security plus test
A security administrator has configured FTP in passive mode. Which of the following ports should the security administrator allow on the firewall by default?
21
Which of the following ports should be used by a system administrator to securely manage a remote server?
22
During the analysis of a PCAP file, a security analyst noticed several communications with a remote server on port 53. Which of the following protocol types is observed in this traffic?
DNS
Matt, an administrator, is concerned about the wireless network being discovered by war driving. Which of the following can be done to mitigate this?
Disable all SSID broadcasting.
The security administrator notices a user logging into a corporate Unix server remotely as root. Which of the following actions should the administrator take?
Disable remote root logins
A team of firewall administrators have access to a `master password list' containing service account passwords. Which of the following BEST protects the master password list?
File encryption
An active directory setting restricts querying to only secure connections. Which of the following ports should be selected to establish a successful connection?
636
After a new firewall has been installed, devices cannot obtain a new IP address. Which of the following ports should Matt, the security administrator, open on the firewall?
68
Which of the following is the default port for TFTP?
69
Which of the following ports would be blocked if Pete, a security administrator, wants to deny access to websites?
80
An administrator needs to allow both secure and regular web traffic into a network. Which of the following ports should be configured? (Select TWO)
80 443
A security technician has been tasked with opening ports on a firewall to allow users to browse the internet. Which of the following ports should be opened on the firewall? (Select Three)
80 443 8080
Which of the following wireless standards is backwards compatible with 802.11g?
802.11b
Which of the following would be used to allow a subset of traffic from a wireless network to an internal network?
802.1X
A company determines a need for additional protection from rogue devices plugging into physical ports around the building. Which of the following provides the highest degree of protection from unauthorized wired network access?
802.1x
A company has several public conference room areas with exposed network outlets. In the past, unauthorized visitors and vendors have used the outlets for internet access. The help desk manager does not want the outlets to be disabled due to the number of training sessions in the conference room and the amount of time it takes to get the ports either patched in or enabled. Which of the following is the best option for meeting this goal?
802.1x
A company requires that all wireless communication be compliant with the Advanced encryption standard. The current wireless infrastructure implements WEP + TKIP. Which of the following wireless protocols should be implemented?
802.1x
Which of the following controls would allow a company to reduce the exposure of sensitive systems from unmanaged devices on internal networks?
802.1x
While configuring a new access layer switch, the administrator, Joe, was advised that he needed to make sure that only devices authorized to access the network would be permitted to login and utilize resources. Which of the following should the administrator implement to ensure this happens?
802.1x
A company has several conference rooms with wired network jacks that are used by both employees and guests. Employees need access to internal resources and guests only need access to the Internet. Which of the following combinations is BEST to meet the requirements?
802.1x and VLANs
A server crashes at 6 pm. Senior management has determined that data must be restored within two hours of a server crash. Additionally, a loss of more than one hour worth of data is detrimental to the company's financial well-being. Which of the following is the RTO?
8pm
FTP/S uses which of the following TCP ports by default?
989 and 990
After running into the data center with a vehicle, attackers were able to enter through the hole in the building and steal several key servers in the ensuing chaos. Which of the following security measures can be put in place to mitigate the issue from occurring in the future?
Bollards
A Windows- based computer is infected with malware and is running too slowly to boot and run a malware scanner. Which of the following is the BEST way to run the malware scanner?
Boot from CD/USB
A user commuting to work via public transport received an offensive image on their smart phone from another commuter. Which of the following attacks MOST likely took place?
Bluejacking
Joe, an employee is taking a taxi through a busy city and starts to receive unsolicited files sent to his Smartphone. Which of the following is this an example of?
Bluejacking
Which of the following describes how Sara, an attacker, can send unwanted advertisements to a mobile device?
Bluejacking
Which of the following attack types is being carried out where a target is being sent unsolicited messages via Bluetooth?
Bluesnarfing
Which of the following attacks allows access to contact lists on cellular phones?
Bluesnarfing
A Windows-based computer is infected with malware and is running too slowly to boot and run a malware scanner. Which of the following is the BEST way to run the malware scanner?
Boot from CD/USB
Which of the following can be used to ensure that sensitive records stored on a backend server can only be accessed by a front end server with the appropriate record key?
File encryption
An application developer has tested some of the known exploits within a new application. Which of the following should the administrator utilize to test for unidentified faults or memory leaks?
Fuzzing
Which of the following application security principles involves inputting random data into a program?
Fuzzing
Which of the following application security testing techniques is implemented when an automated system generates random input data?
Fuzzing
Which of the following automated or semi-automated software testing techniques relies on inputting large amounts of random data to detect coding errors or application loopholes?
Fuzzing
Which of the following describes purposefully injecting extra input during testing, possibly causing an application to crash?
Fuzzing
Which of the following security concepts identifies input variables which are then used to perform boundary testing?
Fuzzing
Which of the following forms of software testing can best be performed with no knowledge of how a system is internally structured or functions? (Select Two.)
Fuzzing Black box
A company's legacy server requires administration using Telnet. Which of the following protocols could be used to secure communication by offering encryption at a lower OSI layer? (Select TWO).
IPv6, IPSec
Which of the following pseudocodes can be used to handle program exceptions?
If program module crashes, then restart program module.
When considering a vendor-specific vulnerability in critical industrial control systems which of the following techniques supports availability?
Incorporating diversity into redundant design
Which of the following is a software vulnerability that can be avoided by using input validation?
Incorrect input
Several employee accounts appear to have been cracked by an attacker. Which of the following should the security administrator implement to mitigate password cracking attacks? (Select TWO).
Increase password complexity Increase password length
After a merger between two companies a security analyst has been asked to ensure that the organization's systems are secured against infiltration by any former employees that were terminated during the transition. Which of the following actions are MOST appropriate to harden applications against infiltration by former employees? (Select TWO)
Increase password complexity requirements Assess and eliminate inactive accounts
A company's security administrator wants to manage PKI for internal systems to help reduce costs. Which of the following is the FIRST step the security administrator should take?
Install a CA
Which of the following access control methodologies provides an individual with the most restrictive access rights to successfully perform their authorized duties?
Least Privilege
A security administrator notices that a specific network administrator is making unauthorized changes to the firewall every Saturday morning. Which of the following would be used to mitigate this issue so that only security administrators can make changes to the firewall?
Least privilege
Which of the following should Pete, a security manager, implement to reduce the risk of employees working in collusion to embezzle funds from their company?
Mandatory Vacations
The IT department has setup a website with a series of questions to allow end users to reset their own accounts. Which of the following account management practices does this help?
Password Recovery
A recent audit has discovered that at the time of password expiration clients are able to recycle the previous credentials for authentication. Which of the following controls should be used together to prevent this from occurring? (Select TWO).
Password age Password history
Users can authenticate to a company's web applications using their credentials form a popular social media site. Which of the following poses the greatest risk with this integration?
Password breaches to the social media affect the company application as well
Users can authenticate to a company's web applications using their credentials from a popular social media site. Which of the following poses the greatest risk with this integration?
Password breaches to the social media site affect the company application as well
After a company has standardized to a single operating system, not all servers are immune to a well-known OS vulnerability. Which of the following solutions would mitigate this issue?
Patch management system
Protecting the confidentiality of a message is accomplished by encrypting the message with which of the following?
Recipient's public key
Which of the following can use RC4 for encryption? (Select TWO).
SSL WEP
During a routine audit a web server is flagged for allowing the use of weak ciphers. Which of the following should be disabled to mitigate this risk? (Select TWO).
SSL 1.0 DES
Which of the following cryptographic related browser settings allows an organization to communicate securely?
SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0
During a third-party audit, it is determined that a member of the firewall team can request, approve, and implement a new rule-set on the firewall. Which of the following will the audit team most l likely recommend during the audit out brief?
Separation of duties policy for the firewall team
Which of the following, if properly implemented, would prevent users from accessing files that are unrelated to their job duties? (Select TWO).
Separation of duties, Least privilege
On a train, an individual is watching a proprietary video on Joe's laptop without his knowledge. Which of the following does this describe?
Shoulder surfing
Using proximity card readers instead of the traditional key punch doors would help to mitigate:
Shoulder surfing
The network security engineer just deployed an IDS on the network, but the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) has concerns that the device is only able to detect known anomalies. Which of the following types of IDS has been deployed?
Signature Based IDS
An organization's security policy states that users must authenticate using something you do. Which of the following would meet the objectives of the security policy?
Signature analysis
A security administrator needs to implement a system that detects possible intrusions based upon a vendor provided list. Which of the following BEST describes this type of IDS?
Signature based
When performing the daily review of the system vulnerability scans of the network Joe, the administrator, noticed several security related vulnerabilities with an assigned vulnerability identification number. Joe researches the assigned vulnerability identification number from the vendor website. Joe proceeds with applying the recommended solution for identified vulnerability.
Signature based
A security technician has been asked to recommend an authentication mechanism that will allow users to authenticate using a password that will only be valid for a predefined time interval. Which of the following should the security technician recommend?
TOTP
An organization has introduced token-based authentication to system administrators due to risk of password compromise. The tokens have a set of numbers that automatically change every 30 seconds. Which of the following type of authentication mechanism is this?
TOTP
The ore-sales engineering team needs to quickly provide accurate and up-to-date information to potential clients. This information includes design specifications and engineering data that is developed and stored using numerous applications across the enterprise. Which of the following authentication technique is MOST appropriate?
TOTP
A company storing data on a secure server wants to ensure it is legally able to dismiss and prosecute staff who intentionally access the server via Telnet and illegally tamper with customer data. Which of the following administrative controls should be implemented to BEST achieve this?
Warning banners
Which of the following would MOST likely involve GPS?
Wardriving
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to implement a redundant server location to which the production server images can be moved within 48 hours and services can be quickly restored, in case of a catastrophic failure of the primary datacenter's HVAC. Which of the following can be implemented?
Warm site
Which of the following is the BEST concept to maintain required but non-critical server availability?
Warm site
An administrator notices an unusual spike in network traffic from many sources. The administrator suspects that:
it is the beginning of a DDoS attack.
Results from a vulnerability analysis indicate that all enabled virtual terminals on a router can be accessed using the same password. The company's network device security policy mandates that at least one virtual terminal have a different password than the other virtual terminals. Which of the following sets of commands would meet this requirement?
line vty 0 3 password Qwer++!Y line vty 4 password P@s5W0Rd
Which of the following describes the purpose of an MOU?
ne responsibilities of each party
Malware that changes its binary pattern on specific dates at specific times to avoid detection is known as a (n):
polymorphic virus
Input validation is an important security defense because it:
rejects bad or malformed data.
An administrator would like to review the effectiveness of existing security in the enterprise. Which of the following would be the BEST place to start?
Implement an intrusion prevention system
An administrator needs to connect a router in one building to a router in another using Ethernet. Each router is connected to a managed switch and the switches are connected to each other via a fiber line. Which of the following should be configured to prevent unauthorized devices from connecting to the network?
Implement port security on the switches
Which of the following is a step in deploying a WPA2-Enterprise wireless network?
Install a digital certificate on the authentication server
An information bank has been established to store contacts, phone numbers and other records. A UNIX application needs to connect to the index server using port 389. Which of the following authentication services should be used on this port by default?
LDAP
Which the following flags are used to establish a TCP connection? (Select TWO).
ACK, SYN
A system administrator wants to enable WPA2 CCMP. Which of the following is the only encryption used?
AES
An administrator needs to secure a wireless network and restrict access based on the hardware address of the device. Which of the following solutions should be implemented?
Enable MAC filtering
Which of the following security devices can be replicated on a Linux based computer using IP tables to inspect and properly handle network based traffic?
Firewall
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has mandated that all IT systems with credit card data be segregated from the main corporate network to prevent unauthorized access and that access to the IT systems should be logged. Which of the following would BEST meet the CISO's requirements?
Firewalls
Which of the following should be deployed to prevent the transmission of malicious traffic between virtual machines hosted on a singular physical device on a network?
HIPS on each virtual machine
After a network outage, a PC technician is unable to ping various network devices. The network administrator verifies that those devices are working properly and can be accessed securely. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the PC technician is unable to ping those devices?
ICMP is being blocked
Which of the following network design elements allows for many internal devices to share one public IP address?
PAT
Which of the following would satisfy wireless network implementation requirements to use mutual authentication and usernames and passwords?
PEAP-MSCHAPv2
Which of the following firewall types inspects Ethernet traffic at the MOST levels of the OSI model?
Stateful Firewall
Which of the following is BEST used to break a group of IP addresses into smaller network segments or blocks?
Subnetting
Which of the following would allow the organization to divide a Class C IP address range into several ranges?
Subnetting
An organization recently switched from a cloud-based email solution to an in-house email server. The firewall needs to be modified to allow for sending and receiving email. Which of the following ports should be open on the firewall to allow for email traffic? (Select THREE).
TCP 25, TCP 110, TCP 143
Which of the following is a difference between TFTP and FTP?
TFTP utilizes UDP and FTP uses TCP.
While previously recommended as a security measure, disabling SSID broadcast is not effective against most attackers because network SSIDs are:
contained in certain wireless packets in plaintext.
If you don't know the MAC address of a Linux-based machine, what command-line utility can you use to ascertain it?
ifconfig
The common method of breaking larger network address space into smaller networks is known as:
subnetting.
All of the following are valid cryptographic hash functions EXCEPT:
RC4.
Which of the following ports and protocol types must be opened on a host with a hostbased firewall to allow incoming SFTP connections?
22/TCP
Which of the following ports is used for TELNET by default?
23
A security administrator is tasked with calculating the total ALE on servers. In a two year period of time, a company has to replace five servers. Each server replacement has cost the company $4,000 with downtime costing $3,000. Which of the following is the ALE for the company?
$17,500
Sara, a security analyst, is trying to prove to management what costs they could incur if their customer database was breached. This database contains 250 records with PII. Studies show that the cost per record for a breach is $300. The likelihood that their database would be breached in the next year is only 5%. Which of the following is the ALE that Sara should report to management for a security breach?
$3,750
Joe, the system administrator, has been asked to calculate the Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE) for a $5,000 server, which often crashes. In the past year, the server has crashed 10 times, requiring a system reboot to recover with only 10% loss of data or function. Which of the following is the ALE of this server?
$5,000
Which of the following would the security engineer set as the subnet mask for the servers below to utilize host addresses on separate broadcast domains? Server 1: 192.168.100.6 Server 2: 192.168.100.9 Server 3: 192.169.100.20
/29
Which of the following IP addresses would be hosts on the same subnet given the subnet mask 255.255.255.224? (Select TWO).
10.4.4.165, 10.4.4.189
Which of the following may be used with a BNC connector?
10Base2
While testing a new host based firewall configuration a security administrator inadvertently blocks access to localhost which causes problems with applications running on the host. Which of the following addresses refer to localhost?
120.0.0.1
Which of the following ports should be opened on a firewall to allow for NetBIOS communication? (Select TWO).
137 139
An administrator is hardening systems and wants to disable unnecessary services. One Linux server hosts files used by a Windows web server on another machine. The Linux server is only used for secure file transfer, but requires a share for the Windows web server as well. The administrator sees the following output from a netstat -1p command: Which of the following processes can the administrator kill without risking impact to the purpose and function of the Linux or Windows servers? (Select Three)
1488 2121 8217
A security administrator is creating a subnet on one of the corporate firewall interfaces to use as a DMZ which is expected to accommodate at most 14 physical hosts. Which of the following subnets would BEST meet the requirements?
192.168.0.16/28
A network technician is configuring clients for VLAN access. The network address for the sales department is 192.168.0.64 with a broadcast address of 192.168.0.71. Which of the following IP address/subnet mask combinations could be used to correctly configure a client machine in the sales department?
192.168.0.64/29
A security administrator would like to write an access rule to block the three IP addresses given below. Which of the following combinations should be used to include all of the given IP addresses? 192.168.12.255 192.168.12.227 192.168.12.229
192.168.12.128.28
While securing a network it is decided to allow active FTP connections into the network. Which of the following ports MUST be configured to allow active FTP connections? (Select TWO).
20, 21
A company uses SSH to support internal users. They want to block external SSH connections from reaching internal machines. Which of the following should be blocked on the firewall?
22
An employee needs to connect to a server using a secure protocol on the default port. Which of the following ports should be used?
22
Which of the following ports is used for SSH, by default?
22
Which of the following ports is used to securely transfer files between remote UNIX systems?
22
During a penetration test from the Internet, Jane, the system administrator, was able to establish a connection to an internal router, but not successfully log in to it. Which ports and protocols are MOST likely to be open on the firewall? (Select FOUR).
22 23 SSH Telnet
A technician is unable to manage a remote server. Which of the following ports should be opened on the firewall for remote server management? (Select TWO).
22, 3389
A company with a US-based sales force has requested that the VPN system be configured to authenticate the sales team based on their username, password and a client side certificate. Additionally, the security administrator has restricted the VPN to only allow authentication from the US territory. How many authentication factors are in use by the VPN system?
3
Ann, a technician, is attempting to establish a remote terminal session to an end user's computer using Kerberos authentication, but she cannot connect to the destination machine. Which of the following default ports should Ann ensure is open?
3389
A bank has a fleet of aging payment terminals used by merchants for transactional processing. The terminals currently support single DES but require an upgrade in order to be compliant with security standards. Which of the following is likely to be the simplest upgrade to the aging terminals which will improve in-transit protection of transactional data?
3DES
Which of the following can be used for both encryption and digital signatures?
3DES
Which of the following provides additional encryption strength by repeating the encryption process with additional keys?
3DES
Which of the following would Matt, a security administrator, use to encrypt transmissions from an internal database to an internal server, keeping in mind that the encryption process must add as little latency to the process as possible?
3DES
Which of the following symmetric key algorithms are examples of block ciphers? (Select THREE).
3DES AES Blowfish
A programmer must write a piece of code to encrypt passwords and credit card information used by an online shopping cart. The passwords must be stored using one-way encryption, while credit card information must be stored using reversible encryption. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task? (Select TWO)
3DES for passwords AES for credit cards
A Security Officer on a military base needs to encrypt several smart phones that will be going into the field. Which of the following ports should they block on the firewall?
443
Signed digital certificates used to secure communication with a web server are MOST commonly associated with which of the following ports?
443
The finance department just procured a software application that needs to communicate back to the vendor server via SSL. Which of the following default ports on the firewall must the security engineer open to accomplish this task?
443
Which of the following ports will be used for logging into secure websites?
443
Which of the following is a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategy and is MOST useful for securing data in use?
Endpoint protection
A systems administrator has implemented PKI on a classified government network. In the event that a disconnect occurs from the primary CA, which of the following should be accessible locally from every site to ensure users with bad certificates cannot gain access to the network?
A CRL
A security administrator is responsible for ensuring that there are no unauthorized devices utilizing the corporate network. During a routine scan, the security administrator discovers an unauthorized device belonging to a user in the marketing department. The user is using an android phone in order to browse websites. Which of the following device attributes was used to determine that the device was unauthorized?
A MAC address
A defense contractor wants to use one of its classified systems to support programs from multiple intelligence agencies. Which of the following MUST be in place between the intelligence agencies to allow this?
A MOU
Joe, the system administrator, is performing an overnight system refresh of hundreds of user computers. The refresh has a strict timeframe and must have zero downtime during business hours. Which of the following should Joe take into consideration?
A back-out strategy planned out anticipating any unforeseen problems that may arise
During an office move a sever containing the employee information database will be shut down and transported to a new location. Which of the following would BEST ensure the availability of the employee database should happen to the server during the move?
A backup of the database should be stored on an external hard drive prior to the move
Which of the following BEST describes a demilitarized zone?
A buffer zone between protected and unprotected networks.
A new security policy being implemented requires all email within the organization be digitally signed by the author using PGP. Which of the following would needs to be created for each user?
A certificate authority
The system administrator is tasked with changing the administrator password across all 2000 computers in the organization. Which of the following should the system administrator implement to accomplish this task?
A group policy
Pete, the compliance manager, wants to meet regulations. Pete would like certain ports blocked only on all computers that do credit card transactions. Which of the following should Pete implement to BEST achieve this goal?
A host-based firewall
In which of the following scenarios is PKI LEAST hardened?
A malicious CA certificate is loaded on all the clients.
Which of the following is true about asymmetric encryption?
A message encrypted with the public key can be decrypted with the private key.
A systems engineer has been presented with storage performance and redundancy requirements for a new system to be built for the company. The storage solution must be designed to support the highest performance and must also be able to support more than one drive failure. Which of the following should the engineer choose to meet these requirements?
A mirrored mirror array
Ann wants to send a file to Joe using PKI. Which of the following should Ann use in order to sign the file?
Ann's private key
Which of the following devices is BEST suited for servers that need to store private keys?
Hardware security module
Joe, a user, wants to send an encrypted email to Ann. Which of the following will Ann need to use to verify that the email came from Joe and decrypt it? (Select TWO).
Ann's private key, Joe's public key
Employees are reporting that they have been receiving a large number of emails advertising products and services. Links in the email direct the users' browsers to the websites for the items being offered. No reports of increased virus activity have been observed. A security administrator suspects that the users are the targets of:
A spam campaign
Which of the following would a security administrator use to verify the integrity of a file?
Hash
Which of the following protocols allows for the LARGEST address space?
IPv6
Several departments in a corporation have a critical need for routinely moving data from one system to another using removable storage devices. Senior management is concerned with data loss and the introduction of malware on the network. Which of the following choices BEST mitigates the range of risks associated with the continued use of removable storage devices?
A policy which details controls on removable storage use
When implementing a Public Key Infrastructure, which of the following should the sender use to digitally sign a document?
A private key
In PKI, a key pair consists of: (Select TWO).
A public key A private key
A security analyst noticed a colleague typing the following command: `Telnet some-host 443' Which of the following was the colleague performing?
A quick test to see if there is a service running on some-host TCP/443, which is being routed correctly and not blocked by a firewall.
Sara, a security manager, has decided to force expiration of all company passwords by the close of business day. Which of the following BEST supports this reasoning?
A recent security breach in which passwords were cracked.
A company has recently implemented a high density wireless system by having a junior technician install two new access points for every access point already deployed. Users are now reporting random wireless disconnections and slow network connectivity. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A site survey was not conducted
A company executive's laptop was compromised, leading to a security breach. The laptop was placed into storage by a junior system administrator and was subsequently wiped and re-imaged. When it was determined that the authorities would need to be involved, there was little evidence to present to the investigators. Which of the following procedures could have been implemented to aid the authorities in their investigation?
A system image should have been created and stored
An administrator was asked to review user accounts. Which of the following has the potential to cause the MOST amount of damage if the account was compromised?
A user account with administrative rights
Which of the following, if implemented, would improve security of remote users by reducing vulnerabilities associated with data-in-transit?
A virtual private network
An employee uses RDP to connect back to the office network. If RDP is misconfigured, which of the of the following security exposures would this lead to?
A virus on the administrator desktop would be able to sniff the administrator's username and password
A network administrator wants to block both DNS requests and zone transfers coming from outside IP addresses. The company uses a firewall which implements an implicit allow and is currently configured with the following ACL applied to its external interface. PERMIT TCP ANY ANY 80 PERMIT TCP ANY ANY 443 Which of the following rules would accomplish this task? (Select TWO).
A. Change the firewall default settings so that it implements an implicit deny, F. Add the following ACL at the bottom of the current ACL DENY IP ANY ANY 53
The security administrator at ABC company received the following log information from an external party: 10:45:01 EST, SRC 10.4.3.7:3056, DST 8.4.2.1:80, ALERT, Directory traversal 10:45:02 EST, SRC 10.4.3.7:3057, DST 8.4.2.1:80, ALERT, Account brute force 10:45:03 EST, SRC 10.4.3.7:3058, DST 8.4.2.1:80, ALERT, Port scan The external party is reporting attacks coming from abc-company.com. Which of the following is the reason the ABC company's security administrator is unable to determine the origin of the attack?
ABC company uses PAT.
A security administrator has been asked to implement a VPN that will support remote access over IPSEC. Which of the following is an encryption algorithm that would meet this requirement?
AES
The security administration team at a company has been tasked with implementing a dataat- rest solution for its company storage. Due to the large amount of storage the Chief Information Officer (CISO) decides that a 128-bit cipher is needed but the CISO also does not want to degrade system performance any more than necessary. Which of the following encryptions needs BOTH of these needs?
AES
To ensure compatibility with their flagship product, the security engineer is tasked to recommend an encryption cipher that will be compatible with the majority of third party software and hardware vendors. Which of the following should be recommended?
AES
Which of the following can be implemented with multiple bit strength?
AES
A developer needs to utilize AES encryption in an application but requires the speed of encryption and decryption to be as fast as possible. The data that will be secured is not sensitive so speed is valued over encryption complexity. Which of the following would BEST satisfy these requirements?
AES with cipher feedback
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a company, Ann, is putting together a hardware budget for the next 10 years. She is asking for the average lifespan of each hardware device so that she is able to calculate when she will have to replace each device. Which of the following categories BEST describes what she is looking?
ALE
Which of the following is the summary of loss for a given year?
ALE
Which of the following metrics is important for measuring the extent of data required during backup and recovery?
ALE
Which of the following risk concepts requires an organization to determine the number of failures per year?
ALE
Which of the following would BEST be used to calculate the expected loss of an event, if the likelihood of an event occurring is known? (Select TWO).
ALE, SLE
An administrator performs a risk calculation to determine if additional availability controls need to be in place. The administrator estimates that a server fails and needs to be replaced once every 2 years at a cost of $8,000. Which of the following represents the factors that the administrator would use to facilitate this calculation?
ARO=0.5; SLE=$8,000; ALE=$4,000
While performing surveillance activities an attacker determines that an organization is using 802.1X to secure LAN access. Which of the following attack mechanisms can the attacker utilize to bypass the identified network security controls?
ARP poisoning
A security administrator is selecting an MDM solution for an organization, which has strict security requirements for the confidentiality of its data on end user devices. The organization decides to allow BYOD, but requires that users wishing to participate agree to the following specific device configurations; camera disablement, password enforcement, and application whitelisting. The organization must be able to support a device portfolio of differing mobile operating systems. Which of the following represents the MOST relevant technical security criteria for the MDM?
Ability to extend the enterprise password polices to the chosen MDM
A security administrator plans on replacing a critical business application in five years. Recently, there was a security flaw discovered in the application that will cause the IT department to manually re-enable user accounts each month at a cost of $2,000. Patching the application today would cost $140,000 and take two months to implement. Which of the following should the security administrator do in regards to the application?
Accept the risk and continue to enable the accounts each month saving money
A company has recently allowed employees to take advantage of BYOD by installing WAPs throughout the corporate office. An employee, Joe, has recently begun to view inappropriate material at work using his personal laptop. When confronted, Joe indicated that he was never told that he could not view that type of material on his personal laptop. Which of the following should the company have employees acknowledge before allowing them to access the corporate WLAN with their personal devices?
Acceptable Use Policy
Joe, a newly hired employee, has a corporate workstation that has been compromised due to several visits to P2P sites. Joe insisted that he was not aware of any company policy that prohibits the use of such web sites. Which of the following is the BEST method to deter employees from the improper use of the company's information systems?
Acceptable Use Policy
A company is starting to allow employees to use their own personal without centralized management. Employees must contract IT to have their devices configured to use corporate email; access is also available to the corporate cloud-based services. Which of the following is the BEST policy to implement under these circumstances?
Acceptable use policy
The IT department noticed that there was a significant decrease in network performance during the afternoon hours. The IT department performed analysis of the network and discovered this was due to users accessing and downloading music and video streaming from social sites. The IT department notified corporate of their findings and a memo was sent to all employees addressing the misuse of company resources and requesting adherence to company policy. Which of the following policies is being enforced?
Acceptable use policy
Joe, a security analyst, asks each employee of an organization to sign a statement saying that they understand how their activities may be monitored. Which of the following BEST describes this statement? (Select TWO).
Acceptable use policy, Privacy policy
Which of the following is BEST described by a scenario where management chooses not to implement a security control for a given risk?
Acceptance
An administrator is implementing a new management system for the machinery on the company's production line. One requirement is that the system only be accessible while within the production facility. Which of the following will be the MOST effective solution in limiting access based on this requirement?
Access control list
A database administrator contacts a security administrator to request firewall changes for a connection to a new internal application. The security administrator notices that the new application uses a port typically monopolized by a virus. The security administrator denies the request and suggests a new port or service be used to complete the application's task. Which of the following is the security administrator practicing in this example?
Access control lists
The security administrator needs to manage traffic on a layer 3 device to support FTP from a new remote site. Which of the following would need to be implemented?
Access control lists
A risk management team indicated an elevated level of risk due to the location of a corporate datacenter in a region with an unstable political climate. The chief information officer (CIO) accepts the recommendation to transition the workload to an alternate datacenter in a more stable region. Which of the following forms of risk mitigation has the CIO elected to pursue?
Avoidance
Joe is a helpdesk specialist. During a routine audit, a company discovered that his credentials were used while he was on vacation. The investigation further confirmed that Joe still has his badge and it was last used to exit the facility. Which of the following access control methods is MOST appropriate for preventing such occurrences in the future?
Access control where the credentials cannot be used except when the associated badge is in the facility
The user of a news service accidently accesses another user's browsing history. From this the user can tell what competitors are reading, querying, and researching. The news service has failed to properly implement which of the following?
Access controls
During an audit, the security administrator discovers that there are several users that are no longer employed with the company but still have active user accounts. Which of the following should be performed?
Account disablement
Which of the following controls mitigates the risk of Matt, an attacker, gaining access to a company network by using a former employee's credential?
Account expiration
During a routine audit it is discovered that someone has been using a state administrator account to log into a seldom used server. The person used server. The person has been using the server to view inappropriate websites that are prohibited to end users. Which of the following could BEST prevent this from occurring again?
Account expiration policies
ABC company has a lot of contractors working for them. The provisioning team does not always get notified that a contractor has left the company. Which of the following policies would prevent contractors from having access to systems in the event a contractor has left?
Account expiration policy
A hacker has discovered a simple way to disrupt business for the day in a small company which relies on staff working remotely. In a matter of minutes the hacker was able to deny remotely working staff access to company systems with a script. Which of the following security controls is the hacker exploiting?
Account lockout
An incident occurred when an outside attacker was able to gain access to network resources. During the incident response, investigation security logs indicated multiple failed login attempts for a network administrator. Which of the following controls, if in place could have BEST prevented this successful attack?
Account lockout
Jo an employee reports to the security manager that several files in a research and development folder that only JOE has access to have been improperly modified. The modified data on the files in recent and the modified by account is Joe's. The permissions on the folder have not been changed, and there is no evidence of malware on the server hosting the folder or on Joe's workstation. Several failed login attempts to Joe's account were discovered in the security log of the LDAP server. Given this scenario, which of the following should the security manager implement to prevent this in the future?
Account lockout
Joe notices there are several user accounts on the local network generating spam with embedded malicious code. Which of the following technical control should Joe put in place to BEST reduce these incidents?
Account lockout
A security administrator must implement all requirements in the following corporate policy: Passwords shall be protected against offline password brute force attacks. Passwords shall be protected against online password brute force attacks. Which of the following technical controls must be implemented to enforce the corporate policy? (Select THREE).
Account lockout Password complexity Minimum password length
Which of the following would BEST deter an attacker trying to brute force 4-digit PIN numbers to access an account at a bank teller machine?
Account lockout settings
A recent online password audit has identified that stale accounts are at risk to brute force attacks. Which the following controls would best mitigate this risk?
Account lockouts
A one time security audit revealed that employees do not have the appropriate access to system resources. The auditor is concerned with the fact that most of the accounts audited have unneeded elevated permission to sensitive resources. Which of the following was implemented to detect this issue?
Account review
While rarely enforced, mandatory vacation policies are effective at uncovering:
Acts of gross negligence on the part of system administrators with unfettered access to system and no oversight.
Company XYZ has suffered leaks of internally distributed confidential documents. Ann the network security analyst has been tasked to track down the culprit. She has decided to embed a four letter string of characters in documents containing proprietary information. Which of the following initial steps should Ann implement before sending documents?
Add a signature to the NIDS containing the four letter string
Several employees submit the same phishing email to the administrator. The administrator finds that the links in the email are not being blocked by the company's security device. Which of the following might the administrator do in the short term to prevent the emails from being received?
Add the domain to a block list
A new intern in the purchasing department requires read access to shared documents. Permissions are normally controlled through a group called "Purchasing", however, the purchasing group permissions allow write access. Which of the following would be the BEST course of action?
Add the intern to the "Purchasing" group
In intrusion detection system vernacular, which account is responsible for setting the security policy for an organization?
Administrator
After analyzing and correlating activity from multiple sensors, the security administrator has determined that a group of very well organized individuals from an enemy country is responsible for various attempts to breach the company network, through the use of very sophisticated and targeted attacks. Which of the following is this an example of?
Advanced persistent threat
Which of the following malware types may require user interaction, does not hide itself, and is commonly identified by marketing pop-ups based on browsing habits?
Adware
A company recently experienced several security breaches that resulted in confidential data being infiltrated form the network. The forensic investigation revealed that the data breaches were caused by an insider accessing files that resided in shared folders who then encrypted the data and sent it to contacts via third party email. Management is concerned that other employees may also be sending confidential files outside of the company to the same organization. Management has requested that the IT department implement a solution that will allow them to: Track access and sue of files marked confidential, provide documentation that can be sued for investigations, prevent employees from sending confidential data via secure third party email, identify other employees that may be involved in these activities. Which of the following would be the best choice to implement to meet the above requirements?
Agent-based DLP software with correlations and logging enabled
Which of the following is an indication of an ongoing current problem?
Alarm
Which of the following is a notification that an unusual condition exists and should be investigated?
Alert
During an anonymous penetration test, Jane, a system administrator, was able to identify a shared print spool directory, and was able to download a document from the spool. Which statement BEST describes her privileges?
All users have read access to the file.
A company replaces a number of devices with a mobile appliance, combining several functions. Which of the following descriptions fits this new implementation? (Select TWO).
All-in-one device, Single point of failure
The security administrator receives a service ticket saying a host based firewall is interfering with the operation of a new application that is being tested in delevopment. The administrator asks for clarification on which ports need to be open. The software vendor replies that it could use up to 20 ports and many customers have disabled the host based firewall. After examining the system the administrator sees several ports that are open for database and application servers that only used locally. The vendor continues to recommend disabling the host based firewall. Which of the following is the best course of action for the administrator to take?
Allow ports used locally through the host firewall
A switch is set up to allow only 2 simultaneous MAC addresses per switch port. An administrator is reviewing a log and determines that a switch ort has been deactivated in a conference room after it detected 3 or more MAC addresses on the same port. Which of the following reasons could have caused this port to be disabled?
An arp attack was launched from a pc on this port
Ann, the network administrator, has learned from the helpdesk that employees are accessing the wireless network without entering their domain credentials upon connection. Once the connection is made, they cannot reach any internal resources, while wired network connections operate smoothly. Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?
An attacker has installed an access point nearby in an attempt to capture company information.
In order to enter a high-security data center, users are required to speak the correct password into a voice recognition system. Ann, a member of the sales department, overhears the password and later speaks it into the system. The system denies her entry and alerts the security team. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for her failure to enter the data center?
An authentication factor
In order to enter a high-security datacenter, users are required to speak the password into a voice recognition system. Ann a member if the sales department over hears the password and upon speaks it into the system. The system denies her entry and alerts the security team. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for her failure to enter the data center?
An authentication factor
After a few users report problems with the wireless network, a system administrator notices that a new wireless access point has been powered up in the cafeteria. The access point has the same SSID as the corporate network and is set to the same channel as nearby access points. However, the AP has not been connected to the Ethernet network. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the user's wireless problems?
An evil twin attack
Which of the following BEST explains Platform as a Service?
An external group providing operating systems installed on virtual servers with web applications
A company has identified a watering hole attack. Which of the following Best describes this type of attack?
An online news site is hosting ads in iframes from another site
Which of the following would provide the MOST objective results when performing penetration testing for an organization?
An outside company would be less likely to skew the results in favor if the organization
The system administrator has been notified that many users are having difficulty connecting to the company's wireless network. They take a new laptop and physically go to the access point and connect with no problems. Which of the following would be the MOST likely cause?
An unauthorized access point has been configured to operate on the same channel.
Which of the following helps to establish an accurate timeline for a network intrusion?
Analyzing network traffic and device logs
A system security analyst wants to capture data flowing in and out of the enterprise. Which of the following would MOST likely help in achieving this goal?
Analyzing network traffic and logs
A group policy requires users in an organization to use strong passwords that must be changed every 15 days. Joe and Ann were hired 16 days ago. When Joe logs into the network, he is prompted to change his password; when Ann logs into the network, she is not prompted to change her password. Which of the following BEST explains why Ann is not required to change her password?
Ann's user account was not added to the group policy.
How often, at a MINIMUM, should Sara, an administrator, review the accesses and rights of the users on her system?
Annually
Joe, the Chief Technical Officer (CTO), is concerned about new malware being introduced into the corporate network. He has tasked the security engineers to implement a technology that is capable of alerting the team when unusual traffic is on the network. Which of the following types of technologies will BEST address this scenario?
Anomaly Based IDS
Four weeks ago a network administrator applied a new IDS and allowed it to gather baseline data. As rumors of a layoff begins to spread, the IDS alerted the network administrator that access to sensitive client files had risen for above normal. Which of the following kind of IDS is in use?
Anomaly based
Four weeks ago, a network administrator applied a new IDS and allowed it to gather baseline data. As rumors of a layoff began to spread, the IDS alerted the network administrator that access to sensitive client files had risen far above normal. Which of the following kind of IDS is in use?
Anomaly based
Suspicious traffic without a specific signature was detected. Under further investigation, it was determined that these were false indicators. Which of the following security devices needs to be configured to disable future false alarms?
Anomaly based IDS
Which of the following is a vulnerability associated with disabling pop-up blockers?
Another browser instance may execute malicious code
A security team has identified that the wireless signal is broadcasting into the parking lot. To reduce the risk of an attack against the wireless network from the parking lot, which of the following controls should be used? (Select TWO).
Antenna placement, Power levels
A network administrator noticed various chain messages have been received by the company. Which of the following security controls would need to be implemented to mitigate this issue?
Anti-spam
A security administrator wants to deploy security controls to mitigate the threat of company employees' personal information being captured online. Which of the following would BEST serve this purpose?
Anti-spyware
Which of the following will allow Pete, a security analyst, to trigger a security alert because of a tracking cookie?
Anti-spyware software
Which of the following is an example of a false positive?
Anti-virus identifies a benign application as malware.
Users in an organization are experiencing when attempting to access certain websites. The users report that when they type in a legitimate URL, different boxes appear on the screen, making it difficult to access the legitimate sites. Which of the following would best mitigate this issue?
Antivirus
The librarian wants to secure the public Internet kiosk PCs at the back of the library. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate? (Select TWO).
Antivirus Cable locks
A company is exploring the option of letting employees use their personal laptops on the internal network. Which of the following would be the MOST common security concern in this scenario?
Antivirus management
Joe, a security technician, is configuring two new firewalls through the web on each. Each time Joe connects, there is a warning message in the browser window about the certificate being untrusted. Which of the following will allow Joe to configure a certificate for the firewall so that firewall administrators are able to connect both firewalls without experiencing the warning message?
Apply a self-signed certificate generated by each of the firewalls
A user attempts to install a new and relatively unknown software program recommended by a colleague. The user is unable to install the program, dispute having successfully installed other programs previously. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause for the user's inability to complete the installation?
Application black listing
A user attempts to install new and relatively unknown software recommended by a colleague. The user is unable to install the program, despite having successfully installed other programs previously. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause for the user's inability to complete the installation?
Application black listing
The network administrator is responsible for promoting code to applications on a DMZ web server. Which of the following processes is being followed to ensure application integrity?
Application change management
It has been discovered that students are using kiosk tablets intended for registration and scheduling to play games and utilize instant messaging. Which of the following could BEST eliminate this issue?
Application control
A bank chief information security officer (CISO) is responsible for a mobile banking platform that operates natively on iOS and Andriod. Which of the following security controls helps protect the associated publicly accessible API endpoints?
Application firewalls
Which of the following would Jane, an administrator, use to detect an unknown security vulnerability?
Application fuzzing
A security technician has removed the sample configuration files from a database server. Which of the following application security controls has the technician attempted?
Application hardening
Vendors typically ship software applications with security settings disabled by default to ensure a wide range of interoperability with other applications and devices. A security administrator should perform which of the following before deploying new software?
Application hardening
Which of the following describes the process of removing unnecessary accounts and services from an application to reduce risk exposure?
Application hardening
A security administrator is investigating a recent server breach. The breach occurred as a result of a zero-day attack against a user program running on the server. Which of the following logs should the administrator search for information regarding the breach?
Application log
A network administrator is responsible for securing applications against external attacks. Every month, the underlying operating system is updated. There is no process in place for other software updates. Which of the following processes could MOST effectively mitigate these risks?
Application patch management
A recently installed application update caused a vital application to crash during the middle of the workday. The application remained down until a previous version could be reinstalled on the server, and this resulted in a significant loss of data and revenue. Which of the following could BEST prevent this issue from occurring again?
Application patch management
Which of the following are unique to white box testing methodologies? (Select two)
Application program interface API testing Function, statement and code coverage
Which of the following should a company implement to BEST mitigate from zero-day malicious code executing on employees' computers?
Application white listing
The call center supervisor has reported that many employees have been playing preinstalled games on company computers and this is reducing productivity. Which of the following would be MOST effective for preventing this behavior?
Application whitelisting
Which of the following describes a type of malware which is difficult to reverse engineer in a virtual lab?
Armored virus
The chief Risk officer is concerned about the new employee BYOD device policy and has requested the security department implement mobile security controls to protect corporate data in the event that a device is lost or stolen. The level of protection must not be compromised even if the communication SIM is removed from the device. Which of the following BEST meets the requirements? (Select TWO)
Asset tracking Device encryption
Which of the following describes the implementation of PAT?
Associating multiple public IP addresses with one private address
When confidentiality is the primary concern, and a secure channel for key exchange is not available, which of the following should be used for transmitting company documents?
Asymmetric
Which of the following is the BEST technology for the sender to use in order to secure the in-band exchange of a shared key?
Asymmetric cryptography
An attacker captures the encrypted communication between two parties for a week, but is unable to decrypt the messages. The attacker then compromises the session key during one exchange and successfully compromises a single message. The attacker plans to use this key to decrypt previously captured and future communications, but is unable to. This is because the encryption scheme in use adheres to:
Asymmetric encryption
A cafe provides laptops for Internet access to their customers. The cafe is located in the center corridor of a busy shopping mall. The company has experienced several laptop thefts from the cafe during peak shopping hours of the day. Corporate has asked that the IT department provide a solution to eliminate laptop theft. Which of the following would provide the IT department with the BEST solution?
Attach cable locks to each laptop
Which of the following allows a network administrator to implement an access control policy based on individual user characteristics and NOT on job function?
Attributes based
A network administrator has a separate user account with rights to the domain administrator group. However, they cannot remember the password to this account and are not able to login to the server when needed. Which of the following is MOST accurate in describing the type of issue the administrator is experiencing?
Authentication
A user ID and password together provide which of the following?
Authentication
During an application design, the development team specifics a LDAP module for single sign-on communication with the company's access control database. This is an example of which of the following?
Authentication
In Kerberos, the Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) is used for which of the following?
Authentication
RADIUS provides which of the following?
Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
Recently several employees were victims of a phishing email that appeared to originate from the company president. The email claimed the employees would be disciplined if they did not click on a malicious link in the message. Which of the following principles of social engineering mad attack successful?
Authority
An attacker impersonates a fire marshal and demands access to the datacenter under the threat of a fine. Which of the following reasons make this effective? (Select two.)
Authority Scarcity
An insurance company requires an account recovery process so that information created by an employee can be accessed after that employee is no longer with the firm. Which of the following is the BEST approach to implement this process?
Authorized employees have the ability to reset passwords so that the data is accessible
A customer service department has a business need to send high volumes of confidential information to customers electronically. All emails go through a DLP scanner. Which of the following is the BEST solution to meet the business needs and protect confidential information?
Automatically encrypt impacted outgoing emails
A company that purchased an HVAC system for the datacenter is MOST concerned with which of the following?
Availability
A network administrator has purchased two devices that will act as failovers for each other. Which of the following concepts does this BEST illustrate?
Availability
A security administrator has just finished creating a hot site for the company. This implementation relates to which of the following concepts?
Availability
A product manager is concerned about continuing operations at a facility located in a region undergoing significant political unrest. After consulting with senior management, a decision is made to suspend operations at the facility until the situation stabilizes. Which of the following risk management strategies BEST describes management's response?
Avoidance
A security team has established a security awareness program. Which of the following would BEST prove the success of the program?
Metrics
Sara, a security engineer, is testing encryption ciphers for performance. Which of the following ciphers offers strong encryption with the FASTEST speed?
Blowfish
Which of the following should identify critical systems and components?
BCP
Two programmers write a new secure application for the human resources department to store personal identifiable information. The programmers make the application available to themselves using an uncommon port along with an ID and password only they know. This is an example of which of the following?
Backdoor
Which of the following types of malware is designed to provide access to a system when normal authentication fails?
Backdoor
A trojan was recently discovered on a server. There are now concerns that there has been a security breach that allows unauthorized people to access data. The administrator should be looking for the presence of a/an:
Backdoor.
Which of the following is a directional antenna that can be used in point-to-point or point-tomulti- point WiFi communication systems? (Select TWO).
Backfire, Dish
The finance department works with a bank which has recently had a number of cyber attacks. The finance department is concerned that the banking website certificates have been compromised. Which of the following can the finance department check to see if any of the bank's certificates are still valid?
Bank's CRL
Which of the following should be used when a business needs a block cipher with minimal key size for internal encryption?
Blowfish
A new security analyst is given the task of determining whether any of the company's servers are vulnerable to a recently discovered attack on an old version of SSH. Which of the following is the quickest FIRST step toward determining the version of SSH running on these servers?
Banner grabbing
In performing an authorized penetration test of an organization's system security, a penetration tester collects information pertaining to the application versions that reside on a server. Which of the following is the best way to collect this type of information?
Banner grabbing
Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to identify change from the standard configuration on a server?
Baseline review
Several users report to the administrator that they are having issues downloading files from the file server. Which of the following assessment tools can be used to determine if there is an issue with the file server?
Baselines
A computer is suspected of being compromised by malware. The security analyst examines the computer and finds that a service called Telnet is running and connecting to an external website over port 443. This Telnet service was found by comparing the system's services to the list of standard services on the company's system image. This review process depends on:
Baselining.
In which of the following categories would creating a corporate privacy policy, drafting acceptable use policies, and group based access control be classified?
Best practice
Which of the following is characterized by an attack against a mobile device?
Blue jacking
A network technician is on the phone with the system administration team. Power to the server room was lost and servers need to be restarted. The DNS services must be the first to be restarted. Several machines are powered off. Assuming each server only provides one service, which of the following should be powered on FIRST to establish DNS services?
Bind server
A project manager is evaluating proposals for a cloud commuting project. The project manager is particularly concerned about logical security controls in place at the service provider's facility. Which of the following sections of the proposal would be MOST important to review, given the project manager's concerns?
Biometric access system
A technician wants to implement a dual factor authentication system that will enable the organization to authorize access to sensitive systems on a need-to-know basis. Which of the following should be implemented during the authorization stage?
Biometrics
Used in conjunction, which of the following are PII? (Select TWO).
Birthday, Full name
A company hires a penetration testing team to test its overall security posture. The organization has not disclosed any information to the penetration testing team and has allocated five days for testing. Which of the following types of testing will the penetration testing team have to conduct?
Black box
The security consultant is assigned to test a client's new software for security, after logs show targeted attacks from the Internet. To determine the weaknesses, the consultant has no access to the application program interfaces, code, or data structures. This is an example of which of the following types of testing?
Black box
A security assurance officer is preparing a plan to measure the technical state of a customer's enterprise. The testers employed to perform the audit will be given access to the customer facility and network. The testers will not be given access to the details of custom developed software used by the customer. However the testers with have access to the source code for several open source applications and pieces of networking equipment used at the facility, but these items will not be within the scope of the audit. Which of the following BEST describes the appropriate method of testing or technique to use in this scenario? (Select TWO)
Black box Penetration
A process in which the functionality of an application is tested without any knowledge of the internal mechanisms of the application is known as:
Black box testing
A security director has contracted an outside testing company to evaluate the security of a newly developed application. None of the parameters or internal workings of the application have been provided to the testing company prior to the start of testing. The testing company will be using:
Black box testing
The Quality Assurance team is testing a new third party developed application. The Quality team does not have any experience with the application. Which of the following is the team performing?
Black box testing
A company would like to prevent the use of a known set of applications from being used on company computers. Which of the following should the security administrator implement?
Blacklisting
A network stream needs to be encrypted. Sara, the network administrator, has selected a cipher which will encrypt 8 bits at a time before sending the data across the network. Which of the following has Sara selected?
Block cipher
A network consists of various remote sites that connect back to two main locations. Pete, the security administrator, needs to block TELNET access into the network. Which of the following, by default, would be the BEST choice to accomplish this goal?
Block port 23 on the network firewall
A company has been attacked and their website has been altered to display false information. The security administrator disables the web server service before restoring the website from backup. An audit was performed on the server and no other data was altered. Which of the following should be performed after the server has been restored?
Block port 443 on the web server
A firewall technician has been instructed to disable all non-secure ports on a corporate firewall. The technician has blocked traffic on port 21, 69, 80, and 137-139. The technician has allowed traffic on ports 22 and 443. Which of the following correctly lists the protocols blocked and allowed?
Blocked: FTP, TFTP, HTTP, NetBIOS; Allowed: SFTP, SSH, SCP, HTTPS
A security technician wants to improve the strength of a weak key by making it more secure against brute force attacks. Which of the following would achieve this?
Blowfish
An administrator must select an algorithm to encrypt data at rest. Which of the following could be used?
Blowfish
Jane, a VPN administrator, was asked to implement an encryption cipher with a MINIMUM effective security of 128-bits. Which of the following should Jane select for the tunnel encryption?
Blowfish
Pete, a security analyst, has been tasked with explaining the different types of malware to his colleagues. The two malware types that the group seems to be most interested in are botnets and viruses. Which of the following explains the difference between these two types of malware?
Botnets are a subset of malware which are used as part of DDoS attacks.
Which of the following can be used by a security administrator to successfully recover a user's forgotten password on a password protected file?
Brute force
A malicious individual is attempting to write too much data to an application's memory. Which of the following describes this type of attack?
Buffer overflow
A security administrator examines a network session to a compromised database server with a packet analyzer. Within the session there is a repeated series of the hex character 90 (x90). Which of the following attack types has occurred?
Buffer overflow
An administrator discovers the following log entry on a server. Nov 12 2013 00:23:45 httpd[2342]: /app2/prod/process.php?input=change.cd%20./././ect: cat%20shadow Which of the following attacks is being attempted?
Buffer overflow
Data execution prevention is a feature in most operating systems intended to protect against which type of attack?
Buffer overflow
Failure to validate the size of a variable before writing it to memory could result in which of the following application attacks?
Buffer overflow
It is MOST difficult to harden against which of the following?
Buffer overflow
Sara, an application developer, implemented error and exception handling alongside input validation. Which of the following does this help prevent?
Buffer overflow
Which of the following application attacks is used to gain access to SEH?
Buffer overflow
While opening an email attachment, Pete, a customer, receives an error that the application has encountered an unexpected issue and must be shut down. This could be an example of which of the following attacks?
Buffer overflow
server administrator notes that a legacy application often stops running due to a memory error. When reviewing the debugging logs, they notice code being run calling an internal process to exploit the machine. Which of the following attacks does this describe?
Buffer overflow
Which of the following was launched against a company based on the following IDS log? 122.41.15.252 - - [21/May/2012:00:17:20 +1200] "GET /index.php?username=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAA AAA HTTP/1.1" 200 2731 "http://www.company.com/cgibin/ forum/commentary.pl/noframes/read/209" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Hotbar 4.4.7.0)"
Buffer overflow attack
Ann, a security administrator, is strengthening the security controls of the company's campus. Her goal is to prevent people from accessing open locations that are not supervised, such as around the receiving dock. She is also concerned that employees are using these entry points as a way of bypassing the security guard at the main entrance. Which of the following should Ann recommend that would BEST address her concerns?
Build fences around campus with gate entrances
In the case of a major outage or business interruption, the security office has documented the expected loss of earnings, potential fines and potential consequence to customer service. Which of the following would include the MOST detail on these objectives?
Business Impact Analysis
A company's chief information officer (CIO) has analyzed the financial loss associated with the company's database breach. They calculated that one single breach could cost the company $1,000,000 at a minimum. Which of the following documents is the CIO MOST likely updating?
Business impact analysis
When reviewing a digital certificate for accuracy, which of the following would Matt, a security administrator, focus on to determine who affirms the identity of the certificate owner?
CA
Which of the following components MUST be trusted by all parties in PKI?
CA
An access point has been configured for AES encryption but a client is unable to connect to it. Which of the following should be configured on the client to fix this issue?
CCMP
A company has two server administrators that work overnight to apply patches to minimize disruption to the company. With the limited working staff, a security engineer performs a risk assessment to ensure the protection controls are in place to monitor all assets including the administrators in case of an emergency. Which of the following should be in place?
CCTV
A security technician is implementing PKI on a Network. The technician wishes to reduce the amount of bandwidth used when verifying the validity of a certificate. Which of the following should the technician implement?
CRL
A security manager received reports of several laptops containing confidential data stolen out of a lab environment. The lab is not a high security area and is secured with physical key locks. The security manager has no information to provide investigators related to who may have stolen the laptops. Which of the following should the security manager implement to improve legal and criminal investigations in the future?
CCTV
A security administrator is tasked with implementing centralized management of all network devices. Network administrators will be required to logon to network devices using their LDAP credentials. All command executed by network administrators on network devices must fall within a preset list of authorized commands and must be logged to a central facility. Which of the following configuration commands should be implemented to enforce this requirement?
CN=company, CN=com, OU=netadmin, DC=192.32.10.233
A security administrator must implement a system to ensure that invalid certificates are not used by a custom developed application. The system must be able to check the validity of certificates even when internet access is unavailable. Which of the following MUST be implemented to support this requirement?
CRL
A security administrator needs a locally stored record to remove the certificates of a terminated employee. Which of the following describes a service that could meet these requirements?
CRL
An advantage of virtualizing servers, databases, and office applications is:
Centralized management.
A user tries to visit a web site with a revoked certificate. In the background a server from the certificate authority only sends the browser revocation information about the domain the user is visiting. Which of the following is being used by the certificate authority in this exchange?
CRL
Joe, a user, reports to the system administrator that he is receiving an error stating his certificate has been revoked. Which of the following is the name of the database repository for these certificates?
CRL
Public key certificates and keys that are compromised or were issued fraudulently are listed on which of the following?
CRL
The key management organization has implemented a key escrowing function. Which of the following technologies can provide protection for the PKI's escrowed keys?
CRL
When employees that use certificates leave the company they should be added to which of the following?
CRL
Which of the following MUST be updated immediately when an employee is terminated to prevent unauthorized access?
CRL
Which of the following should a security technician implement to identify untrusted certificates?
CRL
Which of the following provides a static record of all certificates that are no longer valid?
CRLs
An administrator needs to renew a certificate for a web server. Which of the following should be submitted to a CA?
CSR
The security administrator generates a key pair and sends one key inside a rest file to a third party. The third party sends back a signed file. In this scenario, the file sent by the administrator is a:
CSR
Which of the following can be used as an equipment theft deterrent?
Cable locks
Which of the following devices will help prevent a laptop from being removed from a certain location?
Cable locks
Which of the following is the proper way to quantify the total monetary damage resulting from an exploited vulnerability?
Calculate the ALE
Which of the following is a penetration testing method?
Calling the target's helpdesk, requesting a password reset
After connecting to the corporate network a user types the URL if a popular social media website in the browser but reports being redirected to a login page with the corporate logo. Which of the following is this an example of?
Captive portal
An intrusion has occurred in an internet facing system. The security administrator would like to gather forensic evidence while the system is still in operation. Which of the following procedures should the administrator perform FIRST on the system?
Capture network traffic
Which of the following should Jane, a security administrator, perform before a hard drive is analyzed with forensics tools?
Capture system image
To ensure proper evidence collection, which of the following steps should be performed FIRST?
Capture the system image
Which of the following types of trust models is used by a PKI?
Centralized
A company has recently begun to provide internal security awareness for employees. Which of the following would be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the training?
Certificate of completion
A new mobile banking application is being developed and uses SSL / TLS certificates but penetration tests show that it is still vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, such as DNS hijacking. Which of the following would mitigate this attack?
Certificate pinning
A CA is compromised and attacks start distributing maliciously signed software updates. Which of the following can be used to warn users about the malicious activity?
Certificate revocation list
Which of the following identifies certificates that have been compromised or suspected of being compromised?
Certificate revocation list
Pete, an employee, needs a certificate to encrypt data. Which of the following would issue Pete a certificate?
Certification authority
A compromised workstation utilized in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack has been removed from the network and an image of the hard drive has been created. However, the system administrator stated that the system was left unattended for several hours before the image was created. In the event of a court case, which of the following is likely to be an issue with this incident?
Chain of custody
After receiving the hard drive from detectives, the forensic analyst for a court case used a log to capture corresponding events prior to sending the evidence to lawyers. Which of the following do these actions demonstrate?
Chain of custody
Computer evidence at a crime scene is documented with a tag stating who had possession of the evidence at a given time. Which of the following does this illustrate?
Chain of custody
The security manager received a report that an employee was involved in illegal activity and has saved data to a workstation's hard drive. During the investigation, local law enforcement's criminal division confiscates the hard drive as evidence. Which of the following forensic procedures is involved?
Chain of custody
Which of the following is the MOST important step for preserving evidence during forensic procedures?
Chain of custody
A security engineer is given new application extensions each month that need to be secured prior to implementation. They do not want the new extensions to invalidate or interfere with existing application security. Additionally, the engineer wants to ensure that the new requirements are approved by the appropriate personnel. Which of the following should be in place to meet these two goals? (Select TWO).
Change Control Policy, Regression Testing Policy
A systems administrator has made several unauthorized changes to the server cluster that resulted in a major outage. This event has been brought to the attention of the Chief Information Office (CIO) and he has requested immediately implement a risk mitigation strategy to prevent this type of event from reoccurring. Which of the following would be the BEST risk mitigation strategy to implement in order to meet this request?
Change Management
Ann the IT director wants to ensure that as hoc changes are not making their way to the production applications. Which of the following risk mitigation strategies should she implement in her department?
Change management
Developers currently have access to update production servers without going through an approval process. Which of the following strategies would BEST mitigate this risk?
Change management
Which of the following MOST specifically defines the procedures to follow when scheduled system patching fails resulting in system outages?
Change management
Which of the following mitigation strategies is established to reduce risk when performing updates to business critical systems?
Change management
A company researched the root cause of a recent vulnerability in its software. It was determined that the vulnerability was the result of two updates made in the last release. Each update alone would not have resulted in the vulnerability. In order to prevent similar situations in the future, the company should improve which of the following?
Change management procedures
A resent OS patch caused an extended outage. It took the IT department several hours to uncover the cause of the issue due to the system owner who installed the patch being out of the office. Which of the following could help reduce the likelihood of this situation occurring in the future?
Change management procedures
A security administrator wishes to increase the security of the wireless network. Which of the following BEST addresses this concern?
Change the encryption from TKIP-based to CCMP-based.
A retail store uses a wireless network for its employees to access inventory from anywhere in the store. Due to concerns regarding the aging wireless network, the store manager has brought in a consultant to harden the network. During the site survey, the consultant discovers that the network was using WEP encryption. Which of the following would be the BEST course of action for the consultant to recommend?
Change the encryption used so that the encryption protocol is CCMP-based.
Separation of duties is often implemented between developers and administrators in order to separate which of the following?
Changes to program code and the ability to deploy to production
Which of the following is an attack vector that can cause extensive physical damage to a datacenter without physical access?
Changing environmental controls
Users have been reporting that their wireless access point is not functioning. They state that it allows slow connections to the internet, but does not provide access to the internal network. The user provides the SSID and the technician logs into the company's access point and finds no issues. Which of the following should the technician do?
Check the MAC address of the AP to which the users are connecting to determine if it is an imposter
hich of the following is the BEST way to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF) attacks?
Check the referrer field in the HTTP header
A system administrator wants to use open source software but is worried about the source code being comprised. As a part of the download and installation process, the administrator should verify the integrity of the software by:
Checking the has against an official mirror that contains the same file
A bank is planning to implement a third factor to protect customer ATM transactions. Which of the following could the bank implement?
Chip and Pin
A datacenter has suffered repeated burglaries which led to equipment theft and arson. In the past, the thieves have demonstrated a determination to bypass any installed safeguards. After mantraps were installed to prevent tailgating, the thieves crashed through the wall of datacenter with a vehicle after normal business hours. Which of the following options could improve the safety and security of the datacenter further? (Select two)
Cipher locks K rated fencing
Which of the following security concepts would Sara, the security administrator, use to mitigate the risk of data loss?
Clean desk policy
XYZ Corporation is about to purchase another company to expand its operations. The CEO is concerned about information leaking out, especially with the cleaning crew that comes in at night. The CEO would like to ensure no paper files are leaked. Which of the following is the BEST policy to implement?
Clean desk policy
A company often processes sensitive data for the government. The company also processes a large amount of commercial work and as such is often providing tours to potential customers that take them into various workspaces. Which of the following security methods can provide protection against tour participants viewing sensitive information at minimal cost?
Clean-desk policy
Which of the following does full disk encryption prevent?
Clear text access
Certificates are used for: (Select TWO).
Client authentication, Code signing.
An administrator is having difficulty configuring WPA2 Enterprise using EAP-PEAPMSCHAPv2. The administrator has configured the wireless access points properly, and has configured policies on the RADIUS server and configured settings on the client computers. Which of the following is missing?
Client certificates are needed
Which of the following is described as an attack against an application using a malicious file?
Client side attack
An attacker has gained access to the company's web server by using the administrator's credentials. The attacker then begins to work on compromising the sensitive data on other servers. Which off the following BEST describes this type of attack?
Client-side attack
A certificate used on an ecommerce web server is about to expire. Which of the following will occur if the certificate is allowed to expire?
Clients will be notified that the certificate is invalid.
When of the following technologies would be MOST appropriate to utilize when testing a new software patch before a company-wide deplyment?
Cloud Computing
Multi-tenancy is a concept found in which of the following?
Cloud computing
The system administrator notices that their application is no longer able to keep up with the large amounts of traffic their server is receiving daily. Several packets are dropped and sometimes the server is taken offline. Which of the following would be a possible solution to look into to ensure their application remains secure and available?
Cloud computing
Which of the following offers the LEAST amount of protection against data theft by USB drives?
Cloud computing
Which of the following technologies can store multi-tenant data with different security requirements?
Cloud computing
A company needs to provide web-based access to shared data sets to mobile users, while maintaining a standardized set of security controls. Which of the following technologies is the MOST appropriate storage?
Cloud storage
An administrator wants to ensure that the reclaimed space of a hard drive has been sanitized while the computer is in use. Which of the following can be implemented?
Cluster tip wiping
Jane has implemented an array of four servers to accomplish one specific task. This is BEST known as which of the following?
Clustering
Sara, a security architect, has developed a framework in which several authentication servers work together to increase processing power for an application. Which of the following does this represent?
Clustering
Which of the following can Pete, a security administrator, use to distribute the processing effort when generating hashes for a password cracking program?
Clustering
Which of the following concepts allows an organization to group large numbers of servers together in order to deliver a common service?
Clustering
Which of the following technologies was developed to allow companies to use lessexpensive storage while still maintaining the speed and redundancy required in a business environment?
Clustering
Company XYZ has encountered an increased amount of buffer overflow attacks. The programmer has been tasked to identify the issue and report any findings. Which of the following is the FIRST step of action recommended in this scenario?
Code Review
A new mobile application is being developed in-house. Security reviews did not pick up any major flaws, however vulnerability scanning results show fundamental issues at the very end of the project cycle. Which of the following security activities should also have been performed to discover vulnerabilities earlier in the lifecycle?
Code review
Ann, the software security engineer, works for a major software vendor. Which of the following practices should be implemented to help prevent race conditions, buffer overflows, and other similar vulnerabilities prior to each production release?
Code review
Which of the following is a black box testing methodology?
Code, function, and statement coverage review
The information security team does a presentation on social media and advises the participants not to provide too much personal information on social media web sites. This advice would BEST protect people from which of the following?
Cognitive passwords attacks
A user authenticates to a local directory server. The user then opens a virtualization client to connect to a virtual server. Instead of supplying a username/password combination, the user simply checks a use directory credentials checkbox to authenticate to the virtual server. Which of the following authentication types has been utilized?
Common access card
Which the following is the GREATEST risk to a company by allowing employees to physically bring their personal smartphones to work?
Company Cannot automate patch management on personally-owned devices.
Company policy requires employees to change their passwords every 60 days. The security manager has verified all systems are configured to expire passwords after 60 days. Despite the policy and technical configuration, weekly password audits suggest that some employees have had the same weak passwords in place longer than 60 days. Which of the following password parameters is MOST likely misconfigured?
Complexity
Company policy requires the use if passphrases instead if passwords. Which of the following technical controls MUST be in place in order to promote the use of passphrases?
Complexity
The chief security officer (CSO) has issued a new policy to restrict generic or shared accounts on company systems. Which of the following sections of the policy requirements will have the most impact on generic and shared accounts?
Concurrent logins
The chief security officer (CSO) has reported a rise in data loss but no break-ins have occurred. By doing which of the following would the CSO MOST likely to reduce the number of incidents?
Conduct security awareness training
Joe wants to employ MD5 hashing on the company file server. Which of the following is Joe trying to achieve?
Confidentiality
A major medical corporation is investigating deploying a web based portal for patients to access their medical records. The medical corporation has a long history of maintaining IT security but is considering having a third party vendor create the web portal. Which of the following areas is MOST important for the Chief Information Security Officer to focus on when reviewing proposal from vendors interested in creating the web portal?
Confidentiality and availability
Which of the following concepts are included on the three sides of the "security triangle"? (Select THREE).
Confidentiality, Availability, Integrity
Digital certificates can be used to ensure which of the following? (Select TWO).
Confidentiality, Non-repudiation
A security administrator is required to submit a detailed implementation plan and back out plan to get approval prior to updating the firewall and other security devices. Which of the following types of risk mitigation strategies is being followed?
Configuration management
Which of the following encompasses application patch management?
Configuration management
An organization is required to log all user internet activity. Which of the following would accomplish this requirement?
Configure a proxy server on the internal network and configure the proxy server to log all web traffic to a syslog server
A security technician wishes to gather and analyze all Web traffic during a particular time period. Which of the following represents the BEST approach to gathering the required data?
Configure a proxy server to log all traffic destined for ports 80 and 443.
An administrator needs to protect against downgrade attacks due to various vulnerabilities in SSL/TLS. Which of the following actions should be performed? (Select TWO)
Configure cipher order Re-key the SSL certificate
A security administrator is notified that users attached to a particular switch are having intermittent connectivity issues. Upon further research, the administrator finds evidence of an ARP spoofing attack. Which of the following could be utilized to provide protection from this type of attack?
Configure flood guards on the switch.
At an organization, unauthorized users have been accessing network resources via unused network wall jacks. Which of the following would be used to stop unauthorized access?
Configure port security.
Joe the system administrator has noticed an increase in network activity from outside sources. He wishes to direct traffic to avoid possible penetration while heavily monitoring the traffic with little to no impact on the current server load. Which of the following would be BEST course of action?
Configure several servers into a honeynet
While troubleshooting a new wireless 802.11 ac network an administrator discovers that several of the older systems cannot connect. Upon investigation the administrator discovers that the older devices only support 802.11 and RC4. The administrator does not want to affect the performance of the newer 802.11 ac devices on the network. Which of the following should the administrator do to accommodate all devices and provide the MOST security?
Configure the AP in protected mode to utilize WPA2 with CCMP
In the course of troubleshooting wireless issues from users a technician discovers that users are connecting to their home SSIDs which the technician scans but detects none of these SSIDs. The technician eventually discovers a rouge access point that spoofs any SSID request. Which of the following allows wireless use while mitigating this type of attack?
Configure the device to verify access point MAC addresses
A security administrator has concerns regarding employees saving data on company provided mobile devices. Which of the following would BEST address the administrator's concerns?
Configure the devices so that removable media use is disabled.
Ann a member of the Sales Department has been issued a company-owned laptop for use when traveling to remote sites. Which of the following would be MOST appropriate when configuring security on her laptop?
Configure the laptop with a BIOS password
Ann, the network administrator, is receiving reports regarding a particular wireless network in the building. The network was implemented for specific machines issued to the developer department, but the developers are stating that they are having connection issues as well as slow bandwidth. Reviewing the wireless router's logs, she sees that devices not belonging to the developers are connecting to the access point. Which of the following would BEST alleviate the developer's reports?
Configure the router so that wireless access is based upon the connecting device's hardware address.
An administrator has a network subnet dedicated to a group of users. Due to concerns regarding data and network security, the administrator desires to provide network access for this group only. Which of the following would BEST address this desire?
Configure the switch to allow only traffic from computers based upon their physical address.
Joe, a security administrator, believes that a network breach has occurred in the datacenter as a result of a misconfigured router access list, allowing outside access to an SSH server. Which of the following should Joe search for in the log files?
Connections to port 22
Which of the following would Pete, a security administrator, do to limit a wireless signal from penetrating the exterior walls?
Consider antenna placement
A router was shut down as a result of a DoS attack. Upon review of the router logs, it was determined that the attacker was able to connect to the router using a console cable to complete the attack. Which of the following should have been implemented on the router to prevent this attack? (Select two)
Console access to the router should have been disabled Physical access to the router should have been restricted
A user has received an email from an external source which asks for details on the company's new product line set for release in one month. The user has a detailed spec sheet but it is marked "Internal Proprietary Information". Which of the following should the user do NEXT?
Contact the help desk and/or incident response team to determine next steps
Virtualization that allows an operating system kernel to run multiple isolated instances of the guest is called:
Containers
Which of the following security strategies allows a company to limit damage to internal systems and provides loss control?
Containment strategies
Layer 7 devices used to prevent specific types of html tags are called:
Content filters
Which of the following is being tested when a company's payroll server is powered off for eight hours?
Continuity of operations plan
A security administrator returning from a short vacation receives an account lock-out message when attempting to log into the computer. After getting the account unlocked the security administrator immediately notices a large amount of emails alerts pertaining to several different user accounts being locked out during the past three days. The security administrator uses system logs to determine that the lock-outs were due to a brute force attack on all accounts that has been previously logged into that machine. Which of the following can be implemented to reduce the likelihood of this attack going undetected?
Continuous monitoring
Which of the following techniques enables a highly secured organization to assess security weaknesses in real time?
Continuous monitoring
In order to maintain oversight of a third party service provider, the company is going to implement a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) system. This system is promising to provide overall security posture coverage. Which of the following is the MOST important activity that should be considered?
Continuous security monitoring
The information security technician wants to ensure security controls are deployed and functioning as intended to be able to maintain an appropriate security posture. Which of the following security techniques is MOST appropriate to do this?
Continuous security monitoring
An overseas branch office within a company has many more technical and non-technical security incidents than other parts of the company. Which of the following management controls should be introduced to the branch office to improve their state of security?
Continuous security monitoring processes
A forensic analyst is reviewing electronic evidence after a robbery. Security cameras installed at the site were facing the wrong direction to capture the incident. The analyst ensures the cameras are turned to face the proper direction. Which of the following types of controls is being used?
Corrective
Joe, a technician at the local power plant, notices that several turbines had ramp up in cycles during the week. Further investigation by the system engineering team determined that a timed .exe file had been uploaded to the system control console during a visit by international contractors. Which of the following actions should Joe recommend?
Create a VLAN for the SCADA
The security administrator has noticed cars parking just outside of the building fence line. Which of the following security measures can the administrator use to help protect the company's WiFi network against war driving? (Select TWO)
Create a honeynet Adjust power level controls
Ann, a security administrator is hardening the user password policies. She currently has the following in place. Passwords expire every 60 days Password length is at least eight characters Passwords must contain at least one capital letter and one numeric character Passwords cannot be reused until the password has been changed eight times She learns that several employees are still using their original password after the 60-day forced change. Which of the following can she implement to BEST mitigate this?
Create a rule that users can only change their passwords once every two weeks
A company has 5 users. Users 1, 2 and 3 need access to payroll and users 3, 4 and 5 need access to sales. Which of the following should be implemented to give the appropriate access while enforcing least privilege?
Create a sales group with users 3, 4 and 5. Create a payroll group with users 1, 2 and 3.
A small company can only afford to buy an all-in-one wireless router/switch. The company has 3 wireless BYOD users and 2 web servers without wireless access. Which of the following should the company configure to protect the servers from the user devices? (Select TWO).
Create a server VLAN, Create an ACL to access the server
A company administrator has a firewall with an outside interface connected to the Internet and an inside interface connected to the corporate network. Which of the following should the administrator configure to redirect traffic destined for the default HTTP port on the outside interface to an internal server listening on port 8080?
Create a static PAT from port 80 on the outside interface to the internal interface on port 8080
Matt, the IT Manager, wants to create a new network available to virtual servers on the same hypervisor, and does not want this network to be routable to the firewall. How could this BEST be accomplished?
Create a virtual switch.
A company is about to release a very large patch to its customers. An administrator is required to test patch installations several times prior to distributing them to customer PCs. Which of the following should the administrator use to test the patching process quickly and often?
Create a virtualized sandbox and utilize snapshots
Pete, a network administrator, is capturing packets on the network and notices that a large amount of the traffic on the LAN is SIP and RTP protocols. Which of the following should he do to segment that traffic from the other traffic?
Create a voice VLAN.
An administrator has configured a new Linux server with the FTP service. Upon verifying that the service was configured correctly, the administrator has several users test the FTP service. Users report that they are able to connect to the FTP service and download their personal files, however, they cannot transfer new files to the server. Which of the following will most likely fix the uploading issue for the users?
Create an ACL to allow the FTP service write access to user directories
A company hired Joe, an accountant. The IT administrator will need to create a new account for Joe. The company uses groups for ease of management and administration of user accounts. Joe will need network access to all directories, folders and files within the accounting department. Which of the following configurations will meet the requirements?
Create an account with role-based access control for accounting.
A security administrator determined that users within the company are installing unapproved software. Company policy dictates that only certain applications may be installed or ran on the user's computers without exception. Which of the following should the administrator do to prevent all unapproved software from running on the user's computer?
Create an application whitelist and use OS controls to enforce it
Ann, a security administrator at a call center, has been experiencing problems with users intentionally installing unapproved and occasionally malicious software on their computers. Due to the nature of their jobs, Ann cannot change their permissions. Which of the following would BEST alleviate her concerns?
Create an approved application list and block anything not on it
Ann, a security administrator at a call center, has been experiencing problems with users intentionally installing unapproved and occasionally malicious software on their computers. Due to the nature of their jobs, Ann cannot change their permissions. Which of the following would BEST alleviate her concerns?
Create an approved application list and block anything not on it.
During a recent audit, the auditors cited the company's current virtual machine infrastructure as a concern. The auditors cited the fact that servers containing sensitive customer information reside on the same physical host as numerous virtual machines that follow less stringent security guild lines. Which of the following would be the best choice to implement to address this audit concern while maintain the current infrastructure?
Create new VLANs and segment the network according to the level of data sensitivity
A new network administrator is setting up a new file server for the company. Which of the following would be the BEST way to manage folder security?
Create security groups for each folder and assign appropriate users to each group
An organization has three divisions: Accounting, Sales, and Human Resources. Users in the Accounting division require access to a server in the Sales division, but no users in the Human Resources division should have access to resources in any other division, nor should any users in the Sales division have access to resources in the Accounting division. Which of the following network segmentation schemas would BEST meet this objective?
Create three separate VLANS, one for each division.
A chief information officer (CIO) is concerned about PII contained in the organization's various data warehouse platforms. Since not all of the PII transferred to the organization is required for proper operation of the data warehouse application, the CIO requests the in needed PII data be parsed and securely discarded. Which of the following controls would be MOST appropriate in this scenario?
Creation of policies and procedures
A company recently received accreditation for a secure network, In the accreditation letter, the auditor specifies that the company must keep its security plan current with changes in the network and evolve the systems to adapt to new threats. Which of the following security controls will BEST achieve this goal?
Credential management
Which of the following is an example of multifactor authentication?
Credit card and PIN
Joe an application developer is building an external facing marketing site. There is an area on the page where clients may submit their feedback to articles that are posted. Joe filters client-side JAVA input. Which of the following is Joe attempting to prevent?
Cross site scripting
A victim is logged onto a popular home router forum site in order to troubleshoot some router configuration issues. The router is a fairly standard configuration and has an IP address of 192.168.1.1. The victim is logged into their router administrative interface in one tab and clicks a forum link in another tab. Due to clicking the forum link, the home router reboots. Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred?
Cross-site request forgery
A web application is configured to target browsers and allow access to bank accounts to siphon money to a foreign account. This is an example of which of the following attacks?
Cross-site scripting
A major security risk with co-mingling of hosts with different security requirements is:
Security policy violations.
A technician has just installed a new firewall onto the network. Users are reporting that they cannot reach any website. Upon further investigation, the technician determines that websites can be reached by entering their IP addresses. Which of the following ports may have been closed to cause this issue?
DNS
Which of the following attacks impact the availability of a system? (Select TWO).
Smurf DDoS
A server with the IP address of 10.10.2.4 has been having intermittent connection issues. The logs show repeated connection attempts from the following IPs: 10.10.3.16 10.10.3.23 212.178.24.26 217.24.94.83 These attempts are overloading the server to the point that it cannot respond to traffic. Which of the following attacks is occurring?
DDoS
Many employees are receiving email messages similar to the one shown below: From IT department To employee Subject email quota exceeded Pease click on the following link http:www.website.info/email.php?quota=1Gb and provide your username and password to increase your email quota. Upon reviewing other similar emails, the security administrator realized that all the phishing URLs have the following common elements; they all use HTTP, they all come from .info domains, and they all contain the same URI. Which of the following should the security administrator configure on the corporate content filter to prevent users from accessing the phishing URL, while at the same time minimizing false positives?
DENY http://*.info/email.php?quota=1Gb
Which of the following are restricted to 64-bit block sizes? (Select TWO).
DES 3DES
A chief privacy officer, Joe, is concerned that employees are sending emails to addresses outside of the company that contain PII. He asks that the security technician to implement technology that will mitigate this risk. Which of the following would be the best option?
DLP
A company is trying to limit the risk associated with the use of unapproved USB devices to copy documents. Which of the following would be the BEST technology control to use in this scenario?
DLP
A company wants to prevent end users from plugging unapproved smartphones into PCs and transferring data. Which of the following would be the BEST control to implement?
DLP
An employee recently lost a USB drive containing confidential customer data. Which of the following controls could be utilized to minimize the risk involved with the use of USB drives?
DLP
An organization processes credit card transactions and is concerned that an employee may intentionally email credit card numbers to external email addresses. This company should consider which of the following technologies?
DLP
The IT department has been tasked with reducing the risk of sensitive information being shared with unauthorized entities from computers it is saved on, without impeding the ability of the employees to access the internet. Implementing which of the following would be the best way to accomplish this objective?
DLP
The network security manager has been notified by customer service that employees have been sending unencrypted confidential information via email. Which of the following should the manager select to BEST detect and provide notification of these occurrences?
DLP
Which of the following controls would prevent an employee from emailing unencrypted information to their personal email account over the corporate network?
DLP
Which of the following will provide data encryption, key management and secure application launching?
DLP
A security administrator suspects that data on a server has been exhilarated as a result of un-authorized remote access. Which of the following would assist the administrator in confirming the suspicions? (Select TWO)
DLP alerts Log analysis
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned with moving an application to a SaaS cloud provider. Which of the following can be implemented to provide for data confidentiality assurance during and after the migration to the cloud?
DLP policy
A security administrator is segregating all web-facing server traffic from the internal network and restricting it to a single interface on a firewall. Which of the following BEST describes this new network?
DMZ
A security analyst needs to ensure all external traffic is able to access the company's frontend servers but protect all access to internal resources. Which of the following network design elements would MOST likely be recommended?
DMZ
When designing a new network infrastructure, a security administrator requests that the intranet web server be placed in an isolated area of the network for security purposes. Which of the following design elements would be implemented to comply with the security administrator's request?
DMZ
Which of the following design components is used to isolate network devices such as web
DMZ
Which of the following is the appropriate network structure used to protect servers and services that must be provided to external clients without completely eliminating access for internal users?
DMZ
Which of the following network architecture concepts is used to securely isolate at the boundary between networks?
DMZ
Which of the following are examples of network segmentation? (Select TWO).
DMZ Subnet
It is MOST important to make sure that the firewall is configured to do which of the following?
Deny all traffic and only permit by exception.
An employee attempts to go to a well-known bank site using the company-standard web browser by correctly typing in the address of the site into the web browser. The employee is directed to a website that looks like the bank's site but is not the actual bank site. The employee's user name and password are subsequently stolen. This is an example of which of the following?
DNS poisoning
Joe a system administrator receives reports that users attempting to reach the corporate website are arriving at an unfamiliar website instead. An investigation by a forensic analyst found that the name server log has several corporate IP addresses that were changed using Joe's credentials. Which of the following is this attack called?
DNS poisoning
Users at a company report that a popular news website keeps taking them to a web page with derogatory content. This is an example of which of the following?
DNS poisoning
Which of the following can take advantage of man in the middle techniques to prevent data exfiltration?
DNS poisoning
A network manager needs a cost-effective solution to allow for the restoration of information with a RPO of 24 hours. The disaster recovery plan also requires that backups occur within a restricted timeframe during the week and be take offsite weekly. Which of the following should the manager choose to BEST address these requirements?
Daily incremental backup to tape
Establishing a method to erase or clear cluster tips is an example of securing which of the following?
Data at rest
Establishing a method to erase or clear memory is an example of securing which of the following?
Data at rest
Joe a system architect wants to implement appropriate solutions to secure the company's distributed database. Which of the following concepts should be considered to help ensure data security? (Select TWO)
Data at rest Retention
Various employees have lost valuable customer data due to hard drives failing in company provided laptops. It has been discovered that the hard drives used in one model of laptops provided by the company has been recalled by the manufactory, The help desk is only able to replace the hard drives after they fail because there is no centralized records of the model of laptop given to each specific user. Which of the following could have prevented this situation from occurring?
Data backups
An organization is recovering data following a datacenter outage and determines that backup copies of files containing personal information were stored in an unsecure location, because the sensitivity was unknown. Which of the following activities should occur to prevent this in the future?
Data classification
Which of the following helps to apply the proper security controls to information?
Data classification
Elastic cloud computing environments often reuse the same physical hardware for multiple customers over time as virtual machines are instantiated and deleted. This has important implications for which of the following data security concerns?
Data confidentiality
An organization must implement controls to protect the confidentiality of its most sensitive data. The company is currently using a central storage system and group based access control for its sensitive information. Which of the following controls can further secure the data in the central storage system?
Data encryption
Allowing unauthorized removable devices to connect to computers increases the risk of which of the following?
Data exfiltration
A software developer places a copy of the source code for a sensitive internal application on a company laptop to work remotely. Which of the following policies is MOST likely being violated?
Data handling
A security administrator wants to ensure that the message the administrator sends out to their Chief Financial Officer (CFO) does not get changed in route. Which of the following is the administrator MOST concerned with?
Data integrity
Which of the following is a security risk regarding the use of public P2P as a method of collaboration?
Data integrity is susceptible to being compromised.
Corporate IM presents multiple concerns to enterprise IT. Which of the following concerns should Jane, the IT security manager, ensure are under control? (Select THREE).
Data leakage, Compliance, Malware
Several employees have been printing files that include personally identifiable information of customers. Auditors have raised concerns about the destruction of these hard copies after they are created, and management has decided the best way to address this concern is by preventing these files from being printed. Which of the following would be the BEST control to implement?
Data loss prevention
Ann, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), has agreed to allow users to bring their own device (BYOD) in order to leverage mobile technology without providing every user with a company owned device. She is concerned that users may not understand the company's rules, and she wants to limit potential legal concerns. Which of the following is the CTO concerned with?
Data ownership
If an organization wants to implement a BYOD policy, which of the following administrative control policy considerations MUST be addressed? (Select two)
Data ownership Geo-tagging
Which of the following is the primary security concern when deploying a mobile device on a network?
Data security
Which of the following types of data encryption would Matt, a security administrator, use to encrypt a specific table?
Database
A merchant acquirer has the need to store credit card numbers in a transactional database in a high performance environment. Which of the following BEST protects the credit card data?
Database field encryption
End-user awareness training for handling sensitive personally identifiable information would include secure storage and transmission of customer:
Date of birth.
A technician is configuring a wireless guest network. After applying the most recent changes the technician finds the new devices can no longer find the wireless network by name but existing devices are still able to use the wireless network. Which of the following security measures did the technician MOST likely implement to cause this Scenario?
Deactivation of SSID broadcast
A security administrator is using a software program to test the security of a wireless access point. After running the program for a few hours, the access point sends the wireless secret key back to the software program. Which of the following attacks is this an example of?
Deauth
Public keys are used for which of the following?
Decrypting the hash of an electronic signature
Joe has hired several new security administrators and have been explaining the4 design of the company's network. He has described the position and descriptions of the company's firewalls, IDS sensors, antivirus server, DMZs, and HIPS. Which of the following best describes the incorporation of these elements?
Defense in depth
The act of magnetically erasing all of the data on a disk is known as:
Degaussing
A security analyst is reviewing the following packet capture of an attack directed at a company's server located in the DMZ: Which of the following ACLs provides the BEST protection against the above attack and any further attacks from the same IP, while minimizing service interruption?
Deny TCP from 192.168.1.10 to 172.31.67.4
A security administrator suspects that an increase in the amount of TFTP traffic on the network is due to unauthorized file transfers, and wants to configure a firewall to block all TFTP traffic. Which of the following would accomplish this task?
Deny UDP port 69
During a recent investigation, an auditor discovered that an engineer's compromised workstation was being used to connect to SCADA systems while the engineer was not logged in. The engineer is responsible for administering the SCADA systems and cannot be blocked from connecting to them. The SCADA systems cannot be modified without vendor approval which requires months of testing. Which of the following is MOST likely to protect the SCADA systems from misuse?
Deploy NIPS at the edge of the SCADA network
A security engineer would like to analyze the effect of deploying a system without patching it to discover potential vulnerabilities. Which of the following practices would best allow for this testing while keeping the corporate network safe?
Deploy the system in a sandbox environment on the virtual machine
A financial company requires a new private network link with a business partner to cater for realtime and batched data flows. Which of the following activities should be performed by the IT security staff member prior to establishing the link?
Design review
Which of the following assessment techniques would a security administrator implement to ensure that systems and software are developed properly?
Design reviews
A security analyst performs the following activities: monitors security logs, installs surveillance cameras and analyzes trend reports. Which of the following job responsibilities is the analyst performing? (Select TWO).
Detect security incidents Implement monitoring controls
Which of the following is an important step in the initial stages of deploying a host-based firewall?
Determining the list of exceptions
A forensic analyst is reviewing electronic evidence after a robbery. Security cameras installed at the site do not record any footage. Which of the following types of controls was being used?
Deterrent
Having adequate lighting on the outside of a building is an example of which of the following security controls?
Deterrent
Visible security cameras are considered to be which of the following types of security controls?
Deterrent
A new hire wants to use a personally owned phone to access company resources. The new hire expresses concern about what happens to the data on the phone when they leave the company. Which of the following portions of the company's mobile device management configuration would allow the company data to be removed from the device without touching the new hire's data?
Device access control
Two organizations want to share sensitive data with one another from their IT systems to support a mutual customer base. Both organizations currently have secure network and security policies and procedures. Which of the following should be the PRIMARY security considerations by the security managers at each organization prior to sharing information? (Select THREE)
Device encryption SLA/ISA Data ownership
A business has recently adopted a policy allowing employees to use personal cell phones and tablets to access company email accounts while out of the office. Joe an employee was using a personal cell phone for email access and was recently terminated. It is suspected that Joe saved confidential client emails on his personal cell phone. Joe claims that the data on the phone is completely personal and refuse to allow the company access to inspect the cell phone. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this dispute?
Device ownership
Ann, a security administrator, wishes to replace their RADIUS authentication with a more secure protocol, which can utilize EAP. Which of the following would BEST fit her objective?
Diameter
Which of the following authentication methods can use the SCTP and TLS protocols for reliable packet transmissions?
Diameter
Which of the following password attacks involves attempting all kinds of keystroke combinations on the keyboard with the intention to gain administrative access?
Dictionary
Account lockout is a mitigation strategy used by Jane, the administrator, to combat which of the following attacks? (Select TWO).
Dictionary Brute force
Which of the following would an attacker use to penetrate and capture additional traffic prior to performing an IV attack?
Dictionary attacks
A security administrator must implement a secure key exchange protocol that will allow company clients to autonomously exchange symmetric encryption keys over an unencrypted channel. Which of the following MUST be implemented?
Diffie-Hellman
A security administrator needs to implement a technology that creates a secure key exchange. Neither party involved in the key exchange will have pre-existing knowledge of one another. Which of the following technologies would allow for this?
Diffie-Hellman
A security administrator wishes to implement a method of generating encryption keys from user passwords to enhance account security. Which of the following would accomplish this task?
Diffie-Hellman
A system adminitrator is configuring a site-to-site VPN tunnel. Which of the following should be configured on the VPN concentrator during the IKE phase?
Diffie-Hellman
An organization wants to conduct secure transactions of large data files. Before encrypting and exchanging the data files, the organization wants to ensure a secure exchange of keys. Which of the following algorithms is appropriate for securing the key exchange?
Diffie-Hellman
A security technician would like to use ciphers that generate ephemeral keys for secure communication. Which of the following algorithms support ephemeral modes? (Select TWO)
Diffie-Hellman RSA
An SSL session is taking place. After the handshake phase has been established and the cipher has been selected, which of the following are being used to secure data in transport? (Select TWO)
Diffie-Hellman RSA
Company A submitted a bid on a contract to do work for Company B via email. Company B was insistent that the bid did not come from Company A. Which of the following would have assured that the bid was submitted by Company A?
Digital Signatures
A project team is developing requirements of the new version of a web application used by internal and external users. The application already features username and password requirements for login, but the organization is required to implement multifactor authentication to meet regulatory requirements. Which of the following would be added requirements will satisfy the regulatory requirement? (Select THREE.)
Digital certificate Identity verification questions Tokenized mobile device
A company is implementing a system to transfer direct deposit information to a financial institution. One of the requirements is that the financial institution must be certain that the deposit amounts within the file have not been changed. Which of the following should be used to meet the requirement?
Digital signatures
A company would like to take electronic orders from a partner; however, they are concerned that a non-authorized person may send an order. The legal department asks if there is a solution that provides non-repudiation. Which of the following would meet the requirements of this scenario?
Digital signatures
A company's employees were victims of a spear phishing campaign impersonating the CEO. The company would now like to implement a solution to improve the overall security posture by assuring their employees that email originated from the CEO. Which of the following controls could they implement to BEST meet this goal?
Digital signatures
An information system owner has supplied a new requirement to the development team that calls for increased non-repudiation within the application. After undergoing several audits, the owner determined that current levels of non-repudiation were insufficient. Which of the following capabilities would be MOST appropriate to consider implementing is response to the new requirement?
Digital signatures
Two users need to securely share encrypted files via email. Company policy prohibits users from sharing credentials or exchanging encryption keys. Which of the following can be implemented to enable users to share encrypted data while abiding by company policies?
Digital signatures
An administrator is implementing a security control that only permits the execution of allowed programs. Which of the following are cryptography concepts that should be used to identify the allowed programs? (Select two.)
Digital signatures Hashing
A company must send sensitive data over a non-secure network via web services. The company suspects that competitors are actively trying to intercept all transmissions. Some of the information may be valuable to competitors, even years after it has been sent. Which of the following will help mitigate the risk in the scenario?
Digitally sign the data before transmission
Which of the following best practices makes a wireless network more difficult to find?
Disable SSID broadcast
The SSID broadcast for a wireless router has been disabled but a network administrator notices that unauthorized users are accessing the wireless network. The administor has determined that attackers are still able to detect the presence of the wireless network despite the fact the SSID has been disabled. Which of the following would further obscure the presence of the wireless network?
Disable responses to a broadcast probe request
Log file analysis on a router reveals several unsuccessful telnet attempts to the virtual terminal (VTY) lines. Which of the following represents the BEST configuration used in order to prevent unauthorized remote access while maintaining secure availability for legitimate users?
Disable telnet access to the VTY lines, enable SHH access to the VTY lines with PSK encryption
Given the log output: Max 15 00:15:23.431 CRT: #SEC_LOGIN-5-LOGIN_SUCCESS: Login Success [user: msmith] [Source: 10.0.12.45] [localport: 23] at 00:15:23:431 CET Sun Mar 15 2015 Which of the following should the network administrator do to protect data security?
Disable telnet and enable SSH
Users are utilizing thumb drives to connect to USB ports on company workstations. A technician is concerned that sensitive files can be copied to the USB drives. Which of the following mitigation techniques would address this concern? (Select TWO).
Disable the USB root hub within the OS. Disable USB within the workstations BIOS.
An auditor's report discovered several accounts with no activity for over 60 days. The accounts were later identified as contractors' accounts who would be returning in three months and would need to resume the activities. Which of the following would mitigate and secure the auditors finding?
Disable unnecessary contractor accounts and inform the auditor of the update.
A web administrator has just implemented a new web server to be placed in production. As part of the company's security plan, any new system must go through a security test before it is placed in production. The security team runs a port scan resulting in the following data: 21 tcp open FTP 23 tcp open Telnet 22 tcp open SSH 25 UDP open smtp 110 tcp open pop3 443 tcp open https Which of the following is the BEST recommendation for the web administrator?
Disable unnecessary services
An organization has hired a penetration tester to test the security of its ten web servers. The penetration tester is able to gain root/administrative access in several servers by exploiting vulnerabilities associated with the implementation of SMTP, POP, DNS, FTP, Telnet, and IMAP. Which of the following recommendations should the penetration tester provide to the organization to better protect their web servers in the future?
Disable unnecessary services
A recent audit had revealed weaknesses in the process of deploying new servers and network devices. Which of the following practices could be used to increase the security posture during deployment? (Select TWO).
Disable unnecessary services Change default password
A network security engineer notices unusual traffic on the network from a single IP attempting to access systems on port 23. Port 23 is not used anywhere on the network. Which of the following should the engineer do to harden the network from this type of intrusion in the future?
Disable unnecessary services on servers
A recent audit has revealed weaknesses in the process of deploying new servers and network devices. Which of the following practices could be used to increase the security posture during deployment? (Select TWO).
Disable unnecessary services, Change default passwords
Which of the following is a best practice when securing a switch from physical access?
Disable unused ports
How must user accounts for exiting employees be handled?
Disabled, regardless of the circumstances
A security architect wishes to implement a wireless network with connectivity to the company's internal network. Before they inform all employees that this network is being put in place, the architect wants to roll it out to a small test segment. Which of the following allows for greater secrecy about this network during this initial phase of implementation?
Disabling SSID broadcasting
By hijacking unencrypted cookies an application allows an attacker to take over existing web sessions that do not use SSL or end to end encryption. Which of the following choices BEST mitigates the security risk of public web surfing? (Select TWO)
Disabling SSID broadcasting VPN
Which of the following will help prevent smurf attacks?
Disabling directed broadcast on border routers
Ann was reviewing her company's event logs and observed several instances of GUEST accessing the company print server, file server, and archive database. As she continued to investigate, Ann noticed that it seemed to happen at random intervals throughout the day, but mostly after the weekly automated patching and often logging in at the same time. Which of the following would BEST mitigate this issue?
Disabling unnecessary accounts
A security technician is attempting to improve the overall security posture of an internal mail server. Which of the following actions would BEST accomplish this goal?
Disabling unnecessary services
Which of the following preventative controls would be appropriate for responding to a directive to reduce the attack surface of a specific host?
Disabling unnecessary services
A company wants to ensure that its hot site is prepared and functioning. Which of the following would be the BEST process to verify the backup datacenter is prepared for such a scenario?
Disaster recovery exercise
After a production outage, which of the following documents contains detailed information on the order in which the system should be restored to service?
Disaster recovery plan
Which of the following concepts defines the requirement for data availability?
Disaster recovery planning
The use of social networking sites introduces the risk of:
Disclosure of proprietary information
Ann is the data owner of financial records for a company. She has requested that she have the ability to assign read and write privileges to her folders. The network administrator is tasked with setting up the initial access control system and handing Ann's administrative capabilities. Which of the following systems should be deployed?
Discretionary
Joe processes several requisitions during the day and during the night shift they are approved by Ann. This is an example of which of the following?
Discretionary access
Joe Has read and write access to his own home directory. Joe and Ann are collaborating on a project, and Joe would like to give Ann write access to one particular file in this home directory. Which of the following types of access control would this reflect?
Discretionary access control
The IT department has setup a share point site to be used on the intranet. Security has established the groups and permissions on the site. No one may modify the permissions and all requests for access are centrally managed by the security team. This is an example of which of the following control types?
Discretionary access control
A company's password and authentication policies prohibit the use of shared passwords and transitive trust. Which of the following if implemented would violate company policy? (Select TWO)
Discretionary access control Single sign-on
Which of the following is a way to implement a technical control to mitigate data loss in case of a mobile device theft?
Disk encryption
Ann is concerned that the application her team is currently developing is vulnerable to unexpected user input that could lead to issues within the memory is affected in a detrimental manner leading to potential exploitation. Which of the following describes this application threat?
Distributed denial of service
Which of the following attacks is generally initiated from a botnet?
Distributed denial of service
An administrator is assigned to monitor servers in a data center. A web server connected to the Internet suddenly experiences a large spike in CPU activity. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
DoS
A technician has been assigned a service request to investigate a potential vulnerability in the organization's extranet platform. Once the technician performs initial investigative measures, it is determined that the potential vulnerability was a false-alarm. Which of the following actions should the technician take in regards to the findings?
Document the results and report the findings according to the incident response plan
Physical documents must be incinerated after a set retention period is reached. Which of the following attacks does this action remediate?
Dumpster Diving
An attacker went to a local bank and collected disposed paper for the purpose of collecting data that could be used to steal funds and information from the bank's customers. This is an example of:
Dumpster diving
Ann, an employee, is cleaning out her desk and disposes of paperwork containing confidential customer information in a recycle bin without shredding it first. This is MOST likely to increase the risk of loss from which of the following attacks?
Dumpster diving
Several bins are located throughout a building for secure disposal of sensitive information. Which of the following does this prevent?
Dumpster diving
An administrator configures all wireless access points to make use of a new network certificate authority. Which of the following is being used?
EAP-TLS
A company hosts a web server that requires entropy in encryption initialization and authentication. To meet this goal, the company would like to select a block cipher mode of operation that allows an arbitrary length IV and supports authenticated encryption. Which of the following would meet these objectives?
ECB
Matt, a security analyst, needs to select an asymmetric encryption method that allows for the same level of encryption strength with a lower key length than is typically necessary. Which of the following encryption methods offers this capability?
ECC
An administrator has two servers and wants them to communicate with each other using a secure algorithm. Which of the following choose to provide both CRC integrity checks and RCA encryption?
ECDHE
A security administrator must implement a system to allow clients to securely negotiate encryption keys with the company's server over a public unencrypted communication channel. Which of the following implements the required secure key negotiation? (Select TWO).
ECDHE Diffie-Hellman
A security administrator would like the corporate webserver to select perfect forward secrecy ciphers first. Which of the following cipher suites should the administrator select to accomplish this goal?
ECDHE-RSA-AES1280SHA
Environmental control measures include which of the following?
EMI shielding
When a new network drop was installed, the cable was run across several fluorescent lights. The users of the new network drop experience intermittent connectivity. Which of the following environmental controls was MOST likely overlooked during installation?
EMI shielding
Which of the following is considered an environmental control?
EMI shielding
Which of the following should be considered to mitigate data theft when using CAT5 wiring?
EMI shielding
Which of the following results in datacenters with failed humidity controls? (Select TWO).
Electrostatic charge, Condensation
Which of the following types of cryptography should be used when minimal overhead is necessary for a mobile device?
Elliptical curve cryptography
Several departments within a company have a business need to send high volumes of confidential information to customers via email. Which of the following is the BEST solution to mitigate unintentional exposure of confidential information?
Employ encryption on all outbound emails containing confidential information.
Pete, the system administrator, has concerns regarding users losing their company provided smartphones. Pete's focus is on equipment recovery. Which of the following BEST addresses his concerns?
Enable GPS tracking.
Ann a security administrator wants a limit access to the wireless network. Which of the following can be used to do this without using certificates?
Enable MAC filtering
Which of the following can be implemented if a security administrator wants only certain devices connecting to the wireless network?
Enable MAC filtering
Jane, the security administrator, sets up a new AP but realizes too many outsiders are able to connect to that AP and gain unauthorized access. Which of the following would be the BEST way to mitigate this issue and still provide coverage where needed? (Select TWO).
Enable MAC filtering, Disable SSID broadcast
A security administrator is reviewing logs and notices multiple attempts to access the HVAC controls by a workstation with an IP address from the open wireless network. Which of the following would be the best way to prevent this type of attack from occurring again?
Enable Mac filtering for the wireless network
Ann a new small business owner decides to implement WiFi access for her customers. There are several other businesses nearby who also have WiFi hot spots. Ann is concerned about security of the wireless network and wants to ensure that only her customers have access. Which of the following choices BEST meets her intent of security and access?
Enable WPA
A security administrator has been tasked with improving the overall security posture related to desktop machines on the network. An auditor has recently that several machines with confidential customer information displayed in the screens are left unattended during the course of the day. Which of the following could the security administrator implement to reduce the risk associated with the finding?
Enable group policy based screensaver timeouts
A small IT security form has an internal network composed of laptops, servers, and printers. The network has both wired and wireless segments and supports VPN access from remote sites. To protect the network from internal and external threats, including social engineering attacks, the company decides to implement stringent security controls. Which of the following lists is the BEST combination of security controls to implement?
Enable port security; divide the network into segments for servers, laptops, public and remote users; apply ACLs to all network equipment; enable MAC filtering on WAPs; and require two-factor authentication for network access.
An administrator has concerns regarding the traveling sales team who works primarily from smart phones. Given the sensitive nature of their work, which of the following would BEST prevent access to the data in case of loss or theft?
Enable screensaver locks when the phones are not in use to prevent unauthorized access
Users are trying to communicate with a network but are unable to do so. A network administrator sees connection attempts on port 20 from outside IP addresses that are being blocked. How can the administrator resolve this?
Enable stateful FTP on the firewall
The Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about misuse of company assets and wishes to determine who may be responsible. Which of the following would be the BEST course of action?
Enact a policy that employees must use their vacation time in a staggered schedule.
Customers' credit card information was stolen from a popular video streaming company. A security consultant determined that the information was stolen, while in transit, from the gaming consoles of a particular vendor. Which of the following methods should the company consider to secure this data in the future?
Encrypted TCP wrappers
A database administrator would like to start encrypting database exports stored on the SAN, but the storage administrator warns that this may drastically increase the amount of disk space used by the exports. Which of the following explains the reason for the increase in disk space usage?
Encrypted files are much larger than unencrypted files
Ann would like to forward some Personal Identifiable Information to her HR department by email, but she is worried about the confidentiality of the information. Which of the following will accomplish this task securely?
Encryption
Which of the following controls can be used to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information stored on a mobile device's removable media in the event that the device is lost or stolen?
Encryption
Data confidentiality must be enforces on a secure database. Which of the following controls meets this goal? (Select TWO)
Encryption Hashing
After recovering from a data breach in which customer data was lost, the legal team meets with the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to discuss ways to better protect the privacy of customer data. Which of the following controls support this goal?
Encryption and stronger access control
A system administrator has noticed that users change their password many times to cycle back to the original password when their passwords expire. Which of the following would BEST prevent this behavior?
Enforce a minimum password age policy.
A network administrator wants to ensure that users do not connect any unauthorized devices to the company network. Each desk needs to connect a VoIP phone and computer. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this?
Enforce authentication for network devices
A company is looking to reduce the likelihood of employees in the finance department being involved with money laundering. Which of the following controls would BEST mitigate this risk?
Enforce mandatory vacations
The systems administrator notices that many employees are using passwords that can be easily guessed or are susceptible to brute force attacks. Which of the following would BEST mitigate this risk?
Enforce password rules requiring complexity.
An administrator implements SELinux on a production web server. After implementing this, the web server no longer serves up files from users' home directories. To rectify this, the administrator creates a new policy as the root user. This is an example of which of the following? (Select TWO).
Enforcing SELinux in the OS kernel is mandatory access control The policy added by the root user is rule-based access control
When implementing fire suppression controls in a datacenter it is important to:
Ensure proper placement of sprinkler lines to avoid accidental leakage onto servers.
Joe a company's new security specialist is assigned a role to conduct monthly vulnerability scans across the network. He notices that the scanner is returning a large amount of false positives or failed audits. Which of the following should Joe recommend to remediate these issues?
Ensure the vulnerability scanner is located in a segmented VLAN that has access to the company's servers
Ann, a security administrator, has been instructed to perform fuzz-based testing on the company's applications. Which of the following best describes what she will do?
Enter random or invalid data into the application in an attempt to cause it to fault
What is the term for the process of luring someone in (usually done by an enforcement officer or a government agent)?
Enticement
Which of the following is the process in which a law enforcement officer or a government agent encourages or induces a person to commit a crime when the potential criminal expresses a desire not to go ahead?
Entrapment
Which of the following is an application security coding problem?
Error and exception handling
Which of the following techniques can be used to prevent the disclosure of system information resulting from arbitrary inputs when implemented properly?
Error handling
A project manager is working with an architectural firm that focuses on physical security. The project manager would like to provide requirements that support the primary goal of safely. Based on the project manager's desires, which of the following controls would the BEST to incorporate into the facility design?
Escape routers
A software developer wants to ensure that the application is verifying that a key is valid before establishing SSL connections with random remote hosts on the internet. Which of the following should be used in the code? (Select TWO)
Escrowed keys
A user has an Android smartphone that supports full device encryption. However when the user plus into a computer all of the files are immediately accessible. Which of the following should the user do to enforce full device confidentiality should the phone be lost or stolen?
Establish a PIN passphrase
A security manager must remain aware of the security posture of each system. Which of the following supports this requirement?
Establishing baseline reporting
A review of administrative access has discovered that too many accounts have been granted administrative rights. Which of the following will alert the security team when elevated access is applied?
Establishing monitoring on accounts
Which of the following types of logs could provide clues that someone has been attempting to compromise the SQL Server database?
Event
After disabling SSID broadcast, a network administrator still sees the wireless network listed in available networks on a client laptop. Which of the following attacks may be occurring?
Evil Twin
Given the following list of corporate access points, which of the following attacks is MOST likely underway if the company wireless network uses the same wireless hardware throughout? MACSID 00:01:AB:FA:CD:34Corporate AP 00:01:AB:FA:CD:35Corporate AP 00:01:AB:FA:CD:36Corporate AP 00:01:AB:FA:CD:37Corporate AP 00:01:AB:FA:CD:34Corporate AP
Evil Twin
After a recent breach, the security administrator performs a wireless survey of the corporate network. The security administrator notices a problem with the following output: MACSSIDENCRYPTIONPOWERBEACONS 00:10:A1:36:12:CCMYCORPWPA2 CCMP601202 00:10:A1:49:FC:37MYCORPWPA2 CCMP709102 FB:90:11:42:FA:99MYCORPWPA2 CCMP403031 00:10:A1:AA:BB:CCMYCORPWPA2 CCMP552021 00:10:A1:FA:B1:07MYCORPWPA2 CCMP306044 Given that the corporate wireless network has been standardized, which of the following attacks is underway?
Evil twin
After viewing wireless traffic, an attacker notices the following networks are being broadcasted by local access points: Corpnet Coffeeshop FreePublicWifi Using this information the attacker spoofs a response to make nearby laptops connect back to a malicious device. Which of the following has the attacker created?
Evil twin
An attacker Joe configures his service identifier to be as an access point advertised on a billboard. Joe then conducts a denial of service attack against the legitimate AP causing users to drop their connections and then reconnect to Joe's system with the same SSID. Which of the following BEST describes this of attack?
Evil twin
An attacker Joe configures his service identifier to be the same as an access point advertised on a billboard. Joe then conducts a denial of service attack against the legitimate AP causing users to drop their connections and then reconnect to Joe's system with the same SSID. Which of the following Best describes this type of attack?
Evil twin
An attacker unplugs the access point at a coffee shop. The attacker then runs software to make a laptop look like an access point and advertises the same network as the coffee shop normally does. Which of the following describes this type of attack?
Evil twin
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Joe notices an increase in the wireless signal in this office and thanks the IT director for the increase in network speed, Upon investigation the IT department finds an access point hidden in the dropped ceiling outside of joe's office. Which of the following types of attack is MOST likely occurring?
Evil twin
Which of the following types of wireless attacks would be used specifically to impersonate another WAP in order to gain unauthorized information from mobile users?
Evil twin
A large corporation has data centers geographically distributed across multiple continents. The company needs to securely transfer large amounts of data between the data center. The data transfer can be accomplished physically or electronically, but must prevent eavesdropping while the data is on transit. Which of the following represents the BEST cryptographic solution?
Exchanging VPN keys between each data center via an SSL connection and transferring the data in the VPN
A chief information security officer (CISO) is providing a presentation to a group of network engineers. In the presentation, the CISO presents information regarding exploit kits. Which of the following might the CISO present?
Exploit kits are tools capable of taking advantage of multiple CVEs
When reviewing security logs, an administrator sees requests for the AAAA record of www.comptia.com. Which of the following BEST describes this type of record?
IPv6 DNS record
A large multinational corporation with networks in 30 countries wants to establish an understanding of their overall public-facing network attack surface. Which of the following security techniques would be BEST suited for this?
External vulnerability scan
Which of the following file systems is from Microsoft and was included with their earliest operating systems?
FAT
Which of the following fire suppression systems is MOST likely used in a datacenter?
FM-200
Which of the following is the MOST secure protocol to transfer files?
FTPS
New magnetic locks were ordered for an entire building. In accordance with company policy, employee safety is the top priority. In case of a fire where electricity is cut, which of the following should be taken into consideration when installing the new locks?
Fail safe
Although a vulnerability scan report shows no vulnerabilities have been discovered, a subsequent penetration test reveals vulnerabilities on the network. Which of the following has been reported by the vulnerability scan?
False negative
A vulnerability scan is reporting that patches are missing on a server. After a review, it is determined that the application requiring the patch does not exist on the operating system. Which of the following describes this cause?
False positive
When an authorized application is installed on a server, the application triggers an alert on the HIDS. This is known as a:
False positive
Ann, a security technician, is reviewing the IDS log files. She notices a large number of alerts for multicast packets from the switches on the network. After investigation, she discovers that this is normal activity for her network. Which of the following BEST describes these results?
False positives
Which of the following can result in significant administrative overhead from incorrect reporting?
False positives
Anne an employee receives the following email: From: Human Resources To: Employee Subject: Updated employee code of conduct Please click on the following link: http//external.site.com/codeofconduct.exe to review the updated code of conduct at your earliest convenience. After clicking the email link, her computer is compromised. Which of the following principles of social engineering was used to lure Anne into clicking the phishing link in the above email?
Familiarity
An organization is moving its human resources system to a cloud services provider. The company plans to continue using internal usernames and passwords with the service provider, but the security manager does not want the service provider to have a company of the passwords. Which of the following options meets all of these requirements?
Federated authentication
The Chief Security Officer (CSO) for a datacenter in a hostile environment is concerned about protecting the facility from car bomb attacks. Which of the following BEST would protect the building from this threat? (Select two.)
Fencing Bollards
An administrator requests a new VLAN be created to support the installation of a new SAN. Which of the following data transport?
Fibre Channel
Joe a network administrator is setting up a virtualization host that has additional storage requirements. Which of the following protocols should be used to connect the device to the company SAN? (Select Two)
Fibre channel iSCSI
Joe a website administrator believes he owns the intellectual property for a company invention and has been replacing image files on the company's public facing website in the DMZ. Joe is using steganography to hide stolen data. Which of the following controls can be implemented to mitigate this type of inside threat?
File integrity monitoring
After copying a sensitive document from his desktop to a flash drive, Joe, a user, realizes that the document is no longer encrypted. Which of the following can a security technician implement to ensure that documents stored on Joe's desktop remain encrypted when moved to external media or other network based storage?
File level encryption
An administrator is testing the collision resistance of different hashing algorithms. Which of the following is the strongest collision resistance test?
Find two identical messages with different hashes
Ann, the security administrator, wishes to implement multifactor security. Which of the following should be implemented in order to compliment password usage and smart cards?
Fingerprint readers
Ann a network administrator has been tasked with strengthening the authentication of users logging into systems in area containing sensitive information. Users log in with usernames and passwords, following by a retinal scan. Which of the following could she implement to add an additional factor of authorization?
Fingerprint scanner
The manager has a need to secure physical documents every night, since the company began enforcing the clean desk policy. The BEST solution would include: (Select TWO).
Fire- or water-proof safe, Locking cabinets and drawers.
Which of the following devices is MOST likely being used when processing the following? 1 PERMIT IP ANY ANY EQ 80 2 DENY IP ANY ANY
Firewall
Which of the following devices would MOST likely have a DMZ interface?
Firewall
During a company-wide initiative to harden network security, it is discovered that end users who have laptops cannot be removed from the local administrator group. Which of the following could be used to help mitigate the risk of these machines becoming compromised?
Firewalls
A global gaming console manufacturer is launching a new gaming platform to its customers. Which of the following controls reduces the risk created by malicious gaming customers attempting to circumvent control by way of modifying consoles?
Firmware version control Automatic updates
The security officer is preparing a read-only USB stick with a document of important personal phone numbers, vendor contacts, an MD5 program, and other tools to provide to employees. At which of the following points in an incident should the officer instruct employees to use this information?
First Responder
A security manager is preparing the training portion of an incident plan. Which of the following job roles should receive training on forensics, chain of custody, and the order of volatility?
First responders
Which of the following will allow the live state of the virtual machine to be easily reverted after a failed upgrade?
Snapshots
A system requires administrators to be logged in as the "root" in order to make administrator changes. Which of the following controls BEST mitigates the risk associated with this scenario?
Force administrator to log in with individual accounts and switch to root
Mandatory vacations are a security control which can be used to uncover which of the following?
Fraud committed by a system administrator
Company XYZ's laptops was recently stolen from a user which led to the exposure if confidential information. Which of the following should the security team implement on laptops to prevent future compromise?
Full Disk Encryption
An administrator wants to minimize the amount of time needed to perform backups during the week. It is also acceptable to the administrator for restoration to take an extended time frame. Which of the following strategies would the administrator MOST likely implement?
Full backups on the weekend and incremental during the week
A thief has stolen mobile device and removed its battery to circumvent GPS location tracking. The device user is a four digit PIN. Which of the following is a mobile device security control that ensures the confidentiality of company data?
Full device encryption
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a major defense contracting company a traveling overseas for a conference. The CEO will be taking a laptop. Which of the following should the security administrator implement to ensure confidentiality of the data if the laptop were to be stolen or lost during the trip?
Full device encryption
Which of the following controls can be implemented together to prevent data loss in the event of theft of a mobile device storing sensitive information? (Select TWO).
Full device encryption Screen locks
A way to assure data at-rest is secure even in the event of loss or theft is to use:
Full device encryption.
To protect corporate data on removable media, a security policy should mandate that all removable devices use which of the following?
Full disk encryption
Which of the following is MOST critical in protecting control systems that cannot be regularly patched?
Full disk encryption
A company is preparing to decommission an offline, non-networked root certificate server. Before sending the server's drives to be destroyed by a contracted company, the Chief Security Officer (CSO) wants to be certain that the data will not be accessed. Which of the following, if implemented, would BEST reassure the CSO? (Select TWO).
Full disk encryption, Disk wiping procedures
A security architect is designing an enterprise solution for the sales force of a corporation which handles sensitive customer data. The solution must allow users to work from remote offices and support traveling users. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate control for the architect to focus onto ensure confidentiality of data stored on laptops?
Full-disk encryption
A security administrator wants to test the reliability of an application which accepts user provided parameters. The administrator is concerned with data integrity and availability. Which of the following should be implemented to accomplish this task?
Fuzzing
An IT security technician is actively involved in identifying coding issues for her company. Which of the following is an application security technique that can be used to identify unknown weaknesses within the code?
Fuzzing
Methods to test the responses of software and web applications to unusual or unexpected inputs are known as:
Fuzzing.
The security administrator is implementing a malware storage system to archive all malware seen by the company into a central database. The malware must be categorized and stored based on similarities in the code. Which of the following should the security administrator use to identify similar malware?
Fuzzy hashes
A mobile device user is concerned about geographic positioning information being included in messages sent between users on a popular social network platform. The user turns off the functionality in the application, but wants to ensure the application cannot re-enable the setting without the knowledge of the user. Which of the following mobile device capabilities should the user disable to achieve the stated goal?
GEO-Tagging
An administrator intends to configure an IPSec solution that provides ESP with integrity protection, but not confidentiality protection. Which of the following AES modes of operation would meet this integrity-only requirement?
GMAC
A technician wants to secure communication to the corporate web portal, which is currently using HTTP. Which of the following is the FIRST step the technician should take?
Generate a certificate request from the server
An administrator needs to submit a new CSR to a CA. Which of the following is a valid FIRST step?
Generate a new private key based on RSA.
The main corporate website has a service level agreement that requires availability 100% of the time, even in the case of a disaster. Which of the following would be required to meet this demand?
Geographically disparate site redundant datacenter
Ann is a member of the Sales group. She needs to collaborate with Joe, a member of the IT group, to edit a file. Currently, the file has the following permissions: Ann:read/write Sales Group:read IT Group:no access If a discretionary access control list is in place for the files owned by Ann, which of the following would be the BEST way to share the file with Joe?
Give Joe the appropriate access to the file directly.
Pete, a developer, writes an application. Jane, the security analyst, knows some things about the overall application but does not have all the details. Jane needs to review the software before it is released to production. Which of the following reviews should Jane conduct?
Gray Box Testing
An IT auditor tests an application as an authenticated user. This is an example of which of the following types of testing?
Gray box
A software development company has hired a programmer to develop a plug-in module to an existing proprietary application. After completing the module, the developer needs to test the entire application to ensure that the module did not introduce new vulnerabilities. Which of the following is the developer performing when testing the application?
Gray box testing
A technician has installed new vulnerability scanner software on a server that is joined to the company domain. The vulnerability scanner is able to provide visibility over the patch posture of all company's clients. Which of the following is being used?
Gray box vulnerability testing
The Quality Assurance team is testing a third party application. They are primarily testing for defects and have some understanding of how the application works. Which of the following is the team performing?
Grey box testing
A network administrator is configuring access control for the sales department which has high employee turnover. Which of the following is BEST suited when assigning user rights to individuals in the sales department?
Group based privileges
A new intern was assigned to the system engineering department, which consists of the system architect and system software developer's teams. These two teams have separate privileges. The intern requires privileges to view the system architectural drawings and comment on some software development projects. Which of the following methods should the system administrator implement?
Group based privileges
A system administrator needs to ensure that certain departments have more restrictive controls to their shared folders than other departments. Which of the following security controls would be implemented to restrict those departments?
Group based privileges
Which of the following practices reduces the management burden of access management?
Group based privileges
A file on a Linux server has default permissions of rw-rw-r--. The system administrator has verified that Ann, a user, is not a member of the group owner of the file. Which of the following should be modified to assure that Ann has read access to the file?
Group memberships for the group owner of the file in question
During a routine audit, it is discovered that someone has been using a stale administrator account to log into a seldom used server. The person has been using the server to view inappropriate websites that are prohibited to end users. Which of the following could best prevent this from occurring again?
Group policy management
A security administrator wants to deploy a physical security control to limit an individual's access into a sensitive area. Which of the following should be implemented?
Guards
Joe, a network security engineer, has visibility to network traffic through network monitoring tools. However, he's concerned that a disgruntled employee may be targeting a server containing the company's financial records. Which of the following security mechanism would be MOST appropriate to confirm Joe's suspicion?
HIDS
A security administrator wants to block unauthorized access to a web server using a locally installed software program. Which of the following should the administrator deploy?
HIPS
Jane, a security administrator, has observed repeated attempts to break into a server. Which of the following is designed to stop an intrusion on a specific server?
HIPS
Matt, an IT administrator, wants to protect a newly built server from zero day attacks. Which of the following would provide the BEST level of protection?
HIPS
Which of the following MUST Matt, a security administrator, implement to verify both the integrity and authenticity of a message while requiring a shared secret?
HMAC
Which of the following cryptographic algorithms is MOST often used with IPSec?
HMAC
A new web server has been provisioned at a third party hosting provider for processing credit card transactions. The security administrator runs the netstat command on the server and notices that ports 80, 443, and 3389 are in a `listening' state. No other ports are open. Which of the following services should be disabled to ensure secure communications?
HTTP
Which of the following could cause a browser to display the message below? "The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address."
HTTPS://127.0.01 was used instead of HTTPS://localhost.
Which of the following should be connected to the fire alarm system in order to help prevent the spread of a fire in a server room without data loss to assist in an FM-200 deployment?
HVAC
Users in the HR department were recently informed that they need to implement a user training and awareness program which is tailored to their department. Which of the following types of training would be the MOST appropriate for this department?
Handing PII
Which of the following is the LEAST volatile when performing incident response procedures?
Hard drive
Which of the following data security techniques will allow Matt, an IT security technician, to encrypt a system with speed as its primary consideration?
Hard drive encryption
Joe analyzed the following log and determined the security team should implement which of the following as a mitigation method against further attempts? Host 192.168.1.123 [00: 00: 01]Successful Login: 015 192.168.1.123 : local [00: 00: 03]Unsuccessful Login: 022 214.34.56.006 : RDP 192.168.1.124 [00: 00: 04]UnSuccessful Login: 010 214.34.56.006 : RDP 192.168.1.124 [00: 00: 07]UnSuccessful Login: 007 214.34.56.006 : RDP 192.168.1.124 [00: 00: 08]UnSuccessful Login: 003 214.34.56.006 : RDP 192.168.1.124
Hardening
The process of making certain that an entity (operating system, application, etc.) is as secure as it can be is known as:
Hardening
After entering the following information into a SOHO wireless router, a mobile device's user reports being unable to connect to the network: PERMIT 0A: D1: FA. B1: 03: 37 DENY 01: 33: 7F: AB: 10: AB Which of the following is preventing the device from connecting?
Hardware address filtering is blocking the device.
Which of the following BEST explains the use of an HSM within the company servers?
Hardware encryption is faster than software encryption.
A company is trying to implement physical deterrent controls to improve the overall security posture of their data center. Which of the following BEST meets their goal?
Hardware locks
An online store wants to protect user credentials and credit card information so that customers can store their credit card information and use their card for multiple separate transactions. Which of the following database designs provides the BEST security for the online store?
Hash the credential fields and use encryption for the credit card field
While working on a new project a security administrator wants to verify the integrity of the data in the organizations archive library. Which of the following is the MOST secure combination to implement to meet this goal? (Select TWO)
Hash with MD5 Hash with RIPEMD
Which of the following are MOST susceptible to birthday attacks?
Hashed passwords
Joe needs to track employees who log into a confidential database and edit files. In the past, critical files have been edited, and no one admits to making the edits. Which of the following does Joe need to implement in order to enforce accountability?
Hashing
When confidentiality is the primary concern which of the following types of encryption should be chosen?
Hashing
Which of the following concepts describes the use of a one way transformation in order to validate the integrity of a program?
Hashing
Which of the following concepts is used by digital signatures to ensure integrity of the data?
Hashing
Which of the following functions provides an output which cannot be reversed and converts data into a string of characters?
Hashing
The new Chief Information Officer (CIO) of company ABC, Joe has noticed that company XWY is always one step ahead with similar products. He tasked his Chief Security Officer to implement new security controls to ensure confidentiality of company ABC's proprietary data and complete accountability for all data transfers. Which of the following security controls did the Chief Security Officer implement to BEST meet these requirements? (Select Two)
Hashing Encryptions
An administrator receives a security alert that appears to be from one of the company's vendors. The email contains information and instructions for patching a serious flaw that has not been publicly announced. Which of the following can an employee use to validate the authenticity if the email?
Hashing algorithm
Using a protocol analyzer, a security consultant was able to capture employee's credentials. Which of the following should the consultant recommend to the company, in order to mitigate the risk of employees credentials being captured in the same manner in the future?
Hashing and encryption of data in-use
A network administrator recently updated various network devices to ensure redundancy throughout the network. If an interface on any of the Layer 3 devices were to go down, traffic will still pass through another interface and the production environment would be unaffected. This type of configuration represents which of the following concepts?
High availability
Ann, the system administrator, is installing an extremely critical system that can support ZERO downtime. Which of the following BEST describes the type of system Ann is installing?
High availability
Joe must send Ann a message and provide Ann with assurance that he was the actual sender. Which of the following will Joe need to use to BEST accomplish the objective?
His private key
An organization receives an email that provides instruction on how to protect a system from being a target of new malware that is rapidly infecting systems. The incident response team investigates the notification and determines it to invalid and notifies users to disregard the email. Which of the following Best describes this occurrence?
Hoax
Jane, a security analyst, is reviewing logs from hosts across the Internet which her company uses to gather data on new malware. Which of the following is being implemented by Jane's company?
Honeynet
Which of the following types of technologies is used by security and research personnel for identification and analysis of new security threats in a networked environment by using false data/hosts for information collection?
Honeynet
A security administrator wants to get a real time look at what attackers are doing in the wild, hoping to lower the risk of zero-day attacks. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this goal?
Honeynets
A security administrator suspects that an employee in the IT department is utilizing a reverse proxy to bypass the company's content filter and browse unapproved and non-work related sites while at work. Which of the following tools could BEST be used to determine how the employee is connecting to the reverse proxy?
Honeypot
In order to gain an understanding of the latest attack tools being used in the wild, an administrator puts a Unix server on the network with the root users password to set root. Which of the following best describes this technique?
Honeypot
Joe, an administrator, installs a web server on the Internet that performs credit card transactions for customer payments. Joe also sets up a second web server that looks like the first web server. However, the second server contains fabricated files and folders made to look like payments were processed on this server but really were not. Which of the following is the second server?
Honeypot
What is a system that is intended or designed to be broken into by an attacker?
Honeypot
Which of the following can Joe, a security administrator, implement on his network to capture attack details that are occurring while also protecting his production network?
Honeypot
Which of the following should an administrator implement to research current attack methodologies?
Honeypot
A security administrator has been assigned to review the security posture of the standard corporate system image for virtual machines. The security administrator conducts a thorough review of the system logs, installation procedures, and network configuration of the VM image. Upon reviewing the access logs and user accounts, the security administrator determines that several accounts will not be used in production. Which of the following would correct the deficiencies?
Host hardening
After installing a new Linux system the administrator runs a command that records the size, permissions, and MD5 sum of all the files on the system. Which of the following describes what the administrator is doing?
Host software baselining
Identifying a list of all approved software on a system is a step in which of the following practices?
Host software baselining
A government agency wants to ensure that the systems they use have been deployed as security as possible. Which of the following technologies will enforce protections on these systems to prevent files and services from operating outside of a strict rule set?
Host-based firewall
Joe, a technician, is working remotely with his company provided laptop at the coffee shop near his home. Joe is concerned that another patron of the coffee shop may be trying to access his laptop. Which of the following is an appropriate control to use to prevent the other patron from accessing Joe's laptop directly?
Host-based firewall
Each server on a subnet is configured to only allow SSH access from the administrator's workstation. Which of the following BEST describes this implementation?
Host-based firewalls
Which of the following controls should critical application servers implement to protect themselves from other potentially compromised application services?
Host-based firewalls
Which of the following should a company deploy to prevent the execution of some types of malicious code?
Host-based firewalls
A system administrator runs a network inventory scan every Friday at 10:00 am to track the progress of a large organization's operating system upgrade of all laptops. The system administrator discovers that some laptops are now only being reported as IP addresses. Which of the following options is MOST likely the cause of this issue?
Host-based firewalls rules
The datacenter design team is implementing a system, which requires all servers installed in racks to face in a predetermined direction. AN infrared camera will be used to verify that servers are properly racked. Which of the following datacenter elements is being designed?
Hot and cold aisles
Which of the following is an effective way to ensure the BEST temperature for all equipment within a datacenter?
Hot or cool aisle containment
Which of the following disaster recovery strategies has the highest cost and shortest recovery time?
Hot site
A system administrator attempts to ping a hostname and the response is 2001:4860:0:2001::68. Which of the following replies has the administrator received?
IPv6 address
In an effort to test the effectiveness of an organization's security awareness training, a penetrator tester crafted an email and sent it to all of the employees to see how many of them clicked on the enclosed links. Which of the following is being tested?
How many employees are susceptible to a SPAM attack
Which of the following can affect electrostatic discharge in a network operations center?
Humidity controls
A company has proprietary mission critical devices connected to their network which are configured remotely by both employees and approved customers. The administrator wants to monitor device security without changing their baseline configuration. Which of the following should be implemented to secure the devices without risking availability?
IDS
While reviewing the monthly internet usage it is noted that there is a large spike in traffic classified as "unknown" and does not appear to be within the bounds of the organizations Acceptable Use Policy. Which of the following tool or technology would work BEST for obtaining more information on this traffic?
IDS logs
Which of the following security architecture elements also has sniffer functionality? (Select TWO).
IPS IDS
Configuring the mode, encryption methods, and security associations are part of which of the following?
IPSec
Devices on the SCADA network communicate exclusively at Layer 2. Which of the following should be used to prevent unauthorized systems using ARP-based attacks to compromise the SCADA network?
IPSec
Which of the following protocols encapsulates an IP packet with an additional IP header?
IPSec
A new MPLS network link has been established between a company and its business partner. The link provides logical isolation in order to prevent access from other business partners. Which of the following should be applied in order to achieve confidentiality and integrity of all data across the link?
IPSec VPN tunnels on top of the MPLS link.
A network engineer is designing a secure tunneled VPN. Which of the following protocols would be the MOST secure?
IPsec
A security administrator must implement a network that is immune to ARP spoofing attacks. Which of the following should be implemented to ensure that a malicious insider will not be able to successfully use ARP spoofing techniques?
IPv6
A security administrator wishes to change their wireless network so that IPSec is built into the protocol and NAT is no longer required for address range extension. Which of the following protocols should be used in this scenario?
IPv6
A company has decided to move large data sets to a cloud provider in order to limit the costs of new infrastructure. Some of the data is sensitive and the Chief Information Officer wants to make sure both parties have a clear understanding of the controls needed to protect the data. Which of the following types of interoperability agreement is this?
ISA
Which of the following documents outlines the technical and security requirements of an agreement between organizations?
ISA
Which of the following is the MOST specific plan for various problems that can arise within a system?
IT Contingency Plan
A supervisor in your organization was demoted on Friday afternoon. The supervisor had the ability to modify the contents of a confidential database, as well as other managerial permissions. On Monday morning, the database administrator reported that log files indicated that several records were missing from the database. Which of the following risk mitigation startegies should have been implemented when the supervisor was demoted?
IT governance
Sara, a security administrator, is noticing a slow down in the wireless network response. Sara launches a wireless sniffer and sees a large number of ARP packets being sent to the AP. Which of the following type of attacks is underway?
IV attack
Which of the following types of attacks involves interception of authentication traffic in an attempt to gain unauthorized access to a wireless network?
IV attack
A customer has provided an email address and password to a website as part of the login process. Which of the following BEST describes the email address?
Identification
A network security analyst has confirmed that the public facing web server has been compromised. Which of the following stages if the Incident Handling Response does this describe?
Identification
Searching for systems infected with malware is considered to be which of the following phases of incident response?
Identification
The helpdesk reports increased calls from clients reporting spikes in malware infections on their systems. Which of the following phases of incident response is MOST appropriate as a FIRST response?
Identification
Which of the following is the difference between identification and authentication of a user?
Identification tells who the user is and authentication proves it.
Key elements of a business impact analysis should include which of the following tasks?
Identify critical assets systems and functions, identify dependencies, determine critical downtime limit, define scenarios by type and scope of impact, and quantify loss potential.
A security specialist has been asked to evaluate a corporate network by performing a vulnerability assessment. Which of the following will MOST likely be performed?
Identify vulnerabilities, check applicability of vulnerabilities by passively testing security controls.
A security administrator forgets their card to access the server room. The administrator asks a coworker if they could use their card for the day. Which of the following is the administrator using to gain access to the server room?
Impersonation
An attacker wearing a building maintenance uniform approached a company's receptionist asking for access to a secure area. The receptionist asks for identification, a building access badge and checks the company's list approved maintenance personnel prior to granting physical access to the secure are. The controls used by the receptionist are in place to prevent which of the following types of attacks?
Impersonation
Pete's corporation has outsourced help desk services to a large provider. Management has published a procedure that requires all users, when receiving support, to call a special number. Users then need to enter the code provided to them by the help desk technician prior to allowing the technician to work on their PC. Which of the following does this procedure prevent?
Impersonation
Purchasing receives a phone call from a vendor asking for a payment over the phone. The phone number displayed on the caller ID matches the vendor's number. When the purchasing agent asks to call the vendor back, they are given a different phone number with a different area code. Which of the following attack types is this?
Impersonation
Sara, an attacker, is recording a person typing in their ID number into a keypad to gain access to the building. Sara then calls the helpdesk and informs them that their PIN no longer works and would like to change it. Which of the following attacks occurred LAST?
Impersonation
Technicians working with servers hosted at the company's datacenter are increasingly complaining of electric shocks when touching metal items which have been linked to hard drive failures. Which of the following should be implemented to correct this issue?
Implement EMI shielding
A network inventory discovery application requires non-privileged access to all hosts on a network for inventory of installed applications. A service account is created by the network inventory discovery application for accessing all hosts. Which of the following is the MOST efficient method for granting the account non-privileged access to the hosts?
Implement Group Policy to add the account to the users group on the hosts
Joe, the systems administrator, is setting up a wireless network for his team's laptops only and needs to prevent other employees from accessing it. Which of the following would BEST address this?
Implement MAC filtering on the access point.
An IT security technician needs to establish host based security for company workstations. Which of the following will BEST meet this requirement?
Implement OS hardening by applying GPOs.
Which of the following allows Pete, a security technician, to provide the MOST secure wireless implementation?
Implement WPA
The security administrator receives an email on a non-company account from a coworker stating that some reports are not exporting correctly. Attached to the email was an example report file with several customers' names and credit card numbers with the PIN. Which of the following is the BEST technical controls that will help mitigate this risk of disclosing sensitive data?
Implement a DLP solution on the email gateway to scan email and remove sensitive data or files
A security administrator wishes to prevent certain company devices from using specific access points, while still allowing them on others. All of the access points use the same SSID and wireless password. Which of the following would be MOST appropriate in this scenario?
Implement a MAC filter on the desired access points
Which of the following would be MOST appropriate to secure an existing SCADA system by preventing connections from unauthorized networks?
Implement a firewall to protect the SCADA system
The security team would like to gather intelligence about the types of attacks being launched against the organization. Which of the following would provide them with the MOST information?
Implement a honeynet
A company has had their web application become unavailable several times in the past few months due to increased demand. Which of the following should the company perform to increase availability?
Implement a load balancer to distribute traffic based on back end server utilization
A system administrator wants to configure a setting that will make offline password cracking more challenging. Currently the password policy allows upper and lower case characters a minimum length of 5 and a lockout after 10 invalid attempts. Which of the following has the GREATEST impact on the time it takes to crack the passwords?
Implement an account lockout policy after three unsuccessful logon attempts
A security administrator has concerns that employees are installing unapproved applications on their company provide smartphones. Which of the following would BEST mitigate this?
Implement an application whitelist
A system administrator has concerns regarding their users accessing systems and secured areas using others' credentials. Which of the following can BEST address this concern?
Implement biometric readers on laptops and restricted areas.
A breach at a credit card company resulted in customers credit card information being exposed . The company has conducted a full forensic investigation and identified the source of the breach. Which of the following should the company do NEXT?
Implement damage and loss control procedures
The data backup window has expanded into the morning hours and has begun to affect production users. The main bottleneck in the process is the time it takes to replicate the backups to separate severs at the offsite data center. Which of the following uses of deduplication could be implemented to reduce the backup window?
Implement deduplication on the storage array to reduce the amount of drive space needed
A security analyst, while doing a security scan using packet c capture security tools, noticed large volumes of data images of company products being exfiltrated to foreign IP addresses. Which of the following is the FIRST step in responding to scan results?
Implement mitigation
The chief Security Officer (CSO) has reported a rise in data loss but no break ins have occurred. By doing which of the following is the CSO most likely to reduce the number of incidents?
Implement protected distribution
An administrator thinks the UNIX systems may be compromised, but a review of system log files provides no useful information. After discussing the situation with the security team, the administrator suspects that the attacker may be altering the log files and removing evidence of intrusion activity. Which of the following actions will help detect attacker attempts to further alter log files?
Implement remote syslog
Jane, an IT security technician, needs to create a way to secure company mobile devices. Which of the following BEST meets this need?
Implement screen locks, device encryption, and remote wipe capabilities.
A custom PKI application downloads a certificate revocation list (CRL) once per day. Management requests the list be checked more frequently. Which of the following is the BEST solution?
Implement the OCSP protocol
A new employee has been hired to perform system administration duties across a large enterprise comprised of multiple separate security domains. Each remote location implements a separate security domain. The new employee has successfully responded to and fixed computer issues for the main office. When the new employee tries to perform work on remote computers, the following messages appears. You need permission to perform this action. Which of the following can be implemented to provide system administrators with the ability to perform administrative tasks on remote computers using their uniquely assigned account?
Implement transitive trust across security domains
Which of the following is considered a risk management BEST practice of succession planning?
Implementing company-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plans
A network technician at a company, Joe is working on a network device. He creates a rule to prevent users from connecting to a toy website during the holiday shopping season. This website is blacklisted and is known to have SQL injections and malware. Which of the following has been implemented?
Implicit Deny
Ann a security technician receives a report from a user that is unable to access an offsite SSN server. Ann checks the firewall and sees the following rules: Allow TCP 80 Allow TCP 443 Deny TCP 23 Deny TCP 20 Deny TCP 21 Which of the following is preventing the users from accessing the SSH server?
Implicit deny
Given the following set of firewall rules: From the inside to outside allow source any destination any port any From inside to dmz allow source any destination any port tcp-80 From inside to dmz allow source any destination any port tcp-443 Which of the following would prevent FTP traffic from reaching a server in the DMZ from the inside network?
Implicit deny
Users report that they are unable to access network printing services. The security technician checks the router access list and sees that web, email, and secure shell are allowed. Which of the following is blocking network printing?
Implicit deny
Which of the following is best practice to put at the end of an ACL?
Implicit deny
A system administrator is implementing a firewall ACL to block specific communication to and from a predefined list of IP addresses, while allowing all other communication. Which of the following rules is necessary to support this implementation?
Implicit deny as the first rule
A system administrator has been instructed by the head of security to protect their data atrest. Which of the following would provide the strongest protection?
Incorporating a full-disk encryption system
The Human Resources department has a parent shared folder setup on the server. There are two groups that have access, one called managers and one called staff. There are many sub folders under the parent shared folder, one is called payroll. The parent folder access control list propagates all subfolders and all subfolders inherit the parent permission. Which of the following is the quickest way to prevent the staff group from gaining access to the payroll folder?
Implicit deny on the payroll folder for the staff group
In order to securely communicate using PGP, the sender of an email must do which of the following when sending an email to a recipient for the first time?
Import the recipient's public key
In which of the following scenarios would it be preferable to implement file level encryption instead of whole disk encryption?
In which of the following scenarios would it be preferable to implement file level encryption instead of whole disk encryption?
The administrator installs database software to encrypt each field as it is written to disk. Which of the following describes the encrypted data?
In-use
n employee finds a usb drive in the employee lunch room and plugs the drive into a shared workstation to determine who owns the drive. When the drive is inserted, a command prompt opens and a script begins to run. The employee notifies a technician who determines that data on a server have been compromised. This is an example of:
Incident identification
A security analyst informs the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) that a security breach has just occurred. This results in the Risk Manager and Chief Information Officer (CIO) being caught unaware when the CEO asks for further information. Which of the following strategies should be implemented to ensure the Risk Manager and CIO are not caught unaware in the future?
Incident management
Requiring technicians to report spyware infections is a step in which of the following?
Incident management
Which of the following is BEST carried out immediately after a security breach is discovered?
Incident management
The Chief Security Officer (CSO) is contacted by a first responder. The CSO assigns a handler. Which of the following is occurring?
Incident response process
Who should be contacted FIRST in the event of a security breach?
Incident response team
The incident response team has received the following email message. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Copyright infringement A copyright infringement alert was triggered by IP address 13.10.66.5 at 09: 50: 01 GMT. After reviewing the following web logs for IP 13.10.66.5, the team is unable to correlate and identify the incident. 09: 45: 33 13.10.66.5 http: //remote.site.com/login.asp?user=john 09: 50: 22 13.10.66.5 http: //remote.site.com/logout.asp?user=anne 10: 50: 01 13.10.66.5 http: //remote.site.com/access.asp?file=movie.mov 11: 02: 45 13.10.65.5 http: //remote.site.com/download.asp?movie.mov=ok Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the incident response team is unable to identify and correlate the incident?
Incident time offsets were not accounted for.
A security engineer discovers that during certain times of day, the corporate wireless network is dropping enough packets to significantly degrade service. Which of the following should be the engineer's FIRST step in troubleshooting the issues?
Increase the power level
Use of group accounts should be minimized to ensure which of the following?
Individual accountability
Which of the following is an advantage of implementing individual file encryption on a hard drive which already deploys full disk encryption?
Individually encrypted files will remain encrypted when copied to external media
After a number of highly publicized and embarrassing customer data leaks as a result of social engineering attacks by phone, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has decided user training will reduce the risk of another data leak. Which of the following would be MOST effective in reducing data leaks in this situation?
Information Security Awareness
Which of the following security awareness training is BEST suited for data owners who are concerned with protecting the confidentiality of their data?
Information classification training
An IT director is looking to reduce the footprint of their company's server environment. They have decided to move several internally developed software applications to an alternate environment, supported by an external company. Which of the following BEST describes this arrangement?
Infrastructure as a Service
Which of the following offerings typically allows the customer to apply operating system patches?
Infrastructure as a service
Matt, a developer, recently attended a workshop on a new application. The developer installs the new application on a production system to test the functionality. Which of the following is MOST likely affected?
Initial baseline configuration
An application developer has coded a new application with a module to examine all user entries for the graphical user interface. The module verifies that user entries match the allowed types for each field and that OS and database commands are rejected before entries are sent for further processing within the application. These are example of:
Input validation
Verifying the integrity of data submitted to a computer program at or during run-time, with the intent of preventing the malicious exploitation of unintentional effects in the structure of the code, is BEST described as which of the following?
Input validation
Which of the following can BEST help prevent cross-site scripting attacks and buffer overflows on a production system?
Input validation
Which of the following can be mitigated with proper secure coding techniques?
Input validation
Which of the following is a common coding error in which boundary checking is not performed?
Input validation
Which of the following is the below pseudo-code an example of? IF VARIABLE (CONTAINS NUMBERS = TRUE) THEN EXIT
Input validation
A security administrator is reviewing the web logs and notices multiple attempts by users to access: http://www.comptia.org/idapsearch?user-* Having identified the attack, which of the following will prevent this type of attack on the web server?
Input validation on the web server
Joe, a security administrator, is concerned with users tailgating into the restricted areas. Given a limited budget, which of the following would BEST assist Joe with detecting this activity?
Install a camera and DVR at the entrance to monitor access.
Pete, the system administrator, wishes to monitor and limit users' access to external websites. Which of the following would BEST address this?
Install a proxy server.
A computer on a company network was infected with a zero-day exploit after an employee accidently opened an email that contained malicious content. The employee recognized the email as malicious and was attempting to delete it, but accidently opened it. Which of the following should be done to prevent this scenario from occurring again in the future?
Install end-point protection on all computers that access web email
An administrator has concerns regarding the company's server rooms Proximity badge readers were installed, but it is discovered this is not preventing unapproved personnel from tailgating into these area. Which of the following would BEST address this concern?
Install man-traps at each restricted area entrance
A company wishes to prevent unauthorized employee access to the data center. Which of the following is the MOST secure way to meet this goal?
Install mantraps at every entrance to the data center in conjunction with their badges
A security technician received notification of a remotely exploitable vulnerability affecting all multifunction printers firmware installed throughout the organization. The vulnerability allows a malicious user to review all the documents processed by the affected printers. Which of the following compensating controls can the security technician to mitigate the security risk of a sensitive document leak?
Install patches on the print server
A programmer has allocated a 32 bit variable to store the results of an operation between two user supplied 4 byte operands. To which of the following types of attack is this application susceptible?
Integer overflow
An email client says a digital signature is invalid and the sender cannot be verified. The recipient is concerned with which of the following concepts?
Integrity
Digital Signatures provide which of the following?
Integrity
It is important to staff who use email messaging to provide PII to others on a regular basis to have confidence that their messages are not intercepted or altered during transmission. They are concerned about which of the following types of security control?
Integrity
Matt, a security administrator, wants to ensure that the message he is sending does not get intercepted or modified in transit. This concern relates to which of the following concepts?
Integrity
Sara, a security administrator, manually hashes all network device configuration files daily and compares them to the previous days' hashes. Which of the following security concepts is Sara using?
Integrity
A software firm posts patches and updates to a publicly accessible FTP site. The software firm also posts digitally signed checksums of all patches and updates. The firm does this to address:
Integrity of downloaded software.
Digital signatures are used for ensuring which of the following items? (Select TWO).
Integrity, Non-Repudiation
A software company has completed a security assessment. The assessment states that the company should implement fencing and lighting around the property. Additionally, the assessment states that production releases of their software should be digitally signed. Given the recommendations, the company was deficient in which of the following core security areas? (Select TWO).
Integrity, Safety
The firewall administrator is adding a new certificate for the company's remote access solution. The solution requires that the uploaded file contain the entire certificate chain for the certificate to load properly. The administrator loads the company certificate and the root CA certificate into the file. The file upload is rejected. Which of the following is required to complete the certificate chain?
Intermediate authority
Which of the following security account management techniques should a security analyst implement to prevent staff, who has switched company roles, from exceeding privileges?
Internal account audits
Which of the following should Matt, a security administrator, include when encrypting smartphones? (Select TWO).
Internal memory Removable memory cards
Pete, an employee, attempts to visit a popular social networking site but is blocked. Instead, a page is displayed notifying him that this site cannot be visited. Which of the following is MOST likely blocking Pete's access to this site?
Internet content filter
An attack that is using interference as its main attack to impede network traffic is which of the following?
Introducing too much data to a targets memory allocation
In an environment where availability is critical such as Industrial control and SCADA networks, which of the following technologies in the MOST critical layer of defense for such systems?
Intrusion Prevention system
A user has called the help desk to report an enterprise mobile device was stolen. The technician receiving the call accesses the MDM administration portal to identify the device's last known geographic location. The technician determines the device is still communicating with the MDM. After taking note of the last known location, the administrator continues to follow the rest of the checklist. Which of the following identifies a possible next step for the administrator?
Issue a remote wipe command
A certificate authority takes which of the following actions in PKI?
Issues and signs all root certificates
Which of the following would be a reason for developers to utilize an AES cipher in CCM mode (Counter with Chain Block Message Authentication Code)?
It allows a block cipher to function as a steam cipher
Which of the following is true about the recovery agent?
It can decrypt messages of users who lost their private key.
The process of applying a salt and cryptographic hash to a password then repeating the process many times is known as which of the following?
Key stretching
Users are unable to connect to the web server at IP 192.168.0.20. Which of the following can be inferred of a firewall that is configured ONLY with the following ACL? PERMIT TCP ANY HOST 192.168.0.10 EQ 80 PERMIT TCP ANY HOST 192.168.0.10 EQ 443
It implements an implicit deny.
An administrator is investigating a system that may potentially be compromised and sees the following log entries on the router. *Jul 15 14:47:29.779: %Router1: list 101 permitted TCP 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) -> 10.10.1.5 (6667), 3 packets. *Jul 15 14:47:38.779: %Router1: list 101 permitted TCP 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) -> 10.10.1.5 (6667), 6 packets. *Jul 15 14:47:45.779: %Router1: list 101 permitted TCP 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) -> 10.10.1.5 (6667), 8 packets. Which of the following BEST describes the compromised system?
It is participating in a botnet
An administrator is investigating a system that may potentially be compromised, and sees the following log entries on the router. *Jul 15 14:47:29.779:%Router1: list 101 permitted tcp 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) -> 10.10.1.5 (6667), 3 packets. *Jul 15 14:47:38.779:%Router1: list 101 permitted tcp 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) -> 10.10.1.5 (6667), 6 packets. *Jul 15 14:47:45.779:%Router1: list 101 permitted tcp 192.10.3.204(57222) (FastEthernet 0/3) -> 10.10.1.5 (6667), 8 packets. Which of the following BEST describes the compromised system?
It is participating in a botnet
In regards to secure coding practices, why is input validation important?
It mitigates buffer overflow attacks.
A security administrator is trying to encrypt communication. For which of the following reasons should administrator take advantage of the Subject Alternative Name (SAM) attribute of a certificate?
It provides extended site validation
Which of the following is true about the CRL?
It should be kept public
Which of the following is true about input validation in a client-server architecture, when data integrity is critical to the organization?
It should be performed on the server side.
A security administrator is evaluating three different services: radius, diameter, and Kerberos. Which of the following is a feature that is UNIQUE to Kerberos?
It uses tickets to identify authenticated users
Which of the following has serious security implications for large organizations and can potentially allow an attacker to capture conversations?
Jabber
A software developer is responsible for writing the code on an accounting application. Another software developer is responsible for developing code on a system in human resources. Once a year they have to switch roles for several weeks. Which of the following practices is being implemented?
Job rotation
Which of the following types of risk reducing policies also has the added indirect benefit of cross training employees when implemented?
Job rotation
order to prevent and detect fraud, which of the following should be implemented?
Job rotation
A security administrator has installed a new KDC for the corporate environment. Which of the following authentication protocols is the security administrator planning to implement across the organization?
Kerberos
A user contacts the help desk after being unable to log in to a corporate website. The user can log into the site from another computer in the next office, but not from the PC. The user's PC was able to connect earlier in the day. The help desk has user restart the NTP service. Afterwards the user is able to log into the website. The MOST likely reason for the initial failure was that the website was configured to use which of the following authentication mechanisms?
Kerberos
An information bank has been established to store contacts, phone numbers and other records. An application running on UNIX would like to connect to this index server using port 88. Which of the following authentication services would this use this port by default?
Kerberos
Jane, a security administrator, has been tasked with explaining authentication services to the company's management team. The company runs an active directory infrastructure. Which of the following solutions BEST relates to the host authentication protocol within the company's environment?
Kerberos
Which of the following authentication services requires the use of a ticket-granting ticket (TGT) server in order to complete the authentication process?
Kerberos
Which of the following authentication services uses a default TCP port of 88?
Kerberos
Which of the following authentication services uses a ticket granting system to provide access?
Kerberos
Which of the following types of authentication packages user credentials in a ticket?
Kerberos
Which of the following types of authentication solutions use tickets to provide access to various resources from a central location?
Kerberos
A company needs to provide a secure backup mechanism for key storage in a PKI. Which of the following should the company implement?
Key escrow
A security administrator wishes to protect session leys should a private key become discovered. Which of the following should be enabled in IPSec to allow this?
Key escrow
Which of the following allows an organization to store a sensitive PKI component with a trusted third party?
Key escrow
Which of the following is a requirement when implementing PKI if data loss is unacceptable?
Key escrow
A company has a corporate infrastructure where end users manage their own certificate keys. Which of the following is considered the MOST secure way to handle master keys associated with these certificates?
Key escrow with key recovery
Which of the following is an important implementation consideration when deploying a wireless network that uses a shared password?
Key length
When implementing a mobile security strategy for an organization which of the following is the MOST influential concern that contributes to that organization's ability to extend enterprise policies to mobile devices?
Key management for mobile devices
A system administrator is configuring UNIX accounts to authenticate against an external server. The configuration file asks for the following information DC=ServerName and DC=COM. Which of the following authentication services is being used?
LDAP
An application developer needs to allow employees to use their network credentials to access a new application being developed. Which of the following should be configured in the new application to enable this functionality?
LDAP
Joe, a network administrator, is able to manage the backup software console by using his network login credentials. Which of the following authentication services is the MOST likely using?
LDAP
The security manager wants to unify the storage of credential, phone numbers, office numbers, and address information into one system. Which of the following is a system that will support the requirement on its own?
LDAP
Which of the following authentication services uses a default TCP of 389?
LDAP
Which of the following is an authentication method that can be secured by using SSL?
LDAP
Which of the following protocols is MOST likely to be leveraged by users who need additional information about another user?
LDAP
Which of the following was based on a previous X.500 specification and allows either unencrypted authentication or encrypted authentication through the use of TLS?
LDAP
An attacker attempted to compromise a web form by inserting the following input into the username field: admin)(|(password=*)) Which of the following types of attacks was attempted?
LDAP injection
Which of the following application attacks is used against a corporate directory service where there are unknown servers on the network?
LDAP injection
An organization has an internal PKI that utilizes client certificates on each workstation. When deploying a new wireless network, the security engineer has asked that the new network authenticate clients by utilizes the existing client certificates. Which of the following authentication mechanisms should be utilized to meet this goal?
LEAP
Jane, a security administrator, needs to implement a secure wireless authentication method that uses a remote RADIUS server for authentication. Which of the following is an authentication method Jane should use?
LEAP
A software company sends their offsite backup tapes to a third party storage facility. TO meet confidentiality the tapes should be:
Labeled
A company is looking to improve their security posture by addressing risks uncovered by a recent penetration test. Which of the following risks is MOST likely to affect the business on a day-to-day basis?
Lack of antivirus software
Which of the following is a security concern regarding users bringing personally-owned devices that they connect to the corporate network?
Lack of controls in place to ensure that the devices have the latest system patches and signature files
A security administrator has deployed all laptops with Self Encrypting Drives (SED) and enforces key encryption. Which of the following represents the greatest threat to maintaining data confidentiality with these devices?
Laptops that are placed in a sleep mode allow full data access when powered back on.
Which of the following devices is BEST suited to protect an HTTP-based application that is susceptible to injection attacks?
Layer 7 firewall
Concurrent use of a firewall, content filtering, antivirus software and an IDS system would be considered components of:
Layered security.
One of the system administrators at a company is assigned to maintain a secure computer lab. The administrator has rights to configure machines, install software, and perform user account maintenance. However, the administrator cannot add new computers to the domain, because that requires authorization from the Information Assurance Officer. This is an example of which of the following?
Least privilege
The IT department needs to prevent users from installing untested applications. Which of the following would provide the BEST solution?
Least privilege
The internal audit group discovered that unauthorized users are making unapproved changes to various system configuration settings. This issue occurs when previously authorized users transfer from one department to another and maintain the same credentials. Which of the following controls can be implemented to prevent such unauthorized changes in the future?
Least privilege
A penetration tester was able to obtain elevated privileges on a client workstation and multiple servers using the credentials of an employee. Which of the following controls would mitigate these issues? (Select TWO)
Least privilege Account expiration
After a recent security breach, the network administrator has been tasked to update and backup all router and switch configurations. The security administrator has been tasked to enforce stricter security policies. All users were forced to undergo additional user awareness training. All of these actions are due to which of the following types of risk mitigation strategies?
Lessons learned
In which of the following steps of incident response does a team analyse the incident and determine steps to prevent a future occurrence?
Lessons learned
Which of the following incident response plan steps would MOST likely engaging business professionals with the security team to discuss changes to existing procedures?
Lessons learned
Which of the following steps in incident response procedures entails of the incident and identification of knowledge gained that can be applied to future handling of incidents?
Lessons learned
Which of the following steps of incident response does a team analyze the incident and determine steps to prevent a future occurrence?
Lessons learned
For high availability which of the following would be MOST appropriate for fault tolerance?
Load Balancing
The help desk is experiencing a higher than normal amount of calls from users reporting slow response from the application server. After analyzing the data from a packet capturing tool, the head of the network engineering department determines that the issue is due, in part from the increase of personnel recently hired to perform application development. Which of the following would BEST assist in correcting this issue?
Load balancer
Which of the following devices would be MOST useful to ensure availability when there are a large number of requests to a certain website?
Load balancer
Which of the following provides the BEST application availability and is easily expanded as demand grows?
Load balancing
Which of the following technologies uses multiple devices to share work?
Load balancing
A business has set up a Customer Service kiosk within a shopping mall. The location will be staffed by an employee using a laptop during the mall business hours, but there are still concerns regarding the physical safety of the equipment while it is not in use. Which of the following controls would BEST address this security concern?
Locking cabinets
Which of the following is a best practice for error and exception handling?
Log detailed exception but display generic error message
A company is investigating a data compromise where data exfiltration occurred. Prior to the investigation, the supervisor terminates an employee as a result of the suspected data loss. During the investigation, the supervisor is absent for the interview, and little evidence can be provided form the role-based authentication system in use by the company. The situation can be identified for future mitigation as which of the following?
Log failure
A rogue programmer included a piece of code in an application to cause the program to halt at 2:00 PM on Monday afternoon when the application is most utilized. This is Which of the following types of malware?
Logic Bomb
Which of the following is an attack designed to activate based on time?
Logic Bomb
Ann, a software developer, has installed some code to reactivate her account one week after her account has been disabled. Which of the following is this an example of? (Select TWO).
Logic Bomb Backdoor
One month after a software developer was terminated the helpdesk started receiving calls that several employees' computers were being infected with malware. Upon further research, it was determined that these employees had downloaded a shopping toolbar. It was this toolbar that downloaded and installed the errant code. Which of the following attacks has taken place?
Logic bomb
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) receives an anonymous threatening message that says "beware of the 1st of the year". The CIO suspects the message may be from a former disgruntled employee planning an attack. Which of the following should the CIO be concerned with?
Logic bomb
Which of the following is an attack designed to activate based on date?
Logic bomb
Which of the following malware types is MOST likely to execute its payload after Jane, an employee, has left the company?
Logic bomb
Which of the following works by implanting software on systems but delays execution until a specific set of conditions is met?
Logic bomb
Which of the following should Joe, a security manager, implement to reduce the risk of employees working in collusion to embezzle funds from his company?
Mandatory Vacations
Which of the following is a security benefit of providing additional HVAC capacity or increased tonnage in a datacenter?
Longer MTBF of hardware due to lower operating temperatures
Ann, a security administrator, has concerns regarding her company's wireless network. The network is open and available for visiting prospective clients in the conference room, but she notices that many more devices are connecting to the network than should be. Which of the following would BEST alleviate Ann's concerns with minimum disturbance of current functionality for clients?
Lower the antenna's broadcasting power.
A technician has been tasked with installing and configuring a wireless access point for the engineering department. After the AP has been installed, there have been reports the employees from other departments have been connecting to it without approval. Which of the following would BEST address these concerns?
Lower the antenna's power so that it only covers the engineering department's offices
The IT department has installed new wireless access points but discovers that the signal extends far into the parking lot. Which of the following actions should be taken to correct this?
Lower the power for office coverage only
While responding to an incident on a Linux server, the administrator needs to disable unused services. Which of the following commands can be used to see processes that are listening on a TCP port?
Lsof
Which of the following presents the STRONGEST access control?
MAC
Which of the following means of wireless authentication is easily vulnerable to spoofing?
MAC Filtering
A security analyst has been tasked with securing a guest wireless network. They recommend the company use an authentication server but are told the funds are not available to set this up. Which of the following BEST allows the analyst to restrict user access to approved devices?
MAC filtering
Which of the following wireless security measures can an attacker defeat by spoofing certain properties of their network interface card?
MAC filtering
A corporate wireless guest network uses an open SSID with a captive portal to authenticate guest users. Guests can obtain their portal password at the service desk. A security consultant alerts the administrator that the captive portal is easily bypassed, as long as one other wireless guest user is on the network. Which of the following attacks did the security consultant use?
MAC spoofing
While performing surveillance activities, an attacker determines that an organization is using 802.1X to secure LAN access. Which of the following attack mechanisms can the attacker utilize to bypass the identified network security?
MAC spoofing
A Company transfers millions of files a day between their servers. A programmer for the company has created a program that indexes and verifies the integrity of each file as it is replicated between servers. The programmer would like to use the fastest algorithm to ensure integrity. Which of the following should the programmer use?
MD5
The security manager must store a copy of a sensitive document and needs to verify at a later point that the document has not been altered. Which of the following will accomplish the security manager's objective?
MD5
Users report that after downloading several applications, their systems' performance has noticeably decreased. Which of the following would be used to validate programs prior to installing them?
MD5
When generating a request for a new x.509 certificate for securing a website, which of the following is the MOST appropriate hashing algorithm?
MD5
Joe, an employee, was escorted from the company premises due to suspicion of revealing trade secrets to a competitor. Joe had already been working for two hours before leaving the premises. A security technician was asked to prepare a report of files that had changed since last night's integrity scan. Which of the following could the technician use to prepare the report? (Select TWO).
MD5 HMAC
Which of the following algorithms has well documented collisions? (Select TWO).
MD5 SHA
An attacker is attempting to insert malicious code into an installer file that is available on the internet. The attacker is able to gain control of the web server that houses both the installer and the web page which features information about the downloadable file. To implement the attack and delay detection, the attacker should modify both the installer file and the:
MD5 hash of the file listed on the website
A company has a security policy that specifies all endpoint computing devices should be assigned a unique identifier that can be tracked via an inventory management system. Recent changes to airline security regulations have cause many executives in the company to travel with mini tablet devices instead of laptops. These tablet devices are difficult to tag and track. An RDP application is used from the tablet to connect into the company network. Which of the following should be implemented in order to meet the security policy requirements?
MDM software
When information is shared between two separate organizations, which of the following documents would describe the sensitivity as well as the type and flow of the information?
MOA
Which of the following documents outlines the responsibility of both participants in an agreement between two organizations?
MOU
Which of the following is the GREATEST security risk of two or more companies working together under a Memorandum of Understanding?
MOUs are generally loose agreements and therefore may not have strict guidelines in place to protect sensitive data between the two entities.
The database server used by the payroll system crashed at 3 PM and payroll is due at 5 PM. Which of the following metrics is MOST important is this instance?
MTTR
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is tasked with outsourcing the analysis of security logs. These will need to still be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure the security of the company has not been breached. Which of the following cloud service options would support this requirement?
MaaS
Ann, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a company, sees cloud computing as a way to save money while providing valuable services. She is looking for a cost-effective solution to assist in capacity planning as well as visibility into the performance of the network. Which of the following cloud technologies should she look into?
MaaS
Which of the following BEST describes an attack where communications between two parties are intercepted and forwarded to each party with neither party being aware of the interception and potential modification to the communications?
Main-in-the-middle
Which of the following is the FIRST step in a forensics investigation when a breach of a client's workstation has been confirmed?
Make a bit-for-bit copy of the system
A news and weather toolbar was accidently installed into a web browser. The toolbar tracks users online activities and sends them to a central logging server. Which of the following attacks took place?
Malicious add-on
Use of a smart card to authenticate remote servers remains MOST susceptible to which of the following attacks?
Malicious code on the local system
During a disaster recovery planning session, a security administrator has been tasked with determining which threats and vulnerabilities pose a risk to the organization. Which of the following should the administrator rate as having the HIGHEST frequency of risk to the organization?
Malware and viruses
A network administrator is attempting to troubleshoot an issue regarding certificates on a secure website. During the troubleshooting process, the network administrator notices that the web gateway proxy on the local network has signed all of the certificates on the local machine. Which of the following describes the type of attack the proxy has been legitimately programmed to perform?
Man-in-the-middle
A security administrator implements access controls based on the security classification of the data and need-to-know information. Which of the following BEST describes this level of access control?
Mandatory Access Controls
Which of the following common access control models is commonly used on systems to ensure a "need to know" based on classification levels?
Mandatory Access Controls
A user reports being unable to access a file on a network share. The security administrator determines that the file is marked as confidential and that the user does not have the appropriate access level for that file. Which of the following is being implemented?
Mandatory access control
Which of the following access controls enforces permissions based on data labeling at specific levels?
Mandatory access control
Joe is the accounts payable agent for ABC Company. Joe has been performing accounts payable function for the ABC Company without any supervision. Management has noticed several new accounts without billing invoices that were paid. Which of the following is the BEST management option for review of the new accounts?
Mandatory vacation
Two members of the finance department have access to sensitive information. The company is concerned they may work together to steal information. Which of the following controls could be implemented to discover if they are working together?
Mandatory vacations
A company is installing a new security measure that would allow one person at a time to be authenticated to an area without human interaction. Which of the following does this describe?
Mantrap
Pete, an IT Administrator, needs to secure his server room. Which of the following mitigation methods would provide the MOST physical protection?
Mantrap
Visitors entering a building are required to close the back door before the front door of the same entry room is open. Which of the following is being described?
Mantrap
An organization relies heavily on an application that has a high frequency of security updates. At present, the security team only updates the application the security updates are released as often as twice a week. Which of the following would be the BEST method of updating this application?
Manually apply updates for application when they are released
During the information gathering stage of a deploying role-based access control model, which of the following information is MOST likely required?
Matrix of job titles with required access privileges
Matt, a security analyst, needs to implement encryption for company data and also prevent theft of company data. Where and how should Matt meet this requirement?
Matt should implement DLP and encrypt the company database.
A Company has recently identified critical systems that support business operations. Which of the following will once defined, be the requirement for restoration of these systems within a certain period of time?
Mean Time Between Failure
When a communications plan is developed for disaster recovery and business continuity plans, the MOST relevant items to include would be: (Select TWO).
Methods and templates to respond to press requests, institutional and regulatory reporting requirements. Methods to exchange essential information to and from all response team members, employees, suppliers, and customers.
While reviewing the security controls in place for a web-based application, a security controls assessor notices that there are no password strength requirements in place. Because of this vulnerability, passwords might be easily discovered using a brute force attack. Which of the following password requirements will MOST effectively improve the security posture of the application against these attacks? (Select two)
Minimum length Minimum re-use limit
A recent review of accounts on various systems has found that after employees passwords are required to change they are recycling the same password as before. Which of the following policies should be enforced to prevent this from happening? (Select TWO)
Minimum password age Password history
A recent review of accounts on various systems has found that after employees' passwords are required to change they are recycling the same password as before. Which of the following policies should be enforced to prevent this from happening? (Select TWO).
Minimum password age Password history
A system administrator must configure the company's authentication system to ensure that users will be unable to reuse the last ten passwords within a six months period. Which of the following settings must be configured? (Select Two)
Minimum password age Password history
A web startup wants to implement single sign-on where its customers can log on to the site by suing their personal and existing corporate email credentials regardless of which company they work for. Is this directly supported by SAML?
Mo not without extensive partnering and API integration with all required email providers
Which of the following types of encryption will help in protecting files on a PED?
Mobile device encryption
Which of the following technical controls helps to prevent Smartphones from connecting to a corporate network?
Mobile device management
Which of the following technologies when applied to android and iOS environments, can an organization use to add security restrictions and encryption to existing mobile applications? (Select Two)
Mobile device management Application whitelisting
Which of the following can be utilized in order to provide temporary IT support during a disaster, where the organization sets aside funds for contingencies, but does not necessarily have a dedicated site to restore those services?
Mobile site
A cyber security administrator receives a list of IPs that have been reported as attempting to access the network. To identify any possible successful attempts across the enterprise, which of the following should be implemented?
Monitor authentication logs
Which of the following are examples of detective controls?
Motion sensors, intruder alarm and audit.
An incident response team member needs to perform a forensics examination but does not have the required hardware. Which of the following will allow the team member to perform the examination with minimal impact to the potential evidence?
Mounting the drive in read-only mode
Which of the following BEST describes using a smart card and typing in a PIN to gain access to a system?
Multifactor authentication
A distributed denial of service attack can BEST be described as:
Multiple computers attacking a single target in an organized attempt to deplete its resources.
Which of the following passwords is the LEAST complex?
Mytr@in!!
A computer is put into a restricted VLAN until the computer's virus definitions are up-todate. Which of the following BEST describes this system type?
NAC
A security administrator is tasked with ensuring that all devices have updated virus definition files before they are allowed to access network resources. Which of the following technologies would be used to accomplish this goal?
NAC
A security administrator needs a method to ensure that only employees can get onto the internal network when plugging into a network switch. Which of the following BEST meets that requirement?
NAC
An administrator wishes to hide the network addresses of an internal network when connecting to the Internet. The MOST effective way to mask the network address of the users would be by passing the traffic through a:
NAT
An administrator is configuring a network for all users in a single building. Which of the following design elements would be used to segment the network based on organizational groups? (Select two)
NAT Subnetting
Which of the following is used to inform users of the repercussions of releasing proprietary information?
NDA
Which of the following protocols is used by IPv6 for MAC address resolution?
NDP
Ann a security analyst is monitoring the IDS console and noticed multiple connections from an internal host to a suspicious call back domain \. Which of the following tools would aid her to decipher the network traffic?
NETSTAT
Recently the desktop support group has been performing a hardware refresh and has replaced numerous computers. An auditor discovered that a number of the new computers did not have the company's antivirus software installed on them, Which of the following could be utilized to notify the network support group when computers without the antivirus software are added to the network?
NIDS
An administrator is looking to implement a security device which will be able to not only detect network intrusions at the organization level, but help defend against them as well. Which of the following is being described here?
NIPS
Mike, a network administrator, has been asked to passively monitor network traffic to the company's sales websites. Which of the following would be BEST suited for this task?
NIPS
Pete, a security administrator, has observed repeated attempts to break into the network. Which of the following is designed to stop an intrusion on the network?
NIPS
A security technician is concerned there4 is not enough security staff available the web servers and database server located in the DMZ around the clock. Which of the following technologies, when deployed, would provide the BEST round the clock automated protection?
NIPS & HIDS
A malicious program modified entries in the LMHOSTS file of an infected system. Which of the following protocols would have been affected by this?
NetBIOS
While responding to an incident on a new Windows server, the administrator needs to disable unused services. Which of the following commands can be used to see processes that are listening on a TCP port?
Netstat
Given a class C network a technician has been tasked with creating a separate subnet for each of the eight departments in the company. Which of the following network masks would allow for each department to have a unique network space and what is the maximum number of hosts each department could have?
Network 255.255.255.248, 32 hosts
An auditor is given access to a conference room to conduct an analysis. When they connect their laptop's Ethernet cable into the wall jack, they are not able to get a connection to the Internet but have a link light. Which of the following is MOST likely causing this issue?
Network Access Control
When designing a corporate NAC solution, which of the following is the MOST relevant integration issue?
Network Latency
To mitigate the risk of intrusion, an IT Manager is concerned with using secure versions of protocols and services whenever possible. In addition, the security technician is required to monitor the types of traffic being generated. Which of the following tools is the technician MOST likely to use?
Network analyzer
Company A and Company B both supply contractual services to a fast paced and growing auto parts manufacturer with a small local Area Network (LAN) at its local site. Company A performs in-house billing and invoices services for the local auto parts manufactacturer. Company B provides in-house parts and widgets services for the local auto parts manufacturers. Which of the following is the BEST method to mitigate security risk within the environment?
Network segmentation
Joe, the security administrator, has determined that one of his web servers is under attack. Which of the following can help determine where the attack originated from?
Network sniffing
A fiber company has acquired permission to bury a fiber cable through a famer's land. Which of the following should be in the agreement with the farmer to protect the availability of the network?
No digging will occur near the burial site of the cable
The helpdesk is receiving numerous reports that a newly installed biometric reader at the entrance of the data center has a high of false negatives. Which of the following is the consequence of this reported problem?
No employees will be able to access the datacenter
The access control list (ACL) for a file on a server is as follows: User: rwx User: Ann: r- - User: Joe: r- - Group: rwx Group: sales: r-x Other: r-x Joe and Ann are members of the Human Resources group. Will Ann and Joe be able to run the file?
No since the ACL overrides the regular permissions for the file
Which of the following is a security advantage of using NoSQL vs. SQL databases in a three-tier environment?
NoSQL databases are not vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.
Ann, a newly hired human resource employee, sent out confidential emails with digital signatures, to an unintended group. Which of the following would prevent her from denying accountability?
Non Repudiation
An encrypted message is sent using PKI from Sara, a client, to a customer. Sara claims she never sent the message. Which of the following aspects of PKI BEST ensures the identity of the sender?
Non-repudiation
Which of the following concepts is enforced by certifying that email communications have been sent by who the message says it has been sent by?
Non-repudiation
A security Operations Center was scanning a subnet for infections and found a contaminated machine. One of the administrators disabled the switch port that the machine was connected to, and informed a local technician of the infection. Which of the following steps did the administrator perform?
Notification Quarantine
Joe an employee has reported to Ann a network technician an unusual device plugged into a USB port on a workstation in the call center. Ann unplugs the workstation and brings it to the IT department where an incident is opened. Which of the following should have been done first?
Notify the incident response team lead
The security manager reports that the process of revoking certificates authority is too slow and should be automated. Which of the following should be used to automate this process?
OCSP
Which of the following protocols is used to validate whether trust is in place and accurate by returning responses of either "good", "unknown", or "revoked"?
OCSP
A security researcher wants to reverse engineer an executable file to determine if it is malicious. The file was found on an underused server and appears to contain a zero-day exploit. Which of the following can the researcher do to determine if the file is malicious in nature?
OS Baseline comparison
A company wants to ensure that the validity of publicly trusted certificates used by its web server can be determined even during an extended internet outage. Which of the following should be implemented?
Ocsp
When designing a web based client server application with single application server and database cluster backend, input validation should be performed:
On the application server
A company is concerned that a compromised certificate may result in a man-in-the-middle attack against backend financial servers. In order to minimize the amount of time a compromised certificate would be accepted by other servers, the company decides to add another validation step to SSL/TLS connections. Which of the following technologies provides the FASTEST revocation capability?
Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
The system administrator is reviewing the following logs from the company web server: 12:34:56 GET /directory_listing.php?user=admin&pass=admin1 12:34:57 GET /directory_listing.php?user=admin&pass=admin2 12:34:58 GET /directory_listing.php?user=admin&pass=1admin 12:34:59 GET /directory_listing.php?user=admin&pass=2admin Which of the following is this an example of?
Online hybrid attack
A security administrator has implemented a policy to prevent data loss. Which of the following is the BEST method of enforcement?
Only USB devices supporting encryption are to be used.
A security technician wants to implement stringent security controls over web traffic by restricting the client source TCP ports allowed through the corporate firewall. Which of the following should the technician implement?
Only allow port 80 and 443
A system administrator is conducting baseline audit and determines that a web server is missing several critical updates. Which of the following actions should the administrator perform first to correct the issue?
Open a service ticket according to the patch management plan
Ann is traveling for business and is attempting to use the hotel's wireless network to check for new messages. She selects the hotel's wireless SSID from a list of networks and successfully connects. After opening her email client and waiting a few minutes, the connection times out. Which of the following should Ann do to retrieve her email messages?
Open a web browser and authenticate using the captive portal for the hotel's wireless network
Which of the following implementation steps would be appropriate for a public wireless hotspot?
Open system authentication
A Human Resources user is issued a virtual desktop typically assigned to Accounting employees. A system administrator wants to disable certain services and remove the local accounting groups installed by default on this virtual machine. The system administrator is adhering to which of the following security best practices?
Operating System hardening
A datacenter manager has been asked to prioritize critical system recovery priorities. Which of the following is the MOST critical for immediate recovery?
Operating system software
A program displays: ERROR: this program has caught an exception and will now terminate. Which of the following is MOST likely accomplished by the program's behavior?
Operating system's integrity is maintained
Three of the primary security control types that can be implemented are.
Operational, technical, and management.
Joe a computer forensic technician responds to an active compromise of a database server. Joe first collects information in memory, then collects network traffic and finally conducts an image of the hard drive. Which of the following procedures did Joe follow?
Order of volatility
Joe is exchanging encrypted email with another party. Joe encrypts the initial email with a key. When Joe receives a response, he is unable to decrypt the response with the same key he used initially. Which of the following would explain the situation?
Out-of-band key exchange has taken place
Which of the following statements is MOST likely to be included in the security awareness training about P2P?
P2P may cause excessive network bandwidth.
Which of the following offers the LEAST secure encryption capabilities?
PAP
Connections using point-to-point protocol authenticate using which of the following? (Select TWO).
PAP CHAP
Pete, a security auditor, has detected clear text passwords between the RADIUS server and the authenticator. Which of the following is configured in the RADIUS server and what technologies should the authentication protocol be changed to?
PAP, MSCHAPv2
Sara, the security administrator, must configure the corporate firewall to allow all public IP addresses on the internal interface of the firewall to be translated to one public IP address on the external interface of the same firewall. Which of the following should Sara configure?
PAT
A new client application developer wants to ensure that the encrypted passwords that are stored in their database are secure from cracking attempts. To implement this, the developer implements a function on the client application that hashes passwords thousands of times prior to being sent to the database. Which of the following did the developer MOST likely implement?
PBKDF2
A security engineer is asked by the company's development team to recommend the most secure method for password storage. Which of the following provide the BEST protection against brute forcing stored passwords? (Select TWO).
PBKDF2 Bcrypt
Matt, a systems security engineer, is determining which credential-type authentication to use within a planned 802.1x deployment. He is looking for a method that does not require a client certificate, has a server side certificate, and uses TLS tunnels for encryption. Which credential type authentication method BEST fits these requirements?
PEAP-MSCHAPv2
A security administrator must implement a firewall rule to allow remote employees to VPN onto the company network. The VPN concentrator implements SSL VPN over the standard HTTPS port. Which of the following is the MOST secure ACL to implement at the company's gateway firewall?
PERMIT TCP FROM ANY 1024-65535 TO 199.70.5.23 443
A system administrator wants to implement an internal communication system that will allow employees to send encrypted messages to each other. The system must also support non-repudiation. Which of the following implements all these requirements?
PGP
A small company wants to employ PKI. The company wants a cost effective solution that must be simple and trusted. They are considering two options: X.509 and PGP. Which of the following would be the BEST option?
PGP, because it is simple to incorporate into a small environment.
A security administrator is auditing a database server to ensure the correct security measures are in place to protect the data. Some of the fields consist of people's first name, last name, home address, date of birth and mothers last name. Which of the following describes this type of data?
PII
Which of the following policies is implemented in order to minimize data loss or theft?
PII handling
In order to use a two-way trust model the security administrator MUST implement which of the following?
PKI
Which of the following software allows a network administrator to inspect the protocol header in order to troubleshoot network issues?
Packet sniffer
Maintenance workers find an active network switch hidden above a dropped-ceiling tile in the CEO's office with various connected cables from the office. Which of the following describes the type of attack that was occurring?
Packet sniffing
An administrator has to determine host operating systems on the network and has deployed a transparent proxy. Which of the following fingerprint types would this solution use?
Passive
An auditing team has found that passwords do not meet best business practices. Which of the following will MOST increase the security of the passwords? (Select TWO).
Password Complexity Password Length
The help desk is receiving numerous password change alerts from users in the accounting department. These alerts occur multiple times on the same day for each of the affected users' accounts. Which of the following controls should be implemented to curtail this activity?
Password Minimum age
Which of the following is considered the MOST effective practice when securing printers or scanners in an enterprise environment?
Routine vulnerability scanning of peripherals
A password audit has revealed that a significant percentage if end-users have passwords that are easily cracked. Which of the following is the BEST technical control that could be implemented to reduce the amount of easily "crackable" passwords in use?
Password complexity
An internal auditing team would like to strengthen the password policy to support special characters. Which of the following types of password controls would achieve this goal?
Password complexity
A system administrator wants to prevent password compromises from offline password attacks. Which of the following controls should be configured to BEST accomplish this task? (Select TWO)
Password complexity Account lockouts
When Ann an employee returns to work and logs into her workstation she notices that, several desktop configuration settings have changed. Upon a review of the CCTV logs, it is determined that someone logged into Ann's workstation. Which of the following could have prevented this from happening?
Password complexity policy
A security administrator wants to check user password complexity. Which of the following is the BEST tool to use?
Password cracker
A network administrator, Joe, arrives at his new job to find that none of the users have changed their network passwords since they were initially hired. Joe wants to have everyone change their passwords immediately. Which of the following policies should be enforced to initiate a password change?
Password expiration
After a recent internal audit, the security administrator was tasked to ensure that all credentials must be changed within 90 days, cannot be repeated, and cannot contain any dictionary words or patterns. All credentials will remain enabled regardless of the number of attempts made. Which of the following types of user account options were enforced? (Select TWO).
Password expiration Password complexity
An organizations' security policy requires that users change passwords every 30 days. After a security audit, it was determined that users were recycling previously used passwords. Which of the following password enforcement policies would have mitigated this issue?
Password history
An administrator discovers that many users have used their same passwords for years even though the network requires that the passwords be changed every six weeks. Which of the following, when used together, would BEST prevent users from reusing their existing password? (Select TWO).
Password history Minimum password age
A security administrator is reviewing the below output from a password auditing tool: P@ss. @pW1. S3cU4 Which of the following additional policies should be implemented based on the tool's output?
Password length
Which of the following is the term for a fix for a known software problem?
Patch
A company has had several security incidents in the past six months. It appears that the majority of the incidents occurred on systems with older software on development workstations. Which of the following should be implemented to help prevent similar incidents in the future?
Patch management
A technician has implemented a system in which all workstations on the network will receive security updates on the same schedule. Which of the following concepts does this illustrate?
Patch management
An administrator finds that non-production servers are being frequently compromised, production servers are rebooting at unplanned times and kernel versions are several releases behind the version with all current security fixes. Which of the following should the administrator implement?
Patch management
Which of the following practices is used to mitigate a known security vulnerability?
Patch management
Which of the following MOST interferes with network-based detection techniques?
SSL
A security analyst has been asked to perform a review of an organization's software development lifecycle. The analyst reports that the lifecycle does not contain a phase in which team members evaluate and provide critical feedback of another developer's code. Which of the following assessment techniques is BEST described in the analyst's report?
Peer review
A security administrator is aware that a portion of the company's Internet-facing network tends to be non-secure due to poorly configured and patched systems. The business owner has accepted the risk of those systems being compromised, but the administrator wants to determine the degree to which those systems can be used to gain access to the company intranet. Which of the following should the administrator perform?
Penetration test
Which of the following assessments would Pete, the security administrator, use to actively test that an application's security controls are in place?
Penetration test
Which of the following is BEST utilized to actively test security controls on a particular system?
Penetration test
Which of the following is the MOST intrusive type of testing against a production system?
Penetration testing
A company used a partner company to develop critical components of an application. Several employees of the partner company have been arrested for cybercrime activities. Which of the following should be done to protect the interest of the company?
Perform a penetration test against the application
An outside security consultant produces a report of several vulnerabilities for a particular server. Upon further investigation, it is determine that the vulnerability reported does not apply to the platform the server is running on. Which of the following should the consultant do in order to produce more accurate results?
Perform a penetration test in addition to a vulnerability scan
Which of the following is the BEST approach to perform risk mitigation of user access control rights?
Perform routine user permission reviews.
A security analyst implemented group-based privileges within the company active directory. Which of the following account management techniques should be undertaken regularly to ensure least privilege principles?
Perform user group clean-up.
A portable data storage device has been determined to have malicious firmware. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to ensure data confidentiality?
Perform virus scan in the device
A company exchanges information with a business partner. An annual audit of the business partner is conducted against the SLA in order to verify:
Performance and service delivery metrics
Which of the following tools will allow a technician to detect security-related TCP connection anomalies?
Performance monitor
The sales force in an organization frequently travel to remote sites and requires secure access to an internal server with an IP address of 192.168.0.220. Assuming services are using default ports, which of the following firewall rules would accomplish this objective? (Select Two)
Permit TCP 22 any 192.168.0.200 Permit TCP 3389 any 192.168.0.200
Ann a technician received a spear-phishing email asking her to update her personal information by clicking the link within the body of the email. Which of the following type of training would prevent Ann and other employees from becoming victims to such attacks?
Personal Identifiable Information
A company's BYOD policy requires the installation of a company provide mobile agent on their on their personally owned devices which would allow auditing when an employee wants to connect a device to the corporate email system. Which of the following concerns will MOST affect the decision to use a personal device to receive company email?
Personal privacy
Which of the following concepts is a term that directly relates to customer privacy considerations?
Personally identifiable information
Which of the following is the GREATEST security concern of allowing employees to bring in their personally owned tablets and connecting to the corporate network?
Personally purchased media may be available on the network for others to stream
A user has unknowingly gone to a fraudulent site. The security analyst notices the following system change on the user's host: Old `hosts' file: 127.0.0.1 localhost New `hosts' file: 127.0.0.1 localhost 5.5.5.5 www.comptia.com Which of the following attacks has taken place?
Pharming
A security administrator notices large amounts of traffic within the network heading out to an external website. The website seems to be a fake bank site with a phone number that when called, asks for sensitive information. After further investigation, the security administrator notices that a fake link was sent to several users. This is an example of which of the following attacks?
Phishing
Human Resources (HR) would like executives to undergo only two specific security training programs a year. Which of the following provides the BEST level of security training for the executives? (Select TWO).
Phishing threats and attacks, Information security awareness
Company XYZ recently salvaged company laptops and removed all hard drives, but the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about disclosure of confidential information. Which of the following is the MOST secure method to dispose of these hard drives?
Physical Destruction
A university has a building that holds the power generators for the entire campus. A risk assessment was completed for the university and the generator building was labeled as a high risk. Fencing and lighting was installed to reduce risk. Which of the following security goals would this meet?
Physical security
Due to issues with building keys being duplicated and distributed, a security administrator wishes to change to a different security control regarding a restricted area. The goal is to provide access based upon facial recognition. Which of the following will address this requirement?
Place a guard at the entrance to approve access.
Jane, an administrator, needs to make sure the wireless network is not accessible from the parking area of their office. Which of the following would BEST help Jane when deploying a new access point?
Placement of antenna
A workstation is exhibiting symptoms of malware and the network security analyst has decided to remove the system from the network. This represents which of the following stages of the Incident Handling Response?
Plan of action
Joe, a user, wants to protect sensitive information stored on his hard drive. He uses a program that encrypted the whole hard drive. Once the hard drive is fully encrypted, he uses the same program to create a hidden volume within the encrypted hard drive and stores the sensitive information within the hidden volume. This is an example of which of the following? (Select TWO).
Plausible deniability Steganography
A technician is configuring a switch to support VOPIP phones. The technician wants to ensure the phones do not require external power packs. Which of the following would allow the phones to be powered using the network connection?
PoE+
One of the most consistently reported software security vulnerabilities that leads to major exploits is:
Poor input validation.
A user has several random browser windows opening on their computer. Which of the following programs can be installed on his machine to help prevent this from happening?
Pop-up blocker
A webpage displays a potentially offensive advertisement on a computer. A customer walking by notices the displayed advertisement and files complaint. Which of the following can BEST reduce the likelihood of this incident occurring again?
Pop-up blocker
A malicious user has collected the following list of information: 192.168.1.5 OpenSSH-Server_5.8 192.168.1.7 OpenSSH-Server_5.7 192.168.1.9 OpenSSH-Server_5.7 Which of the following techniques is MOST likely to gather this type of data?
Port scan
Sara, the Chief Information Officer (CIO), has requested an audit take place to determine what services and operating systems are running on the corporate network. Which of the following should be used to complete this task?
Port scan and fingerprinting
During a security assessment, an administrator wishes to see which services are running on a remote server. Which of the following should the administrator use?
Port scanner
Which of the following tools would a security administrator use in order to identify all running services throughout an organization?
Port scanner
A company discovers an unauthorized device accessing network resources through one of many network drops in a common area used by visitors. The company decides that is wants to quickly prevent unauthorized devices from accessing the network but policy prevents the company from making changes on every connecting client. Which of the following should the company implement?
Port security
A video surveillance audit recently uncovered that an employee plugged in a personal laptop and used the corporate network to browse inappropriate and potentially malicious websites after office hours. Which of the following could BEST prevent a situation like this form occurring again?
Port security
An organization has a need for security control that identifies when an organizational system has been unplugged and a rouge system has been plugged in. The security control must also provide the ability to supply automated notifications. Which of the following would allow the organization to BEST meet this business requirement?
Port security
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned that users could bring their personal laptops to work and plug them directly into the network port under their desk. Which of the following should be configured on the network switch to prevent this from happening?
Port security
A network was down for several hours due to a contractor entering the premises and plugging both ends of a network cable into adjacent network jacks. Which of the following would have prevented the network outage? (Select Two)
Port security Flood Guards
A BYOD policy in which employees are able to access the wireless guest network is in effect in an organization. Some users however are using the Ethernet port in personal laptops to the wired network. Which of the following could an administrator use to ensure that unauthorized devices are not allowed to access the wired network?
Port security configured shut down the port when unauthorized devices connect
A company uses port security based on an approved MAC list to secure its wired network and WPA2 to secure its wireless network. Which of the following prevents an attacker from learning authorized MAC addresses?
Port security prevents access to any traffic that might provide an attacker with authorized MAC addresses
During a data breach cleanup it is discovered that not all of the sites involved have the necessary data wiping tools. The necessary tools are quickly distributed to the required technicians, but when should this problem BEST be revisited?
Preparation
During which of the following phases of the Incident Response process should a security administrator define and implement general defense against malware?
Preparation
The Chief Technical Officer (CTO) has tasked The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to develop and update all Internal Operating Procedures and Standard Operating Procedures documentation in order to successfully respond to future incidents. Which of the following stages of the Incident Handling process is the team working on?
Preparation
Which of the following is the BEST reason for placing a password lock on a mobile device?
Prevents an unauthorized user from accessing owner's data
Encryption of data at rest is important for sensitive information because of which of the following?
Prevents data from being accessed following theft of physical equipment
A penetration tester is measuring a company's posture on social engineering. The penetration tester sends a phishing email claiming to be from IT asking employees to click a link to update their VPN software immediately. Which of the following reasons would explain why this attack could be successful?
Principle of Urgency
A large bank has moved back office operations offshore to another country with lower wage costs in an attempt to improve profit and productivity. Which of the following would be a customer concern if the offshore staff had direct access to their data?
Privacy considerations
Users need to exchange a shared secret to begin communicating securely. Which of the following is another name for this symmetric key?
Private Key
Which of the following types of cloud computing would be MOST appropriate if an organization required complete control of the environment?
Private cloud
Which of the following would be MOST appropriate if an organization's requirements mandate complete control over the data and applications stored in the cloud?
Private cloud
Company A sends a PGP encrypted file to company B. If company A used company B's public key to encrypt the file, which of the following should be used to decrypt data at company B?
Private key
The recovery agent is used to recover the:
Private key
Which of the following must be kept secret for a public key infrastructure to remain secure?
Private key
When using PGP, which of the following should the end user protect from compromise? (Select TWO).
Private key Key password
Symmetric encryption utilizes __________, while asymmetric encryption utilizes _________.
Private keys, public keys
A security administrator wants to implement a solution which will allow some applications to run under the user's home directory and only have access to files stored within the same user's folder, while other applications have access to shared folders. Which of the following BEST addresses these requirements if the environment is concurrently shared by multiple users?
Process sandboxing
In order for network monitoring to work properly, you need a PC and a network card running in what mode?
Promiscuous
After Matt, a user, enters his username and password at the login screen of a web enabled portal, the following appears on his screen: `Please only use letters and numbers on these fields' Which of the following is this an example of?
Proper input validation
Pete, the system administrator, has blocked users from accessing social media web sites. In addition to protecting company information from being accidentally leaked, which additional security benefit does this provide?
Protection against malware introduced by banner ads
A corporation has experienced several media leaks of proprietary data on various web forums. The posts were made during business hours and it is believed that the culprit is posting during work hours from a corporate machine. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to scan internet traffic and keep records for later use in legal proceedings once the culprit is found. Which of the following provides the BEST solution?
Protocol analyzer
A network technician is trying to determine the source of an ongoing network based attack. Which of the following should the technician use to view IPv4 packet data on a particular internal network segment?
Protocol analyzer
Ann, a system analyst, discovered the following log. Which of the following or techniques does this indicate? {bp1@localmachine}$ Is-al Total 12 Drwxrwxr-x
Protocol analyzer
Matt, an administrator, notices a flood fragmented packet and retransmits from an email server. After disabling the TCP offload setting on the NIC, Matt sees normal traffic with packets flowing in sequence again. Which of the following utilities was he MOST likely using to view this issue?
Protocol analyzer
Which of the following is BEST used to capture and analyze network traffic between hosts on the same network segment?
Protocol analyzer
Which of the following tools would allow Ann, the security administrator, to be able to BEST quantify all traffic on her network?
Protocol analyzer
Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to identify a problem between two applications that are not communicating properly?
Protocol analyzer
Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to identify a problem between two systems that are not communicating properly?
Protocol analyzer
Which the following would verify that a threat does exist and security controls can easily be bypassed without actively testing an application?
Protocol analyzer
Which of the following BEST allows Pete, a security administrator, to determine the type, source, and flags of the packet traversing a network for troubleshooting purposes?
Protocol analyzers
A security manager is discussing change in the security posture of the network, if a proposed application is approved for deployment. Which of the following is the MOST important the security manager must rely upon to help make this determination?
Protocols/services used by new application
A security administrator must implement a wireless encryption system to secure mobile devices' communication. Some users have mobile devices which only support 56-bit encryption. Which of the following wireless encryption methods should be implemented?
RC4
Which of the following devices is used for the transparent security inspection of network traffic by redirecting user packets prior to sending the packets to the intended destination?
Proxies
Which of the following should the security administrator implement to limit web traffic based on country of origin? (Select THREE).
Proxies, Firewall, URL filtering
A company wants to improve its overall security posture by deploying environmental controls in its datacenter. Which of the following is considered an environmental control that can be deployed to meet this goal?
Proximity readers
Which of the following access methods uses radio frequency waves for authentication?
Proximity readers
Which of the following devices would be the MOST efficient way to filter external websites for staff on an internal network?
Proxy
Which of the following is synonymous with a server's certificate?
Public key
A software development company wants to implement a digital rights management solution to protect its intellectual property. Which of the following should the company implement to enforce software digital rights?
Public key infrastructure
A CRL is comprised of.
Public keys.
A user was reissued a smart card after the previous smart card had expired. The user is able to log into the domain but is now unable to send digitally signed or encrypted email. Which of the following would the user need to perform?
Publish the new certificates to the global address list.
A company is deploying a new VoIP phone system. They require 99.999% uptime for their phone service and are concerned about their existing data network interfering with the VoIP phone system. The core switches in the existing data network are almost fully saturated. Which of the following options will pro-vide the best performance and availability for both the VoIP traffic, as well as the traffic on the existing data network?
Put the VoIP network into a different VLAN than the existing data network.
Which of the following should be performed to increase the availability of IP telephony by prioritizing traffic?
Quality of service
An administrator would like to utilize encryption that has comparable speed and strength to the AES cipher without using AES itself. The cipher should be able to operate in the same modes as AES and utilize the same minimum bit strength. Which of the following algorithms should the administrator select?
RC4
Upper management decides which risk to mitigate based on cost. This is an example of:
Quantitative risk assessment
Which of the following represents a cryptographic solution where the encrypted stream cannot be captured by a sniffer without the integrity of the stream being compromised?
Quantum cryptography.
A company would like to implement two-factor authentication for its vulnerability management database to require system administrators to use their token and random PIN codes. Which of the following authentication services accomplishes this objective?
RADIUS
A system administrator needs to implement 802.1x whereby when user logs into the network, the authentication server communicates to the network switch and assigns the user to the proper VLAN. Which of the following protocols should be used?
RADIUS
A technician has deployed a new VPN concentrator. The device needs to authenticate users based on a backend directory service. Which of the following services could be run on the VPN concentrator to perform this authentication?
RADIUS
An administrator would like users to authenticate to the network using only UDP protocols. Which of the following would meet this goal?
RADIUS
Ann has taken over as the new head of the IT department. One of her first assignments was to implement AAA in preparation for the company's new telecommuting policy. When she takes inventory of the organizations existing network infrastructure, she makes note that it is a mix of several different vendors. Ann knows she needs a method of secure centralized access to the company's network resources. Which of the following is the BEST service for Ann to implement?
RADIUS
Which of the following authentication methods requires the user, service provider and an identity provider to take part in the authentication process?
RADIUS
Which of the following authentication protocols makes use of UDP for its services?
RADIUS
Which of the following authentication services combines authentication and authorization in a use profile and use UDP?
RADIUS
Which of the following is an authentication service that uses UDP as a transport medium?
RADIUS
Which of the following is mainly used for remote access into the network?
RADIUS
Which of the following relies on the use of shared secrets to protect communication?
RADIUS
Which of the following should be used to authenticate and log connections from wireless users connecting with EAP-TLS?
RADIUS
Which of the following types of security services are used to support authentication for remote users and devices?
RADIUS
A system administrator is configuring shared secrets on servers and clients. Which of the following authentication services is being deployed by the administrator? (Select two.)
RADIUS LDAP
A small business needs to incorporate fault tolerance into their infrastructure to increase data availability. Which of the following options would be the BEST solution at a minimal cost?
RAID
Matt, a security consultant, has been tasked with increasing server fault tolerance and has been given no budget to accomplish his task. Which of the following can Matt implement to ensure servers will withstand hardware failure?
RAID
Which of the following may significantly reduce data loss if multiple drives fail at the same time?
RAID
Which of the following provides the LEAST availability?
RAID 0
Which of the following BEST describes disk striping with parity?
RAID 5
Which of the following provides data the best fault tolerance at the LOWEST cost?
RAID 6
Which of the following is primarily used to provide fault tolerance at the application level? (Select TWO)
RAID array Server clustering
A security administrator working for a law enforcement organization is asked to secure a computer system at the scene of a crime for transport to the law enforcement forensic facility. In order to capture as mush evidence as possible, the computer system has been left running. The security administrator begins information by image which of the following system components FIRST?
RAM
A member of a digital forensics team, Joe arrives at a crime scene and is preparing to collect system data. Before powering the system off, Joe knows that he must collect the most volatile date first. Which of the following is the correct order in which Joe should collect the data?
RAM, CPU cache. Remote logging data, paging/swap files
Which of the following ciphers would be BEST used to encrypt streaming video?
RC4
A security analyst is reviewing firewall logs while investigating a compromised web server. The following ports appear in the log: 22, 25, 445, 1433, 3128, 3389, 6667 Which of the following protocols was used to access the server remotely?
RDP
Which of the following protocols is the security administrator observing in this packet capture? 12:33:43, SRC 192.168.4.3:3389, DST 10.67.33.20:8080, SYN/ACK
RDP
A datacenter requires that staff be able to identify whether or not items have been removed from the facility. Which of the following controls will allow the organization to provide automated notification of item removal?
RFID
A software developer utilizes cryptographic functions to generate codes that verify message integrity. Due to the nature if the data that is being sent back and forth from the client application to the server, the developer would like to change the cryptographic function to one that verities both authentication and message integrity. Which of the following algorithms should the software developer utilize?
RIPEMD
The security administrator runs an rpm verify command which records the MD5 sum, permissions, and timestamp of each file on the system. The administrator saves this information to a separate server. Which of the following describes the procedure the administrator has performed?
ROMDB verification
Which of the following is a programming interface that allows a remote computer to run programs on a local machine?
RPC
Which of the following defines a business goal for system restoration and acceptable data loss?
RPO
When creating a public / private key pair, for which of the following ciphers would a user need to specify the key strength?
RSA
Which of the following uses both a public and private key?
RSA
a company is deploying an new video conferencing system to be used by the executive team for board meetings. The security engineer has been asked to choose the strongest available asymmetric cipher to be used for encryption of board papers, and chose the strongest available stream cipher to be configured for video streaming. Which of the following ciphers should be chosen? (Select two)
RSA RC4
Which of the following password attacks is MOST likely to crack the largest number of randomly generated passwords?
Rainbow tables
Which of the following would provide the STRONGEST encryption?
Random one-time pad
A user, Ann, is reporting to the company IT support group that her workstation screen is blank other than a window with a message requesting payment or else her hard drive will be formatted. Which of the following types of malware is on Ann's workstation?
Ransomware
After working on his doctoral dissertation for two years, Joe, a user, is unable to open his dissertation file. The screen shows a warning that the dissertation file is corrupted because it is infected with a backdoor, and can only be recovered by upgrading the antivirus software from the free version to the commercial version. Which of the following types of malware is the laptop MOST likely infected with?
Ransomware
An employee reports work was being completed on a company owned laptop using a public wireless hot-spot. A pop-up screen appeared and the user closed the pop-up. Seconds later the desktop background was changed to the image of a padlock with a message demanding immediate payment to recover the data. Which of the following types of malware MOST likely caused this issue?
Ransomware
An employee reports work was being completed on a company-owned laptop using a public wireless hot-spot. A pop-up screen appeared, and the user closed the pop-up. Seconds later, the desktop background was changed to the image of a padlock with a message demanding immediate payment to recover the data. Which of the following types of malware MOST likely caused this issue?
Ransomware
Which of the following BEST describes malware that tracks a user's web browsing habits and injects the attacker's advertisements into unrelated web pages? (Select TWO)
Ransomware Adware
A security engineer is faced with competing requirements from the networking group and database administrators. The database administrators would like ten application servers on the same subnet for ease of administration, whereas the networking group would like to segment all applications from one another. Which of the following should the security administrator do to rectify this issue?
Recommend classifying each application into like security groups and segmenting the groups from one another
After a security incident involving a physical asset, which of the following should be done at the beginning?
Record every person who was in possession of assets, continuing post-incident.
A security administrator has been tasked with assisting in the forensic investigation of an incident relating to employee misconduct. The employee's supervisor believes evidence of this misconduct can be found on the employee's assigned workstation. Which of the following choices BEST describes what should be done? (Select TWO)
Record time as offset as required and conduct a timeline analysis Analyze network traffic, system, and file logs
A recent intrusion has resulted in the need to perform incident response procedures. The incident response team has identified audit logs throughout the network and organizational systems which hold details of the security breach. Prior to this incident, a security consultant informed the company that they needed to implement an NTP server on the network. Which of the following is a problem that the incident response team will likely encounter during their assessment?
Record time offset
A company has a BYOD policy that includes tablets and smart phones. In the case of a legal investigation, which of the following poses the greatest security issues?
Recovering sensitive documents from a device if the owner is unable or unwilling to cooperate
After encrypting all laptop hard drives, an executive officer's laptop has trouble booting to the operating system. Now that it is successfully encrypted the helpdesk cannot retrieve the data. Which of the following can be used to decrypt the information for retrieval?
Recovery agent
One of the senior managers at a company called the help desk to report to report a problem. The manager could no longer access data on a laptop equipped with FDE. The manager requested that the FDE be removed and the laptop restored from a backup. The help desk informed the manager that the recommended solution was to decrypt the hard drive prior to reinstallation and recovery. The senior manager did not have a copy of the private key associated with the FDE on the laptop. Which of the following tools or techniques did the help desk use to avoid losing the data on the laptop?
Recovery agent
Which of the following allows a company to maintain access to encrypted resources when employee turnover is high?
Recovery agent
Pete, an employee, is terminated from the company and the legal department needs documents from his encrypted hard drive. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task? (Select TWO).
Recovery agent Key escrow
Deploying a wildcard certificate is one strategy to:
Reduce the certificate management burden.
After reviewing the firewall logs of her organization's wireless APs, Ann discovers an unusually high amount of failed authentication attempts in a particular segment of the building. She remembers that a new business moved into the office space across the street. Which of the following would be the BEST option to begin addressing the issue?
Reduce the power level of the AP on the network segment
A company recently experienced data loss when a server crashed due to a midday power outage. Which of the following should be used to prevent this from occurring again?
Redundancy
Which of the following can be used on a smartphone to BEST protect against sensitive data loss if the device is stolen? (Select TWO).
Remote wipe Device encryption
A bank has recently deployed mobile tablets to all loan officers for use at customer sites. Which of the following would BEST prevent the disclosure of customer data in the event that a tablet is lost or stolen?
Remote wiping
A new security policy in an organization requires that all file transfers within the organization be completed using applications that provide secure transfer. Currently, the organization uses FTP and HTTP to transfer files. Which of the following should the organization implement in order to be compliant with the new policy?
Replace FTP with FTPS and replaces HTTP with TFTP
A technician installed two ground plane antennae on 802.11n bridges connecting two buildings 500 feet apart. After configuring both radios to work at 2.4ghz and implementing the correct configuration, connectivity tests between the two buildings are unsuccessful. Which of the following should the technician do to resolve the connectivity problem?
Replace the current antennae with Yagi antennae
A network analyst received a number of reports that impersonation was taking place on the network. Session tokens were deployed to mitigate this issue and defend against which of the following attacks?
Replay
Timestamps and sequence numbers act as countermeasures against which of the following types of attacks?
Replay
Which of the following attacks could be used to initiate a subsequent man-in-the-middle attack?
Replay
Which of the following attacks involves the use of previously captured network traffic?
Replay
An attacker uses a network sniffer to capture the packets of a transaction that adds $20 to a gift card. The attacker then user a function of the sniffer to push those packets back onto the network again, adding another $20 to the gift card. This can be done many times. Which of the following describes this type of attack?
Replay attack
During a data breach cleanup, it is discovered that not all of the sites involved have the necessary data wiping tools. The necessary tools are quickly distributed to the required technicians, but when should this problem best be revisited?
Reporting
Joe an end user has received a virus detection warning. Which of the following is the first course of action that should be taken?
Reporting
An administrator needs to secure RADIUS traffic between two servers. Which of the following is the BEST solution?
Require IPSec with AH between the servers
A bank requires tellers to get manager approval when a customer wants to open a new account. A recent audit shows that there have been four cases in the previous year where tellers opened accounts without management approval. The bank president thought separation of duties would prevent this from happening. In order to implement a true separation of duties approach the bank could:
Require all new accounts to be handled by someone else other than a teller since they have different duties
A security administrator would like to ensure that system administrators are not using the same password for both their privileged and non-privileged accounts. Which of the following security controls BEST accomplishes this goal?
Require different account passwords through a policy
A security administrator is installing a single camera outside in order to detect unauthorized vehicles in the parking lot. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration when deploying a CCTV camera to meet the requirement?
Resolution
Which of the following security benefits would be gained by disabling a terminated user account rather than deleting it?
Retention of user keys
A security administrator at a company which implements key escrow and symmetric encryption only, needs to decrypt an employee's file. The employee refuses to provide the decryption key to the file. Which of the following can the administrator do to decrypt the file?
Retrieve the encryption key
A company hosts its public websites internally. The administrator would like to make some changes to the architecture. The three goals are: reduce the number of public IP addresses in use by the web servers drive all the web traffic through a central point of control mitigate automated attacks that are based on IP address scanning Which of the following would meet all three goals?
Reverse proxy
Ann, the security administrator, received a report from the security technician, that an unauthorized new user account was added to the server over two weeks ago. Which of the following could have mitigated this event?
Routine log audits
A security administrator is responsible for performing periodic reviews of user permission settings due to high turnover and internal transfers at a corporation. Which of the following BEST describes the procedure and security rationale for performing such reviews?
Review all user permissions and group memberships to ensure only the minimum set of permissions required to perform a job is assigned.
A security administrator finds that an intermediate CA within the company was recently breached. The certificates held on this system were lost during the attack, and it is suspected that the attackers had full access to the system. Which of the following is the NEXT action to take in this scenario?
Revoke the certificate for the intermediate CA
A system administrator is notified by a staff member that their laptop has been lost. The laptop contains the user's digital certificate. Which of the following will help resolve the issue? (Select TWO).
Revoke the digital certificate Issue a new digital certificate
A company's application is hosted at a data center. The data center provides security controls for the infrastructure. The data center provides a report identifying serval vulnerabilities regarding out of date OS patches. The company recommends the data center assumes the risk associated with the OS vulnerabilities. Which of the following concepts is being implemented?
Risk Transference
A network administrator has identified port 21 being open and the lack of an IDS as a potential risk to the company. Due to budget constraints, FTP is the only option that the company can is to transfer data and network equipment cannot be purchased. Which of the following is this known as?
Risk acceptance
During a code review a software developer discovers a security risk that may result in hundreds of hours of rework. The security team has classified these issues as low risk. Executive management has decided that the code will not be rewritten. This is an example of:
Risk acceptance
Identifying residual risk is MOST important to which of the following concepts?
Risk acceptance
A company that has a mandatory vacation policy has implemented which of the following controls?
Risk control
Deploying compensating security controls is an example of:
Risk mitigation
Identifying residual is MOST important to which of the following concepts?
Risk mitigation
A security administrator is tasked with conducting an assessment made to establish the baseline security posture of the corporate IT infrastructure. The assessment must report actual flaws and weaknesses in the infrastructure. Due to the expense of hiring outside consultant, the testing must be performed using in-house or cheaply available resources. There cannot be a possibility of equipment being damaged in the test. Which of the following has the administrator been tasked to perform?
Risk transference
While an Internet café a malicious user is causing all surrounding wireless connected devices to have intermittent and unstable connections to the access point. Which of the following is MOST likely being used?
Rogue AP
A computer supply company is located in a building with three wireless networks. The system security team implemented a quarterly security scan and saw the following. SSIDStateChannelLevel Computer AreUs1connected170dbm Computer AreUs2connected580dbm Computer AreUs3connected375dbm Computer AreUs4connected695dbm Which of the following is this an example of?
Rogue access point
Pete, the security engineer, would like to prevent wireless attacks on his network. Pete has implemented a security control to limit the connecting MAC addresses to a single port. Which of the following wireless attacks would this address?
Rogue access point
Which of the following is where an unauthorized device is found allowing access to a network?
Rogue access point
A system security analyst using an enterprise monitoring tool notices an unknown internal host exfiltrating files to several foreign IP addresses. Which of the following would be an appropriate mitigation technique?
Rogue machine detection
A security administrator wants to implement a company-wide policy to empower data owners to manage and enforce access control rules on various resources. Which of the following should be implemented?
Role based access control
An administrator uses a server with a trusted OS and is configuring an application to go into production tomorrow, In order to make a new application work properly, the administrator creates a new policy that labels the application and assigns it a security context within the trusted OS. Which of the following control methods is the administrator using by configuring this policy?
Role based access control
Users require access to a certain server depending on their job function. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate strategy for securing the server?
Role based access control
A systems administrator is configuring a new file server and has been instructed to configure writeable to by the department manager, and read only for the individual employee. Which of the following is the name for the access control methodology used?
Role-based
An organization is trying to decide which type of access control is most appropriate for the network. The current access control approach is too complex and requires significant overhead. Management would like to simplify the access control and provide user with the ability to determine what permissions should be applied to files, document, and directories. The access control method that BEST satisfies these objectives is:
Role-based access control
A recent audit has revealed that all employees in the bookkeeping department have access to confidential payroll information, while only two members of the bookkeeping department have job duties that require access to the confidential information. Which of the following can be implemented to reduce the risk of this information becoming compromised in this scenario? (Select TWO)
Role-based access control Group-based permissions
An organization is implementing a password management application which requires that all local administrator passwords be stored and automatically managed. Auditors will be responsible for monitoring activities in the application by reviewing the logs. Which of the following security controls is the BEST option to prevent auditors from accessing or modifying passwords in the application?
Role-based access with read-only
A chief Financial Officer (CFO) has asked the Chief Information Officer (CISO) to provide responses to a recent audit report detailing deficiencies in the organization security controls. The CFO would like to know ways in which the organization can improve its authorization controls. Given the request by the CFO, which of the following controls should the CISO focus on in the report? (Select Three)
Role-based permissions Separation of duties Lease privilege
A company plans to expand by hiring new engineers who work in highly specialized areas. Each engineer will have very different job requirements and use unique tools and applications in their job. Which of the following is MOST appropriate to use?
Role-based privileges
Which of the following is used to certify intermediate authorities in a large PKI deployment?
Root CA
During a routine configuration audit, a systems administrator determines that a former employee placed an executable on an application server. Once the system was isolated and diagnosed, it was determined that the executable was programmed to establish a connection to a malicious command and control server. Which of the following forms of malware is best described in the scenario?
Rootkit
During a server audit, a security administrator does not notice abnormal activity. However, a network security analyst notices connections to unauthorized ports from outside the corporate network. Using specialized tools, the network security analyst also notices hidden processes running. Which of the following has MOST likely been installed on the server?
Rootkit
After an audit, it was discovered that an account was not disabled in a timely manner after an employee has departed from the organization. Which of the following did the organization fail to properly implement?
Routine account audits
The security administrator is currently unaware of an incident that occurred a week ago. Which of the following will ensure the administrator is notified in a timely manner in the future?
Routine auditing
Ann, a security analyst, has discovered that her company has very high staff turnover and often user accounts are not disabled after an employee leaves the company. Which of the following could Ann implement to help identify accounts that are still active for terminated employees?
Routine audits
The system administrator has deployed updated security controls for the network to limit risk of attack. The security manager is concerned that controls continue to function as intended to maintain appropriate security posture. Which of the following risk mitigation strategies is MOST important to the security manager?
Routine audits
A Chief Security Officer (CSO) has been unsuccessful in attempts to access the website for a potential partner (www.example.net). Which of the following rules is preventing the CSO from accessing the site? Blocked sites: *.nonews.com, *.rumorhasit.net, *.mars?
Rule 3: deny from inside to outside source any destination {blocked sites} service httphttps
A security technician is working with the network firewall team to implement access controls at the company's demarc as part of the initiation of configuration management processes. One of the network technicians asks the security technician to explain the access control type found in a firewall. With which of the following should the security technician respond?
Rule based access control
Joe noticed that there is a larger than normal account of network on the printer VLAN of his organization, causing users to have to wait a long time for a print job. Upon investigation Joe discovers that printers were ordered and added to the network without his knowledge. Which of the following will reduce the risk of this occurring again in the future?
Rule-based management
An administrator notices that former temporary employees' accounts are still active on a domain. Which of the following can be implemented to increase security and prevent this from happening?
Run a last logon script to look for inactive accounts.
An assessment too reports that the company's web server may be susceptible to remote buffer overflow. The web server administrator insists that the finding is a false positive. Which of the following should the administrator do to verify if this is indeed a false positive?
Run a vulnerability scan
During a Linux security audit at a local college, it was noted that members of the dean's group were able to modify employee records in addition to modifying student records, resulting in an audit exception. The college security policy states that the dean's group should only have the ability to modify student records. Assuming that the correct user and group ownerships are in place, which of the following sets of permissions should have been assigned to the directories containing the employee records?
Rwxrwxrwx
A security engineer is tasked with encrypting corporate email. Which of the following technologies provide the MOST complete protection? (Select TWO)
S/MIME HMAC
A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is steering company towards cloud computing. The CEO is requesting a federated sign-on method to have users sign into the sales application. Which of the following methods will be effective for this purpose?
SAML
A security administrator is troubleshooting an authentication issues using a network sniffer. The security administrator reviews a packet capture of the authentication process and notices that authentication is performed using extensible markup over SOAP. Which of the following authentication services is the security administrator troubleshooting?
SAML
A security analyst is working on a project team responsible for the integration of an enterprise SSO solution. The SSO solution requires the use of an open standard for the exchange of authentication and authorization across numerous web based applications. Which of the following solutions is most appropriate for the analyst to recommend in this scenario?
SAML
Which of the following allows an application to securely authenticate a user by receiving credentials from a web domain?
SAML
Which of the following authentication provides users XML for authorization and authentication?
SAML
Which of the following is an XML based open standard used in the exchange of authentication and authorization information between different parties?
SAML
Which of the following is commonly used for federated identity management across multiple organizations?
SAML
Which of the following would enhance the security of accessing data stored in the cloud? (Select TWO)
SAML authentication Multifactor authentication
The chief information officer (CIO) of a major company intends to increase employee connectivity and productivity by issuing employees mobile devices with access to their enterprise email, calendar, and contacts. The solution the CIO intends to use requires a PKI that automates the enrollment of mobile device certificates. Which of the following, when implemented and configured securely, will meet the CIO's requirement?
SCEP
Which of the following protocols operates at the HIGHEST level of the OSI model?
SCP
A security administrator wishes to implement a secure a method of file transfer when communicating with outside organizations. Which of the following protocols would BEST facilitate secure file transfers? (Select TWO)
SCP FTPS
Which of the following use the SSH protocol?
SCP SFTP
A UNIX administrator would like to use native commands to provide a secure way of connecting to other devices remotely and to securely transfer files. Which of the following protocols could be utilized? (Select TWO).
SCP, SSH
By default, which of the following uses TCP port 22? (Select THREE).
SCP, SSH, SFTP
A network administrator is asked to send a large file containing PII to a business associate. Which of the following protocols is the BEST choice to use?
SFTP
Which of the following secure file transfer methods uses port 22 by default?
SFTP
Which of the following protocols allows for secure transfer of files? (Select TWO).
SFTP, SCP
A security administrator implements a web server that utilizes an algorithm that requires other hashing standards to provide data integrity. Which of the following algorithms would meet the requirement?
SHA
Which of the following is used to verify data integrity?
SHA
n an effort to reduce data storage requirements, a company devices to hash every file and eliminate duplicates. The data processing routines are time sensitive so the hashing algorithm is fast and supported on a wide range of systems. Which of the following algorithms is BEST suited for this purpose?
SHA
A security analyst must ensure that the company's web server will not negotiate weak ciphers with connecting web browsers. Which of the following supported list of ciphers MUST the security analyst disable? (Select THREE)
SHA DES MD5
A technician wants to verify the authenticity of the system files of a potentially compromised system. Which of the following can the technician use to verify if a system file was compromised? (Select TWO).
SHA MD5
A network engineer is configuring a VPN tunnel connecting a company's network to a business partner. Which of the following protocols should be used for key exchange?
SHA-1
Which of the following is the LEAST secure hashing algorithm?
SHA-1
A forensics analyst is tasked identifying identical files on a hard drive. Due to the large number of files to be compared, the analyst must use an algorithm that is known to have the lowest collision rate. Which of the following should be selected?
SHA-128
A server administrator discovers the web farm is using weak ciphers and wants to ensure that only stronger ciphers are accepted. Which of the following ciphers should the administrator implement in the load balancer? (Select Two)
SHA-129 RC4
Matt, a forensic analyst, wants to obtain the digital fingerprint for a given message. The message is 160-bits long. Which of the following hashing methods would Matt have to use to obtain this digital fingerprint?
SHA1
A company has experienced problems with their ISP, which has failed to meet their informally agreed upon level of service. However the business has not negotiated any additional formal agreements beyond the standard customer terms. Which of the following is the BEST document that the company should prepare to negotiate with the ISP?
SLA
A security administrator is reviewing the company's data backup plan. The plan implements nightly offsite data replication to a third party company. Which of the following documents specifies how much data can be stored offsite, and how quickly the data can be retrieved by the company from the third party?
SLA
Which of the following is a document that contains detailed information about actions that include how something will be done, when the actions will be performed, and penalties for failure?
SLA
In order to secure additional budget, a security manager wants to quantify the financial impact of a one-time compromise. Which of the following is MOST important to the security manager?
SLE
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has asked a security analyst to determine the estimated costs associated with each potential breach of their database that contains customer information. Which of the following is the risk calculation that the CIO is asking for?
SLE
A system administrator has noticed network performance issues and wants to gather performance data from the gateway router. Which of the following can be used to perform this action?
SNMP
Joe, a company's network engineer, is concerned that protocols operating at the application layer of the OSI model are vulnerable to exploitation on the network. Which of the following protocols should he secure?
SNMP
Joe, the chief technical officer (CTO) is concerned that the servers and network devices may not be able to handle the growing needs of the company. He has asked his network engineer to being monitoring the performance of these devices and present statistics to management for capacity planning. Which of the following protocols should be used to this?
SNMP
A network administrator needs to provide daily network usage reports on all layer 3 devices without compromising any data while gathering the information. Which of the following would be configured to provide these reports?
SNMPv3
A technician wants to securely collect network device configurations and statistics through a scheduled and automated process. Which of the following should be implemented if configuration integrity is most important and a credential compromise should not allow interactive logons?
SNMPv3
Matt, a security administrator, wants to configure all the switches and routers in the network in order to securely monitor their status. Which of the following protocols would he need to configure on each device?
SNMPv3
Highly sensitive data is stored in a database and is accessed by an application on a DMZ server. The disk drives on all servers are fully encrypted. Communication between the application server and end-users is also encrypted. Network ACLs prevent any connections to the database server except from the application server. Which of the following can still result in exposure of the sensitive data in the database server?
SQL Injection
The string: ' or 1=1-- - Represents which of the following?
SQL Injection
A security administrator looking through IDS logs notices the following entry: (where [email protected] and passwd= 'or 1==1') Which of the following attacks had the administrator discovered?
SQL injection
Attempting to inject 50 alphanumeric key strokes including spaces into an application input field that only expects four alpha characters in considered which of the following attacks?
SQL injection
Which of the following types of application attacks would be used to specifically gain unauthorized information from databases that did not have any input validation implemented?
SQL injection
Which of the following should be used to implement voice encryption?
SRTP
A recent vulnerability scan found that Telnet is enabled on all network devices. Which of the following protocols should be used instead of Telnet?
SSH
A security analyst needs to logon to the console to perform maintenance on a remote server. Which of the following protocols would provide secure access?
SSH
A system administrator is setting up a file transfer server. The goal is to encrypt the user authentication and the files the user is sending using only a user ID and a key pair. Which of the following methods would achieve this goal?
SSH
Ann, a technician, wants to implement a single protocol on a remote server which will enable her to encrypt and proxy all of her traffic though the remote server via SOCKS5. Which of the following should Ann enable to support both encryption and proxy services?
SSH
Which of the following is BEST used as a secure replacement for TELNET?
SSH
Which of the following protocols provides transport security for virtual terminal emulation?
SSH
Which of the following would be used as a secure substitute for Telnet?
SSH
A company needs to receive data that contains personally identifiable information. The company requires both the transmission and data at rest to be encrypted. Which of the following achieves this goal? (Select TWO).
SSH PGP/GPG
A vulnerability assessment indicates that a router can be accessed from default port 80 and default port 22. Which of the following should be executed on the router to prevent access via these ports? (Select TWO).
SSH service should be disabled HTTP service should disabled
Which of the following uses port 22 by default? (Select THREE).
SSH, SFTP, SCP
An organization does not want the wireless network name to be easily discovered. Which of the following software features should be configured on the access points?
SSID broadcast
An achievement in providing worldwide Internet security was the signing of certificates associated with which of the following protocols?
SSL
The network manager has obtained a public IP address for use with a new system to be available via the internet. This system will be placed in the DMZ and will communicate with a database server on the LAN. Which of the following should be used to allow fir proper communication between internet users and the internal systems?
SSL
A security manager requires fencing around the perimeter, and cipher locks on all entrances. The manager is concerned with which of the following security controls?
Safety
After several thefts a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) wants to ensure unauthorized do not have to corporate grounds or its employees. The CEO just approved new budget line items for fences, lighting, locks and CCTVs. Which of the following is the primary focus?
Safety
A software developer wants to prevent stored passwords from being easily decrypted. When the password is stored by the application, additional text is added to each password before the password is hashed. This technique is known as:
Salting.
A company has purchased an application that integrates into their enterprise user directory for account authentication. Users are still prompted to type in their usernames and passwords. Which of the following types of authentication is being utilized here?
Same sign-on
An administrator is building a development environment and requests that three virtual servers are cloned and placed in a new virtual network isolated from the production network. Which of the following describes the environment the administrator is building?
Sandbox
An administrator is configuring a new Linux web server where each user account is confined to a cheroot jail. Which of the following describes this type of control?
Sandbox
A security analyst has a sample of malicious software and needs to know what the sample does. The analyst runs the sample in a carefully-controlled and monitored virtual machine to observe the software's behavior. The approach of malware analysis can BEST be described as:
Sandboxing
Which of the following techniques describes the use of application isolation during execution to prevent system compromise if the application is compromised?
Sandboxing
Which of the following are Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategies that address data in transit issues? (Select TWO).
Scanning of outbound IM (Instance Messaging). Scanning of HTTP user traffic.
An employee in the accounting department recently received a phishing email that instructed them to click a link in the email to view an important message from the IRS which threatened penalties if a response was not received by the end of the business day. The employee clicked on the link and the machine was infected with malware. Which of the following principles BEST describes why this social engineering ploy was successful?
Scarcity
Users are encouraged to click on a link in an email to obtain exclusive access to the newest version of a popular Smartphone. This is an example of.
Scarcity
Mobile tablets are used by employees on the sales floor to access customer data. Ann a customer recently reported that another customer was able to access her personal information on the tablet after the employee left the area. Which of the following would BEST prevent these issues from reoccurring?
Screen Locks
Which of the following can a security administrator implement on mobile devices that will help prevent unwanted people from viewing the data if the device is left unattended?
Screen lock
A malicious individual used an unattended customer service kiosk in a busy store to change the prices of several products. The alteration was not noticed until several days later and resulted in the loss of several thousand dollars for the store. Which of the following would BEST prevent this from occurring again?
Screen locks
A small company has recently purchased cell phones for managers to use while working outside if the office. The company does not currently have a budget for mobile device management and is primarily concerned with deterring leaks if sensitive information obtained by unauthorized access to unattended phones. Which of the following would provide the solution BEST meets the company's requirements?
Screen-lock
Joe a user upon arriving to work on Monday morning noticed several files were deleted from the system. There were no records of any scheduled network outages or upgrades to the system. Joe notifies the security department of the anomaly found and removes the system from the network. Which of the following is the NEXT action that Joe should perform?
Screenshots of systems
Which of the following protocols provides for mutual authentication of the client and server?
Secure LDAP
Joe a technician initiated scans if the company's 10 routers and discovered that half if the routers were not changed from their default configuration prior installed on the network. Which of the following would address this?
Secure router configuration
Which of the following should be implemented to stop an attacker from mapping out addresses and/or devices on a network?
Secure zone transfers
A security administrator needs to determine which system a particular user is trying to login to at various times of the day. Which of the following log types would the administrator check?
Security
Sara, a company's security officer, often receives reports of unauthorized personnel having access codes to the cipher locks of secure areas in the building. Sara should immediately implement which of the following?
Security awareness training
Several employees clicked on a link in a malicious message that bypassed the spam filter and their PCs were infected with malware as a result. Which of the following BEST prevents this situation from occurring in the future?
Security awareness training
The method to provide end users of IT systems and applications with requirements related to acceptable use, privacy, new threats and trends, and use of social networking is:
Security awareness training.
A company wants to prevent unauthorized access to its secure data center. Which of the following security controls would be MOST appropriate?
Security guard
Sara, an employee, tethers her smartphone to her work PC to bypass the corporate web security gateway while connected to the LAN. While Sara is out at lunch her PC is compromised via the tethered connection and corporate data is stolen. Which of the following would BEST prevent this from occurring again?
Security policy and threat awareness training.
One of the findings of risk assessment is that many of the servers on the data center subnet contain data that is in scope for PCI compliance, Everyone in the company has access to these servers, regardless of their job function. Which of the following should the administrator do?
Segment the network
Which of the following is used by the recipient of a digitally signed email to verify the identity of the sender?
Sender's public key
A security administrator is developing training for corporate users on basic security principles for personal email accounts. Which of the following should be mentioned as the MOST secure way for password recovery?
Sending a PIN to a smartphone through text message
Ann is an employee in the accounting department and would like to work on files from her home computer. She recently heard about a new personal cloud storage service with an easy web interface. Before uploading her work related files into the cloud for access, which of the following is the MOST important security concern Ann should be aware of?
Sensitivity of the files
During a review a company was cited for allowing requestors to approve and implement their own change request. Which of the following would resolve the issue? (Select TWO)
Separation duties Job Rotation
Everyone in the accounting department has the ability to print and sign checks. Internal audit has asked that only one group of employees may print checks while only two other employees may sign the checks. Which of the following concepts would enforce this process?
Separation of Duties
Which of the following internal security controls is aimed at preventing two system administrators from completing the same tasks?
Separation of Duties
A recent audit has revealed that several users have retained permissions to systems they should no longer have rights to after being promoted or changed job positions. Which of the following controls would BEST mitigate this issue?
Separation of duties
A user in the company is in charge of various financial roles but needs to prepare for an upcoming audit. They use the same account to access each financial system. Which of the following security controls will MOST likely be implemented within the company?
Separation of duties
An audit has revealed that database administrators are also responsible for auditing database changes and backup logs. Which of the following access control methodologies would BEST mitigate this concern?
Separation of duties
Ann works at a small company and she is concerned that there is no oversight in the finance department; specifically, that Joe writes, signs and distributes paycheques, as well as other expenditures. Which of the following controls can she implement to address this concern?
Separation of duties
The Chief Technical Officer (CTO) has been informed of a potential fraud committed by a database administrator performing several other job functions within the company. Which of the following is the BEST method to prevent such activities in the future?
Separation of duties
The software developer is responsible for writing the code and promoting from the development network to the quality network. The network administrator is responsible for promoting code to the application servers. Which of the following practices are they following to ensure application integrity?
Separation of duties
While preparing for an audit a security analyst is reviewing the various controls in place to secure the operation of financial processes within the organization. Based on the pre assessment report, the department does not effectively maintain a strong financial transaction control environment due to conflicting responsibilities held by key personnel. If implemented, which of the following security concepts will most effectively address the finding?
Separation of duties
Although a web enabled application appears to only allow letters in the comment field of a web form, malicious user was able to carry a SQL injection attack by sending special characters through the web comment field. Which of the following has the application programmer failed to implement?
Server side validation
An organization is working with a cloud services provider to transition critical business applications to a hybrid cloud environment. The organization retains sensitive customer data and wants to ensure the provider has sufficient administrative and logical controls in place to protect its data. In which of the following documents would this concern MOST likely be addressed?
Service level agreement
A periodic update that corrects problems in one version of a product is called a
Service pack
A load balancer has the ability to remember which server a particular client is using and always directs that client to the same server. This feature is called:
Session affinity
Joe, a user, in a coffee shop is checking his email over a wireless network. An attacker records the temporary credentials being passed to Joe's browser. The attacker later uses the credentials to impersonate Joe and creates SPAM messages. Which of the following attacks allows for this impersonation?
Session hijacking
Which of the following techniques can be bypass a user or computer's web browser privacy settings? (Select Two)
Session hijacking Cross-site scripting
A user has forgotten their account password. Which of the following is the BEST recovery strategy?
Set a temporary password that expires upon first use.
A security administrator needs an external vendor to correct an urgent issue with an organization's physical access control system (PACS). The PACS does not currently have internet access because it is running a legacy operation system. Which of the following methods should the security administrator select the best balances security and efficiency?
Set up VPN concentrator for the vendor and restrict access to the PACS using desktop sharing
Based on information leaked to industry websites, business management is concerned that unauthorized employees are accessing critical project information for a major, well-known new product. To identify any such users, the security administrator could:
Set up a honeypot and place false project documentation on an unsecure share
One of the servers on the network stops responding due to lack of available memory. Server administrators did not have a clear definition of what action should have taken place based on the available memory. Which of the following would have BEST kept this incident from occurring?
Set up a performance baseline
A penetration testing is preparing for a client engagement in which the tester must provide data that proves and validates the scanning tools' results. Which of the following is the best method for collecting this information?
Set up the scanning system's firewall to permit and log all outbound connections
A user, Ann, has been issued a smart card and is having problems opening old encrypted email. Ann published her certificates to the local windows store and to the global address list. Which of the following would still need to be performed?
Setup the email security with her new certificates
Human Resources suspect an employee is accessing the employee salary database. The administrator is asked to find out who it is. In order to complete this task, which of the following is a security control that should be in place?
Shared accounts should be prohibited
A technician is investigating intermittent switch degradation. The issue only seems to occur when the building's roof air conditioning system runs. Which of the following would reduce the connectivity issues?
Shielding
A security administrator is concerned about the strength of user's passwords. The company does not want to implement a password complexity policy. Which of the following can the security Administrator implement to mitigate the risk of an online password attack against users with weak passwords?
Shorten the password expiration period
All executive officers have changed their monitor location so it cannot be easily viewed when passing by their offices. Which of the following attacks does this action remediate?
Shoulder Surfing
An investigator recently discovered that an attacker placed a remotely accessible CCTV camera in a public area overlooking several Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs). It is also believed that user accounts belonging to ATM operators may have been compromised. Which of the following attacks has MOST likely taken place?
Shoulder surfing
Ann an employee is visiting Joe, an employee in the Human Resources Department. While talking to Joe, Ann notices a spreadsheet open on Joe's computer that lists the salaries of all employees in her department. Which of the following forms of social engineering would BEST describe this situation?
Shoulder surfing
A company wants to ensure that all credentials for various systems are saved within a central database so that users only have to login once for access to all systems. Which of the following would accomplish this?
Single Sign-On
In order for Sara, a client, to logon to her desktop computer, she must provide her username, password, and a four digit PIN. Which of the following authentication methods is Sara using?
Single factor
A network administrator uses an RFID card to enter the datacenter, a key to open the server rack, and a username and password to logon to a server. These are examples of which of the following?
Single factor authentication
A user attempting to log on to a workstation for the first time is prompted for the following information before being granted access: username, password, and a four-digit security pin that was mailed to him during account registration. This is an example of which of the following?
Single factor authentication
The security department has implemented a new laptop encryption product in the environment. The product requires one user name and password at the time of boot up and also another password after the operating system has finished loading. This setup is using which of the following authentication types?
Single factor authentication
A company has implemented full disk encryption. Clients must authenticate with a username and password at a pre-boot level to unlock the disk and again a username and password at the network login. Which of the following are being used? (Select TWO)
Single factor authentication Something a user knows
Which of the following risks could IT management be mitigating by removing an all-in-one device?
Single point of failure
An organization uses a Kerberos-based LDAP service for network authentication. The service is also utilized for internal web applications. Finally access to terminal applications is achieved using the same authentication method by joining the legacy system to the Kerberos realm. This company is using Kerberos to achieve which of the following?
Single sign on
After Ann, a user, logs into her banking websites she has access to her financial institution mortgage, credit card, and brokerage websites as well. Which of the following is being described?
Single sign-on
A local hospital with a large four-acre campus wants to implement a wireless network so that doctors can use tablets to access patients' medical data. The hospital also wants to provide guest access to the internet for hospital patients and visitors in select areas. Which of the following areas should be addressed FIRST?
Site Survey
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) wants to improve security surrounding storage of customer passwords. The company currently stores passwords as SHA hashes. Which of the following can the CTO implement requiring the LEAST change to existing systems?
Smart cards
Employee badges are encoded with a private encryption key and specific personal information. The encoding is then used to provide access to the network. Which of the following describes this access control type?
Smartcard
An administrator is instructed to disable IP-directed broadcasts on all routers in an organization. Which of the following attacks does this prevent?
Smurf
A network administrator argues that WPA2 encryption is not needed, as MAC filtering is enabled on the access point. Which of the following would show the administrator that wpa2 is also needed?
Sniff and clone a mac address
Which device monitors network traffic in a passive manner?
Sniffer
Which of the following network devices is used to analyze traffic between various network interfaces?
Sniffers
A security administrator has concerns about new types of media which allow for the mass distribution of personal comments to a select group of people. To mitigate the risks involved with this media, employees should receive training on which of the following?
Social networking
Phishing emails frequently take advantage of high-profile catastrophes reported in the news. Which of the following principles BEST describes the weakness being exploited?
Social proof
A company's business model was changed to provide more web presence and now its ERM software is no longer able to support the security needs of the company. The current data center will continue to provide network and security services. Which of the following network elements would be used to support the new business model?
Software as a Service
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has mandated web based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) business functions be moved offshore to reduce cost, reduce IT overheads, and improve availability. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) has agreed with the CIO's direction but has mandated that key authentication systems be run within the organization's network. Which of the following would BEST meet the CIO and CRO's requirements?
Software as a Service
Internet banking customers currently use an account number and password to access their online accounts. The bank wants to improve security on high value transfers by implementing a system which call users back on a mobile phone to authenticate the transaction with voice verification. Which of the following authentication factors are being used by the bank?
Something you are, something you do and something you know
A user Ann has her assigned token but she forgotten her password. Which of the following appropriately categorizes the authentication factor that will fail in this scenario?
Something you know
Mike, a user, states that he is receiving several unwanted emails about home loans. Which of the following is this an example of?
Spam
Which of the following types of attacks is based on coordinating small slices of a task across multiple systems?
Spam
Users have reported receiving unsolicited emails in their inboxes, often times with malicious links embedded. Which of the following should be implemented in order to redirect these messages?
Spam filter
A security technician at a small business is worried about the Layer 2 switches in the network suffering from a DoS style attack caused by staff incorrectly cabling network connections between switches. Which of the following will BEST mitigate the risk if implemented on the switches?
Spanning tree
An attacker crafts a message that appears to be from a trusted source, but in reality it redirects the recipient to a malicious site where information is harvested. The message is narrowly tailored so it is effective on only a small number of victims. This describes which of the following?
Spear phishing
Without validating user input, an application becomes vulnerable to all of the following EXCEPT:
Spear phishing.
Anne, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), has reported that she is getting multiple telephone calls from someone claiming to be from the helpdesk. The caller is asking to verify her network authentication credentials because her computer is broadcasting across the network. This is MOST likely which of the following types of attacks?
Spim
A security technician is attempting to access a wireless network protected with WEP. The technician does not know any information about the network. Which of the following should the technician do to gather information about the configuration of the wireless network?
Spoof the MAC address of an observed wireless network client
Which of the following exploits either a host file on a target machine or vulnerabilities on a DNS server in order to carry out URL redirection?
Spoofing
A user casually browsing the Internet is redirected to a warez site where a number of popups appear. After clicking on a pop-up to complete a survey, a drive-by download occurs. Which of the following is MOST likely to be contained in the download?
Spyware
Which of the following malware types typically allows an attacker to monitor a user's computer, is characterized by a drive-by download, and requires no user interaction?
Spyware
A network administrator was to implement a solution that will allow authorized traffic, deny unauthorized traffic and ensure that appropriate ports are being used for a number of TCP and UDP protocols. Which of the following network controls would meet these requirements?
Stateful firewall
The datacenter manager is reviewing a problem with a humidity factor that is too low. Which of the following environmental problems may occur?
Static electricity
A Security technician would like that to obscure sensitive data within a file so that can be transferred without causing suspicion. Which of the following technologies would BEST be suited to accomplish this?
Steganography
A security administrator discovers an image file that has several plain text documents hidden in the file. Which of the following security goals is met by camouflaging data inside of other files?
Steganography
A security analyst discovered data such as images and word documents hidden within different types of files. Which of the following cryptographic concepts describes what was discovered?
Steganography
A security analyst has been notified that trade secrets are being leaked from one of the executives in the corporation. When reviewing this executive's laptop they notice several pictures of the employee's pets are on the hard drive and on a cloud storage network. When the analyst hashes the images on the hard drive against the hashes on the cloud network they do not match. Which of the following describes how the employee is leaking these secrets?
Steganography
A system administrator wants to confidentially send a user name and password list to an individual outside the company without the information being detected by security controls. Which of the following would BEST meet this security goal?
Steganography
A website administrator has received an alert from an application designed to check the integrity of the company's website. The alert indicated that the hash value for a particular MPEG file has changed. Upon further investigation, the media appears to be the same as it was before the alert. Which of the following methods has MOST likely been used?
Steganography
Which of the following can hide confidential or malicious data in the whitespace of other files (e.g. JPEGs)?
Steganography
Which of the following must a user implement if they want to send a secret message to a coworker by embedding it within an image?
Steganography
The Chief Security Officer (CISO) at a multinational banking corporation is reviewing a plan to upgrade the entire corporate IT infrastructure. The architecture consists of a centralized cloud environment hosting the majority of data, small server clusters at each corporate location to handle the majority of customer transaction processing, ATMs, and a new mobile banking application accessible from smartphones, tablets, and the Internet via HTTP. The corporation does business having varying data retention and privacy laws. Which of the following technical modifications to the architecture and corresponding security controls should be implemented to provide the MOST complete protection of data?
Store customer data based on national borders, ensure end-to end encryption between ATMs, end users, and servers, test redundancy and COOP plans to ensure data is not inadvertently shifted from one legal jurisdiction to another with more stringent regulations
Which of the following can be used to mitigate risk if a mobile device is lost?
Strong passwords
Ann is starting a disaster recovery program. She has gathered specifics and team members for a meeting on site. Which of the following types of tests is this?
Structured walkthrough
Disabling unnecessary services, restricting administrative access, and enabling auditing controls on a server are forms of which of the following?
System hardening
Computer evidence at a crime is preserved by making an exact copy of the hard disk. Which of the following does this illustrate?
System image capture
Establishing a published chart of roles, responsibilities, and chain of command to be used during a disaster is an example of which of the following?
Succession planning
Pete, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company, has increased his travel plans for the next two years to improve business relations. Which of the following would need to be in place in case something happens to Pete?
Succession planning
Which of the following concepts is BEST described as developing a new chain of command in the event of a contingency?
Succession planning
An administrator, Ann, wants to ensure that only authorized devices are connected to a switch. She decides to control access based on MAC addresses. Which of the following should be configured?
Switch port security
A company uses PGP to ensure that sensitive email is protected. Which of the following types of cryptography is being used here for the key exchange?
Symmetric
Encryption used by RADIUS is BEST described as:
Symmetric
A security technician would like an application to use random salts to generate short lived encryption leys during the secure communication handshake process to increase communication security. Which of the following concepts would BEST meet this goal?
Symmetric Encryption Keys
An agent wants to create fast and efficient cryptographic keys to use with Diffie-Hellman without using prime numbers to generate the keys. Which of the following should be used?
Symmetric cryptography
A security administrator is reviewing the company's continuity plan. The plan specifies an RTO of six hours and RPO of two days. Which of the following is the plan describing?
Systems should be restored within six hours with a minimum of two days worth of data.
Which of the following authentication services should be replaced with a more secure alternative?
TACACS
Which of the following is a proprietary protocol commonly used for router authentication across an enterprise?
TACACS
A system administrator is using a packet sniffer to troubleshoot remote authentication. The administrator detects a device trying to communicate to TCP port 49. Which of the following authentication methods is MOST likely being attempted?
TACACS+
Which of the following can be used to control specific commands that can be executed on a network infrastructure device?
TACACS+
Which of the following is an authentication and accounting service that uses TCP for connecting to routers and switches?
TACACS+
Which of the following protocols uses TCP instead of UDP and is incompatible with all previous versions?
TACACS+
Which of the following services are used to support authentication services for several local devices from a central location without the use of tokens?
TACACS+
A company has implemented PPTP as a VPN solution. Which of the following ports would need to be opened on the firewall in order for this VPN to function properly? (Select TWO).
TCP 1723, UDP 47
Pete needs to open ports on the firewall to allow for secure transmission of files. Which of the following ports should be opened on the firewall?
TCP 22
An organization currently uses FTP for the transfer of large files, due to recent security enhancements, is now required to use a secure method of file transfer and is testing both SFTP and FTPS as alternatives. Which of the following ports should be opened on the firewall in order to test the two alternatives? (Select Two)
TCP 22 TCP 990
A security technician needs to open ports on a firewall to allow for domain name resolution. Which of the following ports should be opened? (Select TWO).
TCP 53, UDP 53
Pete, a network administrator, is implementing IPv6 in the DMZ. Which of the following protocols must he allow through the firewall to ensure the web servers can be reached via IPv6 from an IPv6 enabled Internet host?
TCP port 80 and TCP port 443
Which of the following wireless security technologies continuously supplies new keys for WEP?
TKIP
A security engineer, Joe, has been asked to create a secure connection between his mail server and the mail server of a business partner. Which of the following protocol would be MOST appropriate?
TLS
A server administrator needs to administer a server remotely using RDP, but the specified port is closed on the outbound firewall on the network. The access the server using RDP on a port other than the typical registered port for the RDP protocol?
TLS
Recent data loss on financial servers due to security breaches forced the system administrator to harden their systems. Which of the following algorithms with transport encryption would be implemented to provide the MOST secure web connections to manage and access these servers?
TLS
Which of the following protocols is used to authenticate the client and server's digital certificate?
TLS
Which of the following protocols uses an asymmetric key to open a session and then establishes a symmetric key for the remainder of the session?
TLS
Which of the following transportation encryption protocols should be used to ensure maximum security between a web browser and a web server?
TLS
A company wants to ensure that all aspects if data are protected when sending to other sites within the enterprise. Which of the following would ensure some type of encryption is performed while data is in transit?
TPM
A hospital IT department wanted to secure its doctor's tablets. The IT department wants operating system level security and the ability to secure the data from alteration. Which of the following methods would MOST likely work?
TPM
An administrator wants to provide onboard hardware based cryptographic processing and secure key storage for full-disk encryption. Which of the following should the administrator use to fulfil the requirements?
TPM
Which of the following hardware based encryption devices is used as a part of multi-factor authentication to access a secured computing system?
TPM
Which of the following has a storage root key?
TPM
Which of the following provides dedicated hardware-based cryptographic functions to an operating system and its applications running on laptops and desktops?
TPM
Which of the following should be enabled in a laptop's BIOS prior to full disk encryption?
TPM
Which of the following would be used when a higher level of security is desired for encryption key storage?
TPM
hich of the following is a hardware based encryption device?
TPM
Which of the following is built into the hardware of most laptops but is not setup for centralized management by default?
TPM encryption
A Security team wants to establish an Incident Response plan. The team has never experienced an incident. Which of the following would BEST help them establish plans and procedures?
Table top exercises
An employee from the fire Marshall's office arrives to inspect the data center. The operator allows him to bypass the multi-factor authentication to enter the data center. Which of the following types of attacks may be underway?
Tailgating
At the outside break area, an employee, Ann, asked another employee to let her into the building because her badge is missing. Which of the following does this describe?
Tailgating
Datacenter access is controlled with proximity badges that record all entries and exits from the datacenter. The access records are used to identify which staff members accessed the data center in the event of equipment theft. Which of the following MUST be prevented in order for this policy to be effective?
Tailgating
Joe uses his badge to enter the server room, Ann follows Joe entering without using her badge. It is later discovered that Ann used a USB drive to remove confidential data from a server. Which of the following principles is potentially being violated? (Select TWO)
Tailgating Data handling
After making a bit-level copy of compromised server, the forensics analyst Joe wants to verify that he bid not accidentally make a change during his investigation. Which of the following should he perform?
Take a hash of the image and compare it to the one being investigated
A new application needs to be deployed on a virtual server. The virtual server hosts a SQL server that is used by several employees. Which of the following is the BEST approach for implementation of the new application on the virtual server?
Take a snapshot of the virtual server before installing the new application and store the snapshot in a secure location.
In the initial stages of an incident response, Matt, the security administrator, was provided the hard drives in question from the incident manager. Which of the following incident response procedures would he need to perform in order to begin the analysis? (Select TWO).
Take hashes, Capture the system image
To help prevent unauthorized access to PCs, a security administrator implements screen savers that lock the PC after five minutes of inactivity. Which of the following controls is being described in this situation?
Technical
Pete, a security analyst, has been informed that the development team has plans to develop an application which does not meet the company's password policy. Which of the following should Pete do NEXT?
Tell the application development manager to code the application to adhere to the company's password policy.
A system administrator has noticed vulnerability on a high impact production server. A recent update was made available by the vendor that addresses the vulnerability but requires a reboot of the system afterwards. Which of the following steps should the system administrator implement to address the vulnerability?
Test the update in a lab environment, backup the server, schedule downtime to install the patch, install the update, reboot the server, and monitor for any changes
An internal audit has detected that a number of archived tapes are missing from secured storage. There was no recent need for restoration of data from the missing tapes. The location is monitored by access control and CCTV systems. Review of the CCTV system indicates that it has not been recording for three months. The access control system shows numerous valid entries into the storage location during that time. The last audit was six months ago and the tapes were accounted for at that time. Which of the following could have aided the investigation?
Testing controls
A database administrator receives a call on an outside telephone line from a person who states that they work for a well-known database vendor. The caller states there have been problems applying the newly released vulnerability patch for their database system, and asks what version is being used so that they can assist. Which of the following is the BEST action for the administrator to take?
Thank the caller, report the contact to the manager, and contact the vendor support line to verify any reported patch issues.
Joe, a user, wants to send an encrypted email to Ann. Which of the following will Ann need to use to verify the validity's of Joe's certificate? (Select TWO).
The CA's public key, Joe's public key
A risk assessment team is concerned about hosting data with a cloud service provider (CSP) which of the following findings would justify this concern?
The CSP takes into account multinational privacy concerns
Which statement is TRUE about the operation of a packet sniffer?
The Ethernet card must be placed in promiscuous mode.
Which of the following is an example of a false negative?
The IDS does not identify a buffer overflow.
On Monday, all company employees report being unable to connect to the corporate wireless network, which uses 802.1x with PEAP. A technician verifies that no configuration changes were made to the wireless network and its supporting infrastructure, and that there are no outages.
The Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service server certificate has expired.
A company provides secure wireless Internet access for visitors and vendors working onsite. Some of the vendors using older technology report that they are unable to access the wireless network after entering the correct network information. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?
The SSID broadcast is disabled.
A network security administrator is trying to determine how an attacker gained access to the corporate wireless network. The network is configured with SSID broadcast disabled. The senior network administrator explains that this configuration setting would only have determined an unsophisticated attacker because of which of the following?
The SSID can be obtained with a wireless packet analyzer
Which of the following BEST describes the weakness in WEP encryption?
The WEP key is stored with a very small pool of random numbers to make the cipher text.
The server administrator has noted that most servers have a lot of free disk space and low memory utilization. Which of the following statements will be correct if the server administrator migrates to a virtual server environment?
The administrator may spend more on licensing but less on hardware and equipment.
Joe a web developer wants to make sure his application is not susceptible to cross-site request forgery attacks. Which of the following is one way to prevent this type of attack?
The application should always use SSL encryption
Which of the following BEST describes a SQL Injection attack?
The attacker attempts to have the receiving server pass information to a back-end database from which it can compromise the stored information.
The fundamental information security principals include confidentiality, availability and which of the following?
The capacity of a system to resist unauthorized changes to stored information
Recently clients are stating they can no longer access a secure banking site's webpage. In reviewing the clients' web browser settings, the certificate chain is showing the following: Certificate Chain: X Digi Cert Digi Cert High assurance C3 * banksite.com Certificate Store: Digi Cert - Others Certificate Store Digi Cert High assurance C3 - Others Certificate Store Based on the information provided, which of the following is the problem when connecting to the website?
The certificate authority has revoked the certificate
Company employees are required to have workstation client certificates to access a bank website. These certificates were backed up as a precautionary step before the new computer upgrade. After the upgrade and restoration, users state they can access the bank's website, but not login. Which is the following is MOST likely the issue?
The certificates have not been installed on the workstations
Which of the following is a best practice when setting up a client to use the LDAPS protocol with a server?
The client should present a self-signed certificate to the server
Ann a new security specialist is attempting to access the internet using the company's open wireless network. The wireless network is not encrypted: however, once associated, ANN cannot access the internet or other company resources. In an attempt to troubleshoot, she scans the wireless network with NMAP, discovering the only other device on the wireless network is a firewall. Which of the following BEST describes the company's wireless network solution?
The company uses VPN to authenticate and encrypt wireless connections and traffic
Ann, a sales manager, successfully connected her company-issued smartphone to the wireless network in her office without supplying a username/password combination. Upon disconnecting from the wireless network, she attempted to connect her personal tablet computer to the same wireless network and could not connect. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason?
The company wireless is using a MAC filter.
The administrator receives a call from an employee named Joe. Joe says the Internet is down and he is receiving a blank page when typing to connect to a popular sports website. The administrator asks Joe to try visiting a popular search engine site, which Joe reports as successful. Joe then says that he can get to the sports site on this phone. Which of the following might the administrator need to configure?
The default block page on the URL filter
After a new RADIUS server is added to the network, an employee is unable to connect to the company's WPA2-Enterprise WIFI network, which is configured to prompt for the employee's network username and password. The employee reports receiving an error message after a brief connection attempt, but is never prompted for credentials. Which of the following issues could be causing the problem?
The employee's account is locked out in the directory service
Which of the following is a best practice when a mistake is made during a forensics examination?
The examiner should document the mistake and workaround the problem.
The security administrator installed a newly generated SSL certificate onto the company web server. Due to a misconfiguration of the website, a downloadable file containing one of the pieces of the key was available to the public. It was verified that the disclosure did not require a reissue of the certificate. Which of the following was MOST likely compromised?
The file containing the public key.
Some customers have reported receiving an untrusted certificate warning when visiting the company's website. The administrator ensures that the certificate is not expired and that customers have trusted the original issuer of the certificate. Which of the following could be causing the problem?
The intermediate CA certificates were not installed on the server.
An employee connects a wireless access point to the only jack in the conference room to provide Internet access during a meeting. The access point is configured to use WPA2- TKIP. A malicious user is able to intercept clear text HTTP communication between the meeting attendees and the Internet. Which of the following is the reason the malicious user is able to intercept and see the clear text communication?
The malicious user is able to capture the wired communication.
A classroom utilizes workstations running virtualization software for a maximum of one virtual machine per working station. The network settings on the virtual machines are set to bridged. Which of the following describes how the switch in the classroom should be configured to allow for the virtual machines and host workstation to connect to network resources?
The maximum-mac settings of the ports should be set to zero
An employee's mobile device associates with the company's guest WiFi SSID, but then is unable to retrieve email. The email settings appear to be correct. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
The network uses a captive portal and requires a web authentication
A new employee has joined the accounting department and is unable to access the accounting server. The employee can access other network resources and the Internet. Other accounting employees are able to access the accounting server without any issues. Which of the following is the MOST likely issue?
The new account is not in the proper role-based profile
A new virtual server was created for the marketing department. The server was installed on an existing host machine. Users in the marketing department report that they are unable to connect to the server. Technicians verify that the server has an IP address in the same VLAN as the marketing department users. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the users are unable to connect to the server?
The new virtual server's MAC address was not added to the ACL on the switch
Fuzzing is a security assessment technique that allows testers to analyze the behavior of software applications under which of the following conditions?
Unexpected input
The public key is used to perform which of the following? (Select THREE).
Validate the identity of an email sender Encrypt messages Decrypt messages
Which of the following delineates why it is important to perform egress filtering and monitoring on Internet connected security zones of interfaces on a firewall?
To rebalance the amount of outbound traffic and inbound traffic
Which of the following is the BEST reason to provide user awareness and training programs for organizational staff?
To reduce organizational IT risk
Which of the following provides the BEST explanation regarding why an organization needs to implement IT security policies?
To reduce the organizational risk
LDAP and Kerberos are commonly used for which of the following?
To utilize single sign-on capabilities
Client computers login at specified times to check and update antivirus definitions using a dedicated account configured by the administrator. One day the clients are unable to login with the account, but the server still responds to ping requests. The administrator has not made any changed. Which of the following most likely happened?
The password on the account has expired
A software development company needs to share information between two remote server, using encryption to protect it. A programmer suggests developing a new encryption protocol, arguing that using an unknown protocol with secure, existing cryptographic algorithem libraries will provide strong encryption without being susceptible to attacks on other unknown protocols. Which of the following summarizes the BEST response to programmer's proposal?
The obscurity value of unproven protocols against attacks often outweighs the potential for new vulnerabilites.
Which of the following explains the difference between a public key and a private key?
The private key is only used by the client and kept secret while the public key is available to all.
A worker dressed in a fire suppression company's uniform asks to be let into the server room to perform the annual check in the fire extinguishers. The system administrator allows the worker into the room, only to discover hours later that the worker was actually a penetration tester. Which of the following reasons allowed the penetration tester to access the server room?
The pen tester assumed the authority of a reputable company
Which of the following best describes the initial processing phase used in mobile device forensics?
The phone should be powered down and the battery removed to preserve the state of data on any internal or removable storage utilized by the mobile device
An administrator deploys a WPA2 Enterprise wireless network with EAP-PEAPMSCHAPv2. The deployment is successful and company laptops are able to connect automatically with no user intervention. A year later, the company begins to deploy phones with wireless capabilities. Users report that they are receiving a warning when they attempt to connect to the wireless network from their phones. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the warning message?
The phones do not support WPA2 Enterprise wireless networks
Prior to leaving for an extended vacation, Joe uses his mobile phone to take a picture of his family in the house living room. Joe posts the picture on a popular social media site together with the message: "Heading to our two weeks vacation to Italy." Upon returning home, Joe discovers that the house was burglarized. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the house was burglarized if nobody knew Joe's home address?
The picture uploaded to the social media site was geo-tagged by the mobile phone.
A security administrator needs to update the OS on all the switches in the company. Which of the following MUST be done before any actual switch configuration is performed?
The request needs to be approved through the change management process.
The marketing department wants to distribute pens with embedded USB drives to clients. In the past this client has been victimized by social engineering attacks which led to a loss of sensitive data. The security administrator advises the marketing department not to distribute the USB pens due to which of the following?
The risks associated with the large capacity of USB drives and their concealable nature
Review the following diagram depicting communication between PC1 and PC2 on each side of a router. Analyze the network traffic logs which show communication between the two computers as captured by the computer with IP 10.2.2.10. DIAGRAM PC1 PC2 [192.168.1.30]--------[INSIDE 192.168.1.1 router OUTSIDE 10.2.2.1]---------[10.2.2.10] LOGS 10:30:22, SRC 10.2.2.1:3030, DST 10.2.2.10:80, SYN 10:30:23, SRC 10.2.2.10:80, DST 10.2.2.1:3030, SYN/ACK 10:30:24, SRC 10.2.2.1:3030, DST 10.2.2.10:80, ACK Given the above information, which of the following can be inferred about the above environment?
The router implements NAT.
Matt, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), tells the network administrator that a security company has been hired to perform a penetration test against his network. The security company asks Matt which type of testing would be most beneficial for him. Which of the following BEST describes what the security company might do during a black box test?
The security company is provided with no information about the corporate network or physical locations.
When employing PKI to send signed and encrypted data the individual sending the data must have: (Select TWO)
The sender's private key The receiver's public key
A server is configured to communicate on both VLAN 1 and VLAN 12. VLAN 1 communication works fine, but VLAN 12 does not. Which of the following MUST happen before the server can communicate on VLAN 12?
The server's network switch port must be 802.1q tagged for VLAN 12.
An Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) has been placed in charge of a classified peer-to-peer network that cannot connect to the Internet. The ISSO can update the antivirus definitions manually, but which of the following steps is MOST important?
The signatures must have a hash value equal to what is displayed on the vendor site.
A supervisor in the human resources department has been given additional job duties in the accounting department. Part of their new duties will be to check the daily balance sheet calculations on spreadsheets that are restricted to the accounting group. In which of the following ways should the account be handled?
The supervisor should be added to the accounting group while maintaining their membership in the human resources group.
A router has a single Ethernet connection to a switch. In the router configuration, the Ethernet interface has three sub-interfaces, each configured with ACLs applied to them and 802.1q trunks. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason for the sub-interfaces?
The switch has several VLANs configured on it.
A consultant has been tasked to assess a client's network. The client reports frequent network outages. Upon viewing the spanning tree configuration, the consultant notices that an old and law performing edge switch on the network has been elected to be the root bridge. Which of the following explains this scenario?
The switch has spanning tree loop protection enabled
Six months into development, the core team assigned to implement a new internal piece of software must convene to discuss a new requirement with the stake holders. A stakeholder identified a missing feature critical to the organization, which must be implemented. The team needs to validate the feasibility of the newly introduced requirement and ensure it does not introduce new vulnerabilities to the software and other applications that will integrate with it. Which of the following BEST describes what the company?
The system analysis phase of SSDSLC
Pete, a security engineer, is trying to inventory all servers in a rack. The engineer launches RDP sessions to five different PCs and notices that the hardware properties are similar. Additionally, the MAC addresses of all five servers appear on the same switch port. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?
The system is virtualized.
When an order was submitted via the corporate website, an administrator noted special characters (e.g., ";--" and "or 1=1 --") were input instead of the expected letters and numbers. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the unusual results?
The user is sending malicious SQL injection strings in order to extract sensitive company or customer data via the website.
A security audit identifies a number of large email messages being sent by a specific user from their company email account to another address external to the company. These messages were sent prior to a company data breach, which prompted the security audit. The user was one of a few people who had access to the leaked data. Review of the suspect's emails show they consist mostly of pictures of the user at various locations during a recent vacation. No suspicious activities from other users who have access to the data were discovered. Which of the following is occurring?
The user is using steganography.
A software security concern when dealing with hardware and devices that have embedded software or operating systems is:
The vendor may not have a method for installation of patches
Joe a sales employee is connecting to a wireless network and has entered the network information correctly. His computer remains connected to the network but he cannot access any resources on the network. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
The wireless antenna power is set too low
A user of the wireless network is unable to gain access to the network. The symptoms are: 1.) Unable to connect to both internal and Internet resources 2.) The wireless icon shows connectivity but has no network access The wireless network is WPA2 Enterprise and users must be a member of the wireless security group to authenticate. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the connectivity issues?
The wireless signal is not strong enough
Full disk encryption is MOST effective against which of the following threats?
Theft of hardware
Acme Corp has selectively outsourced proprietary business processes to ABC Services. Due to some technical issues, ABC services wants to send some of Acme Corp's debug data to a third party vendor for problem resolution. Which of the following MUST be considered prior to sending data to a third party?
This may violate data ownership and non-disclosure agreements
A company's Chief Information Officer realizes the company cannot continue to operate after a disaster. Which of the following describes the disaster?
Threat
When viewing IPS logs the administrator see systems all over the world scanning the network for servers with port 22 open. The administrator concludes that this traffic is a(N):
Threat
An IT security manager is asked to provide the total risk to the business. Which of the following calculations would he security manager choose to determine total risk?
Threats X vulnerability X asset value
A password history value of three means which of the following?
Three different passwords are used before one can be reused.
Which of the following is replayed during wireless authentication to exploit a weak key infrastructure?
Ticket exchange
Which of the following is replayed during wireless authentication to exploit a weal key infrastructure?
Ticket exchange
The company's sales team plans to work late to provide the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with a special report of sales before the quarter ends. After working for several hours, the team finds they cannot save or print the reports. Which of the following controls is preventing them from completing their work?
Time of Day access control
A security administrator would like to ensure that some members of the building's maintenance staff are only allowed access to the facility during weekend hours. Access to the facility is controlled by badge swipe and a man trap. Which of the following options will BEST accomplish this goal?
Time of day restrictions
A technician is reviewing the logical access control method an organization uses. One of the senior managers requests that the technician prevent staff members from logging on during nonworking days. Which of the following should the technician implement to meet managements request?
Time of day restrictions
Ann the security administrator has been reviewing logs and has found several overnight sales personnel are accessing the finance department's network shares. Which of the following security controls should be implemented to BEST remediate this?
Time of day restrictions
Which of the following security concepts can prevent a user from logging on from home during the weekends?
Time of day restrictions
After an assessment, auditors recommended that an application hosting company should contract with additional data providers for redundant high speed Internet connections. Which of the following is MOST likely the reason for this recommendation? (Select TWO).
To allow for business continuity if one provider goes out of business, To eliminate a single point of failure
Which of the following BEST represents the goal of a vulnerability assessment?
To determine the system's security posture
Which of the following best describes the reason for using hot and cold aisles?
To ensure air exhaust from one aisle doesn't blow into the air intake of the next aisle
A company requires that all users enroll in the corporate PKI structure and digitally sign all emails. Which of the following are primary reasons to sign emails with digital certificates? (Select TWO)
To ensure integrity To protect confidentiality
Which of the following best describes the objectives of succession planning?
To identify and document the successive order in which critical systems should be reinstated following a disaster situation
Why would a technician use a password cracker?
To look for weak passwords on the network
Which of the following could a security administrator implement to mitigate the risk of tailgating for a large organization?
Train employees on risks associated with social engineering attacks and enforce policies.
Sara, the Chief Security Officer (CSO), has had four security breaches during the past two years. Each breach has cost the company $3,000. A third party vendor has offered to repair the security hole in the system for $25,000. The breached system is scheduled to be replaced in five years. Which of the following should Sara do to address the risk?
Transfer the risk saving $5,000.
A technician needs to implement a system which will properly authenticate users by their username and password only when the users are logging in from a computer in the office building. Any attempt to authenticate from a location other than the office building should be rejected. Which of the following MUST the technician implement?
Transitive authentication
If Organization A trusts Organization B and Organization B trusts Organization C, then Organization A trusts Organization C. Which of the following PKI concepts is this describing?
Transitive trust
Which of the following is a control that allows a mobile application to access and manipulate information which should only be available by another application on the same mobile device (e.g. a music application posting the name of the current song playing on the device on a social media site)?
Transitive trust
The concept of rendering data passing between two points over an IP based network impervious to all but the most sophisticated advanced persistent threats is BEST categorized as which of the following?
Transport encryption
Sara, a user, downloads a keygen to install pirated software. After running the keygen, system performance is extremely slow and numerous antivirus alerts are displayed. Which of the following BEST describes this type of malware?
Trojan
The below report indicates that the system is MOST likely infected by which of the following? Protocol LOCAL IP FOREIGN IP STATE TCP 0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 Listening TCP 0.0.0.0:3390 0.0.0.0:0 Listening
Trojan
Which of the following types of malware, attempts to circumvent malware detection by trying to hide its true location on the infected system?
Trojan
Which of the following allows lower level domains to access resources in a separate Public Key Infrastructure?
Trust Model
A network administrator is looking for a way to automatically update company browsers so they import a list of root certificates from an online source. This online source will then be responsible for tracking which certificates are to be trusted or not trusted. Which of the following BEST describes the service that should be implemented to meet these requirements?
Trust model
A security administrator must implement a system that will support and enforce the following file system access control model: FILE NAMESECURITY LABEL Employees.docConfidential Salary.xlsConfidential OfficePhones.xlsUnclassified PersonalPhones.xlsRestricted Which of the following should the security administrator implement?
Trusted OS
Which of the following is a hardware-based security technology included in a computer?
Trusted platform module
Speaking a passphrase into a voice print analyzer is an example of which of the following security concepts?
Two factor authentication
A company requires that a user's credentials include providing something they know and something they are in order to gain access to the network. Which of the following types of authentication is being described?
Two-factor
A security manager installed a standalone fingerprint reader at the data center. All employees that need to access the data center have been enrolled to the reader and local reader database is always kept updates. When an employee who has been enrolled uses the fingerprint reader the door to the data center opens. Which of the following does this demonstrate? (Select THREE)
Two-factor authentication Identification Authentication
A company is planning to encrypt the files in several sensitive directories of a file server with a symmetric key. Which of the following could be used?
TwoFish
Which of the following is a measure of biometrics performance which rates the ability of a system to correctly authenticate an authorized user?
Type II
A recent spike in virus detections has been attributed to end-users visiting www.compnay.com. The business has an established relationship with an organization using the URL of www.company.com but not with the site that has been causing the infections. Which of the following would BEST describe this type of attack?
Typo squatting
Pete, the system administrator, wants to restrict access to advertisements, games, and gambling web sites. Which of the following devices would BEST achieve this goal?
URL content filter
Which of the following components of an all-in-one security appliance would MOST likely be configured in order to restrict access to peer-to-peer file sharing websites?
URL filter
The loss prevention department has purchased a new application that allows the employees to monitor the alarm systems at remote locations. However, the application fails to connect to the vendor's server and the users are unable to log in. Which of the following are the MOST likely causes of this issue? (Select TWO).
URL filtering, Firewall rules
Which of the following assets is MOST likely considered for DLP?
USB mass storage devices
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to implement two-factor authentication within the company. Which of the following would fulfill the CISO's requirements?
USB token and PIN
A review of the company's network traffic shows that most of the malware infections are caused by users visiting gambling and gaming websites. The security manager wants to implement a solution that will block these websites, scan all web traffic for signs of malware, and block the malware before it enters the company network. Which of the following is suited for this purpose?
UTM
An administrator has advised against the use of Bluetooth phones due to bluesnarfing concerns. Which of the following is an example of this threat?
Unauthorized intrusions into the phone to access data
A user has reported inadvertently sending an encrypted email containing PII to an incorrect distribution group. Which of the following potential incident types is this?
Unauthorized viewing
A wireless site survey has been performed at a company. One of the results of the report is that the wireless signal extends too far outside the building. Which of the following security issues could occur as a result of this finding?
Unauthorized wireless access
Which of the following BEST describes a protective countermeasure for SQL injection?
Validating user input in web applications
An organization does not have adequate resources to administer its large infrastructure. A security administrator wishes to combine the security controls of some of the network devices in the organization. Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?
Unified Threat Management
An organization does not have adequate resources to administer its large infrastructure. A security administrator wishes to integrate the security controls of some of the network devices in the organization. Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?
Unified Threat Management
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of users being unable to verify a single user's email signature and that user being unable to decrypt sent messages?
Unmatched key pairs
A website is breached, exposing the usernames and MD5 password hashes of its entire user base. Many of these passwords are later cracked using rainbow tables. Which of the following actions could have helped prevent the use of rainbow tables on the password hashes?
Use SHA as a hashing algorithm instead of MD%
A military base wants to incorporate biometrics into its new security measures, but the head of security does not want them to be the sole method of authentication. For unmanned entry points, which of the following solutions would work BEST?
Use a retina scan and a PIN code
The chief security officer (CS0) has issued a new policy that requires that all internal websites be configured for HTTPS traffic only. The network administrator has been tasked to update all internal sites without incurring additional costs. Which of the following is the best solution for the network administrator to secure each internal website?
Use certificates signed by the company CA
Pete, the system administrator, is reviewing his disaster recovery plans. He wishes to limit the downtime in the event of a disaster, but does not have the budget approval to implement or maintain an offsite location that ensures 99.99% availability. Which of the following would be Pete's BEST option?
Use hardware already at an offsite location and configure it to be quickly utilized.
Company XYZ has decided to make use of a cloud-based service that requires mutual, certificate-based authentication with its users. The company uses SSL-inspecting IDS at its network boundary and is concerned about the confidentiality of the mutual authentication. Which of the following model prevents the IDS from capturing credentials used to authenticate users to the new service or keys to decrypt that communication?
Use of active directory federation between the company and the cloud-based service
Ann, a college professor, was recently reprimanded for posting disparaging remarks regrading her coworkers on a web site. Ann stated that she was not aware that the public was able to view her remakes. Which of the following security-related trainings could have made Ann aware of the repercussions of her actions?
Use of social networking
Which of the following is true about an email that was signed by User A and sent to User B?
User A signed with their own private key and User B verified with User A's public key.
Ann has recently transferred from the payroll department to engineering. While browsing file shares, Ann notices she can access the payroll status and pay rates of her new coworkers. Which of the following could prevent this scenario from occurring?
User access reviews
During a recent audit, it was discovered that several user accounts belonging to former employees were still active and had valid VPN permissions. Which of the following would help reduce the amount of risk the organization incurs in this situation in the future?
User access reviews
A group of users from multiple departments are working together on a project and will maintain their digital output in a single location. Which of the following is the BEST method to ensure access is restricted to use by only these users?
User assigned privileges
Privilege creep among long-term employees can be mitigated by which of the following procedures?
User permission reviews
Ann a user has been promoted from a sales position to sales manager. Which of the following risk mitigation strategies would be MOST appropriate when a user changes job roles?
User permissions review
After a merger, it was determined that several individuals could perform the tasks of a network administrator in the merged organization. Which of the following should have been performed to ensure that employees have proper access?
User rights and permission review
After an audit, it was discovered that the security group memberships were not properly adjusted for employees' accounts when they moved from one role to another. Which of the following has the organization failed to properly implement? (Select TWO).
User rights and permission reviews. Management controls over account management.
A security administrator has been tasked to ensure access to all network equipment is controlled by a central server such as TACACS+. This type of implementation supports which of the following risk mitigation strategies?
User rights and permissions review
Various network outages have occurred recently due to unapproved changes to network and security devices. All changes were made using various system credentials. The security analyst has been tasked to update the security policy. Which of the following risk mitigation strategies would also need to be implemented to reduce the number of network outages due to unauthorized changes?
User rights and permissions review
An internal auditor is concerned with privilege creep that is associated with transfers inside the company. Which mitigation measure would detect and correct this?
User rights reviews
Which of the following risk mitigation strategies will allow Ann, a security analyst, to enforce least privilege principles?
User rights reviews
Which of the following can be performed when an element of the company policy cannot be enforced by technical means?
User training
Which of the following BEST describes part of the PKI process?
User1 encrypts data with User2's public key
A remote user (User1) is unable to reach a newly provisioned corporate windows workstation. The system administrator has been given the following log files from the VPN, corporate firewall and workstation host.
User1 has been locked out due to too many failed passwords
A security administrator is designing an access control system, with an unlimited budget, to allow authenticated users access to network resources. Given that a multifactor authentication solution is more secure, which of the following is the BEST combination of factors?
Username and password combo, voice recognition scanner, and retina scanner
An SSL/TLS private key is installed on a corporate web proxy in order to inspect HTTPS requests. Which of the following describes how this private key should be stored so that it is protected from theft?
Utilize a hardware security module
A recent audit of a company's identity management system shows that 30% of active accounts belong to people no longer with the firm. Which of the following should be performed to help avoid this scenario? (Select TWO).
Utilize automated provisioning and de-provisioning processes where possible. Perform regular user account review / revalidation process.
The systems administrator wishes to implement a hardware-based encryption method that could also be used to sign code. They can achieve this by:
Utilizing the already present TPM.
A network engineer is setting up a network for a company. There is a BYOD policy for the employees so that they can connect their laptops and mobile devices. Which of the following technologies should be employed to separate the administrative network from the network in which all of the employees' devices are connected?
VLAN
According to company policy an administrator must logically keep the Human Resources department separated from the Accounting department. Which of the following would be the simplest way to accomplish this?
VLAN
An administrator needs to segment internal traffic between layer 2 devices within the LAN. Which of the following types of network design elements would MOST likely be used?
VLAN
An administrator wants to configure a switch port so that it separates voice and data traffic. Which of the following MUST be configured on the switch port to enforce separation of traffic?
VLAN
Pete, a security administrator, is informed that people from the HR department should not have access to the accounting department's server, and the accounting department should not have access to the HR department's server. The network is separated by switches. Which of the following is designed to keep the HR department users from accessing the accounting department's server and vice-versa?
VLANs
Which of the following would allow users from outside of an organization to have access to internal resources?
VPN
Which of the following would Pete, a security administrator, MOST likely implement in order to allow employees to have secure remote access to certain internal network services such as file servers?
VPN gateway
Which of the following can be used to maintain a higher level of security in a SAN by allowing isolation of mis-configurations or faults?
VSAN
The BEST methods for a web developer to prevent the website application code from being vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (XSRF) are to: (Select TWO).
Validate and filter input on the server side and client side. Restrict and sanitize use of special characters in input and URLs.
Which of the following should be done before resetting a user's password due to expiration?
Verify the user's identity.
Key cards at a bank are not tied to individuals, but rather to organizational roles. After a break in, it becomes apparent that extra efforts must be taken to successfully pinpoint who exactly enters secure areas. Which of the following security measures can be put in place to mitigate the issue until a new key card system can be installed?
Video surveillance
Matt, the network engineer, has been tasked with separating network traffic between virtual machines on a single hypervisor. Which of the following would he implement to BEST address this requirement? (Select TWO).
Virtual switch, VLAN
A technician is deploying virtual machines for multiple customers on a single physical host to reduce power consumption in a data center. Which of the following should be recommended to isolate the VMs from one another?
Virtual switches with VLANs
A corporation is looking to expand their data center but has run out of physical space in which to store hardware. Which of the following would offer the ability to expand while keeping their current data center operated by internal staff?
Virtualization
Due to limited resources, a company must reduce their hardware budget while still maintaining availability. Which of the following would MOST likely help them achieve their objectives?
Virtualization
Joe a technician is tasked with finding a way to test operating system patches for a wide variety of servers before deployment to the production environment while utilizing a limited amount of hardware resources. Which of the following would provide the BEST environment for performing this testing?
Virtualization
Joe, a technician, is tasked with finding a way to test operating system patches for a wide variety of servers before deployment to the production environment while utilizing a limited amount of hardware resources. Which of the following would provide the BEST environment for performing this testing?
Virtualization
Which of the following is required to allow multiple servers to exist on one physical server?
Virtualization
Which of the following solutions provides the most flexibility when testing new security controls prior to implementation?
Virtualization
A program has been discovered that infects a critical Windows system executable and stays dormant in memory. When a Windows mobile phone is connected to the host, the program infects the phone's boot loader and continues to target additional Windows PCs or phones. Which of the following malware categories BEST describes this program?
Virus
Jane, an individual, has recently been calling various financial offices pretending to be another person to gain financial information. Which of the following attacks is being described?
Vishing
Purchasing receives an automated phone call from a bank asking to input and verify credit card information. The phone number displayed on the caller ID matches the bank. Which of the following attack types is this?
Vishing
Which of the following is BEST utilized to identify common misconfigurations throughout the enterprise?
Vulnerability scanning
A security administrator is tackling issues related to authenticating users at a remote site. There have been a large number of security incidents that resulted from either tailgating or impersonation of authorized users with valid credentials. The security administrator has been told to implement multifactor authentication in order to control facility access. To secure access to the remote facility, which of the following could be implemented without increasing the amount of space required at the entrance?
Voice recognition and one-time PIN token
Joe, the information security manager, is tasked with calculating risk and selecting controls to protect a new system. He has identified people, environmental conditions, and events that could affect the new system. Which of the following does he need to estimate NEXT in order to complete his risk calculations?
Vulnerabilities
The programmer confirms that there is potential for a buffer overflow on one of the data input fields in a corporate application. The security analyst classifies this as a (N).
Vulnerability
A company is rolling out a new e-commerce website. The security analyst wants to reduce the risk of the new website being comprised by confirming that system patches are up to date, application hot fixes are current, and unneeded ports and services have been disabled. To do this, the security analyst will perform a:
Vulnerability assessment
A security administrator is tasked with conducting an assessment made to establish the baseline security posture of the corporate IT infrastructure. The assessment must report actual flaws and weaknesses in the infrastructure. Due to the expense of hiring outside consultants, the testing must be performed using in-house or cheaply available resource. There cannot be a possibility of any requirement being damaged in the test. Which of the following has the administrator been tasked to perform?
Vulnerability assessment
Jane has recently implemented a new network design at her organization and wishes to passively identify security issues with the new network. Which of the following should Jane perform?
Vulnerability assessment
A security administrator wants to perform routine tests on the network during working hours when certain applications are being accessed by the most people. Which of the following would allow the security administrator to test the lack of security controls for those applications with the least impact to the system?
Vulnerability scan
An administrator is concerned that a company's web server has not been patched. Which of the following would be the BEST assessment for the administrator to perform?
Vulnerability scan
During a recent audit, it was discovered that many services and desktops were missing security patches. Which of the following BEST describes the assessment that was performed to discover this issue?
Vulnerability scan
Which of the following tests a number of security controls in the least invasive manner?
Vulnerability scan
Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to discover comprehensive security threats on a network?
Vulnerability scan
Which of the following would be used to identify the security posture of a network without actually exploiting any weaknesses?
Vulnerability scan
A company hires outside security experts to evaluate the security status of the corporate network. All of the company's IT resources are outdated and prone to crashing. The company requests that all testing be performed in a way which minimizes the risk of system failures. Which of the following types of testing does the company want performed?
Vulnerability scanning
Ann, a security analyst, is preparing for an upcoming security audit. To ensure that she identifies unapplied security controls and patches without attacking or compromising the system, Ann would use which of the following?
Vulnerability scanning
Joe, a security analyst, is attempting to determine if a new server meets the security requirements of his organization. As a step in this process, he attempts to identify a lack of security controls and to identify common misconfigurations on the server. Which of the following is Joe attempting to complete?
Vulnerability scanning
A security program manager wants to actively test the security posture of a system. The system is not yet in production and has no uptime requirement or active user base. Which of the following methods will produce a report which shows vulnerabilities that were actually exploited?
Vulnerability testing
Which of the following is BEST at blocking attacks and providing security at layer 7 of the OSI model?
WAF
RC4 is a strong encryption protocol that is general used with which of the following?
WEP
RC4 is a strong encryption protocol that is generally used with which of the following?
WEP
Which of the following protocols is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks by NOT using end to end TLS encryption?
WEP
While setting up a secure wireless corporate network, which of the following should Pete, an administrator, avoid implementing?
WEP
Which of the following is a concern when encrypting wireless data with WEP?
WEP implements weak initialization vectors for key transmission
A security administrator must implement a network authentication solution which will ensure encryption of user credentials when users enter their username and password to authenticate to the network. Which of the following should the administrator implement?
WEP over EAP-PEAP
A security administrator discovered that all communication over the company's encrypted wireless network is being captured by savvy employees with a wireless sniffing tool and is then being decrypted in an attempt to steal other employee's credentials. Which of the following technology is MOST likely in use on the company's wireless?
WEP128-PSK
A security administrator has been tasked with setting up a new internal wireless network that must use end to end TLS. Which of the following may be used to meet this objective?
WPA 2
A malicious user is sniffing a busy encrypted wireless network waiting for an authorized client to connect to it. Only after an authorized client has connected and the hacker was able to capture the client handshake with the AP can the hacker begin a brute force attack to discover the encryption key. Which of the following attacks is taking place?
WPA cracking
Due to hardware limitation, a technician must implement a wireless encryption algorithm that uses the RC4 protocol. Which of the following is a wireless encryption solution that the technician should implement while ensuring the STRONGEST level of security?
WPA-TKIP
Which of the following provides the HIGHEST level of confidentiality on a wireless network?
WPA2
Which of the following provides the strongest authentication security on a wireless network?
WPA2
A network administrator has been tasked with securing the WLAN. Which of the following cryptographic products would be used to provide the MOST secure environment for the WLAN?
WPA2 CCMP
The security administrator has been tasked to update all the access points to provide a more secure connection. All access points currently use WPA TKIP for encryption. Which of the following would be configured to provide more secure connections?
WPA2 CCMP
Which of the following cryptographic methods is most secure for a wireless access point?
WPA2 with PSK
A security administrator must implement a wireless security system, which will require users to enter a 30 character ASCII password on their accounts. Additionally the system must support 3DS wireless encryption.
WPA2-Enterprise
Configuring key/value pairs on a RADIUS server is associated with deploying which of the following?
WPA2-Enterprise wireless network
Which of the following wireless protocols could be vulnerable to a brute-force password attack? (Select TWO).
WPA2-PSK WPA - LEAP
A security guard has informed the Chief information Security Officer that a person with a tablet has been walking around the building. The guard also noticed strange white markings in different areas of the parking lot. The person is attempting which of the following types of attacks?
War chalking
After a user performed a war driving attack, the network administrator noticed several similar markings where WiFi was available throughout the enterprise. Which of the following is the term used to describe these markings?
War chalking
The practice of marking open wireless access points is called which of the following?
War chalking
Mike, a security professional, is tasked with actively verifying the strength of the security controls on a company's live modem pool. Which of the following activities is MOST appropriate?
War dialing
A technician reports a suspicious individual is seen walking around the corporate campus. The individual is holding a smartphone and pointing a small antenna, in order to collect SSIDs. Which of the following attacks is occurring?
War driving
Which of the following can be implemented in hardware or software to protect a web server from cross-site scripting attacks?
Web Application Firewall
A security engineer is reviewing log data and sees the output below: POST: /payload.php HTTP/1.1 HOST: localhost Accept: */* Referrer: http://localhost/ ******* HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Connection: close Log: Access denied with 403. Pattern matches form bypass Which of the following technologies was MOST likely being used to generate this log?
Web application firewall
A small company has a website that provides online customer support. The company requires an account recovery process so that customers who forget their passwords can regain access. Which of the following is the BEST approach to implement this process?
Web-based form that identifies customer by another mechanism, sets a temporary password and forces a password change upon first login.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) receives a suspicious voice mail warning of credit card fraud. No one else received the voice mail. Which of the following BEST describes this attack?
Whaling
Which of the following attacks targets high level executives to gain company information?
Whaling
Which of the following is characterized by an attacker attempting to map out an organization's staff hierarchy in order to send targeted emails?
Whaling
Which of the following is a BEST practice when dealing with user accounts that will only need to be active for a limited time period?
When creating the account, set an expiration date on the account.
Which of the following is true about PKI? (Select TWO).
When encrypting a message with the public key, only the private key can decrypt it. When encrypting a message with the private key, only the public key can decrypt it.
Which of the following is the BEST method for ensuring all files and folders are encrypted on all corporate laptops where the file structures are unknown?
Whole disk encryption
One of the most basic ways to protect the confidentiality of data on a laptop in the event the device is physically stolen is to implement which of the following?
Whole disk encryption with two-factor authentication
Several users' computers are no longer responding normally and sending out spam email to the users' entire contact list. This is an example of which of the following?
Worm outbreak
A quality assurance analyst is reviewing a new software product for security, and has complete access to the code and data structures used by the developers. This is an example of which of the following types of testing?
White box
Which of the following would prevent a user from installing a program on a company-owned mobile device?
White-listing
Which of the following technical controls is BEST used to define which applications a user can install and run on a company issued mobile device?
Whitelisting
A server dedicated to the storage and processing of sensitive information was compromised with a rootkit and sensitive data was extracted. Which of the following incident response procedures is best suited to restore the server?
Wipe the storage, reinstall the OS from original media and restore the data from the last known good backup
Which of the following attacks would cause all mobile devices to lose their association with corporate access points while the attack is underway?
Wireless jamming
Sara, a security technician, has received notice that a vendor coming in for a presentation will require access to a server outside of the network. Currently, users are only able to access remote sites through a VPN connection. How could Sara BEST accommodate the vendor?
Write a firewall rule to allow the vendor to have access to the remote site.
A company has just deployed a centralized event log storage system. Which of the following can be used to ensure the integrity of the logs after they are collected?
Write-once drives
Which of the following is a management control?
Written security policy
Sara, a hacker, is completing a website form to request a free coupon. The site has a field that limits the request to 3 or fewer coupons. While submitting the form, Sara runs an application on her machine to intercept the HTTP POST command and change the field from 3 coupons to 30. Which of the following was used to perform this attack?
XML injection
After visiting a website, a user receives an email thanking them for a purchase which they did not request. Upon investigation the security administrator sees the following source code in a pop-up window: <HTML> <body onload="document.getElementByID('badForm').submit()"> <form id="badForm" action="shoppingsite.company.com/purchase.php" method="post" > <input name="Perform Purchase" value="Perform Purchase"/> </form> </body> </HTML> Which of the following has MOST likely occurred?
XSRF
A security administrator develops a web page and limits input into the fields on the web page as well as filters special characters in output. The administrator is trying to prevent which of the following attacks?
XSS
A security analyst has been investigating an incident involving the corporate website. Upon investigation, it has been determined that users visiting the corporate website would be automatically redirected to a, malicious site. Further investigation on the corporate website has revealed that the home page on the corporate website has been altered to include an unauthorized item. Which of the following would explain why users are being redirected to the malicious site?
XSS
Pete, the security administrator, has been notified by the IDS that the company website is under attack. Analysis of the web logs show the following string, indicating a user is trying to post a comment on the public bulletin board. INSERT INTO message `<script>source=http://evilsite</script> This is an example of which of the following?
XSS attack
Which of the following attacks initiates a connection by sending specially crafted packets in which multiple TCP flags are set to 1?
Xmas
a malicious attacker has intercepted HTTP traffic and inserted an ASCII line that sets the referrer URL. Which of the following is the attacker most likely utilizing?
Xml injection
An administrator wants to establish a WiFi network using a high gain directional antenna with a narrow radiation pattern to connect two buildings separated by a very long distance. Which of the following antennas would be BEST for this situation?
Yagi
An attacker discovers a new vulnerability in an enterprise application. The attacker takes advantage of the vulnerability by developing new malware. After installing the malware the attacker is provided with access to the infected machine. Which of the following is being described?
Zero-day exploit
Which of the following may cause Jane, the security administrator, to seek an ACL work around?
Zero day exploit
A network administrator identifies sensitive files being transferred from a workstation in the LAN to an unauthorized outside IP address in a foreign country. An investigation determines that the firewall has not been altered, and antivirus is up-to-date on the workstation. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the incident?
Zero-day
A security analyst, Ann, is reviewing an IRC channel and notices that a malicious exploit has been created for a frequently used application. She notifies the software vendor and asks them for remediation steps, but is alarmed to find that no patches are available to mitigate this vulnerability. Which of the following BEST describes this exploit?
Zero-day
A server administrator notes that a fully patched application often stops running due to a memory error. When reviewing the debugging logs they notice code being run calling an internal process to exploit the machine. Which of the following attacks does this describes?
Zero-day
An attacker used an undocumented and unknown application exploit to gain access to a file server. Which of the following BEST describes this type of attack?
Zero-day
Using a heuristic system to detect an anomaly in a computer's baseline, a system administrator was able to detect an attack even though the company signature based IDS and antivirus did not detect it. Further analysis revealed that the attacker had downloaded an executable file onto the company PC from the USB port, and executed it to trigger a privilege escalation flaw. Which of the following attacks has MOST likely occurred?
Zero-day
Which of the following can only be mitigated through the use of technical controls rather that user security training?
Zero-day
Which of the following types of application attacks would be used to identify malware causing security breaches that have NOT yet been identified by any trusted sources?
Zero-day
The security administrator is observing unusual network behavior from a workstation. The workstation is communicating with a known malicious destination over an encrypted tunnel. A full antivirus scan, with an updated antivirus definition file, does not show any signs of infection. Which of the following has happened on the workstation?
Zero-day attack
A computer is found to be infected with malware and a technician re-installs the operating system. The computer remains infected with malware. This is an example of:
a MBR infection.
A user has plugged in a wireless router from home with default configurations into a network jack at the office. This is known as:
a rogue access point.
Joe, the security administrator, sees this in a vulnerability scan report: 'The server 10.1..2.232 is running Apache 2.2.20 which may be vulnerabel to a mod_cgi exploit." Joe verifies that mod_cgi module is not enabled on 10.1.2.232. This message is an example of
a threat
A set of standardized system images with a pre-defined set of applications is used to build end-user workstations. The security administrator has scanned every workstation to create a current inventory of all applications that are installed on active workstations and is documenting which applications are out-of-date and could be exploited. The security administrator is determining the:
attack surface.
The security administrator is analyzing a user's history file on a Unix server to determine if the user was attempting to break out of a rootjail. Which of the following lines in the user's history log shows evidence that the user attempted to escape the rootjail?
cd ../../../../bin/bash
An administrator has successfully implemented SSL on srv4.comptia.com using wildcard certificate *.comptia.com, and now wishes to implement SSL on srv5.comptia.com. Which of the following files should be copied from srv4 to accomplish this?
certificate, private key, and intermediate certificate chain
A security administrator needs to image a large hard drive for forensic analysis. Which of the following will allow for faster imaging to a second hard drive?
dd in=/dev/sda out=/dev/sdb bs=4k
Which of the following firewall rules only denies DNS zone transfers?
deny tcp any any port 53
A computer security officer has investigated a possible data breach and has found it credible. The officer notifies the data center manager and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This is an example of:
escalation and notification.
Which of the following utilities can be used in Linux to view a list of users' failed authentication attempts?
faillog
A network administrator has recently updated their network devices to ensure redundancy is in place so that:
single points of failure are removed.
A security analyst has a sample of malicious software and needs to know what the sample in a carefully controlled and monitored virtual machine to observe the software's behavior. After the software has run, the analyst returns the virtual machines OS to a pre-defined know good state using what feature of virtualization?
snapshots
A malicious person gained access to a datacenter by ripping the proximity badge reader off the wall near the datacenter entrance. This caused the electronic locks on the datacenter door to release because the:
system was designed to fail open for life-safety.
An administrator connects VoIP phones to the same switch as the network PCs and printers. Which of the following would provide the BEST logical separation of these three device types while still allowing traffic between them via ACL?
te three VLANs on the switch connected to a router
After correctly configuring a new wireless enabled thermostat to control the temperature of the company's meeting room, Joe, a network administrator determines that the thermostat is not connecting to the internet-based control system. Joe verifies that the thermostat received the expected network parameters and it is associated with the AP. Additionally, the other wireless mobile devices connected to the same wireless network are functioning properly. The network administrator verified that the thermostat works when tested at his residence. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the thermostat is not connecting to the internet?
the WPA2 shared likely is incorrect
Access mechanisms to data on encrypted USB hard drives must be implemented correctly otherwise:
the security controls on the USB drive can be bypassed.
A system administrator is responding to a legal order to turn over all logs from all company servers. The system administrator records the system time of all servers to ensure that:
time offset can be calculated.
A network technician has received comments from several users that cannot reach a particular website. Which of the following commands would provide the BEST information about the path taken across the network to this website?
tracert
