be able to identify when data related to payment cards is being sent to the cloud.
* Data must be available regardless of the end user's geographic location
* Administrators need a single pane-of-glass view into traffic and trends.
Which of the following should the security analyst recommend?

Question40: The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of an insurance company received an email from Ann, the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), requesting a transfer of $10,000 to an account. The email states Ann is on vacation and has lost her purse, containing cash and credit cards. Which of the following social-engineering techniques is the attacker using?

Question41: A forensics investigator is examining a number of unauthorized payments the were reported on the company's website. Some unusual log entries show users received an email for an unwanted mailing list and clicked on a link to attempt to unsubscribe. One of the users reported the email to the phishing team, and the forwarded email revealed the link to be:
Which of the following will the forensics investigator MOST likely determine has occurred?

Question42: An attacker is trying to gain access by installing malware on a website that is known to be visited by the target victims. Which of the following is the attacker MOST likely attempting?

Question43: An attacker was easily able to log in to a company's security camera by performing a baste online search for a setup guide for that particular camera brand and model. Which of the following BEST describes the configurations the attacker exploited?

Question44: A500 is implementing an insider threat detection program, The primary concern is that users may be accessing confidential data without authorization. Which of the fallowing should be deployed to detect a potential insider threat?

Question45: A company has drafted an insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices. Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

Question46: A cybersecurity manager has scheduled biannual meetings with the IT team and department leaders to discuss how they would respond to hypothetical cyberattacks. During these meetings, the manager presents a scenario and injects additional information throughout the session to replicate what might occur in a dynamic cybersecurity event involving the company, its facilities, its data, and its staff. Which of the following describes what the manager is doing?

Question47: An attacker was easily able to log in to a company's security camera by performing a basic online search for a setup guide for that particular camera brand and model Which of the following BEST describes the configurations the attacker exploited?

Question48: An attacker is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL users. Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

Question49: A network engineer is troubleshooting wireless network connectivity issues that were reported by users. The issues are occurring only in the section of the building that is closest to the parking lot. Users are intermittently experiencing slow speeds when accessing websites and are unable to connect to network drives. The issues appear to increase when laptop users return desks after using their devices in other areas of the building. There have also been reports of users being required to enter their credentials on web pages in order to gain access to them. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Question50: The spread of misinformation surrounding the outbreak of a novel virus on election day ted to eligible voters choosing not to take the risk of going to the polls This is an example of:

Question51: A symmetric encryption algorithm Is BEST suited for:

Question52: An organization is concerned that is hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software. Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

Question53: A security analyst is preparing a threat for an upcoming internal penetration test. The analyst needs to identify a method for determining the tactics, techniques, and procedures of a threat against the organization's network. Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely use to accomplish the objective?

Question54: A network manager is concerned that business may be negatively impacted if the firewall in its datacenter goes offline. The manager would like to Implement a high availability pair to:

Question55: A security analyst receives the configuration of a current VPN profile and notices the authentication is only applied to the IP datagram portion of the packet. Which of the following should the analyst implement to authenticate the entire packet?

Question56: A security analyst sees the following log output while reviewing web logs:
Which of the following mitigation strategies would be BEST to prevent this attack from being successful?

Question57: A security analyst is investigation an incident that was first reported as an issue connecting to network shares and the internet, While reviewing logs and tool output, the analyst sees the following:

Which of the following attacks has occurred?

Question58: Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

Question59: The following are the logs of a successful attack.

Which of the following controls would be BEST to use to prevent such a breach in the future?

Question60: An organization's corporate offices were destroyed due to a natural disaster, so the organization is now setting up offices in a temporary work space. Which of the following will the organization MOST likely consult?

Question61: A company just implemented a new telework policy that allows employees to use personal devices for official email and file sharing while working from home. Some of the requirements are:
* Employees must provide an alternate work location (i.e., a home address)
* Employees must install software on the device that will prevent the loss of proprietary data but will not restrict any other software from being installed.
Which of the following BEST describes the MDM options the company is using?

Question62: A security analyst has been asked to investigate a situation after the SOC started to receive alerts from the SIEM. The analyst first looks at the domain controller and finds the following events:
To better understand what is going on, the analyst runs a command and receives the following output:

Based on the analyst's findings, which of the following attacks is being executed?

Question63: The Chief Security Officer (CSO) at a major hospital wants to implement SSO to help improve in the environment patient data, particularly at shared terminals. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned that training and guidance have been provided to frontline staff, and a risk analysis has not been performed. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the CRO's concerns?

Question64: Which of the following will MOST likely cause machine learning and Al-enabled systems to operate with unintended consequences?

Question65: A security analyst must determine if either SSH or Telnet is being used to log in to servers. Which of the following should the analyst use?

Question66: A security analyst receives a SIEM alert that someone logged in to the appadmin test account, which is only used for the early detection of attacks. The security analyst then reviews the following application log:
Which of the following can the security analyst conclude?

Question67: An employee has been charged with fraud and is suspected of using corporate assets. As authorities collect evidence, and to preserve the admissibility of the evidence, which of the following forensic techniques should be used?

Question68: Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows on hosts?

Question69: During a security assessment, a security finds a file with overly permissive permissions. Which of the following tools will allow the analyst to reduce the permission for the existing users and groups and remove the set-user-ID from the file?

Question70: A security analyst is investigating multiple hosts that are communicating to external IP addresses during the hours of 2:00 a.m - 4:00 am. The malware has evaded detection by traditional antivirus software. Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely infecting the hosts?

Question71: Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company's IT/security operations?

Question72: A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:
Which of the following types of attacks does this MOST likely represent?

Question73: An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organization already uses a smart card and password. Which of the following would meet the organization's needs for a third factor?

Question74: A manufacturer creates designs for very high security products that are required to be protected and controlled by the government regulations. These designs are not accessible by corporate networks or the Internet. Which of the following is the BEST solution to protect these designs?

Question75: A security modern may have occurred on the desktop PC of an organization's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) A duplicate copy of the CEO's hard drive must be stored securely to ensure appropriate forensic processes and the chain of custody are followed. Which of the following should be performed to accomplish this task?

Question76: A major political party experienced a server breach. The hacker then publicly posted stolen internal communications concerning campaign strategies to give the opposition party an advantage. Which of the following BEST describes these threat actors?

Question77: Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

Question78: A network administrator is concerned about users being exposed to malicious content when accessing company cloud applications. The administrator wants to be able to block access to sites based on the AUP. The users must also be protected because many of them work from home or at remote locations, providing on-site customer support. Which of the following should the administrator employ to meet these criteria?
meet these criteria?

Question79: A security analyst is reviewing a new website that will soon be made publicly available. The analyst sees the following in the URL:
http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=77276554&loc=us
The analyst then sends an internal user a link to the new website for testing purposes, and when the user clicks the link, the analyst is able to browse the website with the following URL:
http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=98988475&loc=us
Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

Question80: A small business just recovered from a ransomware attack against its file servers by purchasing the decryption keys from the attackers. The issue was triggered by a phishing email and the IT administrator wants to ensure it does not happen again. Which of the following should the IT administrator do FIRST after recovery?

Question81: To secure an application after a large data breach, an e-commerce site will be resetting all users' credentials. Which of the following will BEST ensure the site's users are not compromised after the reset?

Question82: Which of the following BEST describes a security exploit for which a vendor patch is not readily available?

Question83: An analyst needs to set up a method for securely transferring files between systems. One of the requirements is to authenticate the IP header and the payload. Which of the following services would BEST meet the criteria?

Question84: Which of the following often operates in a client-server architecture to act as a service repository. providing enterprise consumers access to structured threat intelligence data?

Question85: A security administrator currently spends a large amount of time on common security tasks, such aa report generation, phishing investigations, and user provisioning and deprovisioning This prevents the administrator from spending time on other security projects. The business does not have the budget to add more staff members. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Question86: A development team employs a practice of bringing all the code changes from multiple team members into the same development project through automation. A tool is utilized to validate the code and track source code through version control. Which of the following BEST describes this process?

Question87: A company wants to deploy PKI on its Internet-facing website. The applications that are currently deployed are:
www.company.com (main website)
contactus.company.com (for locating a nearby location)
quotes.company.com (for requesting a price quote)
The company wants to purchase one SSL certificate that will work for all the existing applications and any future applications that follow the same naming conventions, such as store.company.com. Which of the following certificate types would BEST meet the requirements?

Question88: Accompany deployed a WiFi access point in a public area and wants to harden the configuration to make it more secure. After performing an assessment, an analyst identifies that the access point is configured to use WPA3, AES, WPS, and RADIUS. Which of the following should the analyst disable to enhance the access point security?

Question89: An engineer wants to access sensitive data from a corporate-owned mobile device. Personal data is not allowed on the device. Which of the following MDM configurations must be considered when the engineer travels for business?

Question90: Which of the following scenarios BEST describes a risk reduction technique?

Question91: A SECURITY ANALYST NEEDS TO FIND REAL-TIME DATA ON THE LATEST MALWARE AND loCs WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBE THE SOLUTION THE ANALYST SHOULD PERSUE?

Question92: The new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a large company has announced a partnership with a vendor that will provide multiple collaboration applications t make remote work easier. The company has a geographically dispersed staff located in numerous remote offices in different countries. The company's IT administrators are concerned about network traffic and load if all users simultaneously download the application. Which of the following would work BEST to allow each geographic region to download the software without negatively impacting the corporate network?

Question93: A company has determined that if its computer-based manufacturing is not functioning for 12 consecutive hours, it will lose more money that it costs to maintain the equipment. Which of the following must be less than 12 hours to maintain a positive total cost of ownership?

Question94: Which of the following describes the BEST approach for deploying application patches?

Question95: A security engineer needs to enhance MFA access to sensitive areas in a building. A key card and fingerprint scan are already in use. Which of the following would add another factor of authentication?

Question96: A user reports constant lag and performance issues with the wireless network when working at a local coffee shop. A security analyst walks the user through an installation of Wireshark and get a five-minute pcap to analyze. The analyst observes the following output:
Which of the following attacks does the analyst MOST likely see in this packet capture?

Question97: The website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal Information, Including security question responses, for registration. Which of the following would MOST likely cause a data breach?

Question98: A user recent an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank delays. Which of the following social-engineering techniques was used in this case?

Question99: Entering a secure area requires passing through two doors, both of which require someone who is already inside to initiate access. Which of the following types of physical security controls does this describe?

Question100: A security manager for a retailer needs to reduce the scope of a project to comply with PCI DSS. The PCI data is located in different offices than where credit cards are accepted. All the offices are connected via MPLS back to the primary datacenter. Which of the following should the security manager implement to achieve the objective?

Question101: A large financial services firm recently released information regarding a security bfeach within its corporate network that began several years before. During the time frame in which the breach occurred, indicators show an attacker gained administrative access to the network through a file download from a social media site and subsequently installed it without the user's knowledge. Since the compromise, the attacker was able to take command and control of the computer systems anonymously while obtaining sensitive corporate and personal employee information. Which of the following methods did the attacker MOST likely use to gam access?

Question102: A security analyst is running a vulnerability scan to check for missing patches during a suspected security rodent During which of the following phases of the response process is this activity MOST likely occurring?

Question103: Which of the following BEST describes a social-engineering attack that relies on an executive at a small business visiting a fake banking website where credit card and account details are harvested?

Question104: A security an alyst needs to implement security features across smartphones. laptops, and tablets Which of the following would be the MOST effective across heterogeneous platforms?

Question105: The human resources department of a large online retailer has received multiple customer complaints about the rudeness of the automated chatbots It uses to interface and assist online shoppers. The system, which continuously learns and adapts, was working fine when it was installed a few months ago. Which of the following BEST describes the method being used to exploit the system?

Question106: A network administrator at a large organization Is reviewing methods to improve the security of the wired LAN Any security improvement must be centrally managed and allow corporate-owned devices to have access to the intranet but limit others to Internet access only. Which of the following should the administrator recommend?

Question107: An organization has implemented a policy requiring the use of conductive metal lockboxes for personal electronic devices outside of a secure research lab. Which of the following did the organization determine to be the GREATEST risk to intellectual property when creating this policy?

Question108: A Chief Security Office's (CSO's) key priorities are to improve preparation, response, and recovery practices to minimize system downtime and enhance organizational resilience to ransomware attacks. Which of the following would BEST meet the CSO's objectives?

Question109: A consultant is configuring a vulnerability scanner for a large, global organization in multiple countries. The consultant will be using a service account to scan systems with administrative privileges on a weekly basis, but there is a concern that hackers could gain access to account to the account and pivot through the global network. Which of the following would be BEST to help mitigate this concern?

Question110: A recent security assessment revealed that an actor exploited a vulnerable workstation within an organization and has persisted on the network for several months. The organization realizes the need to reassess Its security.
Strategy for mitigating risks within the perimeter Which of the following solutions would BEST support the organization's strategy?

Question111: A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public are a. Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this breach?

Question112: A security administrator suspects there may be unnecessary services running on a server. Which of the following tools will the administrator MOST likely use to confirm the suspicions?

Question113: A security analyst is configuring a large number of new company-issued laptops. The analyst received the following requirements:
* The devices will be used internationally by staff who travel extensively.
* Occasional personal use is acceptable due to the travel requirements.
* Users must be able to install and configure sanctioned programs and productivity suites.
* The devices must be encrypted
* The devices must be capable of operating in low-bandwidth environments.
Which of the following would provide the GREATEST benefit to the security posture of the devices?

Question114: Local guidelines require that all information systems meet a minimum-security baseline to be compliant. Which of the following can security administrators use to assess their system configurations against the baseline?

Question115: Which of the following BEST describes the MFA attribute that requires a callback on a predefined landline?

Question116: A security analyst needs to determine how an attacker was able to use User3 to gain a foothold within a company's network. The company's lockout policy requires that an account be locked out for a minimum of 15 minutes after three unsuccessful attempts. While reviewing the log files, the analyst discovers the following:

Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred?

Question117: A security analyst needs to be proactive in understand the types of attacks that could potentially target the company's execute. Which of the following intelligence sources should to security analyst review?

Question118: An engineer is setting up a VDI environment for a factory location, and the business wants to deploy a low-cost solution to enable users on the shop floor to log in to the VDI environment directly. Which of the following should the engineer select to meet these requirements?

Question119: A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce staffing at others. Which of the following would be BEST to help the organization's executives determine the next course of action?

Question120: An.. that has a large number of mobile devices is exploring enhanced security controls to manage unauthorized access if a device is lost or stolen. Specifically, if mobile devices are more than 3mi (4 8km) from the building, the management team would like to have the security team alerted and server resources restricted on those devices. Which of the following controls should the organization implement?

Question121: Which of the following would be BEST to establish between organizations to define the responsibilities of each party outline the key deliverables and include monetary penalties for breaches to manage third-party risk?

Question122: An organization is developing a plan in the event of a complete loss of critical systems and dat a. Which of the following plans is the organization MOST likely developing?

Question123: An organization has hired a security analyst to perform a penetration test. The analyst captures 1Gb worth of inbound network traffic to the server and transfer the pcap back to the machine for analysis. Which of the following tools should the analyst use to further review the pcap?

Question124: The facilities supervisor for a government agency is concerned about unauthorized access to environmental systems in the event the staff WiFi network is breached. Which of the blowing would BEST address this security concern?

Question125: An organization routes all of its traffic through a VPN Most users are remote and connect into a corporate datacenter that houses confidential information There is a firewall at the Internet border followed by a DIP appliance, the VPN server and the datacenter itself. Which of the following is the WEAKEST design element?