CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 Exam Updated Dumps

1. The website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal information including security responses, for registration.

Which of the following would MOST likely cause a date breach?

2. An enterprise needs to keep cryptographic keys in a safe manner.

Which of the following network appliances can achieve this goal?

3. A security analyst needs to determine how an attacker was able to use User3 to gain a foothold within a company's network. The company's lockout policy requires that an account be locked out for a minimum of 15 minutes after three unsuccessful attempts.

While reviewing the log files, the analyst discovers the following:





Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred?

4. A security analyst reviews the datacenter access logs for a fingerprint scanner and notices an abundance of errors that correlate with users' reports of issues accessing the facility.

Which of the following MOST likely the cause of the cause of the access issues?

5. A company is launching a new internet platform for its clients. The company does not want to implement its own authorization solution but instead wants to rely on the authorization provided by another platform.

Which of the following is the BEST approach to implement the desired solution?

6. A large enterprise has moved all Hs data to the cloud behind strong authentication and

encryption A sales director recently had a laptop stolen and later, enterprise data was round to have been compromised database.

Which of the following was the MOST likely cause?

7. A pharmaceutical sales representative logs on to a laptop and connects to the public WiFi to check emails and update reports.

Which of the following would be BEST to prevent other devices on the network from directly accessing the laptop? (Choose two.)

8. A network manager is concerned that business may be negatively impacted if the firewall in its datacenter goes offline.

The manager would like to Implement a high availability pair to:

9. A security analyst has received an alert about being sent via email. The analyst’s Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has made it clear that PII must be handle with extreme care From which of the following did the alert MOST likely originate?

10. A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the volume and integrity of sensitive information that is exchanged between the organization and a third party through email. The CSO is particularly concerned about an unauthorized party who is intercepting information that is in transit between the two organizations.

Which of the following would address the CSO's concerns?

11. A company recently moved sensitive videos between on-premises. Company-owned websites. The company then learned the videos had been uploaded and shared to the internet.

Which of the following would MOST likely allow the company to find the cause?

12. An organization suffered an outage and a critical system took 90 minutes to come back online. Though there was no data loss during the outage, the expectation was that the critical system would be available again within 60 minutes.

Which of the following is the 60-minute expectation an example of:

13. Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

14. An organization has hired a security analyst to perform a penetration test. The analyst captures 1Gb worth of inbound network traffic to the server and transfer the pcap back to the machine for analysis.

Which of the following tools should the analyst use to further review the pcap?

15. When selecting a technical solution for identity management, an architect chooses to go from an in-house to a third-party SaaS provider.

Which of the following risk management strategies is this an example of?

16. A security analyst Is hardening a Linux workstation and must ensure It has public keys forwarded to remote systems for secure login.

Which of the following steps should the analyst perform to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

17. A company has discovered unauthorized devices are using its WiFi network, and it wants to harden the access point to improve security.

Which of the following configuration should an analyst enable to improve security? (Select Two)

18. Joe, an employee, is transferring departments and is providing copies of his files to a network share folder for his previous team to access. Joe is granting read-write-execute permissions to his manager but giving read-only access to the rest of the team.

Which of the following access controls is Joe using?

19. A security analyst is reviewing a new website that will soon be made publicly available. The analyst sees the following in the URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=77276554&loc=us

The analyst then sends an internal user a link to the new website for testing purposes, and when the user clicks the link, the analyst is able to browse the website with the following URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=98988475&loc=us

Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

20. A system administrator needs to implement an access control scheme that will allow an object’s access policy be determined by its owner.

Which of the following access control schemes BEST fits the requirements?

21. A external forensics investigator has been hired to investigate a data breach at a large enterprise with numerous assets. It is known that the breach started in the DMZ and moved to the sensitive information, generating multiple logs as the attacker traversed through the network.

Which of the following will BEST assist with this investigation?

22. A security engineer at an offline government facility is concerned about the validity of an SSL certificate. The engineer wants to perform the fastest check with the least delay to determine if the certificate has been revoked.

Which of the following would BEST these requirement?

23. An information security officer at a credit card transaction company is conducting a framework-mapping exercise with the internal controls. The company recently established a new office in Europe.

To which of the following frameworks should the security officer map the existing controls? (Select TWO).

24. Which of the following cryptographic concepts would a security engineer utilize while implementing non-repudiation? (Select TWO)

25. A small business office is setting up a wireless infrastructure with primary requirements centered around protecting customer information and preventing unauthorized access to the business network.

Which of the following would BEST support the office's business needs? (Select TWO)

26. A network engineer is troubleshooting wireless network connectivity issues that were reported by users. The issues are occurring only in the section of the building that is closest to the parking lot. Users are intermittently experiencing slow speeds when accessing websites and are unable to connect to network drives. The issues appear to increase when laptop users return desks after using their devices in other areas of the building. There have also been reports of users being required to enter their credentials on web pages in order to gain access to them.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

27. Ann, a forensic analyst, needs to prove that the data she originally acquired has remained unchanged while in her custody.

Which of the following should Ann use?

28. A security analyst is investigating a vulnerability in which a default file permission was set incorrectly. The company uses non-credentialed scanning for vulnerability management.

Which of the following tools can the analyst use to verify the permissions?

29. A security manager for a retailer needs to reduce the scope of a project to comply with PCI DSS. The PCI data is located in different offices than where credit cards are accepted. All the offices are connected via MPLS back to the primary datacenter.

Which of the following should the security manager implement to achieve the objective?

30. A security analyst b concerned about traffic initiated to the dark web from the corporate LAN.

Which of the following networks should he analyst monitor?

31. A security engineer is reviewing log files after a third discovered usernames and passwords for the organization’s accounts. The engineer sees there was a change in the IP address for a vendor website one earlier. This change lasted eight hours.

Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used?

32. Which of the following ISO standards is certified for privacy?

33. The concept of connecting a user account across the systems of multiple enterprises is

BEST known as:

34. An end user reports a computer has been acting slower than normal for a few weeks, During an investigation, an analyst determines the system 3 sending the users email address and a ten-digit number ta an IP address once a day.

The only resent log entry regarding the user's computer is the following:





Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

35. A security analyst must determine if either SSH or Telnet is being used to log in to servers.

Which of the following should the analyst use?

36. A user recent an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank delays.

Which of the following social-engineering techniques was used in this case?

37. A security administrator currently spends a large amount of time on common security tasks, such aa report generation, phishing investigations, and user provisioning and deprovisioning This prevents the administrator from spending time on other security projects. The business does not have the budget to add more staff members.

Which of the following should the administrator implement?

38. An employee has been charged with fraud and is suspected of using corporate assets.

As authorities collect evidence, and to preserve the admissibility of the evidence, which of the following forensic techniques should be used?

39. A user must introduce a password and a USB key to authenticate against a secure computer, and authentication is limited to the state in which the company resides.

Which of the following authentication concepts are in use?

40. An organization has a growing workforce that is mostly driven by additions to the sales department. Each newly hired salesperson relies on a mobile device to conduct business. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is wondering it the organization may need to scale down just as quickly as it scaled up. The ClO is also concerned about the organization's security and customer privacy.

Which of the following would be BEST to address the ClO’s concerns?

41. CORRECT TEXT

A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.



INSTRUCTIONS

Click on each firewall to do the following:

✑ Deny cleartext web traffic.

✑ Ensure secure management protocols are used.

✑ Resolve issues at the DR site.

The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

42. A systems analyst is responsible for generating a new digital forensics chain-of-custody form.

Which of the following should the analyst Include in this documentation? (Select TWO).

43. During an incident response, a security analyst observes the following log entry on the web server.

Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack the analyst is experience?

44. A network administrator has been asked to design a solution to improve a company's security posture.

The administrator is given the following, requirements?

• The solution must be inline in the network

• The solution must be able to block known malicious traffic

• The solution must be able to stop network-based attacks

Which of the following should the network administrator implement to BEST meet these requirements?

45. A security researcher has alerted an organization that its sensitive user data was found for sale on a website.

Which of the following should the organization use to inform the affected parties?

46. An organization has implemented a two-step verification process to protect user access to data that 6 stored in the could Each employee now uses an email address of mobile number a code to access the data.

Which of the following authentication methods did the organization implement?

47. An organization just experienced a major cyberattack modem. The attack was well coordinated sophisticated and highly skilled.

Which of the following targeted the organization?

48. A security analyst is logged into a Windows file server and needs to see who is accessing files and from which computers.

Which of the following tools should the analyst use?

49. A security analyst is investigating multiple hosts that are communicating to external IP addresses during the hours of 2:00 a.m - 4:00 am. The malware has evaded detection by traditional antivirus software.

Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely infecting the hosts?

50. A network engineer needs to create a plan for upgrading the wireless infrastructure in a large office Priority must be given to areas that are currently experiencing latency and connection issues.

Which of the following would be the BEST resource for determining the order of priority?

51. The following are the logs of a successful attack.





Which of the following controls would be BEST to use to prevent such a breach in the future?

52. Which of the following types of controls is a CCTV camera that is not being monitored?

53. A cybersecurity administrator has a reduced team and needs to operate an on-premises network and security infrastructure efficiently. To help with the situation, the administrator decides to hire a service provider.

Which of the following should the administrator use?

54. To reduce costs and overhead, an organization wants to move from an on-premises email solution to a cloud-based email solution. At this time, no other services will be moving.

Which of the following cloud models would BEST meet the needs of the organization?

55. A web server administrator has redundant servers and needs to ensure failover to the secondary server when the primary server goes down.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to avoid disruption?

56. Which of the following would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hot-spots?

57. A desktop support technician recently installed a new document-scanning software program on a computer However, when the end user tried to launch the program, it did not respond.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

58. After a ransomware attack a forensics company needs to review a cryptocurrency transaction between the victim and the attacker.

Which of the following will the company MOST likely review to trace this transaction?

59. A security analyst is reviewing information regarding recent vulnerabilities.

Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely consult to validate which platforms have been affected?

60. A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platform to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application.

Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

61. A security analyst has been asked to investigate a situation after the SOC started to receive alerts from the SIEM.

The analyst first looks at the domain controller and finds the following events:





To better understand what is going on, the analyst runs a command and receives the following output:





Based on the analyst’s findings, which of the following attacks is being executed?

62. Under GDPR, which of the following is MOST responsible for the protection of privacy and website user rights?

63. A security administrator suspects an employee has been emailing proprietary information to a competitor. Company policy requires the administrator to capture an exact copy of the employee’s hard disk.

Which of the following should the administrator use?

64. A company just developed a new web application for a government agency. The application must be assessed and authorized prior to being deployed.

Which of the following is required to assess the vulnerabilities resident in the application?

65. The website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal Information, Including security question responses, for registration.

Which of the following would MOST likely cause a data breach?

66. A security analyst needs to implement an MDM solution for BYOD users that will allow the company to retain control over company emails residing on the devices and limit data exfiltration that might occur if the devices are lost or stolen.

Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

67. The cost of '©movable media and the security risks of transporting data have become too great for a laboratory. The laboratory has decided to interconnect with partner laboratones to make data transfers easier and more secure. The Chief Security Officer <CSO) has several concerns about proprietary data being exposed once the interconnections are established.

Which of the following security features should the network administrator implement lo prevent unwanted data exposure to users in partner laboratories?

68. A security engineer is installing a WAF to protect the company’s website from malicious web requests over SSL.

Which of the following is needed to meet the objective?

69. A security engineer has enabled two-factor authentication on all workstations.

Which of the following approaches are the MOST secure? (Select TWO).

70. The lessons-learned analysis from a recent incident reveals that an administrative office worker received a call from someone claiming to be from technical support. The caller convinced the office worker to visit a website, and then download and install a program masquerading as an antivirus package. The program was actually a backdoor that an attacker could later use to remote control the worker's PC.

Which of the following would be BEST to help prevent this type of attack in the future?

71. A security administrator checks the table of a network switch, which shows the following output:





Which of the following is happening to this switch?

72. Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

73. A large industrial system's smart generator monitors the system status and sends alerts to third-party maintenance personnel when critical failures occur. While reviewing the network logs the company's security manager notices the generator's IP is sending packets to an internal file server's IP.

Which of the following mitigations would be BEST for the security manager to implement while maintaining alerting capabilities?

74. Which of the following relets to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

75. A cybersecurity manager has scheduled biannual meetings with the IT team and department leaders to discuss how they would respond to hypothetical cyberattacks. During these meetings, the manager presents a scenario and injects additional information throughout the session to replicate what might occur in a dynamic cybersecurity event involving the company, its facilities, its data, and its staff.

Which of the following describes what the manager is doing?

76. A recent malware outbreak across a subnet included successful rootkit installations on many PCs, ensuring persistence by rendering remediation efforts ineffective.

Which of the following would BEST detect the presence of a rootkit in the future?

77. An auditor is performing an assessment of a security appliance with an embedded OS that was vulnerable during the last two assessments.

Which of the following BEST explains the appliance’s vulnerable state?

78. An analyst is trying to identify insecure services that are running on the internal network After performing a port scan the analyst identifies that a server has some insecure services enabled on default ports.

Which of the following BEST describes the services that are currently running and the secure alternatives for replacing them' (Select THREE)?

79. A financial analyst has been accused of violating the company’s AUP and there is forensic evidence to substantiate the allegation.

Which of the following would dispute the analyst’s claim of innocence?

80. An organization is having difficulty correlating events from its individual AV. EDR. DLP. SWG. WAF. MOM. HIPS, and CASB systems.

Which of the following is the BEST way to improve the situation?

81. A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture.

Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

82. A user recently entered a username and password into a recruiting application website that had been forged to look like the legitimate site Upon investigation, a security analyst the identifies the following:

• The legitimate websites IP address is 10.1.1.20 and eRecruit local resolves to the IP

• The forged website's IP address appears to be 10.2.12.99. based on NetFtow records

• AH three at the organization's DNS servers show the website correctly resolves to the legitimate IP

• DNS query logs show one of the three DNS servers returned a result of 10.2.12.99 (cached) at the approximate time of the suspected compromise.

Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

83. A root cause analysis reveals that a web application outage was caused by one of the company’s developers uploading a newer version of the third-party libraries that were shared among several applications.

Which of the following implementations would be BEST to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

84. A researcher has been analyzing large data sets for the last ten months. The researcher works with colleagues from other institutions and typically connects via SSH to retrieve additional data.

Historically, this setup has worked without issue, but the researcher recently started getting the following message:





Which of the following network attacks is the researcher MOST likely experiencing?

85. Which of the following is MOST likely to contain ranked and ordered information on the likelihood and potential impact of catastrophic events that may affect business processes and systems, while also highlighting the residual risks that need to be managed after mitigating controls have been implemented?

86. A company's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) recently warned the security manager that the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is planning to publish a controversial option article in a national newspaper, which may result in new cyberattacks.

Which of the following would be BEST for the security manager to use in a threat mode?

87. A major clothing company recently lost a large amount of proprietary information The security officer must find a solution to ensure this never happens again.

Which of the following is the BEST technical implementation to prevent this from happening again?

88. Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but nothing else?

89. A security analyst needs to find real-time data on the latest malware and locs.

Which of the following best describe the solution the analyst should persue?

90. Joe, a user at a company, clicked an email link led to a website that infected his workstation. Joe, was connected to the network, and the virus spread to the network shares. The protective measures failed to stop this virus, and It has continues to evade detection.

Which of the following should administrator implement to protect the environment from this malware?

91. A security administrator has noticed unusual activity occurring between different global instances and workloads and needs to identify the source of the unusual traffic.

Which of the following log sources would be BEST to show the source of the unusual traffic?

92. Which of the following would be BEST to establish between organizations that have agreed cooperate and are engaged in early discussion to define the responsibilities of each party, but do not want to establish a contractually binding agreement?

93. A security analyst is reviewing a penetration-testing report from a third-party contractor. The penetration testers used the organization's new API to bypass a driver to perform privilege escalation on the organization's web servers. Upon looking at the API, the security analyst realizes the particular API call was to a legacy system running an outdated OS.

Which of the following is the MOST likely attack type?

94. A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert for the most appropriate way to store credit card numbers to create an easy reordering process.

Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?

95. An organization is developing an authentication service for use at the entry and exit ports of country borders. The service will use data feeds obtained from passport systems, passenger manifests, and high-definition video feeds from CCTV systems that are located at the ports. The service will incorporate machine-learning techniques to eliminate biometric enrollment processes while still allowing authorities to identify passengers with increasing accuracy over time. The more frequently passengers travel, the more accurately the service will identify them.

Which of the following biometrics will MOST likely be used, without the need for enrollment? (Choose two.)

96. An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.

Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

97. A Chief Security Officer (CSO) was notified that a customer was able to access confidential internal company files on a commonly used file-sharing service. The file-sharing service is the same one used by company staff as one of its approved third-party applications. After further investigation, the security team

determines the sharing of confidential files was accidental and not malicious. However, the CSO wants to implement changes to minimize this type of incident from reoccurring but does not want to impact existing business processes.

Which of the following would BEST meet the CSO's objectives?

98. A company is adopting a BYOD policy and is looking for a comprehensive solution to protect company information on user devices.

Which of the following solutions would BEST support the policy?

99. A financial organization has adopted a new secure, encrypted document-sharing application to help with its customer loan process. Some important PII needs to be shared across this new platform, but it is getting blocked by the DLP systems.

Which of the following actions will BEST allow the PII to be shared with the secure application without compromising the organization’s security posture?

100. A company is implementing MFA for all applications that store sensitive data. The IT manager wants MFA to be non-disruptive and user friendly.

Which of the following technologies should the IT manager use when implementing MFA?

101. A company has been experiencing very brief power outages from its utility company over the last few months. These outages only last for one second each time. The utility company is aware of the issue and is working to replace a faulty transformer.

Which of the following BEST describes what the company should purchase to ensure its critical servers and network devices stay online?

102. A university is opening a facility in a location where there is an elevated risk of theft. The university wants to protect the desktops in its classrooms and labs.

Which of the following should the university use to BEST protect these assets deployed in the facility?

103. Accompany deployed a WiFi access point in a public area and wants to harden the configuration to make it more secure. After performing an assessment, an analyst identifies that the access point is

configured to use WPA3, AES, WPS, and RADIUS.

Which of the following should the analyst disable to enhance the access point security?

104. A company is setting up a web server on the Internet that will utilize both encrypted and unencrypted web-browsing protocols.

A security engineer runs a port scan against the server from the Internet and sees the following output:





Which of the following steps would be best for the security engineer to take NEXT?

105. A consultant is configuring a vulnerability scanner for a large, global organization in multiple countries. The consultant will be using a service account to scan systems with administrative privileges on a weekly basis, but there is a concern that hackers could gain access to account to the account and pivot through the global network.

Which of the following would be BEST to help mitigate this concern?

106. A company needs to centralize its logs to create a baseline and have visibility on its security events.

Which of the following technologies will accomplish this objective?

107. A security auditor is reviewing vulnerability scan data provided by an internal security team.

Which of the following BEST indicates that valid credentials were used?

108. An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or data theft.

Which of the following would be the MOST acceptable?

109. An enterprise has hired an outside security firm to conduct penetration testing on its network and applications. The firm has only been given the documentation available to the customers of the applications.

Which of the following BEST represents the type of testing that will occur?

110. An end user reports a computer has been acting slower than normal for a few weeks. During an investigation, an analyst determines the system is sending the user's email address and a ten-digit number to an IP address once a day.

The only recent log entry regarding the user's computer is the following:





Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

111. HOTSPOT

Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation.



INSTRUCTIONS

Not all attacks and remediation actions will be used.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

112. A public relations team will be taking a group of guest on a tour through the facility of a large e-commerce company. The day before the tour, the company sends out an email to employees to ensure all white boars are cleaned and all desks are cleared. The company is MOST likely trying to protect against.

113. A company uses specially configured workstations tor any work that requires administrator privileges to its Tier 0 and Tier 1 systems. The company follows a strict process to harden systems immediately upon delivery. Even with these strict security measures in place, an incident occurred from one of the workstations. The root cause appears to be that the SoC was tampered with or replaced.

Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

114. The CSIRT is reviewing the lessons learned from a recent incident. A worm was able to spread unhindered throughout the network and infect a large number of computers and servers.

Which of the following recommendations would be BEST to mitigate the impacts of a similar incident in the future?

115. An analyst needs to set up a method for securely transferring files between systems. One of the requirements is to authenticate the IP header and the payload.

Which of the following services would BEST meet the criteria?

116. Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside

117. A software developer needs to perform code-execution testing, black-box testing, and non-functional testing on a new product before its general release.

Which of the following BEST describes the tasks the developer is conducting?

118. Which of the following would be BEST for a technician to review to determine the total risk an organization can bear when assessing a "cloud-first" adoption strategy?

119. Which of the following is a team of people dedicated testing the effectiveness of organizational security programs by emulating the techniques of potential attackers?

120. Phishing and spear-phishing attacks have been occurring more frequently against a company’s staff.

Which of the following would MOST likely help mitigate this issue?

121. A multinational organization that offers web-based services has datacenters that are located only in the United States; however, a large number of its customers are in Australia, Europe, and China. Payments for services are managed by a third party in the United Kingdom that specializes in payment gateways. The management team is concerned the organization is not compliant with privacy laws that cover some of its customers.

Which of the following frameworks should the management team follow?

122. Which of the following is the BEST reason to maintain a functional and effective asset management policy that aids in ensuring the security of an organization?

123. A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate-owned mobile devices.

Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company’s data?

124. A well-known organization has been experiencing attacks from APIs. The organization is concerned that custom malware is being created and emailed into the company or installed on USB sticks that are dropped in parking lots.

Which of the following is the BEST defense against this scenario?

125. DRAG DROP

A security engineer is setting up passwordless authentication for the first time.



INSTRUCTIONS

Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

126. A security operations analyst is using the company's SIEM solution to correlate alerts.

Which of the following stages of the incident response process is this an example of?

127. Which of the following are the MOST likely vectors for the unauthorized inclusion of vulnerable code in a software company’s final software releases? (Select TWO.)

128. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about the organization's ability to continue business operation in the event of a prolonged DDoS attack on its local datacenter that consumes database resources.

Which of the following will the CISO MOST likely recommend to mitigate this risk?

129. Which of the following terms should be included in a contract to help a company monitor the ongoing security maturity of a new vendor?

130. A RAT that was used to compromise an organization’s banking credentials was found on a user’s computer. The RAT evaded antivirus detection. It was installed by a user who has local administrator rights to the system as part of a remote management tool set.

Which of the following recommendations would BEST prevent this from reoccurring?

131. After a phishing scam for a user's credentials, the red team was able to craft a payload to deploy on a server. The attack allowed the installation of malicious software that initiates a new remote session.

Which of the following types of attacks has occurred?

132. A manufacturing company has several one-off legacy information systems that cannot be migrated to a newer OS due to software compatibility issues. The Oss are still supported by the vendor, but the industrial software is no longer supported. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has created a resiliency plan for these systems that will allow OS patches to be installed in a non-production environment, while also creating backups of the systems for recovery.

Which of the following resiliency techniques will provide these capabilities?

133. A company recently set up an e-commerce portal to sell its product online. The company wants to start accepting credit cards for payment, which requires compliance with a security standard.

Which of the following standards must the company comply with before accepting credit cards on its e-commerce platform?

134. A security administrator needs to inspect in-transit files on the enterprise network to search for Pll, credit card data, and classification words.

Which of the following would be the BEST to use?

135. Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

136. A security administrator is analyzing the corporate wireless network The network only has two access points running on channels 1 and 11. While using airodump-ng. the administrator notices other access points are running with the same corporate ESSID on all available channels and with the same BSSID of one of the legitimate access ports.

Which erf the following attacks in happening on the corporate network?

137. An organization relies on third-party video conferencing to conduct daily business. Recent security changes now require all remote workers to utilize a VPN to corporate resources.

Which of the following would BEST maintain high-quality video conferencing while minimizing latency when connected to the VPN?

138. A security analyst receives the configuration of a current VPN profile and notices the authentication is only applied to the IP datagram portion of the packet.

Which of the following should the analyst implement to authenticate the entire packet?

139. An organization is developing a plan in the event of a complete loss of critical systems and data.

Which of the following plans is the organization MOST likely developing?

140. A security administrator is trying to determine whether a server is vulnerable to a range of attacks.

After using a tool, the administrator obtains the following output:





Which of the following attacks was successfully implemented based on the output?

141. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to create a policy set that meets international standards for data privacy and sharing.

Which of the following should the CISO read and understand before writing the policies?

142. A user is concerned that a web application will not be able to handle unexpected or random input without crashing.

Which of the following BEST describes the type of testing the user should perform?

143. Given the following logs:





Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack that is occurring?

144. A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did not receive any emails with links, but he had been browsing the Internet all day.

Which of the following would MOST likely show where the malware originated?

145. Which of the following disaster recovery tests is The LEAST time-consuming for the disaster recovery team?

146. An incident, which is affecting dozens of systems, involves malware that reaches out to an Internet service for rules and updates. The IP addresses for the Internet host appear to be different in each case. The organization would like to determine a common IoC to support response and recovery actions.

Which of the following sources of information would BEST support this solution?

147. A security analyst notices several attacks are being blocked by the NIPS but does not see anything on the boundary firewall logs. The attack seems to have been thwarted.

Which of the following resiliency techniques was applied to the network to prevent this attack?

148. An attacker is exploiting a vulnerability that does not have a patch available.

Which of the following is the attacker exploiting?

149. A security analyst needs to perform periodic vulnerably scans on production systems.

Which of the following scan types would produce the BEST vulnerability scan report?

150. A company processes highly sensitive data and senior management wants to protect the sensitive data by utilizing classification labels.

Which of the following access control schemes would be BEST for the company to implement?

151. In which of the following common use cases would steganography be employed?

152. Which of the following job roles would sponsor data quality and data entry initiatives that ensure business and regulatory requirements are met?

153. A security administrator is setting up a SIEM to help monitor for notable events across the enterprise.

Which of the following control types does this BEST represent?

154. A privileged user at a company stole several proprietary documents from a server. The user also went into the log files and deleted all records of the incident. The systems administrator has Just informed investigators that other log files are available for review.

Which of the following did the administrator MOST likely configure that will assist the investigators?

155. A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is dissatisfied with the level of service from the company's new service provider. The service provider is preventing the CEO. from sending email from a work account to a personal account.

Which of the following types of service providers is being used?

156. A network engineer notices the VPN concentrator overloaded and crashes on days when there are a lot of remote workers. Senior management has placed greater importance on the availability of VPN resources for the remote workers than the security of the end users’ traffic.

Which of the following would be BEST to solve this issue?

157. A hospital's administration is concerned about a potential loss of patient data that is stored on tablets. A security administrator needs to implement controls to alert the SOC any time the devices are near exits.

Which of the following would BEST achieve this objective?

158. A development team employs a practice of bringing all the code changes from multiple team members into the same development project through automation. A tool is utilized to validate the code and track source code through version control.

Which of the following BEST describes this process?

159. A company is upgrading its wireless infrastructure to WPA2-Enterprise using EAP-TLS .

Which of the following must be part of the security architecture to achieve AAA? (Select TWO)

160. A security analyst must determine if either SSH or Telnet is being used to log in to servers .

Which of the following should the analyst use?

161. A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the volume and integrity of sensitive information that is exchanged between the organization and a third party through email. The CSO is particularly concerned about an unauthorized party who is intercepting information that is in transit between the two organizations .

Which of the following would address the CSO's concerns?

162. An analyst needs to set up a method for securely transferring files between systems. One of the requirements is to authenticate the IP header and the payload .

Which of the following services would BEST meet the criteria?

163. A user recently attended an exposition and received some digital promotional materials The user later noticed blue boxes popping up and disappearing on the computer, and reported receiving several spam emails, which the user did not open.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the reported issue?

164. A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate-owned mobile devices .

Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company’s data?

165. A university is opening a facility in a location where there is an elevated risk of theft The university wants to protect the desktops in its classrooms and labs.

Which of the following should the university use to BEST protect these assets deployed in the facility?

166. A technician needs to prevent data loss in a laboratory. The laboratory is not connected to any external networks .

Which of the following methods would BEST prevent the exfiltration of data? (Select TWO).

167. A Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) personal information was stolen in a social engineering attack .

Which of the following sources would reveal if the CEO's personal information is for sale?

168. A company's help desk received several AV alerts indicating Mimikatz attempted to run on the remote systems. Several users also reported that the new company flash drives they picked up in the

break room only have 512KB of storage .

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

169. A security analyst Is hardening a Linux workstation and must ensure It has public keys forwarded to remote systems for secure login.

Which of the following steps should the analyst perform to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

170. Under GDPR, which of the following is MOST responsible for the protection of privacy and website user rights?

171. A company recently set up an e-commerce portal to sell its product online. The company wants to start accepting credit cards for payment, which requires compliance with a security standard .

Which of the following standards must the company comply with before accepting credit cards on its e-commerce platform?

172. A security analyst needs to determine how an attacker was able to use User3 to gain a foothold within a company's network. The company's lockout policy requires that an account be locked out for a minimum of 15 minutes after three unsuccessful attempts.

While reviewing the log files, the analyst discovers the following:





Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred?

173. Which of the following would BEST identify and remediate a data-loss event in an enterprise using third-party, web-based services and file-sharing platforms?

174. The cost of '©movable media and the security risks of transporting data have become too great for a laboratory. The laboratory has decided to interconnect with partner laboratones to make data transfers easier and more secure. The Chief Security Officer <CSO) has several concerns about proprietary data being exposed once the interconnections are established .

Which of the following security features should the network administrator implement lo prevent unwanted data exposure to users in partner laboratories?

175. A cloud administrator is configuring five compute instances under the same subnet in a VPC Three instances are required to communicate with one another, and the other two must he logically isolated from all other instances in the VPC .

Which of the following must the administrator configure to meet this requirement?

176. A security analyst is reviewing the following command-line output:





Which of the following Is the analyst observing?

177. Which of the following represents a biometric FRR?

178. A security analyst sees the following log output while reviewing web logs:





Which of the following mitigation strategies would be BEST to prevent this attack from being successful?

179. A security analyst is reviewing the following output from a system:





Which of the following is MOST likely being observed?

180. A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platforms to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application .

Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

181. To further secure a company’s email system, an administrator is adding public keys to DNS records in the company’s domain.

Which of the following is being used?

182. A hospital's administration is concerned about a potential loss of patient data that is stored on tablets. A security administrator needs to implement controls to alert the SOC any time the devices are near exits .

Which of the following would BEST achieve this objective?

183. An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or data theft .

Which of the following would be the MOST acceptable?

184. An organization has hired a security analyst to perform a penetration test. The analyst captures 1Gb worth of inbound network traffic to the server and transfer the pcap back to the machine for analysis .

Which of the following tools should the analyst use to further review the pcap?

185. A external forensics investigator has been hired to investigate a data breach at a large enterprise with numerous assets. It is known that the breach started in the DMZ and moved to the sensitive information, generating multiple logs as the attacker traversed through the network .

Which of the following will BEST assist with this investigation?

186. Which of the following refers to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

187. A company needs to centralize its logs to create a baseline and have visibility on its security events .

Which of the following technologies will accomplish this objective?

188. An incident response technician collected a mobile device during an investigation .

Which of the following should the technician do to maintain chain of custody?

189. A network administrator has been asked to install an IDS to improve the security posture of an organization .

Which of the following control types is an IDS?

190. A security analyst is logged into a Windows file server and needs to see who is accessing files and from which computers.

Which of the following tools should the analyst use?

191. A security analyst discovers that a company username and password database was posted on an internet forum. The username and passwords are stored in plan text .

Which of the following would mitigate the damage done by this type of data exfiltration in the future?

192. An attacker is exploiting a vulnerability that does not have a patch available .

Which of the following is the attacker exploiting?

193. A security analyst is reviewing the output of a web server log and notices a particular account is attempting to transfer large amounts of money:





Which of the following types of attack is MOST likely being conducted?

194. An organization has decided to host its web application and database in the cloud.

Which of the following BEST describes the security concerns for this decision?

195. An organization’s help desk is flooded with phone calls from users stating they can no longer access certain websites. The help desk escalates the issue to the security team, as these websites were accessible the previous day. The security analysts run the following command: ipconfig /flushdns, but the issue persists. Finally, an analyst changes the DNS server for an impacted machine, and the issue goes away .

Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred on the original DNS server?

196. After a ransomware attack a forensics company needs to review a cryptocurrency transaction between the victim and the attacker .

Which of the following will the company MOST likely review to trace this transaction?

197. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of an insurance company received an email from Ann, the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), requesting a transfer of $10,000 to an account. The email states Ann is on vacation and has lost her purse, containing cash and credit cards .

Which of the following social-engineering techniques is the attacker using?

198. n organization plans to transition the intrusion detection and prevention techniques on a critical subnet to an anomaly-based system .

Which of the following does the organization need to determine for this to be successful?

199. An organization is developing a plan in the event of a complete loss of critical systems and data .

Which of the following plans is the organization MOST likely developing?

200. A security analyst is preparing a threat for an upcoming internal penetration test. The analyst needs to identify a method for determining the tactics, techniques, and procedures of a threat against the organization’s network .

Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely use to accomplish the objective?

201. In which of the following risk management strategies would cybersecurity insurance be used?

202. A company’s bank has reported that multiple corporate credit cards have been stolen over the past several weeks. The bank has provided the names of the affected cardholders to the company’s forensics team to assist in the cyber-incident investigation.

An incident responder learns the following information:

✑ The timeline of stolen card numbers corresponds closely with affected users making Internet-based purchases from diverse websites via enterprise desktop PCs.

✑ All purchase connections were encrypted, and the company uses an SSL inspection proxy for the inspection of encrypted traffic of the hardwired network.

✑ Purchases made with corporate cards over the corporate guest WiFi network, where no SSL inspection occurs, were unaffected.

Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?

203. A consultant is configuring a vulnerability scanner for a large, global organization in multiple countries. The consultant will be using a service account to scan systems with administrative privileges on a weekly basis, but there is a concern that hackers could gain access to account to the account and pivot through the global network .

Which of the following would be BEST to help mitigate this concern?

204. A development team employs a practice of bringing all the code changes from multiple team members into the same development project through automation. A tool is utilized to validate the code and track source code through version control .

Which of the following BEST describes this process?

205. A small business just recovered from a ransomware attack against its file servers by purchasing the decryption keys from the attackers. The issue was triggered by a phishing email and the IT administrator wants to ensure it does not happen again .

Which of the following should the IT administrator do FIRST after recovery?

206. An organization recently acquired an ISO 27001 certification .

Which of the following would MOST likely be considered a benefit of this certification?

207. A company has decided to move its operations to the cloud. It wants to utilize technology that will prevent users from downloading company applications for personal use, restrict data that is uploaded, and have visibility into which applications are being used across the company .

Which of the following solutions will BEST meet these requirements?

208. The website http://companywebsite.com requires users to provide personal Information, Including security question responses, for registration .

Which of the following would MOST likely cause a data breach?

209. CORRECT TEXT

A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.



INSTRUCTIONS

Click on each firewall to do the following:

✑ Deny cleartext web traffic.

✑ Ensure secure management protocols are used.

✑ Resolve issues at the DR site.

The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

210. A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did not receive any emails with links, but he had been browsing the Internet all day .

Which of the following would MOST likely show where the malware originated?

211. Local guidelines require that all information systems meet a minimum-security baseline to be compliant .

Which of the following can security administrators use to assess their system configurations against the baseline?

212. Company engineers regularly participate in a public Internet forum with other engineers throughout the industry .

Which of the following tactics would an attacker MOST likely use in this scenario?

213. An organization is concerned that is hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software .

Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

214. An enterprise needs to keep cryptographic keys in a safe manner .

Which of the following network appliances can achieve this goal?

215. An organization relies on third-party video conferencing to conduct daily business. Recent security changes now require all remote workers to utilize a VPN to corporate resources .

Which of the following would BEST maintain high-quality video conferencing while minimizing latency when connected to the VPN?

216. In which of the following situations would it be BEST to use a detective control type for mitigation?

217. A security researcher is attempting to gather data on the widespread use of a Zero-day exploit .

Which of the following will the researcher MOST likely use to capture this data?

218. Which of the following types of controls is a CCTV camera that is not being monitored?

219. An attacker is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL users .

Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

220. An organization has a growing workforce that is mostly driven by additions to the sales department. Each newly hired salesperson relies on a mobile device to conduct business. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is wondering it the organization may need to scale down just as quickly as it scaled up. The ClO is also concerned about the organization's security and customer privacy .

Which of the following would be BEST to address the ClO’s concerns?

221. A network administrator would like to configure a site-to-site VPN utilizing IPSec. The administrator wants the tunnel to be established with data integrity encryption, authentication and anti- replay functions.

Which of the following should the administrator use when configuring the VPN?

222. A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better.

223. The new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a large company has announced a partnership with a vendor that will provide multiple collaboration applications t make remote work easier. The company has a geographically dispersed staff located in numerous remote offices in different countries. The company's IT administrators are concerned about network traffic and load if all users simultaneously download the application .

Which of the following would work BEST to allow each geographic region to download the software without negatively impacting the corporate network?

224. Which of the following will MOST likely cause machine learning and Al-enabled systems to operate with unintended consequences?

225. An organization has expanded its operations by opening a remote office. The new office is fully furnished with office resources to support up to 50 employees working on any given day .

Which of the following VPN solutions would BEST support the new office?

226. When used at the design stage, which of the following improves the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of a database?

227. A customer called a company's security team to report that all invoices the customer has received over the last five days from the company appear to have fraudulent banking details.

An investigation into the matter reveals the following

* The manager of the accounts payable department is using the same password across multiple external websites and the corporate account.

* One of the websites the manager used recently experienced a data breach.

* The manager's corporate email account was successfully accessed in the last five days by an IP address located in a foreign country

Which of the following attacks has MOST likely been used to compromise the manager's corporate account?

228. Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data processors?

229. An organization has implemented a policy requiring the use of conductive metal lockboxes for personal electronic devices outside of a secure research lab .

Which of the following did the organization determine to be the GREATEST risk to intellectual property when creating this policy?

230. An organization that is located in a flood zone is MOST likely to document the concerns associated with the restoration of IT operation in a:

231. Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

232. A financial institution would like to stare is customer data a could but still allow the data ta he accessed and manipulated while encrypted. Doing se would prevent the cloud service provider from being able to decipher the data due to its sensitivity. The financial institution is not concern about computational overheads and slow speeds.

Which of the following cryptographic techniques would BEST meet the requirement?

233. A small business office is setting up a wireless infrastructure with primary requirements centered around protecting customer information and preventing unauthorized access to the business network .

Which of the following would BEST support the office's business needs? (Select TWO)

234. A systems administrator needs to install the same X.509 certificate on multiple servers .

Which of the following should the administrator use?

235. A security analyst notices several attacks are being blocked by the NIPS but does not see anything on the boundary firewall logs. The attack seems to have been thwarted.

Which of the following resiliency techniques was applied to the network to prevent this attack?

236. A bank detects fraudulent activity on user's account. The user confirms transactions completed yesterday on the bank's website at https://www.company.com. A security analyst then examines the user's

Internet usage logs and observes the following output:

date; username; url;destinationport; responsecode

2020-03-01; userann; http: //www.company.org/;80;302

2020-03-01; userann: http: //www.company.org/secure_login/;80;200

2020-03-01; userann:http: //www.company.org/dashboard/;80;200

Which of the following has MOST likely occurred?

237. Which of the following is the BEST reason to maintain a functional and effective asset management policy that aids in ensuring the security of an organization?

238. Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

239. A security administrator checks the table of a network switch, which shows the following output:





Which of the following is happening to this switch?

240. A security analyst needs to be proactive in understand the types of attacks that could potentially target the company's execute .

Which of the following intelligence sources should to security analyst review?

241. A desktop support technician recently installed a new document-scanning software program on a computer However, when the end user tried to launch the program, it did not respond .

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

242. A company has been experiencing very brief power outages from its utility company over the last few months. These outages only last for one second each time. The utility company is aware of the issue and is working to replace a faulty transformer .

Which of the following BEST describes what the company should purchase to ensure its critical servers and network devices stay online?

243. A security analyst is reviewing information regarding recent vulnerabilities .

Which of the following will the analyst MOST likely consult to validate which platforms have been affected?

244. An attacked is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL www.validwebsite.com. The attacker's intent is to imitate the look and feel of a legitimate website to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users .

Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

245. Which of the following is MOST likely to contain ranked and ordered information on the likelihood and potential impact of catastrophic events that may affect business processes and systems, while also highlighting the residual risks that need to be managed after mitigating controls have been implemented?

246. A remote user recently took a two-week vacation abroad and brought along a corporate-owned laptop. Upon returning to work, the user has been unable to connect the laptop to the VPN .

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the user's inability to connect the laptop to the VPN? (Select TWO).

247. An analyst visits an internet forum looking for information about a tool. The analyst finds a threat that appears to contain relevant information.

One of the posts says the following:





Which of the following BEST describes the attack that was attempted against the forum readers?

248. On which of the following is the live acquisition of data for forensic analysis MOST dependent? (Choose two.)

249. A network administrator is concerned about users being exposed to malicious content when accessing company cloud applications. The administrator wants to be able to block access to sites based on the AUP. The users must also be protected because many of them work from home or at remote locations, providing on-site customer support .

Which of the following should the administrator employ to meet these criteria meet these criteria?

250. Which of the following distributes data among nodes, making it more difficult to manipulate the data while also minimizing downtime?

251. A security analyst is using a recently released security advisory to review historical logs, looking for the specific activity that was outlined in the advisory .

Which of the following is the analyst doing?

252. An organization is developing an authentication service for use at the entry and exit ports of country borders. The service will use data feeds obtained from passport systems, passenger manifests, and high-definition video feeds from CCTV systems that are located at the ports. The service will incorporate machine-learning techniques to eliminate biometric enrollment processes while still allowing authorities to identify passengers with increasing accuracy over time. The more frequently passengers travel, the more accurately the service will identify them .

Which of the following biometrics will MOST likely be used, without the need for enrollment? (Choose two.)