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Which of the following describes a social engineering technique that seeks to exploit a person's sense of urgency?

• A phishing email stating a cash settlement has been awarded but will expire soon

• A smishing message stating a package is scheduled for pickup

• A vishing call that requests a donation be made to a local charity

• A SPIM notification claiming to be undercover law enforcement investigating a cybercrime

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?

• Classify the data

• Mask the data

• Assign the application owner

• Perform a risk analysis.

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?

• Subject alternative name

• Wildcard

• Self-signed

• Domain validation

Which of the following is an effective tool to stop or prevent the exfiltration of data from a network?

• DLP

• NIDS

• TPM

• FDE

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?

• Installing and monitoring a camera facing the door

• Replacing the traditional key with an RFID key

• Setting motion-sensing lights to illuminate the door on activity

• Surrounding the property with fencing and gates

Which of the following can be used by a monitoring tool to compare values and detect password leaks without providing the actual credentials?

• Hashing

• Tokenization

• Masking

• Encryption

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?

• S/MIME

• SSH

• LDAPS

• SRTP

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?

• Perform a mathematical operation on the passwords that will convert them into unique strings.

• Add extra data to the passwords so their length is increased, making them harder to brute force.

• Store all passwords in the system in a rainbow table that has a centralized location.

• Enforce the use of one-time passwords that are changed for every login session.

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:
Please use a combination of numbers, special characters, and letters in the password field.
Which of the following concepts does this message describe?

• Password history

• Password reuse

• Password age

• Password complexity

Which of the following is a reason to publish files' hashes?

• To verify if the software was digitally signed

• To validate the integrity of the files

• To use the hash as a software activation key

• To use the hash as a decryption passphrase