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Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be hired by a foreign government to attack critical systems located in other countries?HacktivistWhistleblowerOrganized crimeUnskilled attacker 2. Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?Key stretchingData maskingSteganographySalting 3. An employee clicked a link in an email from a payment website that asked the employee to update contact information. The employee entered the log-in information but received a “page not found” error message.Which of the following types of social engineering attacks occurred?Brand impersonationPretextingTyposquattingPhishing 4. A data administrator is configuring authentication for a SaaS application and would like to reduce the number of credentials employees need to maintain. The company prefers to use domain credentials to access new SaaS applications.Which of the following methods would allow this functionality?SSOLEAPMFAPEAP 5. Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?An employee receives a gift card request in an email that has an executive's name in the display field of the email.Employees who open an email attachment receive messages demanding payment in order to access files.A service desk employee receives an email from the HR director asking for log-in credentials to a cloud administrator account.An employee receives an email with a link to a phishing site that is designed to look like the company's email portal. 6. A company prevented direct access from the database administrators’ workstations to the network segment that contains database servers.Which of the following should a database administrator use to access the database servers?Jump serverRADIUSHSMLoad balancer 7. An organization’s internet-facing website was compromised when an attacker exploited a buffer overflow.Which of the following should the organization deploy to best protect against similar attacks in the future?NGFWWAFTLSSD-WAN 8. An administrator notices that several users are logging in from suspicious IP addresses. After speaking with the users, the administrator determines that the employees were not logging in from those IP addresses and resets the affected users’ passwords.Which of the following should the administrator implement to prevent this type of attack from succeeding in the future?Multifactor authenticationPermissions assignmentAccess managementPassword complexity 9. An employee receives a text message that appears to have been sent by the payroll department and is asking for credential verification.Which of the following social engineering techniques are being attempted? (Choose two.)A. TyposquattingB. PhishingC. ImpersonationD. VishingE. SmishingF. Misinformation 10. Several employees received a fraudulent text message from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).The message stated:“I’m in an airport right now with no access to email. I need you to buy gift cards for employee recognition awards. Please send the gift cards to following email address.”Which of the following are the best responses to this situation? (Choose two).Cancel current employee recognition gift cards.Add a smishing exercise to the annual company training.Issue a general email warning to the company.Have the CEO change phone numbers.Conduct a forensic investigation on the CEO's phone.Implement mobile device management. 11. A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks.Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?A thorough analysis of the supply chainA legally enforceable corporate acquisition policyA right to audit clause in vendor contracts and SOWsAn in-depth penetration test of all suppliers and vendors 12. Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?Rules of engagementSupply chain analysisRight to audit clauseDue diligence 13. A penetration tester begins an engagement by performing port and service scans against the client environment according to the rules of engagement.Which of the following reconnaissance types is the tester performing?ActivePassiveDefensiveOffensive 14. Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?IRPDRPRPOSDLC 15. Which of the following vulnerabilities is associated with installing software outside of a manufacturer’s approved software repository?JailbreakingMemory injectionResource reuseSide loading 16. A security analyst is reviewing the following logs: Which of the following attacks is most likely occurring?Password sprayingAccount forgeryPass-t he-hashBrute-force 17. An analyst is evaluating the implementation of Zero Trust principles within the data plane.Which of the following would be most relevant for the analyst to evaluate?Secured zonesSubject roleAdaptive identityThreat scope reduction 18. An engineer needs to find a solution that creates an added layer of security by preventing unauthorized access to internal company resources.Which of the following would be the best solution?RDP serverJump serverProxy serverHypervisor 19. A company’s web filter is configured to scan the URL for strings and deny access when matches are found.Which of the following search strings should an analyst employ to prohibit access to non-encrypted websites?encryption=offhttp://www.*.com:443 20. During a security incident, the security operations team identified sustained network traffic from a malicious IP address:10.1.4.9. A security analyst is creating an inbound firewall rule to block the IP address from accessing the organization’s network.Which of the following fulfills this request?access-list inbound deny ig source 0.0.0.0/0 destination 10.1.4.9/32access-list inbound deny ig source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0access-list inbound permit ig source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0access-list inbound permit ig source 0.0.0.0/0 destination 10.1.4.9/32 21. A company needs to provide administrative access to internal resources while minimizing the traffic allowed through the security boundary.Which of the following methods is most secure?Implementing a bastion hostDeploying a perimeter networkInstalling a WAFUtilizing single sign-on 22. A security analyst is reviewing alerts in the SIEM related to potential malicious network traffic coming from an employee’s corporate laptop. The security analyst has determined that additional data about the executable running on the machine is necessary to continue the investigation.Which of the following logs should the analyst use as a data source?ApplicationIPS/IDSNetworkEndpoint 23. A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks.SIEM alerts have not yet been configured.Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?[Digital forensicsE-discoveryIncident responseThreat hunting 24. A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register.Which of the following strategies does this represent?AcceptTransferMitigateAvoid 25. A security administrator would like to protect data on employees’ laptops.Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?PartitionAsymmetricFull diskDatabase 26. Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?DetectiveCompensatingCorrectivePreventive 27. An IT manager informs the entire help desk staff that only the IT manager and the help desk lead will have access to the administrator console of the help desk software.Which of the following security techniques is the IT manager setting up?HardeningEmployee monitoringConfiguration enforcementLeast privilege 28. Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?Risk toleranceRisk transferRisk registerRisk analysis 29. Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?Disaster recovery planIncident response procedureBusiness continuity planChange management procedure 30. A company is expanding its threat surface program and allowing individuals to security test the company’s internet-facing application. The company will compensate researchers based on the vulnerabilities discovered.Which of the following best describes the program the company is setting up?Open-source intelligenceBug bountyRed teamPenetration testing 31. Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?InsiderUnskilled attackerNation-stateHacktivist 32. Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?Cross-site scriptingSide loadingBuffer overflowSQL injection 33. Employees in the research and development business unit receive extensive training to ensure they understand how to best protect company data.Which of the following is the type of data these employees are most likely to use in day-to-day work activities?EncryptedIntellectual propertyCriticalData in transit 34. A company has begun labeling all laptops with asset inventory stickers and associating them with employee IDs.Which of the following security benefits do these actions provide? (Choose two.)A. If a security incident occurs on the device, the correct employee can be notified.B. The security team will be able to send user awareness training to the appropriate device.C. Users can be mapped to their devices when configuring software MFA tokens.D. User-based firewall policies can be correctly targeted to the appropriate laptops.E. When conducting penetration testing, the security team will be able to target the desired laptops.F. Company data can be accounted for when the employee leaves the organization. 35. A technician wants to improve the situational and environmental awareness of existing users as they transition from remote to in-office work.Which of the following is the best option?Send out periodic security reminders.Update the content of new hire documentation.Modify the content of recurring training.Implement a phishing campaign 36. A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors.Which of the following should the systems administrator use?Packet capturesVulnerability scansMetadataDashboard 37. A systems administrator receives the following alert from a file integrity monitoring tool:The hash of the cmd.exe file has changed.The systems administrator checks the OS logs and notices that no patches were applied in the last two months.Which of the following most likely occurred?The end user changed the file permissions.A cryptographic collision was detected.A snapshot of the file system was taken.A rootkit was deployed. 38. Which of the following roles, according to the shared responsibility model, is responsible for securing the company’s database in an IaaS model for a cloud environment?ClientThird-party vendorCloud providerDBA 39. A client asked a security company to provide a document outlining the project, the cost, and the completion time frame.Which of the following documents should the company provide to the client?MSASLABPASOW 40. A security team is reviewing the findings in a report that was delivered after a third party performed a penetration test. One of the findings indicated that a web application form field is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.Which of the following application security techniques should the security analyst recommend the developer implement to prevent this vulnerability?Secure cookiesVersion controlInput validationCode signing 41. Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two).Ease of recoveryAbility to patchPhysical isolationResponsivenessAttack surfaceExtensible authentication 42. A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system.Which of the following steps should be taken first?Air gap the system.Move the system to a different network segment.Create a change control request.Apply the patch to the system. 43. Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?To gather loCs for the investigationTo discover which systems have been affectedTo eradicate any trace of malware on the networkTo prevent future incidents of the same nature 44. Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?FinesAudit findingsSanctionsReputation damage 45. A company is developing a business continuity strategy and needs to determine how many staff members would be required to sustain the business in the case of a disruption.Which of the following best describes this step?Capacity planningRedundancyGeographic dispersionTablet exercise 46. A company’s legal department drafted sensitive documents in a SaaS application and wants to ensure the documents cannot be accessed by individuals in high-risk countries.Which of the following is the most effective way to limit this access?Data maskingEncryptionGeolocation policyData sovereignty regulation 47. Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?Firmware versionBuffer overflowSQL injectionCross-site scripting 48. While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a “deny any” policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable.Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?Documenting the new policy in a change request and submitting the request to change managementTesting the policy in a non-production environment before enabling the policy in the production networkDisabling any intrusion prevention signatures on the 'deny any* policy prior to enabling the new policyIncluding an 'allow any1 policy above the 'deny any* policy 49. An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirementand RTO and RPO values around two days.Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?Real-time recoveryHotColdWarm 50. A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling.Which of the following best describes this policy?EnumerationSanitizationDestructionInventory 51. A systems administrator works for a local hospital and needs to ensure patient data is protected and secure.Which of the following data classifications should be used to secure patient data?PrivateCriticalSensitivePublic 52. A U.S.-based cloud-hosting provider wants to expand its data centers to new international locations.Which of the following should the hosting provider consider first?Local data protection regulationsRisks from hackers residing in other countriesImpacts to existing contractual obligationsTime zone differences in log correlation 53. Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?Access control listApplication allow list.Host-based firewallDLP solution 44. A company hired a consultant to perform an offensive security assessment covering penetration testing and social engineering.Which of the following teams will conduct this assessment activity?WhitePurpleBlueRed 55. A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company.Which of the following options is the most appropriate?Testing input validation on the user input fieldsPerforming code signing on company-developed softwarePerforming static code analysis on the softwareEnsuring secure cookies are use 56. Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?Honey potVideo surveillanceZero TrustGeofencing 57. During an investigation, an incident response team attempts to understand the source of an incident.Which of the following incident response activities describes this process?AnalysisLessons learnedDetectionContainment 58. A security practitioner completes a vulnerability assessment on a company’s network and finds several vulnerabilities, which the operations team remediates.Which of the following should be done next?Conduct an audit.Initiate a penetration test.Rescan the network.Submit a report. 59. An administrator was notified that a user logged in remotely after hours and copied large amounts of data to a personal device.Which of the following best describes the user’s activity?Penetration testingPhishing campaignExternal auditInsider threat 60. Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?Adaptive identityNon-repudiationAuthenticationAccess logs 61. Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?AutomationCompliance checklistAttestationManual audit 62. Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?SCAPNet FlowAntivirusDLP 63. An organization recently updated its security policy to include the following statement:Regular expressions are included in source code to remove special characters such as $, |, ;. &, `, and ? from variables set by forms in a web application.Which of the following best explains the security technique the organization adopted by making this addition to the policy?Identify embedded keysCode debuggingInput validationStatic code analysis 64. A security analyst and the management team are reviewing the organizational performance of a recent phishing campaign. The user click-through rate exceeded the acceptable risk threshold, and the management team wants to reduce the impact when a user clicks on a link in a phishing message.Which of the following should the analyst do?Place posters around the office to raise awareness of common phishing activities.Implement email security filters to prevent phishing emails from being deliveredUpdate the EDR policies to block automatic execution of downloaded programs.Create additional training for users to recognize the signs of phishing attempts. 65. Which of the following has been implemented when a host-based firewall on a legacy Linux system allows connections from only specific internal IP addresses?Compensating controlNetwork segmentationTransfer of riskSNMP traps 66. The management team notices that new accounts that are set up manually do not always have correct access or permissions.Which of the following automation techniques should a systems administrator use to streamline account creation?Guard rail scriptTicketing workflowEscalation scriptUser provisioning script 67. A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based.Which of the following meets these requirements?Serverless frameworkType 1 hvpervisorSD-WANSDN 68. A security operations center determines that the malicious activity detected on a server is normal.Which of the following activities describes the act of ignoring detected activity in the future?TuningAggregatingQuarantiningArchiving 69. A security analyst reviews domain activity logs and notices the following: Which of the following is the best explanation for what the security analyst has discovered?The user jsmith's account has been locked out.A keylogger is installed on [smith's workstationAn attacker is attempting to brute force ismith's account.Ransomware has been deployed in the domain. 70. A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime.Which of the following should the company consider?Clustering serversGeographic dispersionLoad balancersOff-site backups 71. Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?End of lifeBuffer overflowVM escapeJailbreaking 72. A company decided to reduce the cost of its annual cyber insurance policy by removing the coverage for ransomware attacks.Which of the following analysis elements did the company most likely use in making this decision?IMTTRRTOAROMTBF 73. Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?Reporting phishing attempts or other suspicious activitiesDetecting insider threats using anomalous behavior recognitionVerifying information when modifying wire transfer dataPerforming social engineering as part of third-party penetration testing 74. HOTSPOTSelect the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation. INSTRUCTIONSNot 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. 75. HOTSPOTYou are security administrator investigating a potential infection on a network.Click on each host and firewall. Review all logs to determine which host originated the Infecton and then deny each remaining hosts clean or infected. 76. Which of the following vulnerabilities is exploited when an attacker overwrites a register with a malicious address?VM escapeSQL injectionBuffer overflowRace condition 77. Which of the following would be the best way to handle a critical business application that is running on a legacy server?SegmentationIsolationHardeningDecommissioning 78. Which of the following describes the process of concealing code or text inside a graphical image?Symmetric encryptionHashingData maskingSteganography 79. After a company was compromised, customers initiated a lawsuit. The company's attorneys have requested that the security team initiate a legal hold in response to the lawsuit.Which of the following describes the action the security team will most likely be required to take?Retain the emails between the security team and affected customers for 30 days.Retain any communications related to the security breach until further notice.Retain any communications between security members during the breach response.Retain all emails from the company to affected customers for an indefinite period of time. 80. A network manager wants to protect the company's VPN by implementing multifactor authentication that uses:. Something you know. Something you have. Something you areWhich of the following would accomplish the manager's goal?Domain name, PKI, GeolP lookupVPN IP address, company ID, facial structurePassword, authentication token, thumbprintCompany URL, TLS certificate, home address

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