An analyst needs to set up a method for securely transferring files between systems. One of the requirements is to authenticate the IP header and payload. Which of the follow services would BEST meet the criteria?

A. TLS

B. PFS

C. ESP

D. AH

Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe's identity before sending him the prize. Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?

A. Spear phishing

B. Whaling

C. Phishing

D. Vishing

An organization that is located in a flood zone is MOST likely to document the concerns associated with the concerns associated with the  restoration of IT operation in a:

A. business continuity plan

B. communications plan.

C. disaster recovery plan 

D. community of operations plan 

Which of the following will MOST Likely adversely Impact the operations of unpatched traditional Programmable logic controller is running a back and lamp server and OT system with human management interfaces that are accessible over the Internet via a website interface (chose two)

A. cross site scripting 

B. data exfiltration

C. poor System logging 

D. weak encryption 

E. SQL Injection

F. Server-side frequent Forgery 

D. weak encryption 

F. Server-side frequent Forgery 

when used at the design stage, which of the following improves the efficiency accuracy, and speed of database?

A tokenization

B data masking

C normalization

D obfuscation   

Thee manager who is responsible for the data set has asked for an security engineer too apply engineer to apply encryption to the data on a hard disk. The security engineer  is an example of a:

A data controller

B data engineer 

C data custodian  

D data processer 

Thee manager who is responsible for the data set has asked for an security engineer too apply engineer to apply encryption to the data on a hard disk. The security engineer  is an example of a:

A data controller

B data engineer 

C data custodian  

D data processer 

An enterprise has hired an outside sec firm to conduct penetration testing on its network and applications. The firm has only been given the documentaion available to the customers of the applications. Which of the following BEST represents the type of testing that will occur?

A Bug bounty

B Black-box

C Grey-box

D White-box

A large industrial system's smart generator monitors the system status and sends alerts to third-party maintenance personnel when critical failures occur. While reviewing the network logs the company's security manager notices the generator's IP is sending packets to an internal file server's IP. Which of the following mitigations would be BEST for the security manager to implement while maintaining alerting capabilities?

A. Segmentation

B. firewall whitelisting

C. containment

D. isolation 

A security administrator currently spends a large amount of time on common security tasks, such aa report

generation, phishing investigations, and user provisioning and deprovisioning This prevents the administrator

from spending time on other security projects. The business does not have the budget to add more staff

members. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

A. DAC

B. ABAC

C. SCAP

D. SOAR

Ouestion#:11

A consultant is configuring a vulnerability scanner for a large, global organization in m

consultant will be using a service account to scan systems with administrative privilege:

there is a concern that hackers could gain access to account to the account and pivot thre

network. Which of the following would be BEST to help mitigate this concern?

A. Create consultant accounts for each region, each configured with push MFA notif

B. Create one global administrator account and enforce Kerberos authentication

C. Create different accounts for each region. limit their logon times, and alert on risk

D. Create a guest account for each region. remember the last ten passwords, and bloc

Question I

A company needs to centralize its logs to create a baseline and have visibility on its security events. V

the following technologies will accomplish this objective?

A. Security information and event management

B. A web application firewall

C. A vulnerability scanner

D. a next generation firewall

An organization blocks user access to command-line interpreters but hackers still managed to invoke the

interpreters using native administrative tools Which of the following should the security team do to prevent

this from Happening in the future?

A. Implement HIPS to block Inbound and outbound SMB ports 139 and 445.

B. Trigger a SIEM alert whenever the native OS tools are executed by the user

C. Disable the built-in OS utilities as long as they are not needed for functionality.

D. Configure the AV to quarantine the native OS tools whenever they are executed

A security engineer at an offline government facility is concerned about the validity of an SSL certificate engineer wants to perform the fastest check with the least delay to determine if the certificate has been revoked. Which of the following would BEST these requirement?

A. RA

B. OCSP

C. CRL

D.CSR 

C. CRL

A security analyst is configuring a large number of new company-issued laptops. The analyst received the lowing requirements:

- The devices will be used internationally by staff who travel extensively.

- Occasional personal use is acceptable due to the travel requirements.

- Users must be able to install and configure sanctioned programs and productivity suites.

-The devices must be encrypted

- The devices must be capable of operating in low-bandwidth environments.

Which of the following would provide the GREATEST benefit to the security posture of the devices?

A. Configuring an always-on VPN

B. Implementing application whitelisting

C. Requiring web traffic to pass through the on-premises content filter

D. Setting the antivirus DAT update schedule to weekly

- 

Which of the following relets to applications and systems that are used within an organization

or approval?

A. Shadow IT

B. OSINT

C. Dark web

D. Insider threats

response to a significant outage or incident?

Which of the following should be put in place when negotiating with a new vendor about the timeliness of the

A. MOU

B. MTTR

C. SLA

D. NDA

Question #:18

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?

A. Identification

B. Preparation

C. Eradiction

D. Recovery

E. Containment

An engineer wants to access sensitive data from a corporate-owned mobile device. Personal data is not

allowed on the device. Which of the following MDM configurations must be considered when the engineer

travels for business?

A. Screen locks

B. Application management

C. Geofencing

D. Containerization

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

A. Footprinting

B. White-box testing

C. A drone/UAV

D. Pivoting

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?

A. Role-based access control

B. Discretionary access control

C. Mandatory access control

D. Attribute based access control

A user recently entered a userame 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 Recruit 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. A reverse proxy was used to redirect network traffic

B. An SSL strip MIT attack was performed

C. An attacker temporarily pawned a name server

D. An ARP poisoning attack was successfully executed

Which of the following is the BEST reason to maintain a functional and effective asset management policy

that aids in ensuring the security of an organization?

A. To provide data to quantity risk based on the organization's systems.

B. To keep all software and hardware fully patched for known vulnerabilities

C. To only allow approved, organization-owned devices onto the business network

D. To standardize by selecting one laptop model for all users in the organization

A security analyst is reviewing information regarding recent vulnerabilities. Which of the following will the

analyst MOST likely consult to validate which platforms have been affected?

A. OSINT

B. SIEM

C. CVSS

D. CVE

A security analyst is reviewing information regarding recent vulnerabilities. Which of the following will the

analyst MOST likely consult to validate which platforms have been affected?

A. OSINT

B. SIEM

C. CVSS

D. CVE

Question #:26

A smart switch has the ability to monitor electrical levels and shut off power to a building in the event of

power surge or other fault situation. The switch was installed on a wired network in a hospital and is

monitored by the facilities department via a cloud application. The security administrator isolated the switch

on a separate VLAN and set up a patch routine. Which of the following steps should also be taken to harden

the smart switch?

A. Set up an air gap for the switch.

B. Change the default password for the switch.

C. Place the switch In a Faraday cage.

D. Install a cable lock on the switch

Which of the following types of controls is a turnstile?

A. Physical

B. Detective

C. Corrective

D. Technical

A software developer needs to perform code-execution testing, black-box testing, and non-functional testing

on a new product before its general release. Which of the following BEST describes the tasks the developer is

conducting?

A. Verification

B. Validation

C. Normalization

D. Staging

Which of the following types of attack is most likely being conducted?

A. SQLi

B. CSRF

C. Session replay

D. API

A company's Chief Information Security Officer (CIO) recently wared the security manager that the

company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is planning to publish a controversial option article in a national

newspaper, which may result in new cyberattacks Which of the following would be BEST for the security

manager to use in a threat mode?

A. Hacktivists

B. White-hat hackers

C. Script kiddies

D. Insider threats

A security analyst discovers several jpg photos from a cellular phone during a forensics investigation

involving a compromised system. The analyst runs a forensics tool to gather file metadata. Which of the

following would be part of the images if all the metadata is still intact?

A. The GPS location

B. When the file was deleted

C. The total number of print jobs

D. The number of copies made

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? 

A. Staging

B. Test

C. Production

D. Development 

Question #:33

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)

http://sample.url.com/<script›Please-Visit-Our-Phishing-Site</script›

B)

http://sample.url.com/someotherpageonsite/../../../etc/shadow

C)

http://sample.url.com/select-from-database-where-password-null

D)

http://redirect.sample.url.sampleurl.com/malicious-dns-rediirect

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

D. Option D

Which of the following provides the BEST protection for sensitive information and data stored in cloud-based

services but still allows for full functionality and searchability of data within the cloud-based services?

A. Data encryption

B. Data masking

C. Anonymization

D. Tokenization

A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture. Which of the

following would BEST assist the company?

A. MSSP

B. SOAR

C. laaS

D. PaaS

While checking logs, a security engineer notices a number of end users suddenly downloading

tar. gz extension. Closer examination of the files reveals they are PE32 files. The end users statt

initiate any of the downloads. Further investigation reveals the end users all clicked on an exten

containing an infected MHT file with an href link a week prior. Which of the following is MOS

occurring?

A. A RAT was installed and is transferring additional exploit tools.

B. The workstations are beaconing to a command-and-control server.

C. A logic bomb was executed and is responsible for the data transfers.

D. A fireless virus is spreading in the local network environment.

A company is adopting a BYOD policy and is looking for a comprehensive solution to protect company

information on user devices. Which of the following solutions would BEST support the policy?

A. Mobile device management

B. Full-device encryption

C. Remote wipe

D. Biometrics

On which of the following is the live acquisition of data for forensic analysis MOST dependent? (Choose two.)

A. Data accessibility

B. Legal hold

C. Cryptographic or hash algorithm

D. Data retention legislation

E. Value and volatility of data

F. Right-to-audit clauses

Which of the following refers to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent

or approval?

A. Shadow IT

B. OSINT

C. Dark web

D. Insider threats

A. Shadow IT

A company is implementing MFA for all applications that store sensitive data. The IT manager wants MFA to

be non-disruptive and user friendly. Which of the following technologies should the IT manager use when

implementing MFA?

A. One-time passwords

B. Email tokens

C. Push notifications

D. Hardware authentication

mall business just recovered from a ransomware attack against its file servers by purchasing the decryption

is from the attackers. The issue was triggered by a phishing email and the IT administrator wants to ensure

les not happen again. Which of the following should the IT administrator do FIRST after recovery?

A. Scan the NAS for residual or dormant malware and take new daily backups that are tested on a frequent basis

B. Restrict administrative privileges and patch ail systems and applications.

C. Rebuild all workstations and install new antivirus software

D. Implement application whitelisting and perform user application hardening

A. Scan the NAS for residual or dormant malware and take new daily backups that are tested on a frequent basis

An attacker was easily able to log in to a company's security camera by performing a baste online search 1

setup guide for that particular camera brand and model. Which of the following BEST describes the

configurations the attacker exploited?

A Weak encryption

B. Unsecure protocols

C. Default settings

D. Open permissions

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an organization would like staff members to have the flexibi.

from home anytime during business hours, incident during a pandemic or crisis, However, the CEO is

concerned that some staff members may take advantage of the of the flexibility and work from high-risk

countries while on holidays work to a third-party organization in another country. The Chief information

Officer (CIO) believes the company can implement some basic to mitigate the majority of the risk. Which of

the following would be BEST to mitigate CEO's concern? (Select TWO).

A. Geolocation

B. Time-of-day restrictions

C. Certificates

D. Tokens

E. Geotagging

F. Role-based access controls

A. Geolocation

E. Geotagging

A startup company is using multiple SaaS and laaS platforms to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application. Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

A. SIEM

B. DLP

C. CASB

D. SWG

After consulting with the Chief Risk Officer (CRO). a manager decides to acquire cybersecurity insurance for

the company Which of the following risk management strategies is the manager adopting?

A. Risk acceptance

B. Risk avoidance

C. Risk transference

D. Risk mitigation

A root cause analysis reveals that a web application outage was caused by one of the company's develo

uploading a newer version of the third-party libraries that were shared among several applications. Whil

the following implementations would be BEST to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

A. CASB

B. SWG

C. Containerization

D. Automated failover

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?

A. An NGFW

B. A CASB

C. Application whitelisting

D. An NG-SWG

A network engineer needs to build a solution that will allow guests at the company's headquarters to access

the Internet via WiFi. This solution should not allow access to the internal corporate network, but it should

require guests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the Internet. Which of the followingshould the engineer employ to meet these requirements?

A. Implement open PSK on the APs

B. Deploy a WAF

C. Configure WIPS on the APs

D. Install a captive portal

Which of the following algorithms has the SMALLEST key size?

A. DES

B. Twofish

C. RSA

D. AES

B. Twofish

The process of passively gathering information poor to launching a cyberattack i

A. tailgating

B. reconnaissance

C. pharming

D. prepending

Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data

processors?

A. SSAE SOC 2

B. PCI DSS

C. GDPR

D. ISO 31000

Which of the following disaster recovery tests is The LEAST time-consuming for the disaster

A. Tabletop

B. Parallel

C. Full interruption

D. Simulation

D. Simulation

An attacker was easily able to log in to a company's security camera by performing a basic online search for a

setup guide for that particular camera brand and model Which of the following BEST describes the

configurations the attacker exploited?

A. Weak encryption

B. Unsecure protocols

C. Default settings

D. Open permissions

an organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the

software. Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

A. hping3 -S corsptia.org -p 80

B. nC_1- V comptia.org -p 80

C. nmap comptia.org -p 80-SV

D. nslookup-port-80 comptia.org

Question #:55

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.)

A. Voice

B. Gait

C. Vein

D. Facial

E. Retina

F. Fingerprint

B. Gait

D. Facial

A security manager for a retailer needs to reduce the scope of a project to comply with PCI DSS. The PCI data

is located in different offices than where credit cards are accepted. All the offices are connected via MPLS

back to the primary datacenter. Which of the following should the security manager implement to achieve the

objective?

A. Segmentation

B. Containment

C. Geofencing

D. Isolation

Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows

on hosts?

A. DLP

B. HIDS

C. EDR

D. NIPS

During an incident response, a security analyst observes the following log entry on the web server : Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack the analyst is experience?

A. SQL injection

B. Cross-site scripting

C. Pass-the-hash

D. Directory traversal

Which of the following mitigation strategies would be BEST to prevent this attack from being successful? 

A. Secure cookies

B. Imput validation

C. code signing 

D.stored problems 

B. Imput validation

A cybersecurity analyst needs to implement secure authentication to third-party websites without users' passwords. Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

A. OAuth

B. SSO

C. SAML

D. PAP

A security analyst is logged into a Windows file server and needs to see who is accessing files and from which computers Which of the following tools should the analyst use?

A. netstat

B. net share

C. netcat

D. nbtstat

E. net session

A. netstat

An organization hired a consultant to assist with an active attack, and the consultant was able to identify the

compromised accounts and computers. Which of the following is the consultant MOST likely to recommend

to prepare for eradication?

A. Quarantining the compromised accounts and computers, only providing them with network access

B. Segmenting the compromised accounts and computers into a honeynet so as to not alert the attackers.

C. Isolating the compromised accounts and computers, cutting off all network and internet access.

D. Logging off and deleting the compromised accounts and computers to eliminate attacker access.

B. Segmenting the compromised accounts and computers into a honeynet so as to not alert the attackers.

Question #:63

A cybersecurity manager has scheduled biannual meetings with the IT team and department leaders to discuss

how they would respond to hypothetical cyberattacks. During these meetings, the manager presents a scenario

and injects additional information throughout the session to replicate what might occur in a dynamic

cybersecurity event involving the company, its facilities, its data, and its staff. Which of the following

describes

what the manager is doing?

A. Developing an incident response plan

B. Building a disaster recovery plan

C. Conducting a tabletop exercise 

D. Running a simulation exercise

C. Conducting a tabletop exercise 

A security analyst needs to be proactive in understand the types of attacks that could potentially target the

company's execute. Which of the following intelligence sources should to security analyst review?

A. Vulnerability feeds

B. Trusted automated exchange of indicator information

C. Structured threat information expression

D. Industry information-sharing and collaboration groups

An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organizationalready uses a smart card and password. Which of the following would meet the organization's needs for a third factor?

A. Date of birth

B. Fingerprints

C. PIN

D. TPM

B. Fingerprints

A network administrator would like to configure a site-to-site VPN utilizing iPSec. The administrator wants

the tunnel to be established with data integrity encryption, authentication and anti- replay functions Which of

the following should the administrator use when configuring the VPN?

A. AH

B. EDR

C. ESP

D. DNSSEC

A security analyst is running a vulnerability scan to check for missing patches during a suspected security

rodent During which of the following phases of the response process is this activity MOST likely occurring?

A. Containment

B. Identification

C. Recovery

D. Preparation

An employee has been charged with fraud and is suspected of using corporate assets. As authorities collect evidence, and to preserve the admissibility of the evidence, which of the following forensic techniqs should

be used?

A. Order of volatility

B. Data recovery

C. Chain of custody

D. Non-repudiation

Which of the following would be BEST to establish between organizations to define the responsibilities of

each party outline the key deliverables and include monetary penalties for breaches to manage third-party risk?

A. An ARO

B. An MOU

C. An SLA

A security analyst reviews the datacenter access logs for a fingerprint scanner and notices an abundance of

errors that correlate with users' reports of issues accessing the facility. Which of the following MOST likely

the cause of the cause of the access issues?

A. False rejection

B. Cross-over error rate

C. Efficacy rale

D. Attestation

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

A. Offboarding

B. Mandatory vacation

C. Job rotation

D. Background checks

E. Separation of duties

F. Acceptable use

B. Mandatory vacation

C. Job rotation

A security analyst is reviewing logs on a server and observes the following output:

Which of the following is the security analyst observing?

A. A rainbow table attack

B. A password-spraying attack

C. A dictionary attack

D. A keylogger attack

A RAT that was used to compromise an organization's banking credentials was found on a user's computer.

The RAT evaded antivirus detection. It was installed by a user who has local administrator rights to the system

as part of a remote management tool set. Which of the following recommendations would BEST prevent this

from reoccurring?

A. Create a new acceptable use policy.

B. Segment the network into trusted and untrusted zones.

C. Enforce application whitelisting.

D. Implement DLP at the network boundary.

A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce staffir

Which of the following would be BEST to help the organization's executives determine the next c

action?

A. An incident response plan

B. A communications plan

C. A disaster recovery plan

D. A business continuity plan

An organization has a growing workforce that is mostly driven by additions to the sales department. Each

newly hired salesperson relies on a mobile device to conduct business. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is

wondering it the organization may need to scale down just as quickly as it scaled up. The CIO is also

concerned about the organization's security and customer privacy. Which of the following would be BEST to

address the CIO's concerns?

A. Disallow new hires from using mobile devices for six months

B. Select four devices for the sales department to use in a CYOD model

C. Implement BYOD for the sates department while leveraging the MDM

D. Deploy mobile devices using the COPE methodology

C. Implement BYOD for the sates department while leveraging the MDM

A company provides mobile devices to its users to permit access to email and enterprise applications. The

company recently started allowing users to select from several different vendors and device models. When

configuring the MDM, which of the following is a key security implication of this heterogeneous device

approach? A. The most common set of MDM configurations will become the effective set of enterprise mobile

security controls.

B. All devices will need to support SCEP-based enrollment; therefore, the heterogeneity of the chosen

architecture may unnecessarily expose private keys to adversaries.

C. Certain devices are inherently less secure than others, so compensatory controls will be needed to

address the delta between device vendors.

D. MDMs typically will not support heterogeneous deployment environments, so multiple MDMs will need

to be installed and configured.

C. Certain devices are inherently less secure than others, so compensatory controls will be needed to address the delta between device vendors..

A Chief Information Security Officer (CIS) is concerned about the organization's ability to continue b

operation in the event of a prolonged DDoS attack on its local datacenter that consumes database resou

Which of the following will the CISO MOST likely recommend to mitigate this risk?

A. Upgrade the bandwidth available into the datacenter

B. Implement a hot-site failover location

C. Switch to a complete SaaS offering to customers

D. Implement a challenge response test on all end-user queries

A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the

score allows the organization to better.

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

B. research the appropriate mitigation techniques in a vulnerability database

C. find the software patches that are required to mitigate a vulnerability

D. prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities based on the possible impact.

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?

A. Netcat

B. Netstat

C. Nmap

D. Nessus

A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged

corporate-owned mobile devices. Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD

culture while also protecting the company's data?

A. Containerization

B. Geofencing

C. Full-disk encryption

D. Remote wipe

C. Full-disk encryption

Ouestion#:81

A user enters a password to log in to a workstation and is then prompted to enter an authentication code.

Which of the following MFA factors or attributes are being utilized in the authentication process? (Select

TWO).

A. Something you know

B. Something you have

C. Somewhere you are

D. Someone you are

E. Something you are

F. Something you can do

B. Something you have

E. Something you are

Which of the following is a team of people dedicated testing the effectiveness of organizational security

programs by emulating the techniques of potential attackers?

A. Red team

B. While team

C. Blue team

D. Purple team

An end user reports a computer has been acting slower than normal for a few weeks. During an investigation,

an analyst determines the system is sending the user's email address and a ten-digit number to an IP address

once a day.

The only recent log entry regarding the user's computer is the following:

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

A. The end user purchased and installed a PUP from a web browser

B. A bot on the computer is brute forcing passwords against a website

C. A hacker is attempting to exfiltrate sensitive data

D. Ransomware is communicating with a command-and-control server.

A. The end user purchased and installed a PUP from a web browserB. A bot on the computer is brute forcing passwords a

Two days ago, a pop-up browser window prompted the user for a name and password after

to the corporate wireless SSID. This had never happened before, but the user entered the int

requested • The user was able to access the Internet but had trouble accessing the department share until the next

The user is now getting notifications from the bank about unauthorized transactions.

Which of the following attack vectors was MOST likely used in this scenario?

A. Rogue access point

B. Evil twin

C. DNS poisoning

D. ARP poisoning

An auditor is preforming an assessment of a security appliance with an embedded OS that was vulnerable during the last two assessments. Which of the following BEST explains the appliance's vulnerable state?
A. The system was configured with weak default security settings. 
B. The device uses weak encryption ciphers.

C. The vendor has not supplied a patch for the appliance.
D. The appliance requires administrative credentials for the assessment. 

A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the seventy levels of the organization's vulnerabilities. Which of the following would BEST meet this need?
A. CVE
B. SIEM

C. SOAR

D. CVSS

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 Data? (select two)
A. VPN

B. Drive encryption
C. Network firewall
D. File-Level encryption
E. USB blocker
F. MFA

A network administrator has been asked to design a solution to improve a company's security posture. The administrator is given the following requirements: 
* The solution must be inline in the network
* The solution must be able to block known malicious traffic
* The solution must be able to stop network-based attacks. 
Which of the following should the network administrator implement to BEST meet these requirements?
A. HIDS

B. NIDS

C. HIPS

D. NIPS

Under GDPR, which of the following is MOST responsible for the protection of privacy and website user rights?
A. The data protection officer
B. The data processor

C. The data owner

D. The data controller

A financial organization has adopted a new secure, encrypted document-sharing application to help with its customer loan process. Some important PII needs to be shared across this new platform, but its getting blocked by the DLP systems. Which of the following actions will BEST allow the PII to be shared with the secure application without compromising the organization's security posture? 
A. Configure the DLP policies to allow all PII
B. Configure the firewall to allow all ports that are used by this application

C. Configure the antivirus software to allow the application
D. Configure the DLP policies to whitelist this application with the specific PII
E. Configure the application to encrypt the PII

A company recently set up an e-commerce portal to sell its product online. The company wants to start accepting credit cards for payment, which requires compliance with a security standard. Which of the following standards must the company comply with before accepting credit cards on its e-commerce platform?
A. PCI DSS

B. ISO 22301

C. ISO 27001

D. NIST CSF

A user recent an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank delays. Which of the following social-engineering techniques was used in this case?
A. SPIM
B. Vishing

C. Spear phishing
D. Smishing

A security analyst receives the configuration of a current VPN profile and notices the authentication is only applied to the IP datagram portion of the packet. Which of the following should the analyst implement to authenticate the entire packet?
A. AH

B. ESP

C. SRTP

D. LDAP

A forensics investigator is examining a number of unauthorized payments the were reported on the company's website.  Some unusual log entries show users received an email for an unwanted mailing list and clicked on a lnk to attempt to unsubscribe. One of the users reported the email to the phishing team, and the forwarded email revealed the link to be:
<a href=''https://www.company.com/payto.do? routing=00001111&acct=22223334&amount=250''>Click here to unsubscribe</a>
Which of the following will the forensics investigator MOST likely determine has occurred?
A. SQL injection
B. CSRF 
C. XSS

D. XSRF

A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:
Which of the following types of attacks does this MOST likely represent?
A. Rainbow table
B. Brute-force
C. Password-spraying
D. Dictionary

Which of the following would be BEST to establish between organizations that have agreed cooperate and are engaged in early discussion to define the responsibilities of each party, but do not want to establish a contractually binding agreement?
A. An SLA
B. AnNDA
C. ABPA

D. AnMOU

Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company's IT/ Security operations?
A. Least privilege
B. Awareness training

C. Separation of duties
D. Mandatory vacation

To reduce costs and overhead, an organization wants to move from an on-premises email solution to a cloud-based email solution. At this time, no other services will be moving. Which of the following cloud models would BEST meet the needs of the organization?
A. MaaS
B. IaaS

C. SaaS
D. PaaS

An analyst is trying to identify insecure services that are running on the internal network. After preforming a port scan the analyst identifies that a server has some insecure services enabled on default ports. Which of the following BEST describes the services that are currently running and the secure alternatives for replacing them? (Select THREE)
A. SFTP FTPS

B. SNMPv2, SNMPv3
C. HTTP, HTTPS
D. TFTP FTP
E. SNMPv1, SNMPv2
F. Telnet SSH
G. TLS, SSL

H. POP, IMAP

I. Login, rlogin

Users have been issued smart cards that provide physical access to a building. The cards also contain tokens that can be used to access information systems. Users can log into any thin client located throughout the building and see the same desktop each time. Which of the following technologies are being utilized to provide these capabilities? (Select TWO)
A. COPE

B. VDI

C. GPS

D. TOTP

E. RFID

F. BYOD

B. VDI

E. RFID

A company's Chief Information Officer (CIO) is meeting with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to plan some activities to enhance the skill levels of the company's developers. Which of the following would be MOST suitable for training the developers?
A. A capture-the-flag competition
B. A phishing simulation

C. Physical security training
D. Baste awareness training 

In which of the following common use cases would steganography be employed?
A. Obfuscation
B. Integrity
C. Non-repudiation

D. Blockchain

A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times. After determining it is not routing or DNS issue, the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, the receives the following output:

CPU 0 percent busy, from 300 sec ago
1 sec ave: 99 percent busy
5 sec ave: 97 percent busy
1 min ave: 83 percent busy

Which of the following is the router experiencing?
A. DDoS attack
B. Memory Leak
C. Buffer overflow
D. Resource exhaustion 

A cloud administrator is configuring five compute instances under the same subnet in a VPC. Three instances are required to communicate with one another, and the other two must be logically isolated from all other instances in the VPC. Which of the following must the administrator configure to meet this requirement?

A. One security group

B. Two security groups

C. Three security groups

D. Five security groups

A nuclear plant was the victim of a recent attack, and all the networks were air gapped. A subsequent investigation revealed a worm as the source of the issue. Which of the following BEST explains what happened?

A.  A malicious USB was introduced by an unsuspecting employee
B. The ICS firmware was outdated
C. A local machine has a RAT installed

D. The HVAC was connected to the maintenance vendor 

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?

A. Open the document on an air-gapped network
B. View the document's metadata for origin clues
C. Search for matching file hashes on malware websites
D. Detonate the document in an analysis sandbox

A network technician is installing a guest wireless network at a coffee shop. When a customer purchases an item, the password for the wireless network is printed on the receipt so the customer can log in. Which of the following will the technician MOST likely configure to provide the highest level of security with the least amount of overhead?
A. WPA-EAP

B. WEP-TKIP

C. WPA-PSK

D. WPS-PIN

A. WPA-EAP

After entering a username and password, and administrator must gesture on a touch screen. Which of the following demonstrates what the administrator is providing?
A. Multifactor authentication
B. Something you can do

C. Biometric
D. Two-factor authentication 

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?

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

B. Install a DLP solution to monitor data in transit.

C. Implement a CASB solution.

D. Configure a web-based content filter.

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

A. Preventive

B. Detective

C. Deterrent

D. Corrective

E. Compensating

F. Physical

G. Recovery

A. Preventive 

C. Corrective 

G. Recovery

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?

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

B. The scan enumerated software versions of installed programs

C. The scan produced a list of vulnerabilities on the target host

D. The scan identified expired SSL certificates

A security analyst Is hardening a Linux workstation and must ensure It has public keys forwarded to remote

systems for secure login Which of the following steps should the analyst perform to meet these requirements

(Select TWO).

A. Forward the keys using ssh-copy-id.

B. Forward the keys using scp.

C. Forward the keys using ash -i.

D. Forward the keys using openssl-s.

E. Forward the keys using ssh-keyger.

A. Forward the keys using ssh-copy-id.

D. Forward the keys using openssl-s.

Question #:204

A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the amount of PII that is stored locally on each

salesperson's laptop. The sales department has a higher-than-average rate of lost equipment. Which of the

following recommendations would BEST address the SO's concern?

A. Deploy an MDM solution.

B. Implement managed FDE.

C. Replace all hard drives with SEDs.

D. Install DLP agents on each laptop.

An organization has hired a security analyst to perform a penetration test. The analyst captures 1Gb worth o!

inbound network traffic to the server and transfer the pap back to the machine for analysis. Which of the

following tools should the analyst use to further review the pcap?

A. Nmap

B. cURL

C. Netcat 

D. wire shark

A company wants to deploy PKI on interest facing website. The applications are currently deployed are www.company.com (main website)

contactus.company.com (for locating a nearby location)

quotes.company.com (for requesting a price quote)

The company wants to purchase one SSL certificate that will work for all the existing applications and any

future applications that follow the same naming conventions, such as store.company.com. Which of the

following certificate types would BEST meet the requirements?

A. SAN

B. Wildcard

C. Extended validation

D. Self-signed

An analyst has determined that a server was not patched and an external actor exfiltrated data on port 139.

Which of the following sources should the analyst review to BEST ascertain how the Incident could have ber

prevented?

A. The vulnerability scan output

B. The security logs

C. The baseline report

D. The correlation of events

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?A. Code signing

B. Fuzzing

C. Manual code review

D. Dynamic code analysis

D. Dynamic code analysis

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?

A. DNS cache poisoning

B. Domain hijacking

C. Distributed denial-of-service

D. DNS tunneling

A security analyst needs to make a recommendation for restricting access to certain segments of the network

using only data-link layer security. Which of the following controls will the analyst MOST likely recommend?

A MAC

B. ACL

C. BPDU

D. ARP

ty 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. A table exercise

B. NST CSF

C. MTRE ATTSCK

D. OWASP

C. MTRE ATTSCK

A company's bank has reported that multiple corporate credit cards have been stolen over the past several

weeks. The bank has provided the names of the affected cardholders to the company's forensics team to assist

in the cyber-incident investigation.

An incident responder learns the following information:

The timeline of stolen card numbers corresponds closely with affected users making Internet-based

purchases from diverse websites via enterprise desktop PCs.

All purchase connections were encrypted, and the company uses an SSL inspection proxy for the

inspection of encrypted traffic of the hardwired network.

Purchases made with corporate cards over the corporate guest WiFi network, where no SSL inspection

occurs, were unaffected.

Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?

A. HTTPS sessions are being downgraded to insecure cipher suites

B. The SSL inspection proxy is feeding events to a compromised SIEM

C. The payment providers are insecurely processing credit card charges

D. The adversary has not yet established a presence on the guest WiFi network 

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?

A. Install a NIDS device at the boundary.

B. Segment the network with firewalls.

C. Update all antivirus signatures daily.

D. Implement application blacklisting.

A security analyst is reviewing a new website that will soon be made publicly available. The analyst sees the

following in the URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=77276554&loc-us

The analyst then sends an internal user a link to the new website for testing purposes, and when the user clicks

the link, the analyst is able to browse the website with the following URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=98988475&loc-us

Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

A. Pass-the-hash

B. Session replay

C. Object deference

D. Cross-site request forgery

A recent audit uncovered a key finding regarding the use of a specific encryption standard in a web appl

that is used to communicate with business customers. Due to the technical limitations of its customers tl

company is unable to upgrade the encryption standard. Which of the following types of controls should

used to reduce the risk created by this scenario?

A. Physical

B. Detective

C. Preventive

D. Compensating

D. Compensating

Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack that is occurring?

A. Rainbow table

B. Dictionary

C. Password spraying

D. Pass-the-hash

C. Password spraying

A systems analyst is responsible for generating a new digital forensics chain-of-custody form Which of the

following should the analyst Include in this documentation? (Select TWO).

A. The order of volatility

B. A checksum

C. The location of the artifacts

D. The vendor's name

E. The date and time

F. A warning banner

A. The order of volatility

E. The date and time

A company is designing the layout of a new datacenter so it will have an optimal environmental temperature

Which of the following must be included? (Select TWO)

A. An air gap

B. A cold aisle

C. Removable doors

D. A hot aisle

E. An loT thermostat

F. A humidity monitor

E. An loT thermostat

F. A humidity monitor

The IT department at a university is concerned about professors placing servers on the university network i

an attempt to bypass security controls. Which of the following BEST represents this type of threat?

A. A script kiddie

B. Shadow IT

C. Hacktivism

D. White-hat

Question #:220

The website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal Information,Including security question responses, for registration. Which of the following would MOST likely cause a data breach?

A. Lack of input validation

B. Open permissions

C. Unsecure protocol

D. Missing patches

Question #:220

The website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal Information,Including security question responses, for registration. Which of the following would MOST likely cause a data breach?

A. Lack of input validation

B. Open permissions

C. Unsecure protocol

D. Missing patches

Question #:221

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?

A. Information elicitation

B. Typo squatting

C. Impersonation

D. Watering-hole attack

Answer: 

After a ransomware attack a forensics company needs to review a cryptocurrency transaction between the

victim and the attacker. Which of the following will the company MOST likely review to trace this

transaction?

A. The public ledger

B. The NetFlow data

C. A checksum

D. The event log

Which of the following would be the BEST resource lor a software developer who is looking to improve

secure coding practices for web applications?

A. OWASP

B. Vulnerability scan results

C. NIST CSF

D. Third-party libraries

Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

A. The data owner is responsible for adhering to the rules for using the data, while the data custodian is

responsible for determining the corporate governance regarding the data

B. The data owner is responsible for determining how the data may be used, while the data custodian is

responsible for implementing the protection to the data

C. The data owner is responsible for controlling the data, while the data custodian is responsible for

maintaining the chain of custody when handling the data

D. The data owner grants the technical permissions for data access, while the data custodian maintains the

database access controls to the data

A security engineer is reviewing log files after a third discovered usernames and passwords for the organization's accounts. The engineer sees there was a change in the IP address for a vendor website one earlier. This change lasted eight hours. Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used?

A. Man-in- the middle

B. Spear-phishing

C. Evil Twin

D. DNS poising

Which of the following are requirements that must be configured for PCI DSS compliance? (Select TWO).

A. Testing security systems and processes regularly

B. Installing and maintaining a web proxy to protect cardholder data

C. Assigning a unique ID to each person with computer access

D. Encrypting transmission of cardholder data across private networks

E. Benchmarking security awareness training for contractors

F. Using vendor-supplied default passwords for system passwords

B. Installing and maintaining a web proxy to protect cardholder data

D. Encrypting transmission of cardholder data across private networks

Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

A. To define the level or risk using probability and likelihood

B. To register the risk with the required regulatory agencies

C. To identify the risk, the risk owner, and the risk measures

D. To formally log the type of risk mitigation strategy the organization is using

A company processes highly sensitive data and senior management wants to protect the sensitive data by

utilizing classification labels. Which of the following access control schemes would be BEST for the con

to implement?

A. Discretionary

B. Rule-based

C. Role-based

D. Mandatory

D. Mandatory

A company is launching a new internet platform for its clients. The company does not want to implement its

own authorization solution but instead wants to rely on the authorization provided by another platform. Whic

of the following is the BEST approach to implement the desired solution?

A. OAuth

B. TACACS+

C. SAML

D. RADIUS

D. RADIUS

A security analyst needs to implement an MDM solution for BYOD users that will allow the company to

retain control over company emails residing on the devices and limit data exfiltration that might occur if the

devices are lost or stolen. Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

A. Full-device encryption

B. Network usage rules

C. Geofencing

D. Containerization

E. Application whitelisting

F. Remote control

A. Full-device encryption

B. Network usage rules

A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert

for the most appropriate way to store credit card numbers to create an easy reordering process. Which of the

following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?

A. Salting the magnetic strip information

B. Encrypting the credit card information in transit.

C. Hashing the credit card numbers upon entry,

D. Tokenizing the credit cards in the database

A startup company is using multiple SaaS and laaS platform to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build

out a customer-facing web application. Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security,

manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

A. SIEM

B. DLP

C. CASB

An attacker is exploiting a vulnerability that does not have a patch available. Which of the following is the

attacker exploiting?

A. Zero-day

B. Default permissions

C. Weak encryption

D. Unsecure root accounts

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

execution?

A. Security awareness training

B. Frequency of NIDS updates

C. Change control procedures

D. EDR reporting cycle

A financial analyst is expecting an email containing sensitive information from a client. When the email

arrives, the analyst receives an error and is unable to open the encrypted message. Which of the following is

the MOST likely cause of the issue?

A. The S/MME plug-in is not enabled.

B. The SLL certificate has expired.

C. Secure IMAP was not implemented

D. POP3S is not supported.

A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did not receive

any emails with links, but he had been browsing the Internet all day. Which of the following would MOST

likely show where the malware originated?

A. The DNS logs

B. The web server logs

C. The SIP traffic logs

D. The SNMP logs

A user recently attended an exposition and received some digital promotional materials The user later notg

blue boxes popping up and disappearing on the computer, and reported receiving several spam emails, whi

the user did not open Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the reported issue?

A. There was a drive-by download of malware

B. The user installed a cryptominer

C. The OS was corrupted

D. There was malicious code on the USB drive

D. There was malicious code on the USB drive

A network engineer is troubleshooting wireless network connectivity issues that were reported by users. The

issues are occurring only in the section of the building that is closest to the parking lot. Users are intermittently

experiencing slow speeds when accessing websites and are unable to connect to network drives. The issues

appear to increase when laptop users return desks after using their devices in other areas of the building. There

have also been reports of users being required to enter their credentials on web pages in order to gain access to

them. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

A. An external access point is engaging in an evil-twin attack.

B. The signal on the WAP needs to be increased in that section of the building.

C. The certificates have expired on the devices and need to be reinstalled.

D. The users in that section of the building are on a VLAN that is being blocked by the fi

A critical file server is being upgraded and the systems administrator must determine which RAID level the

new server will need to achieve parity and handle two simultaneous disk failures. Which of the following

RAID levels meets this requirements?

A. RAID 0+1

B. RAID 2

C. RAID 5

D. RAID 6

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?

A. Information elicitation

B. Typo squatting

C. Impersonation

D. Watering-hole attack

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?

A. dd

B. chmod

C. dnsenum

D. logger

Accompany a setting up a Web server on the Internet will Utilize both encrypted and unencrypted web browsing protocols. A security engineer a port skin against the server from Internet and see the following output: -insert table here-

Which of the following steps would be best for the security engine

A. Allow DNS access from the internet.

B. Block SMTP access from the Internet

C. Block HTTPS access from the Internet

D. Block SSH access from the Internet.

Which of the following BEST describes a security exploit for which a vendor patch is not readily available?

A. Integer overflow

B. Zero-day

C. End of life

D. Race condition

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?

A. Hard token

B. Retina scan

C. SMS text

D. Keypad PIN

Which of the following would BEST identify and remediate a data-loss event in enterprise using

third-party, web-based services and file-sharing platforms?

A. SIEM

B. CASB

C. UTM

D. DLP

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).

A. VPN

B. Drive encryption

C. Network firewall

D. File level encryption

E. USB blocker

F. MFA

B. Drive encryption

E. USB blocker

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?

A. NGFW

B. Pagefile

C. NetFlow

D. RAM

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)

A. DNSSEC

B. Reverse proxy

C. VPN concentrator

D. PKI

E. Active Directory

F. RADIUS

E. Active Directory

F. RADIUS

An organization suffered an outage and a critical system took 90 minutes to come back online. Though there

was no data loss during the outage, the expectation was that the critical system would be available again within

60 minutes Which of the following is the 60-minute expectation an example of:

A. MTBF

B. RPO

C. MTTR

D. RTO

An organization has decided to host its web application and database in the cloud Which of the following

BEST describes the security concerns for this decision?

A. Access to the organization's servers could be exposed to other cloud-provider clients

B. The cloud vendor is a new attack vector within the supply chain

C. Outsourcing the code development adds risk to the cloud provider

D. Vendor support will cease when the hosting platforms reach EOL.

A security administrator needs to create a RAIS 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?

A. RAID O

B. RAID1

C. RAID 5

D. RAID 10

A Chief Information Security Officer (CIO) 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?

A. PCI DSS

B. GDPR

C. NIST

D. ISO 31000

B. GDPR

A security engineer needs to Implement the following requirements:

• All Layer 2 switches should leverage Active Directory tor authentication.

• All Layer 2 switches should use local fallback authentication If Active Directory Is offline.

• All Layer 2 switches are not the same and are manufactured by several vendors.

Which of the following actions should the engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO,

A. Implement RADIUS.

B. Configure AAA on the switch with local login as secondary.

C. Configure port security on the switch with the secondary login method.

D. Implement TACACS

E. Enable the local firewall on the Active Directory server.

F. Implement a DHCP server.

A. Implement RADIUS.

B. Configure AAA on the switch with local login as secondary.

An information security incident recently occurred at an organization, and the organization was required to

report the incident to authorities and notify the affected parties. When the organization's customers became of

aware of the incident, some reduced their orders or stopped placing orders entirely. Which of the following is

the organization experiencing?

A. Reputation damage

B. Identity theft

C.Anonymization

D. Interrupted supply chain

A security analyst is performing a forensic investigation compromised account credentials. Using tl

Viewer, the analyst able to detect the following message,

* Special privileges assigned to new login

of these messages did not have a valid logon associated with the user before these privileges were a

Which of the following attacks is MOST likely being detected?

A. Pass-the-hash

B. Buffer overflow

C. Cross-site scripting

D. Session replay

Answer: A

A network engineer has been asked to investigate why several wireless barcode scanners and wireless

computers in a warehouse have intermittent connectivity to the shipping server. The barcode scanners and

computers are all on forklift trucks and move around the warehouse during their regular use. Which of the

following should the engineer do to determine the issue? (Choose two.)

A. Perform a site survey

B. Deploy an FTK Imager

C. Create a heat map

D. Scan for rogue access points

E. Upgrade the security protocols

F. Install a captive portal

A. Perform a site survey

B. Deploy an FTK Imager

C. Create a heat map

A network administrator needs to build out a new datacenter, with a focus on resiliency and uptime. Which of

the following would BEST meet this objective? (Choose two.)

A. Dual power supply

B. Off-site backups

C. Automatic OS upgrades

D. NIC teaming

E. Scheduled penetration testing

F. Network-attached storage

A. Dual power supply

B. Off-site backups

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?

A. Use password hashing.

B. Enforce password complexity.

C. Implement password salting.

D. Disable password reuse.

An organization routes all of its traffic through a VPN Most users are remote and connect into a corporate

datacenter that houses confidential information There is a firewall at the Internet border followed by a DIP

appliance, the VPN server and the datacenter itself. Which of the following is the WEAKEST design element?

A. The DLP appliance should be integrated into a NGFW.

B. Split-tunnel connections can negatively impact the DLP appliance's performance

C. Encrypted VPN traffic will not be inspected when entering or leaving the network

D. Adding two hops in the VPN tunnel may slow down remote connections

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. A firewall

B. A device pin

C. A USB data blocker

D. Biometrics

An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or

data theft. Which of the following would be the MOST acceptable?

A. SED

B. HSM

C. DLP

D. TPM

A cybersecurity administrator is using iptables as an enterprise firewall. The administrator created some rules,

but the network now seems to be unresponsive All connections are being dropped by the firewall. Which of

the following would be the BEST option to remove the rules?

A. # iptables -t mangle -X

B. # iptables -F

C. #iptables -Z

D. # iptables -P INPUT -j DROP

A security analyst needs to produce a document that details how a security incident occurred, the steps that

were taken for recovery, and how future incidents can be avoided. During which of the following stages of the

response process will this activity take place?

A. Recovery

B. Identification

C. Lessons learned

D. Preparation

The facilities supervisor for a govemment agency is concerned about unauthorized access to environmer

systems in the event the staff WiFi network is breached. Which of the blowing would BEST address this

security concern?

A. install a smart meter on the staff WiFi.

B. Place the environmental systems in the same DHCP scope as the staff WiFi.

C. Implement Zigbee on the staff WiFi access points.

D. Segment the staff WiFi network from the environmental systems network.

D. Segment the staff WiFi network from the environmental systems network.

A workwide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromised. In one inciden

user logged in from the corporate office in France, but then seconds later, the same user account attempti

login from Brazil. Which of the following account policies would BEST prevent this type of attack?

A. Network location

B. Impossible travel time

C. Geolocation

D. Geofencing

Users at organization have been installing programs from the internet on their workstations without first proper

authorization. The organization maintains a portal from which users can install standardized programs.

However, some users have administrative access on their workstations to enable legacy programs to function

property. Which of the following should the security administrator consider implementing to address this

issue?

A. Application code signing

B. Application whitellsting

C. Data loss prevention

D. Web application fire

A security engineer has enabled two-factor authentication on all workstations. Which of the following

approaches are the MOST secure? (Select TWO).

A. Password and security question

were taken for recovery, and how future incidents can be avoided. During which of the fr

response process will this activity take place?

A. Recovery

B. Identification

C. Lessons learned

D. Preparation

A network engineer needs to create a plan for upgrading the wireless infrastructure in a large office Prior

must be given to areas that are currently experiencing latency and connection issues. Which of the follow

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

A. Nmapn

B. Heat maps

C. Network diagrams

D. Wireshark