Syo-501 2017 Questions 1-50

QUESTION 1 A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all trails to the FTP server is unencrypted. Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modem FTP client software. The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing unencrypted connections. Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?

QUESTION 2 A company has three divisions, each with its own networks and services. The company decides to make its secure web portal accessible to all employees utilizing their existing usernames and passwords, The security administrator has elected to use SAML to support authentication. In this scenario, which of the following will occur when users try to authenticate to the portal? (Select TWO)

QUESTION 3 Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a server's certificate?

QUESTION 5 A security consultant discovers that an organization is using the PCL protocol to print documents, utilizing the default driver and print settings. Which of the following is the MOST likely risk in this situation?

QUESTION 6 A security analyst is hardening a server with the directory services role installed. The analyst must ensure LDAP traffic cannot be monitored or sniffed and maintains compatibility with LDAP clients. Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

QUESTION 7 A botnet has hit a popular website with a massive number of GRE-encapsulated packets to perform a DDoS attack News outlets discover a certain type of refrigerator was exploited and used to send outbound packets to the website that crashed. To which of the following categories does the refrigerator belong?

QUESTION 8 A user has attempted to access data at a higher classification level than the user's account is currency authorized to access. Which of the following access control models has been applied to this user's account?

QUESTION 9 A company determines that it is prohibitively expensive to become compliant with new credit card regulations. Instead, the company decides to purchase insurance to cover the cost of any potential loss. Which of the following is the company doing?

QUESTION 10 An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime. Which of the following has been specified?

QUESTION 11 An attacker compromises a public CA and issues unauthorized X.509 certificates for Company.com. In the future, impact of similar incidents. Which of the following would assist Company.com with its goal?

QUESTION 13 A high-security defense installation recently began utilizing large guard dogs that bark very loudly and excitedly at the slightest provocation. Which of the following types of controls does this BEST describe?

QUESTION 14 An application team is performing a load-balancing test for a critical application during off- hours and has requested access to the load balancer to review. Which servers are up without having the administrator on call. The security analyst is hesitant to give the application team full access due to other critical applications running on the road balancer. Which of the following is the BEST solution for the security analyst to process the request?

QUESTION 15 An auditor wants to test the security posture of an organization by running a tool that will display the following: JIMS <00> UNIQUE Registered WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered JIMS <00> UNIQUE Registered Which of the following commands should be used?

QUESTION 16 Which of the following attacks specifically impacts data availability?

QUESTION 17 When connected to a secure WAP, which of the following encryption technologies is MOST likely to be configured when connecting to WPA2-PSK?

QUESTION 18 An incident responder receives a call from a user who reports a computer is exhibiting symptoms consistent with a malware infection. Which of the following steps should the responder perform NEXT?

QUESTION 19 An analyst wants to implement a more secure wireless authentication for office access points. Which of the following technologies allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS?

QUESTION 20 A security analyst is hardening an authentication server. One of the primary requirements is to ensure there is mutual authentication and delegation. Given these requirements, which of the following technologies should the analyst recommend and configure?

QUESTION 21 An organization wishes to provide better security for its name resolution services. Which of the following technologies BEST supports the deployment DNSSEC at the organization?

QUESTION 22 Ann, an employee in the payroll department, has contacted the help desk citing multiple issues with her device, including: · Slow performance · Word documents, PDFs, and images no longer opening · A pop-up Ann states the issues began after she opened an invoice that a vendor emailed to her. Upon opening the invoice, she had to click several security warnings to view it in her word processor. With which of the following is the device MOST likely infected?

QUESTION 23 A department head at a university resigned on the first day of the spring semester. It was subsequently determined that the department head deleted numerous files and directories from the server-based home directory while the campus was closed. Which of the following policies or procedures co have prevented this from occurring?

A company is using a mobile device deployment model in which employees use their personal devices for work at their own discretion. Some of the problems the company is encountering include the following: *There is no standardization. *Employees ask for reimbursement for their devices. *Employees do not replace their devices often enough to keep them running efficiently. *The company does not have enough control over the devices. Which of the following is a deployment model that would help the company overcome these problems?

QUESTION 25 Which of the following can be provided to an AAA system for the identification phase?

QUESTION 26 A Security engineer is configuring a system that requires the X 509 certificate information to be pasted into a form field in Base64 encoded format to import it into the system. Which of the following certificate formats should the engineer use to obtain the information in the required format?

QUESTION 27 When performing data acquisition on a workstation, which of the following should be captured based on memory volatility? (Select TWO).

QUESTION 28 Which of the following types of cloud Infrastructures would allow several organizations with similar structures and interests to realize shared storage and resources?

QUESTION 29 Which of the following implements two-factor authentication?

QUESTION 30 A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior. Which of the following steps is MOST important in the process of disengagement from this employee?

QUESTION 31 A penetration tester is crawling a target website that is available to the public. Which of the following represents the actions the penetration tester is performing?

QUESTION 32 When systems, hardware, or software are not supported by the original vendor, it is a vulnerability known as:

QUESTION 34 As part of a new industry regulation, companies are required to utilize secure, standardized OS settings. A technician must ensure the OS settings are hardened. Which of the following is the BEST way to do this?

QUESTION 35 Joe, an employee, wants to show his colleagues how much he knows about smartphones. Joe demonstrates a free movie application that he installed from a third party on his corporate smartphone. Joe's colleagues were unable to find the application in the app stores. Which of the following allowed Joe to install the application? (Select TWO).

QUESTION 36 A company's user lockout policy is enabled after five unsuccessful login attempts. The help desk notices a user is repeatedly locked out over the course of a workweek. Upon contacting the user, the help desk discovers the user is on vacation and does not have network access. Which of the following types of attacks are MOST likely occurring? (Select TWO)

QUESTION 37 When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

QUESTION 39 A user clicked an email link that led to a website that infected the workstation with a virus. The virus encrypted all the network shares to which the user had access. The virus was not detected or blocked by the company's email filter, website filter, or antivirus. Which of the following describes what occurred?

QUESTION 40 Which of the following security controls does an iris scanner provide?

QUESTION 41 Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?

QUESTION 42 Despite having implemented password policies, users continue to set the same weak passwords and reuse old passwords. Which of the following technical controls would help prevent these policy violations? (Select TWO).

QUESTION 43 Users report the following message appears when browsing to the company's secure site: This website cannot be trusted. Which of the following actions should a security analyst take to resolve these messages? (Select TWO).

QUESTION 44 A company hires a consulting firm to crawl its Active Directory network with a non-domain account looking for unpatched systems. Actively taking control of systems is out of scope, as is the creation of new administrator accounts. For which of the following is the company hiring the consulting firm?

QUESTION 45 Two users need to send each other emails over unsecured channels. The system should support the principle of non-repudiation. Winch of the following should be used to sign the users' certificates?

QUESTION 46 Multiple employees receive an email with a malicious attachment that begins to encrypt their hard drives and mapped shares on their devices when it is opened. The network and security teams perform the following actions: *Shut down all network shares. *Run an email search identifying all employees who received the malicious message. *Reimage all devices belonging to users who opened the attachment. Next, the teams want to re-enable the network shares. Which of the following BEST describes this phase of the incident response process?

QUESTION 47 Malicious traffic from an internal network has been detected on an unauthorized port on an application server. Which of the following network-based security controls should the engineer consider implementing?

QUESTION 48 A company wants to host a publicly available server that performs the following functions: · Evaluates MX record lookup · Can perform authenticated requests for A and AAA records · Uses RRSIG Which of the following should the company use to fulfill the above requirements?

QUESTION 49 Which of the following attack types BEST describes a client-side attack that is used to mandate an HTML iframe with JavaScript code via web browser?

QUESTION 50 A company has a data classification system with definitions for "Private" and public." The company's security policy outlines how data should be protected based on type. The company recently added the data type "Proprietary" Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the company added this data type?

QUESTION 52 An organization finds that most help desk calls are regarding account lockout due to a variety of applications running on different systems. Manager is looking for a solution to reduce the number of account lockouts while improving security. Which of the following is the BEST solution for this organization?

QUESTION 53 When trying to log onto a company's new ticketing system, some employees receive the following message: Access denied: too many concurrent sessions. The ticketing system was recently installed on a small VM with only the recommended hardware specifications. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error message?

QUESTION 54 A network administrator at a small office wants to simplify the configuration of mobile clients connecting to an encrypted wireless network. Which of the following should be implemented if the administrator does not want to provide the wireless password or certificate to the employees?

QUESTION 55 A company is developing a new secure technology and requires computers being used for development to be isolated. Which of the following should be implemented to provide the MOST secure environment