EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company hired a security manager from outside the organization to lead security operations. Which of the following actions should the security manager perform first in this new role?

Question2: Which of the following should be used to ensure an attacker is unable to read the contents of a mobile device's drive if the device is lost?

Question3: Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?

Question4: A company is utilizing an offshore team to help support the finance department. The company wants to keep the data secure by keeping it on a company device but does not want to provide equipment to the offshore team. Which of the following should the company implement to meet this requirement?

Question5: Which of the following is most likely associated with introducing vulnerabilities on a corporate network by the deployment of unapproved software?

Question6: Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?

Question7: An analyst is reviewing an incident in which a user clicked on a link in a phishing email. Which of the following log sources would the analyst utilize to determine whether the connection was successful?

Question8: 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?

Question9: Which of the following roles, according to the shared responsibility model, is responsible for securing the company's database in an IaaS model for a cloud environment?

Question10: The Chief Information Security Officer wants to put security measures in place to protect PlI. The organization needs to use its existing labeling and classification system to accomplish this goal. Which of the following would most likely be configured to meet the requirements?

Question11: 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?

Question12: An organization is required to maintain financial data records for three years and customer data for five years.
Which of the following data management policies should the organization implement?

Question13: A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register. Which of the following strategies does this represent?

Question14: An organization implemented cloud-managed IP cameras to monitor building entry points and sensitive areas.
The service provider enables direct TCP/IP connection to stream live video footage from each camera. The organization wants to ensure this stream is encrypted and authenticated. Which of the following protocols should be implemented to best meet this objective?

Question15: An organization would like to store customer data on a separate part of the network that is not accessible to users on the main corporate network. Which of the following should the administrator use to accomplish this goal?

Question16: 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?

Question17: An organization wants to ensure the integrity of compiled binaries in the production environment. Which of the following security measures would best support this objective?

Question18: A recent penetration test identified that an attacker could flood the MAC address table of network switches.
Which of the following would best mitigate this type of attack?

Question19: Which of the following describes a security alerting and monitoring tool that collects system, application, and network logs from multiple sources in a centralized system?

Question20: 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?

Question21: Which of the following describes effective change management procedures?

Question22: Which of the following considerations is the most important for an organization to evaluate as it establishes and maintains a data privacy program?

Question23: A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

Question24: A systems administrator is creating a script that would save time and prevent human error when performing account creation for a large number of end users. Which of the following would be a good use case for this task?

Question25: A website user is locked out of an account after clicking an email link and visiting a different website Web server logs show the user's password was changed, even though the user did not change the password. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

Question26: A company is discarding a classified storage array and hires an outside vendor to complete the disposal.
Which of the following should the company request from the vendor?

Question27: Which of the following would be used to detect an employee who is emailing a customer list to a personal account before leaving the company?

Question28: Which of the following risk management strategies should an enterprise adopt first if a legacy application is critical to business operations and there are preventative controls that are not yet implemented?

Question29: 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?

Question30: An employee recently resigned from a company. The employee was responsible for managing and supporting weekly batch jobs over the past five years. A few weeks after the employee resigned. one of the batch jobs talked and caused a major disruption. Which of the following would work best to prevent this type of incident from reoccurring?

Question31: Which of the following best describes configuring devices to log to an off-site location for possible future reference?

Question32: A company's legal department drafted sensitive documents in a SaaS application and wants to ensure the documents cannot be accessed by individuals in high-risk countries. Which of the following is the most effective way to limit this access?

Question33: An IT manager is increasing the security capabilities of an organization after a data classification initiative determined that sensitive data could be exfiltrated from the environment. Which of the following solutions would mitigate the risk?

Question34: An organization wants a third-party vendor to do a penetration test that targets a specific device. The organization has provided basic information about the device. Which of the following best describes this kind of penetration test?

Question35: An administrator finds that all user workstations and servers are displaying a message that is associated with files containing an extension of .ryk. Which of the following types of infections is present on the systems?

Question36: A visitor plugs a laptop into a network jack in the lobby and is able to connect to the company's network.
Which of the following should be configured on the existing network infrastructure to best prevent this activity?

Question37: Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?

Question38: Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?

Question39: 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?

Question40: Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?

Question41: 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?

Question42: During a recent company safety stand-down, the cyber-awareness team gave a presentation on the importance of cyber hygiene. One topic the team covered was best practices for printing centers. Which of the following describes an attack method that relates to printing centers?

Question43: 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?

Question44: Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation.
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Question45: 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?

Question46: A security team created a document that details the order in which critical systems should be through back online after a major outage. Which of the following documents did the team create?

Question47: 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?

Question48: Client files can only be accessed by employees who need to know the information and have specified roles in the company. Which of the following best describes this security concept?

Question49: A business received a small grant to migrate its infrastructure to an off-premises solution. Which of the following should be considered first?

Question50: A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system. Which of the following steps should be taken first?

Question51: Which of the following tasks is typically included in the BIA process?

Question52: A company that is located in an area prone to hurricanes is developing a disaster recovery plan and looking at site considerations that allow the company to immediately continue operations. Which of the following is the best type of site for this company?

Question53: A software developer released a new application and is distributing application files via the developer's website. Which of the following should the developer post on the website to allow users to verify the integrity of the downloaded files?

Question54: A customer has a contract with a CSP and wants to identify which controls should be implemented in the IaaS enclave. Which of the following is most likely to contain this information?

Question55: 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?

Question56: 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?

Question57: The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at a large company would like to gain an understanding of how the company's security policies compare to the requirements imposed by external regulators. Which of the following should the CISO use?

Question58: A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company. Which of the following options is the most appropriate?

Question59: Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?

Question60: 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?

Question61: Which of the following is an algorithm performed to verify that data has not been modified?

Question62: 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?

Question63: A financial institution would like to store its customer data m the 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?

Question64: Which of the following best describes why me SMS DIP authentication method is more risky to implement than the TOTP method?

Question65: 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?

Question66: A security administrator is configuring fileshares. The administrator removed the default permissions and added permissions for only users who will need to access the fileshares as part of their job duties. Which of the following best describes why the administrator performed these actions?

Question67: While investigating a possible incident, a security analyst discovers the following log entries:
67.118.34.157 ----- [28/Jul/2022:10:26:59 -0300] "GET /query.php?q-wireless%20headphones / HTTP/1.0"
200 12737
132.18.222.103 ----[28/Jul/2022:10:27:10 -0300] "GET /query.php?q=123 INSERT INTO users VALUES ('temp', 'pass123')# / HTTP/1.0" 200 935
12.45.101.121 ----- [28/Jul/2022:10:27:22 -0300] "GET /query.php?q=mp3%20players I HTTP/1.0" 200
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Which of the following should the analyst do first?

Question68: Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?

Question69: Which of the following would best explain why a security analyst is running daily vulnerability scans on all corporate endpoints?

Question70: A security audit of an organization revealed that most of the IT staff members have domain administrator credentials and do not change the passwords regularly. Which of the following solutions should the security learn propose to resolve the findings in the most complete way?

Question71: An engineer moved to another team and is unable to access the new team's shared folders while still being able to access the shared folders from the former team. After opening a ticket, the engineer discovers that the account was never moved to the new group. Which of the following access controls is most likely causing the lack of access?

Question72: A new employee logs in to the email system for the first time and notices a message from human resources about onboarding. The employee hovers over a few of the links within the email and discovers that the links do not correspond to links associated with the company. Which of the following attack vectors is most likely being used?

Question73: 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?

Question74: An administrator is reviewing a single server's security logs and discovers the following; Which of the following best describes the action captured in this log file?

Question75: A user would like to install software and features that are not available with a smartphone's default software.
Which of the following would allow the user to install unauthorized software and enable new features?

Question76: Which of the following security controls is most likely being used when a critical legacy server is segmented into a private network?

Question77: During a recent breach, employee credentials were compromised when a service desk employee issued an MFA bypass code to an attacker who called and posed as an employee. Which of the following should be used to prevent this type of incident in the future?

Question78: The CIRT is reviewing an incident that involved a human resources recruiter exfiltration sensitive company data. The CIRT found that the recruiter was able to use HTTP over port 53 to upload documents to a web server. Which of the following security infrastructure devices could have identified and blocked this activity?

Question79: Which of the following security concepts is being followed when implementing a product that offers protection against DDoS attacks?

Question80: 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?

Question81: After conducting a vulnerability scan, a systems administrator notices that one of the identified vulnerabilities is not present on the systems that were scanned. Which of the following describes this example?

Question82: A security team is setting up a new environment for hosting the organization's on-premises software application as a cloud-based service. Which of the following should the team ensure is in place in order for the organization to follow security best practices?

Question83: A new vulnerability enables a type of malware that allows the unauthorized movement of data from a system.
Which of the following would detect this behavior?

Question84: Which of the following vulnerabilities is exploited when an attacker overwrites a register with a malicious address?

Question85: A user is attempting to patch a critical system, but the patch fails to transfer. Which of the following access controls is most likely inhibiting the transfer?

Question86: A spoofed identity was detected for a digital certificate. Which of the following are the type of unidentified key and the certificate mat could be in use on the company domain?

Question87: Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?

Question88: A security analyst finds a rogue device during a monthly audit of current endpoint assets that are connected to the network. The corporate network utilizes 002.1X for access control. To be allowed on the network, a device must have a Known hardware address, and a valid user name and password must be entered in a captive portal. The following is the audit report:

Which of the following is the most likely way a rogue device was allowed to connect?

Question89: A company would like to provide employees with computers that do not have access to the internet in order to prevent information from being leaked to an online forum. Which of the following would be best for the systems administrator to implement?

Question90: Which of the following is the most common data loss path for an air-gapped network?

Question91: An organization has too many variations of a single operating system and needs to standardize the arrangement prior to pushing the system image to users. Which of the following should the organization implement first?

Question92: A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks.
SIEM alerts have not yet been configured. Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?

Question93: 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?

Question94: Which of the following is classified as high availability in a cloud environment?

Question95: 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?

Question96: Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?

Question97: An administrator must replace an expired SSL certificate. Which of the following does the administrator need to create the new SSL certificate?

Question98: A security engineer needs to configure an NGFW to minimize the impact of the increasing number of various traffic types during attacks. Which of the following types of rules is the engineer the most likely to configure?

Question99: 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?

Question100: A security analyst and the management team are reviewing the organizational performance of a recent phishing campaign. The user click-through rate exceeded the acceptable risk threshold, and the management team wants to reduce the impact when a user clicks on a link in a phishing message. Which of the following should the analyst do?

Question101: Which of the following describes an executive team that is meeting in a board room and testing the company's incident response plan?

Question102: A systems administrator would like to deploy a change to a production system. Which of the following must the administrator submit to demonstrate that the system can be restored to a working state in the event of a performance issue?

Question103: Various stakeholders are meeting to discuss their hypothetical roles and responsibilities in a specific situation, such as a security incident or major disaster. Which of the following best describes this meeting?

Question104: Sine a recent upgrade (o a WLAN infrastructure, several mobile users have been unable to access the internet from the lobby. The networking team performs a heat map survey of the building and finds several WAPs in the area. The WAPs are using similar frequencies with high power settings. Which of the following installation considerations should the security team evaluate next?

Question105: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to explicitly raise awareness about the increase of ransomware-as-a-service in a report to the management team. Which of the following best describes the threat actor in the CISO's report?

Question106: 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?

Question107: 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?

Question108: Which of the following data roles is responsible for identifying risks and appropriate access to data?

Question109: A network manager wants to protect the company's VPN by implementing multifactor authentication that uses:
. Something you know
. Something you have
. Something you are
Which of the following would accomplish the manager's goal?

Question110: Which of the following penetration testing teams is focused only on trying to compromise an organization using an attacker's tactics?

Question111: Which of the following best describe a penetration test that resembles an actual external attach?

Question112: The Chief Information Security Officer of an organization needs to ensure recovery from ransomware would likely occur within the organization's agreed-upon RPOs end RTOs. Which of the following backup scenarios would best ensure recovery?

Question113: A security administrator identifies an application that is storing data using MD5. Which of the following best identifies the vulnerability likely present in the application?

Question114: 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?

Question115: Which of the following would be best suited for constantly changing environments?

Question116: 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?

Question117: 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?

Question118: An organization is adopting cloud services at a rapid pace and now has multiple SaaS applications in use.
Each application has a separate log-in. so the security team wants to reduce the number of credentials each employee must maintain. Which of the following is the first step the security team should take?

Question119: A security administrator needs a method to secure data in an environment that includes some form of checks so that the administrator can track any changes. Which of the following should the administrator set up to achieve this goal?

Question120: Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?

Question121: Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?

Question122: Which of the following is the most effective way to protect an application server running software that is no longer supported from network threats?

Question123: Which of the following should a security operations center use to improve its incident response procedure?

Question124: Which of the following is die most important security concern when using legacy systems to provide production service?

Question125: A company's web filter is configured to scan the URL for strings and deny access when matches are found.
Which of the following search strings should an analyst employ to prohibit access to non-encrypted websites?

Question126: An employee in the accounting department receives an email containing a demand for payment tot services performed by a vendor However, the vendor is not in the vendor management database. Which of the following in this scenario an example of?

Question127: An organization wants to limit potential impact to its log-in database in the event of a breach. Which of the following options is the security team most likely to recommend?

Question128: Which of the following best describe why a process would require a two-person integrity security control?

Question129: While investigating a recent security breach an analyst finds that an attacker gained access by SOL infection through a company website. Which of the following should the analyst recommend to the website developers to prevent this from reoccurring?

Question130: Which of the following has been implemented when a host-based firewall on a legacy Linux system allows connections from only specific internal IP addresses?

Question131: An external vendor recently visited a company's headquarters tor a presentation. Following the visit a member of the hosting team found a file that the external vendor left behind on a server. The file contained detailed architecture information and code snippets. Which of the following data types best describes this file?

Question132: 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?

Question133: A systems administrator is working on a solution with the following requirements:
* Provide a secure zone.
* Enforce a company-wide access control policy.
* Reduce the scope of threats.
Which of the following is the systems administrator setting up?

Question134: Which of the following is the primary purpose of a service that tracks log-ins and time spent using the service?

Question135: An organization plans to expand its operations internationally and needs to keep data at the new location secure. The organization wants to use the most secure architecture model possible. Which of the following models offers the highest level of security?