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1. A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the seventy levels of the organization’s vulnerabilities.

Which of the following would BEST meet this need?

CVE

SIEM

SOAR

CVSS

2. Which of the following should be put in place when negotiating with a new vendor about the timeliness of the response to a significant outage or incident?

MOU

MTTR

SLA

NDA

3. Which of the following describes the BEST approach for deploying application patches?

Apply the patches to systems in a testing environment then to systems in a staging environment, and finally to production systems.

Test the patches in a staging environment, develop against them in the development environment, and then apply them to the production systems

Test the patches m a test environment apply them to the production systems and then apply them to a staging environment

Apply the patches to the production systems apply them in a staging environment, and then test all of them in a testing environment

4. An organization that is located in a flood zone is MOST likely to document the concerns associated with the restoration of IT operation in a:

business continuity plan

communications plan.

disaster recovery plan.

continuity of operations plan

5. An organization is developing an authentication service for use at the entry and exit ports of country borders. The service will use data feeds obtained from passport systems, passenger manifests, and high-definition video feeds from CCTV systems that are located at the ports. The service will incorporate machine-learning techniques to eliminate biometric enrollment processes while still allowing authorities to identify passengers with increasing accuracy over time. The more frequently passengers travel, the more accurately the service will identify them.

Which of the following biometrics will MOST likely be used, without the need for enrollment? (Choose two.)

Voice

Gait

Vein

Facial

Retina

Fingerprint

6. Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company’s IT/security operations?

Least privilege

Awareness training

Separation of duties

Mandatory vacation

7. A security analyst needs to be proactive in understand the types of attacks that could potentially target the company's execute.

Which of the following intelligence sources should to security analyst review?

Vulnerability feeds

Trusted automated exchange of indicator information

Structured threat information expression

Industry information-sharing and collaboration groups

8. A company processes highly sensitive data and senior management wants to protect the sensitive data by utilizing classification labels.

Which of the following access control schemes would be BEST for the company to implement?

Discretionary

Rule-based

Role-based

Mandatory

9. Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside

Fog computing

VM escape

Software-defined networking

Image forgery

Container breakout

10. A user recent an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank delays.

Which of the following social-engineering techniques was used in this case?

SPIM

Vishing

Spear phishing

Smishing

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11. A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate-owned mobile devices.

Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company’s data?

Containerization

Geofencing

Full-disk encryption

Remote wipe

12. Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

The data owner is responsible for adhering to the rules for using the data, while the data custodian is responsible for determining the corporate governance regarding the data

The data owner is responsible for determining how the data may be used, while the data custodian is responsible for implementing the protection to the data

The data owner is responsible for controlling the data, while the data custodian is responsible for maintaining the chain of custody when handling the data

The data owner grants the technical permissions for data access, while the data custodian maintains the database access controls to the data

13. HOTSPOT

Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation.

INSTRUCTIONS

Not all attacks and remediation actions will be used.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

14. Which of the following will provide the BEST physical security countermeasures to stop intruders? (Select TWO.)

Alarms

Signage

Lighting

Mantraps

Fencing

Sensors

15. A small business just recovered from a ransomware attack against its file servers by purchasing the decryption keys from the attackers. The issue was triggered by a phishing email and the IT administrator wants to ensure it does not happen again.

Which of the following should the IT administrator do FIRST after recovery?

Scan the NAS for residual or dormant malware and take new daily backups that are tested on a frequent basis

Restrict administrative privileges and patch ail systems and applications.

Rebuild all workstations and install new antivirus software

Implement application whitelisting and perform user application hardening

16. A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert for the most appropriate way to store credit card numbers to create an easy reordering process.

Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?

Salting the magnetic strip information

Encrypting the credit card information in transit.

Hashing the credit card numbers upon entry.

Tokenizing the credit cards in the database

17. A security administrator suspects there may be unnecessary services running on a server.

Which of the following tools will the administrator MOST likely use to confirm the suspicions?

Nmap

Wireshark

Autopsy

DNSEnum

18. An auditor is performing an assessment of a security appliance with an embedded OS that was vulnerable during the last two assessments.

Which of the following BEST explains the appliance’s vulnerable state?

The system was configured with weak default security settings.

The device uses weak encryption ciphers.

The vendor has not supplied a patch for the appliance.

The appliance requires administrative credentials for the assessment.

19. Which of the following refers to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

Shadow IT

OSINT

Dark web

Insider threats

20. Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data processors?

SSAE SOC 2

PCI DSS

GDPR

ISO 31000

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21. A security engineer is reviewing log files after a third discovered usernames and passwords for the organization’s accounts. The engineer sees there was a change in the IP address for a vendor website one earlier. This change lasted eight hours.

Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used?

Man-in- the middle

Spear-phishing

Evil twin

DNS poising

22. A cybersecurity administrator needs to add disk redundancy for a critical server. The solution must have a two- drive failure for better fault tolerance.

Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator select?

23. Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows on hosts?

DLP

HIDS

EDR

NIPS

24. An organization just experienced a major cyberattack modem. The attack was well coordinated sophisticated and highly skilled.

Which of the following targeted the organization?

Shadow IT

An insider threat

A hacktivist

An advanced persistent threat

25. A public relations team will be taking a group of guest on a tour through the facility of a large e-commerce company. The day before the tour, the company sends out an email to employees to ensure all whiteboars are cleaned and all desks are cleared. The company is MOST likely trying to protect against.

Loss of proprietary information

Damage to the company’s reputation

Social engineering

Credential exposure

26. A company has limited storage available and online presence that cannot for more than four hours.

Which of the following backup methodologies should the company implement to allow for the FASTEST database restore time.

In the event of a failure, which being maindful of the limited available storage space?

Implement fulltape backup every Sunday at 8:00 p.m and perform nightly tape rotations.

Implement different backups every Sunday at 8:00 and nightly incremental backups at 8:00 p.m

Implement nightly full backups every Sunday at 8:00 p.m

Implement full backups every Sunday at 8:00 p.m and nightly differential backups at 8:00

27. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an organization would like staff members to have the flexibility to work from home anytime during business hours, incident during a pandemic or crisis, However, the CEO is concerned that some staff members may take advantage of the of the flexibility and work from high-risk countries while on holidays work to a third-party organization in another country. The Chief information Officer (CIO) believes the company can implement some basic to mitigate the majority of the risk.

Which of the following would be BEST to mitigate CEO’s concern? (Select TWO).

Geolocation

Time-of-day restrictions

Certificates

Tokens

Geotagging

Role-based access controls

28. A company is implementing MFA for all applications that store sensitive data. The IT manager wants MFA to be non-disruptive and user friendly.

Which of the following technologies should the IT manager use when implementing MFA?

One-time passwords

Email tokens

Push notifications

Hardware authentication

29. An analyst visits an internet forum looking for information about a tool. The analyst finds a threat that appears to contain relevant information.

One of the posts says the following:

Which of the following BEST describes the attack that was attempted against the forum readers?

SOU attack

DLL attack

XSS attack

API attack

30. In which of the following risk management strategies would cybersecurity insurance be used?

Transference

Avoidance

Acceptance

Mitigation

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31. A network administrator needs to build out a new datacenter, with a focus on resiliency and uptime.

Which of the following would BEST meet this objective? (Choose two.)

Dual power supply

Off-site backups

Automatic OS upgrades

NIC teaming

Scheduled penetration testing

Network-attached storage

32. A recently discovered zero-day exploit utilizes an unknown vulnerability in the SMB network protocol to rapidly infect computers. Once infected, computers are encrypted and held for ransom.

Which of the following would BEST prevent this attack from reoccurring?

Configure the perimeter firewall to deny inbound external connections to SMB ports.

Ensure endpoint detection and response systems are alerting on suspicious SMB connections.

Deny unauthenticated users access to shared network folders.

Verify computers are set to install monthly operating system, updates automatically.

33. A RAT that was used to compromise an organization’s banking credentials was found on a user’s computer. The RAT evaded antivirus detection. It was installed by a user who has local administrator rights to the system as part of a remote management tool set.

Which of the following recommendations would BEST prevent this from reoccurring?

Create a new acceptable use policy.

Segment the network into trusted and untrusted zones.

Enforce application whitelisting.

Implement DLP at the network boundary.

34. A cybersecurity analyst needs to implement secure authentication to third-party websites without users’ passwords.

Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

OAuth

SSO

SAML

PAP

35. Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe’s identity before sending him the prize.

Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?

Spear phishing

Whaling

Phishing

Vishing

36. A large industrial system's smart generator monitors the system status and sends alerts to third-party maintenance personnel when critical failures occur. While reviewing the network logs the company's security manager notices the generator's IP is sending packets to an internal file server's IP.

Which of the following mitigations would be BEST for the security manager to implement while maintaining alerting capabilities?

Segmentation

Firewall whitelisting

Containment

isolation

37. To secure an application after a large data breach, an e-commerce site will be resetting all users’ credentials.

Which of the following will BEST ensure the site’s users are not compromised after the reset?

A password reuse policy

Account lockout after three failed attempts

Encrypted credentials in transit

A geofencing policy based on login history

38. A security audit has revealed that a process control terminal is vulnerable to malicious users installing and executing software on the system. The terminal is beyond end-of-life support and cannot be upgraded, so it is placed on a projected network segment.

Which of the following would be MOST effective to implement to further mitigate the reported vulnerability?

DNS sinkholding

DLP rules on the terminal

An IP blacklist

Application whitelisting

39. During an incident response, a security analyst observes the following log entry on the web server.

Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack the analyst is experience?

SQL injection

Cross-site scripting

Pass-the-hash

Directory traversal

40. In the middle of a cybersecurity, a security engineer removes the infected devices from the network and lock down all compromised accounts. In which of the following incident response phases is the security engineer currently operating?

Identification

Preparation

Eradiction

Recovery

Containment

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41. An organization suffered an outage and a critical system took 90 minutes to come back online. Though there was no data loss during the outage, the expectation was that the critical system would be available again within 60 minutes.

Which of the following is the 60-minute expectation an example of:

MTBF

RPO

MTTR

RTO

42. A network engineer needs to build a solution that will allow guests at the company’s headquarters to access the Internet via WiFi. This solution should not allow access to the internal corporate network, but it should require guests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the Internet.

Which of the following should the engineer employ to meet these requirements?

Implement open PSK on the APs

Deploy a WAF

Configure WIPS on the APs

Install a captive portal

43. A document that appears to be malicious has been discovered in an email that was sent to a company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Which of the following would be BEST to allow a security analyst to gather information and confirm it is a malicious document without executing any code it may contain?

Open the document on an air-gapped network

View the document's metadata for origin clues

Search for matching file hashes on malware websites

Detonate the document in an analysis sandbox

44. Which of the following BEST describes a security exploit for which a vendor patch is not readily available?

Integer overflow

Zero-day

End of life

Race condition

45. Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

To define the level or risk using probability and likelihood

To register the risk with the required regulatory agencies

To identify the risk, the risk owner, and the risk measures

To formally log the type of risk mitigation strategy the organization is using

46. A root cause analysis reveals that a web application outage was caused by one of the company’s developers uploading a newer version of the third-party libraries that were shared among several applications.

Which of the following implementations would be BEST to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

CASB

SWG

Containerization

Automated failover

47. Which of the following would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hot-spots?

Footprinting

White-box testing

A drone/UAV

Pivoting

48. CORRECT TEXT

A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.

INSTRUCTIONS

Click on each firewall to do the following:

✑ Deny cleartext web traffic.

✑ Ensure secure management protocols are used. Please Resolve issues at the DR site.

The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

49. A pharmaceutical sales representative logs on to a laptop and connects to the public WiFi to check emails and update reports.

Which of the following would be BEST to prevent other devices on the network from directly accessing the laptop? (Choose two.)

Trusted Platform Module

A host-based firewall

A DLP solution

Full disk encryption

A VPN

Antivirus software

50. An organization is concerned that is hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.

Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

Hping3 Cs comptia, org Cp 80

Nc -1 Cv comptia, org Cp 80

nmp comptia, org Cp 80 CaV

nslookup Cport=80 comtia.org

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51. After a ransomware attack a forensics company needs to review a cryptocurrency transaction between the victim and the attacker.

Which of the following will the company MOST likely review to trace this transaction?

The public ledger

The NetFlow data

A checksum

The event log

52. An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or data theft.

Which of the following would be the MOST acceptable?

SED

HSM

DLP

TPM

53. A network engineer has been asked to investigate why several wireless barcode scanners and wireless computers in a warehouse have intermittent connectivity to the shipping server. The barcode scanners and computers are all on forklift trucks and move around the warehouse during their regular use.

Which of the following should the engineer do to determine the issue? (Choose two.)

Perform a site survey

Deploy an FTK Imager

Create a heat map

Scan for rogue access points

Upgrade the security protocols

Install a captive portal

54. A user enters a password to log in to a workstation and is then prompted to enter an authentication code.

Which of the following MFA factors or attributes are being utilized in the authentication process? (Select TWO).

Something you know

Something you have

Somewhere you are

Someone you are

Something you are

Something you can do

55. A security assessment determines DES and 3DES at still being used on recently deployed production servers.

Which of the following did the assessment identify?

Unsecme protocols

Default settings

Open permissions

Weak encryption

56. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to create a policy set that meets international standards for data privacy and sharing.

Which of the following should the CISO read and understand before writing the policies?

PCI DSS

GDPR

NIST

ISO 31000

57. A system administrator needs to implement an access control scheme that will allow an object’s access policy be determined by its owner.

Which of the following access control schemes BEST fits the requirements?

Role-based access control

Discretionary access control

Mandatory access control

Attribute-based access control

58. The SOC is reviewing process and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than 30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. The allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained.

Which of the following would be BEST to improve the incident response process?

Updating the playbooks with better decision points

Dividing the network into trusted and untrusted zones

Providing additional end-user training on acceptable use

Implementing manual quarantining of infected hosts

59. After reading a security bulletin, a network security manager is concerned that a malicious actor may have breached the network using the same software flaw. The exploit code is publicly available and has been reported as being used against other industries in the same vertical.

Which of the following should the network security manager consult FIRST to determine a priority list for forensic review?

The vulnerability scan output

The IDS logs

The full packet capture data

The SIEM alerts

60. In which of the following common use cases would steganography be employed?

Obfuscation

Integrity

Non-repudiation

Blockchain

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61. A company wants to deploy PKI on its Internet-facing website.

The applications that are currently deployed are:

✑ www.company.com (main website)

✑ contactus.company.com (for locating a nearby location)

✑ quotes.company.com (for requesting a price quote)

The company wants to purchase one SSL certificate that will work for all the existing applications and any future applications that follow the same naming conventions, such as store.company.com.

Which of the following certificate types would BEST meet the requirements?

SAN

Wildcard

Extended validation

Self-signed

62. A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did not receive any emails with links, but he had been browsing the Internet all day.

Which of the following would MOST likely show where the malware originated?

The DNS logs

The web server logs

The SIP traffic logs

The SNMP logs

63. A company has drafted an insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices.

Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

Monitoring large data transfer transactions in the firewall logs

Developing mandatory training to educate employees about the removable media policy

Implementing a group policy to block user access to system files

Blocking removable-media devices and write capabilities using a host-based security tool

64. A security analyst is using a recently released security advisory to review historical logs, looking for the specific activity that was outlined in the advisory.

Which of the following is the analyst doing?

A packet capture

A user behavior analysis

Threat hunting

Credentialed vulnerability scanning

65. Several employees return to work the day after attending an industry trade show. That same day, the security manager notices several malware alerts coming from each of the employee’s workstations. The security manager investigates but finds no signs of an attack on the perimeter firewall or the NIDS.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing the malware alerts?

A worm that has propagated itself across the intranet, which was initiated by presentation media

A fileless virus that is contained on a vCard that is attempting to execute an attack

A Trojan that has passed through and executed malicious code on the hosts

A USB flash drive that is trying to run malicious code but is being blocked by the host firewall

66. Joe, a user at a company, clicked an email link led to a website that infected his workstation. Joe, was connected to the network, and the virus spread to the network shares. The protective measures failed to stop this virus, and It has continues to evade detection.

Which of the following should administrator implement to protect the environment from this malware?

Install a definition-based antivirus.

Implement an IDS/IPS

Implement a heuristic behavior-detection solution.

Implement CASB to protect the network shares.

67. An organization’s help desk is flooded with phone calls from users stating they can no longer access certain websites. The help desk escalates the issue to the security team, as these websites were accessible the previous day. The security analysts run the following command: ipconfig /flushdns, but the issue persists. Finally, an analyst changes the DNS server for an impacted machine, and the issue goes away.

Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred on the original DNS server?

DNS cache poisoning

Domain hijacking

Distributed denial-of-service

DNS tunneling

68. The CSIRT is reviewing the lessons learned from a recent incident. A worm was able to spread unhindered throughout the network and infect a large number of computers and servers.

Which of the following recommendations would be BEST to mitigate the impacts of a similar incident in the future?

Install a NIDS device at the boundary.

Segment the network with firewalls.

Update all antivirus signatures daily.

Implement application blacklisting.

69. A retail executive recently accepted a job with a major competitor. The following week, a security analyst reviews the security logs and identifies successful logon attempts to access the departed executive's accounts.

Which of the following security practices would have addressed the issue?

A non-disclosure agreement

Least privilege

An acceptable use policy

Ofboarding

70. Users have been issued smart cards that provide physical access to a building. The cards also contain tokens that can be used to access information systems. Users can log m to any thin client located throughout the building and see the same desktop each time.

Which of the following technologies are being utilized to provide these capabilities? (Select TWO)

COPE

VDI

GPS

TOTP

RFID

BYOD

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71. A company is adopting a BYOD policy and is looking for a comprehensive solution to protect company information on user devices.

Which of the following solutions would BEST support the policy?

Mobile device management

Full-device encryption

Remote wipe

Biometrics

72. A security analyst is reviewing a new website that will soon be made publicly available. The analyst sees the following in the URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=77276554&loc=us

The analyst then sends an internal user a link to the new website for testing purposes, and when the user clicks the link, the analyst is able to browse the website with the following URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=98988475&loc=us

Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

Pass-the-hash

Session replay

Object deference

Cross-site request forgery

73. A user recently entered a username and password into a recruiting application website that had been forged to look like the legitimate site

Upon investigation, a security analyst the identifies the following:

• The legitimate websites IP address is 10.1.1.20 and eRecruit local resolves to the IP

• The forged website's IP address appears to be 10.2.12.99. based on NetFtow records

• AH three at the organization's DNS servers show the website correctly resolves to the legitimate IP

• DNS query logs show one of the three DNS servers returned a result of 10.2.12.99 (cached) at the approximate time of the suspected compromise.

Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

A reverse proxy was used to redirect network traffic

An SSL strip MITM attack was performed

An attacker temporarily pawned a name server

An ARP poisoning attack was successfully executed

74. A manufacturer creates designs for very high security products that are required to be protected and controlled by the government regulations. These designs are not accessible by corporate networks or the Internet.

Which of the following is the BEST solution to protect these designs?

An air gap

A Faraday cage

A shielded cable

A demilitarized zone

75. A security analyst has received an alert about being sent via email. The analyst’s Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has made it clear that PII must be handle with extreme care.

From which of the following did the alert MOST likely originate?

S/MIME

DLP

IMAP

HIDS

76. A commercial cyber-threat intelligence organization observes IoCs across a variety of unrelated customers.

Prior to releasing specific threat intelligence to other paid subscribers, the organization is MOST likely obligated by contracts to:

perform attribution to specific APTs and nation-state actors.

anonymize any PII that is observed within the IoC data.

add metadata to track the utilization of threat intelligence reports.

assist companies with impact assessments based on the observed data.

77. A security analyst has been asked to investigate a situation after the SOC started to receive alerts from the SIEM.

The analyst first looks at the domain controller and finds the following events:

To better understand what is going on, the analyst runs a command and receives the following output:

Based on the analyst’s findings, which of the following attacks is being executed?

Credential harvesting

Keylogger

Brute-force

Spraying

78. A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the amount of PII that is stored locally on each salesperson’s laptop. The sales department has a higher-than-average rate of lost equipment.

Which of the following recommendations would BEST address the CSO’s concern?

Deploy an MDM solution.

Implement managed FD

Replace all hard drives with SEDs.

Install DLP agents on each laptop.

79. A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better.

validate the vulnerability exists in the organization's network through penetration testing

research the appropriate mitigation techniques in a vulnerability database

find the software patches that are required to mitigate a vulnerability

prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities based on the possible impact.

80. A security analyst discovers that a company username and password database was posted on an internet forum. The username and passwords are stored in plan text.

Which of the following would mitigate the damage done by this type of data exfiltration in the future?

Create DLP controls that prevent documents from leaving the network

Implement salting and hashing

Configure the web content filter to block access to the forum.

Increase password complexity requirements

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81. A user reports constant lag and performance issues with the wireless network when working at a local coffee shop. A security analyst walks the user through an installation of Wireshark and get a five-minute pcap to analyze.

The analyst observes the following output:

Which of the following attacks does the analyst MOST likely see in this packet capture?

Session replay

Evil twin

Bluejacking

ARP poisoning

82. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of an insurance company received an email from Ann, the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), requesting a transfer of $10,000 to an account. The email states Ann is on vacation and has lost her purse, containing cash and credit cards.

Which of the following social-engineering techniques is the attacker using?

Phishing

Whaling

Typo squatting

Pharming

83. The IT department at a university is concerned about professors placing servers on the university network in an attempt to bypass security controls.

Which of the following BEST represents this type of threat?

A script kiddie

Shadow IT

Hacktivism

White-hat

84. A researcher has been analyzing large data sets for the last ten months. The researcher works with colleagues from other institutions and typically connects via SSH to retrieve additional data.

Historically, this setup has worked without issue, but the researcher recently started getting the following message:

Which of the following network attacks is the researcher MOST likely experiencing?

MAC cloning

Evil twin

Man-in-the-middle

ARP poisoning

85. A company recently moved sensitive videos between on-premises. Company-owned websites. The company then learned the videos had been uploaded and shared to the internet.

Which of the following would MOST likely allow the company to find the cause?

Checksums

Watermarks

Oder of volatility

A log analysis

A right-to-audit clause

86. A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public area.

Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this breach?

A firewall

A device pin

A USB data blocker

Biometrics

87. A database administrator needs to ensure all passwords are stored in a secure manner, so the administrate adds randomly generated data to each password before string.

Which of the following techniques BEST explains this action?

Predictability

Key stretching

Salting

Hashing

88. A company provides mobile devices to its users to permit access to email and enterprise applications. The company recently started allowing users to select from several different vendors and device models. When configuring the MDM, which of the following is a key security implication of this heterogeneous device approach?

The most common set of MDM configurations will become the effective set of enterprise mobile security controls.

All devices will need to support SCEP-based enrollment; therefore, the heterogeneity of the chosen architecture may unnecessarily expose private keys to adversaries.

Certain devices are inherently less secure than others, so compensatory controls will be needed to address the delta between device vendors.

MDMs typically will not support heterogeneous deployment environments, so multiple MDMs will need to be installed and configured.

89. A network engineer notices the VPN concentrator overloaded and crashes on days when there are a lot of remote workers. Senior management has placed greater importance on the availability of VPN resources for the remote workers than the security of the end users’ traffic.

Which of the following would be BEST to solve this issue?

iPSec

Always On

Split tunneling

L2TP

90. A security auditor is reviewing vulnerability scan data provided by an internal security team.

Which of the following BEST indicates that valid credentials were used?

The scan results show open ports, protocols, and services exposed on the target host

The scan enumerated software versions of installed programs

The scan produced a list of vulnerabilities on the target host

The scan identified expired SSL certificates

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91. A security analyst is performing a forensic investigation compromised account credentials. Using the Event Viewer, the analyst able to detect the following message, ‘’Special privileges assigned to new login.’’ Several of these messages did not have a valid logon associated with the user before these privileges were assigned.

Which of the following attacks is MOST likely being detected?

Pass-the-hash

Buffer overflow

Cross-site scripting

Session replay

92. A remote user recently took a two-week vacation abroad and brought along a corporate-owned laptop. Upon returning to work, the user has been unable to connect the laptop to the VPN.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the user’s inability to connect the laptop to the VPN?

Due to foreign travel, the user’s laptop was isolated from the network.

The user’s laptop was quarantined because it missed the latest path update.

The VPN client was blacklisted.

The user’s account was put on a legal hold.

93. A cybersecurity administrator has a reduced team and needs to operate an on-premises network and security infrastructure efficiently. To help with the situation, the administrator decides to hire a service provider.

Which of the following should the administrator use?

SDP

AAA

IaaS

MSSP

Microservices

94. A company’s bank has reported that multiple corporate credit cards have been stolen over the past several weeks. The bank has provided the names of the affected cardholders to the company’s forensics team to assist in the cyber-incident investigation.

An incident responder learns the following information:

✑ . The timeline of stolen card numbers corresponds closely with affected users making Internet-based purchases from diverse websites via enterprise desktop PCs.

✑ All purchase connections were encrypted, and the company uses an SSL inspection proxy for the inspection of encrypted traffic of the hardwired network.

✑ Purchases made with corporate cards over the corporate guest WiFi network, where no SSL inspection occurs, were unaffected.

Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?

HTTPS sessions are being downgraded to insecure cipher suites

The SSL inspection proxy is feeding events to a compromised SIEM

The payment providers are insecurely processing credit card charges

The adversary has not yet established a presence on the guest WiFi network

95. A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times.

After determining it is not a routing or DNS issue, the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, and receives the following output:

Which of the following is the router experiencing?

DDoS attack

Memory leak

Buffer overflow

Resource exhaustion

96. Which of the following ISO standards is certified for privacy?

ISO 9001

ISO 27002

ISO 27701

ISO 31000

97. A software developer needs to perform code-execution testing, black-box testing, and non-functional testing on a new product before its general release.

Which of the following BEST describes the tasks the developer is conducting?

Verification

Validation

Normalization

Staging

98. The IT department’s on-site developer has been with the team for many years. Each time an application is released, the security team is able to identify multiple vulnerabilities.

Which of the following would BEST help the team ensure the application is ready to be released to production?

Limit the use of third-party libraries.

Prevent data exposure queries.

Obfuscate the source code.

Submit the application to QA before releasing it.

99. A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture.

Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

MSSP

SOAR

IaaS

PaaS

100. A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:

Which of the following types of attacks does this MOST likely represent?

Rainbow table

Brute-force

Password-spraying

Dictionary

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101. An organization has implemented a policy requiring the use of conductive metal lockboxes for personal electronic devices outside of a secure research lab.

Which of the following did the organization determine to be the GREATEST risk to intellectual property when creating this policy?

The theft of portable electronic devices

Geotagging in the metadata of images

Bluesnarfing of mobile devices

Data exfiltration over a mobile hotspot

102. A Chief Security Office's (CSO's) key priorities are to improve preparation, response, and recovery practices to minimize system downtime and enhance organizational resilience to ransomware attacks.

Which of the following would BEST meet the CSO's objectives?

Use email-filtering software and centralized account management, patch high-risk systems, and restrict administration privileges on fileshares.

Purchase cyber insurance from a reputable provider to reduce expenses during an incident.

Invest in end-user awareness training to change the long-term culture and behavior of staff and executives, reducing the organization's susceptibility to phishing attacks.

Implement application whitelisting and centralized event-log management, and perform regular testing and validation of full backups.

103. A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce staffing at others.

Which of the following would be BEST to help the organization’s executives determine the next course of action?

An incident response plan

A communications plan

A disaster recovery plan

A business continuity plan

104. In which of the following situations would it be BEST to use a detective control type for mitigation?

A company implemented a network load balancer to ensure 99.999% availability of its web application.

A company designed a backup solution to increase the chances of restoring services in case of a natural disaster.

A company purchased an application-level firewall to isolate traffic between the accounting department and the information technology department.

A company purchased an IPS system, but after reviewing the requirements, the appliance was supposed to monitor, not block, any traffic.

A company purchased liability insurance for flood protection on all capital assets.

105. An organization is developing a plan in the event of a complete loss of critical systems and data.

Which of the following plans is the organization MOST likely developing?

Incident response

Communications

Disaster recovery

Data retention

106. Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but nothing else?

SaaS

PaaS

IaaS

DaaS

107. A company uses wireless tor all laptops and keeps a very detailed record of its assets, along with a comprehensive list of devices that are authorized to be on the wireless network. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about a script kiddie potentially using an unauthorized device to brute force the wireless PSK and obtain access to the internal network.

Which of the following should the company implement to BEST prevent this from occurring?

A BPDU guard

WPA-EAP

IP filtering

A WIDS

108. While checking logs, a security engineer notices a number of end users suddenly downloading files with the .tar.gz extension. Closer examination of the files reveals they are PE32 files. The end users state they did not initiate any of the downloads. Further investigation reveals the end users all clicked on an external email containing an infected MHT file with an href link a week prior.

Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

A RAT was installed and is transferring additional exploit tools.

The workstations are beaconing to a command-and-control server.

A logic bomb was executed and is responsible for the data transfers.

A fireless virus is spreading in the local network environment.

109. A cybersecurity analyst reviews the log files from a web server and sees a series of files that indicates a directory-traversal attack has occurred.

Which of the following is the analyst MOST likely seeing?

A)

Option A

Option B

Option C

Option D

110. When selecting a technical solution for identity management, an architect chooses to go from an in-house to a third-party SaaS provider.

Which of the following risk management strategies is this an example of?

Acceptance

Mitigation

Avoidance

Transference

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111. An organization needs to implement more stringent controls over administrator/root credentials and service accounts.

Requirements for the project include:

✑ Check-in/checkout of credentials

✑ . The ability to use but not know the password

✑ Automated password changes

✑ Logging of access to credentials

Which of the following solutions would meet the requirements?

OAuth 2.0

Secure Enclave

A privileged access management system

An OpenID Connect authentication system

112. Phishing and spear-phishing attacks have been occurring more frequently against a company’s staff.

Which of the following would MOST likely help mitigate this issue?

DNSSEC and DMARC

DNS query logging

Exact mail exchanger records in the DNS

The addition of DNS conditional forwarders

113. An analyst needs to identify the applications a user was running and the files that were open before the user’s computer was shut off by holding down the power button.

Which of the following would MOST likely contain that information?

NGFW

Pagefile

NetFlow

RAM

114. A company recently set up an e-commerce portal to sell its product online. The company wants to start accepting credit cards for payment, which requires compliance with a security standard.

Which of the following standards must the company comply with before accepting credit cards on its e-commerce platform?

PCI DSS

ISO 22301

ISO 27001

NIST CSF

115. Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

Asymmetric encryption

Blockchain

Transport Layer Security

Perfect forward secrecy

116. Which of the following are the MOST likely vectors for the unauthorized inclusion of vulnerable code in a software company’s final software releases? (Select TWO.)

Unsecure protocols

Use of penetration-testing utilities

Weak passwords

Included third-party libraries

Vendors/supply chain

Outdated anti-malware software

117. An organization has a growing workforce that is mostly driven by additions to the sales department. Each newly hired salesperson relies on a mobile device to conduct business. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is wondering it the organization may need to scale down just as quickly as it scaled up. The ClO is also concerned about the organization's security and customer privacy.

Which of the following would be BEST to address the ClO’s concerns?

Disallow new hires from using mobile devices for six months

Select four devices for the sales department to use in a CYOD model

Implement BYOD for the sates department while leveraging the MDM

Deploy mobile devices using the COPE methodology

118. A university with remote campuses, which all use different service providers, loses Internet connectivity across all locations. After a few minutes, Internet and VoIP services are restored, only to go offline again at random intervals, typically within four minutes of services being restored. Outages continue throughout the day, impacting all inbound and outbound connections and services. Services that are limited to the local LAN or WiFi network are not impacted, but all WAN and VoIP services are affected.

Later that day, the edge-router manufacturer releases a CVE outlining the ability of an attacker to exploit the SIP protocol handling on devices, leading to resource exhaustion and system reloads.

Which of the following BEST describe this type of attack? (Choose two.)

DoS

SSL stripping

Memory leak

Race condition

Shimming

Refactoring

119. A company's Chief Information Office (CIO) is meeting with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to plan some activities to enhance the skill levels of the company's developers.

Which of the following would be MOST suitable for training the developers'?

A capture-the-flag competition

A phishing simulation

Physical security training

Baste awareness training

120. A network administrator has been asked to install an IDS to improve the security posture of an organization.

Which of the following control types is an IDS?

Corrective

Physical

Detective

Administrative

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121. Which of the following will MOST likely adversely impact the operations of unpatched traditional programmable-logic controllers, running a back-end LAMP server and OT systems with human-management interfaces that are accessible over the Internet via a web interface? (Choose two.)

Cross-site scripting

Data exfiltration

Poor system logging

Weak encryption

SQL injection

Server-side request forgery

122. A financial organization has adopted a new secure, encrypted document-sharing application to help with its customer loan process. Some important PII needs to be shared across this new platform, but it is getting blocked by the DLP systems.

Which of the following actions will BEST allow the PII to be shared with the secure application without compromising the organization’s security posture?

Configure the DLP policies to allow all PII

Configure the firewall to allow all ports that are used by this application

Configure the antivirus software to allow the application

Configure the DLP policies to whitelist this application with the specific PII

Configure the application to encrypt the PII

123. An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organization already uses a smart card and password.

Which of the following would meet the organization’s needs for a third factor?

Date of birth

Fingerprints

TPM

124. A network administrator is setting up wireless access points in all the conference rooms and wants to authenticate device using PKI.

Which of the following should the administrator configure?

A captive portal

PSK

802.1X

WPS

125. A malicious actor recently penetration a company’s network and moved laterally to the datacenter. Upon investigation, a forensics firm wants to know was in the memory on the compromised server.

Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?

Security

Application

Dump

Syslog

126. After entering a username and password, and administrator must gesture on a touch screen.

Which of the following demonstrates what the administrator is providing?

Multifactor authentication

Something you can do

Biometric

Two-factor authentication

127. A workwide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromised. In one incident, a user logged in from the corporate office in France, but then seconds later, the same user account attempted a login from Brazil.

Which of the following account policies would BEST prevent this type of attack?

Network location

Impossible travel time

Geolocation

Geofencing

128. A security administrator needs to create a RAID configuration that is focused on high read speeds and fault tolerance. It is unlikely that multiple drivers will fail simultaneously.

Which of the following RAID configurations should the administration use?

RA1D 0

RAID1

RAID 5

RAID 10

129. Which of the following incident response steps involves actions to protect critical systems while maintaining business operations?

Investigation

Containment

Recovery

Lessons learned

130. A security analyst receives a SIEM alert that someone logged in to the appadmin test account, which is only used for the early detection of attacks.

The security analyst then reviews the following application log:

Which of the following can the security analyst conclude?

A replay attack is being conducted against the application.

An injection attack is being conducted against a user authentication system.

A service account password may have been changed, resulting in continuous failed logins within the application.

A credentialed vulnerability scanner attack is testing several CVEs against the application.

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131. Which of the following types of controls is a turnstile?

Physical

Detective

Corrective

Technical

132. Which of the following BEST explains the reason why a server administrator would place a document named password.txt on the desktop of an administrator account on a server?

The document is a honeyfile and is meant to attract the attention of a cyberintruder.

The document is a backup file if the system needs to be recovered.

The document is a standard file that the OS needs to verify the login credentials.

The document is a keylogger that stores all keystrokes should the account be compromised.

133. A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platforms to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application.

Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

SIEM

DLP

CASB

SWG

134. On which of the following is the live acquisition of data for forensic analysis MOST dependent? (Choose two.)

Data accessibility

Legal hold

Cryptographic or hash algorithm

Data retention legislation

Value and volatility of data

Right-to-audit clauses

135. The Chief Security Officer (CSO) at a major hospital wants to implement SSO to help improve in the environment patient data, particularly at shared terminals. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned that training and guidance have been provided to frontline staff, and a risk analysis has not been performed.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the CRO’s concerns?

SSO would simplify username and password management, making it easier for hackers to pass guess accounts.

SSO would reduce password fatigue, but staff would still need to remember more complex passwords.

SSO would reduce the password complexity for frontline staff.

SSO would reduce the resilience and availability of system if the provider goes offline.

136. DRAG DROP

A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.

INSTRUCTIONS

Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

137. A cybersecurity manager has scheduled biannual meetings with the IT team and department leaders to discuss how they would respond to hypothetical cyberattacks. During these meetings, the manager presents a scenario and injects additional information throughout the session to replicate what might occur in a dynamic cybersecurity event involving the company, its facilities, its data, and its staff.

Which of the following describes what the manager is doing?

Developing an incident response plan

Building a disaster recovery plan

Conducting a tabletop exercise

Running a simulation exercise

138. A user contacts the help desk to report the following:

✑ Two days ago, a pop-up browser window prompted the user for a name and password after connecting to the corporate wireless SSID. This had never happened before, but the user entered the information as requested.

✑ . The user was able to access the Internet but had trouble accessing the department share until the next day.

✑ . The user is now getting notifications from the bank about unauthorized transactions.

Which of the following attack vectors was MOST likely used in this scenario?

Rogue access point

Evil twin

DNS poisoning

ARP poisoning

139. A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platform to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application.

Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

SIEM

DLP

CASB

SWG

140. A consultant is configuring a vulnerability scanner for a large, global organization in multiple countries. The consultant will be using a service account to scan systems with administrative privileges on a weekly basis, but there is a concern that hackers could gain access to account to the account and pivot through the global network.

Which of the following would be BEST to help mitigate this concern?

Create consultant accounts for each region, each configured with push MFA notifications.

Create one global administrator account and enforce Kerberos authentication

Create different accounts for each region. limit their logon times, and alert on risky logins

Create a guest account for each region. remember the last ten passwords, and block password reuse

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141. A development team employs a practice of bringing all the code changes from multiple team members into the same development project through automation. A tool is utilized to validate the code and track source code through version control.

Which of the following BEST describes this process?

Continuous delivery

Continuous integration

Continuous validation

Continuous monitoring

142. A smart switch has the ability to monitor electrical levels and shut off power to a building in the event of power surge or other fault situation. The switch was installed on a wired network in a hospital and is monitored by the facilities department via a cloud application. The security administrator isolated the switch on a separate VLAN and set up a patch routine.

Which of the following steps should also be taken to harden the smart switch?

Set up an air gap for the switch.

Change the default password for the switch.

Place the switch In a Faraday cage.

Install a cable lock on the switch

143. Company engineers regularly participate in a public Internet forum with other engineers throughout the industry.

Which of the following tactics would an attacker MOST likely use in this scenario?

Watering-hole attack

Credential harvesting

Hybrid warfare

Pharming

144. Which of the following allows for functional test data to be used in new systems for testing and training purposes to protect the real data?

Data encryption

Data masking

Data deduplication

Data minimization

145. Which of the following is a team of people dedicated testing the effectiveness of organizational security programs by emulating the techniques of potential attackers?

Red team

While team

Blue team

Purple team

146. An employee has been charged with fraud and is suspected of using corporate assets.

As authorities collect evidence, and to preserve the admissibility of the evidence, which of the following forensic techniques should be used?

Order of volatility

Data recovery

Chain of custody

Non-repudiation

147. A security administrator suspects an employee has been emailing proprietary information to a competitor. Company policy requires the administrator to capture an exact copy of the employee’s hard disk.

Which of the following should the administrator use?

chmod

dnsenum

logger

148. A network administrator would like to configure a site-to-site VPN utilizing iPSec. The administrator wants the tunnel to be established with data integrity encryption, authentication and anti- replay functions.

Which of the following should the administrator use when configuring the VPN?

EDR

ESP

DNSSEC

149. Which of the following relets to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

Shadow IT

OSINT

Dark web

Insider threats

150. Which of the following algorithms has the SMALLEST key size?

DES

Twofish

RSA

AES

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151. A nuclear plant was the victim of a recent attack, and all the networks were air gapped. A subsequent investigation revealed a worm as the source of the issue.

Which of the following BEST explains what happened?

A malicious USB was introduced by an unsuspecting employee.

The ICS firmware was outdated

A local machine has a RAT installed.

The HVAC was connected to the maintenance vendor.

152. An organization routes all of its traffic through a VPN Most users are remote and connect into a corporate datacenter that houses confidential information There is a firewall at the Internet border followed by a DIP appliance, the VPN server and the datacenter itself.

Which of the following is the WEAKEST design element?

The DLP appliance should be integrated into a NGF

Split-tunnel connections can negatively impact the DLP appliance's performance

Encrypted VPN traffic will not be inspected when entering or leaving the network

Adding two hops in the VPN tunnel may slow down remote connections

153. An end user reports a computer has been acting slower than normal for a few weeks. During an investigation, an analyst determines the system is sending the user's email address and a ten-digit number to an IP address once a day.

The only recent log entry regarding the user's computer is the following:

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

The end user purchased and installed a PUP from a web browser

A bot on the computer is brute forcing passwords against a website

A hacker is attempting to exfiltrate sensitive data

Ransomware is communicating with a command-and-control server.

154. A company recently experienced an attack in which a malicious actor was able to exfiltrate data by cracking stolen passwords, using a rainbow table the sensitive data.

Which of the following should a security engineer do to prevent such an attack in the future?

Use password hashing.

Enforce password complexity.

Implement password salting.

Disable password reuse.

155. Which of the following are requirements that must be configured for PCI DSS compliance? (Select TWO).

Testing security systems and processes regularly

Installing and maintaining a web proxy to protect cardholder data

Assigning a unique ID to each person with computer access

Encrypting transmission of cardholder data across private networks

Benchmarking security awareness training for contractors

Using vendor-supplied default passwords for system passwords

156. Which of the following provides the BEST protection for sensitive information and data stored in cloud-based services but still allows for full functionality and searchability of data within the cloud-based services?

Data encryption

Data masking

Anonymization

Tokenization

157. Which of the following disaster recovery tests is. The LEAST time consuming for the disaster recovery team?

Tabletop

Parallel

Full interruption

Simulation

158. An attacked is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL www.validwebsite.com. The attacker's intent is to imitate the look and feel of a legitimate website to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users.

Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

Information elicitation

Typo squatting

Impersonation

Watering-hole attack

159. A security manager for a retailer needs to reduce the scope of a project to comply with PCI DSS. The PCI data is located in different offices than where credit cards are accepted. All the offices are connected via MPLS back to the primary datacenter.

Which of the following should the security manager implement to achieve the objective?

Segmentation

Containment

Geofencing

Isolation

160. When used at the design stage, which of the following improves the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of a database?

Tokenization

Data masking

Normalization

Obfuscation

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161. A network engineer needs to create a plan for upgrading the wireless infrastructure in a large office Priority must be given to areas that are currently experiencing latency and connection issues.

Which of the following would be the BEST resource for determining the order of priority?

Nmapn

Heat maps

Network diagrams

Wireshark

162. An organization has been experiencing outages during holiday sales and needs to ensure availability of its point-of-sale systems. The IT administrator has been asked to improve both server-data fault tolerance and site availability under high consumer load.

Which of the following are the BEST options to accomplish this objective'? (Select TWO)

Load balancing

Incremental backups

UPS

RAID

Dual power supply

NIC teaming

163. A security analyst is reviewing logs on a server and observes the following output:

Which of the following is the security analyst observing?

A rainbow table attack

A password-spraying attack

A dictionary attack

A keylogger attack

164. Which of the following scenarios BEST describes a risk reduction technique?

A security control objective cannot be met through a technical change, so the company purchases insurance and is no longer concerned about losses from data breaches.

A security control objective cannot be met through a technical change, so the company implements a policy to train users on a more secure method of operation.

A security control objective cannot be met through a technical change, so the company changes as method of operation

A security control objective cannot be met through a technical change, so the Chief Information Officer (CIO) decides to sign off on the risk.

165. A security analyst is investigating an incident to determine what an attacker was able to do on a compromised laptop.

The analyst reviews the following SIEM log:

Which of the following describes the method that was used to compromise the laptop?

An attacker was able to move laterally from PC1 to PC2 using a pass-the-hash attack

An attacker was able to bypass application whitelisting by emailing a spreadsheet attachment with an embedded PowerShell in the file

An attacker was able to install malware to the CAasdf234 folder and use it to gam administrator nights and launch Outlook

An attacker was able to phish user credentials successfully from an Outlook user profile

166. A company's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) recently warned the security manager that the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is planning to publish a controversial option article in a national newspaper, which may result in new cyberattacks.

Which of the following would be BEST for the security manager to use in a threat mode?

Hacktivists

White-hat hackers

Script kiddies

Insider threats

167. An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.

Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

hping3 -S corsptia.org -p 80

nc ―1 ―v comptia.org -p 80

nmap comptia.org -p 80 ―sV

nslookup -port=80 comptia.org

168. Which of the following types of controls is a CCTV camera that is not being monitored?

Detective

Deterrent

Physical

Preventive

169. A security analyst is logged into a Windows file server and needs to see who is accessing files and from which computers.

Which of the following tools should the analyst use?

netstat

net share

netcat

nbtstat

net session

170. The facilities supervisor for a government agency is concerned about unauthorized access to environmental systems in the event the staff WiFi network is breached.

Which of the blowing would BEST address this security concern?

install a smart meter on the staff WiFi.

Place the environmental systems in the same DHCP scope as the staff WiFi.

Implement Zigbee on the staff WiFi access points.

Segment the staff WiFi network from the environmental systems network.

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171. A company is launching a new internet platform for its clients. The company does not want to implement its own authorization solution but instead wants to rely on the authorization

provided by another platform.

Which of the following is the BEST approach to implement the desired solution?

OAuth

TACACS+

SAML

RADIUS

172. A university is opening a facility in a location where there is an elevated risk of theft. The university wants to protect the desktops in its classrooms and labs.

Which of the following should the university use to BEST protect these assets deployed in the facility?

Visitor logs

Cable locks

Guards

Disk encryption

Motion detection

173. The following is an administrative control that would be MOST effective to reduce the occurrence of malware execution?

Security awareness training

Frequency of NIDS updates

Change control procedures

EDR reporting cycle

174. A security analyst needs to generate a server certificate to be used for 802.1X and secure RDP connections. The analyst is unsure what is required to perform the task and solicits help from a senior colleague.

Which of the following is the FIRST step the senior colleague will most likely tell the analyst to perform to accomplish this task?

Create an OCSP

Generate a CSR

Create a CRL

Generate a .pfx file

175. A Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) personal information was stolen in a social engineering attack.

Which of the following sources would reveal if the CEO's personal information is for sale?

Automated information sharing

Open-source intelligence

The dark web

Vulnerability databases

176. An information security incident recently occurred at an organization, and the organization was required to report the incident to authorities and notify the affected parties. When the organization's customers became of aware of the incident, some reduced their orders or stopped placing orders entirely.

Which of the following is the organization experiencing?

Reputation damage

Identity theft

Anonymlzation

Interrupted supply chain

177. An organization's RPO for a critical system is two hours. The system is used Monday through Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Currently, the organization performs a full backup every Saturday that takes four hours to complete.

Which of the following additional backup implementations would be the BEST way for the analyst to meet the business requirements?

Incremental backups Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m and differential backups hourly

Full backups Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m and incremental backups hourly.

incremental backups Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m and full backups hourly.

Full backups Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m and differential backups hourly.

178. An organization has decided to host its web application and database in the cloud.

Which of the following BEST describes the security concerns for this decision?

Access to the organization's servers could be exposed to other cloud-provider clients

The cloud vendor is a new attack vector within the supply chain

Outsourcing the code development adds risk to the cloud provider

Vendor support will cease when the hosting platforms reach EO

179. During a routine scan of a wireless segment at a retail company, a security administrator discovers several devices are connected to the network that do not match the company's naming convention and are not in the asset Inventory. WiFi access Is protected with 255-Wt encryption via WPA2. Physical access to the company's facility requires two-factor authentication using a badge and a passcode.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to find and remediate the Issue? (Select TWO).

Check the SIEM for failed logins to the LDAP directory.

Enable MAC filtering on the switches that support the wireless network.

Run a vulnerability scan on all the devices in the wireless network

Deploy multifactor authentication for access to the wireless network

Scan the wireless network for rogue access points.

Deploy a honeypot on the network

180. An enterprise has hired an outside security firm to conduct penetration testing on its network and applications. The firm has only been given the documentation available to the customers of the applications.

Which of the following BEST represents the type of testing that will occur?

Bug bounty

Black-box

Gray-box

White-box

Red-team

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181. After consulting with the Chief Risk Officer (CRO). a manager decides to acquire cybersecurity insurance for the company.

Which of the following risk management strategies is the manager adopting?

Risk acceptance

Risk avoidance

Risk transference

Risk mitigation

182. A forensics investigator is examining a number of unauthorized payments the were reported on the company's website. Some unusual log entries show users received an email for an unwanted mailing list and clicked on a link to attempt to unsubscribe.

One of the users reported the email to the phishing team, and the forwarded email revealed the link to be:

<a href-"https://www.company.com/payto.do?routing=00001111&accc=22223334&amount-250">Click here to unsubscribe</a>

Which of the following will the forensics investigator MOST likely determine has occurred?

SQL injection

CSRF

XSS

XSRF

183. A security analyst needs to implement an MDM solution for BYOD users that will allow the company to retain control over company emails residing on the devices and limit data exfiltration that might occur if the devices are lost or stolen.

Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

Full-device encryption

Network usage rules

Geofencing

Containerization

Application whitelisting

Remote control

184. A security analyst needs to make a recommendation for restricting access to certain segments of the network using only data-link layer security.

Which of the following controls will the analyst MOST likely recommend?

MAC

ACL

BPDU

ARP

185. A security engineer needs to enhance MFA access to sensitive areas in a building. A key card and fingerprint scan are already in use.

Which of the following would add another factor of authentication?

Hard token

Retina scan

SMS text

Keypad PIN

186. A large enterprise has moved all Hs data to the cloud behind strong authentication and encryption A sales director recently had a laptop stolen and later, enterprise data was round to have been compromised database.

Which of the following was the MOST likely cause?

Shadow IT

Credential stuffing

SQL injection

Man-in-the-browser

Bluejacking

187. An organization has hired a security analyst to perform a penetration test. The analyst captures 1Gb worth of inbound network traffic to the server and transfer the pcap back to the machine for analysis.

Which of the following tools should the analyst use to further review the pcap?

Nmap

cURL

Netcat

Wireshark

Real Updated CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 Exam Questions

Real Updated CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 Exam Questions

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