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1. 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?

2. 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?

3. A security analyst receives a SIEM alert that someone logged in to the appadmin test account, which is only used for the early detection of attacks.

The security analyst then reviews the following application log:





Which of the following can the security analyst conclude?

4. A user reports constant lag and performance issues with the wireless network when working at a local coffee shop. A security analyst walks the user through an installation of Wireshark and get a five-minute pcap to analyze.

The analyst observes the following output:





Which of the following attacks does the analyst MOST likely see in this packet capture?

5. A network administrator is setting up wireless access points in all the conference rooms and wants to authenticate device using PKI .

Which of the following should the administrator configure?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. 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?

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

14. 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?

15. 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).

16. 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?

17. 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?

18. 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.)

19. The IT department at a university is concerned about professors placing servers on the university network in an attempt to bypass security controls .

Which of the following BEST represents this type of threat?

20. 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?

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

22. 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?

23. 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)

24. 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?

25. A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times.

After determining it is not a routing or DNS issue, the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, and receives the following output:





Which of the following is the router experiencing?

26. 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?

27. 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?

28. 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?

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

30. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an organization would like staff members to have the flexibility to work from home anytime during business hours, incident during a pandemic or crisis, However, the CEO is concerned that some staff members may take advantage of the of the flexibility and work from high-risk countries while on holidays work to a third-party organization in another country. The Chief information Officer (CIO) believes the company can implement some basic to mitigate the majority of the risk .

Which of the following would be BEST to mitigate CEO’s concern? (Select TWO).

31. 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?

32. 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?

33. 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?

34. 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?

35. 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?

36. The SOC is reviewing process and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than 30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. The allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained .

Which of the following would be BEST to improve the incident response process?

37. 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?

38. 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?

39. 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?

40. 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)





B)





C)





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41. 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?

42. In the middle of a cybersecurity, a security engineer removes the infected devices from the network and lock down all compromised accounts.

In which of the following incident response phases is the security engineer currently operating?

43. 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?

44. Which of the following describes the BEST approach for deploying application patches?

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





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

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

47. A university with remote campuses, which all use different service providers, loses Internet connectivity across all locations. After a few minutes, Internet and VoIP services are restored, only to go offline again at random intervals, typically within four minutes of services being restored. Outages continue throughout the day, impacting all inbound and outbound connections and services. Services that are limited to the local LAN or WiFi network are not impacted, but all WAN and VoIP services are affected.

Later that day, the edge-router manufacturer releases a CVE outlining the ability of an attacker to exploit the SIP protocol handling on devices, leading to resource exhaustion and system reloads .

Which of the following BEST describe this type of attack? (Choose two.)

48. A company wants to deploy PKI on its Internet-facing website.

The applications that are currently deployed are:

✑ www.company.com (main website)

✑ contactus.company.com (for locating a nearby location)

✑ quotes.company.com (for requesting a price quote)

The company wants to purchase one SSL certificate that will work for all the existing applications and any future applications that follow the same naming conventions, such as store.company.com .

Which of the following certificate types would BEST meet the requirements?

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

Which of the following demonstrates what the administrator is providing?

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

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

52. 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.)

53. 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?

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

Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

55. 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?

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

57. 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?

58. 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?

59. 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?

60. 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?

61. A Chief Security Office's (CSO's) key priorities are to improve preparation, response, and recovery practices to minimize system downtime and enhance organizational resilience to ransomware attacks .

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

62. 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?

63. 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.

64. 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.)

65. 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?

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

67. 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?

68. 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?

69. 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?

70. 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'?

71. 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?

72. 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?

73. 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?

74. DRAG DROP

A security engineer is setting up password less 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.

75. 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?

76. 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?

77. 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?

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

79. 1.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.)

80. 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?

81. 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?

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

83. 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?

84. 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?

85. 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?

86. 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?

87. 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?

88. 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?

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:

90. 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?

91. The Chief Security Officer (CSO) at a major hospital wants to implement SSO to help improve in the environment patient data, particularly at shared terminals. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned that training and guidance have been provided to frontline staff, and a risk analysis has not been performed .

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the CRO’s concerns?

92. A malicious actor recently penetration a company’s network and moved laterally to the datacenter. Upon investigation, a forensics firm wants to know was in the memory on the compromised server .

Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?

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

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

95. 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?

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

97. 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?

98. Several employees return to work the day after attending an industry trade show. That same day, the security manager notices several malware alerts coming from each of the employee’s workstations. The security manager investigates but finds no signs of an attack on the perimeter firewall or the NIDS .

Which of the following is MOST likely causing the malware alerts?

99. After reading a security bulletin, a network security manager is concerned that a malicious actor may have breached the network using the same software flaw. The exploit code is publicly available and has been reported as being used against other industries in the same vertical .

Which of the following should the network security manager consult FIRST to determine a priority list for forensic review?

100. 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?