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Question # 1

Which of the following steps in the risk management process involves establishing the scope and potential risks involved with a project?

Options:

A.  

Risk mitigation

B.  

Risk identification

C.  

Risk treatment

D.  

Risk monitoring and review

Discussion 0
Question # 2

A hacker gained access to a system via a phishing attempt that was a direct result of a user clicking a suspicious link. The link laterally deployed ransomware, which laid dormant for multiple weeks, across the network. Which of the following would have mitigated the spread?

Options:

A.  

IPS

B.  

IDS

C.  

WAF

D.  

UAT

Discussion 0
Question # 3

A company is redesigning its infrastructure and wants to reduce the number of physical servers in use. Which of the following architectures is best suited for this goal?

Options:

A.  

Isolation

B.  

Segmentation

C.  

Virtualization

D.  

Redundancy

Discussion 0
Question # 4

A systems administrator needs to ensure the secure communication of sensitive data within the organization's private cloud. Which of the following is the best choice for the administrator to implement?

Options:

A.  

IPSec

B.  

SHA-1

C.  

RSA

D.  

TGT

Discussion 0
Question # 5

A penetration test has demonstrated that domain administrator accounts were vulnerable to pass-the-hash attacks. Which of the following would have been the best strategy to prevent the threat actor from using domain administrator accounts?

Options:

A.  

Audit each domain administrator account weekly for password compliance.

B.  

Implement a privileged access management solution.

C.  

Create IDS policies to monitor domain controller access.

D.  

Use Group Policy to enforce password expiration.

Discussion 0
Question # 6

Which of the following is an example of a data protection strategy that uses tokenization?

Options:

A.  

Encrypting databases containing sensitive data

B.  

Replacing sensitive data with surrogate values

C.  

Removing sensitive data from production systems

D.  

Hashing sensitive data in critical systems

Discussion 0
Question # 7

Which of the following is the best method to reduce the attack surface of an enterprise network?

Options:

A.  

Disable unused network services on servers.

B.  

Use port security for wired connections.

C.  

Change default passwords for network printers.

D.  

Create a guest wireless network for visitors.

Discussion 0
Question # 8

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 # 9

Which of the following is the most important element when defining effective security governance?

Options:

A.  

Discovering and documenting external considerations

B.  

Developing procedures for employee onboarding and offboarding

C.  

Assigning roles and responsibilities for owners, controllers, and custodians

D.  

Defining and monitoring change management procedures

Discussion 0
Question # 10

A security analyst sees an increase of vulnerabilities on workstations after a deployment of a company group policy. Which of the following vulnerability types will the analyst most likely find on the workstations?

Options:

A.  

Misconfiguration

B.  

Zero-day

C.  

Malicious update

D.  

Supply chain

Discussion 0
Question # 11

During a routine audit, an analyst discovers that a department at a high school uses a simulation program that was not properly vetted before deployment.

Which of the following threats is this an example of?

Options:

Discussion 0
Question # 12

Which of the following describes the process of concealing code or text inside a graphical image?

Options:

A.  

Symmetric encryption

B.  

Hashing

C.  

Data masking

D.  

Steganography

Discussion 0
Question # 13

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 # 14

Various company stakeholders meet to discuss roles and responsibilities in the event of a security breach affecting offshore offices. Which of the following is this an example of?

Options:

A.  

Tabletop exercise

B.  

Penetration test

C.  

Geographic dispersion

D.  

Incident response

Discussion 0
Question # 15

Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?

Options:

A.  

Cross-site scripting

B.  

Side loading

C.  

Buffer overflow

D.  

SQL injection

Discussion 0
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