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1. Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be hired by a foreign government to attack critical systems located in other countries?

Hacktivist

Whistleblower

Organized crime

Unskilled attacker

2. Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?

Key stretching

Data masking

Steganography

Salting

3. An employee clicked a link in an email from a payment website that asked the employee to update contact information. The employee entered the log-in information but received a “page not found” error message.

Which of the following types of social engineering attacks occurred?

Brand impersonation

Pretexting

Typosquatting

Phishing

4. A data administrator is configuring authentication for a SaaS application and would like to reduce the number of credentials employees need to maintain. The company prefers to use domain credentials to access new SaaS applications.

Which of the following methods would allow this functionality?

SSO

LEAP

MFA

PEAP

5. Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?

An employee receives a gift card request in an email that has an executive's name in the display field of the email.

Employees who open an email attachment receive messages demanding payment in order to access files.

A service desk employee receives an email from the HR director asking for log-in credentials to a cloud administrator account.

An employee receives an email with a link to a phishing site that is designed to look like the company's email portal.

6. A company prevented direct access from the database administrators’ workstations to the network segment that contains database servers.

Which of the following should a database administrator use to access the database servers?

Jump server

RADIUS

HSM

Load balancer

7. An organization’s internet-facing website was compromised when an attacker exploited a buffer overflow.

Which of the following should the organization deploy to best protect against similar attacks in the future?

NGFW

WAF

TLS

SD-WAN

8. An administrator notices that several users are logging in from suspicious IP addresses. After speaking with the users, the administrator determines that the employees were not logging in from those IP addresses and resets the affected users’ passwords.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to prevent this type of attack from succeeding in the future?

Multifactor authentication

Permissions assignment

Access management

Password complexity

9. An employee receives a text message that appears to have been sent by the payroll department and is asking for credential verification.

Which of the following social engineering techniques are being attempted? (Choose two.)

A. Typosquatting

B. Phishing

C. Impersonation

D. Vishing

E. Smishing

F. Misinformation

10. Several employees received a fraudulent text message from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

The message stated:

“I’m in an airport right now with no access to email. I need you to buy gift cards for employee recognition awards. Please send the gift cards to following email address.”

Which of the following are the best responses to this situation? (Choose two).

Cancel current employee recognition gift cards.

Add a smishing exercise to the annual company training.

Issue a general email warning to the company.

Have the CEO change phone numbers.

Conduct a forensic investigation on the CEO's phone.

Implement mobile device management.

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11. A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks.

Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

A thorough analysis of the supply chain

A legally enforceable corporate acquisition policy

A right to audit clause in vendor contracts and SOWs

An in-depth penetration test of all suppliers and vendors

12. Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?

Rules of engagement

Supply chain analysis

Right to audit clause

Due diligence

13. A penetration tester begins an engagement by performing port and service scans against the client environment according to the rules of engagement.

Which of the following reconnaissance types is the tester performing?

Active

Passive

Defensive

Offensive

14. Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?

IRP

DRP

RPO

SDLC

15. Which of the following vulnerabilities is associated with installing software outside of a manufacturer’s approved software repository?

Jailbreaking

Memory injection

Resource reuse

Side loading

16. A security analyst is reviewing the following logs:

Which of the following attacks is most likely occurring?

Password spraying

Account forgery

Pass-t he-hash

Brute-force

17. An analyst is evaluating the implementation of Zero Trust principles within the data plane.

Which of the following would be most relevant for the analyst to evaluate?

Secured zones

Subject role

Adaptive identity

Threat scope reduction

18. An engineer needs to find a solution that creates an added layer of security by preventing unauthorized access to internal company resources.

Which of the following would be the best solution?

RDP server

Jump server

Proxy server

Hypervisor

19. A company’s web filter is configured to scan the URL for strings and deny access when matches are found.

Which of the following search strings should an analyst employ to prohibit access to non-encrypted websites?

encryption=off

http://

www.*.com

:443

20. During a security incident, the security operations team identified sustained network traffic from a malicious IP address: 10.1.4.9. A security analyst is creating an inbound firewall rule to block the IP address from accessing the organization’s network.

Which of the following fulfills this request?

access-list inbound deny ig source 0.0.0.0/0 destination 10.1.4.9/32

access-list inbound deny ig source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0

access-list inbound permit ig source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0

access-list inbound permit ig source 0.0.0.0/0 destination 10.1.4.9/32

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21. A company needs to provide administrative access to internal resources while minimizing the traffic allowed through the security boundary.

Which of the following methods is most secure?

Implementing a bastion host

Deploying a perimeter network

Installing a WAF

Utilizing single sign-on

22. A security analyst is reviewing alerts in the SIEM related to potential malicious network traffic coming from an employee’s corporate laptop. The security analyst has determined that additional data about the executable running on the machine is necessary to continue the investigation.

Which of the following logs should the analyst use as a data source?

Application

IPS/IDS

Network

Endpoint

23. A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks.

SIEM alerts have not yet been configured.

Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?

[Digital forensics

E-discovery

Incident response

Threat hunting

24. A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register.

Which of the following strategies does this represent?

Transfer

Mitigate

Avoid

25. A security administrator would like to protect data on employees’ laptops.

Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?

Partition

Asymmetric

Full disk

Database

26. Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?

Detective

Compensating

Corrective

Preventive

27. An IT manager informs the entire help desk staff that only the IT manager and the help desk lead will have access to the administrator console of the help desk software.

Which of the following security techniques is the IT manager setting up?

Hardening

Employee monitoring

Configuration enforcement

Least privilege

28. Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?

Risk tolerance

Risk transfer

Risk register

Risk analysis

29. Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?

Disaster recovery plan

Incident response procedure

Business continuity plan

Change management procedure

30. A company is expanding its threat surface program and allowing individuals to security test the company’s internet-facing application. The company will compensate researchers based on the vulnerabilities discovered.

Which of the following best describes the program the company is setting up?

Open-source intelligence

Bug bounty

Red team

Penetration testing

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31. Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?

Insider

Unskilled attacker

Nation-state

Hacktivist

32. Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?

Cross-site scripting

Side loading

Buffer overflow

SQL injection

33. Employees in the research and development business unit receive extensive training to ensure they understand how to best protect company data.

Which of the following is the type of data these employees are most likely to use in day-to-day work activities?

Encrypted

Intellectual property

Critical

Data in transit

34. A company has begun labeling all laptops with asset inventory stickers and associating them with employee IDs.

Which of the following security benefits do these actions provide? (Choose two.)

A. If a security incident occurs on the device, the correct employee can be notified.

B. The security team will be able to send user awareness training to the appropriate device.

C. Users can be mapped to their devices when configuring software MFA tokens.

D. User-based firewall policies can be correctly targeted to the appropriate laptops.

E. When conducting penetration testing, the security team will be able to target the desired laptops.

F. Company data can be accounted for when the employee leaves the organization.

35. A technician wants to improve the situational and environmental awareness of existing users as they transition from remote to in-office work.

Which of the following is the best option?

Send out periodic security reminders.

Update the content of new hire documentation.

Modify the content of recurring training.

Implement a phishing campaign

36. A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors.

Which of the following should the systems administrator use?

Packet captures

Vulnerability scans

Metadata

Dashboard

37. A systems administrator receives the following alert from a file integrity monitoring tool:

The hash of the cmd.exe file has changed.

The systems administrator checks the OS logs and notices that no patches were applied in the last two months.

Which of the following most likely occurred?

The end user changed the file permissions.

A cryptographic collision was detected.

A snapshot of the file system was taken.

A rootkit was deployed.

38. Which of the following roles, according to the shared responsibility model, is responsible for securing the company’s database in an IaaS model for a cloud environment?

Client

Third-party vendor

Cloud provider

DBA

39. A client asked a security company to provide a document outlining the project, the cost, and the completion time frame.

Which of the following documents should the company provide to the client?

MSA

SLA

BPA

SOW

40. A security team is reviewing the findings in a report that was delivered after a third party performed a penetration test. One of the findings indicated that a web application form field is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Which of the following application security techniques should the security analyst recommend the developer implement to prevent this vulnerability?

Secure cookies

Version control

Input validation

Code signing

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41. Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two).

Ease of recovery

Ability to patch

Physical isolation

Responsiveness

Attack surface

Extensible authentication

42. A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system.

Which of the following steps should be taken first?

Air gap the system.

Move the system to a different network segment.

Create a change control request.

Apply the patch to the system.

43. Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?

To gather loCs for the investigation

To discover which systems have been affected

To eradicate any trace of malware on the network

To prevent future incidents of the same nature

44. Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?

Fines

Audit findings

Sanctions

Reputation damage

45. A company is developing a business continuity strategy and needs to determine how many staff members would be required to sustain the business in the case of a disruption.

Which of the following best describes this step?

Capacity planning

Redundancy

Geographic dispersion

Tablet exercise

46. A company’s legal department drafted sensitive documents in a SaaS application and wants to ensure the documents cannot be accessed by individuals in high-risk countries.

Which of the following is the most effective way to limit this access?

Data masking

Encryption

Geolocation policy

Data sovereignty regulation

47. Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?

Firmware version

Buffer overflow

SQL injection

Cross-site scripting

48. While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a “deny any” policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable.

Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?

Documenting the new policy in a change request and submitting the request to change management

Testing the policy in a non-production environment before enabling the policy in the production network

Disabling any intrusion prevention signatures on the 'deny any* policy prior to enabling the new policy

Including an 'allow any1 policy above the 'deny any* policy

49. An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement

and RTO and RPO values around two days.

Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?

Real-time recovery

Hot

Cold

Warm

50. A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling.

Which of the following best describes this policy?

Enumeration

Sanitization

Destruction

Inventory

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51. A systems administrator works for a local hospital and needs to ensure patient data is protected and secure.

Which of the following data classifications should be used to secure patient data?

Private

Critical

Sensitive

Public

52. A U.S.-based cloud-hosting provider wants to expand its data centers to new international locations.

Which of the following should the hosting provider consider first?

Local data protection regulations

Risks from hackers residing in other countries

Impacts to existing contractual obligations

Time zone differences in log correlation

53. Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?

Access control list

Application allow list.

Host-based firewall

DLP solution

54. A company hired a consultant to perform an offensive security assessment covering penetration testing and social engineering.

Which of the following teams will conduct this assessment activity?

White

Purple

Blue

Red

55. A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company.

Which of the following options is the most appropriate?

Testing input validation on the user input fields

Performing code signing on company-developed software

Performing static code analysis on the software

Ensuring secure cookies are use

56. Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?

Honey pot

Video surveillance

Zero Trust

Geofencing

57. During an investigation, an incident response team attempts to understand the source of an incident.

Which of the following incident response activities describes this process?

Analysis

Lessons learned

Detection

Containment

58. A security practitioner completes a vulnerability assessment on a company’s network and finds several vulnerabilities, which the operations team remediates.

Which of the following should be done next?

Conduct an audit.

Initiate a penetration test.

Rescan the network.

Submit a report.

59. An administrator was notified that a user logged in remotely after hours and copied large amounts of data to a personal device.

Which of the following best describes the user’s activity?

Penetration testing

Phishing campaign

External audit

Insider threat

60. Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?

Adaptive identity

Non-repudiation

Authentication

Access logs

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61. Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?

Automation

Compliance checklist

Attestation

Manual audit

62. Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?

SCAP

Net Flow

Antivirus

DLP

63. An organization recently updated its security policy to include the following statement:

Regular expressions are included in source code to remove special characters such as $, |, ;. &, `, and ? from variables set by forms in a web application.

Which of the following best explains the security technique the organization adopted by making this addition to the policy?

Identify embedded keys

Code debugging

Input validation

Static code analysis

64. A security analyst and the management team are reviewing the organizational performance of a recent phishing campaign. The user click-through rate exceeded the acceptable risk threshold, and the management team wants to reduce the impact when a user clicks on a link in a phishing message.

Which of the following should the analyst do?

Place posters around the office to raise awareness of common phishing activities.

Implement email security filters to prevent phishing emails from being delivered

Update the EDR policies to block automatic execution of downloaded programs.

Create additional training for users to recognize the signs of phishing attempts.

65. Which of the following has been implemented when a host-based firewall on a legacy Linux system allows connections from only specific internal IP addresses?

Compensating control

Network segmentation

Transfer of risk

SNMP traps

66. The management team notices that new accounts that are set up manually do not always have correct access or permissions.

Which of the following automation techniques should a systems administrator use to streamline account creation?

Guard rail script

Ticketing workflow

Escalation script

User provisioning script

67. A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based.

Which of the following meets these requirements?

Serverless framework

Type 1 hvpervisor

SD-WAN

SDN

68. A security operations center determines that the malicious activity detected on a server is normal.

Which of the following activities describes the act of ignoring detected activity in the future?

Tuning

Aggregating

Quarantining

Archiving

69. A security analyst reviews domain activity logs and notices the following:

Which of the following is the best explanation for what the security analyst has discovered?

The user jsmith's account has been locked out.

A keylogger is installed on [smith's workstation

An attacker is attempting to brute force ismith's account.

Ransomware has been deployed in the domain.

70. A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime.

Which of the following should the company consider?

Clustering servers

Geographic dispersion

Load balancers

Off-site backups

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71. Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?

End of life

Buffer overflow

VM escape

Jailbreaking

72. A company decided to reduce the cost of its annual cyber insurance policy by removing the coverage for ransomware attacks.

Which of the following analysis elements did the company most likely use in making this decision?

IMTTR

RTO

ARO

MTBF

73. Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?

Reporting phishing attempts or other suspicious activities

Detecting insider threats using anomalous behavior recognition

Verifying information when modifying wire transfer data

Performing social engineering as part of third-party penetration testing

74. 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.

75. HOTSPOT

You are security administrator investigating a potential infection on a network.

Click on each host and firewall. Review all logs to determine which host originated the Infecton and then deny each remaining hosts clean or infected.

76. Which of the following vulnerabilities is exploited when an attacker overwrites a register with a malicious address?

VM escape

SQL injection

Buffer overflow

Race condition

77. Which of the following would be the best way to handle a critical business application that is running on a legacy server?

Segmentation

Isolation

Hardening

Decommissioning

78. Which of the following describes the process of concealing code or text inside a graphical image?

Symmetric encryption

Hashing

Data masking

Steganography

79. After a company was compromised, customers initiated a lawsuit. The company's attorneys have requested that the security team initiate a legal hold in response to the lawsuit.

Which of the following describes the action the security team will most likely be required to take?

Retain the emails between the security team and affected customers for 30 days.

Retain any communications related to the security breach until further notice.

Retain any communications between security members during the breach response.

Retain all emails from the company to affected customers for an indefinite period of time.

80. A network manager wants to protect the company's VPN by implementing multifactor authentication that uses:

. Something you know

. Something you have

. Something you are

Which of the following would accomplish the manager's goal?

Domain name, PKI, GeolP lookup

VPN IP address, company ID, facial structure

Password, authentication token, thumbprint

Company URL, TLS certificate, home address

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81. A security manager created new documentation to use in response to various types of security incidents.

Which of the following is the next step the manager should take?

Set the maximum data retention policy.

Securely store the documents on an air-gapped network.

Review the documents' data classification policy.

Conduct a tabletop exercise with the team.

82. Users at a company are reporting they are unable to access the URL for a new retail website because it is flagged as gambling and is being blocked.

Which of the following changes would allow users to access the site?

Creating a firewall rule to allow HTTPS traffic

Configuring the IPS to allow shopping

Tuning the DLP rule that detects credit card data

Updating the categorization in the content filter

83. An administrator discovers that some files on a database server were recently encrypted. The administrator sees from the security logs that the data was last accessed by a domain user.

Which of the following best describes the type of attack that occurred?

Insider threat

Social engineering

Watering-hole

Unauthorized attacker

84. Which of the following automation use cases would best enhance the security posture of an organization by rapidly updating permissions when employees leave a company?

Provisioning resources

Disabling access

Reviewing change approvals

Escalating permission requests

85. Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Select two).

Ease of recovery

Ability to patch

Physical isolation

Responsiveness

Attack surface

Extensible authentication

86. Which of the following methods to secure credit card data is best to use when a requirement is to see only the last four numbers on a credit card?

Encryption

Hashing

Masking

Tokenization

87. An administrator finds that all user workstations and servers are displaying a message that is associated with files containing an extension of .ryk.

Which of the following types of infections is present on the systems?

Virus

Trojan

Spyware

Ransomware

88. A healthcare organization wants to provide a web application that allows individuals to digitally report health emergencies.

Which of the following is the most important consideration during development?

Scalability

Availability

Cost

Ease of deployment

89. An organization wants a third-party vendor to do a penetration test that targets a specific device. The organization has provided basic information about the device.

Which of the following best describes this kind of penetration test?

Partially known environment

Unknown environment

Integrated

Known environment

90. An attacker posing as the Chief Executive Officer calls an employee and instructs the employee to buy gift cards.

Which of the following techniques is the attacker using?

Smishing

Disinformation

Impersonating

Whaling

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91. An organization is leveraging a VPN between its headquarters and a branch location.

Which of the following is the VPN protecting?

Data in use

Data in transit

Geographic restrictions

Data sovereignty

92. The marketing department set up its own project management software without telling the appropriate departments.

Which of the following describes this scenario?

Shadow IT

Insider threat

Data exfiltration

Service disruption

93. An enterprise is trying to limit outbound DNS traffic originating from its internal network. Outbound DNS requests will only be allowed from one device with the IP address 10.50.10.25.

Which of the following firewall ACLs will accomplish this goal?

Access list outbound permit 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53Access list outbound deny 10.50.10.25/32 0.0.0.0/0 port 53

Access list outbound permit 0.0.0.0/0 10.50.10.25/32 port 53Access list outbound deny 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53

Access list outbound permit 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53Access list outbound deny 0.0.0.0/0 10.50.10.25/32 port 53

Access list outbound permit 10.50.10.25/32 0.0.0.0/0 port 53Access list outbound deny 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53

94. After a security incident, a systems administrator asks the company to buy a NAC platform.

Which of the following attack surfaces is the systems administrator trying to protect?

Bluetooth

Wired

NFC

SCADA

95. Which of the following factors are the most important to address when formulating a training curriculum plan for a security awareness program? (Select two).

Channels by which the organization communicates with customers

The reporting mechanisms for ethics violations

Threat vectors based on the industry in which the organization operates

Secure software development training for all personnel

Cadence and duration of training events

Retraining requirements for individuals who fail phishing simulations

96. An organization disabled unneeded services and placed a firewall in front of a business-critical legacy system.

Which of the following best describes the actions taken by the organization?

Exception

Segmentation

Risk transfer

Compensating controls

97. Which of the following is the best reason to complete an audit in a banking environment?

Regulatory requirement

Organizational change

Self-assessment requirement

Service-level requirement

98. A security administrator is deploying a DLP solution to prevent the exfiltration of sensitive customer data.

Which of the following should the administrator do first?

Block access to cloud storage websites.

Create a rule to block outgoing email attachments.

Apply classifications to the data.

Remove all user permissions from shares on the file server.

99. Which of the following describes a security alerting and monitoring tool that collects system, application, and network logs from multiple sources in a centralized system?

SIEM

DLP

IDS

SNMP

100. Which of the following are cases in which an engineer should recommend the decommissioning of a network device? (Select two).

The device has been moved from a production environment to a test environment.

The device is configured to use cleartext passwords.

The device is moved to an isolated segment on the enterprise network.

The device is moved to a different location in the enterprise.

The device's encryption level cannot meet organizational standards.

The device is unable to receive authorized updates.

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101. An administrator assists the legal and compliance team with ensuring information about customer transactions is archived for the proper time period.

Which of the following data policies is the administrator carrying out?

Compromise

Retention

Analysis

Transfer

Inventory

102. A systems administrator is working on a solution with the following requirements:

• Provide a secure zone.

• Enforce a company-wide access control policy.

• Reduce the scope of threats.

Which of the following is the systems administrator setting up?

Zero Trust

AAA

Non-repudiation

CIA

103. A security administrator needs a method to secure data in an environment that includes some form of checks so that the administrator can track any changes.

Which of the following should the administrator set up to achieve this goal?

SPF

GPO

NAC

FIM

104. Which of the following is the phase in the incident response process when a security analyst reviews roles and responsibilities?

Preparation

Recovery

Lessons learned

Analysis

105. A company is discarding a classified storage array and hires an outside vendor to complete the disposal.

Which of the following should the company request from the vendor?

Certification

Inventory list

Classification

Proof of ownership

106. Which of the following would be the best ways to ensure only authorized personnel can access a secure facility? (Select two).

Fencing

Video surveillance

Badge access

Access control vestibule

Sign-in sheet

Sensor

107. A company's marketing department collects, modifies, and stores sensitive customer data. The infrastructure team is responsible for securing the data while in transit and at rest.

Which of the following data roles describes the customer?

Processor

Custodian

Subject

Owner

108. Malware spread across a company's network after an employee visited a compromised industry blog.

Which of the following best describes this type of attack?

Impersonation

Disinformation

Watering-hole

Smishing

109. After a recent ransomware attack on a company's system, an administrator reviewed the log files.

Which of the following control types did the administrator use?

Compensating

Detective

Preventive

Corrective

110. Which of the following agreement types defines the time frame in which a vendor needs to respond?

SOW

SLA

MOA

MOU

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111. A Chief Information Security Officer wants to monitor the company's servers for SQLi attacks and

allow for comprehensive investigations if an attack occurs. The company uses SSL decryption to allow traffic monitoring.

Which of the following strategies would best accomplish this goal?

Logging all NetFlow traffic into a SIEM

Deploying network traffic sensors on the same subnet as the servers

Logging endpoint and OS-specific security logs

Enabling full packet capture for traffic entering and exiting the servers

112. A client demands at least 99.99% uptime from a service provider's hosted security services.

Which of the following documents includes the information the service provider should return to the client?

MOA

SOW

MOU

SLA

113. A company is adding a clause to its AUP that states employees are not allowed to modify the operating system on mobile devices.

Which of the following vulnerabilities is the organization addressing?

Cross-site scripting

Buffer overflow

Jailbreaking

Side loading

114. Which of the following practices would be best to prevent an insider from introducing malicious code into a company's development process?

Code scanning for vulnerabilities

Open-source component usage

Quality assurance testing

Peer review and approval

115. A systems administrator is creating a script that would save time and prevent human error when performing account creation for a large number of end users.

Which of the following would be a good use case for this task?

Off-the-shelf software

Orchestration

Baseline

Policy enforcement

116. After an audit, an administrator discovers all users have access to confidential data on a file server.

Which of the following should the administrator use to restrict access to the data quickly?

Group Policy

Content filtering

Data loss prevention

Access control lists

117. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to explicitly raise awareness about the increase of

ransomware-as-a-service in a report to the management team.

Which of the following best describes the threat actor in the CISO's report?

Insider threat

Hacktivist

Nation-state

Organized crime

118. A small business uses kiosks on the sales floor to display product information for customers. A security team discovers the kiosks use end-of-life operating systems.

Which of the following is the security team most likely to document as a security implication of the current architecture?

Patch availability

Product software compatibility

Ease of recovery

Cost of replacement

119. A company is developing a critical system for the government and storing project information on a file share.

Which of the following describes how this data will most likely be classified? (Select two).

Private

Confidential

Public

Operational

Urgent

Restricted

120. After reviewing the following vulnerability scanning report:

Server:192.168.14.6

Service: Telnet

Port: 23 Protocol: TCP

Status: Open Severity: High

Vulnerability: Use of an insecure network protocol

A security analyst performs the following test:

nmap -p 23 192.168.14.6 ―script telnet-encryption

PORT STATE SERVICE REASON

23/tcp open telnet syn-ack

I telnet encryption:

| _ Telnet server supports encryption

Which of the following would the security analyst conclude for this reported vulnerability?

It is a false positive.

A rescan is required.

It is considered noise.

Compensating controls exist.

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121. A security consultant needs secure, remote access to a client environment.

Which of the following should the security consultant most likely use to gain access?

EAP

DHCP

IPSec

NAT

122. Which of the following best practices gives administrators a set period to perform changes to an operational system to ensure availability and minimize business impacts?

Impact analysis

Scheduled downtime

Backout plan

Change management boards

123. Which of the following actions could a security engineer take to ensure workstations and servers are properly monitored for unauthorized changes and software?

Configure all systems to log scheduled tasks.

Collect and monitor all traffic exiting the network.

Block traffic based on known malicious signatures.

Install endpoint management software on all systems.

124. After a security awareness training session, a user called the IT help desk and reported a suspicious call. The suspicious caller stated that the Chief Financial Officer wanted credit card information in order to close an invoice.

Which of the following topics did the user recognize from the training?

Insider threat

Email phishing

Social engineering

Executive whaling

125. Which of the following exercises should an organization use to improve its incident response process?

Tabletop

Replication

Failover

Recovery

126. Which of the following is used to validate a certificate when it is presented to a user?

OCSP

CSR

CRC

127. A newly identified network access vulnerability has been found in the OS of legacy loT devices.

Which of the following would best mitigate this vulnerability quickly?

Insurance

Patching

Segmentation

Replacement

128. A bank insists all of its vendors must prevent data loss on stolen laptops.

Which of the following strategies is the bank requiring?

Encryption at rest

Masking

Data classification

Permission restrictions

129. Which of the following would be best suited for constantly changing environments?

RTOS

Containers

Embedded systems

SCADA

130. A security analyst scans a company's public network and discovers a host is running a remote

desktop that can be used to access the production network.

Which of the following changes should the security analyst recommend?

Changing the remote desktop port to a non-standard number

Setting up a VPN and placing the jump server inside the firewall

Using a proxy for web connections from the remote desktop server

Connecting the remote server to the domain and increasing the password length

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131. Which of the following involves an attempt to take advantage of database misconfigurations?

Buffer overflow

SQL injection

VM escape

Memory injection

132. An organization would like to store customer data on a separate part of the network that is not accessible to users on the main corporate network.

Which of the following should the administrator use to accomplish this goal?

Segmentation

Isolation

Patching

Encryption

133. Which of the following is used to quantitatively measure the criticality of a vulnerability?

CVE

CVSS

CIA

CERT

134. A technician is opening ports on a firewall for a new system being deployed and supported by a SaaS provider.

Which of the following is a risk in the new system?

Default credentials

Non-segmented network

Supply chain vendor

Vulnerable software

135. Which of the following security concepts is the best reason for permissions on a human resources fileshare to follow the principle of least privilege?

Integrity

Availability

Confidentiality

Non-repudiation

136. Security controls in a data center are being reviewed to ensure data is properly protected and that human life considerations are included.

Which of the following best describes how the controls should be set up?

Remote access points should fail closed.

Logging controls should fail open.

Safety controls should fail open.

Logical security controls should fail closed.

137. Which of the following is the most common data loss path for an air-gapped network?

Bastion host

Unsecured Bluetooth

Unpatched OS

Removable devices

138. Which of the following can best protect against an employee inadvertently installing malware on a company system?

Host-based firewall

System isolation

Least privilege

Application allow list

139. An organization is struggling with scaling issues on its VPN concentrator and internet circuit due to remote work. The organization is looking for a software solution that will allow it to reduce traffic on the VPN and internet circuit, while still providing encrypted tunnel access to the data center and monitoring of remote employee internet traffic.

Which of the following will help achieve these objectives?

Deploying a SASE solution to remote employees

Building a load-balanced VPN solution with redundant internet

Purchasing a low-cost SD-WAN solution for VPN traffic

Using a cloud provider to create additional VPN concentrators

140. A company's end users are reporting that they are unable to reach external websites. After reviewing the performance data for the DNS severs, the analyst discovers that the CPU, disk, and memory usage are minimal, but the network interface is flooded with inbound traffic. Network logs show only a small number of DNS queries sent to this server.

Which of the following best describes what the security analyst is seeing?

Concurrent session usage

Secure DNS cryptographic downgrade

On-path resource consumption

Reflected denial of service

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141. A systems administrator wants to prevent users from being able to access data based on their responsibilities. The administrator also wants to apply the required access structure via a simplified format.

Which of the following should the administrator apply to the site recovery resource group?

RBAC

ACL

SAML

GPO

142. One of a company's vendors sent an analyst a security bulletin that recommends a BIOS update.

Which of the following vulnerability types is being addressed by the patch?

Virtualization

Firmware

Application

Operating system

143. A security analyst locates a potentially malicious video file on a server and needs to identify both the creation date and the file's creator.

Which of the following actions would most likely give the security analyst the information required?

Obtain the file's SHA-256 hash.

Use hexdump on the file's contents.

Check endpoint logs.

Query the file's metadata.

144. After a recent vulnerability scan, a security engineer needs to harden the routers within the corporate network.

Which of the following is the most appropriate to disable?

Console access

Routing protocols

VLANs

Web-based administration

145. Which of the following should a systems administrator use to ensure an easy deployment of resources within the cloud provider?

Software as a service

Infrastructure as code

Internet of Things

Software-defined networking

146. An enterprise has been experiencing attacks focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in older browser versions with well-known exploits.

Which of the following security solutions should be configured to best provide the ability to monitor and block these known signature-based attacks?

ACL

DLP

IDS

IPS

147. During the onboarding process, an employee needs to create a password for an intranet account. The password must include ten characters, numbers, and letters, and two special characters. Once the password is created, the company will grant the employee access to other company-owned websites based on the intranet profile.

Which of the following access management concepts is the company most likely using to safeguard intranet accounts and grant access to multiple sites based on a user's intranet account? (Select two).

Federation

Identity proofing

Password complexity

Default password changes

Password manager

Open authentication

148. An administrator is reviewing a single server's security logs and discovers the following;

Which of the following best describes the action captured in this log file?

Brute-force attack

Privilege escalation

Failed password audit

Forgotten password by the user

149. A security engineer is implementing FDE for all laptops in an organization.

Which of the following are the most important for the engineer to consider as part of the planning process? (Select two).

Key escrow

TPM presence

Digital signatures

Data tokenization

Public key management

Certificate authority linking

150. A hacker gained access to a system via a phishing attempt that was a direct result of a user clicking a suspicious link. The link laterally deployed ransomware, which laid dormant for multiple weeks, across the network.

Which of the following would have mitigated the spread?

IPS

IDS

WAF

UAT

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151. A user is attempting to patch a critical system, but the patch fails to transfer.

Which of the following access controls is most likely inhibiting the transfer?

Attribute-based

Time of day

Role-based

Least privilege

152. Which of the following is used to protect a computer from viruses, malware, and Trojans being installed and moving laterally across the network?

IDS

ACL

EDR

NAC

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