EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Marley was asked by his incident handling and response (IH&R) team lead to collect volatile data such as system information and network information present in the registries, cache, and RAM of victim's system.
Identify the data acquisition method Marley must employ to collect volatile data.

Question2: Which of the following risk management processes identifies the risks, estimates the impact, and determines sources to recommend proper mitigation measures?

Question3: A US Federal Agency network was the target of a DoS attack that prevented and impaired the normal authorized functionality of the networks. According to agency's reporting timeframe guidelines, this incident should be reported within 2 h of discovery/detection if the successful attack is still ongoing and the agency is unable to successfully mitigate the activity.
Which incident category of US Federal Agency does this incident belong to?

Question4: Rica works as an incident handler for an international company. As part of her role, she must review the present security policy implemented. Upon inspection, Rica finds that the policy is wide open, and only known dangerous services/attacks or behaviors are blocked. Which of the following is the current policy that Rica identified?

Question5: Which of the following is a standard framework that provides recommendations for implementing information security controls for organizations that initiate, implement, or maintain information security management systems (ISMSs)?

Question6: In which of the following phases of the incident handling and response (IH&R) process is the identified security incidents analyzed, validated, categorized, and prioritized?

Question7: BadGuy Bob hid files in the slack space, changed the file headers, hid suspicious files in executables, and changed the metadata for all types of files on his hacker laptop. What has he committed?

Question8: Which of the following is an attack that attempts to prevent the use of systems, networks, or applications by the intended users?

Question9: Which of the following digital evidence temporarily stored on a digital device that requires a constant power supply and is deleted if the power supply is interrupted?

Question10: Eric is an incident responder and is working on developing incident-handling plans and procedures. As part of this process, he is performing an analysis on the organizational network to generate a report and develop policies based on the acquired results. Which of the following tools will help him in analyzing his network and the related traffic?

Question11: Adam is an attacker who along with his team launched multiple attacks on target organization for financial benefits. Worried about getting caught, he decided to forge his identity. To do so, he created a new identity by obtaining information from different victims.
Identify the type of identity theft Adam has performed.

Question12: Which of the following is the BEST method to prevent email incidents?

Question13: Which of the following is a volatile evidence collecting tool?

Question14: Eve's is an incident handler in ABC organization. One day, she got a complaint about email hacking incident from one of the employees of the organization. As a part of incident handling and response process, she must follow many recovery steps in order to recover from incident impact to maintain business continuity.
What is the first step that she must do to secure employee account?

Question15: Francis is an incident handler and security expert. He works at Morison Tech Solutions based in Sydney, Australia. He was assigned a task to detect phishing/spam mails for the client organization.
Which of the following tools can assist Francis to perform the required task?

Question16: Elizabeth, who works for OBC organization as an incident responder, is assessing the risks to the organizational security. As part of the assessment process, she is calculating the probability of a threat source exploiting an existing system vulnerability. Which of the following risk assessment steps is Elizabeth currently in?

Question17: Jason is an incident handler dealing with malware incidents. He was asked to perform memory dump analysis in order to collect the information about the basic functionality of any program. As a part of his assignment, he needs to perform string search analysis to search for the malicious string that could determine harmful actions that a program can perform. Which of the following string-searching tools Jason needs to use to do the intended task?

Question18: Eric who is an incident responder is working on developing incident-handling plans and procedures. As part of this process, he is performing analysis on the organizational network to generate a report and to develop policies based on the acquired results.
Which of the following tools will help him in analyzing network and its related traffic?

Question19: Otis is an incident handler working in Delmont organization. Recently, the organization is facing several setbacks in the business and thereby its revenues are going down. Otis was asked to take the charge and look into the matter. While auditing the enterprise security, he found the traces of an attack, where the proprietary information was stolen from the enterprise network and was passed onto the competitors.
Which of the following information security incidents Delmont organization faced?

Question20: Which of the following is a common tool used to help detect malicious internal or compromised actors?

Question21: Stenley is an incident handler working for Texa Corp. located in the United States. With the growing concern of increasing emails from outside the organization, Stenley was asked to take appropriate actions to keep the security of the organization intact. In the process of detecting and containing malicious emails, Stenley was asked to check the validity of the emails received by employees.
Identify the tools he can use to accomplish the given task.

Question22: Dash wants to perform a DoS attack over 256 target URLs simultaneously.
Which of the following tools can Dash employ to achieve his objective?

Question23: In which of the following confidentiality attacks attackers try to lure users by posing themselves as authorized AP by beaconing the WLAN's SSID?

Question24: Alex is an incident handler for Tech-o-Tech Inc. and is tasked to identify any possible insider threats within his organization. Which of the following insider threat detection techniques can be used by Alex to detect insider threats based on the behavior of a suspicious employee, both individually and in a group?

Question25: Which of the following is not the responsibility of first responders?

Question26: Sam received an alert through an email monitoring tool indicating that their company was targeted by a phishing attack. After analyzing the incident, Sam identified that most of the targets of the attack are high-profile executives of the company. What type of phishing attack is this?

Question27: Which of the following is not a countermeasure to eradicate inappropriate usage incidents?

Question28: Malicious downloads that result from malicious office documents being manipulated are caused by which of the following?

Question29: Attackers or insiders create a backdoor into a trusted network by installing an unsecured access point inside a firewall. They then use any software or hardware access point to perform an attack. Which of the following is this type of attack?

Question30: After a recent email attack, Harry is analyzing the incident to obtain important information related to the incident. While investigating the incident, he is trying to extract information such as sender identity, mail server, sender's IP address, location, and so on.
Which of the following tools Harry must use to perform this task?

Question31: Identify the malicious program that is masked as a genuine harmless program and gives the attacker unrestricted access to the users information and system. These programs may unleash dangerous programs that may erase the unsuspecting user's disk and send the victim's credit card numbers and passwords to a stranger.

Question32: Which of the following is defined as the identification of the boundaries of an IT system along with the resources and information that constitute the system?

Question33: Malicious Micky has moved from the delivery stage to the exploitation stage of the kill chain. This malware wants to find and report to the command center any useful services on the system. Which of the following recon attacks is the MOST LIKELY to provide this information?

Question34: Shiela is working at night as an incident handler. During a shift, servers were affected by a massive cyberattack. After she classified and prioritized the incident, she must report the incident, obtain necessary permissions, and perform other incident response functions. What list should she check to notify other responsible personnel?

Question35: John is performing memory dump analysis in order to find out the traces of malware.
He has employed volatility tool in order to achieve his objective.
Which of the following volatility framework commands he will use in order to analyze running process from the memory dump?

Question36: In which of the following phases of incident handling and response (IH&R) process the identified security incidents are analyzed, validated, categorized, and prioritized?

Question37: Matt is an incident handler working for one of the largest social network companies, which was affected by malware. According to the company's reporting timeframe guidelines, a malware incident should be reported within 1 h of discovery/detection after its spread across the company. Which category does this incident belong to?

Question38: Which of the following information security personnel handles incidents from management and technical point of view?

Question39: Nervous Nat often sends emails with screenshots of what he thinks are serious incidents, but they always turn out to be false positives. Today, he sends another screenshot, suspecting a nation-state attack. As usual, you go through your list of questions, check your resources for information to determine whether the screenshot shows a real attack, and determine the condition of your network. Which step of IR did you just perform?

Question40: Which of the following risk mitigation strategies involves execution of controls to reduce the risk factor and brings it to an acceptable level or accepts the potential risk and continues operating the IT system?

Question41: Mr. Smith is a lead incident responder of a small financial enterprise having few branches in Australi a. Recently, the company suffered a massive attack losing USD 5 million through an inter-banking system. After in-depth investigation on the case, it was found out that the incident occurred because 6 months ago the attackers penetrated the network through a minor vulnerability and maintained the access without any user being aware of it. Then, he tried to delete users' fingerprints and performed a lateral movement to the computer of a person with privileges in the inter-banking system.
Finally, the attacker gained access and did fraudulent transactions.
Based on the above scenario, identify the most accurate kind of attack.

Question42: Jason is setting up a computer forensics lab and must perform the following steps: 1. physical location and structural design considerations; 2. planning and budgeting; 3. work area considerations; 4. physical security recommendations; 5. forensic lab licensing; 6. human resource considerations. Arrange these steps in the order of execution.

Question43: During the vulnerability assessment phase, the incident responders perform various steps as below:
1. Run vulnerability scans using tools
2. Identify and prioritize vulnerabilities
3. Examine and evaluate physical security
4. Perform OSINT information gathering to validate the vulnerabilities
5. Apply business and technology context to scanner results
6. Check for misconfigurations and human errors
7. Create a vulnerability scan report
Identify the correct sequence of vulnerability assessment steps performed by the incident responders.

Question44: Joseph is an incident handling and response (IH&R) team lead in Toro Network Solutions Company. As a part of IH&R process, Joseph alerted the service providers, developers, and manufacturers about the affected resources.
Identify the stage of IH&R process Joseph is currently in.

Question45: Which of the following GPG 18 and Forensic readiness planning (SPF) principles states that "organizations should adopt a scenario based Forensic Readiness Planning approach that learns from experience gained within the business"?

Question46: Which of the following tools helps incident responders effectively contain a potential cloud security incident and gather required forensic evidence?

Question47: Chandler is a professional hacker who is targeting Technote organization. He wants to obtain important organizational information that is being transmitted between different hierarchies. In the process, he is sniffing the data packets transmitted through the network and then analyzing them to gather packet details such as network, ports, protocols, devices, issues in network transmission, and other network specifications. Which of the following tools Chandler must employ to perform packet analysis?

Question48: Which of the following is NOT part of the static data collection process?

Question49: Farheen is an incident responder at reputed IT Firm based in Florid
a. Farheen was asked to investigate a recent cybercrime faced by the organization. As part of this process, she collected static data from a victim system. She used DD tool command to perform forensic duplication to obtain an NTFS image of the original disk. She created a sector-by-sector mirror imaging of the disk and saved the output image file as image.dd.
Identify the static data collection process step performed by Farheen while collecting static data.

Question50: ZYX company experienced a DoS/DDoS attack on their network. Upon investigating the incident, they concluded that the attack is an application-layer attack. Which of the following attacks did the attacker use?

Question51: Which stage of the incident response and handling process involves auditing the system and network log files?

Question52: An attacker traced out and found the kind of websites a target company/individual is frequently surfing and tested those particular websites to identify any possible vulnerabilities. When the attacker detected vulnerabilities in the website, the attacker started injecting malicious script/code into the web application that can redirect the webpage and download the malware onto the victim's machine. After infecting the vulnerable web application, the attacker waited for the victim to access the infected web application.
Identify the type of attack performed by the attacker.

Question53: What is the most recent NIST standard for incident response?

Question54: Shall y, an incident handler, is working for a company named Texas Pvt.Ltd.based in Florida. She was asked to work on an incident response plan. As part of the plan, she decided to enhance and improve the security infrastructure of the enterprise. She has incorporated a security strategy that allows security professionals to use several protection layers throughout their information system. Due to multiple layer protection, this security strategy assists in preventing direct attacks against the organization's information system as a break in one layer only leads the attacker to the next layer.
Identify the security strategy Shall y has incorporated in the incident response plan.

Question55: John, a professional hacker, is attacking an organization, where he is trying to destroy the connectivity between an AP and client to make the target unavailable to other wireless devices.
Which of the following attacks is John performing in this case?

Question56: If the browser does not expire the session when the user fails to logout properly, which of the following OWASP Top 10 web vulnerabilities is caused?

Question57: Clark is investigating a cybercrime at TechSoft Solutions. While investigating the case, he needs to collect volatile information such as running services, their process IDs, startmode, state, and status.
Which of the following commands will help Clark to collect such information from running services?

Question58: Bran is an incident handler who is assessing the network of the organization. He wants to detect ping sweep attempts on the network using Wireshark. Which of the following Wireshark filters would Bran use to accomplish this task?

Question59: Which one of the following is the correct flow of the stages in an incident handling and response (IH&R) process?

Question60: An incident handler is analyzing email headers to find out suspicious emails.
Which of the following tools he/she must use in order to accomplish the task?

Question61: Racheal is an incident handler working in InceptionTech organization. Recently, numerous employees are complaining about receiving emails from unknown senders. In order to prevent employees against spoofing emails and keeping security in mind, Racheal was asked to take appropriate actions in this matter. As a part of her assignment, she needs to analyze the email headers to check the authenticity of received emails.
Which of the following protocol/authentication standards she must check in email header to analyze the email authenticity?

Question62: Alice is a disgruntled employee. She decided to acquire critical information from her organization for financial benefit. To acccomplish this, Alice started running a virtual machine on the same physical host as her victim's virtual machine and took advantage of shared physical resources (processor cache) to steal data (cryptographic key/plain text secrets) from the victim machine. Identify the type of attack Alice is performing in the above scenario.

Question63: Michael is an incident handler at CyberTech Solutions. He is performing detection and analysis of a cloud security incident. He is analyzing the file systems, slack spaces, and metadata of the storage units to find hidden malware and evidence of malice.
Identify the cloud security incident handled by Michael.

Question64: Which of the following terms refers to vulnerable account management functions, including account update, recovery of forgotten or lost passwords, and password reset, that might weaken valid authentication schemes?

Question65: Which of the following has been used to evade IDS and IPS?

Question66: Allan performed a reconnaissance attack on his corporate network as part of a red-team activity. He scanned the IP range to find live host IP addresses. What type of technique did he use to exploit the network?

Question67: Sam. an employee of a multinational company, sends emails to third-party organizations with a spoofed email address of his organization. How can you categorize this type of incident?

Question68: QualTech Solutions is a leading security services enterprise. Dickson, who works as an incident responder with this firm, is performing a vulnerability assessment to identify the security problems in the network by using automated tools for identifying the hosts, services, and vulnerabilities in the enterprise network. In the above scenario, which of the following types of vulnerability assessment is Dickson performing?

Question69: Mike is an incident handler for PNP Infosystems Inc. One day, there was a ticket submitted regarding a critical incident and Mike was assigned to handle the incident. During the process of incident handling, at one stage, he performed incident analysis and validation to check whether the incident is a genuine incident or a false positive.
Identify the stage he is currently in.

Question70: Employee monitoring tools are mostly used by employers to find which of the following?

Question71: Zaimasoft, a prominent IT organization, was attacked by perpetrators who directly targeted the hardware and caused irreversible damage to the hardware. In result, replacing or reinstalling the hardware was the only solution.
Identify the type of denial-of-service attack performed on Zaimasoft.

Question72: Bran is an incident handler who is assessing the network of the organization. In the process, he wants to detect ping sweep attempts on the network using Wireshark tool.
Which of the following Wireshark filter he must use to accomplish this task?