EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A manufacturer creates designs for very high security products that are required to be protected and controlled

Question2: Which of the following describes a maintenance metric that measures the average time required to troubleshoot and restore failed equipment?

Question3: An application owner reports suspicious activity on an internal financial application from various internal users within the past 14 days. A security analyst notices the following:
* Financial transactions were occurring during irregular time frames and outside of business hours by unauthorized users.
* Internal users in question were changing their passwords frequently during that time period.
* A jump box that several domain administrator users use to connect to remote devices was recently compromised.
* The authentication method used in the environment is NTLM.
Which of the following types of attacks is MOST likely being used to gain unauthorized access?

Question4: Which of the following allows for functional test data to be used in new systems for testing and training purposes to protect the real data?

Question5: As part of a company's ongoing SOC maturation process, the company wants to implement a method to share cyberthreat intelligence data with outside security partners. Which of the following will the company MOST likely implement?

Question6: A security analyst Is investigating multiple hosts that are communicating to external IP addresses during the hours of 2:00 a.m, - 4:00 a.m, The malware has evaded detection by traditional antivirus software. Which of the following types of malware Is MOST likely infecting the hosts?

Question7: 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. Please 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.

Question8: A security analyst reviews a company's authentication logs and notices multiple authentication failures. The authentication failures are from different usernames that share the same source IP address. Which of the password attacks is MOST likely happening?

Question9: Which of the following describes the exploitation of an interactive process to gain access to restncted areas?

Question10: An attacker has determined the best way to impact operations is to infiltrate third-party software vendors. Which of the following vectors is being exploited?

Question11: A junior security analyst is conducting an analysis after passwords were changed on multiple accounts without users' interaction. The SIEM have multiple login entries with the following text:

Which of the following is the MOST likely attack conducted on the environment?

Question12: When planning to build a virtual environment, an administrator need to achieve the following,
* Establish polices in Limit who can create new VMs
* Allocate resources according to actual utilization'
* Require justification for requests outside of the standard requirements.
* Create standardized categories based on size and resource requirements Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely trying to do?

Question13: 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?

Question14: A company was compromised, and a security analyst discovered the attacker was able to get access to a service account. The following logs were discovered during the investigation:

Which of the following MOST likely would have prevented the attacker from learning the service account name?

Question15: An engineer needs to deploy a security measure to identify and prevent data tampering within the enterprise. Which of the following will accomplish this goal?

Question16: 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?

Question17: During a forensic investigation, a security analyst discovered that the following command was run on a compromised host:

Which of the following attacks occurred?

Question18: 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.

Question19: Historically. a company has had issues with users plugging in personally owned removable media devices into corporate computers. As a result, the threat of malware incidents is almost constant. Which of the following would BEST help prevent the malware from being installed on the computers?

Question20: An application owner reports suspicious activity on an internal financial application from various internal users within the past 14 days. A security analyst notices the following:
* Financial transactions were occurring during irregular time frames and outside of business hours by unauthorized users.
* Internal users in question were changing their passwords frequently during that time period.
* A jump box that several domain administrator users use to connect to remote devices was recently compromised.
* The authentication method used in the environment is NTLM.
Which of the following types of attacks is MOST likely being used to gain unauthorized access?

Question21: Which of the following describes the BEST approach for deploying application patches?

Question22: A network engineer and a security engineer are discussing ways to monitor network operations. Which of the following is the BEST method?

Question23: 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?

Question24: An organization maintains several environments in which patches are developed and tested before deployed to an operation status. Which of the following is the environment in which patches will be deployed just prior to being put into an operational status?

Question25: Which of the following uses six initial steps that provide basic control over system security by including hardware and software inventory, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring to minimize risk in all network environments?

Question26: Which of the following is the MOST effective control against zero-day vulnerabilities?

Question27: Which of the following is the MOST likely motivation for a script kiddie threat actor?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:

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

Question30: 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?

Question31: A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the volume and integrity of sensitive information that is exchanged between the organization and a third party through email. The CSO is particularly concerned about an unauthorized party who is intercepting information that is in transit between the two organizations. Which of the following would address the
CSO's concerns?

Question32: 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?

Question33: The security administrator has installed a new firewall which implements an implicit DENY policy by default.

Question34: An organization discovers that unauthorized applications have been installed on company- provided mobile phones. The organization issues these devices,
but some users have managed to bypass the security controls. Which of the following is the MOST likely issue, and how can the organization BEST prevent this from happening?

Question35: Which of the following control types is focused primarily on reducing risk before an incident occurs?

Question36: Which of the following would satisfy three-factor authentication?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A Chief information Officer is concerned about employees using company-issued laptops to steal data when accessing network shares Which of the following should the company implement?

Question39: Which of the following is a detective and deterrent control against physical intrusions?

Question40: A forensic analyst needs to prove that data has not been tampered with since it was collected Which of the following methods will the analyst MOST likely use?

Question41: A user attempts to load a web-based application, but the expected login screen does not appear A help desk analyst troubleshoots the issue by running the following command and reviewing the output on the user's PC

The help desk analyst then runs the same command on the local PC

Which of the following BEST describes the attack that is being detected?

Question42: A security analyst is Investigating a malware incident at a company. The malware Is accessing a command-and-control website at www.comptia.com. All outbound Internet traffic is logged to a syslog server and stored in /logfiles/messages.
Which of the following commands would be BEST for the analyst to use on the syslog server to search for recent traffic to the command-and-control website?

Question43: Which of the following would a European company interested in implementing a technical, hands-on set of security standards MOST likely choose?

Question44: An analyst is reviewing logs associated with an attack. The logs indicate an attacker downloaded a malicious file that was quarantined by the AV solution. The attacker utilized a local non-administrative account to restore the malicious file to a new location. The file was then used by another process to execute a payload.
Which of the following attacks did the analyst observe?

Question45: A financial institution would like to store its customer data in a cloud but still allow the data to be accessed and manipulated while encrypted. Doing so would prevent the cloud service provider from being able to decipher the data due to its sensitivity. The financial institution is not concerned about computational overheads and slow speeds. Which of the following cryptographic techniques would BEST meet the requirement?

Question46: 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?

Question47: Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company's IT/security operations?

Question48: A mae Clotting company recently lost 4 aege amount of propeetary wvformaton The security olficer must fied a solution t ensure frs never happens agan tht 8 the BEST tachrycal implementation tp prevent thes fom happening agai?

Question49: A business is looking for a cloud service provider that offers a la carte services, including cloud backups, VM elasticity, and secure networking. Which of the following cloud service provider types should business engage?

Question50: An analyst visits an Internet forum looking for information about a tool. The analyst finds a thread 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?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A security engineer needs to build a solution to satisfy regulatory requirements that state certain critical servers must be accessed using MFA.
However, the critical servers are older and are unable to support the addition of MFA. Which of the following will the engineer MOST likely use to achieve this objective?

Question53: 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?

Question54: 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?

Question55: 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?

Question56: An IT security manager requests a report on company information that is publicly available. The manager's concern is that malicious actors will be able to access the data without engaging in active reconnaissance. Which of the following is the MOST efficient approach to perform the analysis?

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: After a hardware incident, an unplanned emergency maintenance activity was conducted to rectify the issue. Multiple alerts were generated on the SIEM during this period of time. Which of the following BEST explains what happened?

Question59: A user wanted to catch up on some work over the weekend but had issues logging in to the corporate network using a VPN. On Monday, the user opened a ticket for this issue but was able to log in successfully. Which of the following BEST describes the policy that is being implemented?

Question60: 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.

Question61: Due to unexpected circumstances, an IT company must vacate its main office, forcing all operations to alternate, off-site locations Which of the following will the company MOST likely reference for guidance during this change?

Question62: 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.

Question63: 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?

Question64: 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?

Question65: 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:

Question66: An organization has activated an incident response plan due to a malware outbreak on its network The organization has brought in a forensics team that has identified an internet-facing Windows server as the likely point of initial compromise The malware family that was detected is known to be distributed by manually logging on to servers and running the malicious code Which of the following actions would be BEST to prevent reinfection from the initial infection vector?

Question67: 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?

Question68: Which of the following types of attacks is being attempted and how can it be mitigated?

Question69: A security analyst is reviewing the following output from a system:

Which of the following is MOST likely being observed?

Question70: A company has determined that if its computer-based manufacturing is not functioning for 12 consecutive hours, it will lose more money that it costs to maintain the equipment. Which of the following must be less than 12 hours to maintain a positive total cost of ownership?

Question71: A company wants to restrict emailing of PHI documents. The company is implementing a DLP solution In order to reslnct PHI documents which of the following should be performed FIRST?

Question72: 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?

Question73: Which of the following is the MOST relevant security check to be performed before embedding third-parry libraries in developed code?

Question74: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has requested that a third-party vendor provide supporting documents that show proper controls are in place to protect customer dat a. Which of the following would be BEST for the third-party vendor to provide to the CISO?

Question75: 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?

Question76: 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.

Question77: Drag and Drop Question
Leveraging the information supplied below, complete the CSR for the server to set up TLS (HTTPS).
- Hostnam : 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 left-hand column and values belong in the corresponding row in the right-hand column.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Question78: An organization wants to enable built-in FDE on all laptops Which of the following should the organization ensure is Installed on all laptops?

Question79: A security analyst is reviewing a new website that will soon be made publicly available. The analyst sees the following in the URL:
http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=77276554
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?

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: An organization recently acquired an ISO 27001 certification. Which of the following would MOST likely be considered a benefit of this certification?

Question82: A security analyst needs to be proactive in understanding the types of attacks that could potentially target the company's executives. Which of the following intelligence sources should the security analyst review?

Question83: A company is implementing MFA for all applications that store sensitive dat
a. The IT manager wants MFA to be non-disruptive and user friendly. Which of the following technologies should the IT manager use when implementing MFA?

Question84: A security forensics analyst is examining a virtual server. The analyst wants to preserve the present state of the virtual server, including memory contents. Which of the following backup types should be used?

Question85: A security analyst was called to investigate a file received directly from a hardware manufacturer. The analyst is trying to determine whether odified in transit before installation on the user's computer. Which of the following can be used to safely assess the file?

Question86: A company a "right to forgotten" request To legally comply, the company must remove data related to the requester from its systems. Which Of the following Company most likely complying with?

Question87: Which of the following BEST describes a social-engineering attack that relies on an executive at a small business visiting a fake banking website where credit card and account details are harvested?

Question88: A network engineer needs to create a plan for upgrading the wireless infrastructure in a large office Priority must be given to areas that are currently experiencing latency and connection issues. Which of the following would be the BEST resource for determining the order of priority?

Question89: 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.

Question90: Which of the following refers to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

Question91: A security analyst is investigating a report from a penetration test. During the penetration test, consultants were able to download sensitive data from a back-end server. The back-end server was exposing an API that should have only been available from the companVs mobile application. After reviewing the back-end server logs, the security analyst finds the following entries

Which of the following is the most likely cause of the security control bypass?

Question92: 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?

Question93: The Chief Information Security Officer wants to pilot a new adaptive, user-based authentication method. The concept Includes granting logical access based on physical location and proximity. Which of the following Is the BEST solution for the pilot?

Question94: Which of the fofowing should an organization conskier implementing in the event executives need to speak to the media after a publicized data breach?

Question95: 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.

Question96: Multiple beaconing activities to a malicious domain have been observed. The malicious domain is hosting malware from various endpoints on the network. Which of the following technologies would be best to correlate the activities between the different endpoints?

Question97: A security analyst is Investigating a malware incident at a company. The malware Is accessing a command-and-control website at www.comptia.com. All outbound Internet traffic is logged to a syslog server and stored in /logfiles/messages.
Which of the following commands would be BEST for the analyst to use on the syslog server to search for recent traffic to the command-and-control website?

Question98: The Chief Information Secunty Officer (CISO) requested a report on potential areas of improvement following a security incident. Which of the following incident response processes is the CISO requesting?

Question99: Which of the following types of controls is a turnstile?

Question100: If a current private key is compromised, which of the following would ensure it cannot be used to decrypt ail historical data?

Question101: A security researcher has aferted an organuzation that its sensifive user data was found for sale on a website.
Which af the followang should the organzabon use to inform the affected partes?

Question102: A company processes highly sensitive data and senior management wants to protect the sensitive data by utilizing classification labels. Which of the following access control schemes would be BEST for the company to implement?

Question103: 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?

Question104: Several universities are participating m a collaborative research project and need to share compute and storage resources Which of the following cloud deployment strategies would BEST meet this need?

Question105: An attacker browses a company's online job board attempting to find any relevant information regarding the technologies the company uses. Which of the following BEST describes this social engineering technique?

Question106: Which of the following is the MOST secure but LEAST expensive data destruction method for data that is stored on hard drives?

Question107: A security analyst is logged into a Windows file server and needs to see who is accessing files and from which computers.
Which of the following tools should the analyst use?

Question108: A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:

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

Question109: Which of the following biometric authentication methods is the MOST accurate?

Question110: A company recently upgraded its authentication infrastructure and now has more computing power. Which of the following should the company consider using to ensure user credentials are being transmitted and stored more securely?

Question111: 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.

Question112: As part of a security compliance assessment, an auditor performs automated vulnerability scans. In addition, which of the following should the auditor do to complete the assessment?

Question113: An organization blocks user access to command-line interpreters but hackers still managed to invoke the interpreters using native administrative tools Which of the following should the security team do to prevent this from Happening in the future?

Question114: Which of the following will MOST likely cause machine learning and Al-enabled systems to operate with unintended consequences?

Question115: Developers are writing code and merging it into shared repositories several times a day, where it is tested automatically. Which of the following concepts does this BEST represent?

Question116: The SOC for a large MSSP is meeting to discuss the lessons learned from a recent incident that took much too long to resolve This type of incident has become more common in recent weeks and is consuming large amounts of the analysts' time due to manual tasks being performed Which of the following solutions should the SOC consider to BEST improve its response time?

Question117: A security analyst is tasked with defining the "something you are" factor of the company's MFA settings. Which of the following is BEST to use to complete the configuration?

Question118: In which of the following risk management strategies would cybersecurity insurance be used?

Question119: 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.

Question120: The concept of connecting a user account across the systems of multiple enterprises is BEST known as:

Question121: A security analyst Is reviewing the following output from a system:

Which of the following is MOST likely being observed?

Question122: Which of the following organizations sets frameworks and controls for optimal security configuration on systems?

Question123: A security analyst reports a company policy violation in a case in which a large amount of sensitive data is being downloaded after hours from various mobile devices to an external site.
Upon further investigation, the analyst notices that successful login attempts are being conducted with impossible travel times during the same time periods when the unauthorized downloads are occurring. The analyst also discovers a couple of WAPs are using the same SSID, but they have non-standard DHCP configurations and an overlapping channel. Which of the following attacks is being conducted?

Question124: 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?

Question125: Under GDPR, which of the following is MOST responsible for the protection of privacy and website user rights?

Question126: The board of doctors at a company contracted with an insurance firm to limit the organization's liability. Which of the following risk management practices does the BEST describe?

Question127: 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?

Question128: 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?

Question129: Which of the following is a difference between a DRP and a BCP?

Question130: The Chief Information Security Officer warns lo prevent exfiltration of sensitive information from employee cell phones when using public USB power charging stations. Which of the following would be the BEST solution to Implement?

Question131: 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?

Question132: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has decided to reorganize security staff to concentrate on incident response and to outsource outbound Internet URL categorization and filtering to an outside company.
Additionally, the CISO would like this solution to provide the same protections even when a company laptop or mobile device is away from a home office. Which of the following should the CISO choose?

Question133: nteping a secure area requires passing though two doors, both of which require someone who is already inside to initiate access. Which of the following types of physical security controls does this describe?

Question134: A Chief information Officer is concemed about employees using company-issued laptops to steal dala when accessing network shares Which of the following should the company implement?

Question135: Which of the following should be monitored by threat intelligence researchers who search for leaked credentials?

Question136: 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.

Question137: Due to unexpected circumstances, an IT company must vacate its main office, forcing all operations to alternate, off-site locations. Which of the following will the company MOST likely reference for guidance during this change?

Question138: A Chief Information Officer is concerned about employees using company-issued laptops lo steal data when accessing network shares. Which of the following should the company Implement?

Question139: 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.

Question140: 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?

Question141: A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better.

Question142: A security administrator is trying to determine whether a server is vulnerable to a range of attacks. After using a tool, the administrator obtains the following output:

Which of the following attacks was successfully implemented based on the output?

Question143: 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.

Question144: The IT department at a university is concerned about professors placing servers on the university network in an attempt to bypass security controls. Which of the following BEST represents this type of threat?

Question145: Which of the following incident response phases should the proper collection of the detected 'ocs and establishment of a chain of custody be performed before?

Question146: A help desk technician receives a phone call from someone claiming to be a part of the organizations cybersecurity incident response team. The caller asks the technician to verify networks internal firewall IP address. Which of the following is the technicians BEST course of action?

Question147: A security analyst is responding to an alert from the SIEM. The alert states that malware was discovered on a host and was not automatically deleted. Which of the following would be BEST for the analyst to perform?

Question148: A security analyst is reviewing the vulnerability scan report for a web server following an incident. The vulnerability that was used to exploit the server is present in historical vulnerability scan reports, and a patch is available for the vulnerability. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Question149: A company would like to set up a secure way to transfer data between users via their mobile phones The company's top pnonty is utilizing technology that requires users to be in as close proximity as possible to each other. Which of the following connection methods would BEST fulfill this need?

Question150: A company is providing security awareness training regarding the importance of not forwarding social media messages from unverified sources. Which of the following risks would this training help to prevent?

Question151: A security analyst is receiving numerous alerts reporting that the response time of an internet-facing application has been degraded However, the internal network performance was not degraded. Which of the following MOST likely explains this behavior?

Question152: Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe's identity before sending him the prize. Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?

Question153: A security analyst must enforce policies to harden an MDM infrastructure. The requirements are as follows:
* Ensure mobile devices can be tracked and wiped.
* Confirm mobile devices are encrypted.
Which of the following should the analyst enable on all the devices to meet these requirements?

Question154: Which of the following would cause a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) the MOST concern regarding newly installed Internet-accessible 4K surveillance cameras?

Question155: 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?

Question156: 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?

Question157: An attacker is trying to gain access by installing malware on a website that is known to be visited by the target victims. Which of the following is the attacker MOST likely attempting?

Question158: A penetration tester successfully gained access to a company's network The investigating analyst determines malicious traffic connected through the WAP despite filtering rules being in place. Logging in to the connected switch, the analyst sees the following m the ARP table:

Which of the following did Ihe penetration tester MOST likely use?

Question159: An analyst is generating a security report for the management team. Security guidelines recommend disabling all listening unencrypted services. Given this output from Nmap.

Which of the following should the analyst recommend to disable?

Question160: Which of the following measures the average time that equipment will operate before it breaks?

Question161: 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?

Question162: An organization has implemented a two-step verification process to protect user access to data that 6 stored in the could Each employee now uses an email address of mobile number a code to access the dat
a. Which of the following authentication methods did the organization implement?

Question163: A security engineer needs to enhance MFA access to sensitive areas in a building. A key card and fingerprint scan are already in use.
Which of the following would add another factor of authentication?

Question164: A technician enables full disk encryption on a laptop that will be taken on a business trip. Which of the following does this process BEST protect?

Question165: An organization would like to give remote workers the ability to use applications hosted inside the corporate network Users will be allowed to use their personal computers or they will be provided organization assets Either way no data or applications will be installed locally on any user systems Which of the following mobile solutions would accomplish these goals?

Question166: An organization's help desk is flooded with phone calls from users stating they can no longer access certain websites. The help desk escalates the issue to the security team, as these websites were accessible the previous day. The security analysts run the following command: ipconfig /flushdns, but the issue persists. Finally, an analyst changes the DNS server for an impacted machine, and the issue goes away. Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred on the original DNS server?

Question167: 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.

Question168: 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.

Question169: 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?

Question170: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has requested that a third-party vendor provide supporting documents that show proper controls are in place to protect customer dat a. Which of the following would be BEST for the third-party vendor to provide to the CISO?

Question171: 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?

Question172: A security analyst needs to find real-time data on the latest malware and IoCs. Which of the following would BEST describes the solution the analyst should pursue?

Question173: A company discovered that terabytes of data have been exfiltrated over the past year after an employee clicked on an email link. The threat continued to evolve and remain undetected until a security analyst noticed an abnormal amount of external connections when the employee was not working. Which of the following is the MOST likely threat actor?

Question174: Which of the following BEST describes the method a security analyst would use to confirm a file that is downloaded from a trusted security website is not altered in transit or corrupted using a verified checksum?

Question175: Whiich of the following Gieuster recovery tests ie the LEAST time coneuntng for tie easier recovery tearm?

Question176: 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?

Question177: A security architect is required to deploy to conference rooms some workstations that will allow sensitive data to be displayed on large screens. Due to the nature of the data, it cannot be stored in the conference rooms. The fiieshare is located in a local data center. Which of the following should the security architect recommend to BEST meet the requirement?

Question178: A client sent several inquiries to a project manager about the delinquent delivery status of some critical reports. The project manager darned the reports were previously sent via email but then quickly generated and backdated the reports before submitting them via a new email message.
Which of the following actions MOST likely supports an investigation for fraudulent submission?

Question179: An organization implemented a process that compares the settings currently configured on systems against secure configuration guidelines in order to identify any gaps Which of the following control types has the organization implemented?

Question180: A company's security team received notice of a critical vulnerability affecting a high-profile device within the web infrastructure. The vendor patch was just made available online but has not yet been regression tested in development environments. In the interim, firewall rules were implemented to reduce the access to the interface affected by the vulnerability. Which of the following controls does this scenario describe?

Question181: 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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Question182: 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?

Question183: During a recent penetration test, the tester discovers large amounts of data were exfiltrated over the course of
12 months via the internet. The penetration tester stops the test to inform the client of the findings Which of the following should be the client's NEXT step to mitigate the issue''

Question184: 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?

Question185: A new security engineer has started hardening systems. One of the hardening techniques the engineer is using involves disabling remote logins to the NAS. Users are now reporting the inability to use SCP to transfer files to the NAS, even though the data is still viewable from the users' PCs. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Question186: 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 meet these requirements?

Question187: 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?

Question188: A security administrator needs to create a RAID configuration that is focused on high read speeds and fault tolerance. It is unlikely that multiple drives will fail simultaneously. Which of the following RAID configurations should the administrator use?

Question189: A database administrator wants to grant access to an application that will be reading and writing data to a database. The database is shared by other applications also used by the finance department.
Which of the following account types Is MOST appropriate for this purpose?

Question190: 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?

Question191: 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?

Question192: 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?

Question193: 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?

Question194: A security engineer is installing a WAF to protect the company's website from malicious web requests over SSL. Which of the following is needed to meet the objective?

Question195: Security analyst must enforce policies to harden an MOM infrastructure. The requirements are as follows:
- Ensure mobile devices can be traded and wiped.
- Confirm mobile devices are encrypted.
Which of the following should the analyst enable on all the devices to meet these requirements?