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1. An organization needs to implement more stringent controls over administrator/root credentials and service accounts.

Requirements for the project include:

✑ Check-in/checkout of credentials

✑ The ability to use but not know the password

✑ Automated password changes

✑ Logging of access to credentials

Which of the following solutions would meet the requirements?

OAuth 2.0

Secure Enclave

A privileged access management system

An OpenID Connect authentication system

2. 1.A network engineer has been asked to investigate why several wireless barcode scanners and wireless computers in a warehouse have intermittent connectivity to the shipping server. The barcode scanners and computers are all on forklift trucks and move around the warehouse during their regular use .

Which of the following should the engineer do to determine the issue? (Choose two.)

Perform a site survey

Deploy an FTK Imager

Create a heat map

Scan for rogue access points

Upgrade the security protocols

Install a captive portal

3. A security audit has revealed that a process control terminal is vulnerable to malicious users installing and executing software on the system. The terminal is beyond end-of-life support and cannot be upgraded, so it is placed on a projected network segment .

Which of the following would be MOST effective to implement to further mitigate the reported vulnerability?

DNS sinkholding

DLP rules on the terminal

An IP blacklist

Application whitelisting

4. Which of the following incident response steps involves actions to protect critical systems while maintaining business operations?

Investigation

Containment

Recovery

Lessons learned

5. A company has drafted an insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices .

Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

Monitoring large data transfer transactions in the firewall logs

Developing mandatory training to educate employees about the removable media policy

Implementing a group policy to block user access to system files

Blocking removable-media devices and write capabilities using a host-based security tool

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

ISO 9001

ISO 27002

ISO 27701

ISO 31000

7. A network engineer needs to build a solution that will allow guests at the company’s headquarters to access the Internet via WiFi. This solution should not allow access to the internal corporate network, but it should require guests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the Internet .

Which of the following should the engineer employ to meet these requirements?

Implement open PSK on the APs

Deploy a WAF

Configure WIPS on the APs

Install a captive portal

8. 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?

Mobile device management

Full-device encryption

Remote wipe

Biometrics

9. A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce staffing at others .

Which of the following would be BEST to help the organization’s executives determine the next course of action?

An incident response plan

A communications plan

A disaster recovery plan

A business continuity plan

10. 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?

iPSec

Always On

Split tunneling

L2TP

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

Shadow IT

OSINT

Dark web

Insider threats

12. 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.)

Voice

Gait

Vein

Facial

Retina

Fingerprint

13. 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.

14. A cybersecurity administrator needs to add disk redundancy for a critical server. The solution must have a two- drive failure for better fault tolerance .

Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator select?

15. 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?

SPIM

Vishing

Spear phishing

Smishing

16. 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?

Create DLP controls that prevent documents from leaving the network

Implement salting and hashing

Configure the web content filter to block access to the forum.

Increase password complexity requirements

17. A security analyst is performing a forensic investigation compromised account credentials. Using the Event Viewer, the analyst able to detect the following message, ‘’Special privileges assigned to new login.’’ Several of these messages did not have a valid logon associated with the user before these privileges were assigned .

Which of the following attacks is MOST likely being detected?

Pass-the-hash

Buffer overflow

Cross-site scripting

Session replay

18. 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 whiteboars are cleaned and all desks are cleared. The company is MOST likely trying to protect against.

Loss of proprietary information

Damage to the company’s reputation

Social engineering

Credential exposure

19. A company provides mobile devices to its users to permit access to email and enterprise applications. The company recently started allowing users to select from several different vendors and device models.

When configuring the MDM, which of the following is a key security implication of this heterogeneous device approach?

The most common set of MDM configurations will become the effective set of enterprise mobile security controls.

All devices will need to support SCEP-based enrollment; therefore, the heterogeneity of the chosen architecture may unnecessarily expose private keys to adversaries.

Certain devices are inherently less secure than others, so compensatory controls will be needed to address the delta between device vendors.

MDMs typically will not support heterogeneous deployment environments, so multiple MDMs will need to be installed and configured.

20. A smart switch has the ability to monitor electrical levels and shut off power to a building in the event of power surge or other fault situation. The switch was installed on a wired network in a hospital and is monitored by the facilities department via a cloud application. The security administrator isolated the switch on a separate VLAN and set up a patch routine .

Which of the following steps should also be taken to harden the smart switch?

Set up an air gap for the switch.

Change the default password for the switch.

Place the switch In a Faraday cage.

Install a cable lock on the switch

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21. Which of the following will MOST likely adversely impact the operations of unpatched traditional programmable-logic controllers, running a back-end LAMP server and OT systems with human-management interfaces that are accessible over the Internet via a web interface? (Choose two.)

Cross-site scripting

Data exfiltration

Poor system logging

Weak encryption

SQL injection

Server-side request forgery

22. 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?

SDP

AAA

IaaS

MSSP

Microservices

23. 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?

Configure the DLP policies to allow all PII

Configure the firewall to allow all ports that are used by this application

Configure the antivirus software to allow the application

Configure the DLP policies to whitelist this application with the specific PII

Configure the application to encrypt the PII

24. A recently discovered zero-day exploit utilizes an unknown vulnerability in the SMB network protocol to rapidly infect computers. Once infected, computers are encrypted and held for ransom .

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

Configure the perimeter firewall to deny inbound external connections to SMB ports.

Ensure endpoint detection and response systems are alerting on suspicious SMB connections.

Deny unauthenticated users access to shared network folders.

Verify computers are set to install monthly operating system, updates automatically.

25. 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?

S/MIME

DLP

IMAP

HIDS

26. 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?

Pass-the-hash

Session replay

Object deference

Cross-site request forgery

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

Asymmetric encryption

Blockchain

Transport Layer Security

Perfect forward secrecy

28. 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?

Phishing

Whaling

Typo squatting

Pharming

29. A company uses wireless tor all laptops and keeps a very detailed record of its assets, along with a comprehensive list of devices that are authorized to be on the wireless network. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about a script kiddie potentially using an unauthorized device to brute force the wireless PSK and obtain access to the internal network .

Which of the following should the company implement to BEST prevent this from occurring?

A BPDU guard

WPA-EAP

IP filtering

A WIDS

30. 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?

MAC cloning

Evil twin

Man-in-the-middle

ARP poisoning

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

Red team

While team

Blue team

Purple team

32. After entering a username and password, and administrator must gesture on a touch screen .

Which of the following demonstrates what the administrator is providing?

Multifactor authentication

Something you can do

Biometric

Two-factor authentication

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

Which of the following targeted the organization?

Shadow IT

An insider threat

A hacktivist

An advanced persistent threat

34. 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?

CASB

SWG

Containerization

Automated failover

35. 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?

Developing an incident response plan

Building a disaster recovery plan

Conducting a tabletop exercise

Running a simulation exercise

36. 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?

Due to foreign travel, the user’s laptop was isolated from the network.

The user’s laptop was quarantined because it missed the latest path update.

The VPN client was blacklisted.

The user’s account was put on a legal hold.

37. Which of the following BEST describes a security exploit for which a vendor patch is not readily available?

Integer overflow

Zero-day

End of life

Race condition

38. A document that appears to be malicious has been discovered in an email that was sent to a company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) .

Which of the following would be BEST to allow a security analyst to gather information and confirm it is a malicious document without executing any code it may contain?

Open the document on an air-gapped network

View the document's metadata for origin clues

Search for matching file hashes on malware websites

Detonate the document in an analysis sandbox

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

Obfuscation

Integrity

Non-repudiation

Blockchain

40. Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company’s IT/security operations?

Least privilege

Awareness training

Separation of duties

Mandatory vacation

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41. 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?

SED

HSM

DLP

TPM

42. 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?

Install a NIDS device at the boundary.

Segment the network with firewalls.

Update all antivirus signatures daily.

Implement application blacklisting.

43. 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?

Hping3 Cs comptia, org Cp 80

Nc -1 Cv comptia, org Cp 80

nmp comptia, org Cp 80 CaV

nslookup Cport=80 comtia.org

44. 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.

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

The data owner is responsible for adhering to the rules for using the data, while the data custodian is responsible for determining the corporate governance regarding the data

The data owner is responsible for determining how the data may be used, while the data custodian is responsible for implementing the protection to the data

The data owner is responsible for controlling the data, while the data custodian is responsible for maintaining the chain of custody when handling the data

The data owner grants the technical permissions for data access, while the data custodian maintains the database access controls to the data

46. A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the amount of PII that is stored locally on each salesperson’s laptop. The sales department has a higher-than-average rate of lost equipment .

Which of the following recommendations would BEST address the CSO’s concern?

Deploy an MDM solution.

Implement managed FD

Replace all hard drives with SEDs.

Install DLP agents on each laptop.

47. A user enters a password to log in to a workstation and is then prompted to enter an authentication code .

Which of the following MFA factors or attributes are being utilized in the authentication process? (Select TWO).

Something you know

Something you have

Somewhere you are

Someone you are

Something you are

Something you can do

48. A cybersecurity analyst needs to implement secure authentication to third-party websites without users’ passwords .

Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

OAuth

SSO

SAML

PAP

49. 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?

Checksums

Watermarks

Oder of volatility

A log analysis

A right-to-audit clause

50. A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the seventy levels of the organization’s vulnerabilities .

Which of the following would BEST meet this need?

CVE

SIEM

SOAR

CVSS

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51. 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?

chmod

dnsenum

logger

52. 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?

Order of volatility

Data recovery

Chain of custody

Non-repudiation

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

Fog computing

VM escape

Software-defined networking

Image forgery

Container breakout

54. 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?

A reverse proxy was used to redirect network traffic

An SSL strip MITM attack was performed

An attacker temporarily pawned a name server

An ARP poisoning attack was successfully executed

55. A company has limited storage available and online presence that cannot for more than four hours .

Which of the following backup methodologies should the company implement to allow for the FASTEST database restore time In the event of a failure, which being maindful of the limited available storage space?

Implement fulltape backup every Sunday at 8:00 p.m and perform nightly tape rotations.

Implement different backups every Sunday at 8:00 and nightly incremental backups at 8:00 p.m

Implement nightly full backups every Sunday at 8:00 p.m

Implement full backups every Sunday at 8:00 p.m and nightly differential backups at 8:00

56. 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?

PCI DSS

GDPR

NIST

ISO 31000

57. A workwide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromised. In one incident, a user logged in from the corporate office in France, but then seconds later, the same user account attempted a login from Brazil .

Which of the following account policies would BEST prevent this type of attack?

Network location

Impossible travel time

Geolocation

Geofencing

58. A retail executive recently accepted a job with a major competitor. The following week, a security analyst reviews the security logs and identifies successful logon attempts to access the departed executive's accounts .

Which of the following security practices would have addressed the issue?

A non-disclosure agreement

Least privilege

An acceptable use policy

Ofboarding

59. Which of the following should be put in place when negotiating with a new vendor about the timeliness of the response to a significant outage or incident?

MOU

MTTR

SLA

NDA

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

Data accessibility

Legal hold

Cryptographic or hash algorithm

Data retention legislation

Value and volatility of data

Right-to-audit clauses

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61. Users have been issued smart cards that provide physical access to a building. The cards also contain tokens that can be used to access information systems. Users can log m to any thin client located throughout the building and see the same desktop each time .

Which of the following technologies are being utilized to provide these capabilities? (Select TWO)

COPE

VDI

GPS

TOTP

RFID

BYOD

62. 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?

SIEM

DLP

CASB

SWG

63. 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.)

Trusted Platform Module

A host-based firewall

A DLP solution

Full disk encryption

A VPN

Antivirus software

64. 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?

Role-based access control

Discretionary access control

Mandatory access control

Attribute-based access control

65. Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe’s identity before sending him the prize .

Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?

Spear phishing

Whaling

Phishing

Vishing

66. A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public area .

Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this breach?

A firewall

A device pin

A USB data blocker

Biometrics

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

Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

MSSP

SOAR

IaaS

PaaS

68. 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?

One-time passwords

Email tokens

Push notifications

Hardware authentication

69. A security assessment determines DES and 3DES at still being used on recently deployed production servers .

Which of the following did the assessment identify?

Unsecme protocols

Default settings

Open permissions

Weak encryption

70. A manufacturer creates designs for very high security products that are required to be protected and controlled by the government regulations. These designs are not accessible by corporate networks or the Internet .

Which of the following is the BEST solution to protect these designs?

An air gap

A Faraday cage

A shielded cable

A demilitarized zone

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

Footprinting

White-box testing

A drone/UAV

Pivoting

72. 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?

SQL injection

Cross-site scripting

Pass-the-hash

Directory traversal

73. A company's Chief Information Office (CIO) is meeting with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to plan some activities to enhance the skill levels of the company's developers .

Which of the following would be MOST suitable for training the developers'?

A capture-the-flag competition

A phishing simulation

Physical security training

Baste awareness training

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

To define the level or risk using probability and likelihood

To register the risk with the required regulatory agencies

To identify the risk, the risk owner, and the risk measures

To formally log the type of risk mitigation strategy the organization is using

75. 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?

Vulnerability feeds

Trusted automated exchange of indicator information

Structured threat information expression

Industry information-sharing and collaboration groups

76. While checking logs, a security engineer notices a number of end users suddenly downloading files with the .tar.gz extension. Closer examination of the files reveals they are PE32 files. The end users state they did not initiate any of the downloads. Further investigation reveals the end users all clicked on an external email containing an infected MHT file with an href link a week prior .

Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

A RAT was installed and is transferring additional exploit tools.

The workstations are beaconing to a command-and-control server.

A logic bomb was executed and is responsible for the data transfers.

A fireless virus is spreading in the local network environment.

77. A database administrator needs to ensure all passwords are stored in a secure manner, so the administrate adds randomly generated data to each password before string .

Which of the following techniques BEST explains this action?

Predictability

Key stretching

Salting

Hashing

78. 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?

Incident response

Communications

Disaster recovery

Data retention

79. 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.)

Unsecure protocols

Use of penetration-testing utilities

Weak passwords

Included third-party libraries

Vendors/supply chain

Outdated anti-malware software

80. A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:

Which of the following types of attacks does this MOST likely represent?

Rainbow table

Brute-force

Password-spraying

Dictionary

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81. 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?

Discretionary

Rule-based

Role-based

Mandatory

82. A user contacts the help desk to report the following:

✑ Two days ago, a pop-up browser window prompted the user for a name and password after connecting to the corporate wireless SSID. This had never happened before, but the user entered the information as requested.

✑ The user was able to access the Internet but had trouble accessing the department share until the next day.

✑ The user is now getting notifications from the bank about unauthorized transactions.

Which of the following attack vectors was MOST likely used in this scenario?

Rogue access point

Evil twin

DNS poisoning

ARP poisoning

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

SSAE SOC 2

PCI DSS

GDPR

ISO 31000

84. Which of the following allows for functional test data to be used in new systems for testing and training purposes to protect the real data?

Data encryption

Data masking

Data deduplication

Data minimization

85. A security administrator suspects there may be unnecessary services running on a server .

Which of the following tools will the administrator MOST likely use to confirm the suspicions?

Nmap

Wireshark

Autopsy

DNSEnum

86. A security administrator needs to create a RAID configuration that is focused on high read speeds and fault tolerance. It is unlikely that multiple drivers will fail simultaneously .

Which of the following RAID configurations should the administration use?

RA1D 0

RAID1

RAID 5

RAID 10

87. An analyst needs to identify the applications a user was running and the files that were open before the user’s computer was shut off by holding down the power button .

Which of the following would MOST likely contain that information?

NGFW

Pagefile

NetFlow

RAM

88. 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:

MTBF

RPO

MTTR

RTO

89. 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:

business continuity plan

communications plan.

disaster recovery plan.

continuity of operations plan

90. 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?

EDR

ESP

DNSSEC

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91. 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?

Salting the magnetic strip information

Encrypting the credit card information in transit.

Hashing the credit card numbers upon entry.

Tokenizing the credit cards in the database

92. Which of the following will provide the BEST physical security countermeasures to stop intruders? (Select TWO.)

Alarms

Signage

Lighting

Mantraps

Fencing

Sensors

93. 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?

The DNS logs

The web server logs

The SIP traffic logs

The SNMP logs

94. 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?

Disallow new hires from using mobile devices for six months

Select four devices for the sales department to use in a CYOD model

Implement BYOD for the sates department while leveraging the MDM

Deploy mobile devices using the COPE methodology

95. An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organization already uses a smart card and password .

Which of the following would meet the organization’s needs for a third factor?

Date of birth

Fingerprints

TPM

96. A cybersecurity analyst reviews the log files from a web server and sees a series of files that indicates a directory-traversal attack has occurred .

Which of the following is the analyst MOST likely seeing?

A)

Option A

Option B

Option C

Option D

97. Which of the following types of controls is a turnstile?

Physical

Detective

Corrective

Technical

98. 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?

Containerization

Geofencing

Full-disk encryption

Remote wipe

99. 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?

DNS cache poisoning

Domain hijacking

Distributed denial-of-service

DNS tunneling

100. 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?

Segmentation

Firewall whitelisting

Containment

isolation

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