EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: Which of the following environments minimizes end-user disruption and is MOST likely to be used to assess the impacts of any database migrations or major system changes by using the final version of the code?

Question3: A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platform to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application. Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

Question4: 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?

Question5: Under GDPR, which of the following is MOST responsible for the protection of privacy and website user rights?

Question6: 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?

Question7: A security analyst Is hardening a Linux workstation and must ensure It has public keys forwarded to remote systems for secure login Which of the following steps should the analyst perform to meet these requirements?
(Select TWO).

Question8: A security engineer at an offline government facility is concerned about the validity of an SSL certificate. The engineer wants to perform the fastest check with the least delay to determine if the certificate has been revoked. Which of the following would BEST these requirement?

Question9: An organization is having difficulty correlating events from its individual AV. EDR. DLP. SWG. WAF.
MOM. HIPS, and CASB systems. Which of the following is the BEST way to improve the situation?

Question10: A security analyst has received an alert about being sent via email. The analyst's Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has made it clear that PII must be handle with extreme care From which of the following did the alert MOST likely originate?

Question11: Which of the following would be BEST for a technician to review to determine the total risk an organization can bear when assessing a "cloud-first" adoption strategy?

Question12: A Chief Security Officer (CSO) was notified that a customer was able to access confidential internal company files on a commonly used file-sharing service. The file-sharing service is the same one used by company staff as one of its approved third-party applications.
After further investigation, the security team
determines the sharing of confidential files was accidental and not malicious. However, the CSO wants to implement changes to minimize this type of incident from reoccurring but does not want to impact existing business processes. Which of the following would BEST meet the CSO's objectives?

Question13: 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?

Question14: During an incident response, a security analyst observes the following log entry on the web server.
Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack the analyst is experience?

Question15: An enterprise has hired an outside security firm to conduct penetration testing on its network and applications.
The firm has only been given the documentation available to the customers of the applications. Which of the following BEST represents the type of testing that will occur?

Question16: A large enterprise has moved all Hs data to the cloud behind strong authentication and encryption A sales director recently had a laptop stolen and later, enterprise data was round to have been compromised database.
Which of the following was the MOST likely cause?

Question17: 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?

Question18: 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?

Question19: 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?

Question20: The concept of connecting a user account across the systems of multiple enterprises is BEST known as:

Question21: An attacker has successfully exfiltrated several non-salted password hashes from an online system. Given the logs below:

Which of the following BEST describes the type of password attack the attacker is performing?

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: A company's Chief Information Office (CIO) is meeting with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to plan some activities to enhance the skill levels of the company's developers. Which of the following would be MOST suitable for training the developers'?

Question27: A security analyst notices several attacks are being blocked by the NIPS but does not see anything on the boundary firewall logs. The attack seems to have been thwarted Which of the following resiliency techniques was applied to the network to prevent this attack?

Question28: The CSIRT is reviewing the lessons learned from a recent incident. A worm was able to spread unhindered throughout the network and infect a large number of computers and servers. Which of the following recommendations would be BEST to mitigate the impacts of a similar incident in the future?

Question29: Under GDPR, which of the following is MOST responsible for the protection of privacy and website user rights?

Question30: A company needs to centralize its logs to create a baseline and have visibility on its security events. Which of the following technologies will accomplish this objective?

Question31: 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?

Question32: A security analyst discovers that a company username and password database was posted on an internet forum.
The username and passwords are stored in plan text. Which of the following would mitigate the damage done by this type of data exfiltration in the future?

Question33: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about the organization's ability to continue business operation in the event of a prolonged DDoS attack on its local datacenter that consumes database resources.
Which of the following will the CISO MOST likely recommend to mitigate this risk?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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?

Question36: 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?

Question37: A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the amount of PII that is stored locally on each salesperson's laptop. The sales department has a higher-than-average rate of lost equipment. Which of the following recommendations would BEST address the CSO's concern?

Question38: Which of the following is the BEST reason to maintain a functional and effective asset management policy that aids in ensuring the security of an organization?

Question39: Which of the following would BEST identify and remediate a data-loss event in an enterprise using third-party, web-based services and file-sharing platforms?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: 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?

Question43: A security administrator checks the table of a network switch, which shows the following output:

Which of the following is happening to this switch?

Question44: Phishing and spear-phishing attacks have been occurring more frequently against a company's staff. Which of the following would MOST likely help mitigate this issue?

Question45: An information security incident recently occurred at an organization, and the organization was required to report the incident to authorities and notify the affected parties. When the organization's customers became of aware of the incident, some reduced their orders or stopped placing orders entirely. Which of the following is the organization experiencing?

Question46: Users at organization have been installing programs from the internet on their workstations without first proper authorization. The organization maintains a portal from which users can install standardized programs.
However, some users have administrative access on their workstations to enable legacy programs to function property. Which of the following should the security administrator consider implementing to address this issue?

Question47: An organization has a growing workforce that is mostly driven by additions to the sales department. Each newly hired salesperson relies on a mobile device to conduct business. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is wondering it the organization may need to scale down just as quickly as it scaled up. The ClO is also concerned about the organization's security and customer privacy. Which of the following would be BEST to address the ClO's concerns?

Question48: Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data processors?

Question49: In the middle of a cybersecurity, a security engineer removes the infected devices from the network and lock down all compromised accounts. In which of the following incident response phases is the security engineer currently operating?

Question50: 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?

Question51: A systems administrator needs to install the same X.509 certificate on multiple servers. Which of the following should the administrator use?

Question52: Which of the following distributes data among nodes, making it more difficult to manipulate the data while also minimizing downtime?

Question53: Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows on hosts?

Question54: When used at the design stage, which of the following improves the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of a database?

Question55: 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?

Question56: 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?

Question57: 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?

Question58: 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?

Question59: A retail executive recently accepted a job with a major competitor. The following week, a security analyst reviews the security logs and identifies successful logon attempts to access the departed executive's accounts.
Which of the following security practices would have addressed the issue?

Question60: The security administrator has installed a new firewall which implements an implicit DENY policy by default.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Click on the firewall and configure it to allow ONLY the following communication.
1. The Accounting workstation can ONLY access the web server on the public network over the default HTTPS port. The accounting workstation should not access other networks.
2. The HR workstation should be restricted to communicate with the Financial server ONLY, over the default SCP port
3. The Admin workstation should ONLY be able to access the servers on the secure network over the default TFTP port.
Instructions: The firewall will process the rules in a top-down manner in order as a first match The port number must be typed in and only one port number can be entered per rule Type ANY for all ports. The original firewall configuration can be reset at any time by pressing the reset button. Once you have met the simulation requirements, click save and then Done to submit.

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Question61: A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture. Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

Question62: An organization's RPO for a critical system is two hours. The system is used Monday through Friday, from
9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Currently, the organization performs a full backup every Saturday that takes four hours to complete. Which of the following additional backup implementations would be the BEST way for the analyst to meet the business requirements?

Question63: 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?

Question64: A company has limited storage available and online presence that cannot for more than four hours. Which of the following backup methodologies should the company implement to allow for the FASTEST database restore time In the event of a failure, which being maindful of the limited available storage space?

Question65: A security analyst has been reading about a newly discovered cyber attack from a known threat actor. Which of the following would BEST support the analyst's review of the tactics, techniques, and protocols the threat actor was observed using in previous campaigns?

Question66: Which of the following represents a biometric FRR?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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
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?

Question69: 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?

Question70: A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platforms to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application. Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

Question71: An organization's Chief Security Officer (CSO) wants to validate the business's involvement in the incident response plan to ensure its validity and thoroughness. Which of the following will the CSO MOST likely use?

Question72: 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?

Question73: Which of the following refers to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

Question74: 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?

Question75: 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?

Question76: Which of the following should a data owner require all personnel to sign to legally protect intellectual property?

Question77: A financial organization has adopted a new secure, encrypted document-sharing application to help with its customer loan process. Some important PII needs to be shared across this new platform, but it is getting blocked by the DLP systems. Which of the following actions will BEST allow the PII to be shared with the secure application without compromising the organization's security posture?

Question78: An organization regularly scans its infrastructure for missing security patches but is concerned about hackers gaining access to the scanner's account. Which of the following would be BEST to minimize this risk?

Question79: After entering a username and password, and administrator must gesture on a touch screen. Which of the following demonstrates what the administrator is providing?

Question80: An organization is developing a plan in the event of a complete loss of critical systems and data. Which of the following plans is the organization MOST likely developing?

Question81: While checking logs, a security engineer notices a number of end users suddenly downloading files with the
.tar.gz extension. Closer examination of the files reveals they are PE32 files. The end users state they did not initiate any of the downloads. Further investigation reveals the end users all clicked on an external email containing an infected MHT file with an href link a week prior. Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

Question82: An enterprise needs to keep cryptographic keys in a safe manner. Which of the following network appliances can achieve this goal?

Question83: A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did not receive any emails with links, but he had been browsing the Internet all day. Which of the following would MOST likely show where the malware originated?

Question84: A company uses wireless tor all laptops and keeps a very detailed record of its assets, along with a comprehensive list of devices that are authorized to be on the wireless network. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about a script kiddie potentially using an unauthorized device to brute force the wireless PSK and obtain access to the internal network. Which of the following should the company implement to BEST prevent this from occurring?

Question85: 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:

Question86: 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?

Question87: Which of the following is a reason why an organization would define an AUP?

Question88: To further secure a company's email system, an administrator is adding public keys to DNS records in the company's domain Which of the following is being used?

Question89: A security analyst is reviewing the output of a web server log and notices a particular account is attempting to transfer large amounts of money:
Which of the following types of attack is MOST likely being conducted?

Question90: A recent audit uncovered a key finding regarding the use of a specific encryption standard in a web application that is used to communicate with business customers. Due to the technical limitations of its customers the company is unable to upgrade the encryption standard. Which of the following types of controls should be used to reduce the risk created by this scenario?

Question91: A company's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) recently warned the security manager that the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is planning to publish a controversial option article in a national newspaper, which may result in new cyberattacks Which of the following would be BEST for the security manager to use in a threat mode?

Question92: A systems administrator needs to install a new wireless network for authenticated guest access. The wireless network should support 802. IX using the most secure encryption and protocol available.
Perform the following slops:
1. Configure the RADIUS server.
2. Configure the WiFi controller.
3. Preconfigure the client for an incoming guest. The guest AD credentials are:
User: guest01
Password: guestpass

Question93: A security analyst is reviewing logs on a server and observes the following output:

Which of the following is the security analyst observing?

Question94: A network engineer needs to build a solution that will allow guests at the company's headquarters to access the Internet via WiFi. This solution should not allow access to the internal corporate network, but it should require guests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the Internet. Which of the following should the engineer employ to meet these requirements?

Question95: A nuclear plant was the victim of a recent attack, and all the networks were air gapped. A subsequent investigation revealed a worm as the source of the issue. Which of the following BEST explains what happened?

Question96: A Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) personal information was stolen in a social engineering attack. Which of the following sources would reveal if the CEO's personal information is for sale?

Question97: A cybersecurity administrator needs to add disk redundancy for a critical server. The solution must have a two- drive failure for better fault tolerance. Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator select?

Question98: A security analyst is performing a forensic investigation compromised account credentials. Using the Event Viewer, the analyst able to detect the following message, ''Special privileges assigned to new login.'' Several of these messages did not have a valid logon associated with the user before these privileges were assigned.
Which of the following attacks is MOST likely being detected?

Question99: A security analyst is reviewing information regarding recent vulnerabilities. Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely consult to validate which platforms have been affected?

Question100: To reduce costs and overhead, an organization wants to move from an on-premises email solution to a cloud-based email solution. At this time, no other services will be moving. Which of the following cloud models would BEST meet the needs of the organization?

Question101: A company recently moved sensitive videos between on-premises. Company-owned websites. The company then learned the videos had been uploaded and shared to the internet. Which of the following would MOST likely allow the company to find the cause?

Question102: An incident, which is affecting dozens of systems, involves malware that reaches out to an Internet service for rules and updates. The IP addresses for the Internet host appear to be different in each case. The organization would like to determine a common IoC to support response and recovery actions. Which of the following sources of information would BEST support this solution?

Question103: A symmetric encryption algorithm Is BEST suited for:

Question104: A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the seventy levels of the organization's vulnerabilities. Which of the following would BEST meet this need?

Question105: n organization plans to transition the intrusion detection and prevention techniques on a critical subnet to an anomaly-based system. Which of the following does the organization need to determine for this to be successful?

Question106: 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?

Question107: 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?

Question108: A security architect at a large, multinational organization is concerned about the complexities and overhead of managing multiple encryption keys securely in a multicloud provider environment. The security architect is looking for a solution with reduced latency to allow the incorporation of the organization's existing keys and to maintain consistent, centralized control and management regardless of the data location Which of the following would BEST meet the architect's objectives?

Question109: A company recently experienced an attack in which a malicious actor was able to exfiltrate data by cracking stolen passwords, using a rainbow table the sensitive data. Which of the following should a security engineer do to prevent such an attack in the future?

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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?

Question112: An organization just experienced a major cyberattack modem. The attack was well coordinated sophisticated and highly skilled. Which of the following targeted the organization?

Question113: A recent malware outbreak across a subnet included successful rootkit installations on many PCs, ensuring persistence by rendering remediation efforts ineffective. Which of the following would BEST detect the presence of a rootkit in the future?

Question114: A global company is experiencing unauthorized logging due to credential theft and account lockouts caused by brute-force attacks. The company is considering implementing a third-party identity provider to help mitigate these attacks. Which of the following would be the BEST control for the company to require from prospective vendors'?

Question115: 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?

Question116: A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:
Which of the following types of attacks does this MOST likely represent?

Question117: 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?

Question118: A malicious actor recently penetration a company's network and moved laterally to the datacenter. Upon investigation, a forensics firm wants to know was in the memory on the compromised server. Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?

Question119: Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but nothing else?

Question120: A company's bank has reported that multiple corporate credit cards have been stolen over the past several weeks. The bank has provided the names of the affected cardholders to the company's forensics team to assist in the cyber-incident investigation.
An incident responder learns the following information:
* The timeline of stolen card numbers corresponds closely with affected users making Internet-based purchases from diverse websites via enterprise desktop PCs.
* All purchase connections were encrypted, and the company uses an SSL inspection proxy for the inspection of encrypted traffic of the hardwired network.
* Purchases made with corporate cards over the corporate guest WiFi network, where no SSL inspection occurs, were unaffected.
Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?

Question121: A university is opening a facility in a location where there is an elevated risk of theft The university wants to protect the desktops in its classrooms and labs Which of the following should the university use to BEST protect these assets deployed in the facility?

Question122: 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?

Question123: Which of the following disaster recovery tests is The LEAST time-consuming for the disaster recovery team?

Question124: After consulting with the Chief Risk Officer (CRO). a manager decides to acquire cybersecurity insurance for the company Which of the following risk management strategies is the manager adopting?