WorksheetsSec+ CH.1 Pre-Assessment
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
1. Your organization is planning to expand the data center to support more
systems. Management wants the plan to focus on resiliency and uptime.
Which of the following methods would best support these goals? (Select
TWO.)
UPS
Cold Site
NIC Teaming
Off-Site Backups
You are tasked with improving the overall security of several servers in
your data center. Which of the following are preventive controls that will
assist with this goal? (Choose TWO.)
Disabling unnecessary services
Adding cable locks
Monitoring logs on SIEM systems
Implementing a backup plan
Closing unneeded ports
Your organization houses a server room, and management wants to
increase the server room security. You are tasked with identifying some
deterrent controls that can be implemented to protect it. Which of the
following choices would BEST meet this objective?
Hardware locks
Data encryption
A vulnerability assessment
Backups
You suspect that a Linux computer is establishing connections with a
remote server on the Internet without any user interaction. You want to
verify this by viewing a summary of protocol statistics on a Linux system.
Which of the following commands would you use?
dig
nslookup
ifconfig
netstat
You are using a Linux computer to monitor network traffic. After
connecting your computer to the mirror port of a switch, you started logging
software on the computer. However, you discover that the only traffic being
collected is traffic to or from the Linux computer. You want to collect all
traffic going through the switch. Which of the following actions should you
take?
Run the command ifconfig eth0 promisc.
Run the command ipconfig eth0 promisc.
Connect the computer to a router.
Reconfigure the switch.
You suspect that attackers have been performing a password spraying
attack against a Linux server. Which of the following would be the BEST
method of confirming your suspicions?
Use the cat command to view the auth.log file.
Implement an account lockout policy.
Salt passwords to prevent the success of the spraying attack.
Use the logger command to view unsuccessful logins.
Your network includes dozens of servers. Administrators in your
organization are having problems aggregating and correlating the logs from
these servers. Which of the following provides the BEST solution for these
problems?
SIEM
Syslog
NetFlow
sFlow
