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WorksheetsSY0-701 Practice A
Total questions: 106
Worksheet time: 27hrs 30mins
Choose Attack Type: Attacker obtains bank account number and birth date by calling the victim.
Injection
Vishing
On-path
Keylogger
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
Choose Attack Type: Attacker accesses a database directly from a web browser.
Injection
Vishing
On-path
Keylogger
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
Choose Attack Type: Attacker intercepts all communication between a client and a web server.
Injection
Vishing
On-path
Keylogger
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
Choose Attack Type: Multiple attackers overwhelm a web server.
Injection
Vishing
On-path
Keylogger
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
Choose Attack Type: Attacker obtains a list of all login credentials used over the last 24 hours.
Injection
Vishing
On-path
Keylogger
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
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).
Access Badge
Fencing
Biometrics
Security Guard
Lighting
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).
Access Badge
Authentication Token
Biometrics
Security Guard
Access Control Vestibule
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).
Access Badge
Fencing
Biometrics
Lighting
Access Control Vestibule
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).
Lighting
Authentication Token
Security Guard
Biometrics
Access Badge
Select the most appropriate category:
A guard checks the identification of all visitors.
Technical
Managerial
Operational
Physical
Select the most appropriate category:
All returns must be approved by a Vice President.
Technical
Managerial
Operational
Physical
Select the most appropriate category:
A generator is used during a power outage.
Technical
Managerial
Operational
Physical
Select the most appropriate category:
Building doors can be unlocked with an access card.
Technical
Managerial
Operational
Physical
Select the most appropriate category:
System logs are transferred automatically to a SIEM.
Technical
Managerial
Operational
Physical
Select the most appropriate authentication factor:
During the login process, your phone receives a text message with a one-time passcode.
Something you know
Something you are
Something you have
Somewhere you are
Select the most appropriate authentication factor:
You enter your PIN to make a deposit into an ATM.
Something you know
Something you are
Something you have
Somewhere you are
Select the most appropriate authentication factor:
You can use your finger to unlock the door to the data center.
Something you know
Something you are
Something you have
Somewhere you are
Select the most appropriate authentication factor:
Your login will not work unless you are connected to the VPN.
Something you know
Something you are
Something you have
Somewhere you are
What Protocol and Port would be used to configure the following firewall rule:
Block HTTP sessions between a web server and database server.
TCP/80
UDP/22
TCP/22
UDP/443
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.
UDP/22
TCP/443
TCP/80
UDP/443
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.
UDP/22
TCP/80
UDP/443
TCP/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?
Vulnerability Scanning
Passive Reconnaissance
Supply Chain Analysis
Regulatory Audit
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?
SPF (Sender Policy Framework)
NAC (Network Access Control)
DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance)
DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail)
Which of these threat actors would be MOST likely to attack systems for direct financial gain?
Organized Crime
Hacktivist
Nation State
Shadow IT
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?
Root Cause Analysis
E-discovery
Risk Appetite
Data Subject
A city is building an ambulance service network for emergency medical dispatching. Which of the following should have the highest priority?
Integration Costs
Patch Availability
System Availability
Power Usage
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?
Maintenance Window
Attestation and Acknowledgment
Automation
External Audit
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?
Create an operating system security policy to block the use of removable media
Monitor removable media usage in host-based firewall logs
Only allow applications that do not use removable media
Define a removable media block rule in the UTM (Unified Threat Manager)
A company creates a standard set of government reports each calendar quarter. Which of the following would describe this type of data?
Data In Use
Obfuscated
Trade Secrets
Regulated
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)
Restrict login access by IP address and GPS location
Require government-issued identification during the onboarding process
Conduct monthly permission auditing
Consolidate all logs on a SIEM (Security Information and Event Manager)
Enable time-of-day restrictions on the authentication server
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?
The victim's IP address is 136.127.92.171
A download was blocked from a web server
A botnet DDoS attack was blocked
The Trojan was blocked, but the file was not
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?
Brute Force
DoS (Denial of Service)
On-path
Deauthentication
Which of the following would be the BEST way to provide a website login using existing credentials from a third-party site?
Federation
802.1X
EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol)
SSO (Single Sign-On)
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?
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
RTO (Recovery Time Objectives)
MTTR (Mean Time to Restore)
RPO (Recovery Point Objective)
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?
Social Engineering
Supply Chain
Watering Hole
On-path
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?
SLA (Service Level Agreement)
SOW (Statement of Work)
MOA (Memorandum of Agreement)
NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement)
Which of the following would explain why a company would automatically add a digital signature to each outgoing email message?
Confidentiality
Integrity
Authenticataion
Availability
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?
Memory Injection
Resource Consumption
Race Condition
Malicious Update
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)
Password Complexity
Password Expiration
Password Reuse
Account Lockout
Password Managers
What kind of security control is associated with a login banner?
Preventative
Deterrent
Corrective
Compensating
Directive
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?
Purchase cybersecurity insurance
Implement an exception for all data center services
Move the servers to a protected segment
Hire a third-party to perform an extensive audit
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?
Platform Diversity
Continuity of Operations
Cold Site Recovery
Tabletop Exercise
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?
Access Control Vestibule
Video Surveillance
Pressure Sensors
Bollards
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?
Full-disk
Record
Asymmetric
Key Escrow
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?
Encryption
Off-site Backups
Journaling
Replication
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?
Segmentation
Biometrics
COPE (Corporately Owned and Personally Enabled)
MDM (Mobile Device Manager)
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?
Exploit
Compensating Controls
Zero-day Attack
False Negative
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?
Escalation
Guard Rails
Continuous Integration
Resource Provisioning
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?
WPA3 (WiFi Protected Access 3)
802.1X
PSK (Pre-Shared Key)
MFA (Multifactor Authentication)
A company's VPN service performs a posture assessment during the login process. Which of the following mitigation techniques would this describe?
Encryption
Decommissioning
Least Privilege
Configuration Enforcement
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?
Discretionary
Mandatory
Attribute-based
Role-based
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?
Brute Force
Watering Hole
Typosquatting
Smishing
A company is formalizing the design and deployment process used by their application programmers. Which of the following policies would apply?
Business Continuity
Acceptable Use Policy
Incident Response
Development Lifecycle
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?
Eradication
Preparation
Recovery
Containment
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?
Deauthentication
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
Buffer Overflow
DNS Poisoning
Which of the following considerations are MOST commonly associated with a hybrid cloud model?
Microservice Outages
IoT (Internet of Things) Support
Network Protection Mismatches
Containerization Backups
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?
Confirm that no unauthorized accounts have administrator access
Validate the account lockout policy
Validate the offboarding processes and procedures
Create a report that shows all authentications for a 24-hour period
Which of the following is used to describe how cautious an organization might be to taking a specific risk?
Risk Appetite
Risk Register
Risk Transfer
Risk Reporting
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?
Contact the stakeholders regarding the outage
Follow the steps listed in the backout plan
Test the upgrade process in the lab
Evaluate the impact analysis associated with the change
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?
Privilege Escalation
SQL (Structured Query Language) Injection
Replay Attack
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
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?
Lessons Learned
Containment
Recovery
Analysis
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?
Race Condition
Jailbreaking
Impersonation
Misconfiguration
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?
End-of-Life
Improper Input Handling
Improper Key Management
Incompatible OS
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?
Capacity Planning
Business Impact Analysis
Continuity of Operations
Tabletop Exercise
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?
Honeynet
Data Masking
DNS Filtering
Data Loss Prevention
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?
Lessons Learned
Recovery
Detection
Containment
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?
Load Balancing
Least Privilege
Data Retention
Hardening
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?
Spraying
Downgrade
Brute Force
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
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?
Account Lockout
Configuration Enforcement
Decommissioning
Sideloading
Which of the following describes two-factor authentication?
A printer uses a password and a PIN
The door to a building requires a fingerprint scan
An application requires a pseudo-random code
A Windows Domain requires a password and smart card
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?
CYOD (Choose Your Own Device)
SSO (Single Sign-On)
COPE (Corporate-owned, Personally Enabled)
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
An organization is installing a UPS for their new data center. Which of the following would BEST describe this control type?
Compensating
Directive
Deterrent
Detective
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?
Secure Enclave
Blockchain
Hashing
Asymmetric Encryption
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?
Insider
Organized Crime
Shadow IT
Hacktivist
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?
Verifies that the file was not corrupted during the file transfer
Provides a key for decrypting the ISO after download
Authenticates the site as an official ISO distribution site
Confirms that the file does not contain any malware
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?
USB Security Key
Biometric Scanner
PIN
SMS (Short Message Service)
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?
Legacy Software
Open Permissions
Race Condition
Malicious Update
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?
Watering Hole Attack
Cross-Site Scripting
Zero-Day
Phishing Campaign
Which of the following risk management strategies would include the purchase and installation of an NGFW?
Transfer
Mitigate
Accept
Avoid
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?
Public Key Infrastructure
Zero Trust
Discretionary Access Control
Federation
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?
Playbook
Audit Committee
Responsibility Matrix
Right-to-Audit Clause
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?
Destruction
Sanitization
Certification
Enumeration
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?
Buffer Overflow
Replay Attack
Cross-Site Scripting
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
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?
Private
CA (Certificate Authority)
Session
Public
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?
Default Credentials
Vishing
Instant Messaging
On-path
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?
Connect the corporate network and the manufacturing floor with a VPN
Build an air gapped manufacturing floor network
Use host-based firewalls on each device
Create separate VLANs for the corporate network and the manufacturing floor
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?
RTOS (Real-time Operating System)
CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
Zero-trust
SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)
A company is implementing a quarterly security awareness campaign. Which of the following would MOST likely be part of this campaign?
Suspicious message reports from users
An itemized statement of work
An IaC (Infrastructure as Code) configuration file
An acceptable use policy document
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?
Containerization
Data Masking
802.1X
Change management
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?
Salting
Obfuscation
Key Stretching
Digital Signature
Which cryptographic method is used to add trust to a digital certificate?
Steganography
Hash
Symmetric Encryption
Digital Signature
A company is using SCAP as part of their security monitoring processes. Which of the following would BEST describe this implementation?
Train the user community to better identify phishing attempts
Present the results of an internal audit to the board
Automate the validation and patching of security issues
Identify and document authorized data center visitors
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?
Data Processor
Data Owner
Data Subject
Data Custodian
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?
Minimized Attack Surface
Simplified Categorization
Expanded Privacy Compliance
Decreased Search Time
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?
Integrate an HSM (Hardware Security Module)
Implement full disk encryption on the web servers
Use a TPM (Trusted Platform Module)
Upgrade the web servers to use a UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
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)
The alert was generated from a malformed User Agent header
The alert was generated from an embedded script
The attacker’s IP address is 222.43.112.74
The attacker’s IP address is 64.235.145.35
The alert was generated due to an invalid client port number
Which of the following describes a monetary loss if one event occurs?
ALE (Annual Loss Expectancy)
SLE (Single Loss Expectancy)
RTO (Recovery Time Objectives)
ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence)
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?
Cross-Site Scripting
Buffer Overflow
SQL (Structured Query Language) Injection
SSL Stripping
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?
On-path
Worm
Trojan Horse
Logic Bomb
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?
Chain of Custody
Password Vaulting
Compliance Reporting
Sandboxing
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?
On-path Attack
Keylogger
Replay Attack
Brute Force
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?
IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)
DLP (Data Loss Prevention)
RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service)
IPsec (Internet Protocol Security)
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?
The server is a honeypot for attracting potential attackers
The server is a cloud storage service for remote users
The server will be used as a VPN concentrator
The server is a development sandbox for third-party programming projects
A security administrator is configuring a DNS server with a SPF record. Which of the following would be the reason for this configuration?
Transmit all outgoing email over an encrypted tunnel
List all servers authorized to send emails
Digitally sign all outgoing email messages
Obtain disposition instructions for emails marked as spam
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?
Containerization
IoT (Internet of Things)
Proxy
RTOS (Real-Time Operating Systems)
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?
Tabletop Exercise
Vulnerability Scanner
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
Penetration Test
