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Question # 151

A company plans to secure its systems by:

Preventing users from sending sensitive data over corporate email

Restricting access to potentially harmful websites

Which of the following features should the company set up? (Select two).

Options:

A.  

DLP software

B.  

DNS filtering

C.  

File integrity monitoring

D.  

Stateful firewall

Discussion 0
Question # 152

Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?

Options:

A.  

Adaptive identity

B.  

Non-repudiation

C.  

Authentication

D.  

Access logs

Discussion 0
Question # 153

Which of the following describes the procedures a penetration tester must follow while conducting a test?

Options:

A.  

Rules of engagement

B.  

Rules of acceptance

C.  

Rules of understanding

D.  

Rules of execution

Discussion 0
Question # 154

A systems administrator wants to prevent users from being able to access data based on their responsibilities. The administrator also wants to apply the required access structure via a simplified format. Which of the following should the administrator apply to the site recovery resource group?

Options:

A.  

RBAC

B.  

ACL

C.  

SAML

D.  

GPO

Discussion 0
Question # 155

Which of the following best describe the benefits of a microservices architecture when compared to a monolithic architecture? (Select two).

Options:

A.  

Easter debugging of the system

B.  

Reduced cost of ownership of the system

C.  

Improved scalability of the system

D.  

Increased compartmentalization of the system

E.  

Stronger authentication of the system

F.  

Reduced complexity of the system

Discussion 0
Question # 156

A security analyst is assessing several company firewalls. Which of the following cools would The analyst most likely use to generate custom packets to use during the assessment?

Options:

A.  

hping

B.  

Wireshark

C.  

PowerShell

D.  

netstat

Discussion 0
Question # 157

A company suffered a critical incident where 30GB of data was exfiltrated from the corporate network. Which of the following actions is the most efficient way to identify where the system data was exfiltrated from and where it was sent?

Options:

A.  

Analyze firewall and network logs for large amounts of outbound traffic to external IP addresses or domains.

B.  

Analyze IPS and IDS logs to find the IP addresses used by the attacker for reconnaissance scans.

C.  

Analyze endpoint and application logs to see whether file-sharing programs were running.

D.  

Analyze external vulnerability scans to identify exploitable systems.

Discussion 0
Question # 158

A new employee logs in to the email system for the first time and notices a message from human resources about onboarding. The employee hovers over a few of the links within the email and discovers that the links do not correspond to links associated with the company. Which of the following attack vectors is most likely being used?

Options:

A.  

Business email

B.  

Social engineering

C.  

Unsecured network

D.  

Default credentials

Discussion 0
Question # 159

While a school district is performing state testing, a security analyst notices all internet services are unavailable. The analyst discovers that ARP poisoning is occurring on the network and then terminates access for the host. Which of the following is most likely responsible for this malicious activity?

Options:

A.  

Unskilled attacker

B.  

Shadow IT

C.  

Credential stuffing

D.  

DMARC failure

Discussion 0
Question # 160

A company processes a large volume of business-to-business transactions and prioritizes data confidentiality over transaction availability. The company’s firewall administrator must configure a new hardware-based firewall to replace the current one. Which of the following should the administrator do to best align with the company requirements in case a security event occurs?

Options:

A.  

Ensure the firewall data plane moves to fail-closed mode.

B.  

Implement a deny-all rule as the last firewall ACL rule.

C.  

Prioritize business-critical application traffic through the firewall.

D.  

Configure rate limiting between the firewall interfaces.

Discussion 0
Question # 161

An administrator installs an SSL certificate on a new system. During testing, errors indicate that the certificate is not trusted. The administrator has verified with the issuing CA and has validated the private key. Which of the following should the administrator check for next?

Options:

A.  

If the wildcard certificate is configured

B.  

If the certificate signing request is valid

C.  

If the root certificate is installed

D.  

If the public key is configured

Discussion 0
Question # 162

An alert references attacks associated with a zero-day exploit. An analyst places a bastion host in the network to reduce the risk of the exploit. Which of the following types of controls is the analyst implementing?

Options:

A.  

Compensating

B.  

Detective

C.  

Operational

D.  

Physical

Discussion 0
Question # 163

An administrator is installing an SSL certificate on a new system. During testing, errors indicate that the certificate is not trusted. The administrator has verified with the issuing CA and has validated the private key. Which of the following should the administrator check for next?

Options:

A.  

If the wildcard certificate is configured

B.  

If the certificate signing request is valid

C.  

If the root certificate is installed

D.  

If the public key is configured

Discussion 0
Question # 164

An organization recently started hosting a new service that customers access through a web portal. A security engineer needs to add to the existing security devices a new solution to protect this new service. Which of the following is the engineer most likely to deploy?

Options:

A.  

Layer 4 firewall

B.  

NGFW

C.  

WAF

D.  

UTM

Discussion 0
Question # 165

A security engineer is implementing FDE for all laptops in an organization. Which of the following are the most important for the engineer to consider as part of the planning process? (Select two).

Options:

A.  

Key escrow

B.  

TPM presence

C.  

Digital signatures

D.  

Data tokenization

E.  

Public key management

F.  

Certificate authority linking

Discussion 0
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