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SY0-501 Practice Quiz 2

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

You are a security administrator for a company that has been contracted by a 'local government agency for a

data collection and reporting project Data must be stored locally to your organization and the company will

be ~ s suing weekly summary reports.

At some point, it may be necessary for the government agency to view the raw data, but only after receiving

proper authorization from its supervising agents or through a court order.. You need to ensure this, capability.

What should you do?

a)

Prepare a CSR that can be submitted as necessary

b)

Create user accounts for agency employees, and then disable the accounts

c)

Designate agency employees as recovery agents

d)

Set up a key escrow

2.

A critical web server is compromised by a persistent XSS attack. Which two steps would you take as part of the containment process? (Choose Two)

a)

Redirect traffic to a different web server

b)

Create a forensic image of the server

c)

Implement input validation

d)

Review the web application logs

e)

Re-image the server

3.

A company is concerned that accessing data from an Active Directory domain is not secure, Which protocol should you implement?

a)

LDAP over IPSec

b)

FTP over SSL

c)

FTP over IPSec

d)

LDAP over SSL

4.

You want to use a backup scheme that does not take too much time or require very high capacity tapes each right. Because you don not have to restore data that often, you do not care if the restore process is lengthier as a result, but you do not want it to take an unreasonable amount of time. Which of the following would be the best backup scheme to meet your goals?

a)

Perform a full backup nightly

b)

Perform a full backup weekly. Perform differential backups nightly

c)

Perform full backup monthly. Perform incremental backups nightly

d)

Perform full backup weekly. Perform incremental backups nightly

5.

You receive a security bulletin that a patch is available for an application running on all network client computers. The application is a mission-critical application. You download the patch to a directory on a network server. What should you do next?

a)

Deploy the patch immediately to all computers that are trunning the application

b)

Test the patch on select isolated computers

c)

Wait until client computers display the problem described in the security bulletin

d)

Distribute copies of the patch on CD-ROM to all network users

6.

All computers in your organization come with TPM installed. What type of data encryption most often uses keys generated from the TPM?

a)

Full disk encryption

b)

File encryption

c)

Data in transit encryption

d)

Database encryption

7.

Which is BEST described as a type of compensating control?

a)

Hot site

b)

Anti-virus

c)

IDS

d)

Firewall

8.

A company wants to open a new office. Both offices have a reliable link to the internet. The company has provided the following requirements for this project:

  • All communication between the two sites has to be protected and secures using AES
  • Implement a solution to prevent theft of company data from the inside

Which solution should you recommend?

a)

GRE tunnel and DLP

b)

VPN PPTP tunnel and DLP

c)

VPN IPSec tunnel and DLP

d)

GRE tunnel and IPS

9.

Users report that an application is failing and displaying detailed messaging including stack traces, data dumps, and detailed codes. This results from what type of vulnerability?

a)

Certificate mismanagement

b)

Untrained users

c)

Improper error handling

d)

False positive

10.

A company deploys a DLP system. A security officer wants to create a policy to match and block access to documents that include any linked PII. Which three of the following should be included?

a)

Credit card numbers

b)

E-mail addresses

c)

Postcodes

d)

Personal phone numbers

e)

Salary information

11.

A company wants to introduce EAP to secure all WLAN connections. The solution has to use mutual authentication and a valid certificate for the client and the server. Which protocol should the company implement to meet theses requirements?

a)

EAP-FAST

b)

EAP-TTLS

c)

EAP-TLS

d)

EAP-MD5

12.

A company has a fully functional wireless network with a single SSID and two standalone access points using WPA2-PSK. The company wants to add a new SSID that will be isolated from the existing SSID. A new IP range will be introduced. Which solution BEST supports that deployment

a)

DMZ

b)

EAP

c)

IPSec

d)

VLAN

13.

A company wants to install a VOIP system internally and between two branch offices. Which two technologies will assist in a secure deployment?

a)

PPTP

b)

TLS

c)

L2TP

d)

RTP

e)

VLAN

14.

What are two advantages of implementing a vendor diversity policy?

a)

Improved network troubleshooting

b)

Reduced equipment costs

c)

Access to the most recent technologies

d)

Layered defense strategies

e)

Simplified administration requirements

15.

Which two attacks are DoS attacks against a Wi-Fi network?

a)

Replay

b)

IV attack

c)

WPS attack

d)

Jamming

e)

War driving

16.

You want to deploy a centralized authentication structure that can be used to authenticate routers, servers, and switches. You want this structure to be as secure as possible. What should you use?

a)

SAML

b)

TACACS+

c)

Kerberos

d)

RADIUS

17.

An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime. Which of the following has been specified?

a)

RTO

b)

RPO

c)

MTBF

d)

MTTR

18.

Which of the following types of keys is found in a key escrow?

a)

Pubilc

b)

Private

c)

Shared

d)

Session

19.

A network administrator wants to implement a method of securing internal routing. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

a)

DMZ

b)

NAT

c)

VPN

d)

PAT

20.

A security administrator is developing controls for creating audit trails and tracking if a PHI data breach is to occur. The administrator has been given the following

requirements:


-All access must be correlated to a user account.

-All user accounts must be assigned to a single individual.

-User access to the PHI data must be recorded.

-Anomalies in PHI data access must be reported.

-Logs and records cannot be deleted or modified.


Which of the following should the administrator implement to meet the above requirements? (Select three.)

a)

Eliminate shared accounts

b)

Create a standard naming convention

c)

Implement usage auditing and review

d)

Enable account lockout thresholds

e)

Perform regular permission audits and reviews

21.

Which of the following encryption methods does PKI typically use to securely project keys?

a)

Eliptic curve

b)

Digital signatures

c)

Asymmetric

d)

Obfuscation

22.

A department head at a university resigned on the first day of the spring semester. It was subsequently determined that the department head deleted numerous files

and directories from the server-based home directory while the campus was closed. Which of the following policies or procedures could have prevented this from

occurring?

a)

Time-of-day restrictions

b)

Permission auditing and review

c)

Offboarding

d)

Account expiration

23.

A security administrator has found a hash in the environment known to belong to malware. The administrator then finds this file to be in in the preupdate area of the

OS, which indicates it was pushed from the central patch system.

File: winx86_adobe_flash_upgrade.exe

Hash: 99ac28bede43ab869b853ba62c4ea243

The administrator pulls a report from the patch management system with the following output:


Given the above outputs, which of the following MOST likely happened?

a)

The file was corrupted after it left the patch system

b)

The file was infected when the patch manager downloaded it

c)

The file was not approved in the application whitelist system

d)

The file was embedded with a logic bomb to evade detection

24.

A network administrator at a small office wants to simplify the configuration of mobile clients connecting to an encrypted wireless network. Which of the following

should be implemented in the administrator does not want to provide the wireless password or he certificate to the employees?

a)

WPS

b)

802.1x

c)

WPA2-PSK

d)

TKIP

25.

When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

a)

Owner

b)

System

c)

Administrator

d)

User

26.

A high-security defense installation recently begun utilizing large guard dogs that bark very loudly and excitedly at the slightest provocation. Which of the following

types of controls does this BEST describe?

a)

Deterent

b)

Prevnetive

c)

Detective

d)

Compensating

27.

A company’s user lockout policy is enabled after five unsuccessful login attempts. The help desk notices a user is repeatedly locked out over the course of a

workweek. Upon contacting the user, the help desk discovers the user is on vacation and does not have network access. Which of the following types of attacks are

MOST likely occurring? (Select two.)

a)

Replay

b)

Rainbow tables

c)

Brute force

d)

Pass the hash

e)

Dictionary

28.

A company performs information classification. What is the outcome of this process?

a)

Appropriate access permissions are applied to data

b)

The cost of protecting data from accidental or malicious disclosure is assessed

c)

Data is categorized in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements

d)

Access to data is assigned on a need-to-know according to the user's role in the company

29.

A server has failed four times in the past year. Which measurement is used to determine the amount of time the serer was operational?

a)

MTTF

b)

ARO

c)

MTBF

d)

ALE