SYO-501:51-100
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 two.)
1. Adherence to regulatory compliance and 2. Data retention policies
A security analyst is hardening a web server, which should allow a secure certificate-based session using the organization's 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 two.)
1. Install an X- 509-compliant certificate and 2. Enable and configure TLS on the server
A manager wants to distribute a report to several other managers within the company. Some of them 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 three.)
1. SSH, 2. FTPS and 3. HTTPS
Which of the following technologies employ the use of SAML? (Select two.)
1. Single sign-on and 2. Federation
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 administrator 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 two.)
1. The portal will request an authentication ticket from each network that is transitively trusted and 2. The back-end networks will function as an identity provider and issue an authentication assertion
Which of the following are the MAIN reasons why a systems administrator would install security patches in a staging environment before the patches are applied to the production server? (Select two.)
1. To prevent server availability issues and 2. To allow users to test functionality
A wireless network uses a RADIUS server that is connected to an authenticator, which in turn connects to a supplicant. Which of the following represents the authentication architecture in use?
802.1x
Adhering to a layered 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
Ann. An employee in the payroll department, has contacted the help desk citing multiple issues with her device, including: - Slow performance - Word documents, PDFs, and images 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 senior incident response manager receives 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
Two users need to send each other emails over unsecured channels. The system should support the principle of nonrepudiation. Which of the following should be used to sign the user's certificates?
CA
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 following should the security analyst recommend is lieu of an OCSP?
CRL
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 should the responder perform NEXT?
Capture and document necessary information to assist in the response
Which of the following must be intact for evidence to be admissible in court?
Chain of custody
A vulnerability scanner that uses its running service's access level to better assess vulnerabilities across multiple assets within an organization is performing a:
Credentialed scan
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 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
Which of the following would meet the requirements for multifactor authentication?
Fingerprint and password
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 administrator 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
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 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
Which of the following would MOST likely appear in an uncredentialed vulnerability scan?
Inactive local accounts
An organization's 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
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
When identifying a company's most valuable assets as part of a BIA, which of the following should be the FIRST priority?
Life
Which of the following cryptography algorithms will produce a fixed-length, irreversible output?
MD5
A Chief Information Officer (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
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
Which of the following specifically describes the exploitation of an interactive process to access otherwise restricted areas of the OS?
Privilege escalation
Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?
Rainbow tables
A technician suspects that a system has been compromised. The technician reviews the following log entry: WARNING- hash mismatch: C:\Window\SysWOW64\user32.dll WARNING- hash mismatch: C:\Window\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll Based solely ono the above information, which of the following types of malware is MOST likely installed on the system?
Rootkit
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
An employer 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
A system administrator wants to provide for and 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 administrator implement?
Sponsored guest
Joe, a security administrator, needs to extend the organization's remote access functionality to be used by staff while travelling. 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?
TACACS+
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 new firewall has been places into service at an organization. However, a configuration 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 form matching the implicit deny rule
Which of the following occurs when the security of a web application relies on JavaScript for input validation?
The integrity of the data is at risk
Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?
The scan output lists SQL injection attack vectors
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
Before an infection was detected, several of the infected devices attempted to access a URL that was similar to the company name but with two letters transposed. Which of the following BEST describes the attack vector used to infect the devices?
Typo squatting
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
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
A company hires a consulting firm to crawl its 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 administrator accounts. For which of the following is the company hiring the consulting firm?
Vulnerability scanning
A system 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?
WPA using a preshared key
An administrator is replacing a wireless router. The configuration 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 configuration options should the administrator select for the new wireless router?
WPA+TKIP
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
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
When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:
end-of-life systems
