SRA Final Ch. 10-14

Which type of access control scheme uses predefined rules that makes it the most flexible scheme?

ABAC

Which of these is a set of permissions that is attached to an object?

ACL

What can be used to provide both filesystem security and database security?

ACLs

Which of the following is NOT part of the AAA framework?

Access

Pablo has been asked to look into security keys that have a feature of a key pair that is "burned" into the security key during manufacturing time and is specific to a device model. What feature is this?

Attestation

Which of the following is NOT a cloud computing security issue?

Bandwidth utilization

Which of the following is NOT an MFA using a smartphone?

Biometric gait analysis

Nyla is investigating a security incident in which the smartphone of the CEO was compromised and confidential data was stolen. She suspects that it was an attack that used Bluetooth. Which attack would this be?

Bluesnarfing

Which of these attacks is the last-resort effort in cracking a stolen password digest file?

Brute force

Timur was making a presentation regarding how attackers break passwords. His presentation demonstrated the attack technique that is the slowest yet most thorough attack that is used against passwords. Which of these password attacks did he demonstrate?

Brute force attack

Which of these is the encryption protocol for WPA2?

CCMP

Which of the following is a federal initiative that is designed to encourage organizations to address how critical operations will continue under a broad range of negative circumstances?

COOP

Which of the following is the most fragile and should be captured first in a forensics investigation?

CPU cache

What is a platform used to provide telephony, video, and web conferences that can serve as an entry point to a threat actor?

Call Manager

Flavio visits a local coffee shop on his way to school and accesses its free Wi-Fi. When he first connects, a screen appears that requires him to agree to an acceptable use policy (AUP) before continuing. What type of AP has he encountered?

Captive portal

Margaux is reviewing the corporate policy that stipulates the processes to be followed for implementing system changes. Which policy is she reviewing?

Change control policy

biometrics is related to the perception, thought processes, and understanding of the user.

Cognitive

Aleksandra, the company HR manager, is completing a requisition form for the IT staff to create a type of cloud that would only be accessible to other HR managers like Aleksandra who are employed at manufacturing plants. The form asks for the type of cloud that is needed. Which type of cloud would best fit Aleksandra's need?

Community cloud

Which of the following is NOT correct about containers?

Containers require a full OS whenever APIs cannot be used.

Imani has been asked to purchase wireless LAN controllers (WLCs) for the office. What type of APs must she also purchase that can be managed by a WLC?

Controller AP

What does an incremental backup do?

Copies all files changed since the last full or incremental backup

What is a disadvantage of biometric readers?

Cost

Raul has been asked to serve as the individual to whom day-to-day actions have been assigned by the owner. What role is Raul taking?

Data custodian/steward

Nadia has been asked to perform dynamic resource allocation on specific cloud computing resources. What action is Nadia taking?

Deprovisioning resources that are no longer necessary

Ella wants to research an attack framework that incorporates adversary, infrastructure, capability, and victim. Which of the following would she choose?

Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis

Minh has been asked to recommend an EAP for a system that uses both passwords and tokens with TLS. Which should she recommend?

EAP-FAST

Zariah is writing an email to an employee about a wireless attack that is designed to capture the wireless transmissions from legitimate users. Which type of attack is Zariah describing?

Evil twin

Alicja is working on a project to deploy automated guided vehicles on the industrial shop floor of the manufacturing plant in which she works. What location of computing would be best for this project?

Fog

A BIA can be a foundation for which of the following?

Functional recovery plan

Which of the following is NOT used to identify or enforce what mobile devices can do based on the location of the device?

Geo-spatial

Which one-time password is event driven?

HOTP

Which human characteristic is NOT used for biometric identification?

Height

Which type of site is essentially a duplicate of the production site and has all the equipment needed for an organization to continue running?

Hot site

Which of the following is NOT a means by which a threat actor can perform a wireless denial of service attack?

IEEE 802.11iw separate

Mary Alice has been asked to help develop an outline of procedures to be followed in the event of a major IT incident or an incident that directly impacts IT. What type of planning is this?

IT contingency planning

Which of these is a 24-bit value that changes each time a packet is encrypted and then is combined with a shared secret key?

IV

Which cloud model requires the highest level of IT responsibilities?

IaaS

Thea has received a security alert that someone in London attempted to access the email account of Sigrid, who had accessed it in Los Angeles one hour before. What feature determined an issue and send this alert to Thea?

Impossible Travel

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of cloud computing?

Invisible Resource Pooling

Fatima has just learned that employees have tried to install their own wireless router in the employee lounge. Why is installing this rogue AP a security vulnerability?

It allows an attacker to bypass network security configurations.

How is the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) used?

It allows secure web domains to exchange user authentication and authorization data.

Which statement about Rule-Based Access Control is true?

It dynamically assigns roles to subjects based on rules.

Maryam is explaining the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). What would be the best explanation of EAP?

It is a framework for transporting authentication protocols.

Which of the following is NOT true about RAID?

It is designed primarily to backup data.

Which of the following is true about secrets management?

It provides a central repository.

How is key stretching effective in resisting password attacks?

It takes more time to generate candidate password digests.

Which access control scheme is the most restrictive?

MAC

Which of these is a vulnerability of MAC address filtering in a WLAN?

MAC addresses are initially exchanged unencrypted.

Which of the following is the Microsoft version of EAP?

MS-CHAP

The CEO is frustrated by the high costs associated with security at the organization and wants to look at a third party assuming part of their cybersecurity defenses. Nikola has been asked to look into acquiring requests for proposal (RFPs) from different third parties. What are these third-party organizations called?

MSSPs

What is the average amount of time that it will take a device to recover from a failure that is not a terminal failure?

MTTR

Which of these creates a format of the candidate password to significantly reduce the time needed to crack a password?

Mask

Linnea is researching a type of storage that uses a single storage device to serve files over a network and is relatively inexpensive. What type of storage is Linnea researching?

NAS

Aaliyah has been asked to do research in a new payment system for the retail stores that her company owns. Which technology is predominately used for contactless payment systems that she will investigate?

Near field communication (NFC)

Molly needs to access a setting in Microsoft Windows Group Policy to change the type of a network to which a computer is attached. Which setting must Molly change?

Network Location

Ilya has been asked to recommend a federation system technology that is an open source federation framework that can support the development of authorization protocols. Which of these technologies would he recommend?

OAuth

What device is always running off its battery while the main power runs the battery charger?

Online UPS

Which of these does not require authentication?

Open method

Which of these Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) methods is vulnerable?

PIN method

Oliwia has been given a project to manage the development of a new company app. She wants to use a cloud model to facilitate the development and deployment. Which cloud model will she choose?

PaaS

Fernando is explaining to a colleague how a password cracker works. Which of the following is a valid statement about password crackers?

Password crackers differ as to how candidates are created.

Which attack uses one or a small number of commonly used passwords to attempt to log in to several different user accounts?

Password spraying attack

Which of the following will a BIA NOT help determine?

Percentage availability of systems

Which of the following should NOT be stored in a secure password database?

Plaintext password

Blaise needs to create a document that is a linear-style checklist of required manual steps and actions needed to successfully respond to a specific type of incident. What does she need to create?

Playbook

Which of the following is a document that outlines specific requirements or rules that must be met?

Policy

Which of the following can a UPS NOT perform?

Prevent certain applications from launching that will consume too much power

Which commercial data classification level would be applied to a data set of the number of current employees at an organization and would only cause a small amount of harm if disclosed?

Public

What is a difference between NFC and RFID?

RFID is designed for paper-based tags while NFC is not.

Adabella was asked by her supervisor to adjust the frequency spectrum settings on a new AP. She brought up the configuration page and looked through the different options. Which of the following frequency spectrum settings would she NOT be able to adjust?

RFID spectrum

Zuzana is creating a report for her supervisor about the cost savings associated with cloud computing. Which of the following would she NOT include on her report on the cost savings?

Reduction in Broadband Costs

Which of these is NOT an incident response process step?

Reporting

Which of the following is NOT an element that should be part of a BCP?

Robustness

Which WPA3 security feature is designed to increase security at the time of the handshake?

SAE

Which of the following virtualizes parts of a physical network?

SDN

Which of the following provides the highest level of security?

SFTP

Which of the following should be performed in advance of an incident?

Segmentation

Which of the following is NOT a feature of a next generation SWG?

Send alerts to virtual firewalls

What does the term "serverless" mean in cloud computing?

Server resources of the cloud are inconspicuous to the end user.

Cheryl has been asked to set up a user account explicitly to provide a security context for services running on a server. What type of account will she create?

Service Account

Which of the following is an authentication credential used to access multiple accounts or applications?

Single sign-on

Which of the following is NOT used for authentication?

Something you can find

Which of these is NOT a factor in determining restoration order?

Speed of implementation

Which of the following is typically a monthly discussion of a scenario conducted in an informal and stress-free environment to evaluate an incident response plan?

Tabletop

Which of these is NOT a reason that users create weak passwords?

The length and complexity required force users to circumvent creating strong passwords.

What is a definition of RPO?

The maximum length of time that can be tolerated between backups

Which of the following is NOT correct about high availability across zones?

They require that specific security appliances be located on-prem so that the local data center can be considered as a qualified Zone.

What is the amount of time added to or subtracted from Coordinated Universal Time to determine local time?

Time Offset

Which of the following is NOT a problem associated with log management?

Time-stamped log data

Wiktoria is frustrated that her company is using so many different cloud services that span multiple cloud provider accounts and even different cloud providers. She wants to implement a technology to give full control and visibility over all the cloud resources, including network routing and security. What product does Wiktoria need?

Transit gateway

Which type of hypervisor runs directly on the computer's hardware?

Type I

Which of these is NOT created and managed by a microservices API?

User experience (UX)

Why are dictionary attacks successful?

Users often create passwords from dictionary words.

Which of the following will NOT protect containers?

Using reduced-visibility images to limit the risk of a compromise

Which of these is NOT a type of wireless AP probe?

WNIC probe

Which technical specification of the Wi-Fi Alliance is the same as ad hoc mode in a Wi-Fi network?

Wi-Fi Direct

Which of these is NOT a risk when a home wireless router is not securely configured?

Wireless endpoints must be manually approved to connect to the WLAN.

Which of the following is a Linux utility that displays the contents of system memory?

memdump

Which of the following is a packet sampling protocol that gives a statistical sample instead of the actual flow of packets?

sFlow

Which tool is an open source utility for UNIX devices that includes content filtering?

syslog-ng