SecuritySY0 601 266Q
SecuritySY0 601 266Q
SecuritySY0 601 266Q
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QUESTION 1
A user is attempting to navigate to a website from inside the company network using a desktop. When the user
types in the URL, https://www.site.com, the user is presented with a certificate mismatch warning from the
browser. The user does not receive a warning when visiting http://www.anothersite.com. Which of the following
describes this attack?
A. On-path
B. Domain hijacking
C. DNS poisoning
D. Evil twin
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 2
Which of the following tools is effective in preventing a user from accessing unauthorized removable media?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 3
A Chief Security Officer is looking for a solution that can provide increased scalability and flexibility for back-end
infrastructure, allowing it to be updated and modified without disruption to services. The security architect would
like the solution selected to reduce the back-end server resources and has highlighted that session persistence
is not important for the applications running on the back-end servers. Which of the following would BEST meet
the requirements?
A. Reverse proxy
B. Automated patch management
C. Snapshots
D. NIC teaming
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 4
Which of the following describes a social engineering technique that seeks to exploit a person’s sense of
urgency?
A. A phishing email stating a cash settlement has been awarded but will expire soon
B. A smishing message stating a package is scheduled for pickup
C. A vishing call that requests a donation be made to a local charity
D. A SPIM notification claiming to be undercover law enforcement investigating a cybercrime
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 5
A security analyst is reviewing application logs to determine the source of a breach and locates the following
log:
https://www.comptia.com/login.php?id='%20or%20'1'1='1
A. DLL Injection
B. API attack
C. SQLi
D. XSS
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 6
An audit identified PII being utilized in the development environment of a critical application. The Chief Privacy
Officer (CPO) is adamant that this data must be removed; however, the developers are concerned that without
real data they cannot perform functionality tests and search for specific data. Which of the following should a
security professional implement to BEST satisfy both the CPO’s and the development team’s requirements?
A. Data anonymization
B. Data encryption
C. Data masking
D. Data tokenization
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 7
A company is implementing a DLP solution on the file server. The file server has PII, financial information, and
health information stored on it. Depending on what type of data that is hosted on the file server, the company
wants different DLP rules assigned to the data. Which of the following should the company do to help
accomplish this goal?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 8
A forensics investigator is examining a number of unauthorized payments that 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&acct=22223334&amount=250">Click here to unsubscribe</a>
Which of the following will the forensics investigator MOST likely determine has occurred?
A. SQL injection
B. Broken authentication
C. XSS
D. XSRF
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 9
A report delivered to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) shows that some user credentials could be
exfiltrated. The report also indicates that users tend to choose the same credentials on different systems and
applications. Which of the following policies should the CISO use to prevent someone from using the exfiltrated
credentials?
A. MFA
B. Lockout
C. Time-based logins
D. Password history
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 10
A company wants to simplify the certificate management process. The company has a single domain with
several dozen subdomains, all of which are publicly accessible on the internet. Which of the following BEST
describes the type of certificate the company should implement?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 11
Which of the following is an effective tool to stop or prevent the exfiltration of data from a network?
A. DLP
B. NIDS
C. TPM
D. FDE
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 12
Several attempts have been made to pick the door lock of a secure facility. As a result, the security engineer
has been assigned to implement a stronger preventative access control. Which of the following would BEST
complete the engineer’s assignment?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 13
Which of the following can be used by a monitoring tool to compare values and detect password leaks without
providing the actual credentials?
A. Hashing
B. Tokenization
C. Masking
D. Encryption
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 14
A security engineer is building a file transfer solution to send files to a business partner. The users would like to
drop off the files in a specific directory and have the server send the file to the business partner. The connection
to the business partner is over the internet and needs to be secure. Which of the following can be used?
A. S/MIME
B. LDAPS
C. SSH
D. SRTP
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 15
An administrator needs to protect user passwords and has been advised to hash the passwords. Which of the
following BEST describes what the administrator is being advised to do?
A. Perform a mathematical operation on the passwords that will convert them into unique strings.
B. Add extra data to the passwords so their length is increased, making them harder to brute force.
C. Store all passwords in the system in a rainbow table that has a centralized location.
D. Enforce the use of one-time passwords that are changed for every login session.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 16
Which of the following would be indicative of a hidden audio file found inside of a piece of source code?
A. Steganography
B. Homomorphic encryption
C. Cipher suite
D. Blockchain
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 17
A user enters a username and a password at the login screen for a web portal. A few seconds later the
following message appears on the screen:
A. Password complexity
B. Password reuse
C. Password history
D. Password age
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 18
A company recently experienced an inside attack using a corporate machine that resulted in data compromise.
Analysis indicated an unauthorized change to the software circumvented technological protection measures.
The analyst was tasked with determining the best method to ensure the integrity of the systems remains intact
and local and remote boot attestation can take place. Which of the following would provide the BEST solution?
A. HIPS
B. FIM
C. TPM
D. DLP
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 19
Which of the following is a reason to publish files’ hashes?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 20
A security manager has tasked the security operations center with locating all web servers that respond to an
unsecure protocol. Which of the following commands could an analyst run to find the requested servers?
A. nslookup 10.10.10.0
B. nmap -p 80 10.10.10.0/24
C. pathping 10.10.10.0 -p 80
D. ne -l -p 80
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 21
Which biometric error would allow an unauthorized user to access a system?
A. False acceptance
B. False entrance
C. False rejection
D. False denial
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 22
A company is auditing the manner in which its European customers’ personal information is handled. Which of
the following should the company consult?
A. GDPR
B. ISO
C. NIST
D. PCI DSS
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 23
Which of the following are common VoIP-associated vulnerabilities? (Choose two.)
A. SPIM
B. Vishing
C. Hopping
D. Phishing
E. Credential harvesting
F. Tailgating
Correct Answer: AB
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QUESTION 24
Which of the following describes the exploitation of an interactive process to gain access to restricted areas?
A. Persistence
B. Buffer overflow
C. Privilege escalation
D. Pharming
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 25
An organization is planning to open other data centers to sustain operations in the event of a natural disaster.
Which of the following considerations would BEST support the organization’s resiliency?
A. Geographic dispersal
B. Generator power
C. Fire suppression
D. Facility automation
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 26
A security engineer is deploying a new wireless network for a company. The company shares office space with
multiple tenants. Which of the following should the engineer configure on the wireless network to ensure that
confidential data is not exposed to unauthorized users?
A. EAP
B. TLS
C. HTTPS
D. AES
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 27
The Chief Compliance Officer from a bank has approved a background check policy for all new hires. Which of
the following is the policy MOST likely protecting against?
A. Preventing any current employees’ siblings from working at the bank to prevent nepotism
B. Hiring an employee who has been convicted of theft to adhere to industry compliance
C. Filtering applicants who have added false information to resumes so they appear better qualified
D. Ensuring no new hires have worked at other banks that may be trying to steal customer information
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 28
An engineer recently deployed a group of 100 web servers in a cloud environment. Per the security policy, all
web-server ports except 443 should be disabled. Which of the following can be used to accomplish this task?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 29
A technician was dispatched to complete repairs on a server in a data center. While locating the server, the
technician entered a restricted area without authorization. Which of the following security controls would BEST
prevent this in the future?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 30
Which of the following would BEST provide a systems administrator with the ability to more efficiently identify
systems and manage permissions and policies based on location, role, and service level?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 31
Which of the following would detect intrusions at the perimeter of an airport?
A. Signage
B. Fencing
C. Motion sensors
D. Lighting
E. Bollards
Correct Answer: E
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QUESTION 32
A security analyst is concerned about critical vulnerabilities that have been detected on some applications
running inside containers. Which of the following is the BEST remediation strategy?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 33
An organization has decided to purchase an insurance policy because a risk assessment determined that the
cost to remediate the risk is greater than the five-year cost of the insurance policy. The organization is enabling
risk:
A. avoidance.
B. acceptance.
C. mitigation.
D. transference.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 34
A security analyst receives an alert from the company’s SIEM that anomalous activity is coming from a local
source IP address of 192.168.34.26. The Chief Information Security Officer asks the analyst to block the
originating source. Several days later, another employee opens an internal ticket stating that vulnerability scans
are no longer being performed properly. The IP address the employee provides is 192.168.34.26. Which of the
following describes this type of alert?
A. True negative
B. True positive
C. False positive
D. False negative
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 35
A security analyst wants to reference a standard to develop a risk management program. Which of the following
is the BEST source for the analyst to use?
A. SSAE SOC 2
B. ISO 31000
C. NIST CSF
D. GDPR
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 36
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) requested a report on potential areas of improvement following a
security incident. Which of the following incident response processes is the CISO requesting?
A. Lessons learned
B. Preparation
C. Detection
D. Containment
E. Root cause analysis
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 37
A company is providing security awareness training regarding the importance of not forwarding social media
messages from unverified sources. Which of the following risks would this training help to prevent?
A. Hoaxes
B. SPIMs
C. Identity fraud
D. Credential harvesting
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 38
A security analyst is receiving numerous alerts reporting that the response time of an internet-facing application
has been degraded. However, the internal network performance was not degraded. Which of the following
MOST likely explains this behavior?
A. DNS poisoning
B. MAC flooding
C. DDoS attack
D. ARP poisoning
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 39
Which of the following will increase cryptographic security?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 40
Which of the following statements BEST describes zero-day exploits?
A. When a zero-day exploit is discovered, the system cannot be protected by any means.
B. Zero-day exploits have their own scoring category in CVSS.
C. A zero-day exploit is initially undetectable, and no patch for it exists.
D. Discovering zero-day exploits is always performed via bug bounty programs.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 41
A company wants to restrict emailing of PHI documents. The company is implementing a DLP solution. In order
to restrict PHI documents, which of the following should be performed FIRST?
A. Retention
B. Governance
C. Classification
D. Change management
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 42
A security analyst is investigating some users who are being redirected to a fake website that resembles
www.comptia.org. The following output was found on the naming server of the organization:
A. Domain reputation
B. Domain hijacking
C. Disassociation
D. DNS poisoning
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 43
Which of the following describes the continuous delivery software development methodology?
A. Waterfall
B. Spiral
C. V-shaped
D. Agile
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 44
Which of the following is the BEST example of a cost-effective physical control to enforce a USB removable
media restriction policy?
A. Putting security/antitamper tape over USB ports, logging the port numbers, and regularly inspecting the
ports
B. Implementing a GPO that will restrict access to authorized USB removable media and regularly verifying
that it is enforced
C. Placing systems into locked, key-controlled containers with no access to the USB ports
D. Installing an endpoint agent to detect connectivity of USB and removable media
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 45
A company suspects that some corporate accounts were compromised. The number of suspicious logins from
locations not recognized by the users is increasing. Employees who travel need their accounts protected
without the risk of blocking legitimate login requests that may be made over new sign-in properties. Which of
the following security controls can be implemented?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 46
An organization wants to participate in threat intelligence information sharing with peer groups. Which of the
following would MOST likely meet the organization’s requirement?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 47
Which of the following is the MOST effective control against zero-day vulnerabilities?
A. Network segmentation
B. Patch management
C. Intrusion prevention system
D. Multiple vulnerability scanners
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 48
Which of the following is the GREATEST security concern when outsourcing code development to third-party
contractors for an internet-facing application?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 49
An organization has hired a red team to simulate attacks on its security posture. Which of the following will the
blue team do after detecting an IoC?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 50
An amusement park is implementing a biometric system that validates customers’ fingerprints to ensure they
are not sharing tickets. The park’s owner values customers above all and would prefer customers’ convenience
over security. For this reason, which of the following features should the security team prioritize FIRST?
A. Low FAR
B. Low efficacy
C. Low FRR
D. Low CER
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 51
Which of the following organizations sets frameworks and controls for optimal security configuration on
systems?
A. ISO
B. GDPR
C. PCI DSS
D. NIST
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 52
An organization discovered files with proprietary financial data have been deleted. The files have been
recovered from backup, but every time the Chief Financial Officer logs in to the file server, the same files are
deleted again. No other users are experiencing this issue. Which of the following types of malware is MOST
likely causing this behavior?
A. Logic bomb
B. Cryptomalware
C. Spyware
D. Remote access Trojan
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 53
A security analyst has identified malware spreading through the corporate network and has activated the
CSIRT. Which of the following should the analyst do NEXT?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 54
During an incident response, an analyst applied rules to all inbound traffic on the border firewall and
implemented ACLs on each critical server. Following an investigation, the company realizes it is still vulnerable
because outbound traffic is not restricted, and the adversary is able to maintain a presence in the network. In
which of the following stages of the Cyber Kill Chain is the adversary currently operating?
A. Reconnaissance
B. Command and control
C. Actions on objective
D. Exploitation
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 55
A recent security breach exploited software vulnerabilities in the firewall and within the network management
solution. Which of the following will MOST likely be used to identify when the breach occurred through each
device?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 56
Which of the following is the FIRST environment in which proper, secure coding should be practiced?
A. Stage
B. Development
C. Production
D. Test
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 57
A cloud service provider has created an environment where customers can connect existing local networks to
the cloud for additional computing resources and block internal HR applications from reaching the cloud. Which
of the following cloud models is being used?
A. Public
B. Community
C. Hybrid
D. Private
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 58
An organization has developed an application that needs a patch to fix a critical vulnerability. In which of the
following environments should the patch be deployed LAST?
A. Test
B. Staging
C. Development
D. Production
Correct Answer: C
(without section)
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QUESTION 59
An organization is building backup server rooms in geographically diverse locations. The Chief Information
Security Officer implemented a requirement on the project that states the new hardware cannot be susceptible
to the same vulnerabilities in the existing server room. Which of the following should the systems engineer
consider?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 60
A security analyst is working on a project to implement a solution that monitors network communications and
provides alerts when abnormal behavior is detected. Which of the following is the security analyst MOST likely
implementing?
A. Vulnerability scans
B. User behavior analysis
C. Security orchestration, automation, and response
D. Threat hunting
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 61
Data exfiltration analysis indicates that an attacker managed to download system configuration notes from a
web server. The web-server logs have been deleted, but analysts have determined that the system
configuration notes were stored in the database administrator’s folder on the web server. Which of the following
attacks explains what occurred? (Choose two.)
A. Pass-the-hash
B. Directory traversal
C. SQL injection
D. Privilege escalation
E. Cross-site scripting
F. Request forgery
Correct Answer: BD
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QUESTION 62
A junior security analyst is conducting an analysis after passwords were changed on multiple accounts without
users’ interaction. The SIEM have multiple login entries with the following text:
Which of the following is the MOST likely attack conducted on the environment?
A. Malicious script
B. Privilege escalation
C. Domain hijacking
D. DNS poisoning
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 63
A customer service representative reported an unusual text message that was sent to the help desk. The
message contained an unrecognized invoice number with a large balance due and a link to click for more
details. Which of the following BEST describes this technique?
A. Vishing
B. Whaling
C. Phishing
D. Smishing
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 64
Which of the following actions would be recommended to improve an incident response process?
A. Train the team to identify the difference between events and incidents.
B. Modify access so the IT team has full access to the compromised assets.
C. Contact the authorities if a cybercrime is suspected.
D. Restrict communication surrounding the response to the IT team.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 65
A cybersecurity administrator needs to implement a Layer 7 security control on a network and block potential
attacks. Which of the following can block an attack at Layer 7? (Choose two.)
A. HIDS
B. NIPS
C. HSM
D. WAF
E. NAC
F. NIDS
Correct Answer: BD
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QUESTION 66
A business operations manager is concerned that a PC that is critical to business operations will have a costly
hardware failure soon. The manager is looking for options to continue business operations without incurring
large costs. Which of the following would mitigate the manager’s concerns?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 67
An organization has activated an incident response plan due to a malware outbreak on its network. The
organization has brought in a forensics team that has identified an internet-facing Windows server as the likely
point of initial compromise. The malware family that was detected is known to be distributed by manually
logging on to servers and running the malicious code. Which of the following actions would be BEST to prevent
reinfection from the infection vector?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 68
Which of the following uses SAML for authentication?
A. TOTP
B. Federation
C. Kerberos
D. HOTP
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 69
The SOC for a large MSSP is meeting to discuss the lessons learned from a recent incident that took much too
long to resolve. This type of incident has become more common in recent weeks and is consuming large
amounts of the analysts’ time due to manual tasks being performed. Which of the following solutions should the
SOC consider to BEST improve its response time?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 70
Business partners are working on a security mechanism to validate transactions securely. The requirement is
for one company to be responsible for deploying a trusted solution that will register and issue artifacts used to
sign, encrypt, and decrypt transaction files. Which of the following is the BEST solution to adopt?
A. PKI
B. Blockchain
C. SAML
D. OAuth
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 71
A security analyst has been asked by the Chief Information Security Officer to:
develop a secure method of providing centralized management of infrastructure
reduce the need to constantly replace aging end user machines
provide a consistent user desktop experience
A. BYOD
B. Mobile device management
C. VDI
D. Containerization
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 72
Which of the following terms describes a broad range of information that is sensitive to a specific organization?
A. Public
B. Top secret
C. Proprietary
D. Open-source
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 73
A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned that cloud-based services are not adequately protected from
advanced threats and malware. The CSO believes there is a high risk that a data breach could occur in the
near future due to the lack of detective and preventive controls. Which of the following should be implemented
to BEST address the CSO’s concerns? (Choose two.)
A. A WAF
B. A CASB
C. An NG-SWG
D. Segmentation
E. Encryption
F. Containerization
Correct Answer: CD
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QUESTION 74
An organization is planning to roll out a new mobile device policy and issue each employee a new laptop. These
laptops would access the users’ corporate operating system remotely and allow them to use the laptops for
purposes outside of their job roles. Which of the following deployment models is being utilized?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 75
Certain users are reporting their accounts are being used to send unauthorized emails and conduct suspicious
activities. After further investigation, a security analyst notices the following:
All users share workstations throughout the day.
Endpoint protection was disabled on several workstations throughout the network.
Travel times on logins from the affected users are impossible.
Sensitive data is being uploaded to external sites.
All user account passwords were forced to be reset and the issue continued.
Which of the following attacks is being used to compromise the user accounts?
A. Brute-force
B. Keylogger
C. Dictionary
D. Rainbow
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 76
A security forensics analyst is examining a virtual server. The analyst wants to preserve the present state of the
virtual server, including memory contents. Which of the following backup types should be used?
A. Snapshot
B. Differential
C. Cloud
D. Full
E. Incremental
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 77
After returning from a conference, a user’s laptop has been operating slower than normal and overheating, and
the fans have been running constantly. During the diagnosis process, an unknown piece of hardware is found
connected to the laptop’s motherboard. Which of the following attack vectors was exploited to install the
hardware?
A. Removable media
B. Spear phishing
C. Supply chain
D. Direct access
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 78
After a recent security breach, a security analyst reports that several administrative usernames and passwords
are being sent via cleartext across the network to access network devices over port 23. Which of the following
should be implemented so all credentials sent over the network are encrypted when remotely accessing and
configuring network devices?
A. SSH
B. SNMPv3
C. SFTP
D. Telnet
E. FTP
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 79
Which of the following provides a calculated value for known vulnerabilities so organizations can prioritize
mitigation steps?
A. CVSS
B. SIEM
C. SOAR
D. CVE
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 80
Several universities are participating in a collaborative research project and need to share compute and storage
resources. Which of the following cloud deployment strategies would BEST meet this need?
A. Community
B. Private
C. Public
D. Hybrid
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 81
A forensic analyst needs to prove that data has not been tampered with since it was collected. Which of the
following methods will the analyst MOST likely use?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 82
Multiple business accounts were compromised a few days after a public website had its credentials database
leaked on the Internet. No business emails were identified in the breach, but the security team thinks that the
list of passwords exposed was later used to compromise business accounts. Which of the following would
mitigate the issue?
A. Complexity requirements
B. Password history
C. Acceptable use policy
D. Shared accounts
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 83
A security analyst wants to fingerprint a web server. Which of the following tools will the security analyst MOST
likely use to accomplish this task?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 84
A penetration tester was able to compromise an internal server and is now trying to pivot the current session in
a network lateral movement. Which of the following tools, if available on the server, will provide the MOST
useful information for the next assessment step?
A. Autopsy
B. Cuckoo
C. Memdump
D. Nmap
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 85
Field workers in an organization are issued mobile phones on a daily basis. All the work is performed within one
city, and the mobile phones are not used for any purpose other than work. The organization does not want
these phones used for personal purposes. The organization would like to issue the phones to workers as
permanent devices so the phones do not need to be reissued every day. Given the conditions described, which
of the following technologies would BEST meet these requirements?
A. Geofencing
B. Mobile device management
C. Containerization
D. Remote wiping
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 86
Which of the following control types is focused primarily on reducing risk before an incident occurs?
A. Preventive
B. Deterrent
C. Corrective
D. Detective
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 87
A systems administrator reports degraded performance on a virtual server. The administrator increases the
virtual memory allocation, which improves conditions, but performance degrades again after a few days. The
administrator runs an analysis tool and sees the following output:
The administrator terminates the timeAttend.exe, observes system performance over the next few days,
and notices that the system performance does not degrade. Which of the following issues is MOST likely
occurring?
A. DLL injection
B. API attack
C. Buffer overflow
D. Memory leak
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 88
An administrator is experiencing issues when trying to upload a support file to a vendor. A pop-up message
reveals that a payment card number was found in the file, and the file upload was blocked. Which of the
following controls is most likely causing this issue and should be checked FIRST?
A. DLP
B. Firewall rule
C. Content filter
D. MDM
E. Application allow list
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 89
Which of the following risk management strategies would an organization use to maintain a legacy system with
known risks for operational purposes?
A. Acceptance
B. Transference
C. Avoidance
D. Mitigation
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 90
Which of the following is the BEST action to foster a consistent and auditable incident response process?
A. Incent new hires to constantly update the document with external knowledge.
B. Publish the document in a central repository that is easily accessible to the organization.
C. Restrict eligibility to comment on the process to subject matter experts of each IT silo.
D. Rotate CIRT members to foster a shared responsibility model in the organization.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 91
During a recent penetration test, the tester discovers large amounts of data were exfiltrated over the course of
12 months via the internet. The penetration tester stops the test to inform the client of the findings. Which of the
following should be the client’s NEXT step to mitigate the issue?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 92
A security analyst is designing the appropriate controls to limit unauthorized access to a physical site. The
analyst has a directive to utilize the lowest possible budget. Which of the following would BEST meet the
requirements?
A. Preventive controls
B. Compensating controls
C. Deterrent controls
D. Detective controls
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 93
A company is looking to migrate some servers to the cloud to minimize its technology footprint. The company
has 100 databases that are on premises. Which of the following solutions will require the LEAST management
and support from the company?
A. SaaS
B. IaaS
C. PaaS
D. SDN
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 94
Which of the following employee roles is responsible for protecting an organization’s collected personal
information?
A. CTO
B. DPO
C. CEO
D. DBA
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 95
Against the recommendation of the IT security analyst, a company set all user passwords on a server as
“P@55w0rD”. Upon review of the /etc/passwd file, an attacker found the following:
alice:a8df3b6c4fd75f0617431fd248f35191df8d237f
bob:2d250c5b2976b03d757f324ebd59340df96aa05e
chris:ea981ec3285421d014108089f3f3f997ce0f4150
Which of the following BEST explains why the encrypted passwords do not match?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 96
After gaining access to a dual-homed (i.e., wired and wireless) multifunction device by exploiting a vulnerability
in the device's firmware, a penetration tester then gains shell access on another networked asset. This
technique is an example of:
A. privilege escalation.
B. footprinting.
C. persistence.
D. pivoting.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 97
Which of the following should be monitored by threat intelligence researchers who search for leaked
credentials?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 98
A security analyst needs to be able to search and correlate logs from multiple sources in a single tool. Which of
the following would BEST allow a security analyst to have this ability?
A. SOAR
B. SIEM
C. Log collectors
D. Network-attached storage
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 99
A security analyst is investigating suspicious traffic on the web server located at IP address 10.10.1.1. A search
of the WAF logs reveals the following output:
A. XSS attack
B. SQLi attack
C. Replay attack
D. XSRF attack
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 100
Which of the following components can be used to consolidate and forward inbound internet traffic to multiple
cloud environments though a single firewall?
A. Transit gateway
B. Cloud hot site
C. Edge computing
D. DNS sinkhole
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 101
A DBA reports that several production server hard drives were wiped over the weekend. The DBA also reports
that several Linux servers were unavailable due to system files being deleted unexpectedly. A security analyst
verified that software was configured to delete data deliberately from those servers. No backdoors to any
servers were found. Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used to cause the data loss?
A. Logic bomb
B. Ransomware
C. Fileless virus
D. Remote access Trojans
E. Rootkit
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 102
Digital signatures use asymmetric encryption. This means the message is encrypted with:
A. the sender’s private key and decrypted with the sender’s public key.
B. the sender’s public key and decrypted with the sender’s private key.
C. the sender’s private key and decrypted with the recipient’s public key.
D. the sender’s public key and decrypted with the recipient’s private key.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 103
A security engineer was assigned to implement a solution to prevent attackers from gaining access by
pretending to be authorized users. Which of the following technologies meets the requirement?
A. SSO
B. IDS
C. MFA
D. TPM
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 104
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has requested that a third-party vendor provide supporting
documents that show proper controls are in place to protect customer data. Which of the following would be
BEST for the third-party vendor to provide to the CISO?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 105
Which of the following is assured when a user signs an email using a private key?
A. Non-repudiation
B. Confidentiality
C. Availability
D. Authentication
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 106
A systems administrator is troubleshooting a server’s connection to an internal web server. The administrator
needs to determine the correct ports to use. Which of the following tools BEST shows which ports on the web
server are in a listening state?
A. ipconfig
B. ssh
C. ping
D. netstat
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 107
Which of the following BEST reduces the security risks introduced when running systems that have expired
vendor support and lack an immediate replacement?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 108
Due to unexpected circumstances, an IT company must vacate its main office, forcing all operations to
alternate, off-site locations. Which of the following will the company MOST likely reference for guidance during
this change?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 109
While reviewing an alert that shows a malicious request on one web application, a cybersecurity analyst is
alerted to a subsequent token reuse moments later on a different service using the same single sign-on
method. Which of the following would BEST detect a malicious actor?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 110
Two organizations plan to collaborate on the evaluation of new SIEM solutions for their respective companies.
A combined effort from both organizations’ SOC teams would speed up the effort. Which of the following can
be written to document this agreement?
A. MOU
B. ISA
C. SLA
D. NDA
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 111
The Chief Information Security Officer wants to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information from employee cell
phones when using public USB power charging stations. Which of the following would be the BEST solution to
implement?
A. DLP
B. USB data blocker
C. USB OTG
D. Disabling USB ports
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 112
The board of directors at a company contracted with an insurance firm to limit the organization’s liability. Which
of the following risk management practices does this BEST describe?
A. Transference
B. Avoidance
C. Mitigation
D. Acknowledgement
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 113
Which of the following is a risk that is specifically associated with hosting applications in the public cloud?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 114
DDoS attacks are causing an overload on the cluster of cloud servers. A security architect is researching
alternatives to make the cloud environment respond to load fluctuation in a cost-effective way. Which of the
following options BEST fulfills the architect’s requirements?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 115
Which of the following documents provides expectations at a technical level for quality, availability, and
responsibilities?
A. EOL
B. SLA
C. MOU
D. EOSL
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 116
Which of the following is an example of transference of risk?
A. Purchasing insurance
B. Patching vulnerable servers
C. Retiring outdated applications
D. Application owner risk sign-off
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 117
An employee received a word processing file that was delivered as an email attachment. The subject line and
email content enticed the employee to open the attachment. Which of the following attack vectors BEST
matches this malware?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 118
A security proposal was set up to track requests for remote access by creating a baseline of the users’
common sign-in properties. When a baseline deviation is detected, an MFA challenge will be triggered. Which
of the following should be configured in order to deploy the proposal?
A. Context-aware authentication
B. Simultaneous authentication of equals
C. Extensive authentication protocol
D. Agentless network access control
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 119
Which of the following secure coding techniques makes compromised code more difficult for hackers to use?
A. Obfuscation
B. Normalization
C. Execution
D. Reuse
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 120
As part of a security compliance assessment, an auditor performs automated vulnerability scans. In addition,
which of the following should the auditor do to complete the assessment?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 121
A database administrator wants to grant access to an application that will be reading and writing data to a
database. The database is shared by other applications also used by the finance department. Which of the
following account types is MOST appropriate for this purpose?
A. Service
B. Shared
C. Generic
D. Admin
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 122
A security analyst generated a file named host1.pcap and shared it with a team member who is going to use
it for further incident analysis. Which of the following tools will the other team member MOST likely use to open
this file?
A. Autopsy
B. Memdump
C. FTK imager
D. Wireshark
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 123
An application developer accidentally uploaded a company’s code-signing certificate private key to a public web
server. The company is concerned about malicious use of its certificate. Which of the following should the
company do FIRST?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 124
An organization implemented a process that compares the settings currently configured on systems against
secure configuration guidelines in order to identify any gaps. Which of the following control types has the
organization implemented?
A. Compensating
B. Corrective
C. Preventive
D. Detective
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 125
The Chief Information Security Officer directed a risk reduction in shadow IT and created a policy requiring all
unsanctioned high-risk SaaS applications to be blocked from user access. Which of the following is the BEST
security solution to reduce this risk?
A. CASB
B. VPN concentrator
C. MFA
D. VPC endpoint
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 126
A technician enables full disk encryption on a laptop that will be taken on a business trip. Which of the following
does this process BEST protect?
A. Data in transit
B. Data in processing
C. Data at rest
D. Data tokenization
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 127
A security analyst was called to investigate a file received directly from a hardware manufacturer. The analyst is
trying to determine whether the file was modified in transit before installation on the user’s computer. Which of
the following can be used to safely assess the file?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 128
A help desk technician receives a phone call from someone claiming to be a part of the organization’s
cybersecurity incident response team. The caller asks the technician to verify the network’s internal firewall IP
Address. Which of the following is the technician’s BEST course of action?
A. Direct the caller to stop by the help desk in person and hang up declining any further requests from the
caller.
B. Ask for the caller’s name, verify the person’s identity in the email directory, and provide the requested
information over the phone.
C. Write down the phone number of the caller if possible, the name of the person requesting the information,
hang up, and notify the organization’s cybersecurity officer.
D. Request the caller send an email for identity verification and provide the requested information via email to
the caller.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 129
Which of the following would BEST provide detective and corrective controls for thermal regulation?
A. A smoke detector
B. A fire alarm
C. An HVAC system
D. A fire suppression system
E. Guards
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 130
Which of the following is a benefit of including a risk management framework into an organization’s security
approach?
A. It defines expected service levels from participating supply chain partners to ensure system outages are
remediated in a timely manner.
B. It identifies specific vendor products that have been tested and approved for use in a secure environment.
C. It provides legal assurances and remedies in the event a data breach occurs.
D. It incorporates control, development, policy, and management activities into IT operations.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 131
An organization maintains several environments in which patches are developed and tested before being
deployed to an operational status. Which of the following is the environment in which patches will be deployed
just prior to being put into an operational status?
A. Development
B. Test
C. Production
D. Staging
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 132
During a trial, a judge determined evidence gathered from a hard drive was not admissible. Which of the
following BEST explains this reasoning?
A. The forensic investigator forgot to run a checksum on the disk image after creation.
B. The chain of custody form did not note time zone offsets between transportation regions.
C. The computer was turned off, and a RAM image could not be taken at the same time.
D. The hard drive was not properly kept in an antistatic bag when it was moved.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 133
An organization wants to implement a biometric system with the highest likelihood that an unauthorized user will
be denied access. Which of the following should the organization use to compare biometric solutions?
A. FRR
B. Difficulty of use
C. Cost
D. FAR
E. CER
Correct Answer: E
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QUESTION 134
A company recently experienced a significant data loss when proprietary information was leaked to a
competitor. The company took special precautions by using proper labels; however, email filter logs do not
have any record of the incident. An investigation confirmed the corporate network was not breached, but
documents were downloaded from an employee's COPE tablet and passed to the competitor via cloud storage.
Which of the following is the BEST remediation for this data leak?
A. User training
B. CASB
C. MDM
D. DLP
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 135
An attacker was eavesdropping on a user who was shopping online. The attacker was able to spoof the IP
address associated with the shopping site. Later, the user received an email regarding the credit card
statement with unusual purchases. Which of the following attacks took place?
A. On-path attack
B. Protocol poisoning
C. Domain hijacking
D. Bluejacking
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 136
A company is considering transitioning to the cloud. The company employs individuals from various locations
around the world. The company does not want to increase its on premises infrastructure blueprint and only
wants to pay for additional compute power required. Which of the following solutions would BEST meet the
needs of the company?
A. Private cloud
B. Hybrid environment
C. Managed security service provider
D. Hot backup site
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 137
After multiple on premises security solutions were migrated to the cloud, the incident response time increased.
The analysts are spending a long time trying to trace information on different cloud consoles and correlating
data in different formats. Which of the following can be used to optimize the incident response time?
A. CASB
B. VPC
C. SWG
D. CMS
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 138
Which of the following control types would be BEST to use in an accounting department to reduce losses from
fraudulent transactions?
A. Recovery
B. Deterrent
C. Corrective
D. Detective
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 139
A company is receiving emails with links to phishing sites that look very similar to the company’s own website
address and content. Which of the following is the BEST way for the company to mitigate this attack?
A. Create a honeynet to trap attackers who access the VPN with credentials obtained by phishing.
B. Generate a list of domains similar to the company’s own and implement a DNS sinkhole for each.
C. Disable POP and IMAP on all Internet-facing email servers and implement SMTPS.
D. Use an automated tool to flood the phishing websites with fake usernames and passwords.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 140
A SOC operator is receiving continuous alerts from multiple Linux systems indicating that unsuccessful SSH
attempts to a functional user ID have been attempted on each one of them in a short period of time. Which of
the following BEST explains this behavior?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 141
A tax organization is working on a solution to validate the online submission of documents. The solution should
be carried on a portable USB device that should be inserted on any computer that is transmitting a transaction
securely. Which of the following is the BEST certificate for these requirements?
A. User certificate
B. Self-signed certificate
C. Computer certificate
D. Root certificate
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 142
A routine audit of medical billing claims revealed that several claims were submitted without the subscriber's
knowledge. A review of the audit logs for the medical billing company’s system indicated a company employee
downloaded customer records and adjusted the direct deposit information to a personal bank account. Which of
the following does this action describe?
A. Insider threat
B. Social engineering
C. Third-party risk
D. Data breach
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 143
A recent audit cited a risk involving numerous low-criticality vulnerabilities created by a web application using a
third-party library. The development staff state there are still customers using the application even though it is
end of life and it would be a substantial burden to update the application for compatibility with more secure
libraries. Which of the following would be the MOST prudent course of action?
A. Accept the risk if there is a clear road map for timely decommission.
B. Deny the risk due to the end-of-life status of the application.
C. Use containerization to segment the application from other applications to eliminate the risk.
D. Outsource the application to a third-party developer group.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 144
A security analyst is evaluating solutions to deploy an additional layer of protection for a web application. The
goal is to allow only encrypted communications without relying on network devices. Which of the following can
be implemented?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 145
A company labeled some documents with the public sensitivity classification. This means the documents can
be accessed by:
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 146
Which of the following is the MOST relevant security check to be performed before embedding third-party
libraries in developed code?
A. Check to see if the third party has resources to create dedicated development and staging environments.
B. Verify the number of companies that downloaded the third-party code and the number of contributions on
the code repository.
C. Assess existing vulnerabilities affecting the third-party code and the remediation efficiency of the libraries’
developers.
D. Read multiple penetration-testing reports for environments running software that reused the library.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 147
A help desk technician receives an email from the Chief Information Officer (CIO) asking for documents. The
technician knows the CIO is on vacation for a few weeks. Which of the following should the technician do to
validate the authenticity of the email?
A. Check the metadata in the email header of the received path in reverse order to follow the email’s path.
B. Hover the mouse over the CIO’s email address to verify the email address.
C. Look at the metadata in the email header and verify the “From:” line matches the CIO’s email address.
D. Forward the email to the CIO and ask if the CIO sent the email requesting the documents.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 148
A company needs to validate its updated incident response plan using a real-world scenario that will test
decision points and relevant incident response actions without interrupting daily operations. Which of the
following would BEST meet the company’s requirements?
A. Red-team exercise
B. Capture-the-flag exercise
C. Tabletop exercise
D. Phishing exercise
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 149
Security analysts are conducting an investigation of an attack that occurred inside the organization’s network.
An attacker was able to collect network traffic between workstations throughout the network. The analysts
review the following logs:
The Layer 2 address table has hundreds of entries similar to the ones above. Which of the following attacks
has MOST likely occurred?
A. SQL injection
B. DNS spoofing
C. MAC flooding
D. ARP poisoning
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 150
A security policy states that common words should not be used as passwords. A security auditor was able to
perform a dictionary attack against corporate credentials. Which of the following controls was being violated?
A. Password complexity
B. Password history
C. Password reuse
D. Password length
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 151
A SOC operator is analyzing a log file that contains the following entries:
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 152
A security incident has been resolved. Which of the following BEST describes the importance of the final phase
of the incident response plan?
A. It examines and documents how well the team responded, discovers what caused the incident, and
determines how the incident can be avoided in the future.
B. It returns the affected systems back into production once systems have been fully patched, data restored,
and vulnerabilities addressed.
C. It identifies the incident and the scope of the breach, how it affects the production environment, and the
ingress point.
D. It contains the affected systems and disconnects them from the network, preventing further spread of the
attack or breach.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 153
HOTSPOT
Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with
its remediation.
INSTRUCTIONS
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
Hot Area:
Correct Answer:
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SIMULATION
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:
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
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Correct Answer: See explanation below.
Firewall 1:
DNS Rule – 10.0.0.1/24 --> ANY --> DNS --> PERMIT
HTTPS Outbound – 10.0.0.1/24 --> ANY --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
Management – ANY --> 10.0.0.1/24 --> SSH --> PERMIT
HTTPS Inbound – ANY --> 10.0.0.1/24 --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
HTTP Inbound – ANY --> 10.0.0.1/24 --> HTTP --> DENY
Firewall 2:
DNS Rule – 10.0.1.1/24 --> ANY --> DNS --> PERMIT
HTTPS Outbound – 10.0.1.1/24 --> ANY --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
Management – ANY --> 10.0.1.1/24 --> SSH --> PERMIT
HTTPS Inbound – ANY --> 10.0.1.1/24 --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
HTTP Inbound – ANY --> 10.0.1.1/24 --> HTTP --> DENY
Firewall 3:
DNS Rule – 10.0.0.1/24 --> 192.168.0.1/24 --> DNS --> PERMIT
HTTPS Outbound – 192.168.0.1/24 --> ANY --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
Management – ANY --> 192.168.0.1/24 --> SSH --> PERMIT
HTTPS Inbound – ANY --> 192.168.0.1/24 --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
HTTP Inbound – ANY --> 192.168.0.1/24 --> HTTP --> DENY
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QUESTION
SIMULATION
An attack has occurred against a company.
INSTRUCTIONS
You have been tasked to do the following:
Identify the type of attack that is occurring on the network by clicking on the attacker's tablet and reviewing the output.
Identify which compensating controls a developer should implement on the assets, in order to reduce the effectiveness of future
attacks by dragging them to the correct server.
All objects will be used, but not all placeholders may be filled. Objects may only be used once.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
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SIMULATION
A systems administrator needs to install a new wireless network for authenticated guest access. The wireless network should
support 802.1X using the most secure encryption and protocol available.
INSTRUCTIONS
Perform the following steps:
1. Configure the RADIUS server.
2. Configure the WiFi controller.
3. Preconfigure the client for an incoming guest. The guest AD credentials are:
User: guest01
Password: guestpass
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QUESTION 157
HOTSPOT
INSTRUCTIONS
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
Hot Area:
Correct Answer:
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QUESTION 158
After a recent security incident, a security analyst discovered that unnecessary ports were open on a firewall
policy for a web server. Which of the following firewall polices would be MOST secure for a web server?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 159
A large bank with two geographically dispersed data centers is concerned about major power disruptions at
both locations. Every day each location experiences very brief outages that last for a few seconds. However,
during the summer a high risk of intentional brownouts that last up to an hour exists, particularly at one of the
locations near an industrial smelter. Which of the following is the BEST solution to reduce the risk of data loss?
A. Dual supply
B. Generator
C. UPS
D. POU
E. Daily backups
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 160
Which of the following would be the BEST way to analyze diskless malware that has infected a VDI?
A. Shut down the VDI and copy off the event logs.
B. Take a memory snapshot of the running system.
C. Use NetFlow to identify command-and-control IPs.
D. Run a full on-demand scan of the root volume.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 161
Users are presented with a banner upon each login to a workstation. The banner mentions that users are not
entitled to any reasonable expectation of privacy and access is for authorized personnel only. In order to
proceed past that banner, users must click the OK button. Which of the following is this an example of?
A. AUP
B. NDA
C. SLA
D. MOU
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 162
The Chief Information Security Officer is concerned about employees using personal email rather than
company email to communicate with clients and sending sensitive business information and PII. Which of the
following would be the BEST solution to install on the employees’ workstations to prevent information from
leaving the company’s network?
A. HIPS
B. DLP
C. HIDS
D. EDR
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 163
On the way into a secure building, an unknown individual strikes up a conversation with an employee. The
employee scans the required badge at the door while the unknown individual holds the door open, seemingly
out of courtesy, for the employee. Which of the following social engineering techniques is being utilized?
A. Shoulder surfing
B. Watering-hole attack
C. Tailgating
D. Impersonation
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 164
Two hospitals merged into a single organization. The privacy officer requested a review of all records to ensure
encryption was used during record storage, in compliance with regulations. During the review, the officer
discovered that medical diagnosis codes and patient names were left unsecured. Which of the following types
of data does this combination BEST represent?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 165
A company discovered that terabytes of data have been exfiltrated over the past year after an employee clicked
on an email link. The threat continued to evolve and remain undetected until a security analyst noticed an
abnormal amount of external connections when the employee was not working. Which of the following is the
MOST likely threat actor?
A. Shadow IT
B. Script kiddies
C. APT
D. Insider threat
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 166
An untrusted SSL certificate was discovered during the most recent vulnerability scan. A security analyst
determines the certificate is signed properly and is a valid wildcard. This same certificate is installed on the
other company servers without issue. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this finding?
A. The required intermediate certificate is not loaded as part of the certificate chain.
B. The certificate is on the CRL and is no longer valid.
C. The corporate CA has expired on every server, causing the certificate to fail verification.
D. The scanner is incorrectly configured to not trust this certificate when detected on the server.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 167
A company wants to improve end users’ experiences when they log in to a trusted partner website. The
company does not want the users to be issued separate credentials for the partner website. Which of the
following should be implemented to allow users to authenticate using their own credentials to log in to the
trusted partner’s website?
A. Directory service
B. AAA server
C. Federation
D. Multifactor authentication
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 168
A company is under investigation for possible fraud. As part of the investigation, the authorities need to review
all emails and ensure data is not deleted. Which of the following should the company implement to assist in the
investigation?
A. Legal hold
B. Chain of custody
C. Data loss prevention
D. Content filter
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 169
A user wanted to catch up on some work over the weekend but had issues logging in to the corporate network
using a VPN. On Monday, the user opened a ticket for this issue but was able to log in successfully. Which of
the following BEST describes the policy that is being implemented?
A. Time-based logins
B. Geofencing
C. Network location
D. Password history
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 170
A major political party experienced a server breach. The hacker then publicly posted stolen internal
communications concerning campaign strategies to give the opposition party an advantage. Which of the
following BEST describes these threat actors?
A. Semi-authorized hackers
B. State actors
C. Script kiddies
D. Advanced persistent threats
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 171
A company is required to continue using legacy software to support a critical service. Which of the following
BEST explains a risk of this practice?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 172
A security analyst has been tasked with ensuring all programs that are deployed into the enterprise have been
assessed in a runtime environment. Any critical issues found in the program must be sent back to the
developer for verification and remediation. Which of the following BEST describes the type of assessment
taking place?
A. Input validation
B. Dynamic code analysis
C. Fuzzing
D. Manual code review
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 173
Which of the following can work as an authentication method and as an alerting mechanism for unauthorized
access attempts?
A. Smart card
B. Push notifications
C. Attestation service
D. HMAC-based
E. one-time password
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 174
A company has a flat network in the cloud. The company needs to implement a solution to segment its
production and non-production servers without migrating servers to a new network. Which of the following
solutions should the company implement?
A. Intranet
B. Screened subnet
C. VLAN segmentation
D. Zero Trust
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 175
The president of a regional bank likes to frequently provide SOC tours to potential investors. Which of the
following policies BEST reduces the risk of malicious activity occurring after a tour?
A. Password complexity
B. Acceptable use
C. Access control
D. Clean desk
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 176
A Chief Information Security Officer has defined resiliency requirements for a new data center architecture. The
requirements are as follows:
• Critical fileshares will remain accessible during and after a natural disaster.
• Five percent of hard disks can fail at any given time without impacting the data.
• Systems will be forced to shut down gracefully when battery levels are below 20%.
Which of the following are required to BEST meet these objectives? (Choose three.)
A. Fiber switching
B. IaC
C. NAS
D. RAID
E. UPS
F. Redundant power supplies
G. Geographic dispersal
H. Snapshots
I. Load balancing
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QUESTION 177
Which of the following is a security best practice that ensures the integrity of aggregated log files within a
SIEM?
A. Set up hashing on the source log file servers that complies with local regulatory requirements.
B. Back up the aggregated log files at least two times a day or as stated by local regulatory requirements.
C. Write protect the aggregated log files and move them to an isolated server with limited access.
D. Back up the source log files and archive them for at least six years or in accordance with local regulatory
requirements.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 178
A security analyst is evaluating the risks of authorizing multiple security solutions to collect data from the
company's cloud environment. Which of the following is an immediate consequence of these integrations?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 179
Which of the following explains why RTO is included in a BIA?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 180
A security analyst is reviewing web-application logs and finds the following log:
A. Directory traversal
B. XSS
C. CSRF
D. On-path attack
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 181
A security analyst is reviewing the vulnerability scan report for a web server following an incident. The
vulnerability that was used to exploit the server is present in historical vulnerability scan reports, and a patch is
available for the vulnerability. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 182
Which of the following is a known security risk associated with data archives that contain financial information?
A. Data can become a liability if archived longer than required by regulatory guidance.
B. Data must be archived off-site to avoid breaches and meet business requirements.
C. Companies are prohibited from providing archived data to e-discovery requests.
D. Unencrypted archives should be preserved as long as possible and encrypted.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 183
Which of the following BEST describes the process of documenting who has access to evidence?
A. Order of volatility
B. Chain of custody
C. Non-repudiation
D. Admissibility
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 184
A systems engineer wants to leverage a cloud-based architecture with low latency between network-connected
devices that also reduces the bandwidth that is required by performing analytics directly on the endpoints.
Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Private cloud
B. SaaS
C. Hybrid cloud
D. IaaS
E. DRaaS
F. Fog computing
Correct Answer: CF
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QUESTION 185
Which of the following is a policy that provides a greater depth and breadth of knowledge across an
organization?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 186
A company is moving its retail website to a public cloud provider. The company wants to tokenize credit card
data but not allow the cloud provider to see the stored credit card information. Which of the following would
BEST meet these objectives?
A. WAF
B. CASB
C. VPN
D. TLS
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 187
A security analyst is tasked with defining the "something you are" factor of the company's MFA settings. Which
of the following is BEST to use to complete the configuration?
A. Gait analysis
B. Vein
C. Soft token
D. HMAC-based, one-time password
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 188
Which of the following processes will eliminate data using a method that will allow the storage device to be
reused after the process is complete?
A. Pulverizing
B. Overwriting
C. Shredding
D. Degaussing
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 189
A user's account is constantly being locked out. Upon further review, a security analyst found the following in
the SIEM:
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 190
A web server has been compromised due to a ransomware attack. Further investigation reveals the
ransomware has been in the server for the past 72 hours. The systems administrator needs to get the services
back up as soon as possible. Which of the following should the administrator use to restore services to a
secure state?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 191
A network engineer created two subnets that will be used for production and development servers. Per security
policy production and development servers must each have a dedicated network that cannot communicate with
one another directly. Which of the following should be deployed so that server administrators can access these
devices?
A. VLANs
B. Internet proxy servers
C. NIDS
D. Jump servers
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 192
A social media company based in North America is looking to expand into new global markets and needs to
maintain compliance with international standards. With which of the following is the company’s data protection
officer MOST likely concerned?
A. NIST Framework
B. ISO 27001
C. GDPR
D. PCI-DSS
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 193
A security architect is required to deploy to conference rooms some workstations that will allow sensitive data to
be displayed on large screens. Due to the nature of the data, it cannot be stored in the conference rooms. The
file share is located in a local data center. Which of the following should the security architect recommend to
BEST meet the requirement?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 194
A Chief Information Security Officer wants to ensure the organization is validating and checking the integrity of
zone transfers. Which of the following solutions should be implemented?
A. DNSSEC
B. LDAPS
C. NGFW
D. DLP
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 195
Which of the following controls is used to make an organization initially aware of a data compromise?
A. Protective
B. Preventative
C. Corrective
D. Detective
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 196
An annual information security assessment has revealed that several OS-level configurations are not in
compliance due to outdated hardening standards the company is using. Which of the following would be BEST
to use to update and reconfigure the OS-level security configurations?
A. CIS benchmarks
B. GDPR guidance
C. Regional regulations
D. ISO 27001 standards
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 197
A company acquired several other small companies. The company that acquired the others is transitioning
network services to the cloud. The company wants to make sure that performance and security remain intact.
Which of the following BEST meets both requirements?
A. High availability
B. Application security
C. Segmentation
D. Integration and auditing
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 198
After a recent external audit, the compliance team provided a list of several non-compliant, in-scope hosts that
were not encrypting cardholder data at rest. Which of the following compliance frameworks would address the
compliance team's GREATEST concern?
A. PCI DSS
B. GDPR
C. ISO 27001
D. NIST CSF
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 199
A security analyst is receiving several alerts per user and is trying to determine if various logins are malicious.
The security analyst would like to create a baseline of normal operations and reduce noise. Which of the
following actions should the security analyst perform?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 200
Which of the following is the MOST effective way to detect security flaws present on third-party libraries
embedded on software before it is released into production?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 201
Which of the following prevents an employee from seeing a colleague who is visiting an inappropriate website?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 202
A user reports falling for a phishing email to an analyst. Which of the following system logs would the analyst
check FIRST?
A. DNS
B. Message gateway
C. Network
D. Authentication
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 203
An attacker has determined the best way to impact operations is to infiltrate third-party software vendors. Which
of the following vectors is being exploited?
A. Social media
B. Cloud
C. Supply chain
D. Social Engineering
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 204
An organization would like to give remote workers the ability to use applications hosted inside the corporate
network. Users will be allowed to use their personal computers, or they will be provided organization assets.
Either way, no data or applications will be installed locally on any user systems. Which of the following mobile
solutions would accomplish these goals?
A. VDI
B. MDM
C. COPE
D. UTM
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 205
Which of the following is used to ensure that evidence is admissible in legal proceedings when it is collected
and provided to the authorities?
A. Chain of custody
B. Legal hold
C. Event log
D. Artifacts
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 206
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a bank recently updated the incident response policy. The
CISO is concerned that members of the incident response team do not understand their roles. The bank wants
to test the policy but with the least amount of resources or impact. Which of the following BEST meets the
requirements?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 207
Which of the following control types fixes a previously identified issue and mitigates a risk?
A. Detective
B. Corrective
C. Preventative
D. Finalized
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 208
An analyst is reviewing logs associated with an attack. The logs indicate an attacker downloaded a malicious
file that was quarantined by the AV solution. The attacker utilized a local non-administrative account to restore
the malicious file to a new location. The file was then used by another process to execute a payload. Which of
the following attacks did the analyst observe?
A. Privilege escalation
B. Request forgeries
C. Injection
D. Replay attack
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 209
A security engineer must deploy two wireless routers in an office suite. Other tenants in the office building
should not be able to connect to this wireless network. Which of the following protocols should the engineer
implement to ensure the STRONGEST encryption?
A. WPS
B. WPA2
C. WAP
D. HTTPS
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 210
An attacker browses a company's online job board attempting to find any relevant information regarding the
technologies the company uses. Which of the following BEST describes this social engineering technique?
A. Hoax
B. Reconnaissance
C. Impersonation
D. Pretexting
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 211
During an incident response process involving a laptop, a host was identified as the entry point for malware.
The management team would like to have the laptop restored and given back to the user. The cybersecurity
analyst would like to continue investigating the intrusion on the host. Which of the following would allow the
analyst to continue the investigation and also return the laptop to the user as soon as possible?
A. dd
B. memdump
C. tcpdump
D. head
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 212
An analyst is trying to identify insecure services that are running on the internal network. After performing a port
scan, the analyst identifies that a server has some insecure services enabled on default ports. Which of the
following BEST describes the services that are currently running and the secure alternatives for replacing
them? (Choose three.)
A. SFTP, FTPS
B. SNMPv2, SNMPv3
C. HTTP, HTTPS
D. TFTP, FTP
E. SNMPv1, SNMPv2
F. Telnet, SSH
G. TLS, SSL
H. POP, IMAP
I. Login, rlogin
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QUESTION 213
A security analyst needs to produce a document that details how a security incident occurred, the steps that
were taken for recovery, and how future incidents can be avoided. During which of the following stages of the
response process will this activity take place?
A. Recovery
B. Identification
C. Lessons learned
D. Preparation
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 214
An administrator is configuring a firewall rule set for a subnet to only access DHCP, web pages, and SFTP, and
to specifically block FTP. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this goal?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 215
While investigating a recent security incident, a security analyst decides to view all network connections on a
particular server. Which of the following would provide the desired information?
A. arp
B. nslookup
C. netstat
D. nmap
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 216
A company recently decided to allow its employees to use their personally owned devices for tasks like
checking email and messaging via mobile applications. The company would like to use MDM, but employees
are concerned about the loss of personal data. Which of the following should the IT department implement to
BEST protect the company against company data loss while still addressing the employees’ concerns?
A. Enable the remote-wiping option in the MDM software in case the phone is stolen.
B. Configure the MDM software to enforce the use of PINs to access the phone.
C. Configure MDM for FDE without enabling the lock screen.
D. Perform a factory reset on the phone before installing the company's applications.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 217
The concept of connecting a user account across the systems of multiple enterprises is BEST known as:
A. federation.
B. a remote access policy.
C. multifactor authentication.
D. single sign-on.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 218
A user received an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank details. Which of the following social-
engineering techniques was used in this case?
A. SPIM
B. Vishing
C. Spear phishing
D. Smishing
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 219
A company is working on mobile device security after a report revealed that users granted non-verified software
access to corporate data. Which of the following is the MOST effective security control to mitigate this risk?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 220
A security analyst needs to implement security features across smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Which of the
following would be the MOST effective across heterogeneous platforms?
A. Enforcing encryption
B. Deploying GPOs
C. Removing administrative permissions
D. Applying MDM software
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 221
The new Chief Information Security Officer at a company has asked the security team to implement stronger
user account policies. The new policies require:
Which of the following should the security team implement? (Choose two.)
A. Password complexity
B. Password history
C. Geolocation
D. Geofencing
E. Geotagging
F. Password reuse
Correct Answer: BC
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QUESTION 222
Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data
processors?
A. SSAE SOC 2
B. PCI DSS
C. GDPR
D. ISO 31000
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 223
Which of the following is MOST likely to contain ranked and ordered information on the likelihood and potential
impact of catastrophic events that may affect business processes and systems, while also highlighting the
residual risks that need to be managed after mitigating controls have been implemented?
A. An RTO report
B. A risk register
C. A business impact analysis
D. An asset value register
E. A disaster recovery plan
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 224
A worldwide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromises. 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?
A. Network location
B. Impossible travel time
C. Geolocation
D. Geofencing
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 225
A new vulnerability in the SMB protocol on the Windows systems was recently discovered, but no patches are
currently available to resolve the issue. The security administrator is concerned that servers in the company’s
DMZ will be vulnerable to external attack; however, the administrator cannot disable the service on the servers,
as SMB is used by a number of internal systems and applications on the LAN. Which of the following TCP ports
should be blocked for all external inbound connections to the DMZ as a workaround to protect the servers?
(Choose two.)
A. 135
B. 139
C. 143
D. 161
E. 443
F. 445
Correct Answer: BF
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QUESTION 226
A recent phishing campaign resulted in several compromised user accounts. The security incident response
team has been tasked with reducing the manual labor of filtering through all the phishing emails as they arrive
and blocking the sender’s email address, along with other time-consuming mitigation actions. Which of the
following can be configured to streamline those tasks?
A. SOAR playbook
B. MDM policy
C. Firewall rules
D. URL filter
E. SIEM data collection
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 227
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 gets 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?
A. Session replay
B. Evil twin
C. Bluejacking
D. ARP poisoning
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 228
A security analyst is reviewing the following output from a system:
A. ARP poisoning
B. Man in the middle
C. Denial of service
D. DNS poisoning
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 229
Which of the following concepts BEST describes tracking and documenting changes to software and managing
access to files and systems?
A. Version control
B. Continuous monitoring
C. Stored procedures
D. Automation
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 230
A penetration tester is brought on site to conduct a full attack simulation at a hospital. The penetration tester
notices a WAP that is hanging from the drop ceiling by its cabling and is reachable. Which of the following
recommendations would the penetration tester MOST likely make given this observation?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 231
Which of the following techniques eliminates the use of rainbow tables for password cracking?
A. Hashing
B. Tokenization
C. Asymmetric encryption
D. Salting
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 232
During a security assessment, a security analyst finds a file with overly permissive permissions. Which of the
following tools will allow the analyst to reduce the permissions for the existing users and groups and remove the
set-user-ID bit from the file?
A. ls
B. chflags
C. chmod
D. lsof
E. setuid
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 233
A network administrator is concerned about users being exposed to malicious content when accessing
company cloud applications. The administrator wants to be able to block access to sites based on the AUP.
The users must also be protected because many of them work from home or at remote locations, providing on-
site customer support. Which of the following should the administrator employ to meet these criteria?
A. Implement NAC.
B. Implement an SWG.
C. Implement a URL filter.
D. Implement an MDM.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 234
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?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 235
Which of the following supplies non-repudiation during a forensics investigation?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 236
A security analyst is tasked with classifying data to be stored on company servers. Which of the following
should be classified as proprietary?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 237
Which of the following holds staff accountable while escorting unauthorized personnel?
A. Locks
B. Badges
C. Cameras
D. Visitor logs
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 238
An organization’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) wants to validate the business’s involvement in the incident
response plan to ensure its validity and thoroughness. Which of the following will the CSO MOST likely use?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 239
Which of the following documents provides guidance regarding the recommended deployment of network
security systems from the manufacturer?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 240
During a recent security assessment, a vulnerability was found in a common OS. The OS vendor was unaware
of the issue and promised to release a patch within the next quarter. Which of the following BEST describes
this type of vulnerability?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 241
Which of the following is a targeted attack aimed at compromising users within a specific industry or group?
A. Watering hole
B. Typosquatting
C. Hoax
D. Impersonation
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 242
To reduce and limit software and infrastructure costs, the Chief Information Officer has requested to move
email services to the cloud. The cloud provider and the organization must have security controls to protect
sensitive data. Which of the following cloud services would BEST accommodate the request?
A. IaaS
B. PaaS
C. DaaS
D. SaaS
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 243
A security engineer is concerned that the strategy for detection on endpoints is too heavily dependent on
previously defined attacks. The engineer would like a tool to monitor for changes to key files and network traffic
on the device. Which of the following tools BEST addresses both detection and prevention?
A. NIDS
B. HIPS
C. AV
D. NGFW
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 244
During a recent incident, an external attacker was able to exploit an SMB vulnerability over the internet. Which
of the following action items should a security analyst perform FIRST to prevent this from occurring again?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 245
A penetration tester is fuzzing an application to identify where the EIP of the stack is located on memory. Which
of the following attacks is the penetration tester planning to execute?
A. Race-condition
B. Pass-the-hash
C. Buffer overflow
D. XSS
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 246
Server administrators want to configure a cloud solution so that computing memory and processor usage is
maximized most efficiently across a number of virtual servers. They also need to avoid potential denial-of-
service situations caused by availability. Which of the following should administrators configure to maximize
system availability while efficiently utilizing available computing power?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 247
While reviewing the wireless router, a systems administrator of a small business determines someone is
spoofing the MAC address of an authorized device. Given the table below:
Which of the following should be the administrator’s NEXT step to detect if there is a rogue system without
impacting availability?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 248
A security analyst in a SOC has been tasked with onboarding a new network into the SIEM. Which of the
following BEST describes the information that should feed into a SIEM solution in order to adequately support
an investigation?
A. Logs from each device type and security layer to provide correlation of events
B. Only firewall logs since that is where attackers will most likely try to breach the network
C. Email and web-browsing logs because user behavior is often the cause of security breaches
D. NetFlow because it is much more reliable to analyze than syslog and will be exportable from every device
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 249
An organization just implemented a new security system. Local laws state that citizens must be notified prior to
encountering the detection mechanism to deter malicious activities. Which of the following is being
implemented?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 250
An IT security manager requests a report on company information that is publicly available. The manager's
concern is that malicious actors will be able to access the data without engaging in active reconnaissance.
Which of the following is the MOST efficient approach to perform the analysis?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 251
Which of the following environments utilizes dummy data and is MOST likely to be installed locally on a system
that allows code to be assessed directly and modified easily with each build?
A. Production
B. Test
C. Staging
D. Development
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 252
An analyst receives multiple alerts for beaconing activity for a host on the network. After analyzing the activity,
the analyst observes the following activity:
A. On-path attack
B. DNS poisoning
C. Locator (URL) redirection
D. Domain hijacking
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 253
Which of the following in the incident response process is the BEST approach to improve the speed of the
identification phase?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 254
A security administrator is analyzing the corporate wireless network. The network only has two access points
running on channels 1 and 11. While using airodump-ng, the administrator notices other access points are
running with the same corporate ESSID on all available channels and with the same BSSID of one of the
legitimate access points. Which of the following attacks is happening on the corporate network?
A. On-path
B. Evil twin
C. Jamming
D. Rogue access point
E. Disassociation
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 255
When implementing automation with IoT devices, which of the following should be considered FIRST to keep
the network secure?
A. Z-Wave compatibility
B. Network range
C. Zigbee configuration
D. Communication protocols
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 256
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?
A. hping3 -S comptia-org -p 80
B. nc -l -v comptia.org -p 80
C. nmap comptia.org -p 80 -sV
D. nslookup –port=80 comptia.org
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 257
A news article states hackers have been selling access to IoT camera feeds. Which of the following is the
MOST likely reason for this issue?
A. Outdated software
B. Weak credentials
C. Lack of encryption
D. Backdoors
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 258
A company wants to build a new website to sell products online. The website will host a storefront application
that will allow visitors to add products to a shopping cart and pay for the products using a credit card. Which of
the following protocols would be the MOST secure to implement?
A. SSL
B. SFTP
C. SNMP
D. TLS
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 259
An IT manager is estimating the mobile device budget for the upcoming year. Over the last five years, the
number of devices that were replaced due to loss, damage, or theft steadily increased by 10%. Which of the
following would BEST describe the estimated number of devices to be replaced next year?
A. ALE
B. ARO
C. RPO
D. SLE
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 260
An organization is repairing the damage after an incident. Which of the following controls is being
implemented?
A. Detective
B. Preventive
C. Corrective
D. Compensating
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 261
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?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 262
Which of the following typically uses a combination of human and artificial intelligence to analyze event data
and take action without intervention?
A. TTP
B. OSINT
C. SOAR
D. SIEM
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 263
A security analyst has been tasked with creating a new WiFi network for the company. The requirements
received by the analyst are as follows:
A. WPA2-Enterprise
B. WPA3-PSK
C. 802.11n
D. WPS
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 264
A security administrator is trying to determine whether a server is vulnerable to a range of attacks. After using a
tool, the administrator obtains the following output:
Which of the following attacks was successfully implemented based on the output?
A. Memory leak
B. Race conditions
C. SQL injection
D. Directory traversal
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 265
A Chief Security Officer is looking for a solution that can reduce the occurrence of customers receiving errors
from back-end infrastructure when systems go offline unexpectedly. The security architect would like the
solution to help maintain session persistence. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements?
A. Reverse proxy
B. NIC teaming
C. Load balancer
D. Forward proxy
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 266
Which of the following should an organization consider implementing in the event executives need to speak to
the media after a publicized data breach?
Correct Answer: C
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