SY0-601 v2 - Active untill 4 NOV 21

Due to unexpected circumstances, an IT company must vacate its main office, forcing all operations to alternate, off-site locations.

 

Which of the following will the company MOST likely reference for guidance during this change?

Which of the following would detect intrusions at the perimeter of an airport?

Which of the following in a forensic investigation should be priorities based on the order of volatility? (Select TWO).

An amusement park is implementing a biometric system that validates customers' fingerprints to ensure they are not sharing tickets. The park's owner values customers above all and would prefer customers’ convenience over security.

 

For this reason, which of the following features should the security team prioritize FIRST?

Which of the following components can be used to consolidate and forward inbound Internet traffic to multiple cloud environments though a single firewall?

Which of the following types of attacks is being attempted and how can it be mitigated?

 

Which of the following are common VoIP-associated vulnerabilities? (Select TWO).

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) requested a report on potential areas of improvement following a security incident.

 

Which of the following incident response processes is the CISO requesting?

A customer service representative reported an unusual text message that was sent to the help desk. The message contained an unrecognized invoice number with a large balance due and a link to click for more details.

 

Which of the following BEST describes this technique?

A company is planning to install a guest wireless network so visitors will be able to access the Internet. The stakeholders want the network to be easy to connect to so time is not wasted during meetings. The WAPs are configured so that power levels and antennas cover only the conference rooms where visitors will attend meetings.

 

Which of the following would BEST protect the company's Internal wireless network against visitors accessing company resources?

A security analyst has been tasked with creating a new WiFi network for the company. The requirements received by the analyst are as follows:

 

Must be able to differentiate between users connected to WiFi The encryption keys need to change routinely without interrupting the users or forcing re-authentication Must be able to integrate with RADIUS Must not have any open SSIDs

 

Which of the following options BEST accommodates these requirements?

Certain users are reporting their accounts are being used to send unauthorized emails and conduct suspicious activities. After further investigation, a security analyst notices the following:

Which of the following attacks is being used to compromise the user accounts?

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for securing an air-gapped laboratory HVAC system?

Which of the following should be monitored by threat intelligence researchers who search for leaked credentials?

A security proposal was set up to track requests for remote access by creating a baseline of the users' common sign-in properties. When a baseline deviation is detected, an lv1FA challenge will be triggered.

 

Which of the following should be configured in order to deploy the proposal?

A cybersecurity administrator needs to implement a Layer 7 security control on a network and block potential attacks.

 

Which of the following can block an attack at Layer 7? (Select TWO).

A company suspects that some corporate accounts were compromised. The number of suspicious logins from locations not recognized by the users is increasing. Employees who travel need their accounts protected without the risk of blocking legitimate login requests that may be made over new sign-in properties.

 

Which of the following security controls can be implemented?

A cloud service provider has created an environment where customers can connect existing local networks to the cloud lor additional computing resources and block internal HR applications from reaching the cloud.

 

Which of the following cloud models is being used?

After a recent security breach, a security analyst reports that several administrative usernames and passwords are being sent via cleartext across the network to access network devices over port 23.

 

Which of the following should be implemented so all credentials sent over the network are encrypted when remotely accessing and configuring network devices?

A customer has reported that an organization's website displayed an image of a smiley face rather than the expected web page for a short time two days earlier. A security analyst reviews log tries and sees the following around the lime of the incident:

 

Website	Time	Name sever	A record
CompTIA.org	8:10	names.comptia.org	192.168.1.10
CompTIA.org	9:00	names.comptia.org	192.168.1.10
CompTIA.org	9:30	ns.attacker.org	10.10.50.5
CompTIA.org	10:00	names.comptia.org	192.168.1.10

 

Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

Which of the following will Increase cryptographic security?

An attacker was eavesdropping on a user who was shopping online. The attacker was able to spoof the IP address associated with the shopping site. Later, the user received an email regarding the credit card statement with unusual purchases.

 

Which of the following attacks took place?

While reviewing an alert that shows a malicious request on one web application, a cybersecurity analyst is alerted to a subsequent token reuse moments later on a different service using the same single sign-on method.

 

Which of the following would BEST detect a malicious actor?

A recent security breach exploited software vulnerabilities in the firewall and within the network management solution.

 

Which of the following will MOST likely be used to identify when the breach occurred through each device?

Which of the following employee roles is responsible for protecting an organization's collected personal information?

A systems administrator reports degraded performance on a virtual server. The administrator increases the virtual memory allocation, which improves conditions, but performance degrades again after a few days.

 

 

The administrator runs an analysis tool and sees the following output: The administrator terminates the time Attend.exe, observes system performance over the next few days and notices that the system performance does not degrade.

 

Which of the following issues is MOST likely occurring?

A security manager needs to assess the security posture of one of the organization's vendors. The contract with the vendor does not allow for auditing of the vendor's security controls.

 

Which of the following should the manager request to complete the assessment?

After multiple on premises security solutions were migrated to the cloud, the incident response time increased. The analysts are spending a long time to trace information on different cloud consoles and correlating data in different formats.

A company needs to validate its updated incident response plan using a real-world scenario that will test decision points and relevant incident response actions without interrupting daily operations.

 

Which of the following would BEST meet the company's requirements?

An organization is moving away from the use of client-side and server-side certificates for EAP The company would like for the new EAP solution to have the ability to detect rogue access points.

 

Which of the following would accomplish these requirements?

A company is receiving emails with links to phishing sites that look very similar to the company's own website address and content.

 

Which of the following is the BEST way for the company to mitigate this Attack?

A systems administrator is troubleshooting a server's connection to an internal web server. The administrator needs to determine the correct ports to use.

 

Which of the following tools BEST shows which ports on the web server are in a listening state?

Per company security policy, IT staff members are required to have separate credentials to perform administrative functions using just-in-time permissions.

 

Which of the following solutions is the company Implementing?

The Chief Technology Officer of a local college would like visitors to utilize the school's WiFi but must be able to associate potential malicious activity to a specific person.

 

Which of the following would BEST allow this objective to be met?

A malware attack has corrupted 30TB of company data across all file servers A systems administrator Identifies the malware and contains the Issue, but the data Is unrecoverable. The administrator Is not concerned about the data loss because the company has a system in place that will allow users to access the data that was backed up last night.

 

Which of the following resiliency techniques did the administrator MOST likely use to prevent impacts to business operations after an attack?

As part of a security compliance assessment, an auditor performs automated vulnerability scans.

 

In addition, which of the following should the auditor do to complete the assessment?

A security analyst is investigating some users who are being redirected to a fake website that resembles www.comptia.org. The following output was found on the naming server of the organization:

 

Name	Type	Data
www	A	192.168.1.10
server1	A	10.10.10.10
server2	A	10.10.10.11
file	A	10.10.10.12

 

Which of the following attacks has taken place?

Which of the following is the MOST relevant security check to be performed before embedding third-party libraries in developed code?

During a recent penetration test, the tester discovers large amounts of data were exfiltrated over the course of 12 months via the Internet. The penetration tester stops the test to inform the client of the findings.

 

Which of the following should be the client's NEXT step to mitigate the issue?

Which of the following describes the continuous delivery software development methodology?

Developers are about to release a financial application, but the number of fields on the forms that could be abused by an attacker is troubling.

 

Which of the following techniques should be used to address this vulnerability?

A security administrator has discovered that workstations on the LAN are becoming infected with malware. The cause of the infections appears to be users receiving phishing emails that are bypassing the current email-filtering technology. As a result, users are being tricked into clicking on malicious URLs, as no internal controls currently exist in the environment to evaluate their safety.

 

Which of the following would be BEST to implement to address the issue?

A security analyst has identified malware spreading through the corporate network and has activated the CSIRT.

 

Which of the following should the analyst do NEXT?

A junior security analyst is conducting an analysis after passwords were changed on multiple accounts without users’ interaction. The SIEM have multiple login entries with the following text:

 

 

Which of the following is the MOST likely attack conducted on the environment?

A security forensics analyst is examining a virtual server. The analyst wants to preserve the present state of the virtual server, including memory contents.

 

Which of the following backup types should be used?

A user's login credentials were recently compromised During the investigation, the security analyst determined the user input credentials into a pop-up window when prompted to confirm the username and password. However the trusted website does not use a pop-up for entering user credentials.

 

Which of the following attacks occurred?

A security analyst was called to Investigate a file received directly from a hardware manufacturer. The analyst is trying to determine whether the file was modified in transit before installation on the user's computer.

 

Which of the following can be used to safely assess the file?

Which of the following BEST reduces the security risks introduced when running systems that have expired vendor support and lack an immediate replacement?

Which of the following control types is focused primarily on reducing risk before an incident occurs?

Which of the following policies establishes rules to measure third-party work tasks and ensure deliverables are provided within a specific timeline?

Two organizations plan to collaborate on the evaluation of new SIEM solutions for their respective companies. A combined effort from both organizations’ SOC teams would speed up the effort.

 

Which of the following can be written to document this agreement?

All security analysts workstations at a company have network access to a critical server VLAN. The information security manager wants to further enhance the controls by requiring that all access to the secure VLAN be authorized only from a given single location.

 

Which of the following will the information security manager MOST likely implement?

An organization is planning to open other data centers to sustain operations in the event of a natural disaster.

 

Which of the following considerations would BEST support the organization's resiliency?

During an incident response, an analyst applied rules to all inbound traffic on the border firewall and implemented ACLs on each critical server. Following an investigation, the company realizes it is still vulnerable because outbound traffic is not restricted, and the adversary is able to maintain a presence in the network.

 

In which of the following stages of the Cyber Kill Chain is the adversary currently operating?

After returning from a conference, a user's laptop has been operating slower than normal and overheating, and the fans have been running constantly. During the diagnosis process, an unknown piece of hardware is found connected to the laptop's motherboard.

 

Which of the following attack vectors was exploited to install the hardware?

Which of the following would MOST likely be identified by a credentialed scan but would be missed by an un-credentialed scan?

A database administrator wants to grant access to an application that will be reading and writing data to a database. The database is shared by other applications also used by the finance department.

 

Which of the following account types Is MOST appropriate for this purpose?

An administrator is experiencing issues when trying to upload a support file to a vendor. A pop-up message reveals that a payment card number was found in the file, and the file upload was blocked.

 

Which of the following controls is most likely causing this issue and should be checked FIRST?

Multiple business accounts were compromised a few days after a public website had its credentials database leaked on the Internet. No business emails were identified in the breach, but the security team thinks that the list of passwords exposed was later used to compromise business accounts.

 

Which of the following would mitigate the issue?

The Chief Information Security Officer wants to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information from employee cell phones when using public USB power charging stations.

 

Which of the following would be the BEST solution to Implement?

After gaining access to a dual-homed (i.e.. Wired and wireless) multifunction device by exploiting a vulnerability in the device's firmware, a penetration tester then gains shell access on another networked asset.

 

This technique is an example of:

An application developer accidentally uploaded a company's code-signing certificate private key to a public web server. The company is concerned about malicious use of its certificate.

 

Which of the following should the company do FIRST?

A company is looking to migrate some servers to the cloud to minimize its technology footprint. The company has 100 databases that are on premises.

 

Which of the following solutions will require the LEAST management and support from the company?

A security monitoring company offers a service that alerts its customers if their credit cards have been stolen.

 

Which of the following is the MOST likely source of this information?

A company recently experienced a significant data loss when proprietary Information was leaked to a competitor. The company took special precautions by using proper labels; however, email filter logs do not have any record of the incident. An Investigation confirmed the corporate network was not breached, but documents were downloaded from an employee's COPE tablet and passed to the competitor via cloud storage.

 

Which of the following is the BEST remediation for this data leak?

A security analyst has been asked by the Chief Information Security Officer to:

 

1. Develop a secure method of providing centralized management of infrastructure

2. Reduce the need to constantly replace aging end user machines

3. Provide a consistent user desktop experience

 

Which of the following BEST meets these requirements?

An application owner reports suspicious activity on an internal financial application from various internal users within the past 14 days. A security analyst notices the following:

 

 

Which of the following types of attacks is MOST likely being used to gain unauthorized access?

A routine audit of medical billing claims revealed that several claims were submitted without the subscriber's knowledge. A review of the audit logs for the medical billing company's system indicated a company employee downloaded customer records and adjusted the direct deposit information to a personal bank account.

 

Which of the following does this action describe?

A company wants to improve end users' experiences when they log in to a trusted partner website. The company does not want the users to be issued separate credentials for the partner website.

 

Which of the following should be implemented to allow users to authenticate using their own credentials to log in to the trusted partner's website?

Which of the following statements BEST describes zero-day exploits?

Server administrators want to configure a cloud solution so that computing memory and processor usage is maximized most efficiently across a number of virtual servers. They also need to avoid potential denial-of-service situations caused by availability.

 

Which of the following should administrators configure to maximize system availability while efficiently utilizing available computing power?

Which of the following would BEST provide a systems administrator with the ability to more efficiently identify systems and manage permissions and policies based on location, role, and service level?

An organization has activated an incident response plan due to a malware outbreak on its network The organization has brought in a forensics team that has identified an internet- facing Windows server as the likely point of initial compromise The malware family that was detected is known to be distributed by manually logging on to servers and running the malicious code.

 

Which of the following actions would be BEST to prevent reinfection from the initial infection vector?

Which of the following is a known security risk associated with data archives that contain financial information?

An organization would like to give remote workers the ability to use applications hosted inside the corporate network Users will be allowed to use their personal computers or they will be provided organization assets Either way no data or applications will be installed locally on any user systems

 

Which of the following mobile solutions would accomplish these goals?

Server administrator wants to configure a cloud solution so that computing memory and processor usage is maximized most efficiently across a number of virtual servers. They also need to avoid potential denial-of service situations caused by availability.

 

Which of the following should an administrator configure to maximize system availability while efficiently utilizing available computing power?

During a security incident investigation, an analyst consults the company's SIEM and sees an event concerning high traffic to a known, malicious command-and-control server. The analyst would like to determine the number of company workstations that may be impacted by this issue.

 

Which of the following can provide the information?

A forensic analyst needs to prove that data has not been tampered with since it was collected.

 

Which of the following methods will the analyst MOST likely use?

An organization has developed an application that needs a patch to fix a critical vulnerability

 

In which of the following environments should the patch be deployed LAST?

A company labeled some documents with the public sensitivity classification

 

This means the documents can be accessed by:

A company is implementing BYOD and wants to ensure all users have access to the same cloud-based services.

 

Which of the following would BEST allow the company to meet this requirement?

An organization wants to participate in threat intelligence information sharing with peer groups.

 

Which of the following would MOST likely meet the organization's requirement?

A systems administrator reports degraded performance on a virtual server. The administrator increases the virtual memory allocation which improves conditions, but performance degrades again after a few days. The administrator runs an analysis tool and sees the following output:

 

 

The administrator terminates the timeAttend.exe observes system performance over the next few days, and notices that the system performance does not degrade.

 

Which of the following issues is MOST likely occurring?

A security engineer was assigned to implement a solution to prevent attackers from gaining access by pretending to be authorized users.

 

Which of the following technologies meets the requirement?

A security manager has tasked the security operations center with locating all web servers that respond to an unsecure protocol.

 

Which of the following commands could an analyst run to find requested servers?

A report delivered to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) shows that some user credentials could be exfiltrated. The report also indicates that users tend to choose the same credentials on different systems and applications.

 

Which of the following policies should the CISO use to prevent someone from using the exfiltrated credentials?

During an incident response, an analyst applied rules to all inbound traffic on the border firewall and implemented ACLs on each critical server Following an investigation, the company realizes it is still vulnerable because outbound traffic is not and the adversary is able to maintain a presence in the network.

 

In which of the following stages of the Cyber Kill Chain is the adversary currently operating?

Which of the following risk management strategies would an organization use to maintain a legacy system with known risks for operational purposes?

Which of the following terms describes a broad range of information that is sensitive to a specific organization?

An organization has hired a red team to simulate attacks on its security posture.

 

Which of the following will the blue team do after detecting an loC?

Which of the following is an example of transference of risk?

Which of the following is a benefit of including a risk management framework into an organization's security approach?

A large bank with two geographically dispersed data centers is concerned about major power disruptions at both locations Every day each location experiences very brief outages that last for a few seconds However during the summer a high risk of intentional brownouts that last up to an hour exists particularly at one of the locations near an industrial smelter.

 

Which of the following is the BEST solution to reduce the risk of data loss?

A DBA reports that several production server hard drives were wiped over the weekend. The DBA als oreports that several Linux servers were unavailable due to system files being deleted unexpectedly. A security analyst verified that software was configured to delete data deliberately from those servers. No backdoors to any servers were found.

 

Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used to cause the data toss?

A Chief Information Security Officer has defined resiliency requirements for a new data center architecture The requirements are as follows:

Which of the following are required to BEST meet these objectives? (Select THREE)

A company wants to restrict emailing of PHI documents. The company is implementing a DLP solution

 

In order to restrict PHI documents which of the following should be performed FIRST?

An audit Identified Pll being utilized In the development environment of a critical application. The Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) Is adamant that this data must be removed; however, the developers are concerned that without real data they cannot perform functionality tests and search for specific data.

 

Which of the following should a security professional implement to BEST satisfy both the CPO's and the development team's requirements?

A company is implementing a DLP solution on the file server. The file server has PIl. 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?

To reduce and limit software and infrastructure costs, the Chief Information Officer has requested to move email services to the cloud. The cloud provider and the organization must have security controls to protect sensitive data.

 

Which of the following cloud services would BEST accommodate the request?

Digital signatures use asymmetric encryption.

 

This means the message is encrypted with:

Which of the following documents provides expectations at a technical level for quality, availability, and responsibilities?

An engineer wants to inspect traffic to a cluster of web servers in a cloud environment.

 

Which of the following solutions should the engineer implement?

A software company adopted the following processes before releasing software to production:

A considerable number of vulnerabilities are still being detected when code is executed on production. Which of the following security tools can improve vulnerability detection on this environment?

A SOC operator is analyzing a log file that contains the following entries:

 

A security incident has been resolved

 

Which of the following BEST describes the importance of the final phase of the incident response plan?

A business operations manager is concerned that a PC that is critical to business operations will have a costly hardware failure soon. The manager is looking for options to continue business operations without incurring large costs.

 

Which of the following would mitigate the manager's concerns?

Field workers in an organization are issued mobile phones on a daily basis. All the work is performed within one city and the mobile phones are not used for any purpose other than work. The organization does not want these phones used for personal purposes. The organization would like to issue the phones to workers as permanent devices so the phones do not need to be reissued every day

 

With the conditions described, which of the following technologies would BEST meet these requirements’

Which of the following describes the exploitation of an interactive process to gain access to restricted areas?

Which of the following would be indicative of a hidden audio file found inside of a piece of source code?

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has requested that a third-party vendor provide supporting documents that show proper controls are in place to protect customer data.

 

Which of the following would be BEST for the third-party vendor to provide to the CISO?

Which of the following would BEST provide detective and corrective controls for thermal regulation?

A company is auditing the manner in which its European customers’ personal information is handled.

 

Which of the following should the company consult?

A junior security analyst is conducting an analysis after passwords were changed on multiple accounts without users’ interaction. The SIEM have multiple login entries with the following text:

 

 

Which of Ihe following is the MOST likely attack conducted on the environment?

A security engineer is deploying a new wireless for a company. The company shares office space with multiple tenants.

 

Which of the following should the engineer configured on the wireless network to ensure that confidential data is not exposed to unauthorized users?

An employee received a word processing file that was delivered as an email attachment The subject line and email content enticed the employee to open the attachment.

 

Which of the following attack vectors BEST matches this malware?

The database administration team is requesting guidance for a secure solution that will ensure confidentiality of cardholder data at rest only in certain fields in the database schema. The requirement is to substitute a sensitive data field with a non-sensitive field that is rendered useless if a data breach occurs.

 

Which of the following is the BEST solution to meet the requirement?

A security analyst needs to be able to search and correlate logs from multiple sources in a single tool.

 

Which of the following would BEST allow a security analyst to have this ability?

Business partners are working on a security mechanism to validate transactions securely. The requirement is for one company to be responsible for deploying a trusted solution that will register and issue artifacts used to sign, encrypt, and decrypt transaction files.

 

Which of the following is the BEST solution to adopt?

An organization implemented a process that compares the settings currently configured on systems against secure configuration guidelines in order to identify any gaps.

 

Which of the following control types has the organization implemented?

A security analyst is evaluating solutions to deploy an additional layer of protection for a web application. The goal is to allow only encrypted communications without relying on network devices.

 

Which of the following can be implemented?

The SOC for a large MSSP is meeting to discuss the lessons learned from a recent incident that took much too long to resolve This type of incident has become more common in recent weeks and is consuming large amounts of the analysts’ time due to manual tasks being performed

 

Which of the following solutions should the SOC consider to BEST improve its response time?

Which of the following is the MOST effective control against zero-day vulnerabilities?

Which of the following tools is effective in preventing a user from accessing unauthorized removable media?

A security analyst is receiving numerous alerts reporting that the response time of an internet-facing application has been degraded However, the internal network performance was not degraded.

 

Which of the following MOST likely explains this behavior?

A company wants the ability to restrict web access and monitor the websites that employees visit.

 

Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements?

A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned that cloud-based services are not adequately protected from advanced threats and malware The CSO believes there is a high risk that a data breach could occur in the near future due to the lack of detective and preventive controls

 

Which of the following should be implemented to BEST address the CSO's concerns? (Select TWO)

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?

An has decided to purchase an insurance policy because a risk assessment determined that the cost to the risk is greater than the five-year cost of the insurance policy.

 

The organization is enabling risk

During an incident response process involving a laptop, a host was identified as the entry point for malware. The management team would like to have the laptop restored and given back to the user. The cybersecurity analyst would like to continue investigating the intrusion on the host.

 

Which of the following would allow the analyst to continue the investigation and also return the laptop to the user as soon as possible?

A help desk technician receives a phone call from someone claiming to be a part of the organization's cybersecurity modem response team The caller asks the technician to verify the network's internal firewall IP address.

 

Which of the following 15 the technician's BEST course of action?

Which of the following is the BEST example of a cost-effective physical control to enforce a USB removable media restriction policy?

A security analyst was asked to evaluate a potential attack that occurred on a publicly accessible section of the company's website The malicious actor posted an entry in an attempt to trick users into clicking the Following:

 

 

Which of the following was MOST likely observed?

A new company wants to avoid channel interference when building a WLAN. The company needs to know the radio frequency behavior, identify dead zones, and determine the best place for access points.

 

Which of the following should be done FIRST?

An organization is migrating several SaaS applications that support SSO. The security manager wants to ensure the migration is completed securely.

 

Which of the following should the organization consider before implementation? (Select TWO).

During a trial, a judge determined evidence gathered from a hard drive was not admissible.

 

Which of the following BEST explains this reasoning?

A security analyst is working on a project to implement a solution that monitors network communications and provides alerts when abnormal behavior is detected.

 

Which of the following is the security analyst MOST likely implementing?

An IT manager is estimating the mobile device budget for the upcoming year Over the last five years, the number of devices that were replaced due to loss damage or theft steadily increased by 10%.

 

Which of the following would BEST describe the estimated number of devices to be replaced next year? (Writers Choice)

The Chief Information Security Officer directed a nsk reduction in shadow IT and created a policy requiring all unsanctioned high-nsk SaaS applications to be blocked from user access.

 

Which of the following is the BEST security solution to reduce this risk?

Which of the following is assured when a user signs an email using a private key?

Which of the following actions would be recommended to improve an incident response process?

Data exfiltration analysis indicates that an attacker managed to download system configuration notes from a web server. The web-server logs have been deleted, but analysts have determined that the system configuration notes were stored in the database administrator's folder on the web server.

 

Which of the following attacks explains what occurred? (Select TWO)

Which of the following is the GREATEST security concern when outsourcing code development to third party contractors for an internet-facing application?

Which of the following provides a calculated value for known vulnerabilities so organizations can prioritize mitigation steps?

A Chief Information Security Officer wants to ensure the organization is validating and checking the Integrity of zone transfers.

 

Which of the following solutions should be implemented?

A technician enables full disk encryption on a laptop that will be taken on a business trip.

 

Which of the following does this process BEST protect?

Which of the following would be the BEST way to analyze diskless malware that has infected a VDI?

A security policy states that common words should not be used as passwords. A security auditor was able to perform a dictionary attack against corporate credentials

 

Which of the following controls was being violated?

Which of the following control Types would be BEST to use in an accounting department to reduce losses from fraudulent transactions?

An organization discovered files with proprietary financial data have been deleted. The files have been recovered from backup but every time the Chief Financial Officer logs in to the file server, the same files are deleted again. No other users are experiencing this issue.

 

Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely causing this behavior?

After a recent security incident, a security analyst discovered that unnecessary ports were open on a firewall policy for a web server.

 

Which of the following firewall policies would be MOST secure for a web Server?

A user is attempting to navigate to a website from inside the company network using a desktop. When the user types in the URL. https://www.site.com, the user is presented with a certificate mismatch warning from the browser. The user does not receive a warning when visiting http://www.anothersite.com.

 

Which of the following describes this attack?

A security analyst is designing the controls to limit unauthorized access to a physical site. The analyst has a directive to utilize the lowest possible budget

 

Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements?

An organization is planning to open other data centers to sustain operations in the event of a natural disaster.

 

Which of the following considerations would BEST support the organization's resiliency?

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?

Several users have opened tickets with the help desk. The help desk has reassigned the tickets to a security analyst for further review The security analyst reviews the following metrics:

 

Hostname	Normal CPU utilization %	Current CPU utilization %	Normal network connections	Current network connections
Accounting-PC	22%	45%	12	66
HR-PC	35%	55%	15	57
IT-PC	78%	98%	25	92
Sales-PC	28%	50%	20	56
Manager-PC	21%	44%	18	49

 

Which of the following is MOST likely the result of the security analyst's review?

During a recent incident an external attacker was able to exploit an SMB vulnerability over the internet.

 

Which of the following action items should a security analyst perform FIRST to prevent this from occurring again?

A security analyst is investigating suspicious traffic on the web server located at IP address 10.10.1.1. A search of the WAF logs reveals the following output:

 

Source IP	Destination IP	Requested URL	Action Taken
172.16.1.3	10.10.1.1	/web/cgi-bin/contact?category=custname'--	permit and log
172.16.1.3	10.10.1.1	/web/cgi-bin/contact?/category=custname+OR+1=1--	permit and log

 

Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

A social media company based in North America is looking to expand into new global markets and needs to maintain compliance with international standards.

 

With which of the following is the company's data protection officer MOST likely concerned?

An engineer recently deployed a group of 100 web servers in a cloud environment. Per the security policy, all web-server ports except 443 should be disabled.

 

Which of the following can be used to accomplish this task?

An organization wants to implement a biometric system with the highest likelihood that an unauthorized user will be denied access.

 

Which of the following should the organization use to compare biometric solutions?

Which of the following organizations sets frameworks and controls for optimal security configuration on systems?

A tax organization is working on a solution to validate the online submission of documents. The solution should be on a portable USB device that should be inserted on any computer that is transmitting a transaction securely.

 

Which of the following is the BEST certificate for these requirements?