EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following is a benefit of an RTO when conducting a business impact analysis?

Question2: 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?

Question3: The security team at a large global company needs to reduce the cost of storing data used for performing investigations. Which of the following types of data should have its retention length reduced?

Question4: A security officer is implementing a security awareness program and is placing security-themed posters around the building and is assigning online user training. Which of the following would the security officer most likely implement?

Question5: Which of the following steps in the risk management process involves establishing the scope and potential risks involved with a project?

Question6: An administrator must replace an expired SSL certificate. Which of the following does the administrator need to create the new SSL certificate?

Question7: 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?

Question8: Which of the following types of identification methods can be performed on a deployed application during runtime?

Question9: A business received a small grant to migrate its infrastructure to an off-premises solution. Which of the following should be considered first?

Question10: Which of the following types of vulnerabilities is primarily caused by improper use and management of cryptographic certificates?

Question11: 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?

Question12: Which of the following describes the category of data that is most impacted when it is lost?

Question13: A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

Question14: A security analyst learns that an attack vector, used as part of a recent incident, was a well-known IoT device exploit. The analyst needs to review logs to identify the time of the initial exploit. Which of the following logs should the analyst review first?

Question15: Which of the following documents details how to accomplish a technical security task?

Question16: 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?

Question17: Which of the following cryptographic methods is preferred for securing communications with limited computing resources?

Question18: A security analyst is evaluating a SaaS application that the human resources department would like to implement. The analyst requests a SOC 2 report from the SaaS vendor. Which of the following processes is the analyst most likely conducting?

Question19: Which of the following teams combines both offensive and defensive testing techniques to protect an organization's critical systems?

Question20: Which of the following techniques can be used to sanitize the data contained on a hard drive while allowing for the hard drive to be repurposed?

Question21: An organization issued new laptops to all employees and wants to provide web filtering both in and out of the office without configuring additional access to the network. Which of the following types of web filtering should a systems administrator configure?

Question22: Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?

Question23: 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?

Question24: Which of the following best describes the practice of researching laws and regulations related to information security operations within a specific industry?

Question25: 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?

Question26: An enterprise has been experiencing attacks focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in older browser versions with well-known exploits. Which of the following security solutions should be configured to best provide the ability to monitor and block these known signature-based attacks?

Question27: Which of the following should a systems administrator use to ensure an easy deployment of resources within the cloud provider?

Question28: An organization is evaluating new regulatory requirements associated with the implementation of corrective controls on a group of interconnected financial systems. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the new requirement?

Question29: 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?

Question30: An attacker used XSS to compromise a web server. Which of the following solutions could have been used to prevent this attack?

Question31: Which of the following best describes the concept of information being stored outside of its country of origin while still being subject to the laws and requirements of the country of origin?

Question32: An organization maintains intellectual property that it wants to protect. Which of the following concepts would be most beneficial to add to the company's security awareness training program?

Question33: During a penetration test, a vendor attempts to enter an unauthorized area using an access badge Which of the following types of tests does this represent?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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?

Question36: Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?

Question37: 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 data. Which of the following should the company consider?

Question38: A security analyst is reviewing the following logs:

Which of the following attacks is most likely occurring?

Question39: 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?

Question40: Which of the following strategies should an organization use to efficiently manage and analyze multiple types of logs?

Question41: 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?

Question42: An organization is developing a security program that conveys the responsibilities associated with the general operation of systems and software within the organization. Which of the following documents would most likely communicate these expectations?

Question43: 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?

Question44: 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?

Question45: Which of the following activities is included in the post-incident review phase?

Question46: Which of the following should an internal auditor check for first when conducting an audit of the organization's risk management program?

Question47: An administrator is Investigating an incident and discovers several users' computers were Infected with malware after viewing files mat were shared with them. The administrator discovers no degraded performance in the infected machines and an examination of the log files does not show excessive failed logins. Which of the following attacks Is most likely the cause of the malware?

Question48: Which of the following is the best reason to complete an audit in a banking environment?

Question49: Which of the following is the primary purpose of a service that tracks log-ins and time spent using the service?

Question50: An employee used a company's billing system to issue fraudulent checks. The administrator is looking for evidence of other occurrences of this activity. Which of the following should the administrator examine?

Question51: During a recent log review, an analyst discovers evidence of successful injection attacks. Which of the following will best address this issue?

Question52: Which of the following cryptographic solutions protects data at rest?

Question53: 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?

Question54: A new security regulation was announced that will take effect in the coming year. A company must comply with it to remain in business. Which of the following activities should the company perform next?

Question55: 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?

Question56: Which of the following would a security administrator use to comply with a secure baseline during a patch update?

Question57: The Chief Information Security Officer wants to discuss options for a disaster recovery site that allows the business to resume operations as quickly as possible. Which of the following solutions meets this requirement?

Question58: 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?

Question59: A malicious update was distributed to a common software platform and disabled services at many organizations. Which of the following best describes this type of vulnerability?

Question60: A database administrator is updating the company's SQL database, which stores credit card information for pending purchases. Which of the following is the best method to secure the data against a potential breach?

Question61: 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?

Question62: Which of the following is the first step to take when creating an anomaly detection process?

Question63: Which of the following describes an executive team that is meeting in a board room and testing the company's incident response plan?

Question64: A systems administrator receives the following alert from a file integrity monitoring tool:
The hash of the cmd.exe file has changed.
The systems administrator checks the OS logs and notices that no patches were applied in the last two months.
Which of the following most likely occurred?

Question65: A certificate authority needs to post information about expired certificates. Which of the following would accomplish this task?

Question66: Which of the following phases of the incident response process attempts to minimize disruption?

Question67: The security operations center is researching an event concerning a suspicious IP address A security analyst looks at the following event logs and discovers that a significant portion of the user accounts have experienced faded log-In attempts when authenticating from the same IP address:

Which of the following most likely describes attack that took place?

Question68: A network administrator wants to ensure that network traffic is highly secure while in transit. Which of the following actions best describes the actions the network administrator should take?

Question69: Which of the following is the stage in an investigation when forensic images are obtained?

Question70: 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?

Question71: A security consultant is working with a client that wants to physically isolate its secure systems. Which of the following best describes this architecture?

Question72: Which of the following most accurately describes the order in which a security engineer should implement secure baselines?

Question73: Which of the following security concepts is the best reason for permissions on a human resources fileshare to follow the principle of least privilege?

Question74: An employee receives a text message from an unknown number claiming to be the company's Chief Executive Officer and asking the employee to purchase several gift cards. Which of the following types of attacks does this describe?

Question75: A security analyst locates a potentially malicious video file on a server and needs to identify both the creation date and the file's creator. Which of the following actions would most likely give the security analyst the information required?

Question76: A systems administrator creates a script that validates OS version, patch levels, and installed applications when users log in. Which of the following examples best describes the purpose of this script?

Question77: A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling.
Which of the following best describes this policy?

Question78: Which of the following would most likely be used by attackers to perform credential harvesting?

Question79: 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?

Question80: Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?

Question81: Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation.
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Question82: 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?

Question83: 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?

Question84: Which of the following practices would be best to prevent an insider from introducing malicious code into a company's development process?

Question85: A business uses Wi-Fi with content filleting enabled. An employee noticed a coworker accessed a blocked sue from a work computer and repotted the issue. While Investigating the issue, a security administrator found another device providing internet access to certain employees. Which of the following best describes the security risk?

Question86: A company has yearly engagements with a service provider. The general terms and conditions are the same for all engagements. The company wants to simplify the process and revisit the general terms every three years. Which of the following documents would provide the best way to set the general terms?

Question87: Which of the following best represents an application that does not have an on-premises requirement and is accessible from anywhere?

Question88: Which of the following would most likely be deployed to obtain and analyze attacker activity and techniques?

Question89: A security analyst receives alerts about an internal system sending a large amount of unusual DNS queries to systems on the internet over short periods of time during non-business hours. Which of the following is most likely occurring?

Question90: Malware spread across a company's network after an employee visited a compromised industry blog. Which of the following best describes this type of attack?

Question91: 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?

Question92: Which of the following definitions best describes the concept of log co-relation?

Question93: Which of the following phases of an incident response involves generating reports?

Question94: During a SQL update of a database, a temporary field used as part of the update sequence was modified by an attacker before the update completed in order to allow access to the system. Which of the following best describes this type of vulnerability?

Question95: Which of the following is die most important security concern when using legacy systems to provide production service?

Question96: Which of the following would best explain why a security analyst is running daily vulnerability scans on all corporate endpoints?

Question97: A company processes and stores sensitive data on its own systems. Which of the following steps should the company take first to ensure compliance with privacy regulations?

Question98: 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?

Question99: Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?

Question100: Which of the following actions could a security engineer take to ensure workstations and servers are properly monitored for unauthorized changes and software?

Question101: 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?

Question102: Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?

Question103: Which of the following is a risk of conducting a vulnerability assessment?

Question104: An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days. Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?

Question105: 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?

Question106: An engineer needs to find a solution that creates an added layer of security by preventing unauthorized access to internal company resources. Which of the following would be the best solution?

Question107: Which of the following would be the best way to test resiliency in the event of a primary power failure?

Question108: A company is redesigning its infrastructure and wants to reduce the number of physical servers in use. Which of the following architectures is best suited for this goal?

Question109: Which of the following is the most relevant reason a DPO would develop a data inventory?

Question110: Which of the following is a compensating control for providing user access to a high-risk website?

Question111: 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?

Question112: Which of the following is the first step to secure a newly deployed server?

Question113: An organization's internet-facing website was compromised when an attacker exploited a buffer overflow.
Which of the following should the organization deploy to best protect against similar attacks in the future?

Question114: A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime. Which of the following should the company consider?

Question115: A systems administrator is auditing all company servers to ensure. They meet the minimum security baseline While auditing a Linux server, the systems administrator observes the /etc/shadow file has permissions beyond the baseline recommendation. Which of the following commands should the systems administrator use to resolve this issue?

Question116: Which of the following is the best method to reduce the attack surface of an enterprise network?

Question117: A company wants to reduce the time and expense associated with code deployment. Which of the following technologies should the company utilize?

Question118: 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?

Question119: Which of the following is a reason why a forensic specialist would create a plan to preserve data after an modem and prioritize the sequence for performing forensic analysis?

Question120: Which of the following would be the best way to handle a critical business application that is running on a legacy server?

Question121: A company has a website in a server cluster. One server is experiencing very high usage, while others are nearly unused. Which of the following should the company configure to help distribute traffic quickly?

Question122: Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?

Question123: 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?

Question124: 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?

Question125: The marketing department set up its own project management software without telling the appropriate departments. Which of the following describes this scenario?

Question126: An accounting clerk sent money to an attacker's bank account after receiving fraudulent instructions over the phone to use a new account. Which of the following would most likely prevent this activity in the future?

Question127: An important patch for a critical application has just been released, and a systems administrator is identifying all of the systems requiring the patch. Which of the following must be maintained in order to ensure that all systems requiring the patch are updated?

Question128: A legal department must maintain a backup from all devices that have been shredded and recycled by a third party. Which of the following best describes this requirement?

Question129: A legacy device is being decommissioned and is no longer receiving updates or patches. Which of the following describes this scenario?

Question130: Which of the following is used to protect a computer from viruses, malware, and Trojans being installed and moving laterally across the network?

Question131: During an investigation, an incident response team attempts to understand the source of an incident. Which of the following incident response activities describes this process?

Question132: 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?

Question133: 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?

Question134: 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?

Question135: 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?

Question136: 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?

Question137: A security administrator observed the following in a web server log while investigating an incident:

Which of the following attacks did the security administrator most likely see?

Question138: A company wants to improve the availability of its application with a solution that requires minimal effort in the event a server needs to be replaced or added. Which of the following would be the best solution to meet these objectives?

Question139: An administrator is installing an SSL certificate on a new system. During testing, errors indicate that the certificate is not trusted. The administrator has verified with the issuing CA and has validated the private key.
Which of the following should the administrator check for next?

Question140: 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?

Question141: A human resources (HR) employee working from home leaves their company laptop open on the kitchen table. A family member walking through the kitchen reads an email from the Chief Financial Officer addressed to the HR department. The email contains information referencing company layoffs. The family member posts the content of the email to social media. Which of the following policies will the HR employee most likely need to review after this incident?

Question142: Which of the following is an algorithm performed to verify that data has not been modified?

Question143: An organization would like to calculate the time needed to resolve a hardware issue with a server. Which of the following risk management processes describes this example?

Question144: 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?

Question145: 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?

Question146: A systems administrator needs to ensure the secure communication of sensitive data within the organization's private cloud. Which of the following is the best choice for the administrator to implement?

Question147: 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?

Question148: A security engineer is installing an IPS to block signature-based attacks in the environment. Which of the following modes will best accomplish this task?

Question149: A systems administrator works for a local hospital and needs to ensure patient data is protected and secure.
Which of the following data classifications should be used to secure patient data?

Question150: When trying to access an internal website, an employee reports that a prompt displays, stating that the site is insecure. Which of the following certificate types is the site most likely using?

Question151: A security analyst is reviewing alerts in the SIEM related to potential malicious network traffic coming from an employee's corporate laptop. The security analyst has determined that additional data about the executable running on the machine is necessary to continue the investigation. Which of the following logs should the analyst use as a data source?

Question152: 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?

Question153: A systems administrator wants to prevent users from being able to access data based on their responsibilities.
The administrator also wants to apply the required access structure via a simplified format. Which of the following should the administrator apply to the site recovery resource group?

Question154: The local administrator account for a company's VPN appliance was unexpectedly used to log in to the remote management interface. Which of the following would have most likely prevented this from happening'?

Question155: An administrator wants to automate an account permissions update for a large number of accounts. Which of the following would best accomplish this task?

Question156: Which of the following should an organization use to protect its environment from external attacks conducted by an unauthorized hacker?

Question157: Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?

Question158: Which of the following aspects of the data management life cycle is most directly impacted by local and international regulations?

Question159: 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?

Question160: Various company stakeholders meet to discuss roles and responsibilities in the event of a security breach affecting offshore offices. Which of the following is this an example of?

Question161: 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?

Question162: An enterprise security team is researching a new security architecture to better protect the company's networks and applications against the latest cyberthreats. The company has a fully remoteworkforce. The solution should be highly redundant and enable users to connect to a VPN with an integrated, software-based firewall. Which of the following solutions meets these requirements?

Question163: Security controls in a data center are being reviewed to ensure data is properly protected and that human life considerations are included. Which of the following best describes how the controls should be set up?

Question164: Which of the following explains how to determine the global regulations that data is subject to regardless of the country where the data is stored?

Question165: Which of the following is the final step of the modem response process?

Question166: A systems administrator notices that one of the systems critical for processing customer transactions is running an end-of-life operating system. Which of the following techniques would increase enterprise security?

Question167: 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?

Question168: Which of the following should an organization focus on the most when making decisions about vulnerability prioritization?

Question169: While conducting a business continuity tabletop exercise, the security team becomes concerned by potential impacts if a generator fails during failover. Which of the following is the team most likely to consider in regard to risk management activities?

Question170: Which of the following is a preventive physical security control?

Question171: 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?

Question172: Which of the following should be used to ensure a device is inaccessible to a network-connected resource?

Question173: 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?

Question174: Which of the following security concepts is accomplished when granting access after an individual has logged into a computer network?

Question175: 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"
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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?

Question176: 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? 1

Question177: Which of the following best describes why me SMS DIP authentication method is more risky to implement than the TOTP method?

Question178: 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?

Question179: An IT manager is putting together a documented plan describing how the organization will keep operating in the event of a global incident. Which of the following plans is the IT manager creating?

Question180: Which of the following security measures is required when using a cloud-based platform for loT management?

Question181: Which of the following would be the best solution to deploy a low-cost standby site that includes hardware and internet access?

Question182: Which of the following is used to validate a certificate when it is presented to a user?

Question183: 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?

Question184: A systems administrator is concerned about vulnerabilities within cloud computing instances Which of the following is most important for the administrator to consider when architecting a cloud computing environment?

Question185: A company is changing its mobile device policy. The company has the following requirements:
Company-owned devices
Ability to harden the devices
Reduced security risk
Compatibility with company resources
Which of the following would best meet these requirements?

Question186: An accountant is transferring information to a bank over FTP. Which of the following mitigations should the accountant use to protect the confidentiality of the data?

Question187: An organization is looking to optimize its environment and reduce the number of patches necessary for operating systems. Which of the following will best help to achieve this objective?

Question188: Which of the following allows a systems administrator to tune permissions for a file?

Question189: Which of the following actors attacking an organization is the most likely to be motivated by personal beliefs?

Question190: An administrator wants to perform a risk assessment without using proprietary company information. Which of the following methods should the administrator use to gather information?

Question191: A company's end users are reporting that they are unable to reach external websites. After reviewing the performance data for the DNS severs, the analyst discovers that the CPU, disk, and memory usage are minimal, but the network interface is flooded with inbound traffic. Network logs show only a small number of DNS queries sent to this server. Which of the following best describes what the security analyst is seeing?

Question192: A technician is opening ports on a firewall for a new system being deployed and supported by a SaaS provider. Which of the following is a risk in the new system?

Question193: 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?

Question194: 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?

Question195: A Chief Information Security Officer wants to monitor the company's servers for SQLi attacks and allow for comprehensive investigations if an attack occurs. The company uses SSL decryption to allow traffic monitoring. Which of the following strategies would best accomplish this goal?

Question196: Which of the following should a security team do first before a new web server goes live?

Question197: A bank set up a new server that contains customers' Pll. Which of the following should the bank use to make sure the sensitive data is not modified?

Question198: A company is working with a vendor to perform a penetration test Which of the following includes an estimate about the number of hours required to complete the engagement?

Question199: Which of the following threat actors would most likely deface the website of a high-profile music group?

Question200: 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?

Question201: A security analyst is assessing several company firewalls. Which of the following cools would The analyst most likely use to generate custom packets to use during the assessment?

Question202: A company must ensure sensitive data at rest is rendered unreadable. Which of the following will the company most likely use?

Question203: A company is implementing a vendor's security tool in the cloud. The security director does not want to manage users and passwords specific to this tool but would rather utilize the company's standard user directory. Which of the following should the company implement?

Question204: 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?

Question205: 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?

Question206: 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?

Question207: Which of the following describes the procedures a penetration tester must follow while conducting a test?

Question208: The executive management team is mandating the company develop a disaster recovery plan. The cost must be kept to a minimum, and the money to fund additional internet connections is not available. Which of the following would be the best option?

Question209: 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?