Security+ Study Guide

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 2)

1.) Software code private key 2.) OCSP

A security admin is given the security and availability profiles for servers that are being deployed. Match each RAID type with the correct config and MINIMUM number of drives. RAID-0

1.) Stripe Data 2.) Stripe Data Server: Media streaming server

Joe, an employee, wants to show his colleagues how much he knows about smartphones. Joe demonstrates a free movie application that he installed from a third party on his corporate smartphone. Joe's colleagues were unable to find the application in the app stores. Which of the following allowed Joe to install the application (Select 2) ?

1.) Rooting/jailbreaking 2.)Sideloading

Which of the following use the SSH protocol (select 2)?

1.) SCP 2.) SFTP

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)

1.) SCP 2.) FTPS

A security admin is given the security and availability profiles for servers that are being deployed. Match each RAID type with the correct config and MINIMUM number of drives. RAID-5

1.) Stripe data 2.) Stripe data 3.) Stripe Data Server: Email archive

A security admin is given the security and availability profiles for servers that are being deployed. Match each RAID type with the correct config and MINIMUM number of drives. RAID-6

1.) Stripe data 2.) stripe data 3.) stripe data 4.) stripe data Server: Identity Management server

When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on memory volatility (select 2)?

1.) Swap/pagefile 2.) RAM

A manager wants to distribute a report to several other manager within the company. Some of the reside in remote locations that are not connected to the domain but have a local server. Because there is sensitive data within the report and the size of the report is beyond the limit of the email attachment size, emailing the report is not an option. Which of the following protocols should be implemented to distribute the report securely (select 3) ?

1.) SSH 2.) FTPS 3.) HTTPS

Which of the following technologies employ the use of SAML (select 2)?

1.) Single sign on 2.) Federation

Security Controls: Data Center (2)

1.) Smart Card Reader 2.) Pin Pad

Which of the following metrics are used to calculate the SLE? (Select TWO)

ARO ALE

When configuring settings in mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

Administrator

A technician is investigating a potentially compromised device with the following symptoms: Browser slowness Frequent browser crashes Hourglass stuck New search toolbar Increased memory consumption Which of the following types of malware has infected the system?

Adware

A development team has adopted a new approach to projects in which feedback is iterative and multiple iterations of deployments are provided within an application's full life cycle. Which of the following software development methodologies is the development team using?

Agile

When sending messages using symmetric encryption, which of the following must happen FIRST?

Agree on an encryption method

A software developer is concerned about DLL hijacking in an application being written. Which of the following is the MOST viable mitigation measure of this type of attack?

All calls to different DLLs should be hard-coded in the application

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 remote intruder wants to take inventory of a network so exploits can be researched. The intruder is looking for information about software versions on the network. Which of the following techniques is the intruder using?

Banner grabbing

A company has a data classification system with definitions for Private and Public. The company's security policy outlines how data should be protected based on type. The company recently added the data type Proprietary. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the company added the data type?

Better data classification

Authentication type: Retina scan

Biometric

An auditor has identified an access control system that can incorrectly accept an access attempt from an unauthorized user. Which of the following authentication systems has the auditor reviewed?

Biometric-based

Which of the following implements two-factor authorization?

An ATM requiring a credit card and PIN

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 made this attack successful?

Authority

A vulnerability scanner that uses its running services access level to better assess vulnerabilities across multiple assets within an organization is performing a:

Credential scan

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?

Credentialed scan

A web application is configured to target browsers and allow access to bank accounts to siphon money to a foreign account. This sis an example of which of the following attacks?

Cross-site scripting

A company wants to host a publicly available server that performs the following functions: Evaluates MX record lookup Can perform authenticated requests for A and AAA records Uses RRSIG Which of the following should the company use to fulfill the above requirements?

DNSSEC

A technician is configuring a wireless guest network. After applying 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 technicians MOST likely implement to cause this Scenario?

Deactivation of SSID broadcast

A home invasion occurred recently in which an intruder compromised a home network and accessed a WiFI- enabled baby monitor while the baby's parents were sleeping. Which of the following BEST describes how the intruder accessed the monitor?

Default configuration

Which of the following is the BEST explanation of why control diversity is important in a defense in depth architecture?

Defense in depth relies on control diversity to provide multiple levels of network hierarchy that allow user domain segmentation

A systems administrator is deploying a new mission essential server into a virtual environment. Which of the following is BEST mitigated by the environment's rapid elasticity characteristic?

Denial of service

In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the CIO has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the varriable capacity demand. Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?

Elasticity

Which of the following components of printers and MFDs are MOST likely to be used as vectors of compromise if they are improperly configured?

Embedded web server

Upon entering an incorrect password, the logon screen displays a message informing the user that the password does not match the username provided and is not the required length of 12 characters. Which of the following secure coding techniques should a security analyst address with the application developers to follow security best practices?

Error handling

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

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

A new security administrator ran a vulnerability scanner for the first time and caused a system outage. Which of the following types of scans MOST likely caused the outage?

Intrusive non-credentialed scan

Every morning, a systems administrator monitors failed login attempts on the company's log management server. The administrator notices the DBAdmin account has five failed username and/or password alerts during a ten-minute window. The systems administrator determines the user account is a dummy account used to attract attackers. Which of the following techniques should the systems administrator implement?

Honeypot

A security admin has been assigned to review the security posture of the standard corporate system image for VMs. The security admin conducts a through review of the system logs, installation procedures, and network config of the VM image. Upon reviewing the access logs the user accounts, the security admin determines that several accounts will not be used in production. Which of the following would correct the deficiencies?

Host hardening

A botnet has hit a popular website with a massive number of GRE-encapsulated packets to perform a DDoS attack. News outlets discover a certain type of refrigerator was exploited and used to send outbound packets to the website that crashed. To which of the following categories does the refrigerator belong?

IoT (Internet of Things)

Which of the following precautions MINIMIZES the risk from network attacks directed at multifunction printers, as well as the impact on functionality at the same time?

Isolating systems using VLANs

A security admin is trying to encrypt communication. For which of the follwoing reasons shoudl teh admin take advantage of teh Subject Alternative Name (SAM) attribute of a certificate?

It provides extended site validation

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

A security analyst receives an alert from a WAF with the following payload: var data= "<test test test>" ++ <../../../../../../etc.password>" Which of the following types of attacks is this?

JavaScript data insertion

A systems administrator is configuring a system that uses data classification labels. Which of the following will the administrator need to implement to enforce access control?

Mandatory access control

An audit reported has identifies a weakness that could allow unauthorized personnel access to the facility at its main entrance and from there gain access to the network. Which of the following would BEST resolve the vulnerability?

Mantrap

Refer to the following code: public class rainbow { public static void main (String [ ] args) { object blue = null ; blue.hashcode ( ) ; } Which of the following vulnerabilities would occur if this is executed?

Missing null check

A company is performing an analysis of the corporate enterprise network with the intent of identifying what will cause losses in revenue, referrals, and/or reputation when out of commission. Which of the following is an element of a BIA that is being addressed?

Mission-essential function

A CIO drafts an agreement between the organization and its employees. The agreement outlines ramifications for releasing information without consent and/or approvals. Which of the following BEST describes this type of agreement?

NDA

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

A penetration tester has written an application that performs a bit-by-bit XOR 0xFF operation on binaries prior to transmission over untrusted media. Which of the following BEST describes the action performed by this type of application?

Obfusication

A company wants to ensure that the validity of publicly trusted certs used by its web server can be determined even during an extended internet outage. Which of the following should be implemented?

Ocsp

A department head at a university resigned on the first day of the spring semester. It was subsequently determined that the department deleted numerous files and directories from the server-based home directory while the campus was closed. Which of the following policies or procedures could have prevented this from occurring?

Offboarding

After a recent internal breach, a company decided to regenerate and reissue all certificates used in the transmission of confidential information. The company places the greatest importance on confidentiality and non-repudiation, and decided to generate dual key pairs for each client. Which of the following BEST describes how the company will use these certificates?

One key pair will be used for encryption and decryption. The other will be used to digitally sign the data.

A systems administrator wants to provide balance between the security of a wireless network and usability. The administrator is concerned with wireless encryption compatibility of older devices used by some employees. Which of the following would provide strong security and backward compatibility when accessing the wireless network?

Open wireless network and SSL VPN

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

An incident response manager has started to gather all the facts related to a SIEM alert showing multiple systems may have been compromised. The manager has gathered these facts: The breach is currently indicated on six user PCs One service account is potentially compromised Executive management has been notified In which of the following phases of the IRP is the manager currently working?

Identification

Which of the following is the proper order for logging a user into a system from the first step to the last step?

Identification, authentication, authorization

A computer emergency response team is called at midnight to investigate a case in which a mail server was restarted. After an initial investigation, it was discovered that email is being exfiltrated through an active connection. Which of the following is the NEXT step the team should take?

Identify the source of the active connection

A help desk technician receives a phone call from an individual claiming to be an employee of the organization and requesting assistance to access a locked account. The help desk technician asks the individual to provide proof of identity before access can be granted. Which of the following types of attack is the caller performing?

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 chekcs the company's list of approved maintenance personnel prior to granting physical access to the secure area. The controls used by the receptionist are in place to prevent which of the following attacks?

Impersonation

The security admin 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 the risk of disclosing sensitive data?

Implement DLP solution on the email gateway to scan email and remove sensitive data files

An organization finds that most help desk calls are regarding account lockout due to a variety of applications running on different systems. Management is looking for a solution to reduce the number of account lockouts while improving security. Which of the following is the BEST solution for this organization?

Implement SSO

Ann is the IS manager for several new systems in which the classification of the systems' data are being decided. She is trying to determine the sensitivity level of the data being processed. Which of the following people should she consult to determine the data classification?

Owner

Authentication type: PIN Number

PAP authentication

Authentication type: password

PAP authentication

A security engineer is configuring a wireless network that must support authentication of the wireless client and authentication server before users provide credentials. The wireless network must also support authentication with usernames and passwords. Which of the following authentication protocols MUST the security engineer select?

PEAP

An analyst wants to implement a more secure wireless authentication for office access points. Which of the following technologies allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS?

PEAP

A security engineer is configuring a system that requires the X.509 certificate information to be pasted in a form field in Base64 encoded format to import it into the system. Which of the following certificate formats should the engineer use to obtain the information in the required format?

PEM (Privacy-enhanced electronic mail)

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 nonrepudiation. Which of the following implements all these requirements?

PGP

An office manager found a folder that included documents with various types of data relating to corporate clients. The office manager notified the data included dates of birth, addresses, and phone numbers for the clients. The office manager then reported this finding to the security compliance officer. Which of the following portions of the policy would the security officer need to consult to determine if a breach has occurred?

PII

Which of the following would provide additional security by adding another factor to a smart card?

PIN

AN in-house penetration test is using a packet capture device to listen in on network communications. This is an example of:

Passive reconnaissance

A security analyst is attempting to identify vulnerabilities in a customer's web application without impacting the system or its data. Which of the following BEST describes the vulnerability scanning concept performed?

Passive scan

Which of the following should a security analyst perform FIRST to determine the vulnerabilities of a legacy system?

Passive scan

An admin discovers the follwoing log entry on a server: Nov 12 2013 00:23:45 httpd[2342]: GET /app2/prod Which of the following attacks is being attempted?

Password attack

A security analyst is invenstigating a suspected security breah and discovers the following in the logs of the potentially compromised server: Login Failed several times then successful Which of the following would be the BEST method for preventing this type of suspected attack in the future?

Implement account lockout settings

A security administrator learns that PII, which was gathered by the organization, has been found in an open forum. As a result, several C-level executives found their identities were compromised, and they were victims of a recent whaling attack. Which of the following would prevent these problems in the future? (Select TWO).

Implement an email DLP. Implement a spam filter.

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.

Implement deduplication on the storage array to reduce the amount of drive space needed

An audit takes place after company-wide restricting, which several employees changed roles. the following deficiencies are found during the audit regarding access to confidential data: EMPLOYEE JOB FUNCT. AUDIT FINDING John Sales Manager (Fired) Active account Which of the following would be BEST method to prevent similar audit findings in the future?

Implement separation of duties for the payroll department

A security analyst is securing smartphones and laptops for a highly mobile workforce. Priorities include: Remote wipe capabilities Geolocation services Patch management and reporting Mandatory screen locks Ability to require passcodes and pins Ability to require encryption Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

Implementing MDM software

Which of the following would MOST likely appear in an uncredentialed vulnerability scan?

Inactive local accounts

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?

Increase humidity in the room

A security engineer must install the same x.509 certificate on three different servers. The client application that connects to the server performs a check to ensure the certificate matches the host name. Which of the following should the security engineer use?

Certificate utilizing the SAN file

Which of the following must be intact for evidence to be admissible in court?

Chain of custody

An organization is comparing and contrasting migration from its standard desktop config to the newest version of the platform. Before this can happen, the CISO voices the need to evaluate the functionality of the newest desktop platform to ensure interoperability with existing software in use by the organization. In which of the following principles of architecture and design is the CISO engaging?

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 systems admin has finished configuring firewall ACL to allow access to a new web server: PERMIT TCP from: ANY to: 192.168.1.10:80 PERMIT TCP from: ANY to: 192.168.1.10:443 DENY TCP from: ANY to: ANY The security admin confirms from the following packet capture that there is a network traffic from the Internet to the web server: TCP _____ The company's internal auditor issues a security finding and requests that immediate action be taken. With which of the following is the auditor MOST concerned?

Clear text credentials

An organization's internal auditor discovers that large sums of money have recently been paid to a vendor that management does not recognize. The IT security department is asked to investigate the organizations ERP system to determine how the accounts payable module has been used to make these vendor payments. The IT security department finds the following security config for the accounts payable module: New Vendor Entry - Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk New Vendor Approval - Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk Vendor Payment Entry - Required Role: Accounts Payable Clerk Vendor Payment Approval: Required Role: Accounts Payable Manager Which of the following changes to the security config of the accounts payable module would BEST mitigate the risk?

Clerk Manager Clerk Manager

A stock trading company had the budget for enhancing its secondary datacenter approved. Since the main site is a hurricane-affected area and the disaster recovery site is 100 mi (161 km) away, the company wants to ensure its business is always operational with the least amount of man hours needed. Which of the following types of disaster recovery sites should the company implement?

Cloud-based site

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

A group of non-profit agencies wants to implement a cloud service to share resources with each other and minimize cost. Which of the following cloud deplymnet models BEST describes this type of effort?

Community

Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company's proprietary information to gain a market edge and reduce time to market?

Competitor

Company policy requires the use if passphrases instead of 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 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?

Conduct security awareness training

A network administrator needs to allocate a new network for the R&D group. The network must not be accessible from the Internet regardless of the network firewall or other external misconfigurations. Which of the following settings should the network administrator implement to accomplish this?

Configure the OS default TTL to 1

A new intern in the purchasing dept 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?

Create a new group that has only read permissions for the files

A security manager is creating an account management policy for a global organization with sales personnel who must access corporate network resources while traveling all over the world. Which of the following practices is the security manager MOST likely to enforce with the policy? (Select TWO)

Password complexity Group-based access control

A hacker has a packet capture that contains: Which of the following tools will the hacker use against this type of capture?

Password cracker

A company's AUP requires: -passwords must meet complexity requirements -passwords are changed at least once every six months -passwords must be at least eight characters long An auditor is reviewing the following report: USERNAME LAST LOGIN LAST CHANGED Carol 2 hours 90 days David 2 hours 30 days Ann 1 hour 247 days Joe 0.5 hours 7 days Which of the following controls should the auditor recommend to enforce the AUP?

Password expiration

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) recently saw on the news that a significant security flaws exists with a specific version of a technology the company uses to support many critical application. The CIO wants to know if this reported vulnerability exists in the organization and, if so, to what extent the company could be harmed. Which of the following would BEST provide the needed information?

Penetration test

A security program manager wants to actively test the security posture of a system. The system is not yet in production and has no up time requirement or active user base. Which of the following methods will produce a report which shows vulnerabilities that were actually exploited?

Penetration testing

A portable data storage device has been determine 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

Email sent to multiple users to a link to verify username/password on external site

Phishing

Which of the following security controls does an iris scanner provide?

Physical

A technician suspects that a system has been compromised. The technician reviews the following log entry: Warning:-hash mismatch C:\_______\user32.dll Warning:-hash mismatch C:\_______\kernel32.dll Based solely on the above info, which of the following types of malware is MOST likely installed on the system?

Rootkit

An analyst receives an alert from the SIEM showing an IP address that does not belong to the assigned network can be seen sending packets to the wrong gateway. Which of the following network devices is misconfigured and which of the following should be done to remediate the issue?

Router; place the correct subnet on the interface

A security analyst has been asked to perform a review of an organizations software development lifecycle. The analyst reports that the lifecycle does not contain a phase in which team members valuate provide critical feedback of another developers code. Which of the following assessment techniques is BEST described in the analyst's report?

Peer review

Which of the following should be used to implement voice encryption?

SRTP

A manager suspects that an IT employee with elevated database access may be knowingly modifying financial transactions for the benefit of a competitor. Which of the following practices should the manager implement to validate the concern?

Separation of duties

To help prevent one job role from having sufficient access to create, modify, and approve payroll data, which of the following practices should be employed?

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

Audit logs from a small company's vulnerability scanning software show the following findings: Destination scanned: -Server001 Validated vulenerabilties: -Server001 Assuming external attackers who are gaining unauthorized info are of the highest concern, which of the following servers should be addressed FIRST?

Server101

A systems administrator is attempting to recover from a catastrophic failure in the datacenter. To recover the domain controller, the systems administrator needs to provide the domain administrator credentials. Which of the following account types is the systems administrator using?

Service account

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 computer on a network was infected with a zero-day exploit after an employee accidentally opened an email that contained malicious content. The employee recognized the email as malicious and was attempting to delete it, but accidentally opened it. Which of the following should be done to prevent this scenario from occurring again in the future?

Set the email program default to open messages in plan text

A company wants to ensure confidential data from storage media is sanitized in such a way that the drive cannot be reused. Which of the following method should the technician use?

Shredding

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

An organization's employees currently use three different sets of credentials to access multiple internal resources. Management wants to make this process less complex. Which of the following would be the BEST option to meet this goal?

Single sign-on

A friend asks you questions of a personal nature which could be considered typical password reset questions

Social Engineering

Phishing emails frequently take advantage of high profile catasophre reported in the news. Which of the following principles BEST describes the weakness being exploited?

Social proof

Which of the following authentication concepts is a gait analysis MOST closely associated?

Something you do

An employee requires that employees use a key-generating app on their smartphones to log into corporate applications. In terms of authentication of an individual, this type of access policy is BEST defined as:

Something you have

An employees receives an email, which appears to be from the CEO asking for a report of security credentials for all users. Which of the following types of attack is MOST likely occurring?

Spear phishing

You're on a social media website and an instant message pops up from a fried with a link to a new breakthrough diet

Spim

An external attacker can modify the ARP cache of an internal computer. Which of the following types of attacks is described?

Spoofing

A security technician would like to obscure sensitive data within a file so that it can be transferred without causing suspicion. Which of the following technologies would BEST be suited to accomplish this?

Steganography

A recent internal audit is forcing a company to review each internal business unit's VMs because the cluster they are installed on is in danger of running out of computer resources. Which of the following vulnerabilities exist?

System sprawl

An organization is expanding its network team. Currently, it has local accounts on all network devices, but with growth, it wants to move to centrally managed authentication. Which of the following are the BEST solutions for the organization? (Select TWO)

TACACS+ RADIUS

Joe, a security admin, needs to extend the organizations remote access functionality to be used by staff while traveling. Joe needs to maintain separate access control functionalities for internal, external, and VOIP services. Which of the following represents the BEST access technology for Joe to use?

TACAS+

Port 69

TFTP

An organization wishes to provide better security for its name resolution services. Which of the following technologies BEST supports the deployment of DNSSEC at the organization?

TLS

A security team wants to establish an IR plan. The team has never experienced an incident. Which of the following would BEST help them establish plans and procedures?

Table top exercises

A director of IR is reviewing a report regarding several recent breaches. The director comiles the following statistic's: -initial IR engagement time fram -length of time before an executive management notice went out -average IR phase completion The director wants to use the data to shorten the response time. Which of the following would accomplish this?

Tabletop exercise

Systems administrator and key support staff come together to simulate a hypothetical interruption of service. The team updates the disaster recovery processes and documentation after meeting. Which of the following describes the team's efforts?

Tabletop exercise

A security auditor is testing perimeter security in a building that is protected by badge readers. Which of the following types of attacks would MOST likely gain access?

Tailgating

Which of the following is the greatest risk to a company by allowing employees to physically bring their personal smartphones to work?

Taking pictures of proprietary info and equipment in restricted areas

Port 23

Telnet

A company determines that is prohibitively expensive to become compliant with new credit card regulations. Instead the company decides to purchase insurance to cover the cost of any potential loss. Which of the following is the company doing?

Transferring the risk

A supervisor in your org 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 admin reported that log files indicated that several records were missing from the database. Which of the following risk mitigation strategies should have been implemented when the supervisor was demoted?

Routine auditing

An admin is configuring access to info located on a network file server neamed Bowman. The files are located in a folder named BalkFiles. The files are only for use by the Matthews divisions and should be read only. The security policy requires permissions for shares to be managed at the file system layer and also requires those permissions to be set according to a least privilege model. Security policy for this data type also dictate that admin level accounts on the system have full access to the files. The admin configures the file shre according to the following: 1. Share permissions: everyone full control File system permissions: bowman users/modify/inherit domain\Matthews/read/not inherit bowman\system/full control/inherit bowman\admin/full control/not inherit Which of the following rows has been misconfigured?

Row 4

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 http-https

Confidential emails from an organization were posted to a website without the organization's knowledge. Upon investigation, it was determined that the emails were obtained from an internal actor who sniffed the emails in plain text. Which of the following protocols, if properly implemented, would have MOST likely prevented the emails from being sniffed? (Select TWO)

S/MIME SMTPS

An organization's primary data center is experiencing a two-day long outage due to an HVAC malfunction. The node located in the datacenter has lost power and is no longer operational impacting the ability of all users to connect to the alternate datacenter. Which of the following concepts BEST represents the risk described in this scenario?

SPoF

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

User from two organizations, each with its own PKI, need to begin working together on a joint project. Which of the following would allow the users of the separate PKIs to work together without connection errors?

Trust model

An organization has implemented an IPSec VPN access for remote users. Which of the following IPSec modes would be the MOST secure for this organization to implement?

Tunnel mode

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

Before an infection was detected, several of the infected devices attempted to access a URL that was similar to the company but with two letters transposed. Which of the following BEST describes the attack vector used to infect the devices?

Typo squatting

A systems admin is attempting to recover from a catastrophic failure in the datacenter. To recover the domain controller, the systems admin needs to provide the domain admin credentials. Which of the following account types is the sys admin using?

User account

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

Which of the following can be provided to an AAA system for the identification phase?

Username

Authentication type: smart card

multi-factor

A number of employees report that parts of an ERP application are not working. The systems administrator reviews the following information from one of the employee workstations: Execute permission denied: financemodule.dll Execute permission denied: generalledger.dll Which of the following should the administrator implement to BEST resolve this issue while minimizing risk and attack exposure?

Whitelist the affected libraries

An auditor wants to test the security posture of an organization by running a tool that will display the following: JIMS <00> UNIQUE Registered WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered JIMS <00> UNIQUE Registered Which of the following commands should be used?

nbtstat

A system admin want to provide for an enforce wireless access accountability during events where external speakers are invited to make presentations to a mixed audience of employees and non-employees. Which of the following should the admin implement?

sponsored guest

Which of the following attack types BEST describes a client-side attack that is used to manipulate an HTML iframe with JavaScript code via a web browser?

XSS

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

Joe, the security admin, sees this in a vulnerability scan report: The server 10.1.2.232 is running Apache 2.2.20 which may be vulnerable to a mod_cgi exploit Joe verifies that the mod_cgi module is not enabled on 10.1.2.232. This message is an example of:

a false positive

A security analyst is attempting to break into a client's secure network. The analyst was not given prior information about the client, except for a block of public IP addresses that are currently in use. After network enumeration, the analyst's NEXT step is to perform:

a gray-box penetration test.

An active/passive configuration has an impact on:

availability

Authentication type: fingerprint scan

biometric

Employee laptop security control:

biometric reader

Unsupervised lab with laptops security control:

cable locks

An organization wants to upgrade its enterprise-wide desktop computer solution. The organization currently has 500 PCs active on the network. the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) suggests that the organization employ desktop imaging technology for such a large scale upgrade. Which of the following is a security benefit of implementing an imaging solution?

it provides a consistent baseline

Which of the following describes the key difference between vishing and phishing attacks?

Vishing attacks are accomplished using telephony services.

A security admin 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 admin been tasked to perform?

Vulnerability assessment

Which of the following would verify that a threat does exist and security controls can easily be bypassed without actively testing an application?

Vulnerability scan

A security analyst is reviewing an assessment report that includes software versions, running services, supported encryption algorithms, and permission settings. Which of the following produced the report?

Vulnerability scanner

A company hires a consulting firm to crawl it Active Directory network with a non-domain account looking for unpatched systems. Actively taking control of systems is out of scope as is the creation of new admin accounts. For which of the following is the company hiring the consulting firm?

Vulnerability scanning

An admin is replacing a wireless router. The config of the old wireless router was not documented before it stopped functioning. The equipment connecting to the wireless network uses older legacy equipment that was manufactured prior to the release of the 802.11i standard. Which of the following config options should the admin select for the new wireless router?

WPA+TKIP

A system admin wants to provide a load balance between the security of a wireless network and usability. The admin is concerned with wireless encryption compatibility of older devices used by some employees. Which of the following would provide strong security and backward compatibility when accessing the wireless network?

WPA2 using a RADIUS back-end for 802.1x authentication

A network admin at a small office want to simplify the config of mobile clients connecting to an encrypted wireless network. Which of the following should be implemented if the admin doe snot want to proivde the wireless password or the certificate to the employees?

WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup)

A security guard has informed the CISO 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

The CFO has asked the 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 organization can improve its authorization controls. Given the request by the CFO, which of the following controls would the CISO focus on in the report (select 3)

1.) Role based permissions 2.) Separation of duties 3.) Least privilege

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) asks the company's security specialist if the company should spend any funds on malware protection for a specific server. Based on a risk assessment, the ARO value of a malware infection for a server is 5 and the annual cost for the malware protection is $2500. Which of the following SLE values warrants a recommendation against purchasing the malware protection?

$500

Which of the following characteristics differentiate a rainbow table attack from a brute force attack (select 2)

1.) Rainbow tables must include precomputed hashes 2.) Rainbow table attacks bypass maximum failed login restrictions

A security analyst is performing a quantitative risk analysis. The RA should show the potential monetary loss each time a threat or event occurs. Given this requirement, which of the following concepts would assist the analyst in determing this value (select 2)

1.) AV 2.) EF

A company's user lockout policy is enabled after five unsuccessful login attempts. The help desk notices a user is repeatedly locked out over the course of a workweek. Upon contacting the user, the help desk discovers the user is on vacation and does not have network access. Which of the following types of attacks are MOST likely occurring (select 2) ?

1.) Brute force 2.) Dictionary

Which of the following AES modes of operation provide authentication (select 2)

1.) CCM 2.) GCM

Data Center security controls (5) :

1.) CCTV 2.) Proximity Badge 3.) Man Trap 4.) Locking Cables 5.) Biometric Reader

Preserve in this order (4.):

1.) CPU ccache 2.) RAM 3.) Swap 4.) Hard drive

Data Center Terminal Server controls:

1.) Cable locks 2.) Antivirus 3.) Host-based Firewall 4.) Proximity Reader 5.) Sniffer 6.) Mantrap

After a merger between two companies a security analyst has been asked to ensure that the orgs system are secured against infiltration by an y 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 2)

1.) Develop and implement updated access control policies 2.) assess and eliminate inactive accounts

A security admin is developing controls for creating audit trails and tracking if a PHI data breach is to occur. The admin has been given the following requirements: All access must be correlated to a user account All user accounts must be assigned to a single individual user access to the PHI data must be recorded Anomalies in PHI data access must be reported Logs and records cannot be deleted or modified Which of the following should the admin implement to meet the above requirements (select 3)?

1.) Eliminate shared accounts 2.) Implement usage auditing and review 3.) Perform regular permission audits and reviews

A security analyst is hardening a server with the directory services role installed. The analyst must ensure LDAP traffic cannot be monitored or sniffed and maintains compatibility with LDAP clients. Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements (Select 2)

1.) Generate an X.509-compliant certificate that is signed by a trusted CA 2.) Ensure port 636 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.

A systems admin wants to protect data stored on mobile devices that are used to scan and record assets in a warehouse. The control must automatically destroy the secure container of mobile devices, if they leave the warehouse. WHich of the following should the admin implement (select 2)

1.) Geofencing 2.) Containerization

A security analyst is hardening a web server, which should allow a secure certificate-based session using the organizations PKI infrastructure. The web server should also utilize the latest security techniques and standards. Given this set of requirements, which of the following techniques should the analyst implement to BEST meet these requirements (select 2) ?

1.) Install an X-509 compliant certificate 2.) Enable an configure TLS on the server

A security admin suspects a MITM attack aimed at impersonating the default gateway is underway. Which of the following tools should the admin use to detect this attack (select 2)

1.) Ipconfig 2.) Tracert

Security Controls: PII Processing Office (3)

1.) Iris Scanner 2.) Smart Car reader 3.) Pin Pad

Security Controls: CEOs Office (3.)

1.) Iris Scanner 2.) Smart Card reader 3.) pin pad

Which of the following methods to implement HA in a web application server environment (select 2)?

1.) Load balancers 2.) Application layer firewalls

A security admin is given the security and availability profiles for servers that are being deployed. Match each RAID type with the correct config and MINIMUM number of drives. RAID-1

1.) Mirror Data 2.) Mirror Data Server: authentication server

A company is currently using the following configuration: IAS server with certifcate-based EAP-PEAP and MSCHAP Unencrypted authentication via PAP A security admin needs to configure a new wireless setup with the following configurations: PAP authentication method PEAP and EAP provide two-factor authentication Which of the following forms of authentication are being used (select two)?

1.) PAP 2.) MSCHAP

Security Controls: Public Cafe (1)

1.) Pre-share key

Security Controls: Help Desk (1)

1.) Proximity badge

A company has three divisions, each with its own networks and services. The company decides to make its secure web portal accessible to all employees utilizing their existing usernames and passwords. The security admin has elected to use SAML to support authentication. In this scenario, which of the following will occur when users try to authenticate to the portal (select 2):

1.) The portal will request an authentication ticket from each network that is transitively trusted. 2.) The back-ends network will function as an identity provider an issue an authentication assertion

A security analyst is reviewing the following output from an IPS: [**] [1:2467:7] EXPLOIT IGMMP IGAP message overflow attempt [**] [Classification:Attempted Administrator Privilege Gain] [Priority:1] IGMP TTL: 255 TOS: OxO ID: 9742 EpLen:20 DgmLen: 502 MF Frag offset: 0x1FFF Frag Size: 0x01E2 [Xref -> http://cvv......] Given this output, which of the following can be concluded (select two):

1.) The source IP of the attack is coming from 250.19.18.71 2.) The attacker sent a malformed IGAP packet, triggering the alert

Which of the following are the MAIN reasons why a systems admin would install security patches in a staging environment before the patches are applied to the production server (select two):

1.) To prevent server availability 2.) To allow users to test functionality

When considering a third-party cloud service provider, which of the following criteria would be the BEST to include in the security assessment process (select 2)?

1.) adherence to regulatory compliance 2.) data retention policies

A security analyst is testing both Windows and Linux systems for unauthorized DNS zone transfers within a LAN on comptia.org from example.org. Which of the following commands should the security analyst use (select 2):

1.) nslookup comptia.org set type=ANY ls-d example.org 2.) dig-axfr [email protected]

Despite having implemented password policies, users continue to set the same passwords and reuse old passwords. Which of the following technical controls help prevent these policy violations (select two)?

1.) password complexity 2.) password history

office security controls (2) :

1.) proximity badge 2.) safe

Company managed Smartphone controls:

1.) screen lock 2.) strong password 3.) device encryption 4.) remote wipe 5.) GPS Tracking 6.) Pop-up blocker

Users report the following message appears when browsing to the company's secure site: This website cannot be trusted. Which of the following actions should a security analyst take to resolve these messages (select 2):

1.) verify the certificate has not expired on the server 2.) update the root certificate into the client computer certificate store

A security admin is creating a subnet on one of the coporate firewall interfaces to use as a DMZ which is expected to accomodate at most 14 physical hosts. Which of the following subnets would BEST meet the requirements?

192.168.0.16/28

A database backup schedule consists of weekly full backups performed on Sat. at 12AM and daily differential backups also performed at 12AM. If the database is restored on Tuesday afternoon, which of the following is the number of individual backups that would need to be applied to complete the database recovery?

2

A technician must configure a firewall to block external DNS traffic from entering a network. Which of the following ports should they block on the firewall?

53

A wireless network uses a RADIUS server that is connected to an authenticator, which in turn connects to a supplicant. Which of the following represent the authentication architecture in use?

802.1x

An employee uses RDP to connect back to the office network. If RDP is reconfigured, which of the following security exposures would this lead to?

A man in the middle attack could occur, resulting in the employees username and password being captured

Which of the following differentiates a collision attack from a rainbow table attack?

A rainbow table attack performs a hash lookup

Which of the following scenarios BEST describes an implementation of non-repudiation?

A user sends a digitally signed email to the entire finance department about an upcoming mee

Malicious traffic from an internal network has been detected on an unauthorized port on an application server. Which of the following network-based security controls should the engineer consider implementing?

ACLs

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

When connected to a secure WAP, which of the following encryption technologies is MOST likely to be configured when connecting to WPA2-PSK?

AES

A SO on a military base needs to encrypt several smart phones that will be going into the field. Which of the following encryption solutions should be deployed in this situation?

AES-256

Which of the following is the summary of loss for a given year?

ALE

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) has decided it is not cost effective to implement safeguards against a known vulnerability. Which of the following risk responses does this BEST describe?

Acceptance

During a routine audit, it is discovered that someone has been using a stale admin 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?

Account expiration policy

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 technician is configuring an access management system to track and record user actions. Which of the following functions should the technician configure?

Accounting

A security administrator has configured a RADIUS and a TACACS+ server on the company's network. Network devices will be required to connect to the TACACS+ server for authentication and send accounting information to the RADIUS server. Given the following information: RADIUS IP: 192.168.20.45 TACACS+ IP: 10.23.65.7 Which of the following should be configured on the network clients? (Select two.)

Accounting port: UDP 1813 Authentication port: TCP 49

A new Chief Information Officer (CIO) has been reviewing the badging and decides to write a policy that all employees must have their badges rekeyed at least annually. Which of the following controls BEST describes this policy?

Administrative

Adhering to a layer of security approach, a controlled access facility employs security guards who verify the authorization of all personnel entering the facility. Which of the following terms BEST describes the security control being employed?

Administrative

A company is developing a new secure technology and requires computers being used for development to be isolated. Which of the following should be implemented to provide the MOST secure environment?

An air gapped computer network

A system admin is reviewing the following information from a compromised server. Process DEP Local Address Remote Address LSASS YES 0.0.0.0 10.210.100.62 APACHE NO 0.0.0.0 10.130.210.20 MySQL NO 127.0.01 127.0.0.1 TFTP YES 191.168.1.10 10.34.221.96 Give the above info, which of the following processes was MOST likely exploited via remote buffer overflow attack?

Apache

A security analyst observes the following events in the logs of an employee workstation: 1/23- 1:07:16:16-865-Access to C:\Users has been restricted 1/23-10:07:09-1034-The scan completed. no detection found Given the info provided, which of the following MOST likely occurred on the workstation?

Application whitelisting controls blocked an exploit payload from executing

Which of the following encryption methods does PKI typically use to securely protect keys?

Asymmetric

JOe is exchanging encrypted email with another party. joe encrypts the initial email with a key. When JOe recieves a response, he is unable to decrpty the response with the same key he used initially. Which of the following would explain the situation?

Asymmetric encryption is being used

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

Joe, a user, has been trying to send Ann, a different user, an encrypted document via email. Ann has not received the attachment but is able to receive the header information. Which of the following is MOST likely preventing Ann from receiving the encrypted file?

Authentication issues

Which of the following should identify critical systems and components?

BCP

Ann, an employee in the payroll department, has contacted the help desk citing multiple issues with her device, including: slow performance word docs, PDFs, and images are no longer opening A pop up Ann states the issues began after she opened an invoice that a vendor emailed to her. upon opening the invoice, she had to click several security warnings to view it in her word processor. With which of the following is the device MOST likely infected?

Backdoor

A company has noticed multiple instances of proprietary information on public websites. It has also observed an increase in the number of email messages sent to random employees containing malicious links and PDFs. Which of the following changes should the company make to reduce the risks associated with phishing attacks? (Select TWO)

Block access to personal email on corporate systems Update corporate policy to prohibit access to social media websites

Which of the following attack types is being carried out where a target is being sent unsolicited messages via Bluetooth?

Bluejacking

A senior incident response manager recieves a call about some external IPs communicating with internal computers during off hours. Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely causing this issue?

Botnet

An analyst is reviewing a simple program for potential security vulnerabilities, before being deployed to a Windows server. Given the follwoing code: void foo (char*bar) Which of the following vulnerabilities is present?

Buffer overflow

Two users need to send each other emails over unsecured channels. They system should support the principle of non-repudiation. Which of the following should be used to sign the users certificates?

CA

A security admin 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 when when internet access is unavailable. Which of the following MUST be implement to support this requirement?

CRL

An organization needs to implement a large PKI. Network engineers are concerned that repeated transmission of the OCSP will impact network performance. Which of the follwoing should the security analyst recommend is lieu of an OCSP?

CRL

While troubleshooting a client application connecting to the network, the security administrator notices the following error: Certificate is not valid. Which of the following is the BEST way to check if the digital certificate is valid?

CRL

A security admin receives notice that a third party certificate authority has been compromised and new certs will need to be issued. Which of the following should the admin submit to receive a new cert?

CSR

A company is using a mobile device deployment model in which employees use their personal devices for work at their own discretion. Some of the problems the company is encountering include the following: There is no standardization. Employees ask for reimbursement for their devices. Employees do not replace their devices often enough to keep them running efficiently. The company does not have enough control over the devices. Which of the following is a deployment model that would help the company overcome these problems?

CYOD (Choose Your Own Device)

Which of the following locations contain the MOST volatile data?

Cache memory

Which of the following is the proper way to quantify the total monetary damage resulting from an exploited vulnerability?

Calculate the ALE

A network technician is setting up a segmented network that will utilize a separate ISP to provide wireless access to the public area of a company. Which of the following wireless security methods should the technician implement to provide basic accountability for access to the public network?

Captive portal

An incident responder receives a call from a user who reports a computer is exhibiting symptoms consistent with a malware infection. Which of the following steps would the responder perform NEXT?

Capture and document necessary info to assist in the response

An attacker compromises a public CA and issues unauthorized X.509 certificates for Company.com. In the future, Company.com wants to mitigate the impact of similar incidents. Which of the following would assist Company.com with its goal?

Certificate pinning

A security analyst is hardening a WiFi infrastructure. The primary requirements are the following: The infrastructure must allow staff to authenticate using the most secure method. The infrastructure must allow guests to use an "open" WiFi network that logs valid email addresses before granting access to the Internet. Given these requirements, which of the following statements BEST represents what the analyst should recommend and configure?

Configure a captive portal for guest and WPA2 Enterprise for staff

An organization relies heavily on an application that has high frequency of security updates. At present, the security team only updates the application on the first Monday of each month, even though the security updates are released as often as twice a week. Which of the following would be the BEST method of updating this application?

Configure testing and automate patch management for the application

An admin has concerns regarding the traveling sales team who works primarily from smart phones. Give the sensitive nature of thier work, which of the following would BEST prevent access to the data in case of loss of theft?

Configure the smart phones so that the stored data can be destroyed from a centralized location

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has tasked a security analyst with assessing the security posture of an organization and which internal factors would contribute to a security compromise. The analyst performs a walk-through of the organization and discovers there are multiple instances of unlabeled optical media on office desks. Employees in the vicinity either do not claim ownership or disavow any knowledge concerning who owns the media. Which of the following is the MOST immediate action to be taken? A.

Confiscate the media and dispose of it in a secure manner as per company policy.

A security admin returning from a short vacation receives an account lockout message when attempting to log into the computer. After getting the account unlocked the security admin immediately notices a large amount of emails alters pertaining to several different user accounts being locked out during the past three days. The security admin 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 the machine. Which of the following can be implemented to reduce the likelihood of this attack going undetected?

Continuous monitoring

Which of the following controls allows a security guard to perform a post-incident review?

Corrective

A member of a digital forensics team, Joe arrives at a crime scene and is preparing to collect system data. Before powering off they system, Joe knows that he most collect the most valuable data first. Which of the following is the correct order in which Joe should collect his data?

Cpu cahce, RAM, paging/swap files, remote logging data

To reduce disk consumption, an organization's legal document has recently approved a new policy setting the data retention period for sent email at six months. Which of the following is the BEST way to ensure this goal is met?

Create a daily encrypted backup of the relevant emails

Which of the following attacks specifically impacts data availability?

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

Which of the following is an asymmetric function that generates a new and separate key every time it runs?

DHE

After a routine audit, a company discovers that engineering documents have been leaving the network on a particular port. The company must allow outbound traffic on this port, as it has a legitimate business use. Blocking the port would cause an outage. Which of the following technology controls should the company implement?

DLP

An organization uses SSO authentication for employee access to network resources. When an employee resigns, as per the organization's security policy, the employee sends an email to the help desk for a password reset to access payroll info from the human resources server. Which of the following represents the BEST course of action?

Deny the former employee's request, as a password reset would give the employee access to all network resources

A security engineer is configuring a wireless network with EAP-TLS. Which of the following activities is a requirement for this configuration?

Deploying certificates to endpoint devices

A high-security defense installation recently begun utilizing large guard dogs that bark very loudly and excitedly at the slightest provocation. Which of the following types of controls does this BEST describe?

Deterrent

Having adequate lighting on the outside of a building is an example of which of the following security controls?

Deterrent

A system admin is configuring a siteto site VPN tunnel. Which of the following should be configured on the VPN concentrator during IKE phase?

Diffie-Hellman

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

A security analyst is mitigating a pass-the-hash vulnerability on a Windows infrastructure. Given the requirement, which of the following should the security analyst do to MINIMIZE the risk?

Disable NTLM

The SSID broadcast for a wireless router has been disabled but a network administrator notices that unauthorized users are accessing the wireless network. The administer 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

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

An organization has hired a penetration tester to test the security of its ten web servers. The penetration tester is able to gain root/admin access in several servers by exploiting vulnerabilities associated with the implementation of SMTP, POP, DNS, Telnet, and IMAP. Which of the following recommendations should the penetration tester provide to the organization to better their web servers in the future?

Disable unnecessary services

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?

Discretionary access control

A security administrator is diagnosing a server where the CPU utilization is at 100% for 24 hours. The main culprit of CPU utilization is the antivirus program. Which of the following issue could occur if left unresolved? (Select TWO)

DoS attack Resource exhaustion

A security analyst notices anomalous coming from several workstations in the organizations. Upon identifying and containing the issue, which of the following should the security analyst do NEXT?

Document findings and processes in the after action and lessons learned report

A business sector is highly competitive, and safeguarding trade secrets and critical information is paramount. On a seasonal basis, an organization employs temporary hires and contractor personnel to accomplish its mission objectives. The temporary and contract personnel require access to network resources only when on the clock. Which of the following account management practices are the BEST ways to manage these accounts?

Employ an account expiration strategy.

A penetration tester finds that a company's login credentials for the email client were being sent in clear text. Which of the following should be done to provide encrypted logins to the email server?

Enable an SSL certificate for IMAP services

A security admin has been tasked with improving the overall security related to desktop machines on the network. An auditor has recently that several machines with confidential customer info displayed in the screens are left unattended during the course of the day. Which of the following could the security admin implement to reduce the risk associated with the finding?

Enable group policy based on screensaver timeouts

Joe, a user, wants to send Ann, another user, a confidential document electronically. Which of the following should Joe do to ensure the document is protected from eavesdropping?

Encrypt it with Ann's public key

A company hires a third-party firm to conduct an assessment of vulnerabilities exposed to the Internet. The firm informs the company that an exploit exists for an FTP server that had a version installed from eighty years ago. The company has decided to keep the sytem online anyway, as no upgrade exists from the vendor. Which of the following BEST describes the reason why the vulnerability exists?

End-of-life system

A network admin wants to ensure that users do not connect any unauthorized devices to the company network. Each desk needs to connect to a VoIP phone or computer. Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this?

Enforce authentication for network devices

Ann, a security admin, 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

A company stores highly sensitive data files used by the accounting system on a server file share. The accounting system uses a service account named accounting-svc to access the file share. The data is protected will a full disk encryption, and the permissions are set as follows: File system permissions: Users = Read Only Share permission: accounting-svc = Read Only Given the listed protections are in place and unchanged, to which of the following risks is the data still subject?

Exploitation of local console access and removal of data

A security analyst has reviced the following alert snippet from the HIDS appliance: PROTOCOL SIG SRC.PORT DST. PORT TCP XMASSCAN Given the above logs, which of the following is the cause of the attack?

FIN, URG, and PSH flags are set in the packet header

Port 21

FTP

A security administrator has written a script that will automatically upload binary and text-based configuration files onto a remote server using a scheduled task. The configuration files contain sensitive information. Which of the following should the administrator use? (Select TWO)

FTP over a non-standard pot Certificate-based authentication

A company is developing a new system that will unlock a computer automatically when a use an authorized user sits in front of it, and then lock the computer when the user leaves. The user does not have to perform any action for this process to occur. Which of the following technologies provides this capability?

Facial recognition

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

An organization is using a tool to perform a source code review. Which of the following describes the case in which the tool incorrectly identifies the vulnerability?

False positive

A bank uses a wireless network to transmit credit card purchases to a billing system. Which of the following would be MOST appropriate to protect credit card information from being accessed by unauthorized individuals outside of the premises?

Faraday cage

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

Company A has acquired Company B. Company A has different domains spread globally, and typically migrates its acquisitions infrastructure under its own domain infrastructure. Company B, however, cannot be merged into Company A's domain infrastructure. Which of the following methods would allow the two companies to access one another's resources?

Federation

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

Which of the following would meet the requirements for multifactor authentication?

Fingerprint and password

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

After attempting to harden a web server, a security analyst needs to determine if an application remains vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Which of the following would BEST assist the analyst in making this determination?

Fuzzer

A mobile device user is concerned about geographic positioning info being included in messages sent between popular social network platforms. 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 devices capabilities should the user disable to achieve the stated goal?

Geo tagging

An application team is performing a load-balancing test for a critical application during off hours and has requested access to the load balancer to review which servers are up without having the admin on call. The security analyst is hesitant to give the application team full access due to other critical applications running on the load balancer. Which of the following is the BEST solution for security analyst to process the request?

Give the application team read-only access

Which of the following types of penetration test will allow the tester to have access only to password hashes prior to the penetration test?

Gray box

An admin 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?

HMAC

The availability of a system has been labeled as the highest priority. Which of the following should be focused on the MOST to ensure the objective?

HVAC

A user is presented with the following items during a new hire onboarding process: -laptop -secure USB -Hardware OTB token -External high-capacity HDD Which of the following is one component of multifactor authentication?

Hardware OTP token

Which of the following are MOST susceptible to birthday attacks?

Hashed passwords

A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior. Which of the following steps is MOST important in the process of disengagement from this employee?

Have the employee surrender company identification

An org requires users to provide their fingerprints to access an application. To improve security, the application developers intend to implement multifactor authentication. Which of the following should be implemented?

Have users sign their name naturally

Ann, a user, reports she is unable to access an application from her desktop. A security analyst verifies Ann's access and checks the SIEM for any errors. The security analyst reviews the log file from Ann's system and notices the following output: Which of the following is MOST likely preventing Ann from accessing the application from the desktop?

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

Which of the following can affect electrostatic discharge in a network operations center?

Humidity controls

An auditor is reviewing the following output from a password-cracking tool: user1: Password1 user2: Recovery! user3: Alaskan10 user4: 4Private user5: PerForMance2 Which of the following methods did the auditor MOST likely use?

Hybrid

While reviewing the monthly internet usage it is noted that there is a large spike in traffic classifed as unknown and does not appear to be within the bounds of the orgnaizations Acceptable Use Policy. Which of the following tool or technology would work BEST for obtaining more info on this traffic?

IDS logs

After an identified security breach, an analyst is tasked to initiate the IR process. Which of the following is the NEXT step the analyst should take?

Identification

An organizations file server has been virtualized to reduce costs. Which of the following types of backups would be MOST appropriate for the particular file server?

Incremental

When it comes to cloud computing, if one of the requirements for a project is to have the most control over the systems in the cloud, which of the following is a service model that would be BEST suited for this goal?

Infrastructure

A security analyst accesses corporate web pages and iputs random data in the forms. The response recieved includes the type of database used and the SQL commands that the database accepts. WHich of the following should the security analyst use to prevent this vulnerability?

Input validation

An application was recently compromised after some malformed data came in via web form. Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this?

Input validation

Which of the following BEST describes routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed from a string?

Input validation to protect against SQL injection

Which of the following threats has sufficient knowledge to cause the MOST danger to an organization?

Insiders

Several workstations on a network are found to be on OS versions that are vulnerable to a specific attack. Which of the following is considered to be a corrective action to combat this vulnerability?

Install a vendor-supplied patch

A security analyst is hardening an authentication server. One of the primary requirements is to ensure there is mutual authentication and delegation. Given these requirements, which of the following technologies should the analyst recommend and configure?

Kerberos services

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

A systems administrator found a suspicious file in the root of the file system. The file contains URLs, usernames, passwords, and text from other documents being edited on the system. Which of the following types of malware would generate such a file?

Keylogger

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 revisted?

Lessons learned

Following the successful response to a data-leakage incident, the incident team lead facilitates an exercise that focuses on continuous improvement of the organization's incident response capabilities. Which of the following activities has the incident team lead executed?

Lessons learned review

When identifying a company's most valuable assets as part of a BIA, which of the following should be the FIRST priority?

Life

A technician is configuring a load balancer for the application team to accelerate the network performance of their applications. The applications are hosted on multiple servers and must be redundant. Given this scenario, which of the following would be the BEST method of configuring the load balancer?

Locality-based

A security administrator is reviewing the following PowerShell script referenced in the Task Scheduler on a database server: Which of the following did the security administrator discover?

Logic bomb

An information security specialist is reviewing the following output from a Linux server: user@server:$crontab-1 Based on the above info, which of the following types of malware was installed on the server?

Logic bomb

Which of the following works by implementing software on systems but delays execution until a specific set of conditions is met?

Logic bomb

A user has attempted to access data at a higher classification level than that user's account is currently authorized to access. Which of the following access controls models has been applied to the users account?

MAC

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

Which of the following cryptography algorithms will produce a fixed-length, irreversible output?

MD5

Which of the following is the LEAST secure hashing algorithm?

MD5

Which of the following is used to validate the integrity of data?

MD5

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 system regulations have caused 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 requirements?

MDM software

The 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 for?

MTTF

Which of the following refers to the term used to restore a system to its operational state?

MTTR

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

A security administrator is trying to eradicate a worm, which is spreading throughout the organization, using an old remote vulnerability in the SMB protocol. The worm uses Nmap to identify target hosts within the company. The administrator wants to implement a solution that will eradicate the current worm and any future attacks that may be using zero-day vulnerabilities. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements when implemented?

Network-based intrusion prevention system

A software development company needs to share info between two remote servers using encryption to protect it. A programmer suggests developing a new encryption protocol, arguing that using an unknown protocol with secure, existing cryptographic algorithm libraries will provide strong encryption without being susceptible to attacks on other known protocols/ Which of the following summarizes the BEST response to the programmers proposal?

New protocols often introduce unexpected vulnerabilities, even when developed with otherwise secure and tested algorithm libraries

A security analyst conducts a manual scan on a known hardened host that identifies many noncompliant items. Which of the following BEST describe why this has occurred? (Select TWO)

Non-applicable plugins were selected in the scan policy The output of the report contains false positives

Attackers have been using revoked certificates for MITM attacks to steal credentials from employees of Company.com. Which of the following options should Company.com implement to mitigate these attacks?

OCSP stapling

Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a servers certificate?

OID (object identifier)

A business has recently deployed laptops to all sales employees. The laptops will be used primarily from home offices and while traveling and a high amount of wireless mobile use is expected. To protect laptops while connected to untrusted networks, which of the following would be the BEST method for reducing the risk of having the laptops compromised?

OS hardening

A user suspects someone has been accessing a home network without permission by spoofing the MAC address of an authorized system. While attempting to determine if an authorized user is logged into the home network, the user reviews the wireless router, which shows the following table for systems that are currently on the home network. Hostname IP Address MAC MAC Filter DadPC 192.168.1.10 00:1D On MomPC 192.168.1.15 21:13 Off JuniorPC 192.168.2.16 42:A7 On Unknown 192.168.1.18 10:B3 Off Which of the following should be the NEXT step to determine if there is an unauthorized user on the network?

Physically check each of the authorized systems to determine if they are logged onto the network

Joe, a salesman, was assigned to a new project that requires him to travel to a client site. While waiting for a flight, Joe, decides to connect to the airport wireless network without connecting to a VPN, and the sends confidential emails to fellow colleagues. A few days later, the company experiences a data breach. Upon investigation, the company learns Joe's emails were intercepted. Which of the following MOST likely caused the data breach?

Policy violation

Which of the following types of keys is found in a key escrow?

Private

Which of the following types of attacks precedes the installation of a rootkit on a server?

Privilege escalation

Which of the follwoing specifically describes the exploitation of an interactive process to access otherwise restricted areas of the OS?

Privilege escalation

A systems administrator wants to generate a self-signed certificate for an internal website. Which of the following steps should the systems administrator complete prior to installing the certificate on the server?

Provide the private key to the internal CA.

An organization plans to implement multifactor authentication techniques within the enterprise network architecture. Each authentication factor is expected to be a unique control. Which of the following BEST describes the proper employment of multifactor authentication?

Proximity card, fingerprint scanner, PIN

Ann, a customer, is reporting that several important files are missing from her workstation. She recently received communication from an unknown party who is requesting funds to restore the files. Which of the following attacks has occurred?

Ransomware

A system admin needs to implement 802.1x whereby when a user logs into the network, the authentication server communicates tothe network switch and assigns the user to the proper VLAN. Which of the following protocols should be used?

RADIUS

A systems administrator wants to implement a wireless protocol that will allow the organization to authenticate mobile devices prior to providing the user with a captive portal login. Which of the following should the systems administrator configure?

RADIUS federation

Multiple organizations operating under the same vertical want to provide seamless wireless access for their employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented if all the organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile device?

RADIUS federation

A user downloads and installs an MP3 converter, and runs the application. Upon running the application, the antivirus detects a new port in a listening state. Which of the following has the user MOST likely executed?

RAT

After a user reports slow computer performance, a system admin detects a suspicious file, which was installed as part of a feeware software package. the systems admin reviews the output below: Protocol Local Address Foreign Address State TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0 Listening Based ont he above info, which of the following types of malware was installed on the users computer?

RAT

An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours downtime. Which of the following has been specified?

RTO

Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?

Rainbow tables

Which of the following uses precomputed hashes to guess passwords?

Rainbow tables

A security engineer is faced with competing requirements from the networking group and database admin. The database admins would like ten application servers on the same subnet for ease of admin, whereas the networking group would like to segment all applications from one another. Which of the following should the security admin do to rectify this issue?

Recommend classifying each application into like security groups and segmenting the groups from one another

A penetration tester is crawling a target website that is available to the public? Which of the following represents the actions the penetration tester is performing?

Reconnaissance

Multiple employees recieve an email with a malicious attachment that begins to encrpty their hard drives and mapped shares on their devices when it is opened. The network and security teams perform the following actions: Shut down all network shares Run an email search identifying all employees who Received the malicious message message Reimage all devices belonging to users who opened the attachment Next, the teams want to re-enable the network shares. Which of the following BEST describes the phrase of the incident response process?

Recovery

While working on an incident, Joe, a technician, finished restoring the OS and applications on a workstation from the original media. Joe is about to begin copying the user's files back onto the hard drive. Which of the following incident response steps is Joe working on now?

Recovery

A security analyst is investigating a potential breach. Upon gathering, documenting, and securing the evidence, which of the following actions is the NEXT step to minimize the business impact?

Remove malware and restore the system to normal operation

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 SFTP and replace HTTP with TLS

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

An external auditor visits the human resources department and performs a physical security assessment. The auditor observed documents on printers that are unclaimed. A closer look at these documents reveals employee names, addresses, ages, and types of medical and dental coverage options each employee has selected. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate actions to take?

Report to the human resources manager that their personnel are violating a privacy policy

A security analysts wants to harden the company's VOIP PBX. The analyst is worried that credentials may be intercepted and compromised when the IP phones authenticate with the BPX. Which of the following would best prevent this from occurring?

Require SIPS on connections to the PBX

A bank requires tellers to get manager approval when a customer wants to open a new account. A recent audit show that have been 4 cases in the previous years where tellers opened accounts without management approval. The bank president thought the 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 company is allowing a BYOD policy for its staff. Which of the following is a best practice that can decrease the risk of users jailbreaking mobile devices?

Require applications to be digitally signed.

A CIO suspects someone is the lab testing environement is stealing confidential info after working hours when no one else is around. Which of the following actions can help to prevent this specific threat?

Require swipe-card access to enter the lab

Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?

Resiliency

A systems administrator has isolated an infected system from the network and terminated the malicious process from executing. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT according to the incident response process?

Restore lost data from a backup.

A copy of a highly confidential salary report was recently found on a printer in the IT dept. The HR dept. does not have this specific printer mapped to its devices, and it is suspected that an employee in the IT dept browsed to the share where the report was located adn printed it without authorization. Which of the following technical controls would be the BEST choice to immediately prevent this from happening again?

Restrict access to the share where the report resides to only HR employees and enable auditing

When attempting to secure a mobile workstation, which of the following authentication technologies rely on the user's physical characteristics? (Select TWO)

Retina scan Fingerprint scan

A security administrator installed a new network scanner that identifies new host systems on the network. Which of the following did the security administrator install?

Rogue system detection

Which of the following is commonly used for federated identity management across multiple organizations?

SAML

A company was recently auditied by a third party. The audit revealed the company's network devices were transferring files in the clear. Which of the following protocols should the company use to transfer files?

SCP

Port 22

SCP

In an effort to reduce data storage requirements, some 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

Which of the following cryptographic algorithms is irreversible?

SHA-256

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

Port 25

SMTP

Port 161

SNMP

A security consultant discovers that an organization is using the PCL protocol to print documents, utilizing the default driver and print settings. Which of the following is the MOST likely risk in this situation?

SNMP data leaving the printer will not be properly encrypted

An application developer is designing an application involving secure transports from one service to another that will pass over port 80 for a request. Which of the following secure protocols is the developer MOST likely to use?

SSL

A company wants to implement an access management solution that allows employees to use the same usernames and passwords for multiple applications without having to keep multiple credentials synchronized. Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?

SSO

Which of the following is a deployment concept that can be used to ensure only the required OS access is exposed to software applications?

Sandboxing

Which of the following solutions should an administrator use to reduce the risk from an unknown vulnerability in a third-party software application?

Sandboxing

A security admin 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

The CSO 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 justification to another with more stringent regulations

Which of the following would be considered multifactor authentication?

Strong password and fingerprint

Two users must encrypt and transmit large amounts of data between them. Which of the following should they use to encrypt and transmit the data?

Symmetric algorithm

When trying to log onto a company's new ticketing system, some employees receive the following message: Access denied: too many concurrent sessions. The ticketing system was recently installed on a small VM with only the recommended hardware specifications. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error message?

The VM does not have enough processing power

An attacker exploited a vulnerability on a mail server using the code below. Which of the following BEST explains what the attacker is doing?

The attacker is replacing a document.

A user receives an email from ISP indicating malicious traffic coming from the user's home network is detected. The traffic appears to be Linux-based, and it is targeting a website that was recently featured on the news as being taken offline by an Internet attack. The only Linux device on the network is a home surveillance camera system. Which of the following BEST describes what is happening?

The camera system is infected with a bot.

A user typically works remotely over the holidays using a web-based VPN to access corporate resources. The user reports getting untrusted host errors and being unable to connect. Which of the following is MOST likely the case?

The certificate has expired

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 company implements a captive portal

A security analyst is reviewing patches on servers. One of the servers is reporting the following error message in the WSUS management console: The computer has not reported status in 30 days. Given this scenario, which of the following statements BEST represents the issue with the output above?

The computer in question has not pulled the latest application software updates.

A technician receives a device with the following anomalies: Frequent pop-up ads Show response-time switching between active programs Unresponsive peripherals The technician reviews the following log file entries: File Name Source MD5 Target MD5 Status antivirus.exe F794F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2 F794F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF267ED2 Automatic iexplore.exe 7FAAF21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF29CCEA AA87F21CD33E4F57890DDEAEE2197333 Automatic service.exe 77FF390CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28881F 77FF390CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28881F Manual USB.exe E289F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28EDC0 E289F21CD33E4F57890DDEA5CF28EDC0 Stopped Based on the above output, which of the following should be reviewed?

The file integrity check

A security admin has found a hash in the environemnt known to belong to malware. The admin then finds this file to be in the preupdate area of the OS, which indicates it was pushed from the central patch system. File: winx86_adobe_flash_upgrade.exe Hash: 99ac28bede43ab869b853ba62c4ea243 The admin pulls a report from the patch management system with the following output: Install Date Package Name Target Device Hash 10/10/2017 java_11.2_x64.exe HQ PC's 01ab 10/10/2017 winx86_adobe_flash_upgrade.exe HQ's PC 99ac Given the above outputs, which of the following MOST likely happened?

The file was infected when the patch manager downloaded it.

During a monthly vulnerability scan, a server was flagged for being vulnerable to an Apache Struts exploit. Upon further investigation , the developer responsible for the server informs the security team that Apache Struts is not installed on the server. Which of the following BEST describes how the security team should reach to this incident?

The finding is false positive and can be disregarded

An analyst is using a vulnerability scanner to look for common security misconfigurations on devices. Which of the following might be identified by the scanner? (Select TWO).

The firewall is disabled on workstations. SSH is enabled on servers.

A new firewall has been placed into service at an organization. however, a config has not been entered on the firewall. Employees on the network segment covered by the new firewall report they are unable to access the network. Which of the following steps should be completed to BEST resolve the issue?

The firewall should be configured to prevent user traffic from matching the implicit deny rule.

A workstation puts out a network request to locate another system. joe, a hacker on the network, responds before the real system does, and he tricks the workstation into communicating with him. Which of the following BEST describes what occurred?

The hacker exploited weak switch configuration

A security analyst is acquiring data from a potential network incident. Which of the following evidence is the analyst MOST likely to obtain to determine the incident?

Traffic and logs

Which of the following occurs when the security of a web application relies on JavaScript for input validation?

The integrity of the date is at risk

Which of the following best describes the initial processing phase used in mobile device forensics?

The phone and storage cards should be examined as a complete unit after examining the removable storage cards separately.

Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for their customers to download over the Internet?

The recipient can verify integrity of the software patch.

Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?

The scan output list SQL injection attack vectors

A security admin is configuring a new network segment, which contains devices that will be accessed by external users, such as web and FTP server. Which of the following represents the MOST secure way to configure the new network diagram?

The segment should be placed on an extranet, and the firewall rules should be configured to allow both internal and external traffic

Due to regulatory requirements, server in a global organization must use time synchronization. Which of the following represents the MOST secure method of time synchronization?

The server should connect to internal Stratum 0 NTP servers for synchronization

A malicious system continuously sends an extremely large number of SYN packets to a server. Which of the following BEST describes the resulting effect?

The server will exhaust its memory maintaining half-open connections Answer: D Explanation: QUESTION NO:

A user of the wireless network is unable to gain network access to the network. The symptoms are: -unable to connect to both internal and internet access -the wireless icon shows connectivity but has not 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 user's laptop only supports WPA abd WEP

A help desk is troubleshooting user reports that the corporate website is presenting untrusted certificate errors to emplyees and customers when they visit the website. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of an error, privided the certificate has not expired?

The valid period for the certifiacte has passed and a new certificate has not been issued

A user clicked an email link that led to a website than infected the workstation with a virus. The virus encrypted all the network shares to which the user had access. The virus was not deleted or blocked by the company's email filter, website filter, or antivirus. Which of the following describes what occurred?

The virus was a zero-day attack

A black hacker is enumerating a network and wants to remain covert during the process. The hacker initiate a vulnerability scan. Given the task at hand the requirement of being covert, which of the following statements BEST indicates that the vulnerability scan meets requirements:

The vulnerability scanner is performing in network sniffer mode

A security analyst reviews the following output: FILE NAME: somefile.pdf FILE MD5: E28 FILE SIZE: 1.9 Mb CREATED BY: Jan Smith DELETED BY: Jan Smith DATE DELETED: Oct. 1, 2015 The analyst loads the hash into the SIEM to discover if this hash is seen in other parts of the network. After inspecting a large number of files, the security analyst reports the following: FILE HASH: E28 FILES FOUND: somestuff.xls, somefile.pdf, nofile.doc Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the hash being found in other areas?

There are MD5 hash collisions

The help desk received a call after hours from an employee who was attempting to log into the payroll server remotely. When the help desk returned the call the next morning, the employee was able to log into the server remotely without incident. However, the incident occurred again the next evening. Which of the following BEST describes the cause of the issue?

Time-of-day restrictions prevented the account from logging in

A network operations manager has added a second row of server racks in the datacenter. These racks face the opposite direction of the first row of racks. Which of the following is the reason the manager installed the racks this way?

To create environmental hot and cold areas

Which of the following is the BEST reason to run an untested application is a sandbox?

To prevent the application from acquiring escalated privileges and accessing its host system

A security technician has been receiving alerts from several servers that indicate load balancers have had a significant increase in traffic. The technician initiates a system scan. The scan results illustrate that the disk space on several servers has reached capacity. The scan also indicates that incoming internet traffic to the servers has increased. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the decreased disk space?

Unauthorized software

Which of the following vulnerability types would the type of hacker known as a script kiddie be MOST dangerous against?

Unpatched exploitable Internet-facing services

A forensic expert is given a hard drive from a crime scene and is asked to perform an investigation. Which of the following is the FIRST step the forensic expert needs to take the chain of custody?

Update the evidence log

As part of a new industry regulation, companies are required to utilize secure, standardized OS settings. A technical must ensure the OS settings are hardened. Which of the following is the BEST way to do this?

Use a configuration compliance scanner

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?

Use a protocol analyzer to log all pertinent network traffic

A company has two wireless networks utilizing captive portals. Some employees report getting a trust error in their browsers when connecting to one of the networks. Both captive portals are using the same server certificate for authentication, but the analyst notices the following differences between the two certificate details: Certificate 1 Certificate Path: Geotrust Global CA *company.com Certificate 2 Certificate Path: *company.com Which of the following would resolve the problem?

Use certificate chaining.

The CSO has issued a new policy that requires that all internal websites be configured for HTTPS traffic only. The network admin has been tasked to update all internal sites incurring additional costs. Which of the following is the best solution for the network admin to secure each internal site?

Use certs signed by the company CA

A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all traffic to the FTP server is encrypted. Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modern FTP client software. The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing encrypted connections. Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?

Use explicit FTPS for connection

A bank is experiencing a DoS attack against an application designed to handle 500 IP-based sessions. in addition, the perimeter router can only handle 1Gbps of traffic. Which of the following should be implemented to prevent a DoS attacks in the future?

Use redundancy across all network devices and services

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

In terms of encrypting data, which of the following is BEST described as a way to safeguard password data by adding random data to it in storage?

Using salt

A network admin wants to implement a method of securing internal routing. Which of the following should the admin implement?

VPN

Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test environment to production?

Verify the hashes of files

Which of the following technologies would be MOST appropriate to utilize when testing a new software patch before a company wide deployment?

Virtualization

Anne, the 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 the MOST likely which of the following types of attacks?

Vishing

Phone call is made to individual stating there was an IT issue and asked for the users password over the phone

Vishing

A software development manager is taking over an existing software development project. The team currently suffers from poor communication due to a long delay between requirements documentation and feature delivery. This gap is resulting in an above average number of securityrelated bugs making it into production. Which of the following development methodologies is the team MOST likely using now?

Waterfall

Phone calls made to CEO of orgnaization asking for various financial info

Whaling

As part of the SDLC, a third party is hired to perform a penetration test. The third party will have access to the source code, integration tests, and network diagrams. Which of the following BEST describes the assessment being performed?

White box

Fingerprint scan

something you are

Retina scan

something you are

hardware token

something you have

A security administrator suspects that a DDoS attack is affecting the DNS server. The administrator accesses a workstation with the hostname of workstation01 on the network and obtains the following output from the ipconfig command: The administrator successfully pings the DNS server from the workstation. Which of the following commands should be issued from the workstation to verify the DDoS attack is no longer occuring?

dig workstation01.com

When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:

end-of-life systems

smart card

something you have

PIN number

something you know

A cybersecurity analyst is looking into the payload of a random packet capture file that was selected for analysis. The analyst notices that an internal host had a socket established with another internal host over a non-standard port. Upon investigation, the origin host that initiated the socket shows this output: Given the above output, which of the following commands would have established the questionable socket?

nc -1 192.168.5.1 -p 9856

A security analyst is diagnosing an incident in which a system was compromised from an external IP address. The socket identified on the firewall was traced to 207.46.130.0:6666. Which of the following should the security analyst do to determine if the compromised system still has an active connection?

netstat

Authentication type: hardware token

one time passowrd

An information security analyst needs to work with an employee who can answer questions about how data for a specific system is used in the business. The analyst should seek out an employee who has the role of:

owner

When attackers use a compromised host as a platform for launching attacks deeper into a company's network, it is said that they are:

pivoting

Malware that changes its binary pattern on specific dates at specific times to avoid detection is known as a (n):

polymorphic virus

A procedure differs from a policy in that it:

provides step-by-step instructions for performing a task.

A security architect has convened a meeting to discuss an organization's key management policy. The organization has a reliable internal key management system, and some argue that it would be best to manage the cryptographic keys internally as opposed to using a solution from a third party. The company should use:

risk benefits analysis results to make a determination.

password

something you know

A dumpster diver recovers several hard drives from a company and is able to obtain confidential data from one of the hard drives. The company then discovers its information is posted online. Which of the following methods would have MOST likely prevented the data from being exposed?

using magnetic fields to erase the data

Vishing

when an attacker collects credit card details which affects phone based victims

Spear Phishing:

when an attacker gains confidential company information and targets CEOs and board members

Phishing

when an attacker mass-mails product info to parties that have already opted out of receiving advertisements affecting a broad set of victims

Hoax

when an attacker posts a link yo fake AV software through multiple networks and affects a broad set of victims

Pharming

when an attacker redirects name resolution entities from legitimate sites to fraudulent sites