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SY0-701 Practice A

Total questions: 106

Worksheet time: 27hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose Attack Type: Attacker obtains bank account number and birth date by calling the victim.

a)

Injection

b)

Vishing

c)

On-path

d)

Keylogger

e)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

2.

Choose Attack Type: Attacker accesses a database directly from a web browser.

a)

Injection

b)

Vishing

c)

On-path

d)

Keylogger

e)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

3.

Choose Attack Type: Attacker intercepts all communication between a client and a web server.

a)

Injection

b)

Vishing

c)

On-path

d)

Keylogger

e)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

4.

Choose Attack Type: Multiple attackers overwhelm a web server.

a)

Injection

b)

Vishing

c)

On-path

d)

Keylogger

e)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

5.

Choose Attack Type: Attacker obtains a list of all login credentials used over the last 24 hours.

a)

Injection

b)

Vishing

c)

On-path

d)

Keylogger

e)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

6.

The security team at a manufacturing company is creating a set of security standards for employees and visitors. Select the BEST security controls for:

Outside Building (Parking and visitor drop-off).

a)

Access Badge

b)

Fencing

c)

Biometrics

d)

Security Guard

e)

Lighting

7.

The security team at a manufacturing company is creating a set of security standards for employees and visitors. Select the BEST security controls for:

Reception (Building lobby).

a)

Access Badge

b)

Authentication Token

c)

Biometrics

d)

Security Guard

e)

Access Control Vestibule

8.

The security team at a manufacturing company is creating a set of security standards for employees and visitors. Select the BEST security controls for:

Data Center Door (Entrance from inside building).

a)

Access Badge

b)

Fencing

c)

Biometrics

d)

Lighting

e)

Access Control Vestibule

9.

The security team at a manufacturing company is creating a set of security standards for employees and visitors. Select the BEST security control for:

Server Administration (Authentication to server console in the data center).

a)

Lighting

b)

Authentication Token

c)

Security Guard

d)

Biometrics

e)

Access Badge

10.

Select the most appropriate category:

A guard checks the identification of all visitors.

a)

Technical

b)

Managerial

c)

Operational

d)

Physical

11.

Select the most appropriate category:

All returns must be approved by a Vice President.

a)

Technical

b)

Managerial

c)

Operational

d)

Physical

12.

Select the most appropriate category:

A generator is used during a power outage.

a)

Technical

b)

Managerial

c)

Operational

d)

Physical

13.

Select the most appropriate category:

Building doors can be unlocked with an access card.

a)

Technical

b)

Managerial

c)

Operational

d)

Physical

14.

Select the most appropriate category:

System logs are transferred automatically to a SIEM.

a)

Technical

b)

Managerial

c)

Operational

d)

Physical

15.

Select the most appropriate authentication factor:

During the login process, your phone receives a text message with a one-time passcode.

a)

Something you know

b)

Something you are

c)

Something you have

d)

Somewhere you are

16.

Select the most appropriate authentication factor:

You enter your PIN to make a deposit into an ATM.

a)

Something you know

b)

Something you are

c)

Something you have

d)

Somewhere you are

17.

Select the most appropriate authentication factor:

You can use your finger to unlock the door to the data center.

a)

Something you know

b)

Something you are

c)

Something you have

d)

Somewhere you are

18.

Select the most appropriate authentication factor:

Your login will not work unless you are connected to the VPN.

a)

Something you know

b)

Something you are

c)

Something you have

d)

Somewhere you are

19.

What Protocol and Port would be used to configure the following firewall rule:

Block HTTP sessions between a web server and database server.

a)

TCP/80

b)

UDP/22

c)

TCP/22

d)

UDP/443

20.

What Protocol and Port would be used to configure the following firewall rule:

Allow a storage server to transfer files to a video server over HTTPS.

a)

UDP/22

b)

TCP/443

c)

TCP/80

d)

UDP/443

21.

What Protocol and Port would be used to configure the following firewall rule:

Allow a management server to use a secure terminal on a file server.

a)

UDP/22

b)

TCP/80

c)

UDP/443

d)

TCP/22

22.

A company has hired a third-party to gather information about the company’s servers and data. This third-party will not have direct access to the company's internal network, but they can gather information from any other source. Which of the following would BEST describe this approach?

a)

Vulnerability Scanning

b)

Passive Reconnaissance

c)

Supply Chain Analysis

d)

Regulatory Audit

23.

A company's email server has received an email from a third-party, but the origination server does not match the list of authorized devices. Which of the following would determine the disposition of this message?

a)

SPF (Sender Policy Framework)

b)

NAC (Network Access Control)

c)

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance)

d)

DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail)

24.

Which of these threat actors would be MOST likely to attack systems for direct financial gain?

a)

Organized Crime

b)

Hacktivist

c)

Nation State

d)

Shadow IT

25.

A security administrator has examined a server recently compromised by an attacker, and has determined the system was exploited due to a known operating system vulnerability. Which of the following would BEST describe this finding?

a)

Root Cause Analysis

b)

E-discovery

c)

Risk Appetite

d)

Data Subject

26.

A city is building an ambulance service network for emergency medical dispatching. Which of the following should have the highest priority?

a)

Integration Costs

b)

Patch Availability

c)

System Availability

d)

Power Usage

27.

A system administrator receives a text alert when access rights are changed on a database containing private customer information. Which of the following would describe this alert?

a)

Maintenance Window

b)

Attestation and Acknowledgment

c)

Automation

d)

External Audit

28.

A security administrator is concerned about the potential for data exfiltration using external storage drives. Which of the following would be the BEST way to prevent this method of data exfiltration?

a)

Create an operating system security policy to block the use of removable media

b)

Monitor removable media usage in host-based firewall logs

c)

Only allow applications that do not use removable media

d)

Define a removable media block rule in the UTM (Unified Threat Manager)

29.

A company creates a standard set of government reports each calendar quarter. Which of the following would describe this type of data?

a)

Data In Use

b)

Obfuscated

c)

Trade Secrets

d)

Regulated

30.

An insurance company has created a set of policies to handle data breaches. The security team has been given this set of requirements based on these policies:

• Access records from all devices must be saved and archived

• Any data access outside of normal working hours must be immediately reported

• Data access must only occur inside of the country

• Access logs and audit reports must be created from a single database

Which of the following should be implemented by the security team to meet these requirements? (Select THREE)

a)

Restrict login access by IP address and GPS location

b)

Require government-issued identification during the onboarding process

c)

Conduct monthly permission auditing

d)

Consolidate all logs on a SIEM (Security Information and Event Manager)

e)

Enable time-of-day restrictions on the authentication server

31.

A security engineer, is viewing this record from the firewall logs:

UTC 04/05/2023 03:09:15809 AV Gateway Alert

136.127.92.171 80 -> 10.16.10.14 60818

Gateway Anti-Virus Alert:

XPACK.A_7854 (Trojan) blocked.

Which of the following can be observed from this log information?

a)

The victim's IP address is 136.127.92.171

b)

A download was blocked from a web server

c)

A botnet DDoS attack was blocked

d)

The Trojan was blocked, but the file was not

32.

A user connects to a third-party website and receives this message:

Your connection is not private.

NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID

Which of the following attacks would be the MOST likely reason for this message?

a)

Brute Force

b)

DoS (Denial of Service)

c)

On-path

d)

Deauthentication

33.

Which of the following would be the BEST way to provide a website login using existing credentials from a third-party site?

a)

Federation

b)

802.1X

c)

EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol)

d)

SSO (Single Sign-On)

34.

A system administrator is working on a contract that will specify a minimum required uptime for a set of Internet-facing firewalls. The administrator needs to know how often the firewall hardware is expected to fail between repairs. Which of the following would BEST describe this information?

a)

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

b)

RTO (Recovery Time Objectives)

c)

MTTR (Mean Time to Restore)

d)

RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

35.

An attacker calls into a company’s help desk and pretends to be the director of the company’s manufacturing department. The attacker states that they have forgotten their password and they need to have the password reset quickly for an important meeting. What kind of attack would BEST describe this phone call?

a)

Social Engineering

b)

Supply Chain

c)

Watering Hole

d)

On-path

36.

Two companies have been working together for a number of months, and they would now like to qualify their partnership with a broad formal agreement between both organizations. Which of the following would describe this agreement?

a)

SLA (Service Level Agreement)

b)

SOW (Statement of Work)

c)

MOA (Memorandum of Agreement)

d)

NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement)

37.

Which of the following would explain why a company would automatically add a digital signature to each outgoing email message?

a)

Confidentiality

b)

Integrity

c)

Authenticataion

d)

Availability

38.

The embedded OS in a company’s time clock appliance is configured to reset the file system and reboot when a file system error occurs. On one of the time clocks, this file system error occurs during the startup process and causes the system to constantly reboot. Which of the following BEST describes this issue?

a)

Memory Injection

b)

Resource Consumption

c)

Race Condition

d)

Malicious Update

39.

A recent audit has found that existing password policies do not include any restrictions on password attempts, and users are not required to periodically change their passwords. Which of the following would correct these policy issues? (Select TWO)

a)

Password Complexity

b)

Password Expiration

c)

Password Reuse

d)

Account Lockout

e)

Password Managers

40.

What kind of security control is associated with a login banner?

a)

Preventative

b)

Deterrent

c)

Corrective

d)

Compensating

e)

Directive

41.

An internal audit has discovered four servers that have not been updated in over a year, and it will take two weeks to test and deploy the latest patches. Which of the following would be the best way to quickly respond to this situation in the meantime?

a)

Purchase cybersecurity insurance

b)

Implement an exception for all data center services

c)

Move the servers to a protected segment

d)

Hire a third-party to perform an extensive audit

42.

A business manager is documenting a set of steps for processing orders if the primary Internet connection fails. Which of these would BEST describe these steps?

a)

Platform Diversity

b)

Continuity of Operations

c)

Cold Site Recovery

d)

Tabletop Exercise

43.

A company would like to examine the credentials of each individual entering the data center building. Which of the following would BEST facilitate this requirement?

a)

Access Control Vestibule

b)

Video Surveillance

c)

Pressure Sensors

d)

Bollards

44.

A company stores some employee information in encrypted form, but other public details are stored as plaintext. Which of the following would BEST describe this encryption strategy?

a)

Full-disk

b)

Record

c)

Asymmetric

d)

Key Escrow

45.

A company would like to minimize database corruption if power is lost to a server. Which of the following would be the BEST strategy to follow?

a)

Encryption

b)

Off-site Backups

c)

Journaling

d)

Replication

46.

A company is creating a security policy for corporate mobile devices:

• All mobile devices must be automatically locked after a predefined time period.

• The location of each device needs to be traceable.

• All of the user’s information should be completely separate from company data.

Which of the following would be the BEST way to establish these security policy rules?

a)

Segmentation

b)

Biometrics

c)

COPE (Corporately Owned and Personally Enabled)

d)

MDM (Mobile Device Manager)

47.

A security engineer runs a monthly vulnerability scan. The scan doesn’t list any vulnerabilities for Windows servers, but a significant vulnerability was announced last week and none of the servers are patched yet. Which of the following best describes this result?

a)

Exploit

b)

Compensating Controls

c)

Zero-day Attack

d)

False Negative

48.

An IT help desk is using automation to improve the response time for security events. Which of the following use cases would apply to this process?

a)

Escalation

b)

Guard Rails

c)

Continuous Integration

d)

Resource Provisioning

49.

A network administrator would like each user to authenticate with their corporate username and password when connecting to the company's wireless network. Which of the following should the network administrator configure on the wireless access points?

a)

WPA3 (WiFi Protected Access 3)

b)

802.1X

c)

PSK (Pre-Shared Key)

d)

MFA (Multifactor Authentication)

50.

A company's VPN service performs a posture assessment during the login process. Which of the following mitigation techniques would this describe?

a)

Encryption

b)

Decommissioning

c)

Least Privilege

d)

Configuration Enforcement

51.

A user has assigned individual rights and permissions to a file on their network drive. The user adds three additional individuals to have read-only access to the file. Which of the following would describe this access control model?

a)

Discretionary

b)

Mandatory

c)

Attribute-based

d)

Role-based

52.

A remote user has received a text message with a link to login and confirm their upcoming work schedule. Which of the following would BEST describe this attack?

a)

Brute Force

b)

Watering Hole

c)

Typosquatting

d)

Smishing

53.

A company is formalizing the design and deployment process used by their application programmers. Which of the following policies would apply?

a)

Business Continuity

b)

Acceptable Use Policy

c)

Incident Response

d)

Development Lifecycle

54.

A security administrator has copied a suspected malware executable from a user's computer and is running the program in a sandbox. Which of the following would describe this part of the incident response process?

a)

Eradication

b)

Preparation

c)

Recovery

d)

Containment

55.

A server administrator at a bank has noticed a decrease in the number of visitors to the bank's website. Additional research shows that users are being directed to a different IP address than the bank's web server. Which of the following would MOST likely describe this attack?

a)

Deauthentication

b)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

c)

Buffer Overflow

d)

DNS Poisoning

56.

Which of the following considerations are MOST commonly associated with a hybrid cloud model?

a)

Microservice Outages

b)

IoT (Internet of Things) Support

c)

Network Protection Mismatches

d)

Containerization Backups

57.

A company hires a large number of seasonal employees, and their system access should normally be disabled when the employee leaves the company. The security administrator would like to verify that their systems cannot be accessed by any of the former employees. Which of the following would be the BEST way to provide this verification?

a)

Confirm that no unauthorized accounts have administrator access

b)

Validate the account lockout policy

c)

Validate the offboarding processes and procedures

d)

Create a report that shows all authentications for a 24-hour period

58.

Which of the following is used to describe how cautious an organization might be to taking a specific risk?

a)

Risk Appetite

b)

Risk Register

c)

Risk Transfer

d)

Risk Reporting

59.

A technician is applying a series of patches to fifty web servers during a scheduled maintenance window. After patching and rebooting the first server, the web service fails with a critical error. Which of the following should the technician do NEXT?

a)

Contact the stakeholders regarding the outage

b)

Follow the steps listed in the backout plan

c)

Test the upgrade process in the lab

d)

Evaluate the impact analysis associated with the change

60.

An attacker has discovered a way to disable a server by sending specially crafted packets from many remote devices to the operating system. When the packet is received, the system crashes and must be rebooted to restore normal operations. Which of the following would BEST describe this attack?

a)

Privilege Escalation

b)

SQL (Structured Query Language) Injection

c)

Replay Attack

d)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

61.

A data breach has occurred in a large insurance company. A security administrator is building new servers and security systems to get all of the financial systems back online. Which part of the incident response process would BEST describe these actions?

a)

Lessons Learned

b)

Containment

c)

Recovery

d)

Analysis

62.

A network team has installed new access points to support an application launch. In less than 24 hours, the wireless network was attacked and private company information was accessed. Which of the following would be the MOST likely reason for this breach?

a)

Race Condition

b)

Jailbreaking

c)

Impersonation

d)

Misconfiguration

63.

An organization has identified a significant vulnerability in an Internetfacing firewall. The firewall company has stated the firewall is no longer available for sale and there are no plans to create a patch for this vulnerability. Which of the following would BEST describe this issue?

a)

End-of-Life

b)

Improper Input Handling

c)

Improper Key Management

d)

Incompatible OS

64.

A company has decided to perform a disaster recovery exercise during an annual meeting with the IT directors and senior directors. A simulated disaster will be presented, and the participants will discuss the logistics and processes required to resolve the disaster. Which of the following would BEST describe this exercise?

a)

Capacity Planning

b)

Business Impact Analysis

c)

Continuity of Operations

d)

Tabletop Exercise

65.

A security administrator needs to block users from visiting websites hosting malicious software. Which of the following would be the BEST way to control this access?

a)

Honeynet

b)

Data Masking

c)

DNS Filtering

d)

Data Loss Prevention

66.

A system administrator has been called to a system with a malware infection. As part of the incident response process, the administrator has imaged the operating system to a known-good version. Which of these incident response steps is the administrator following?

a)

Lessons Learned

b)

Recovery

c)

Detection

d)

Containment

67.

A company has placed a SCADA system on a segmented network with limited access from the rest of the corporate network. Which of the following would describe this process?

a)

Load Balancing

b)

Least Privilege

c)

Data Retention

d)

Hardening

68.

An administrator is viewing the following security log:

Dec 30 08:40:03 web01 Failed password for root from 10.101.88.230 port 26244 ssh2

Dec 30 08:40:05 web01 Failed password for root from 10.101.88.230 port 26244 ssh2

Dec 30 08:40:09 web01 445 more authentication failures; rhost=10.101.88.230 user=root

Which of the following would describe this attack?

a)

Spraying

b)

Downgrade

c)

Brute Force

d)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

69.

During a morning login process, a user's laptop was moved to a private VLAN and a series of updates were automatically installed. Which of the following would describe this process?

a)

Account Lockout

b)

Configuration Enforcement

c)

Decommissioning

d)

Sideloading

70.

Which of the following describes two-factor authentication?

a)

A printer uses a password and a PIN

b)

The door to a building requires a fingerprint scan

c)

An application requires a pseudo-random code

d)

A Windows Domain requires a password and smart card

71.

A company is deploying a new application to all employees in the field. Some of the problems associated with this roll out include:

• The company does not have a way to manage the devices in the field

• Team members have many different kinds of mobile devices

• The same device needs to be used for both corporate and private use

Which of the following deployment models would address these concerns?

a)

CYOD (Choose Your Own Device)

b)

SSO (Single Sign-On)

c)

COPE (Corporate-owned, Personally Enabled)

d)

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

72.

An organization is installing a UPS for their new data center. Which of the following would BEST describe this control type?

a)

Compensating

b)

Directive

c)

Deterrent

d)

Detective

73.

A manufacturing company would like to track the progress of parts used on an assembly line. Which of the following technologies would be the BEST choice for this task?

a)

Secure Enclave

b)

Blockchain

c)

Hashing

d)

Asymmetric Encryption

74.

A company's website has been compromised and the website content has been replaced with a political message. Which of the following threat actors would be the MOST likely culprit?

a)

Insider

b)

Organized Crime

c)

Shadow IT

d)

Hacktivist

75.

A Linux administrator is downloading an updated version of her Linux distribution. The download site shows a link to the ISO and a SHA256 hash value. Which of these would describe the use of this hash value?

a)

Verifies that the file was not corrupted during the file transfer

b)

Provides a key for decrypting the ISO after download

c)

Authenticates the site as an official ISO distribution site

d)

Confirms that the file does not contain any malware

76.

A company's security policy requires that login access should only be available if a person is physically within the same building as the server. Which of the following would be the BEST way to provide this requirement?

a)

USB Security Key

b)

Biometric Scanner

c)

PIN

d)

SMS (Short Message Service)

77.

A development team has installed a new application and database to a cloud service. After running a vulnerability scanner on the application instance, a security administrator finds the database is available for anyone to query without providing any authentication. Which of these vulnerabilities is MOST associated with this issue?

a)

Legacy Software

b)

Open Permissions

c)

Race Condition

d)

Malicious Update

78.

Employees of an organization have received an email with a link offering a cash bonus for completing an internal training course. Which of the following would BEST describe this email?

a)

Watering Hole Attack

b)

Cross-Site Scripting

c)

Zero-Day

d)

Phishing Campaign

79.

Which of the following risk management strategies would include the purchase and installation of an NGFW?

a)

Transfer

b)

Mitigate

c)

Accept

d)

Avoid

80.

An organization is implementing a security model where all application requests must be validated at a policy enforcement point. Which of the following would BEST describe this model?

a)

Public Key Infrastructure

b)

Zero Trust

c)

Discretionary Access Control

d)

Federation

81.

A company is installing a new application in a public cloud. Which of the following determines the assignment of data security in this cloud infrastructure?

a)

Playbook

b)

Audit Committee

c)

Responsibility Matrix

d)

Right-to-Audit Clause

82.

When decommissioning a device, a company documents the type and size of storage drive, the amount of RAM, and any installed adapter cards. Which of the following describes this process?

a)

Destruction

b)

Sanitization

c)

Certification

d)

Enumeration

83.

An attacker has sent more information than expected in a single API call, and this has allowed the execution of arbitrary code. Which of the following would BEST describe this attack?

a)

Buffer Overflow

b)

Replay Attack

c)

Cross-Site Scripting

d)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

84.

A company encourages users to encrypt all of their confidential materials on a central server. The organization would like to enable key escrow as a backup option. Which of these keys should the organization place into escrow?

a)

Private

b)

CA (Certificate Authority)

c)

Session

d)

Public

85.

A company is in the process of configuring and enabling host-based firewalls on all user devices. Which of the following threats is the company addressing?

a)

Default Credentials

b)

Vishing

c)

Instant Messaging

d)

On-path

86.

A manufacturing company would like to use an existing router to separate a corporate network from a manufacturing floor. Both networks use the same physical switch, and the company does not want to install any additional hardware. Which of the following would be the BEST choice for this segmentation?

a)

Connect the corporate network and the manufacturing floor with a VPN

b)

Build an air gapped manufacturing floor network

c)

Use host-based firewalls on each device

d)

Create separate VLANs for the corporate network and the manufacturing floor

87.

An organization needs to provide a remote access solution for a newly deployed cloud-based application. This application is designed to be used by mobile field service technicians. Which of the following would be the best option for this requirement?

a)

RTOS (Real-time Operating System)

b)

CRL (Certificate Revocation List)

c)

Zero-trust

d)

SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)

88.

A company is implementing a quarterly security awareness campaign. Which of the following would MOST likely be part of this campaign?

a)

Suspicious message reports from users

b)

An itemized statement of work

c)

An IaC (Infrastructure as Code) configuration file

d)

An acceptable use policy document

89.

A recent report shows the return of a vulnerability that was previously patched four months ago. After researching this issue, the security team has found a recent patch has reintroduced this vulnerability on the servers. Which of the following should the security administrator implement to prevent this issue from occurring in the future?

a)

Containerization

b)

Data Masking

c)

802.1X

d)

Change management

90.

A security manager would like to ensure that unique hashes are used with an application login process. Which of the following would be the BEST way to add random data when generating a set of stored password hashes?

a)

Salting

b)

Obfuscation

c)

Key Stretching

d)

Digital Signature

91.

Which cryptographic method is used to add trust to a digital certificate?

a)

Steganography

b)

Hash

c)

Symmetric Encryption

d)

Digital Signature

92.

A company is using SCAP as part of their security monitoring processes. Which of the following would BEST describe this implementation?

a)

Train the user community to better identify phishing attempts

b)

Present the results of an internal audit to the board

c)

Automate the validation and patching of security issues

d)

Identify and document authorized data center visitors

93.

An organization maintains a large database of customer information for sales tracking and customer support. Which person in the organization would be responsible for managing the access rights to this data?

a)

Data Processor

b)

Data Owner

c)

Data Subject

d)

Data Custodian

94.

An organization’s content management system currently labels files and documents as “Public” and “Restricted.” On a recent update, a new classification type of “Private” was added. Which of the following would be the MOST likely reason for this addition?

a)

Minimized Attack Surface

b)

Simplified Categorization

c)

Expanded Privacy Compliance

d)

Decreased Search Time

95.

A corporate security team would like to consolidate and protect the private keys across all of their web servers. Which of these would be the BEST way to securely store these keys?

a)

Integrate an HSM (Hardware Security Module)

b)

Implement full disk encryption on the web servers

c)

Use a TPM (Trusted Platform Module)

d)

Upgrade the web servers to use a UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)

96.

A security technician is reviewing this security log from an IPS:

ALERT 2023-06-01 13:07:29 [163bcf65118-179b547b]

Cross-Site Scripting in JSON Data

222.43.112.74:3332 -> 64.235.145.35:80

URL/index.html - Method POST - Query String "-"

User Agent: curl/7.21.3 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.3

NSS/3.13.1.0 zlib/1.2.5 libidn/1.19 libssh2/1.2.7

Detail: token=""

Which of the following can be determined from this log information? (Select TWO)

a)

The alert was generated from a malformed User Agent header

b)

The alert was generated from an embedded script

c)

The attacker’s IP address is 222.43.112.74

d)

The attacker’s IP address is 64.235.145.35

e)

The alert was generated due to an invalid client port number

97.

Which of the following describes a monetary loss if one event occurs?

a)

ALE (Annual Loss Expectancy)

b)

SLE (Single Loss Expectancy)

c)

RTO (Recovery Time Objectives)

d)

ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence)

98.

A user with restricted access has typed this text in a search field of an internal web-based application:

USER77' OR '1'='1

After submitting this search request, all database records are displayed on the screen. Which of the following would BEST describe this search?

a)

Cross-Site Scripting

b)

Buffer Overflow

c)

SQL (Structured Query Language) Injection

d)

SSL Stripping

99.

A user has opened a helpdesk ticket complaining of poor system performance, excessive pop up messages, and the cursor moving without anyone touching the mouse. This issue began after they opened a spreadsheet from a vendor containing part numbers and pricing information. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this user's issues?

a)

On-path

b)

Worm

c)

Trojan Horse

d)

Logic Bomb

100.

A web-based manufacturing company processes monthly charges to credit card information saved in the customer's profile. All of the customer information is encrypted and protected with additional authentication factors. Which of the following would be the justification for these security controls?

a)

Chain of Custody

b)

Password Vaulting

c)

Compliance Reporting

d)

Sandboxing

101.

A security manager has created a report showing intermittent network communication from certain workstations on the internal network to one external IP address. These traffic patterns occur at random times during the day. Which of the following would be the MOST likely reason for these traffic patterns?

a)

On-path Attack

b)

Keylogger

c)

Replay Attack

d)

Brute Force

102.

The security policies in a manufacturing company prohibit the transmission of customer information. However, a security administrator has received an alert that credit card numbers were transmitted as an email attachment. Which of the following was the MOST likely source of this alert message?

a)

IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)

b)

DLP (Data Loss Prevention)

c)

RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service)

d)

IPsec (Internet Protocol Security)

103.

A security administrator has configured a virtual machine in a screened subnet with a guest login account and no password. Which of the following would be the MOST likely reason for this configuration?

a)

The server is a honeypot for attracting potential attackers

b)

The server is a cloud storage service for remote users

c)

The server will be used as a VPN concentrator

d)

The server is a development sandbox for third-party programming projects

104.

A security administrator is configuring a DNS server with a SPF record. Which of the following would be the reason for this configuration?

a)

Transmit all outgoing email over an encrypted tunnel

b)

List all servers authorized to send emails

c)

Digitally sign all outgoing email messages

d)

Obtain disposition instructions for emails marked as spam

105.

A company would like to securely deploy applications without the overhead of installing a virtual machine for each system. Which of the following would be the BEST way to deploy these applications?

a)

Containerization

b)

IoT (Internet of Things)

c)

Proxy

d)

RTOS (Real-Time Operating Systems)

106.

A company has just purchased a new application server, and the security director wants to determine if the system is secure. The system is currently installed in a test environment and will not be available to users until the roll out to production next week. Which of the following would be the BEST way to determine if any part of the system can be exploited?

a)

Tabletop Exercise

b)

Vulnerability Scanner

c)

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

d)

Penetration Test