Latest SY0-601 CompTIA Security+ Updated Dumps

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The CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 certification is a highly respected and sought-after credential in the field of cybersecurity. To help candidates prepare for the exam, the CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 dumps have been recently updated to reflect the latest industry trends and best practices.

One of the key benefits of using the updated CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 dumps is that they provide a realistic representation of the types of questions that will be asked on the actual exam. This allows candidates to familiarize themselves with the format and style of the questions, and to gain a better understanding of the level of knowledge required to pass the test.

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1. Which of the following types of attacks is specific to the individual it targets?

Whaling

Pharming

Smishing

Credential harvesting

2. A security analyst is responding to an alert from the SIEM. The alert states that malware was discovered on a host and was not automatically deleted.

Which of the following would be BEST for the analyst to perform?

Add a deny-all rule to that host in the network ACL

Implement a network-wide scan for other instances of the malware.

Quarantine the host from other parts of the network

Revoke the client's network access certificates

3. A company just developed a new web application for a government agency. The application must be assessed and authorized prior to being deployed.

Which of the following is required to assess the vulnerabilities resident in the application?

Repository transaction logs

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Static code analysis

Non-credentialed scans

4. A security manager has tasked the security operations center with locating all web servers that respond to an unsecure protocol.

Which of the following commands could an analyst run to find requested servers?

nslookup 10.10.10.0

nmap -p 80 10.10.10.0/24

pathping 10.10.10.0 -p 80

no -1 -p 80

5. Which of the following is the GREATEST security concern when outsourcing code development to third-party contractors for an internet-facing application?

Intellectual property theft

Elevated privileges

Unknown backdoor

Quality assurance

6. Which of the following is the MOST secure but LEAST expensive data destruction method for data that is stored on hard drives?

Pulverizing

Shredding

Incinerating

Degaussing

7. A security analyst is preparing a threat for an upcoming internal penetration test. The analyst needs to identify a method for determining the tactics, techniques, and procedures of a threat against the organization’s network.

Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely use to accomplish the objective?

A table exercise

NST CSF

MTRE ATT$CK

OWASP

8. A development team employs a practice of bringing all the code changes from multiple team members into the same development project through automation. A tool is utilized to validate the code and track source code through version control.

Which of the following BEST describes this process?

Continuous delivery

Continuous integration

Continuous validation

Continuous monitoring

9. Which of the following authentication methods is considered to be the LEAST secure?

TOTP

SMS

HOTP

Token key

10. A cybersecurity administrator needs to allow mobile BYOD devices to access network resources.

As the devices are not enrolled to the domain and do not have policies applied to them, which of the following are best practices for authentication and infrastructure security? (Select TWO).

Create a new network for the mobile devices and block the communication to the internal network and servers

Use a captive portal for user authentication.

Authenticate users using OAuth for more resiliency

Implement SSO and allow communication to the internal network

Use the existing network and allow communication to the internal network and servers.

Use a new and updated RADIUS server to maintain the best solution

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11. Which of the following stores data directly on devices with limited processing and storage capacity?

Thin client

Containers

Edge

Hybrid cloud

12. After a recent security incident, a security analyst discovered that unnecessary ports were open on a firewall policy for a web server.

Which of the following firewall policies would be MOST secure for a web server?

A)

Option A

Option B

Option C

Option D

13. An organization recently acquired an ISO 27001 certification.

Which of the following would MOST likely be considered a benefit of this certification?

It allows for the sharing of digital forensics data across organizations

It provides insurance in case of a data breach

It provides complimentary training and certification resources to IT security staff.

It certifies the organization can work with foreign entities that require a security clearance

It assures customers that the organization meets security standards

14. Which of the following environments utilizes dummy data and is MOST likely to be installed locally on a system that allows code to be assessed directly and modified easily with each build?

Production

Test

Staging

Development

15. Remote workers in an organization use company-provided laptops with locally installed applications and locally stored data Users can store data on a remote server using an encrypted connection. The organization discovered data stored on a laptop had been made available to the public.

Which of the following security solutions would mitigate the risk of future data disclosures?

FDE

TPM

HIDS

VPN

16. Which of the following are the BEST ways to implement remote home access to a company's intranet systems if establishing an always-on VPN is not an option? (Select Two)

Install VPN concentrations at home offices

Create NAT on the firewall for intranet systems

Establish SSH access to a jump server

Implement a SSO solution

Enable MFA for intranet systems

Configure SNMPv3 server and clients.

17. An attacked is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL www.validwebsite.com.

The attacker's intent is to imitate the look and feel of a legitimate website to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users.

Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

Information elicitation

Type squatting

Impersonation

Watering-hole attack

18. Several employees return to work the day after attending an industry trade show. That same day, the security manager notices several malware alerts coming from each of the employee’s workstations. The security manager investigates but finds no signs of an attack on the perimeter firewall or the NIDS.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing the malware alerts?

A worm that has propagated itself across the intranet, which was initiated by presentation media

A fileless virus that is contained on a vCard that is attempting to execute an attack

A Trojan that has passed through and executed malicious code on the hosts

A USB flash drive that is trying to run malicious code but is being blocked by the host firewall

19. An annual information security assessment has revealed that several OS-level configurations are not in compliance due to outdated hardening standards the company is using.

Which of the following would be BEST to use to update and reconfigure the OS-level security configurations?

CIS benchmarks

GDPR guidance

Regional regulations

ISO 27001 standards

20. A security analyst is working on a project to implement a solution that monitors network communications and provides alerts when abnormal behavior is detected.

Which of the following is the security analyst MOST likely implementing?

Vulnerability scans

User behavior analysis

Security orchestration, automation, and response

Threat hunting

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21. Which of the following are the MOST likely vectors for the unauthorized inclusion of vulnerable code in a software company’s final software releases? (Select TWO.)

Unsecure protocols

Use of penetration-testing utilities

Weak passwords

Included third-party libraries

Vendors/supply chain

Outdated anti-malware software

22. When implementing automation with loT devices, which of the following should be considered FIRST to keep the network secure?

Z-Wave compatibility

Network range

Zigbee configuration

Communication protocols

23. A systems administrator is considering different backup solutions for the IT infrastructure. The company is looking for a solution that offers the fastest recovery time while also saving the most amount of storage used to maintain the backups.

Which of the following recovery solutions would be the BEST option to meet these requirements?

Snapshot

Differential

Full

Tape

24. A security analyst has been tasked with finding the maximum amount of data loss that can occur before ongoing business operations would be impacted.

Which of the following terms BEST defines this metric?

MTTR

RTO

RPO

MTBF

25. A cloud service provider has created an environment where customers can connect existing local networks to the cloud for additional computing resources and block internal HR applications from reaching the cloud.

Which of the following cloud models is being used?

Public

Community

Hybrid

Private

26. A SOC is currently being outsourced.

Which of the following is being used?

Microservice

SaaS

MSSP

PaaS

27. A recent security audit reveaied that @ popular website with IP address 172.16 1 also has an FTP service thal employees were using to store sensitive corporate data. The organization's outbound firewall processes rules top-down.

Which of the following would permit HTTP and HTTPS, while denying all other services for this host?

A)

Option

28. An organization is migrating several SaaS applications that support SSO. The security manager wants to ensure the migration is completed securely.

Which of the following should the organization consider before implementation? (Select TWO).

The back-end directory source

The identity federation protocol

The hashing method

The encryption method

The registration authority

The certificate authority

29. A user is attempting to navigate to a website from inside the company network using a desktop. When the user types in the URL. https://www.site.com, the user is presented with a certificate mismatch warning from the browser. The user does not receive a warning when visiting http://www.anothersite.com.

Which of the following describes this attack?

On-path

Domain hijacking

DNS poisoning

Evil twin

30. Which of the following disaster recovery tests is The LEAST time-consuming for the disaster recovery team?

Tabletop

Parallel

Full interruption

Simulation

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31. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to create a policy set that meets international standards for data privacy and sharing.

Which of the following should the CISO read and understand before writing the policies?

PCI DSS

GDPR

NIST

ISO 31000

32. The Chief Information Security Officer directed a nsk reduction in shadow IT and created a policy requiring all unsanctioned high-risk SaaS applications to be blocked from user access.

Which of the following is the BEST security solution to reduce this risk?

CASB

VPN concentrator

MFA

VPC endpoint

33. Two organizations plan to collaborate on the evaluation of new SIEM solutions for their respective companies. A combined effort from both organizations' SOC teams would speed up the effort.

Which of the following can be written to document this agreement?

MOU

ISA

SLA

NDA

34. Which of the following actions would be recommended to improve an incident response process?

Train the team to identify the difference between events and incidents

Modify access so the IT team has full access to the compromised assets

Contact the authorities if a cybercrime is suspected

Restrict communication surrounding the response to the IT team

35. A cybersecunty administrator needs to implement a Layer 7 security control on a network and block potential attacks.

Which of the following can block an attack at Layer 7? (Select TWO)

HIDS

NIPS

HSM

WAF

HIPS

NIDS

Stateless firewall

36. A security engineer needs to build a solution to satisfy regulatory requirements that state certain critical servers must be accessed using MFA. However, the critical servers are older and are unable to support the addition of MFA .

Which of the following will the engineer MOST likely use to achieve this objective?

A forward proxy

A stateful firewall

A jump server

A port tap

37. A security analyst receives an alert from trie company's SIEM that anomalous activity is coming from a local source IP address of 192.168.34.26. The Chief Information Security Officer asks the analyst to block the originating source Several days later, another employee opens an internal ticket stating that vulnerability scans are no longer being

performed properly. The IP address the employee provides is 192 168.3426.

Which of the following describes this type of alert?

True positive

True negative

False positive

False negative

38. A security analyst reports a company policy violation in a case in which a large amount of sensitive data is being downloaded after hours from various mobile devices to an external site. Upon further investigation, the analyst notices that successful login attempts are being conducted with impossible travel times during the same time periods when the unauthorized downloads are occurring. The analyst also discovers a couple of WAPs are using the same SSID, but they have non-standard DHCP configurations and an overlapping channel.

Which of the following attacks is being conducted?

Evil twin

Jamming

DNS poisoning

Bluesnarfing

DDoS

39. Several employees have noticed other bystanders can clearly observe a terminal where passcodes are being entered,.

Which of the following can be eliminated with the use of a privacy screen?

Shoulder surfing

Spear phishing

Impersonation attack

Card cloning

40. Which of the following would be BEST for a technician to review to determine the total risk an organization can bear when assessing a "cloud-first" adoption strategy?

Risk matrix

Risk tolerance

Risk register

Risk appetite

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41. An analyst is working on an email security incident in which the target opened an attachment containing a worm. The analyst wants to implement mitigation techniques to prevent further spread.

Which of the following is the BEST course of action for the analyst to take?

Apply a DLP solution.

Implement network segmentation

Utilize email content filtering,

isolate the infected attachment.

42. A cybersecurity administrator needs to add disk redundancy for a critical server. The solution must have a two- drive failure for better fault tolerance.

Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator select?

43. Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows on hosts?

DLP

HIDS

EDR

NIPS

44. An organization just experienced a major cyberattack modem. The attack was well coordinated sophisticated and highly skilled.

Which of the following targeted the organization?

Shadow IT

An insider threat

A hacktivist

An advanced persistent threat

45. An employee received multiple messages on a mobile device. The messages instructing the employee to pair the device to an unknown device.

Which of the following BEST describes What a malicious person might be doing to cause this issue to occur?

Jamming

Bluesnarfing

Evil twin

Rogue access point

46. DRAG DROP

An attack has occurred against a company.

INSTRUCTIONS

You have been tasked to do the following:

Identify the type of attack that is occurring on the network by clicking on the attacker’s tablet and reviewing the output. (Answer Area 1).

Identify which compensating controls should be implemented on the assets, in order to reduce the effectiveness of future attacks by dragging them to the correct server.

(Answer area 2) All objects will be used, but not all placeholders may be filled. Objects may only be used once.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

47. The Chief Information Security Officer wants to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information from employee cell phones when using public USB power charging stations.

Which of the following would be the BEST solution to Implement?

DLP

USB data blocker

USB OTG

Disabling USB ports

48. Preconfigure the client for an incoming guest. The guest AD credentials are: User: guest01

Password: guestpass

49. When selecting a technical solution for identity management, an architect chooses to go from an in-house to a third-party SaaS provider.

Which of the following risk management strategies is this an example of?

Acceptance

Mitigation

Avoidance

Transference

50. Certain users are reporting their accounts are being used to send unauthorized emails and conduct suspicious activities.

After further investigation, a security analyst notices the following

• All users share workstations throughout the day

• Endpoint protection was disabled on several workstations throughout the network.

• Travel times on logins from the affected users are impossible

• Sensitive data is being uploaded to external sites

• All usee account passwords were forced lo be reset and the issue continued.

Which of the following attacks is being used to compromise the user accounts?

Brute-force

Keylogger

Dictionary

Rainbow

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51. A network engineer notices the VPN concentrator overloaded and crashes on days when there are a lot of remote workers. Senior management has placed greater importance on the availability of VPN resources for the remote workers than the security of the end users’ traffic.

Which of the following would be BEST to solve this issue?

iPSec

Always On

Split tunneling

L2TP

52. A security analyst is reviewing web-application logs and finds the following log:

Which of the following attacks is being observed?

Directory traversal

XSS

CSRF

On-path attack

53. A hospital's administration is concerned about a potential loss of patient data that is stored on tablets. A security administrator needs to implement controls to alert the SOC any time the devices are near exits.

Which of the following would BEST achieve this objective?

Geotargeting

Geolocation

Geotagging

Geofencing

54. A security engineer is building a file transfer solution to send files to a business partner. The users would like to drop off the files in a specific directory and have the server send to the business partner. The connection to the business partner is over the internet and needs to be secure.

Which of the following can be used?

S/MIME

LDAPS

SSH

SRTP

55. In the middle of a cybersecurity, a security engineer removes the infected devices from the network and lock down all compromised accounts.

In which of the following incident response phases is the security engineer currently operating?

Identification

Preparation

Eradiction

Recovery

Containment

56. A junior security analyst iss conducting an analysis after passwords were changed on multiple accounts without users' interaction.

The SIEM have multiple login entries with the following text:

Which of the following is the MOST likely attack conducted on the environment?

Malicious script

Privilege escalation

Doman hijacking

DNS poisoning

57. Which of the following control types is focused primarily on reducing risk before an incident occurs?

Preventive

Deterrent

Corrective

Detective

58. Security analysts notice a server login from a user who has been on vacation for two weeks. The analysts confirm that the user did not log in to the system while on vacation.

After reviewing packet capture logs, the analysts notice the following:

Which of the following occurred?

A buffer overflow was exploited to gain unauthorized access

The user's account was compromised, and an attacker changed the login credentials

An attacker used a pass-the-hash attack to gain access

An insider threat with username smithJA logged in to the account

59. An administrator is configuring a firewall rule set for a subnet to only access DHCP, web pages, and SFTP, and to specifically block FTP.

Which of the following would BEST accomplish this goal?

Option A

Option B

Option C

Option D

60. In a phishing attack, the perpetrator is pretending to be someone in a position of power in an effort to influence the target to click or follow the desired response.

Which of the following principles is being used?

Authority

Intimidation

Consensus

Scarcity

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61. A security analyst is investigating some users who are being redirected to a fake website that resembles www.comptia.org.

The following output was found on the naming server of the organization:

Which of the following attacks has taken place?

Domain reputation

Domain hijacking

Disassociation

DNS poisoning

62. The CSIRT is reviewing the lessons learned from a recent incident. A worm was able to spread unhindered throughout the network and infect a large number of computers and servers.

Which of the following recommendations would be BEST to mitigate the impacts of a similar incident in the future?

Install a NIDS device at the boundary.

Segment the network with firewalls.

Update all antivirus signatures daily.

Implement application blacklisting

63. A technician needs to prevent data loss in a laboratory. The laboratory is not connected to any external networks.

Which of the following methods would BEST prevent the exfiltration of data? (Select TWO).

VPN

Drive encryption

Network firewall

File level encryption

USB blocker

MFA

64. A systems administrator is troubleshooting a server's connection to an internal web server.

The administrator needs to determine the correct ports to use.

Which of the following tools BEST shows which ports on the web server are in a listening state?

Ipconfig

ssh

Ping

Netstat

65. The new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a large company has announced a partnership with a vendor that will provide multiple collaboration applications t

make remote work easier. The company has a geographically dispersed staff located in numerous remote offices in different countries. The company's IT

administrators are concerned about network traffic and load if all users simultaneously download the application.

Which of the following would work BEST to allow each geographic region to download the software without negatively impacting the corporate network?

Update the host IDS rules.

Enable application whitelisting.

Modify the corporate firewall rules.

Deploy all applications simultaneously.

66. An analyst Is generating a security report for the management team. Security guidelines recommend disabling all listening unencrypted services.

Given this output from Nmap:

Which of the following should the analyst recommend to disable?

21/tcp

22/tcp

23/tcp

443/tcp

67. Which of the following is the BEST example of a cost-effective physical control to enforce a USB removable media restriction policy?

Putting security/antitamper tape over USB ports logging the port numbers and regularly inspecting the ports

Implementing a GPO that will restrict access to authorized USB removable media and regularly verifying that it is enforced

Placing systems into locked key-controlled containers with no access to the USB ports

Installing an endpoint agent to detect connectivity of USB and removable media

68. A company is upgrading its wireless infrastructure to WPA2-Enterprise using EAP-TLS.

Which of the following must be part of the security architecture to achieve AAA? (Select TWO)

DNSSEC

Reverse proxy

VPN concentrator

PKI

Active Directory

RADIUS

69. Which of the following should a data owner require all personnel to sign to legally protect intellectual property?

An NDA

An AUP

An ISA

An MOU

70. An engineer needs to deploy a security measure to identify and prevent data tampering within the enterprise.

Which of the following will accomplish this goal?

Antivirus

FTP

FIM

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71. Which of the fofowing should an organization conskier implementing in the event executives need to speak to the media after a publicized data breach?

incident response pian

Business continuity plan

Communication pian

Disaster recovery plan

72. A security analyst must determine if either SSH or Telnet is being used to log in to servers.

Which of the following should the analyst use?

logger

Metasploit

tcpdump

netstat

73. 1.A penetration tester was able to compromise an internal server and is now trying to pivot the current session in a network lateral movement.

Which of the following tools if available on the server, will provide the MOST useful information for the next assessment step?

Autopsy

Cuckoo

Memdump

Nmap

74. A company wants to simplify the certificate management process. The company has a single domain with several dozen subdomains, all of which are publicly accessible on the internet.

Which of the following BEST describes the type of certificate the company should implement?

Subject alternative name

Wildcard

Self-signed

Domain validation

75. A security analyst notices several attacks are being blocked by the NIPS but does not see anything on the boundary firewall logs. The attack seems to have been thwarted.

Which of the following resiliency techniques was applied to the network to prevent this attack?

NIC Teaming

Port mirroring

Defense in depth

High availability

Geographic dispersal

76. Which of the following organizations sets frameworks and controls for optimal security configuration on systems?

ISO

GDPR

PCI DSS

NIST

77. A large financial services firm recently released information regarding a security breach within its corporate network that began several years before. During the time frame in which the breach occurred, indicators show an attacker gained administrative access to the network through a file downloaded from a social media site and subsequently installed it without the user's knowledge. Since the compromise, the attacker was able to take command and control the computer systems anonymously while obtaining sensitive corporate and personal employee information.

Which of the following methods did the attacker MOST likely use to gain access?

A bot

A fileless virus

A logic bomb

A RAT

78. An organization is planning lo open other data centers to sustain operations in the event of a natural disaster.

Which of the following considerations would BEST support the organization's resiliency?

Geographic dispersal

Generator power

Fire suppression

Facility automation

79. A recent security breach exploited software vulnerabilities in the firewall and within the network management solution.

Which of the following will MOST likely be used to identify when the breach occurred through each device?

SIEM correlation dashboards

Firewall syslog event logs

Network management solution login audit logs

Bandwidth monitors and interface sensors

80. The process of passively gathering information poor to launching a cyberattack is called:

tailgating

reconnaissance

pharming

prepending

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81. Due to unexpected circumstances, an IT company must vacate its main office, forcing all operations to alternate, off-site locations.

Which of the following will the company MOST likely reference for guidance during this change?

The business continuity plan

The retention policy

The disaster recovery plan

The incident response plan

82. Which of the following can be used by a monitoring tool to compare values and detect password leaks without providing the actual credentials?

Hashing

Tokenization

Masking

Encryption

83. Which of the following utilize a subset of real data and are MOST likely to be used to assess the features and functions of a system and how it interacts or performs from an end user's perspective against defined test cases? (Select TWO).

A Production

Test

Research and development

PoC

UAT

SDLC

84. A technician enables full disk encryption on a laptop that will be taken on a business tnp.

Which of the following does this process BEST protect?

Data in transit

Data in processing

Data at rest

Data tokenization

85. A security engineer needs to select a primary authentication source for use with a client application. The application requires the user to log in with a username, password, and, when needed, a challenge response.

Which of the following solutions BEST meets this requirement?

PSK

LDAP

RADIUS

PAP

86. A security analyst generated a file named host1.pcap and shared it with a team member who is going to use it for further incident analysis.

Which of the following tools will the other team member MOST likely use to open this file?

Autopsy

Memdump

FTK imager

Wireshark

87. Which of the following organizational policies are MOST likely to detect fraud that is being conducted by existing employees? (Select TWO).

Offboarding

Mandatory vacation

Job rotation

Background checks

Separation of duties

Acceptable use

88. The Chief information Securtty Officer (CISO) has decided to reorganize security staff to concentrate on incident response and to outsource outbound Internet URL categorization and filtering to an outside cornpany. Additionally, the CISO would Ske this solution to provide the same protections even when a company laptop or mobile device ts away from # home office.

Which of the following should the CISO choose?

CASB

Next-generation SWG

NGFW

Web-application firewall

89. hich of the following would be MOST effective to contain a rapidly spreading attack that is affecting a large number of organizations?

Machine learning

DNS sinkhole

Blocklist

Honeypot

90. A company uses wireless tor all laptops and keeps a very detailed record of its assets, along with a comprehensive list of devices that are authorized to be on the wireless network. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about a script kiddie potentially using an unauthorized device to brute force the wireless PSK and obtain access to the internal network.

Which of the following should the company implement to BEST prevent this from occurring?

A BPDU guard

WPA-EAP

IP filtering

A WIDS

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91. An engineer wants to inspect traffic to a cluster of web servers in a cloud environment.

Which of the following solutions should the engineer implement?

Proxy server

WAF

Load balancer

VPN

92. Which of the following holds staff accountable while escorting unathorized personal?

Locks

Badges

Cameras

Visitor logs

93. CORRECT TEXT

A customer called a company's security team to report that all invoices the customer has received over the last five days from the company appear to have fraudulent banking details.

An investigation into the matter reveals the following

* The manager of the accounts payable department is using the same password across multiple external websites and the corporate account.

* One of the websites the manager used recently experienced a data breach

* The manager's corporate email account was successfully accessed in the last fve days by an IP address located in a foreign country

Which of the following attacks has MOST hkely been used to compromise the manager's corporate account?

A Remote access Trojan

B. Brute-force

C. Oicbonary

D. Credential stuffing

E. Password spraying

94. An information security manager for an organization is completing a PCI DSS self-assessment for the first time.

Which of the is following MOST likely reason for this type of assessment?

An international expansion project is currently underway.

Outside consultants utilize this tool to measure security maturity.

The organization is expecting to process credit card information.

A government regulator has requested this audit to be completed

95. Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

Asymmetric encryption

Blockchain

Transport Layer Security

Perfect forward secrecy

96. A tax organization is working on a solution to validate the online submission of documents The solution should be earned on a portable USB device that should be inserted on any computer that is transmitting a transaction securely.

Which of the following is the BEST certificate for these requirements?

User certificate

Self-signed certificate

Computer certificate

Root certificate

97. A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better.

validate the vulnerability exists in the organization's network through penetration testing

research the appropriate mitigation techniques in a vulnerability database

find the software patches that are required to mitigate a vulnerability

prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities based on the possible impact.

98. The Chief Security Officer (CSO) at a major hospital wants to implement SSO to help improve in the environment patient data, particularly at shared terminals. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned that training and guidance have been provided to frontline staff, and a risk analysis has not been performed.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the CRO’s concerns?

SSO would simplify username and password management, making it easier for hackers to pass guess accounts.

SSO would reduce password fatigue, but staff would still need to remember more complex passwords.

SSO would reduce the password complexity for frontline staff.

SSO would reduce the resilience and availability of system if the provider goes offline.

99. one of the attendees starts to notice delays in the connection. and the HTTPS site requests are reverting to HTTP.

Which of the following BEST describes what is happening?

Birthday collision on the certificate key

DNS hyacking to reroute traffic

Brute force to the access point

A SSUTLS downgrade

100. A security engineer has enabled two-factor authentication on all workstations.

Which of the following approaches are the MOST secure? (Select TWO).

Password and security question

Password and CAPTCHA

Password and smart card

Password and fingerprint

Password and one-time token

Password and voice

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101. A security engineer needs to enhance MFA access to sensitive areas in a building. A key card and fingerprint scan are already in use.

Which of the following would add another factor of authentication?

Hard token

Retina scan

SMS text

Keypad PIN

102. An organization's RPO for a critical system is two hours. The system is used Monday through Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Currently, the organization performs a full backup every Saturday that takes four hours to complete.

Which of the following additional backup implementations would be the BEST way for the analyst to meet the business requirements?

Incremental backups Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m and differential backups hourly

Full backups Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m and incremental backups hourly.

incremental backups Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m and full backups hourly.

Full backups Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m and differential backups hourly.

103. Whictpof the following will MOST likely cause machine-learning and Al-enabled systems to operate with unintended consequences?

Stored procedures

Buffer overflows

Data bias

Code reuse

104. A cybersecurity administrator needs to implement a Layer 7 security control on a network and block potential attacks.

Which of the following can block an attack at Layer 7? (Select TWO).

HIDS

NIPS

HSM

WAF

NAC

NIDS

Stateless firewall

105. A store receives reports that shoppers’ credit card information is being stolen. Upon further analysis, those same shoppers also withdrew money from an ATM in that store.

The attackers are using the targeted shoppers’ credit card information to make online purchases.

Which of the following attacks is the MOST probable cause?

Identity theft

RFID cloning

Shoulder surfing

Card skimming

106. A cybersecurity analyst reviews the log files from a web server and sees a series of files that indicates a directory-traversal attack has occurred.

Which of the following is the analyst MOST likely seeing?

A)

Option A

Option B

Option C

Option D

107. Which of the following would an organizaton use to assign a value to risks based on probability of occurrence and impact?

Risk matrix

Risk register

Risk appetite

Risk mitgation plan

108. Which of the following cryptographic concepts would a security engineer utilize while implementing non-repudiation? (Select TWO)

Block cipher

Hashing

Private key

Perfect forward secrecy

Salting

Symmetric keys

109. During an incident, a company's CIRT determines it is necessary to observe the continued network-based transactions between a callback domain and the malware running on an enterprise PC.

Which of the following techniques would be BEST to enable this activity while reducing the nsk of lateral spread and the nsk that the adversary would notice any changes?

Physically move the PC to a separate Internet point of presence.

Create and apply micro segmentation rules,

Emulate the malware in a heavily monitored DMZ segment

Apply network blacklisting rules for the adversary domain

110. A cybersecurity department purchased o new PAM solution. The team is planning to randomize the service account credentials of the Windows server first.

Which of the following would be the BEST method to increase the security on the Linux server?

Randomize the shared credentials

Use only guest accounts to connect.

Use SSH keys and remove generic passwords

Remove all user accounts.

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111. As part of a company's ongoing SOC maturation process, the company wants to implement a method to share cyberthreat intelligence data with outside security partners.

Which of the following will the company MOST likely implement?

TAXII

TLP

TTP

STIX

112. The IT department at a university is concerned about professors placing servers on the university network in an attempt to bypass security controls.

Which of the following BEST represents this type of threat?

A script kiddie

Shadow IT

Hacktivism

White-hat

113. A web server has been compromised due to a ransomware attack. Further investigation reveals the ransomware has been in the server for the past 72 hours. The systems administrator needs to get the services back up as soon as possible.

Which of the following should the administrator use to restore services to a secure state?

The last incremental backup that was conducted 72 hours ago Most Voted

The last known-good configuration Most Voted

The last full backup that was conducted seven days ago

The baseline OS configuration

114. A security audit has revealed that a process control terminal is vulnerable to malicious users installing and executing software on the system. The terminal is beyond end-of-life support and cannot be upgraded, so it is placed on a projected network segment.

Which of the following would be MOST effective to implement to further mitigate the reported vulnerability?

DNS sinkholding

DLP rules on the terminal

An IP blacklist

Application whitelisting

115. Interiprsing a secure area requires passing though two doors, both of which require someone who is already inside to initiate access.

Which of the following types of physical security controls does this describe?

Cameras

Faraday cage

Access control vestibule

Sensors

Guards

116. Which of the following environments minimizes end-user disruption and is MOST likely to be used to assess the impacts of any database migrations or major system changes by using the final version of the code?

Staging

Test

Production

Development

117. An analyst visits an internet forum looking for information about a tool. The analyst finds a threat that appears to contain relevant information.

One of the posts says the following:

Text, letter

Description automatically generated

Which of the following BEST describes the attack that was attempted against the forum readers?

SOU attack

DLL attack

XSS attack

API attack

118. An engineer is configuring AAA authentication on a Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch. The LDAP server is located under the IP 10.10.2.2. The data sent to the LDAP server should be encrypted.

Which command should be used to meet these requirements?

Idap-server 10.10.2.2 key SSL_KEY

Idap-server host 10.10.2.2 key SSL_KEY

Idap-server 10.10.2.2 port 443

Idap-server host 10.10.2.2 enable-ssl

119. Following a prolonged datacenter outage that affected web-based sales, a company has decided to move its operations to a private cloud solution.

The security team has received the following requirements:

• There must be visibility into how teams are using cloud-based services.

• The company must be able to identify when data related to payment cards is being sent to the cloud.

• Data must be available regardless of the end user's geographic location

• Administrators need a single pane-of-glass view into traffic and trends.

Which of the following should the security analyst recommend?

Create firewall rules to restrict traffic to other cloud service providers.

Install a DLP solution to monitor data in transit.

Implement a CASB solution.

Configure a web-based content filter.

120. Which of the following describes a maintenance metric that measures the average time required to troubleshoot and restore failed equipment?

RTO

MTBF

MTTR

RPO

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121. An organization is developing an authentication service for use at the entry and exit ports of country borders.

The service will use data feeds obtained from passport systems, passenger manifests, and high-definition video feeds from CCTV systems that are located at the ports. The service will incorporate machine-learning techniques to eliminate biometric enrollment processes while still allowing authorities to identify passengers with increasing accuracy over time. The more frequently passengers travel, the more accurately the service will identify them.

Which of the following biometrics will MOST likely be used, without the need for enrollment? (Choose two.)

Voice

Gait

Vein

Facial

Retina

Fingerprint

122. A security administrator checks the table of a network switch, which shows the following output:

Which of the following is happening to this switch?

MAC Flooding

DNS poisoning

MAC cloning

ARP poisoning

123. A customer service representative reported an unusual text message that was sent to the help desk. The message contained an unrecognized invoice number with a large balance due and a link to click for more details.

Which of the following BEST descnbes this technique?

Vishing

Whaling

Phishing

Smishing

124. A user is concerned that a web application will not be able to handle unexpected or random input without crashing.

Which of the following BEST describes the type of testing the user should perform?

Code signing

Fuzzing

Manual code review

Dynamic code analysis

125. A well-known organization has been experiencing attacks from APIs. The organization is concerned that custom malware is being created and emailed into the company or installed on USB sticks that are dropped in parking lots.

Which of the following is the BEST defense against this scenario?

Configuring signature-based antivirus io update every 30 minutes

Enforcing S/MIME for email and automatically encrypting USB drives upon insertion.

Implementing application execution in a sandbox for unknown software.

Fuzzing new files for vulnerabilities if they are not digitally signed

126. A security analyst needs to implement security features across smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Which of the following would be the MOST effective across heterogeneous platforms?

Enforcing encryption

Deploying GPOs

Removing administrative permissions

Applying MDM software

127. A security analyst is reviewing the following command-line output:

Which of the following Is the analyst observing?

IGMP spoofing

URL redirection

MAG address cloning

DNS poisoning

128. Which of the following employee roles is responsible for protecting an organization's collected personal information?

CTO

DPO

CEO

DBA

129. A SOC is implementing an insider-threat-detection program. The primary concern is that users may be accessing confidential data without authorization.

Which of the following

should be deployed to detect a potential insider

threat?

honey file

ADMZ

DLP

File integrity monitoring

130. Which of the following secure coding techniques makes compromised code more difficult for hackers to use?

Obfuscation

Normalization

Execution

Reuse

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131. In the middle of a cybersecurity, a security engineer removes the infected devices from the network and lock down all compromised accounts.

In which of the following incident response phases is the security engineer currently operating?

Identification

Preparation

Eradiction

Recovery

Containment

132. A company discovered that terabytes of data have been exfiltrated over the past year after an employee clicked on an email link. The threat continued to evolve and remain undetected until a security analyst noticed an abnormal amount of external connections when the employee was not working.

Which of the following is the MOST likely threat actor?

Shadow IT

Script kiddies

APT

Insider threat

133. A security administrator needs to inspect in-transit files on the enterprise network to search for Pll, credit card data, and classification words.

Which of the following would be the BEST to use?

IDS solution

EDR solution

HIPS software solution

Network DLP solution

134. Which of the following BEST describes the MFA attribute that requires a callback on a predefined landline?

Something you exhibit

Something you can do

Someone you know

Somewhere you are

135. A developer is concerned about people downloading fake malware-infected replicas of a popular game.

Which of the following should the developer do to help verify legitimate versions of the game for users?

Digitally sign the relevant game files.

Embed a watermark using steganography.

Implement TLS on the license activation server.

Fuzz the application for unknown vulnerabilities.

136. A security analyst has been asked by the Chief Information Security Officer to

• develop a secure method of providing centralized management of infrastructure

• reduce the need to constantly replace aging end user machines

• provide a consistent user desktop expenence

Which of the following BEST meets these requirements?

BYOD

Mobile device management

VDI

Containers ation

137. An organization is planning to roll out a new mobile device policy and issue each employee a new laptop, These laptops would access the users' corporate operating system remotely and allow them to use the laptops for purposes outside of their job roles.

Which of the following deployment models is being utilized?

MDM and application management

BYOO and containers

COPE and VDI

CYOD and VMs

138. A technician was dispatched to complete repairs on a server in a data center. While locating the server, the technician entered a restricted area without authorization.

Which of the following security controls would BEST prevent this in the future?

Use appropriate signage to mark all areas.

Utilize cameras monitored by guards.

Implement access control vestibules.

Enforce escorts to monitor all visitors.

139. An organization is building backup server rooms in geographically diverse locations The Chief Information Security Officer implemented a requirement on the project that states the new hardware cannot be susceptible to the same vulnerabilities in the existing server room.

Which of the following should the systems engineer consider?

Purchasing hardware from different vendors

Migrating workloads to public cloud infrastructure

Implementing a robust patch management solution

Designing new detective security controls

140. A company has discovered unauthorized devices are using its WiFi network, and it wants to harden the access point to improve security.

Which of the following configuration should an analyst enable to improve security? (Select Two)

RADIUS

PEAP

WPS

WEP-EKIP

SSL

WPA2-PSK

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141. Which of the following environment utilizes dummy data and is MOST to be installed locally on a system that allows to be assessed directly and modified easily wit each build?

Production

Test

Staging

Development

142. The following is an administrative control that would be MOST effective to reduce the occurrence of malware execution?

Security awareness training

Frequency of NIDS updates

Change control procedures

EDR reporting cycle

143. A smart retail business has a local store and a newly established and growing online storefront. A recent storm caused a power outage to the business and the local ISP, resulting in several hours of lost sales and delayed order processing.

The business owner now needs to ensure two things:

* Protection from power outages

* Always-available connectivity In case of an outage

The owner has decided to implement battery backups for the computer equipment.

Which of the following would BEST fulfill the owner's second need?

Lease a point-to-point circuit to provide dedicated access.

Connect the business router to its own dedicated UP

Purchase services from a cloud provider for high availability

Replace the business's wired network with a wireless network

144. An analyst needs to identify the applications a user was running and the files that were open before the user’s computer was shut off by holding down the power button.

Which of the following would MOST likely contain that information?

NGFW

Pagefile

NetFlow

RAM

145. An organization’s help desk is flooded with phone calls from users stating they can no longer access certain websites. The help desk escalates the issue to the security team, as these websites were accessible the previous day. The security analysts run the following command: ipconfig /flushdns, but the issue persists. Finally, an analyst changes the DNS server for an impacted machine, and the issue goes away.

Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred on the original DNS server?

DNS cache poisoning

Domain hijacking

Distributed denial-of-service

DNS tunneling

146. A company uses specially configured workstations for any work that requires administrator privileges to its Tier 0 and Tier 1 systems. The company follows a strict process to harden systems immediately upon delivery. Even with these strict security measures in place, an incident occurred from one of the workstations. The root cause appears to be that the SoC was tampered with or replaced.

Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

Fileless malware

A downgrade attack

A supply-chain attack

A logic bomb

Misconfigured BIOS

147. An organization needs to implement more stringent controls over administrator/root credentials and service accounts.

Requirements for the project include:

Check-in/checkout of credentials

The ability to use but not know the password

Automated password changes

Logging of access to credentials

Which of the following solutions would meet the requirements?

OAuth 2.0

Secure Enclave

A privileged access management system

An OpenID Connect authentication system

148. A security analyst wants to fingerpnnt a web server.

Which of the following tools will the security analyst MOST likely use to accomplish this task?

nmap -p1-65S35 192.168.0.10

dig 192.168.0.10

cur1 --htad http://192.168.0.10

ping 192.168.0.10

149. After installing a Windows server, a cybersecurity administrator needs to harden it, following security best practices.

Which of the following will achieve the administrator's goal? (Select TWO).

Disabling guest accounts

Disabling service accounts

Enabling network sharing

Disabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP

Storing LAN manager hash values

Enabling NTLM

150. A systems administrator needs to install the same X.509 certificate on multiple servers .

Which of the following should the administrator use?

Key escrow

A self-signed certificate

Certificate chaining

An extended validation certificate

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151. Ann. a forensic analyst. needs to prove that the data she originally acquired has remained unchanged while in her custody.

Which of the following should Ann use?

Chain of custody

Checksums

Non-repudiaton

Legal hold

152. Which of the following scenarios would make a DNS sinkhole effective in thwarting an attack?

An attacker is sniffing traffic to port 53, and the server is managed using unencrypted usernames and passwords.

An organization is experiencing excessive traffic on port 53 and suspects an attacker is trying to DoS the domain name server.

Malware trying to resolve an unregistered domain name to determine if it is running in an isolated sandbox

Routing tables have been compromised, and an attacker is rerouting traffic to malicious websites

153. Which of the following would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hot-spots?

Footprinting

White-box testing

A drone/UAV

Pivoting

154. A large bank with two geographically dispersed data centers is concerned about major power disruptions at both locations Every day each location expenences very bnef outages that last for a few seconds However dunng the summer a high risk of intentional brownouts that last up to an hour exists particularly at one of the locations near an jndustnal smelter.

Which of the following is the BEST solution to reduce the risk of data loss?

Dual supply

Generator

PDU

Daily backups

155. fier segmenting the network, the network manager wants to control the traffic between the segments.

Which of the following should the manager use to control the network traffic?

A DMZ

A VPN a

A VLAN

An ACL

156. A security analyst in a SOC has been tasked with onboarding a new network into the SIEM.

Which of the following BEST describes the information that should feed into a SIEM solution in order to adequately support an investigation?

Logs from each device type and security layer to provide correlation of events

Only firewall logs since that is where attackers will most likely try to breach the network

Email and web-browsing logs because user behavior is often the cause of security breaches

NetFlow because it is much more reliable to analyze than syslog and will be exportable from every device

157. A security analyst needs to complete an assessment. The analyst is logged into a server and must use native tools to map services running on it to the server's listening ports.

Which of the following tools can BEST accomplish this talk?

Netcat

Netstat

Nmap

Nessus

158. A company has drafted an insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices.

Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

Monitoring large data transfer transactions in the firewall logs

Developing mandatory training to educate employees about the removable media policy

Implementing a group policy to block user access to system files

Blocking removable-media devices and write capabilities using a host-based security tool

159. The spread of misinformation surrounding the outbreak of a novel virus on election day ted to eligible voters choosing not to take the risk of going to the polls.

This is an example of:

prepending.

an influence campaign

a watering-hole attack

intimidation

information elicitation

160. A company has decided to move its operations to the cloud. It wants to utilize technology that will prevent users from downloading company applications for personal use, restrict data that is uploaded, and have visibility into which applications are being used across the company.

Which of the following solutions will BEST meet these requirements?

An NGFW

A CASB

Application whitelisting

An NG-SWG

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161. A software company adopted the following processes before releasing software to production;

• Peer review

• Static code scanning

• Signing

A considerable number of vulnerabilities are still being detected when code is executed on production.

Which of the following security tools can improve vulnerability detection on this environment?

File integrity monitonng for the source code

Dynamic code analysis tool

Encrypted code repository

Endpoint detection and response solution

162. To further secure a company’s email system, an administrator is adding public keys to DNS records in the company’s domain.

Which of the following is being used?

PFS

SPF

DMARC

DNSSEC

163. As part of a security compliance assessment, an auditor performs automated vulnerability scans.

In addition, which of the following should the auditor do to complete the assessment?

User behavior analysis

Packet captures

Configuration reviews

Log analysis

164. The new Chief Information Security Officer at a company has asked the security team to implement stronger user account policies.

The new policies require:

• Users to choose a password unique to their last ten passwords

• Users to not log in from certain high-risk countries

Which of the following should the security team implement? (Select TWO).

Password complexity

Password history

Geolocation

Geofencing

Geotagging

Password reuse

165. An organization has implemented a two-step verification process to protect user access to data that 6 stored in the could Each employee now uses an email address of mobile number a code to access the data.

Which of the following authentication methods did the organization implement?

Token key

Static code

Push notification

HOTP

166. Which of the following control sets should a well-written BCP include? (Select THREE)

Preventive

Detective

Deterrent

Corrective

Compensating

Physical

Recovery

167. A security administrator needs to create a RAID configuration that is focused on high read speeds and fault tolerance. It is unlikely that multiple drivers will fail simultaneously.

Which of the following RAID configurations should the administration use?

RA1D 0

RAID1

RAID 5

RAID 10

168. A commercial cyber-threat intelligence organization observes IoCs across a variety of unrelated customers.

Prior to releasing specific threat intelligence to other paid subscribers, the organization is MOST likely obligated by contracts to:

perform attribution to specific APTs and nation-state actors.

anonymize any PII that is observed within the IoC data.

add metadata to track the utilization of threat intelligence reports.

assist companies with impact assessments based on the observed data

169. A security analyst is investigating suspicious traffic on the web server located at IP address 10.10.1.1.

A search of the WAF logs reveals the following output:

Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

XSS attack

SQLi attack

Replay attack

XSRF attack

170. A administrator needs to allow mobéle BYOD devices to access network resources, As the devices are not enrolled to the domain and do not have policies applied to them, which of the following are best practces for authentication and infrastructure security? (Select TWO)

Create a new network for the mobile devices and block the commurycaton to the intemal network and servers

Use a captive portal for user authentication

Authenticate users using OAuth for more resiliency.

Implement SSO and allow communication to the intemal network.

Use the existing network and allow communscation to the internal network and servers

Use a new and updated RADIUS server to mamntain the best solution

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171. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has decided to reorganize security staff to concentrate on incident response and to outsource outbound Internet URL categorization and filtering to an outside company. Additionally, the CISO would like this solution to provide the same protections even when a company laptop or mobile device is away from a home office.

Which of the following should the CISO choose?

CASB

Next-generation SWG

NGFW

Web-application firewall

172. A document that appears to be malicious has been discovered in an email that was sent to a company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Which of the following would be BEST to allow a security analyst to gather information and confirm it is a malicious document without executing any code it may contain?

Open the document on an air-gapped network

View the document's metadata for origin clues

Search for matching file hashes on malware websites

Detonate the document in an analysis sandbox

173. A security administrator suspects an employee has been emailing proprietary information to a competitor.

Company policy requires the administrator to capture an exact copy of the employee’s hard disk.

Which of the following should the administrator use?

chmod

dnsenum

logger

174. A network manager is concerned that business may be negatively impacted if the firewall in its datacenter goes offline.

The manager would like to implement a high availability pair to:

ned that business may be negatecrease the mean time between failures.

remove the single point of failure.

cut down the mean time to repair,

reduce the recovery time objective.

175. An engineer is setting up a VDI environment for a factory location, and the business wants to deploy a low-cost solution to enable users on the shop floor to log in to the VDI environment directly.

Which of the following should the engineer select to meet these requirements?

Laptops

Containers

Thin clients

Workstations

176. A security analyst reviews a company’s authentication logs and notices multiple authentication failures. The authentication failures are from different usernames that share the same source IP address.

Which of the password attacks is MOST likely happening?

Dictionary

Rainbow table

Spraying

Brute-force

177. A user recently entered a username and password into a recruiting application website that had been forged to look like the legitimate site Upon investigation, a security analyst the identifies the following:

• The legitimate websites IP address is 10.1.1.20 and eRecruit local resolves to the IP

• The forged website's IP address appears to be 10.2.12.99. based on NetFtow records

• AH three at the organization's DNS servers show the website correctly resolves to the legitimate IP

• DNS query logs show one of the three DNS servers returned a result of 10.2.12.99 (cached) at the approximate time of the suspected compromise.

Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

A reverse proxy was used to redirect network traffic

An SSL strip MITM attack was performed

An attacker temporarily pawned a name server

An ARP poisoning attack was successfully executed

178. The SOC is reviewing process and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than 30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. The allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained.

Which of the following would be BEST to improve the incident response process?

Updating the playbooks with better decision points

Dividing the network into trusted and untrusted zones

Providing additional end-user training on acceptable use

Implementing manual quarantining of infected hosts

179. A security forensics analyst is examining a virtual server. The analyst wants to preserve the present state of the virtual server, including memory contents.

Which of the following backup types should be used?

Snapshot

Differential

Cloud

Full

Incremental

180. A bank detects fraudulent activity on user's account. The user confirms transactions completed yesterday on the bank's website at https:/Awww.company.com. A security analyst then examines the user's Internet usage logs and observes the following output:

Which of the following has MOST likely occurred?

Replay attack

SQL injection

SSL stripping

Race conditions

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181. An organization is moving away from the use of client-side and server-side certificates for EAR The company would like for the new EAP solution to have the ability to detect rogue access points.

Which of the following would accomplish these requirements?

PEAP

EAP-FAST

EAP-TLS

EAP-TTLS

182. A company recently experienced an attack during which its main website was directed to the attacker’s web server, allowing the attacker to harvest credentials from unsuspecting customers.

Which of the following should the company implement to prevent this type of attack occurring in the future?

IPSec

SSL/TLS

ONSSEC

SMIME

183. The website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal information including security responses, for registration. which of the following would MOST likely cause a date breach?

LACK OF INPUT VALIDATION

OPEN PERMISSIONS

UNSCECURE PROTOCOL

MISSING PATCHES

184. A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public area.

Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this breach?

A firewall

A device pin

A USB data blocker

Biometrics

185. A company recently experienced an attack in which a malicious actor was able to exfiltrate data by cracking stolen passwords, using a rainbow table the sensitive data.

Which of the following should a security engineer do to prevent such an attack in the future?

Use password hashing.

Enforce password complexity.

Implement password salting.

Disable password reuse.

186. A social media company based in North Amenca is looking to expand into new global markets and needs to maintain compliance with international standards.

With which of the following is the company's data protection officer MOST likely concerned''

NIST Framework

ISO 27001

GDPR

PCI-DSS

187. During a recent security incident at a multinational corporation a security analyst found the following logs for an account called user:

Which Of the following account policies would BEST prevent attackers from logging in as user?

Impossible travel time

Geofencing

Time-based logins

Geolocation

188. A global company is experiencing unauthorized logging due to credential theft and account lockouts caused by brute-force attacks. The company is considering implementing a third-party identity provider to help mitigate these attacks.

Which of the following would be the BEST control for the company to require from prospective vendors?

IP restrictions

Multifactor authentication

A banned password list

A complex password policy

189. CORRECT TEXT

A company's help desk received several AV alerts indicating Mimikatz attempted to run on the remote systems. Several users also reported that the new company flash drives they picked up in the

break room only have 512KB of storage.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

The GPO prevents the use of flash drives, which triggers a false positive AV indication and restricts the drives to only 512KB of storage.

The new flash drives need a driver that is being blocked by the AV software because the flash drives are not on the application's allow list, temporarily restricting the drives to 512KB of storage.

The new flash drives are incorrectly partitioned, and the systems are automatically trying to use an unapproved application to repartition the drives.

The GPO blocking the flash drives is being bypassed by a malicious flash drive that is attempting to harvest plaintext credentials from memory.

190. An attacker was eavesdropping on a user who was shopping online. The attacker was able to spoof the IP address associated with the shopping site. Later, the user received an email regarding the credit card statement with unusual purchases.

Which of the following attacks took place?

On-path attack

Protocol poisoning

Domain hijacking

Bluejacking

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191. A security analyst is investigating a vulnerability in which a default file permission was set incorrectly. The company uses non-credentialed scanning for vulnerability management.

Which of the following tools can the analyst use to verify the permissions?

ssh

chmod

setuid

nessus

192. Which of the following allows for functional test data to be used in new systems for testing and training purposes to protect the read data?

Data encryption

Data masking

Data deduplication

Data minimization

193. Which of the following often operates in a client-server architecture to act as a service repository. providing enterprise consumers access to structured threat intelligence data?

STIX

CIRT

OSINT

TAXII

194. A system administrator needs to implement an access control scheme that will allow an object’s access policy be determined by its owner.

Which of the following access control schemes BEST fits the requirements?

Role-based access control

Discretionary access control

Mandatory access control

Attribute-based access control

195. A company is implementing a new SIEM to log and send alerts whenever malicious activity is blocked by its antivirus and web content filters.

Which of the following is the primary use case for this scenario?

Implementation of preventive controls

Implementation of detective controls

Implementation of deterrent controls

Implementation of corrective controls

196. A public relations team will be taking a group of guest on a tour through the facility of a large e-commerce company. The day before the tour, the company sends out an email to employees to ensure all whiteboars are cleaned and all desks are cleared. The company is MOST likely trying to protect against.

Loss of proprietary information

Damage to the company’s reputation

Social engineering

Credential exposure

197. Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company’s IT/security operations?

Least privilege

Awareness training

Separation of duties

Mandatory vacation

198. While reviewing pcap data, a network security analyst is able to locate plaintext usernames and passwords being sent from workstations to network witches.

Which of the following is the security analyst MOST likely observing?

SNMP traps

A Telnet session

An SSH connection

SFTP traffic

199. The process of passively gathering information prior to launching a cyberattack is called:

tailgating.

reconnaissance.

pharming.

prepending.

200. A security policy states that common words should not be used as passwords. A security auditor was able to perform a dictionary attack against corporate credentials.

Which of the following controls was being violated?

Password complexity

Password history

Password reuse

Password length

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201. Which of the following documents provides expectations at a technical level for quality, availability, and responsibilities?

EOL

SLA

MOU

EOSL

202. user's PC was recently infected by malware. The user has a legacy printer without vendor support, and the user's OS is fully patched. The user downloaded a driver package from the Internet. No

threats were found on the downloaded file, but during file installation, a malicious runtime threat was detected.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the infection?

The dnver had malware installed and was refactored upon download to avoid detection

The user's computer had a rootkit installed that had avoided detection until the new dnver overwrote key files.

The user's antivirus software definitions were out of date and were damaged by the installation of the driver.

The user's computer had been infected with a logic bomb set to run when new dnver was installed.

203. A network engineer needs to create a plan for upgrading the wireless infrastructure in a large office Priority must be given to areas that are currently experiencing latency and connection issues.

Which of the following would be the BEST resource for determining the order of priority?

Nmapn

Heat maps

Network diagrams

Wireshark

204. n attack relies on an end user visiting a website the end user would typically visit; however, the site is compromised and uses vulnerabilities in the end user's browser to deploy malicious

software.

Which of the following types of attack does this describe?

Smishing

Whaling

Watering hole

Phishing

205. Which of the following authentication methods sends out a unique password to be used within a specific number of seconds?

TOTP

Biometrics

Kerberos

LDAP

206. A security auditor is reviewing vulnerability scan data provided by an internal security team.

Which of the following BEST indicates that valid credentials were used?

The scan results show open ports, protocols, and services exposed on the target host

The scan enumerated software versions of installed programs

The scan produced a list of vulnerabilities on the target host

The scan identified expired SSL certificates

207. An organization plans to transition the intrusion detection and prevention techniques on a critical subnet to an anomaly-based system.

Which of the following does the organization need to determine for this to be successful?

The baseline

The endpoint configurations

The adversary behavior profiles

The IPS signatures

208. Which of the following conditions impacts data sovereignty?

Rights management

Criminal investigations

Healthcare data

Intemational operations

209. Which of the following techniques eliminates the use of rainbow tables for password cracking?

Hashing

Tokenization

Asymmetric encryption

Salting

210. Which of the following disaster recovery tests is. The LEAST time consuming for the disaster recovery team?

Tabletop

Parallel

Full interruption

Simulation

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211. A security analyst is tasked with defining the “something you are“ factor of the company’s MFA settings.

Which of the following is BEST to use to complete the configuration?

Gait analysis

Vein

Soft token

HMAC-based, one-time password

212. Which of the following is an example of risk avoidance?

Installing security updates directly in production to expedite vulnerability fixes

Buying insurance to prepare for financial loss associated with exploits

Not installing new software to prevent compatibility errors

Not taking preventive measures to stop the theft of equipment

213. A penetration tester is fuzzing an application to identify where the EIP of the stack is located on memory.

Which of the following attacks is the penetration tester planning to execute?

Race-condition

Pass-the-hash

Buffer overflow

XSS

214. An attacker is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL users.

Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

Information elicitation

Type squatting

Impersonation

Watering-hole attack

215. A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times.

After determining it is not a routing or DNS issue, the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, and receives the following output:

Which of the following is the router experiencing?

DDoS attack

Memory leak

Buffer overflow

Resource exhaustion

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