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Question # 81

A company is currently utilizing usernames and passwords, and it wants to integrate an MFA method that is seamless, can Integrate easily into a user ' s workflow, and can utilize employee-owned devices. Which of the following will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.  

Push notifications

B.  

Phone call

C.  

Smart card

D.  

Offline backup codes

Discussion 0
Question # 82

An administrator implements web-filtering products but still sees that users are visiting malicious links. Which of the following configuration items does the security administrator need to review?

Options:

A.  

Intrusion prevention system

B.  

Content categorization

C.  

Encryption

D.  

DNS service

Discussion 0
Question # 83

Several employees received a fraudulent text message from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The message stated:

“I’m in an airport right now with no access to email. I need you to buy gift cards for employee recognition awards. Please send the gift cards to following email address.”

Which of the following are the best responses to this situation? (Choose two).

Options:

A.  

Cancel current employee recognition gift cards.

B.  

Add a smishing exercise to the annual company training.

C.  

Issue a general email warning to the company.

D.  

Have the CEO change phone numbers.

E.  

Conduct a forensic investigation on the CEO ' s phone.

F.  

Implement mobile device management.

Discussion 0
Question # 84

Which of the following best explains a concern with OS-based vulnerabilities?

Options:

A.  

An exploit will give an attacker access to system functions that span multiple applications.

B.  

The OS vendor ' s patch cycle is not frequent enough to mitigate the large number of threats.

C.  

Most users trust the core operating system features and may not notice if the system has been compromised.

D.  

Exploitation of an operating system vulnerability is typically easier than any other vulnerability.

Discussion 0
Question # 85

Which of the following techniques can be used to sanitize the data contained on a hard drive while allowing for the hard drive to be repurposed?

Options:

A.  

Degaussing

B.  

Drive shredder

C.  

Retention platform

D.  

Wipe tool

Discussion 0
Question # 86

Which of the following provides the best protection against unwanted or insecure communications to and from a device?

Options:

A.  

System hardening

B.  

Host-based firewall

C.  

Intrusion detection system

D.  

Anti-malware software

Discussion 0
Question # 87

A security analyst collects IOCs from a cybersecurity bulletin. Which of the following should the analyst do next to assess if an environment is compromised?

Options:

A.  

Root cause analysis

B.  

Threat hunting

C.  

Tabletop exercise

D.  

Penetration test

Discussion 0
Question # 88

An employee clicked a malicious link in an email and downloaded malware onto the company ' s computer network. The malicious program exfiltrated thousands of customer records. Which of the following should the company implement to prevent this in the future?

Options:

A.  

User awareness training

B.  

Network monitoring

C.  

Endpoint protection

D.  

Data loss prevention

Discussion 0
Question # 89

An organization failed to account for the right-to-be-forgotten regulations. Which of the following impacts might this action have on the company?

Options:

A.  

Fines

B.  

Data breaches

C.  

Revenue loss

D.  

Blackmail

Discussion 0
Question # 90

Which of the following vulnerabilities is exploited when an attacker overwrites a register with a malicious address?

Options:

A.  

VM escape

B.  

SQL injection

C.  

Buffer overflow

D.  

Race condition

Discussion 0
Question # 91

A security analyst receives an alert from a corporate endpoint used by employees to issue visitor badges. The alert contains the following details:

Which of the following best describes the indicator that triggered the alert?

Options:

A.  

Blocked content

B.  

Brute-force attack

C.  

Concurrent session usage

D.  

Account lockout

Discussion 0
Question # 92

Which of the following is the best way to secure an on-site data center against intrusion from an insider?

Options:

A.  

Bollards

B.  

Access badge

C.  

Motion sensor

D.  

Video surveillance

Discussion 0
Question # 93

A nation-state attacker gains access to the email accounts of several journalists by compromising a website that the journalists frequently use. Which of the following types of attacks describes this example?

Options:

A.  

On-path

B.  

Watering-hole

C.  

Typosquatting

D.  

Brand impersonation

Discussion 0
Question # 94

Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two).

Options:

A.  

Ease of recovery

B.  

Ability to patch

C.  

Physical isolation

D.  

Responsiveness

E.  

Attack surface

F.  

Extensible authentication

Discussion 0
Question # 95

A company discovers suspicious transactions that were entered into the company ' s database and attached to a user account that was created as a trap for malicious activity. Which of the following is the user account an example of?

Options:

A.  

Honeytoken

B.  

Honeynet

C.  

Honeypot

D.  

Honeyfile

Discussion 0
Question # 96

Which of the following would help ensure a security analyst is able to accurately measure the overall risk to an organization when a new vulnerability is disclosed?

Options:

A.  

A full inventory of all hardware and software

B.  

Documentation of system classifications

C.  

A list of system owners and their departments

D.  

Third-party risk assessment documentation

Discussion 0
Question # 97

A company ' s accounts payable clerk receives a message from a vendor asking to change their bank account before paying an invoice. The clerk makes the change and sends the payment to the new account. Days later, the clerk receives another message from the same vendor with a request for a missing payment to the original bank account. Which of the following has most likely occurred?

Options:

A.  

Phishing campaign

B.  

Data exfiltration

C.  

Pretext calling

D.  

Business email compromise

Discussion 0
Question # 98

Which of the following best explains how tokenization helps protect sensitive data?

Options:

A.  

It permanently deletes sensitive information from production systems.

B.  

It replaces the original data with reference values that do not hold exploitable meaning.

C.  

It stores sensitive data across multiple cloud environments to prevent data loss.

D.  

It conceals data by converting it into unreadable ciphertext using symmetric encryption.

Discussion 0
Question # 99

Which of the following can be best used to discover a company ' s publicly available breach information?

Options:

A.  

OSINT

B.  

SIEM

C.  

CVE

D.  

CVSS

Discussion 0
Question # 100

Which of the following is the best way to remove personal data from a social media account that is no longer being used?

Options:

A.  

Exercise the right to be forgotten

B.  

Uninstall the social media application

C.  

Perform a factory reset

D.  

Terminate the social media account

Discussion 0
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