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Question # 101

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 # 102

Attackers created a new domain name that looks similar to a popular file-sharing website. Which of the following threat vectors is being used?

Options:

A.  

Watering-hole attack

B.  

Brand impersonation

C.  

Phishing

D.  

Typosquatting

Discussion 0
Question # 103

An organization needs to monitor its users ' activities to prevent insider threats. Which of the following solutions would help the organization achieve this goal?

Options:

A.  

Behavioral analytics

B.  

Access control lists

C.  

Identity and access management

D.  

Network intrusion detection system

Discussion 0
Question # 104

An administrator is creating a secure method for a contractor to access a test environment. Which of the following would provide the contractor with the best access to the test environment?

Options:

A.  

Application server

B.  

Jump server

C.  

RDP server

D.  

Proxy server

Discussion 0
Question # 105

A security team must help secure a company site after attackers defaced it. The site must be available to a wide range of countries over a secure protocol, but access from known malicious networks should be blocked. Which of the following will best secure the site?

Options:

A.  

Next-generation firewall

B.  

Reverse proxy

C.  

IPSec gateway

D.  

Access control server

Discussion 0
Question # 106

A company is considering an expansion of access controls for an application that contractors and internal employees use to reduce costs. Which of the following risk elements should the implementation team understand before granting access to the application?

Options:

A.  

Threshold

B.  

Appetite

C.  

Tolerance

D.  

Register

Discussion 0
Question # 107

Which of the following would be the best way to handle a critical business application that is running on a legacy server?

Options:

A.  

Segmentation

B.  

Isolation

C.  

Hardening

D.  

Decommissioning

Discussion 0
Question # 108

A company is working with a vendor to perform a penetration test Which of the following includes an estimate about the number of hours required to complete the engagement?

Options:

A.  

SOW

B.  

BPA

C.  

SLA

D.  

NDA

Discussion 0
Question # 109

Which of the following should an organization use to protect its environment from external attacks conducted by an unauthorized hacker?

Options:

A.  

ACL

B.  

IDS

C.  

HIDS

D.  

NIPS

Discussion 0
Question # 110

Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?

Options:

A.  

Insider

B.  

Unskilled attacker

C.  

Nation-state

D.  

Hacktivist

Discussion 0
Question # 111

A security analyst determines that a security breach will have a financial impact of $15,000 and is expected to occur twice within a three-year period. Which of the following is the ALE for this risk?

Options:

A.  

$7,500

B.  

$10,000

C.  

$15,000

D.  

$30,000

Discussion 0
Question # 112

Which of the following best explains why an organization would choose a warm site for disaster recovery?

Options:

A.  

It reduces complexity by replicating data in real time across identical environments.

B.  

It eliminates the need for backup testing by using cloud-native infrastructure.

C.  

It offers fully automated fail over with no manual intervention required.

D.  

It balances cost and recovery time by maintaining partially configured systems.

Discussion 0
Question # 113

A security analyst receives an alert that there was an attempt to download known malware. Which of the following actions would allow the best chance to analyze the malware?

Options:

A.  

Review the IPS logs and determine which command-and-control IPs were blocked.

B.  

Analyze application logs to see how the malware attempted to maintain persistence.

C.  

Run vulnerability scans to check for systems and applications that are vulnerable to the malware.

D.  

Obtain and execute the malware in a sandbox environment and perform packet captures.

Discussion 0
Question # 114

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 # 115

Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?

Options:

A.  

Automation

B.  

Compliance checklist

C.  

Attestation

D.  

Manual audit

Discussion 0
Question # 116

A company wants to use new Wi-Fi-enabled environmental sensors in order to automatically collect metrics. Which of the following will the security team most likely do?

Options:

A.  

Add the sensor software to the risk register.

B.  

Create a VLAN for the sensors.

C.  

Physically air gap the sensors.

D.  

Configure TLS 1.2 on all sensors.

Discussion 0
Question # 117

A company prevented direct access from the database administrators’ workstations to the network segment that contains database servers. Which of the following should a database administrator use to access the database servers?

Options:

A.  

Jump server

B.  

RADIUS

C.  

HSM

D.  

Load balancer

Discussion 0
Question # 118

A systems administrator creates a script that validates OS version, patch levels, and installed applications when users log in. Which of the following examples best describes the purpose of this script?

Options:

A.  

Resource scaling

B.  

Policy enumeration

C.  

Baseline enforcement

D.  

Guardrails implementation

Discussion 0
Question # 119

A systems administrator is creating a script that would save time and prevent human error when performing account creation for a large number of users. Which of the following would be a good use case for this task?creating a script

Options:

A.  

Off-the-shelf software

B.  

Orchestration

C.  

Baseline

D.  

Policy enforcement

Discussion 0
Question # 120

The Cyber Incident Response Team is reviewing an incident that involved a human resources recruiter exfiltrating sensitive company data. The team found that the recruiter was able to use HTTP over port 53 to upload documents to a web server. Which of the following security infrastructure devices could have identified and blocked this activity?

Options:

A.  

WAF utilizing SSL decryption

B.  

NGFW utilizing application inspection

C.  

UTM utilizing a threat feed

D.  

SD-WAN utilizing IPsec

Discussion 0
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