EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: Which of the following should a company use to provide proof of external network security testing?

Question3: 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?

Question4: A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based. Which of the following meets these requirements?

Question5: Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?

Question6: Which of the following would be the greatest concern for a company that is aware of the consequences of non- compliance with government regulations?

Question7: 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'?

Question8: 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?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: A small business uses kiosks on the sales floor to display product information for customers. A security team discovers the kiosks use end-of-life operating systems. Which of the following is the security team most likely to document as a security implication of the current architecture?

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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?

Question14: You are security administrator investigating a potential infection on a network.
Click on each host and firewall. Review all logs to determine which host originated the Infecton and then deny each remaining hosts clean or infected.

Question15: 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?

Question16: Which of the following is a common source of unintentional corporate credential leakage in cloud environments?

Question17: Which of the following data roles is responsible for identifying risks and appropriate access to data?

Question18: Which of the following security concepts is accomplished when granting access after an individual has logged into a computer network?

Question19: After a recent vulnerability scan, a security engineer needs to harden the routers within the corporate network.
Which of the following is the most appropriate to disable?

Question20: Which of the following control types is AUP an example of?

Question21: 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?

Question22: Which of the following best describe a penetration test that resembles an actual external attach?

Question23: Which of the following examples would be best mitigated by input sanitization?

Question24: Which of the following should an organization focus on the most when making decisions about vulnerability prioritization?

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?

Question28: Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?

Question29: Which of the following is most likely associated with introducing vulnerabilities on a corporate network by the deployment of unapproved software?

Question30: 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?

Question31: Which of the following environments utilizes a subset of customer data and is most likely to be used to assess the impacts of major system upgrades and demonstrate system features?

Question32: 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?

Question33: A security administrator recently reset local passwords and the following values were recorded in the system:

Which of the following in the security administrator most likely protecting against?

Question34: Which of the following types of identification methods can be performed on a deployed application during runtime?

Question35: Which of the following involves an attempt to take advantage of database misconfigurations?

Question36: 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?

Question37: Which of the following data roles is responsible for identifying risks and appropriate access to data?

Question38: Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?

Question39: An IT security team is concerned about the confidentiality of documents left unattended in MFPs. Which of the following should the security team do to mitigate the situation?

Question40: A technician wants to improve the situational and environmental awareness of existing users as they transition from remote to in-office work. Which of the following is the best option?

Question41: Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?

Question42: A security analyst needs to propose a remediation plan 'or each item in a risk register. The item with the highest priority requires employees to have separate logins for SaaS solutions and different password complexity requirements for each solution. Which of the following implementation plans will most likely resolve this security issue?

Question43: 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?

Question44: 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?

Question45: Two companies are in the process of merging. The companies need to decide how to standardize their information security programs. Which of the following would best align the security programs?

Question46: 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?

Question47: 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?

Question48: 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?

Question49: 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?

Question50: 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?

Question51: Which of the following can a security director use to prioritize vulnerability patching within a company's IT environment?

Question52: Which of the following threat actors would most likely deface the website of a high-profile music group?

Question53: Which of the following is a type of vulnerability that involves inserting scripts into web-based applications in order to take control of the client's web browser?

Question54: Which of the following is an algorithm performed to verify that data has not been modified?

Question55: A company is aware of a given security risk related to a specific market segment. The business chooses not to accept responsibility and target their services to a different market segment. Which of the following describes this risk management strategy?

Question56: A company relies on open-source software libraries to build the software used by its customers. Which of the following vulnerability types would be the most difficult to remediate due to the company's reliance on open- source libraries?

Question57: Which of the following threat vectors is most commonly utilized by insider threat actors attempting data exfiltration?

Question58: Which of the following is best used to detect fraud by assigning employees to different roles?

Question59: 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?

Question60: 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?

Question61: 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?

Question62: A security engineer is working to address the growing risks that shadow IT services are introducing to the organization. The organization has taken a cloud-first approach end does not have an on-premises IT infrastructure. Which of the following would best secure the organization?

Question63: 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?

Question64: 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?

Question65: Which of the following describes the process of concealing code or text inside a graphical image?

Question66: Which of the following is prevented by proper data sanitization?

Question67: An IT security team is concerned about the confidentiality of documents left unattended in MFPs. Which of the following should the security team do to mitigate the situation?

Question68: 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?

Question69: 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?

Question70: 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?

Question71: 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?

Question72: Which of the following allows a systems administrator to tune permissions for a file?

Question73: Which of the following is used to validate a certificate when it is presented to a user?

Question74: A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime. Which of the following should the company consider?

Question75: A company recently decided to allow employees to work remotely. The company wants to protect us data without using a VPN. Which of the following technologies should the company Implement?

Question76: Cadets speaking a foreign language are using company phone numbers to make unsolicited phone calls lo a partner organization. A security analyst validates through phone system logs that the calls are occurring and the numbers are not being spoofed. Which of the following is the most likely explanation?

Question77: Which of the following security concepts is the best reason for permissions on a human resources fileshare to follow the principle of least privilege?

Question78: 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?

Question79: After reviewing the following vulnerability scanning report:
Server:192.168.14.6
Service: Telnet
Port: 23 Protocol: TCP
Status: Open Severity: High
Vulnerability: Use of an insecure network protocol
A security analyst performs the following test:
nmap -p 23 192.168.14.6 -script telnet-encryption
PORT STATE SERVICE REASON
23/tcp open telnet syn-ack
I telnet encryption:
| _ Telnet server supports encryption
Which of the following would the security analyst conclude for this reported vulnerability?

Question80: A company wants to track modifications to the code used to build new virtual servers. Which of the following will the company most likely deploy?

Question81: Which of the following strategies should an organization use to efficiently manage and analyze multiple types of logs?

Question82: 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?

Question83: Which of the following teams combines both offensive and defensive testing techniques to protect an organization's critical systems?

Question84: 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?

Question85: The application development teams have been asked to answer the following questions:
* Does this application receive patches from an external source?
* Does this application contain open-source code?
* is this application accessible by external users?
* Does this application meet the corporate password standard?
Which of the following are these questions port of?

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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?

Question88: A security analyst discovers that a large number of employee credentials had been stolen and were being sold on the dark web. The analyst investigates and discovers that some hourly employee credentials were compromised, but salaried employee credentials were not affected.
Most employees clocked in and out while they were Inside the building using one of the kiosks connected to the network. However, some clocked out and recorded their time after leaving to go home. Only those who clocked in and out while Inside the building had credentials stolen. Each of the kiosks are on different floors, and there are multiple routers, since the business segments environments for certain business functions.
Hourly employees are required to use a website called acmetimekeeping.com to clock in and out. This website is accessible from the internet. Which of the following Is the most likely reason for this compromise?

Question89: Two companies are in the process of merging. The companies need to decide how to standardize their information security programs. Which of the following would best align the security programs?

Question90: Which of the following describes the maximum allowance of accepted risk?

Question91: Which of the following explains why an attacker cannot easily decrypt passwords using a rainbow table attack?

Question92: 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?

Question93: A systems administrate wants to implement a backup solution. the solution needs to allow recovery of the entire system, including the operating system, in case of a disaster. Which of the following backup types should the administrator consider?

Question94: A company wants to get alerts when others are researching and doing reconnaissance on the company One approach would be to host a part of the Infrastructure online with known vulnerabilities that would appear to be company assets. Which of the following describes this approach?

Question95: 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?

Question96: 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?

Question97: 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?

Question98: The Cruel Information Security Officer (CISO) asks a security analyst to install an OS update to a production VM that has a 99% uptime SLA. The CISO tells me analyst the installation must be done as quickly as possible. Which of the following courses of action should the security analyst take first?

Question99: Which of the following best describe a penetration test that resembles an actual external attach?

Question100: After a recent ransomware attack on a company's system, an administrator reviewed the log files. Which of the following control types did the administrator use?

Question101: 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?

Question102: A security engineer is working to address the growing risks that shadow IT services are introducing to the organization. The organization has taken a cloud-first approach end does not have an on-premises IT infrastructure. Which of the following would best secure the organization?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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?

Question105: 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?

Question106: Which of the following is the final step of the modem response process?

Question107: After an audit, an administrator discovers all users have access to confidential data on a file server. Which of the following should the administrator use to restrict access to the data quickly?

Question108: 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?

Question109: Which of the following is the first step to take when creating an anomaly detection process?

Question110: 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?

Question111: A software developer would like to ensure. The source code cannot be reverse engineered or debugged.
Which of the following should the developer consider?

Question112: Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?

Question113: A cybersecurity incident response team at a large company receives notification that malware is present on several corporate desktops No known Indicators of compromise have been found on the network. Which of the following should the team do first to secure the environment?

Question114: An administrator must replace an expired SSL certificate. Which of the following does the administrator need to create the new SSL certificate?

Question115: 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?

Question116: Which of the following is the best reason to complete an audit in a banking environment?

Question117: The Cruel Information Security Officer (CISO) asks a security analyst to install an OS update to a production VM that has a 99% uptime SLA. The CISO tells me analyst the installation must be done as quickly as possible. Which of the following courses of action should the security analyst take first?

Question118: Which of the following would be the best way to handle a critical business application that is running on a legacy server?

Question119: 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?

Question120: 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?

Question121: A security analyst needs to propose a remediation plan 'or each item in a risk register. The item with the highest priority requires employees to have separate logins for SaaS solutions and different password complexity requirements for each solution. Which of the following implementation plans will most likely resolve this security issue?

Question122: 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?

Question123: 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?

Question124: Which of the following is used to quantitatively measure the criticality of a vulnerability?

Question125: 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?

Question126: 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?

Question127: 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?

Question128: Which of the following best describes why me SMS DIP authentication method is more risky to implement than the TOTP method?

Question129: Which of the following would a security administrator use to comply with a secure baseline during a patch update?

Question130: A security analyst reviews domain activity logs and notices the following:

Which of the following is the best explanation for what the security analyst has discovered?

Question131: 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?

Question132: A security analyst is investigating an application server and discovers that software on the server is behaving abnormally. The software normally runs batch jobs locally and does not generate traffic, but the process is now generating outbound traffic over random high ports. Which of the following vulnerabilities has likely been exploited in this software?

Question133: Which of the following should be used to aggregate log data in order to create alerts and detect anomalous activity?

Question134: Which of the following is a common source of unintentional corporate credential leakage in cloud environments?

Question135: 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?

Question136: A systems administrator is redesigning now devices will perform network authentication. The following requirements need to be met:
* An existing Internal certificate must be used.
* Wired and wireless networks must be supported
* Any unapproved device should be Isolated in a quarantine subnet
* Approved devices should be updated before accessing resources
Which of the following would best meet the requirements?

Question137: A growing company would like to enhance the ability of its security operations center to detect threats but reduce the amount of manual work required tor the security analysts. Which of the following would best enable the reduction in manual work?

Question138: A security analyst is investigating a workstation that is suspected of outbound communication to a command- and-control server. During the investigation, the analyst discovered that logs on the endpoint were deleted.
Which of the following logs would the analyst most likely look at next?

Question139: A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling.
Which of the following best describes this policy?

Question140: 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?

Question141: A security professional discovers a folder containing an employee's personal information on the enterprise's shared drive. Which of the following best describes the data type the security professional should use to identify organizational policies and standards concerning the storage of employees' personal information?

Question142: Which of the following is die most important security concern when using legacy systems to provide production service?

Question143: An administrator at a small business notices an increase in support calls from employees who receive a blocked page message after trying to navigate to a spoofed website. Which of the following should the administrator do?

Question144: 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?

Question145: A company wants to verify that the software the company is deploying came from the vendor the company purchased the software from. Which of the following is the best way for the company to confirm this information?

Question146: 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?

Question147: 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?

Question148: 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?

Question149: Company A jointly develops a product with Company B, which is located in a different country. Company A finds out that their intellectual property is being shared with unauthorized companies. Which of the following has been breached?

Question150: 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?

Question151: Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer's PII?

Question152: Which of the following is the best way to provide secure remote access for employees while minimizing the exposure of a company's internal network?

Question153: 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?

Question154: Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?

Question155: 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?

Question156: Which of the following is most likely associated with introducing vulnerabilities on a corporate network by the deployment of unapproved software?

Question157: 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?

Question158: Which of the following most accurately describes the order in which a security engineer should implement secure baselines?

Question159: Which of the following alert types is the most likely to be ignored over time?

Question160: 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?

Question161: 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?

Question162: A security analyst is creating base for the server team to follow when hardening new devices for deployment.
Which of the following beet describes what the analyst is creating?

Question163: 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?

Question164: 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?

Question165: A company must ensure sensitive data at rest is rendered unreadable. Which of the following will the company most likely use?

Question166: Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?

Question167: Which of the following is the most effective way to protect an application server running software that is no longer supported from network threats?

Question168: Which of the following is a type of vulnerability that refers to the unauthorized installation of applications on a device through means other than the official application store?

Question169: A network administrator deployed a DNS logging tool that togs suspicious websites that are visited and then sends a daily report based on various weighted metrics. Which of the following best describes the type of control the administrator put in place?

Question170: 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?

Question171: 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?

Question172: The application development teams have been asked to answer the following questions:
* Does this application receive patches from an external source?
* Does this application contain open-source code?
* is this application accessible by external users?
* Does this application meet the corporate password standard?
Which of the following are these questions port of?

Question173: 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?

Question174: 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?

Question175: A business needs a recovery site but does not require immediate failover. The business also wants to reduce the workload required to recover from an outage. Which of the following recovery sites is the best option?

Question176: Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?

Question177: In which of the following scenarios is tokenization the best privacy technique 10 use?

Question178: Which of the following best describes why me SMS DIP authentication method is more risky to implement than the TOTP method?

Question179: 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?

Question180: A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

Question181: 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?

Question182: Which of the following can best protect against an employee inadvertently installing malware on a company system?

Question183: Which of the following considerations is the most important for an organization to evaluate as it establishes and maintains a data privacy program?

Question184: A cybersecurity incident response team at a large company receives notification that malware is present on several corporate desktops No known Indicators of compromise have been found on the network. Which of the following should the team do first to secure the environment?

Question185: 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?

Question186: Which of the following would be the most appropriate way to protect data in transit?