EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A security administrator checks the table of a network switch, which shows the following output:

Which of the following is happening to this switch?

Question2: A researcher has been analyzing large data sets for the last ten months. The researcher works with colleagues from other institutions and typically connects via SSH to retrieve additional data. Historically, this setup has worked without issue, but the researcher recently started getting the following message:

Which of the following network attacks is the researcher MOST likely experiencing?

Question3: 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 experiencing?

Question4: A company recently implemented a new security system. In the course of configuration, the security administrator adds the following entry:
#Whitelist
USB\VID13FE&PID_4127&REV_0100
Which of the following security technologies is MOST likely being configured?

Question5: 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?

Question6: 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?

Question7: An analyst visits an internet forum looking for information about a tool. The analyst finds a threat that appears to contain relevant information. One of the posts says the following:

Which of the following BEST describes the attack that was attempted against the forum readers?

Question8: 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?

Question9: The SOC is reviewing process and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than
30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. The allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained. Which of the following would be BEST to improve the incident response process?

Question10: 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?

Question11: During an incident, an EDR system detects an increase in the number of encrypted outbound connections from multiple hosts. A firewall is also reporting an increase in outbound connections that use random high ports. An analyst plans to review the correlated logs to find the source of the incident. Which of the following tools will BEST assist the analyst?

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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?

Question14: After reading a security bulletin, a network security manager is concerned that a malicious actor may have breached the network using the same software flaw. The exploit code is publicly available and has been reported as being used against other industries in the same vertical.
Which of the following should the network security manager consult FIRST to determine a priority list for forensic review?

Question15: 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?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A root cause analysis reveals that a web application outage was caused by one of the company's developers uploading a newer version of the third-party libraries that were shared among several applications. Which of the following implementations would be BEST to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

Question18: Leveraging the information supplied below, complete the CSR for the server to set up TLS (HTTPS)
* Hostname: ws01
* Domain: comptia.org
* IPv4: 10.1.9.50
* IPV4: 10.2.10.50
* Root: home.aspx
* DNS CNAME:homesite.
Instructions:
Drag the various data points to the correct locations within the CSR. Extension criteria belong in the let hand column and values belong in the corresponding row in the right hand column.

Question19: 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?

Question20: A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question21: A root cause analysis reveals that a web application outage was caused by one of the company's developers uploading a newer version of the third-party libraries that were shared among several applications. Which of the following implementations would be BEST to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

Question22: 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?

Question23: The following is an administrative control that would be MOST effective to reduce the occurrence of malware execution?

Question24: A company installed several crosscut shredders as part of increased information security practices targeting data leakage risks. Which of the following will this practice reduce?

Question25: A security analyst reviews the datacenter access logs for a fingerprint scanner and notices an abundance of errors that correlate with users' reports of issues accessing the facility. Which of the following MOST likely the cause of the cause of the access issues?

Question26: A smart retail business has a local store and a newly established and growing online storefront. A recent storm caused a power outage to the business and the local ISP, resulting in several hours of lost sales and delayed order processing. The business owner now needs to ensure two things:
* Protection from power outages
* Always-available connectivity In case of an outage
The owner has decided to implement battery backups for the computer equipment Which of the following would BEST fulfill the owner's second need?

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better.

Question30: A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question31: A healthcare company is revamping its IT strategy in light of recent regulations. The company is concerned about compliance and wants to use a pay-per-use model.
Which of the following is the BEST solution?

Question32: 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?

Question33: A smart retail business has a local store and a newly established and growing online storefront. A recent storm caused a power outage to the business and the local ISP, resulting in several hours of lost sales and delayed order processing. The business owner now needs to ensure two things:
* Protection from power outages
* Always-available connectivity In case of an outage
The owner has decided to implement battery backups for the computer equipment Which of the following would BEST fulfill the owner's second need?

Question34: An organization has various applications that contain sensitive data hosted in the cloud. The company's leaders are concerned about lateral movement across applications of different trust levels. Which of the following solutions should the organization implement to address the concern?

Question35: A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:

Which of the following types of attacks does this MOST likely represent?

Question36: 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?

Question37: 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?

Question38: Several employees have noticed other bystanders can clearly observe a terminal where passcodes are being entered. Which of the following can be eliminated with the use of a privacy screen?

Question39: A security researcher has alerted an organization that its sensitive user data was found for sale on a website.
Which of the following should the organization use to inform the affected parties?

Question40: 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.

Hot Area:

Question41: A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times. After determining it is not a routing or DNS issue, the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, and receives the following output:

Which of the following is the router experiencing?

Question42: A security analyst wants to verify that a client-server (non-web) application is sending encrypted traffic.
Which of the following should the analyst use?

Question43: The Chief Security Officer (CSO) at a major hospital wants to implement SSO to help improve security in the environment and protect patient data, particularly at shared terminals. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned that training and guidance have not 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?

Question44: During an investigation, a security manager receives notification from local authorities mat company proprietary data was found on a former employees home computer, The former employee's corporate workstation has since been repurposed, and the data on the hard drive has been overwritten Which of the following would BEST provide the security manager with enough details to determine when the data was removed from the company network?

Question45: 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?

Question46: The lessons-learned analysis from a recent incident reveals that an administrative office worker received a call from someone claiming to be from technical support. The caller convinced the office worker to visit a website, and then download and install a program masquerading as an antivirus package. The program was actually a backdoor that an attacker could later use to remote control the worker's PC. Which of the following would be BEST to help prevent this type of attack in the future?

Question47: 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?

Question48: 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?

Question49: Which of the following types of attacks is specific to the individual it targets?

Question50: 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?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better.

Question53: 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?

Question54: A network administrator would like to configure a site-to-site VPN utilizing iPSec. The administrator wants the tunnel to be established with data integrity encryption, authentication and anti- replay functions Which of the following should the administrator use when configuring the VPN?

Question55: A cybersecurity department purchased o new PAM solution. The team is planning to randomize the service account credentials of the Windows server first. Which of the following would be the BEST method to increase the security on the Linux server?

Question56: A researcher has been analyzing large data sets for the last ten months. The researcher works with colleagues from other institutions and typically connects via SSH to retrieve additional data. Historically, this setup has worked without issue, but the researcher recently started getting the following message:
Which of the following network attacks is the researcher MOST likely experiencing?

Question57: Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation.
INSTRUCTIONS
Not all attacks and remediation actions will be used.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question58: 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 their next course of action?

Question59: A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question60: A security engineer is reviewing log files after a third discovered usernames and passwords for the organization's accounts. The engineer sees there was a change in the IP address for a vendor website one earlier. This change lasted eight hours. Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used?

Question61: A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate-owned mobile devices. Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company's data?

Question62: An analyst visits an internet forum looking for information about a tool. The analyst finds a threat that appears to contain relevant information. One of the posts says the following:

Which of the following BEST describes the attack that was attempted against the forum readers?

Question63: A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public area. Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this breach?

Question64: A preventive control differs from a compensating control in that a preventive control is:

Question65: 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?

Question66: 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?

Question67: A security analyst is investigating an incident to determine what an attacker was able to do on a compromised laptop. The analyst reviews the following SIEM log:

Which of the following describes the method that was used to compromise the laptop?

Question68: A malicious actor recently penetrated a company's network and moved laterally to the datacenter. Upon investigation, a forensics firm wants to know what was in the memory on the compromised server. Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?

Question69: A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question70: After a phishing scam for a user's credentials, the red team was able to craft a payload to deploy on a server.
The attack allowed the installation of malicious software that initiates a new remote session. Which of the following types of attacks has occurred?

Question71: Leveraging the information supplied below, complete the CSR for the server to set up TLS (HTTPS)
* Hostname: ws01
* Domain: comptia.org
* IPv4: 10.1.9.50
* IPV4: 10.2.10.50
* Root: home.aspx
* DNS CNAME:homesite.
Instructions:
Drag the various data points to the correct locations within the CSR. Extension criteria belong in the let hand column and values belong in the corresponding row in the right hand column.

Question72: A remote user recently took a two-week vacation abroad and brought along a corporate-owned laptop. Upon returning to work, the user has been unable to connect the laptop to the VPN. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the user's inability to connect the laptop to the VPN?

Question73: A security analyst is reviewing the following command-line output:

Which of the following Is the analyst observing?

Question74: A network technician is installing a guest wireless network at a coffee shop. When a customer purchases an Item, the password for the wireless network is printed on the recent so the customer can log in.
Which of the following will the technician MOST likely configure to provide the highest level of security with the least amount of overhead?

Question75: Which of the following job roles would sponsor data quality and data entry initiatives that ensure business and regulatory requirements are met?

Question76: 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?

Question77: A security administrator suspects an employee has been emailing proprietary information to a competitor. Company policy requires the administrator to capture an exact copy of the employee's hard disk. Which of the following should the administrator use?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: Which of the following should a technician consider when selecting an encryption method for data that needs to remain confidential for a specific length of time?

Question81: The website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal information including security responses, for registration. which of the following would MOST likely cause a date breach?

Question82: A company is setting up a web server on the Internet that will utilize both encrypted and unencrypted web-browsing protocols. A security engineer runs a port scan against the server from the Internet and sees the following output:

Which of the following steps would be best for the security engineer to take NEXT?

Question83: 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?

Question84: A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:

Which of the following types of attacks does this MOST likely represent?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: The SOC is reviewing process and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than 30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. The allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained. Which of the following would be BEST to improve the incident response process?

Question88: A newly purchased corporate WAP needs to be configured in the MOST secure manner possible.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please click on the below items on the network diagram and configure them accordingly:
* WAP
* DHCP Server
* AAA Server
* Wireless Controller
* LDAP Server
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question89: Which of the following would be the BEST resource for a software developer who is looking to improve secure coding practices for web applications?

Question90: A user's account is constantly being locked out. Upon further review, a security analyst found the following in the SIEM:

Which of the following describes what is occurring?

Question91: 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?

Question92: 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?

Question93: 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?

Question94: 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
Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

Question95: SIMULATION
A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on each firewall to do the following:
Deny cleartext web traffic.
Ensure secure management protocols are used.
Resolve issues at the DR site.
The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question96: 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?

Question97: A symmetric encryption algorithm is BEST suited for:

Question98: 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?

Question99: Leveraging the information supplied below, complete the CSR for the server to set up TLS (HTTPS)
* Hostname: ws01
* Domain: comptia.org
* IPv4: 10.1.9.50
* IPV4: 10.2.10.50
* Root: home.aspx
* DNS CNAME:homesite.
Instructions:
Drag the various data points to the correct locations within the CSR. Extension criteria belong in the let hand column and values belong in the corresponding row in the right hand column.

Question100: 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?

Question101: 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

Question102: An analyst has determined that a server was not patched and an external actor exfiltrated data on port 139.
Which of the following sources should the analyst review to BEST ascertain how the Incident could have been prevented?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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?

Question105: A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question106: A security analyst needs to generate a server certificate to be used for 802.1X and secure RDP connections. The analyst is unsure what is required to perform the task and solicits help from a senior colleague.
Which of the following is the FIRST step the senior colleague will most likely tell the analyst to perform to accomplish this task?

Question107: 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?

Question108: A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the severity levels of the organization's vulnerabilities. Which of the following would BEST meet this need?

Question109: 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
Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

Question110: A security analyst was deploying a new website and found a connection attempting to authenticate on the site's portal.
While Investigating the incident, the analyst identified the following Input in the username field:


Which of the following BEST explains this type of attack?

Question111: 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?

Question112: 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?

Question113: An attack relies on an end user visiting a website the end user would typically visit, however, the site is compromised and uses vulnerabilities in the end users browser to deploy malicious software. Which of the blowing types of attack does this describe?

Question114: When implementing automation with loT devices, which of the following should be considered FIRST to keep the network secure?

Question115: A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on each firewall to do the following:
* Deny cleartext web traffic.
* Ensure secure management protocols are used.
* Resolve issues at the DR site.
The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question116: A cybersecurity analyst needs to implement secure authentication to third-party websites without users' passwords. Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

Question117: 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?

Question118: A security engineer obtained the following output from a threat intelligence source that recently performed an attack on the company's server:

Which of the following BEST describes this kind of attack?

Question119: A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question120: A user must introduce a password and a USB key to authenticate against a secure computer, and authentication is limited to the state in which the company resides. Which of the following authentication concepts are in use?

Question121: A security analyst b concerned about traffic initiated to the dark web from the corporate LAN.
Which of the following networks should he analyst monitor?

Question122: Which of the following is a risk that is specifically associated with hosting applications in the public cloud?

Question123: 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?

Question124: A commercial cyber-threat intelligence organization observes IoCs across a variety of unrelated customers.
Prior to releasing specific threat intelligence to other paid subscribers, the organization is MOST likely obligated by contracts to:

Question125: 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?

Question126: A security analyst is reviewing the following output from a system:

Which of the following is MOST likely being observed?

Question127: A security analyst wants to verify that a client-server (non-web) application is sending encrypted traffic. Which of the following should the analyst use?

Question128: The cost of 'Cmovable media and the security risks of transporting data have become too great for a laboratory. The laboratory has decided to interconnect with partner laboratones to make data transfers easier and more secure. The Chief Security Officer <CSO) has several concerns about proprietary data being exposed once the interconnections are established. Which of the following security features should the network administrator implement lo prevent unwanted data exposure to users in partner laboratories?

Question129: 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?

Question130: 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 theuser 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
Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

Question131: A document that appears to be malicious has been discovered in an email that was sent to a company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Which of the following would be BEST to allow a security analyst to gather information and confirm it is a malicious document without executing any code it may contain?

Question132: 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?

Question133: An organization wants to host an externally accessible web server that will not contain sensitive user information. Any sensitive information will be hosted on file servers. Which of the following is the BEST architecture configuration for this organization?

Question134: A SOC is implementing an in sider-threat-detection program. The primary concern is that users may be accessing confidential data without authorization. Which of the following should be deployed to detect a potential insider threat?

Question135: A security administrator has noticed unusual activity occurring between different global instances and workloads and needs to identify the source of the unusual traffic. Which of the following log sources would be BEST to show the source of the unusual traffic?

Question136: 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?

Question137: A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question138: A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is dissatisfied with the level of service from the company's new service provider. The service provider is preventing the CEO.
from sending email from a work account to a personal account. Which of the following types of service providers is being used?

Question139: 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?

Question140: A newly purchased corporate WAP needs to be configured in the MOST secure manner possible.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please click on the below items on the network diagram and configure them accordingly:
WAP
DHCP Server
AAA Server
Wireless Controller
LDAP Server
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question141: 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?

Question142: A security analyst needs to make a recommendation for restricting access to certain segments of the network using only data-link layer security.
Which of the following controls will the analyst MOST likely recommend?

Question143: 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?

Question144: A security administrator checks the table of a network switch, which shows the following output:

Which of the following is happening to this switch?

Question145: An organization suffered an outage and a critical system took 90 minutes to come back online. Though there was no data loss during the outage, the expectation was that the critical system would be available again within
60 minutes Which of the following is the 60-minute expectation an example of:

Question146: 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?

Question147: A security analyst is reviewing logs on a server and observes the following output:

Which of the following is the security analyst observing?

Question148: 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?

Question149: 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.

Question150: A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on each firewall to do the following:
* Deny cleartext web traffic.
* Ensure secure management protocols are used.
* Resolve issues at the DR site.
The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question151: A user downloaded an extension for a browser, and the uses device later became infected. The analyst who is investigating the incident saw various logs where the attacker was hiding activity by deleting data The following was observed running:

Which of the following is the malware using to execute the attack?

Question152: During an investigation, a security manager receives notification from local authorities mat company proprietary data was found on a former employees home computer, The former employee's corporate workstation has since been repurposed, and the data on the hard drive has been overwritten Which of the following would BEST provide the security manager with enough details to determine when the data was removed from the company network?

Question153: A cybersecurity administrator is using iptables as an enterprise firewall. The administrator created some rules, but the network now seems to be unresponsive All connections are being dropped by the firewall. Which of the following would be the BEST option to remove the rules?

Question154: Which of the following scenarios would make a DNS sinkhole effective in thwarting an attack?

Question155: Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside

Question156: A user recently attended an exposition and received some digital promotional materials.
The user later noticed blue boxes popping up and disappearing on the computer, and reported receiving several spam emails, which the user did not open.
Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the reported issue?

Question157: Which of the following is the correct order of volatility from MOST to LEAST volatile?

Question158: 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?

Question159: A security audit has revealed that a process control terminal is vulnerable to malicious users installing and executing software on the system. The terminal is beyond end-of-life support and cannot be upgraded, so it is placed on a protected network segment. Which of the following would be MOST effective to implement to further mitigate the reported vulnerability?

Question160: 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?

Question161: A hospital's administration is concerned about a potential loss of patient data that is stored on tablets. A security administrator needs to implement controls to alert the SOC any time the devices are near exits. Which of the following would BEST achieve this objective?

Question162: An incident response technician collected a mobile device during an investigation. Which of the following should the technician do to maintain chain of custody?

Question163: A researcher has been analyzing large data sets for the last ten months. The researcher works with colleagues from other institutions and typically connects via SSH to retrieve additional data. Historically, this setup has worked without issue, but the researcher recently started getting the following message:

Which of the following network attacks is the researcher MOST likely experiencing?

Question164: Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

Question165: 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?

Question166: A grocery store is expressing security and reliability concerns regarding the on-site backup strategy currently being performed by locally attached disks. The main concerns are the physical security of the backup media and the durability of the data stored on these devices.
Which of the following is a cost-effective approach to address these concerns?

Question167: 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?

Question168: A security analyst discovers that a company's username and password database was posted on an Internet forum. The usernames and passwords are stored in plain text. Which of the following would mitigate the damage done by this type of data exfiltration in the future?

Question169: An organization has expanded its operations by opening a remote office. The new office is fully furnished with office resources to support up to 50 employees working on any given day.
Which of the following VPN solutions would BEST support the new office?

Question170: 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?

Question171: A SOC is implementing an in sider-threat-detection program. The primary concern is that users may be accessing confidential data without authorization. Which of the following should be deployed to detect a potential insider threat?

Question172: 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?

Question173: A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question174: A security analyst is running a vulnerability scan to check for missing patches during a suspected security incident. During which of the following phases of the response process is this activity MOST likely occurring?

Question175: 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?

Question176: An organization is building backup sever moms in geographically diverse locations. The Chief information Security Officer implemented a requirement on the project that states the new hardware cannot be susceptible to the same vulnerabilities in the existing sewer room, Which of the following should the systems engineer consider'?

Question177: 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?

Question178: A major clothing company recently lost a large amount of proprietary information The security officer must find a solution to ensure this never happens again.
Which of the following is the BEST technical implementation to prevent this from happening again?

Question179: A cyberthreat intelligence analyst is gathering data about a specific adversary using OSINT techniques. Which of the following should the analyst use?

Question180: 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?

Question181: An attacker is exploiting a vulnerability that does not have a patch available. Which of the following is the attacker exploiting?

Question182: 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?

Question183: 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?

Question184: A security analyst is investigating an incident to determine what an attacker was able to do on a compromised laptop. The analyst reviews the following SIEM log:

Which of the following describes the method that was used to compromise the laptop?

Question185: Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation.
INSTRUCTIONS
Not all attacks and remediation actions will be used.
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Question186: 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?

Question187: The
website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal information including security responses, for registration. which of the following would MOST likely cause a date breach?

Question188: Drag and Drop Question
A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question189: A security analyst discovers several .jpg photos from a cellular phone during a forensics investigation involving a compromised system. The analyst runs a forensics tool to gather file metadata. Which of the following would be part of the images if all the metadata is still intact?

Question190: 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?

Question191: Which of the following is an example of federated access management?

Question192: 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?

Question193: A security analyst is reviewing the following command-line output:

Which of the following Is the analyst observing?

Question194: While investigating a data leakage incident, a security analyst reviews access control to cloud-hosted data. The following information was presented in a security posture report.

Based on the report, which of the following was the MOST likely attack vector used against the company?

Question195: If a current private key is compromised, which of the following would ensure it cannot be used to decrypt all historical data?

Question196: 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?

Question197: An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.
Which of the followi g would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

Question198: 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?

Question199: 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?

Question200: 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?

Question201: 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?

Question202: 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?

Question203: An auditor is performing an assessment of a security appliance with an embedded OS that was vulnerable during the last two assessments. Which of the following BEST explains the appliance's vulnerable state?

Question204: Which of the following describes a maintenance metric that measures the average time required to troubleshoot and restore failed equipment?

Question205: Joe, a user at a company, clicked an email link led to a website that infected his workstation. Joe, was connected to the network, and the virus spread to the network shares. The protective measures failed to stop this virus, and It has continues to evade detection. Which of the following should administrator implement to protect the environment from this malware?

Question206: 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?

Question207: 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?

Question208: Which of the following will MOST likely cause machine learning and Al-enabled systems to operate with unintended consequences?

Question209: A security analyst was deploying a new website and found a connection attempting to authenticate on the site's portal. While Investigating The incident, the analyst identified the following Input in the username field:

Which of the following BEST explains this type of attack?

Question210: A company is experiencing an increasing number of systems that are locking up on Windows startup. The security analyst clones a machine, enters into safe mode, and discovers a file in the startup process that runs Wstart.bat.
@echo off
:asdhbawdhbasdhbawdhb
start notepad.exe
start notepad.exe
start calculator.exe
start calculator.exe
goto asdhbawdhbasdhbawdhb
Given the file contents and the system's issues, which of the following types of malware is present?

Question211: 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?

Question212: 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?

Question213: 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?

Question214: A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.
INSTRUCTIONS
Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question215: Users reported several suspicious activities within the last two weeks that resulted in several unauthorized transactions. Upon investigation, the security analyst found the following:
- Multiple reports of breached credentials within that time period
- Traffic being redirected in certain parts of the network
- Fraudulent emails being sent by various internal users without their
consent
Which of the following types of attacks was MOST likely used?

Question216: An organization has decided to host its web application and database in the cloud Which of the following BEST describes the security concerns for this decision?

Question217: SIMULATION
A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.
INSTRUCTIONS
Click on each firewall to do the following:
1. Deny cleartext web traffic.
2. Ensure secure management protocols are used.
3. Resolve issues at the DR site.
The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question218: A company recently experienced an attack during which its main website was directed to the attacker's web server, allowing the attacker to harvest credentials from unsuspecting customers.
Which of the following should the company implement to prevent this type of attack occurring in the future?

Question219: 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?

Question220: 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?

Question221: A security engineer obtained the following output from a threat intelligence source that recently performed an attack on the company's server:

Which of the following BEST describes this kind of attack?

Question222: The security team received a report of copyright infringement from the IP space of lire corporate network. The report provided a precise time stamp for the incident as well as the name of the copyrighted file. The analyst has been tasked with determining the infringing source machine and instructed to implement measures to prevent such incidents from occurring again.
Which of the following is MOST capable of accomplishing both tasks?

Question223: An enterprise needs to keep cryptographic keys in a safe manner. Which of the following network appliances can achieve this goal?

Question224: A security researching is tracking an adversary by noting its attack and techniques based on its capabilities, infrastructure, and victims. Which of the following is the researcher MOST likely using?

Question225: To mitigate the impact of a single VM being compromised by another VM on the same hypervisor, an administrator would like to utilize a technical control to further segregate the traffic. Which of the following solutions would BEST accomplish this objective?

Question226: 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?