EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following automation use cases would best enhance the security posture of an organization by rapidly updating permissions when employees leave a company?

Question2: Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?

Question3: In order to strengthen a password and prevent a hacker from cracking it, a random string of 36 characters was added to the password. Which of the following best describes this technique?

Question4: A systems administrator set up a perimeter firewall but continues to notice suspicious connections between internal endpoints. Which of the following should be set up in order to mitigate the threat posed by the suspicious activity?

Question5: A bank insists all of its vendors must prevent data loss on stolen laptops. Which of the following strategies is the bank requiring?

Question6: An administrator notices that several users are logging in from suspicious IP addresses. After speaking with the users, the administrator determines that the employees were not logging in from those IP addresses and resets the affected users' passwords. Which of the following should the administrator implement to prevent this type of attack from succeeding in the future?

Question7: A company is planning to set up a SIEM system and assign an analyst to review the logs on a weekly basis Which of the following types of controls is the company setting up?

Question8: A healthcare organization wants to provide a web application that allows individuals to digitally report health emergencies.
Which of the following is the most important consideration during development?

Question9: Which of the following actions could a security engineer take to ensure workstations and servers are properly monitored for unauthorized changes and software?

Question10: An organization is building a single virtual environment that will host customer applications and data that require availability at all times. The data center that is hosting the environment will provide generator power and ISP services. Which of the following is the best solution to support the organization's requirement?

Question11: A client asked a security company to provide a document outlining the project, the cost, and the completion time frame. Which of the following documents should the company provide to the client?

Question12: A U.S.-based cloud-hosting provider wants to expand its data centers to new international locations. Which of the following should the hosting provider consider first?

Question13: A hacker gained access to a system via a phishing attempt that was a direct result of a user clicking a suspicious link. The link laterally deployed ransomware, which laid dormant for multiple weeks, across the network. Which of the following would have mitigated the spread?

Question14: A company decided to reduce the cost of its annual cyber insurance policy by removing the coverage for ransomware attacks.
Which of the following analysis elements did the company most likely use in making this decision?

Question15: Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?

Question16: A penetration tester begins an engagement by performing port and service scans against the client environment according to the rules of engagement. Which of the following reconnaissance types is the tester performing?

Question17: Which of the following is the best reason to complete an audit in a banking environment?

Question18: A security analyst needs to harden access to a network. One of the requirements is to authenticate users with smart cards. Which of the following should the analyst enable to best meet this requirement?

Question19: A company needs to provide administrative access to internal resources while minimizing the traffic allowed through the security boundary. Which of the following methods is most secure?

Question20: A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register. Which of the following strategies does this represent?

Question21: Which of the following can best protect against an employee inadvertently installing malware on a company system?

Question22: Which of the following is the phase in the incident response process when a security analyst reviews roles and responsibilities?

Question23: A security practitioner completes a vulnerability assessment on a company's network and finds several vulnerabilities, which the operations team remediates. Which of the following should be done next?

Question24: A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

Question25: A company hired a consultant to perform an offensive security assessment covering penetration testing and social engineering.
Which of the following teams will conduct this assessment activity?

Question26: A company's marketing department collects, modifies, and stores sensitive customer data. The infrastructure team is responsible for securing the data while in transit and at rest. Which of the following data roles describes the customer?

Question27: A systems administrator is changing the password policy within an enterprise environment and wants this update implemented on all systems as quickly as possible. Which of the following operating system security measures will the administrator most likely use?

Question28: An organization disabled unneeded services and placed a firewall in front of a business-critical legacy system. Which of the following best describes the actions taken by the organization?

Question29: Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?

Question30: Employees in the research and development business unit receive extensive training to ensure they understand how to best protect company data. Which of the following is the type of data these employees are most likely to use in day-to-day work activities?

Question31: A security consultant needs secure, remote access to a client environment. Which of the following should the security consultant most likely use to gain access?

Question32: Which of the following would be most useful in determining whether the long-term cost to transfer a risk is less than the impact of the risk?

Question33: An attacker posing as the Chief Executive Officer calls an employee and instructs the employee to buy gift cards. Which of the following techniques is the attacker using?

Question34: Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?

Question35: A company is planning a disaster recovery site and needs to ensure that a single natural disaster would not result in the complete loss of regulated backup dat

Question36: A security operations center determines that the malicious activity detected on a server is normal.
Which of the following activities describes the act of ignoring detected activity in the future?

Question37: A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime.
Which of the following should the company consider?

Question38: During a security incident, the security operations team identified sustained network traffic from a malicious IP address: 10.1.4.9. A security analyst is creating an inbound firewall rule to block the IP address from accessing the organization's network. Which of the following fulfills this request?

Question39: A newly identified network access vulnerability has been found in the OS of legacy loT devices.
Which of the following would best mitigate this vulnerability quickly?

Question40: A company prevented direct access from the database administrators' workstations to the network segment that contains database servers. Which of the following should a database administrator use to access the database servers?

Question41: Which of the following vulnerabilities is exploited when an attacker overwrites a register with a malicious address?

Question42: A data administrator is configuring authentication for a SaaS application and would like to reduce the number of credentials employees need to maintain. The company prefers to use domain credentials to access new SaaS applications. Which of the following methods would allow this functionality?

Question43: Which of the following is used to validate a certificate when it is presented to a user?

Question44: A security analyst is reviewing the following logs:

Which of the following attacks is most likely occurring?

Question45: After a security awareness training session, a user called the IT help desk and reported a suspicious call. The suspicious caller stated that the Chief Financial Officer wanted credit card information in order to close an invoice. Which of the following topics did the user recognize from the training?

Question46: A business received a small grant to migrate its infrastructure to an off-premises solution. Which of the following should be considered first?

Question47: After a company was compromised, customers initiated a lawsuit. The company's attorneys have requested that the security team initiate a legal hold in response to the lawsuit. Which of the following describes the action the security team will most likely be required to take?

Question48: While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a "deny any" policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable.
Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?

Question49: A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors. Which of the following should the systems administrator use?

Question50: The management team notices that new accounts that are set up manually do not always have correct access or permissions.
Which of the following automation techniques should a systems administrator use to streamline account creation?

Question51: A company is expanding its threat surface program and allowing individuals to security test the company's internet-facing application. The company will compensate researchers based on the vulnerabilities discovered. Which of the following best describes the program the company is setting up?

Question52: A company is developing a business continuity strategy and needs to determine how many staff members would be required to sustain the business in the case of a disruption. Which of the following best describes this step?

Question53: After a security incident, a systems administrator asks the company to buy a NAC platform.
Which of the following attack surfaces is the systems administrator trying to protect?

Question54: A security team is reviewing the findings in a report that was delivered after a third party performed a penetration test. One of the findings indicated that a web application form field is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Which of the following application security techniques should the security analyst recommend the developer implement to prevent this vulnerability?

Question55: A company is adding a clause to its AUP that states employees are not allowed to modify the operating system on mobile devices. Which of the following vulnerabilities is the organization addressing?

Question56: Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?

Question57: An enterprise is trying to limit outbound DNS traffic originating from its internal network. Outbound DNS requests will only be allowed from one device with the IP address 10.50.10.25. Which of the following firewall ACLs will accomplish this goal?

Question58: An administrator assists the legal and compliance team with ensuring information about customer transactions is archived for the proper time period. Which of the following data policies is the administrator carrying out?

Question59: A company is planning a disaster recovery site and needs to ensure that a single natural disaster would not result in the complete loss of regulated backup dat

Question60: An IT manager informs the entire help desk staff that only the IT manager and the help desk lead will have access to the administrator console of the help desk software. Which of the following security techniques is the IT manager setting up?

Question61: Which of the following would be the best way to handle a critical business application that is running on a legacy server?

Question62: Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?

Question63: An analyst is evaluating the implementation of Zero Trust principles within the data plane. Which of the following would be most relevant for the analyst to evaluate?

Question64: Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?

Question65: An administrator was notified that a user logged in remotely after hours and copied large amounts of data to a personal device.
Which of the following best describes the user's activity?

Question66: An organization is struggling with scaling issues on its VPN concentrator and internet circuit due to remote work. The organization is looking for a software solution that will allow it to reduce traffic on the VPN and internet circuit, while still providing encrypted tunnel access to the data center and monitoring of remote employee internet traffic. Which of the following will help achieve these objectives?

Question67: A client demands at least 99.99% uptime from a service provider's hosted security services.
Which of the following documents includes the information the service provider should return to the client?

Question68: Which of the following best practices gives administrators a set period to perform changes to an operational system to ensure availability and minimize business impacts?

Question69: A security manager created new documentation to use in response to various types of security incidents. Which of the following is the next step the manager should take?

Question70: A company must ensure sensitive data at rest is rendered unreadable. Which of the following will the company most likely use?

Question71: An organization recently updated its security policy to include the following statement:
Regular expressions are included in source code to remove special characters such as $, |, ;. &,
`, and ? from variables set by forms in a web application.
Which of the following best explains the security technique the organization adopted by making this addition to the policy?

Question72: An employee fell for a phishing scam, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a company PC. The attacker scraped the PC's memory to find other credentials. Without cracking these credentials, the attacker used them to move laterally through the corporate network. Which of the following describes this type of attack?

Question73: An employee clicked a link in an email from a payment website that asked the employee to update contact information. The employee entered the log-in information but received a "page not found" error message. Which of the following types of social engineering attacks occurred?