chapter 2
What is another name for footprinting?
Active reconnaissance
What are the primary features of a security information event management (SIEM) tool?
Aggregation, correlation, event deduplication, time synchronization, and alerting
What is the primary goal of penetration testing?
Attempt to uncover deep vulnerabilities and then manually exploit them
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a penetration test?
Automated
What penetration testing level name is given to testers who have no knowledge of the network and no special privileges?
Black box
Which penetration testing consultants are not given any knowledge of the network nor any elevated privileges?
Black box
Dillip is assigned the role of a SOC developer who must build different teams under the SOC. He must build a new team that will put security defenses in place to prevent another team from penetrating the network. Which team should he build to monitor the other team's attacks and shore up security defenses as necessary?
Blue team
Which group is responsible for the Cloud Controls Matrix?
CSA
Which of the following is a catalog used by vulnerability scanning software to identify vulnerabilities?
CVE
Kile is assigned a role as a grey box penetration tester in the financial sector. He has to conduct a pen testing attack on all the application servers in the network. Which of the following tasks should he perform first while conducting a penetration testing attack on a network?
Footprinting
Which ISO contains controls for managing and controlling risk?
ISO 31000
Which of the following is not something that a SIEM can perform?
Incident response
How can a configuration review reduce the impact of a vulnerability scan on the network's overall performance?
It ensures the scan is designed to meet its intended goals by defining scope and sensitivity levels.
When researching how an attack recently took place, Nova discovered that the threat actor, after penetrating the system, started looking to move through the network with their elevated position. What is the name of this technique?
Lateral movement
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of crowdsourced penetration testing?
Less expensive
Keily is a vulnerability assessment engineer. She is told to find surface vulnerabilities on all internet-facing web servers in the network. Which of the following are surface vulnerabilities that she should initially chase?
Missing patches, lack of OS hardening, network design flaw, lack of application hardening, weak passwords, and misconfigurations
What is the fastest-running vulnerability scan, and why does this type of scan run so fast?
Non-credentialed scans perform fundamental actions such as looking for open ports and finding software that will respond to requests.
Which of the following is a standard for the handling of customer card information?
PCI DSS
Which of the following compliance standards was introduced to provide a minimum degree of security to organizations who handle customer information such as debit card and credit card details daily?
PCIDSS
Ebba has received a new initiative for her security team to perform an in-house penetration test. What is the first step that Ebba should undertake?
Planning
Khalid joins a security team where he is assigned an SOC developer role and has to build different teams under SOC. Which of the following teams should he build to deal with providing real-time feedback related to security incidents and threat detections, which can then be utilized to facilitate better prioritization of threats and a mature way of detecting threats?
Purple team
Linnea has requested to be placed on the penetration testing team that scans for vulnerabilities to exploit them. Which team does she want to be placed on?
Red Team
Which of the following are developed by established professional organizations or government agencies using the expertise of seasoned security professionals?
Regulations
Which is the final rule of engagement that would be conducted in a pen test?
Reporting
What are documents that are authored by technology bodies employing specialists, engineers, and scientists who are experts in those areas?
Requests for comments (RFCs)
While examining the results of a vulnerability scan, you are asked to tackle false positives and false negatives to ensure the accuracy of the result. Which of the following actions will you take?
Review logs
Which of the following technologies can be used together for data management in security infrastructure and collecting and analyzing data.
SIEM and SOAR
Which of the following can automate an incident response?
SOAR
Tuva's supervisor wants to share a recent audit outside the organization. Tuva warns him that this type of audit can only be read by those within the organization. What audit does Tuva's supervisor want to distribute?
SSAE SOC 2 Type II
Tilde is working on a contract with the external penetration testing consultants. She does not want any executives to receive spear-phishing emails. Which rule of engagement would cover this limitation?
Scope
Lykke's supervisor is evaluating whether to use internal security employees to conduct a penetration test. Lykke does not consider this a good idea and has created a memo with several reasons they should not be used. Which of the following would NOT be part of that memo?
They would have to stay overnight to perform the test.
Which premise is the foundation of threat hunting?
Threat actors have already infiltrated our network.
Which operation is carried out by proactively searching security logs for cyber threats that have thus far gone undetected.
Threat hunting
Which of the following is NOT a general information source that can provide valuable in-depth information on cybersecurity?
Which of the following is the most efficient means of discovering wireless signals?
War flying
