What are two safety precautions that will help protect a workplace from social engineering? (Choose two answers.)

• perform daily data backups

• encrypt all sensitive data stored on servers

• register and escort all visitors to the premises

• make sure all operating systems and antivirus software are up to date

• make sure that each use of an access card allows access to only one user at a time

Employee computers using removable flash drives have been observed to be infected with viruses and other malware. What two actions can help prevent this problem in the future? (Choose two answers.)

• Set up virus protection software to scan removable media when accessing data.

• Configure the Windows firewall to block ports used by viruses.

• Disable the autorun feature in the operating system.

• Repair, delete or quarantine infected files.

• Enable the TPM in the CMOS settings.

What are two potential user benefits of rooting or jailbreaking a mobile device? (Choose two answers.)

• The user interface can be extensively customized.

• The operating system can be adjusted in order to improve the speed of the device.

• The root directory of the device is locked.

• The operation of the cellular network of the telephone company may be affected.

What is the most effective way of securing wireless traffic?

• WPA2

• Hidden SSID

• WEP

• wireless MAC filtering

What action could help a technician determine if a denial of service attack is caused by malware on a host?

• Disconnect the host from the network.

• Log in to the host as a different user.

• Disable ActiveX and Silverlight on the host.

• Install bogus antivirus software on the host.

Corporate security policy dictates that all remote connections use only secure tunnels to exchange data. What encryption technique makes data traveling across the Internet as secure as if it were traveling across the corporate LAN?

• MD5

• VPN

• WEP

• WPA

A user has repeatedly reported SMART messages displayed on their computer screen in the past few weeks. What should the technician check first?

• CPU

• Hard drive

• Motherboard

• Diet

A user complains that he is unable to edit a shared remote file. The technician examines the problem and advises that NTFS and share permissions have been assigned to the shared folder and file. What is the effective authorization when this security technique has been applied?

• All remote logins are blocked.

• The NTFS share and permissions will be added.

• The most restrictive NTFS share or permission will apply.

• Only the original owner can modify the file locally or from a remote location.

A hard drive used by an administrative assistant in a Federal Reserve Bank is replaced with a new, larger-capacity drive. The technician brings the old drive to the engineering office and asks for the drive so it can be used in a different computer. How should the technician handle this call?

• Deny the request and request a certificate of destruction.

• Use a degausser before turning the unit over to the second technician.

• Perform a drive wipe before passing the drive to the second technician.

• Pass the drive to the second technician with a prompt to format the drive first as exFAT and then as NTFS.

What are the two benefits of using an ext4 partition instead of ext3? (Choose two answers.)

• CDFS compatibility

• NTFS compatibility

• Reduced loading time

• Better performance

• Increased size of supported devices