Sec +
問題一覧
1
Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be hired by a foreign government to attack critical systems located in other countries?
Organized Crime
2
Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?
Salting
3
An employee clicked a link in an email from a payment website that asked the employee to update contact information. The employee entered the log-in information but received a “page not found” error message. Which of the following types of social engineering attacks occurred?
Phishing
4
An enterprise is trying to limit outbound DNS traffic originating from the internal network. Outbound DNS requests will only be allowed from one device with the IP address 10.50.10.25. Which of the following firewallACLs will accomplish this goal?
Access list outbound permit 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53 Access list outbound deny 0.0.0.0/0 10.50.10.25/32 port 53
5
A data administrator is configuring authentication for a SaaS application and would like to reduce the number of credentials employees need to maintain. The company prefers to use domain credentials to access new SaaS applications. Which of the following methods would allow this functionality?
SSO
6
Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?
An employee receives a gift card request in an email that has a executive’s name in the display field of the email.
7
A company prevented direct access from the database administrators’ workstations to the network segment that contains database servers. Which of the following should a database administrator use to access the database servers?
Jump Server
8
An organization’s internet-facing website was compromised when an attacker exploited a buffer overflow. Which of the following should the organization deploy to best protect against similar attacks in the future?
WAF
9
An administrator notices that several users are logging in from suspicious IP addresses. After speaking with the users, the administrator determines that the employees were not logging in from those IP addresses and reset the affected users’ passwords. Which of the following should the administrator to prevent this type of attack from succeeding in the future?
Multifactor authentication
10
An employee receives a text message that appears to have been sent by the payroll department and is asking for credential verification. Which of the following social engineering techniques are being attempted?
Impersonation, Smishing
11
Several employees received a fraudulent text message from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The message stated:
“I’m in an airport right now with no access to email. I need you to buy gift cards for employee recognition awards. Please send the gift cards to the following email address.”
Which of the following are the best responses to the situation? (Choose two)
Add a smishing exercise to the annual company training., Issue a general email warning to the company.
12
A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?
A thorough analysis of the supply chain
13
Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?
Rules of engagement
14
A penetration tester begins an engagement by performing port and service scans against the client environment according to the rules of engagement. Which of the following reconnaissance types is the tester performing?
Active
15
Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?
DRP
16
Which of th following vulnerabilities is associated with installing software outside of a manufacturer’s approved software repository?
Side Loading
17
An analyst is evaluating the implementation of Zero Trust principles within the data plane. Which of the following would be most relevant for the analyst to evaluate?
Secured zones
18
An engineer needs to find a solution that creates an added layer of security by preventing unauthorized access to internal company resources. Which of the following would the the best solution?
Jump server
19
A company’s web filter is configured to scan the URL for strings and deny access when matches are found. Which of the following search strings should an analyst employ to prohibit access to non-encrypted websites?
http://
20
During a security incident, the security operations team identified sustained network traffic from a malicious IP address: 10.1.4.9. A security analyst is creating an inbound firewall rule to block the IP address from accessing the organization’s network. Which of the following fulfills this request?
access-list inbound deny ip source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0
21
A company needs to provide administrative access to internal resources while minimizing the traffic allowed through the security boundary. Which of the following methods is most secure?
Implementing a bastion host
22
A security analyst is reviewing alerts in the SIEM related to potential malicious network traffic coming from an employee’s corporate laptop. The security analyst has determined that additional data about the executable running on the machine is necessary to continue the investigation. Which of the following logs should the analyst use as a data source?
Endpoint
23
A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks.
SIEM alerts have not yet been configured. Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?
Threat hunting
24
A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register. Which of the following strategies does this represent?
Transfer
25
A security administrator would like to protect data on employers’ laptops. Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?
Full disk
26
Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?
Preventive
27
An IT manager informs the entire helpdesk staff that only the IT manager and the help desk lead will have access to the administrative console of the help desk software. Which of the following security techniques is the IT manager setting up?
Least privilege
28
Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?
Risk register
29
Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?
Change management procedure
30
A company is expanding its threat surface program and allowing individuals to security test the company’s internet-facing application. The company will compensate researchers based on the vulnerabilities discovered. Which of the following best describes the program the company is setting up?
Bug bounty
31
Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?
Nation-state
32
Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?
SQL injection
33
Employees in the research and development business unit receive extensive training to ensure they understand how to best protect company data. Which of the following is the type of data these employees are most likely to use in day-to-day work activities?
Intellectual property
34
A company has begun labeling all laptops with asset inventory stickers and associating them with employee IDs. Which of the following security benefits do these actions provide? (Choose two)
If a security incident occurs on the device, the correct employee can be notified., Company data can be accounted for when the employee leaves the organization.
35
A technician wants to improve the situational and environmental awareness of existing users as they transition from remote to in-office work. Which of the following is the best option?
Modify the content of current training
36
A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors. Which of the following should the system administrator use?
Dashboard
37
A system administrator receives the following alert from a file integrity monitoring tool:
The hash of the cmd.exe file has changed.
The system administrator checks the OS logs and notices that no patches were applied in the last two months. Which of the following most likely occurred?
A rootkit was deployed
38
Which of the following roles, according to the shared responsibility model, is responsible for securing the company’s database in an IaaS model for a cloud environment?
Client
39
A client asked a security company to provide a document outlining the project, the cost, and the completion time frame. Which of the following documents should the company provide to the client?
SOW
40
A security is reviewing the findings in a report that was delivered after a third party performed a penetration test. One of the findings indicated that a web application form field is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting. Which of the following application security techniques should the security analyst recommend the developer implement to prevent this vulnerability?
Input validation
41
Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two)
Ease of recovery, Responsiveness
42
A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system. Which of the following steps should be taken first?
Create a change control request
43
Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?
To prevent future incidents of the same nature
44
Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?
Fines
45
A company is developing a business continuity strategy and needs to determine how many staff members would be required to sustain the business in the case of a disruption. Which of the following best describes this step?
Capacity planning
46
A company’s legal department drafted sensitive documents in a SaaS application and wants to ensure the documents cannot be accessed by individuals in high-risk countries. Which of the following is the most effective way to limit this access?
Geolocation policy
47
Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?
Firmware version
48
While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a “deny any” policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable.
Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?
Testing the policy in a non-production environment before enabling the policy in the production network
49
An organization is building a new bakckup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days. Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?
Cold
50
A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling. Which of the following best describes this policy?
Sanitization
51
A system administrator works for a local hospital and needs to ensure patient data is protected and secure. Which of the following data classifications should be used to secure patient data?
Sensitive
52
A U.S.-based cloud-hosting provider wants to expand its data centers to new international locations. Which of the following should the hosting provider consider first?
Local data protection regulations
53
Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?
Application allow list
54
A company hired a consultant to perform an offensive security assessment covering penetration testing and social engineering.
Which of the following teams will conduct this assessment activity?
Red
55
A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company. Which of the following options is the most appropriate?
Performing code signing on company-developed software
56
Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?
Honeypot
57
During an investigation, an incident response team attempts to understand the source of an incident. Which of the following incident response activities describes this process?
Analysis
58
A security practitioner completes a vulnerability assessment on a company’s network and finds several vulnerabilities, which the operations team remediates. Which of the following should be done next?
Rescan the network
59
An administrator was notified that a user logged in remotely after hours and copied large amounts of data to a personal device.
Which of the following best describes the user’s activity?
Insider threat
60
Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?
Non-repudiation
61
Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?
Automation
62
Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?
DLP
63
An organization recently updated its security policy to include the following statement:
Regular expressions are included in source code to remove special characters such as $, |, ;, &, ‘, and ? From variables set by forms in a web application.
Which of the following best explains the security technique the organization adopted by making this addition to the policy?
Imput validation
64
A security analyst and the management team are reviewing the organizational performance of a recent phishing campaign. The user click-through rate exceeded the acceptable risk threshold, and the management team wants to reduce the impact when a user clicks on a link in a phishing message. Which of the following should the analyst do?
Update the EDR policies to block automatic execution of downloaded programs
65
Which of the following has been implemented when a host-based firewall on a legacy Linux system allows connections from only specific internal IP addresses?
Compensating control
66
The management team notices that new accounts that are set up manually do not always have correct access or permissions.
Which of the following automation techniques should a systems administrator use to streamline account creation?
Use provisioning script
67
A company is planning to set up a SIEM system and assign an analyst to review the logs on a weekly basis.
Which of the following types of controls is the company setting up?
Detective
68
A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based. Which of the following meets these requirements?
Serverless framework
69
A security operations center determines that the malicious activity detected on a server is normal. Which of the following activities describes the act of ignoring detected activity in the future?
Tuning
70
A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime. Which of the following should the company consider?
Geographic dispersion
71
Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?
Jailbreaking
72
A company decided to reduce the cost of its annual cyber insurance policy by removing the coverage for ransomware attacks.
Which of the following analysis elements did the company most likely use in making this decision?
ARO
73
Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?
Reporting phishing attempts or other suspicious activities
74
Which of the following is the phase in the incident response process when a security analyst reviews roles and responsibilities?
Preparation
75
After a recent vulnerability scan, a security engineer needs to harden the routers within the corporate network. Which of the following is the most appropriate to disable?
Web-based administration
76
A security administrator needs a method to secure data in an environment that includes some form of checks to track any changes. Which of the following should the administrator set up to achieve this goal?
FIM
77
A security engineer is implementing FDE for all laptops in an organization. Which of the following are the most important for an engineer to consider as part of the planning process? (Choose two)
Key escrow, TPM presence
78
A security analyst scans a company’s public network and discovers a host is running a Remote Desktop that can be used to access the production network. Which of the following changes should the security analyst recommend?
Setting up a VPN and placing the jump server inside the firewall
79
An enterprise has been experiencing attacks focusing on exploiting vulnerabilities in older browser versions of well-known exploits. Which of the following security solutions should be configured to best provide the ability to monitor and block the known signature-based attacks?
IDS
80
Security controls in a data center are being reviewed to ensure data is properly protected and that human life considerations are included. Which of the following best describes how the controls should be set up?
Safety controls should fail open
81
Which of the following would be best suited for constantly changing environments?
Containers
82
Which of the following incident response activities ensures evidence is properly handled?
E-discovery
83
An accounting clerk sent money to an attacker’s bank account after receiving fraudulent instructions to use a new account. Which of the following would likely prevent this activity in the future?
Updating processes for sending wire transfers
84
A systems administrator is creating a script that would save time and prevent human error when performing account creation for a large number of end users. Which of the following would be a good use case for this task?
Orchestration
85
A company’s marketing department collects, modifies, and stores sensitive customer data. The infrastructure team is responsible for securing the data while in transit and at rest. Which of the following data roles describes the customer?
Subject
86
Which of the following describes the maximum allowance of accepted risk?
Risk threshold
87
A security analyst receives alerts about an internal system sending a large amount of unsual DNS queries to systems on the internet over short periods of time during non-business hours. Which of the following is most likely occurring?
Data is being exfiltrated
88
A technician is opening ports on a firewall for a new system being deployed and supported by a SaaS provider. Which of the following is a risk in the new system?
Supply chain vendor
89
A system administrator is working on a solution with the following requirements:
-Provide a secure zone
-Enforce a company-wide access control policy
-Reduce the scope of threats
Which of the following is the system administrator setting up?
Zero trust
90
Which of the following involves an attempt to take advantage of database discontinuations?
SQL injection
91
Which of the following is used to validate a certificate when it is presented to a user?
OCSP
92
One of the company’s vendors sent an analyst a security bulletin that recommends a BIOS update. Which of the following vulnerability types is being addressed by the patch?
Firmware
93
Which of the following is used to quantitatively measure the criticality of a vulnerability?
CVSS
94
Which of the following actions could a security engineer take to ensure workstations and servers are properly monitored for unauthorized changes and software?
Install endpoint management software on all systems
95
An organization is leveraging a VPN between its headquarters and a branch location. Which of the following is the VPN protecting?
Data in transit
96
An organization disabled unneeded services and placed a firewall in front of a business-critical legacy system. Which of the following best describes the actions taken by the organization?
Segmentation
97
A security consultant needs secure, remote access to a client environment. Which of the following should the security consultant most likely use to gain access?
IPSec
98
Which of the following should a systems administrator use to ensure an easy deployment of resources within the cloud provider?
Infrastructure as code
99
After a security awareness training session, a user called the IT helpdesk and reported a suspicious call. The suspicious caller stated that the Chief Financial Officer wanted credit card information in order to close an invoice. Which of the following topics did the user recognize from the training?
Social engineering
100
A security administrator is deploying a DLP solution to prevent the exfiltratiom of sensitive customer data. Who of the following should the administrator do first?
Apply classifications to the data
問題一覧
1
Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be hired by a foreign government to attack critical systems located in other countries?
Organized Crime
2
Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?
Salting
3
An employee clicked a link in an email from a payment website that asked the employee to update contact information. The employee entered the log-in information but received a “page not found” error message. Which of the following types of social engineering attacks occurred?
Phishing
4
An enterprise is trying to limit outbound DNS traffic originating from the internal network. Outbound DNS requests will only be allowed from one device with the IP address 10.50.10.25. Which of the following firewallACLs will accomplish this goal?
Access list outbound permit 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53 Access list outbound deny 0.0.0.0/0 10.50.10.25/32 port 53
5
A data administrator is configuring authentication for a SaaS application and would like to reduce the number of credentials employees need to maintain. The company prefers to use domain credentials to access new SaaS applications. Which of the following methods would allow this functionality?
SSO
6
Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?
An employee receives a gift card request in an email that has a executive’s name in the display field of the email.
7
A company prevented direct access from the database administrators’ workstations to the network segment that contains database servers. Which of the following should a database administrator use to access the database servers?
Jump Server
8
An organization’s internet-facing website was compromised when an attacker exploited a buffer overflow. Which of the following should the organization deploy to best protect against similar attacks in the future?
WAF
9
An administrator notices that several users are logging in from suspicious IP addresses. After speaking with the users, the administrator determines that the employees were not logging in from those IP addresses and reset the affected users’ passwords. Which of the following should the administrator to prevent this type of attack from succeeding in the future?
Multifactor authentication
10
An employee receives a text message that appears to have been sent by the payroll department and is asking for credential verification. Which of the following social engineering techniques are being attempted?
Impersonation, Smishing
11
Several employees received a fraudulent text message from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The message stated:
“I’m in an airport right now with no access to email. I need you to buy gift cards for employee recognition awards. Please send the gift cards to the following email address.”
Which of the following are the best responses to the situation? (Choose two)
Add a smishing exercise to the annual company training., Issue a general email warning to the company.
12
A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?
A thorough analysis of the supply chain
13
Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?
Rules of engagement
14
A penetration tester begins an engagement by performing port and service scans against the client environment according to the rules of engagement. Which of the following reconnaissance types is the tester performing?
Active
15
Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?
DRP
16
Which of th following vulnerabilities is associated with installing software outside of a manufacturer’s approved software repository?
Side Loading
17
An analyst is evaluating the implementation of Zero Trust principles within the data plane. Which of the following would be most relevant for the analyst to evaluate?
Secured zones
18
An engineer needs to find a solution that creates an added layer of security by preventing unauthorized access to internal company resources. Which of the following would the the best solution?
Jump server
19
A company’s web filter is configured to scan the URL for strings and deny access when matches are found. Which of the following search strings should an analyst employ to prohibit access to non-encrypted websites?
http://
20
During a security incident, the security operations team identified sustained network traffic from a malicious IP address: 10.1.4.9. A security analyst is creating an inbound firewall rule to block the IP address from accessing the organization’s network. Which of the following fulfills this request?
access-list inbound deny ip source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0
21
A company needs to provide administrative access to internal resources while minimizing the traffic allowed through the security boundary. Which of the following methods is most secure?
Implementing a bastion host
22
A security analyst is reviewing alerts in the SIEM related to potential malicious network traffic coming from an employee’s corporate laptop. The security analyst has determined that additional data about the executable running on the machine is necessary to continue the investigation. Which of the following logs should the analyst use as a data source?
Endpoint
23
A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks.
SIEM alerts have not yet been configured. Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?
Threat hunting
24
A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register. Which of the following strategies does this represent?
Transfer
25
A security administrator would like to protect data on employers’ laptops. Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?
Full disk
26
Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?
Preventive
27
An IT manager informs the entire helpdesk staff that only the IT manager and the help desk lead will have access to the administrative console of the help desk software. Which of the following security techniques is the IT manager setting up?
Least privilege
28
Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?
Risk register
29
Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?
Change management procedure
30
A company is expanding its threat surface program and allowing individuals to security test the company’s internet-facing application. The company will compensate researchers based on the vulnerabilities discovered. Which of the following best describes the program the company is setting up?
Bug bounty
31
Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?
Nation-state
32
Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?
SQL injection
33
Employees in the research and development business unit receive extensive training to ensure they understand how to best protect company data. Which of the following is the type of data these employees are most likely to use in day-to-day work activities?
Intellectual property
34
A company has begun labeling all laptops with asset inventory stickers and associating them with employee IDs. Which of the following security benefits do these actions provide? (Choose two)
If a security incident occurs on the device, the correct employee can be notified., Company data can be accounted for when the employee leaves the organization.
35
A technician wants to improve the situational and environmental awareness of existing users as they transition from remote to in-office work. Which of the following is the best option?
Modify the content of current training
36
A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors. Which of the following should the system administrator use?
Dashboard
37
A system administrator receives the following alert from a file integrity monitoring tool:
The hash of the cmd.exe file has changed.
The system administrator checks the OS logs and notices that no patches were applied in the last two months. Which of the following most likely occurred?
A rootkit was deployed
38
Which of the following roles, according to the shared responsibility model, is responsible for securing the company’s database in an IaaS model for a cloud environment?
Client
39
A client asked a security company to provide a document outlining the project, the cost, and the completion time frame. Which of the following documents should the company provide to the client?
SOW
40
A security is reviewing the findings in a report that was delivered after a third party performed a penetration test. One of the findings indicated that a web application form field is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting. Which of the following application security techniques should the security analyst recommend the developer implement to prevent this vulnerability?
Input validation
41
Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two)
Ease of recovery, Responsiveness
42
A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system. Which of the following steps should be taken first?
Create a change control request
43
Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?
To prevent future incidents of the same nature
44
Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?
Fines
45
A company is developing a business continuity strategy and needs to determine how many staff members would be required to sustain the business in the case of a disruption. Which of the following best describes this step?
Capacity planning
46
A company’s legal department drafted sensitive documents in a SaaS application and wants to ensure the documents cannot be accessed by individuals in high-risk countries. Which of the following is the most effective way to limit this access?
Geolocation policy
47
Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?
Firmware version
48
While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a “deny any” policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable.
Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?
Testing the policy in a non-production environment before enabling the policy in the production network
49
An organization is building a new bakckup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days. Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?
Cold
50
A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling. Which of the following best describes this policy?
Sanitization
51
A system administrator works for a local hospital and needs to ensure patient data is protected and secure. Which of the following data classifications should be used to secure patient data?
Sensitive
52
A U.S.-based cloud-hosting provider wants to expand its data centers to new international locations. Which of the following should the hosting provider consider first?
Local data protection regulations
53
Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?
Application allow list
54
A company hired a consultant to perform an offensive security assessment covering penetration testing and social engineering.
Which of the following teams will conduct this assessment activity?
Red
55
A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company. Which of the following options is the most appropriate?
Performing code signing on company-developed software
56
Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?
Honeypot
57
During an investigation, an incident response team attempts to understand the source of an incident. Which of the following incident response activities describes this process?
Analysis
58
A security practitioner completes a vulnerability assessment on a company’s network and finds several vulnerabilities, which the operations team remediates. Which of the following should be done next?
Rescan the network
59
An administrator was notified that a user logged in remotely after hours and copied large amounts of data to a personal device.
Which of the following best describes the user’s activity?
Insider threat
60
Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?
Non-repudiation
61
Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?
Automation
62
Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?
DLP
63
An organization recently updated its security policy to include the following statement:
Regular expressions are included in source code to remove special characters such as $, |, ;, &, ‘, and ? From variables set by forms in a web application.
Which of the following best explains the security technique the organization adopted by making this addition to the policy?
Imput validation
64
A security analyst and the management team are reviewing the organizational performance of a recent phishing campaign. The user click-through rate exceeded the acceptable risk threshold, and the management team wants to reduce the impact when a user clicks on a link in a phishing message. Which of the following should the analyst do?
Update the EDR policies to block automatic execution of downloaded programs
65
Which of the following has been implemented when a host-based firewall on a legacy Linux system allows connections from only specific internal IP addresses?
Compensating control
66
The management team notices that new accounts that are set up manually do not always have correct access or permissions.
Which of the following automation techniques should a systems administrator use to streamline account creation?
Use provisioning script
67
A company is planning to set up a SIEM system and assign an analyst to review the logs on a weekly basis.
Which of the following types of controls is the company setting up?
Detective
68
A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based. Which of the following meets these requirements?
Serverless framework
69
A security operations center determines that the malicious activity detected on a server is normal. Which of the following activities describes the act of ignoring detected activity in the future?
Tuning
70
A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime. Which of the following should the company consider?
Geographic dispersion
71
Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?
Jailbreaking
72
A company decided to reduce the cost of its annual cyber insurance policy by removing the coverage for ransomware attacks.
Which of the following analysis elements did the company most likely use in making this decision?
ARO
73
Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?
Reporting phishing attempts or other suspicious activities
74
Which of the following is the phase in the incident response process when a security analyst reviews roles and responsibilities?
Preparation
75
After a recent vulnerability scan, a security engineer needs to harden the routers within the corporate network. Which of the following is the most appropriate to disable?
Web-based administration
76
A security administrator needs a method to secure data in an environment that includes some form of checks to track any changes. Which of the following should the administrator set up to achieve this goal?
FIM
77
A security engineer is implementing FDE for all laptops in an organization. Which of the following are the most important for an engineer to consider as part of the planning process? (Choose two)
Key escrow, TPM presence
78
A security analyst scans a company’s public network and discovers a host is running a Remote Desktop that can be used to access the production network. Which of the following changes should the security analyst recommend?
Setting up a VPN and placing the jump server inside the firewall
79
An enterprise has been experiencing attacks focusing on exploiting vulnerabilities in older browser versions of well-known exploits. Which of the following security solutions should be configured to best provide the ability to monitor and block the known signature-based attacks?
IDS
80
Security controls in a data center are being reviewed to ensure data is properly protected and that human life considerations are included. Which of the following best describes how the controls should be set up?
Safety controls should fail open
81
Which of the following would be best suited for constantly changing environments?
Containers
82
Which of the following incident response activities ensures evidence is properly handled?
E-discovery
83
An accounting clerk sent money to an attacker’s bank account after receiving fraudulent instructions to use a new account. Which of the following would likely prevent this activity in the future?
Updating processes for sending wire transfers
84
A systems administrator is creating a script that would save time and prevent human error when performing account creation for a large number of end users. Which of the following would be a good use case for this task?
Orchestration
85
A company’s marketing department collects, modifies, and stores sensitive customer data. The infrastructure team is responsible for securing the data while in transit and at rest. Which of the following data roles describes the customer?
Subject
86
Which of the following describes the maximum allowance of accepted risk?
Risk threshold
87
A security analyst receives alerts about an internal system sending a large amount of unsual DNS queries to systems on the internet over short periods of time during non-business hours. Which of the following is most likely occurring?
Data is being exfiltrated
88
A technician is opening ports on a firewall for a new system being deployed and supported by a SaaS provider. Which of the following is a risk in the new system?
Supply chain vendor
89
A system administrator is working on a solution with the following requirements:
-Provide a secure zone
-Enforce a company-wide access control policy
-Reduce the scope of threats
Which of the following is the system administrator setting up?
Zero trust
90
Which of the following involves an attempt to take advantage of database discontinuations?
SQL injection
91
Which of the following is used to validate a certificate when it is presented to a user?
OCSP
92
One of the company’s vendors sent an analyst a security bulletin that recommends a BIOS update. Which of the following vulnerability types is being addressed by the patch?
Firmware
93
Which of the following is used to quantitatively measure the criticality of a vulnerability?
CVSS
94
Which of the following actions could a security engineer take to ensure workstations and servers are properly monitored for unauthorized changes and software?
Install endpoint management software on all systems
95
An organization is leveraging a VPN between its headquarters and a branch location. Which of the following is the VPN protecting?
Data in transit
96
An organization disabled unneeded services and placed a firewall in front of a business-critical legacy system. Which of the following best describes the actions taken by the organization?
Segmentation
97
A security consultant needs secure, remote access to a client environment. Which of the following should the security consultant most likely use to gain access?
IPSec
98
Which of the following should a systems administrator use to ensure an easy deployment of resources within the cloud provider?
Infrastructure as code
99
After a security awareness training session, a user called the IT helpdesk and reported a suspicious call. The suspicious caller stated that the Chief Financial Officer wanted credit card information in order to close an invoice. Which of the following topics did the user recognize from the training?
Social engineering
100
A security administrator is deploying a DLP solution to prevent the exfiltratiom of sensitive customer data. Who of the following should the administrator do first?
Apply classifications to the data