CompTIA Security+ SY0-701

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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?

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Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?

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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?

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An enterprise is trying to limit outbound DNS traffic originating from its internal network. Outbound DNS requests will only be allowed from one device with the IP address 10.50.10.25. Which of the following firewall ACLs will accomplish this goal?

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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?

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Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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.)

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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).

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A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

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Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?

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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?

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Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?

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Which of the following vulnerabilities is associated with installing software outside of a manufacturer’s approved software repository?

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Which of the following attacks is most likely occurring?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register. Which of the following strategies does this represent?

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A security administrator would like to protect data on employees’ laptops. Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?

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Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?

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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?

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Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?

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Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?

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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?

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Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?

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

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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?

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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.)

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two).

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A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system. Which of the following steps should be taken first?

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Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?

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Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?

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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?

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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?

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Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?

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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?

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An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days. Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?

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A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling. Which of the following best describes this policy?

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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?

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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?

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Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?

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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?

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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?

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Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?

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Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?

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Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?

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Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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A company is planning to set up a SIEM system and assign an analyst to review the logs on a weekly basis. Which of the following types of controls is the company setting up?

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A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based. Which of the following meets these requirements?

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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?

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A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime. Which of the following should the company consider?

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Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?

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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?

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Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?

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.

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HOTSPOT -
You are a security administrator investigating a potential infection on a network.

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Click on each host and firewall. Review all logs to determine which host originated the infection and then identify if each remaining host is clean or infected.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

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Which of the following is the phase in the incident response process when a security analyst reviews roles and responsibilities?

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After a recent vulnerability scan, a security engineer needs to harden the routers within the corporate network. Which of the following is the most appropriate to disable?

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A security administrator needs a method to secure data in an environment that includes some form of checks so track any changes. Which of the following should the administrator set up to achieve this goal?

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A security engineer is implementing FDE for all laptops in an organization. Which of the following are the most important for the engineer to consider as part of the planning process? (Choose two.)

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A security analyst scans a company's public network and discovers a host is running a remote desktop that can be used to access the production network. Which of the following changes should the security analyst recommend?

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An enterprise has been experiencing attacks focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in older browser versions with well-known exploits. Which of the following security solutions should be configured to best provide the ability to monitor and block these known signature-based attacks?

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Security controls in a data center are being reviewed to ensure data is properly protected and that human life considerations are included. Which of the following best describes how the controls should be set up?

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Which of the following would be best suited for constantly changing environments?

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Which of the following incident response activities ensures evidence is properly handled?

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An accounting clerk sent money to an attacker's bank account after receiving fraudulent instructions to use a new account. Which of the following would most likely prevent this activity in the future?

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A systems administrator is creating a script that would save time and prevent human error when performing account creation for a large number of end users. Which of the following would be a good use case for this task?

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A company's marketing department collects, modifies, and stores sensitive customer data. The infrastructure team is responsible for securing the data while in transit and at rest. Which of the following data roles describes the customer?

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Which of the following describes the maximum allowance of accepted risk?

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A security analyst receives alerts about an internal system sending a large amount of unusual DNS queries to systems on the internet over short periods of time during non-business hours. Which of the following is most likely occurring?

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A technician is opening ports on a firewall for a new system being deployed and supported by a SaaS provider. Which of the following is a risk in the new system?

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A systems administrator is working on a solution with the following requirements:
• Provide a secure zone. • Enforce a company-wide access control policy. • Reduce the scope of threats.
Which of the following is the systems administrator setting up?

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Which of the following involves an attempt to take advantage of database misconfigurations?

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Which of the following is used to validate a certificate when it is presented to a user?

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One of a company's vendors sent an analyst a security bulletin that recommends a BIOS update. Which of the following vulnerability types is being addressed by the patch?

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Which of the following is used to quantitatively measure the criticality of a vulnerability?

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Which of the following actions could a security engineer take to ensure workstations and servers are properly monitored for unauthorized changes and software?

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An organization is leveraging a VPN between its headquarters and a branch location. Which of the following is the VPN protecting?

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After reviewing the following vulnerability scanning report:

A security analyst performs the following test:

Which of the following would the security analyst conclude for this reported vulnerability?

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An organization disabled unneeded services and placed a firewall in front of a business-critical legacy system. Which of the following best describes the actions taken by the organization?

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A security consultant needs secure, remote access to a client environment. Which of the following should the security consultant most likely use to gain access?

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Which of the following should a systems administrator use to ensure an easy deployment of resources within the cloud provider?

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After a security awareness training session, a user called the IT help desk and reported a suspicious call. The suspicious caller stated that the Chief Financial Officer wanted credit card information in order to close an invoice. Which of the following topics did the user recognize from the training?

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A security administrator is deploying a DLP solution to prevent the exfiltration of sensitive customer data. Which of the following should the administrator do first?

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An administrator assists the legal and compliance team with ensuring information about customer transactions is archived for the proper time period. Which of the following data policies is the administrator carrying out?

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A company is working with a vendor to perform a penetration test. Which of the following includes an estimate about the number of hours required to complete the engagement?

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A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to explicitly raise awareness about the increase of ransomware-as-a-service in a report to the management team. Which of the following best describes the threat actor in the CISO’s report?

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Which of the following practices would be best to prevent an insider from introducing malicious code into a company's development process?

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Which of the following can best protect against an employee inadvertently installing malware on a company system?

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A company is adding a clause to its AUP that states employees are not allowed to modify the operating system on mobile devices. Which of the following vulnerabilities is the organization addressing?

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Which of the following would be the best ways to ensure only authorized personnel can access a secure facility? (Choose two.)

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An organization would like to store customer data on a separate part of the network that is not accessible to users on the main corporate network. Which of the following should the administrator use to accomplish this goal?

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Which of the following is the most common data loss path for an air-gapped network?

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Malware spread across a company's network after an employee visited a compromised industry blog. Which of the following best describes this type of attack?

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An organization is struggling with scaling issues on its VPN concentrator and internet circuit due to remote work. The organization is looking for a software solution that will allow it to reduce traffic on the VPN and internet circuit, while still providing encrypted tunnel access to the data center and monitoring of remote employee internet traffic. Which of the following will help achieve these objectives?

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Which of the following is the best reason to complete an audit in a banking environment?

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Which of the following security concepts is the best reason for permissions on a human resources fileshare to follow the principle of least privilege?

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Which of the following are cases in which an engineer should recommend the decommissioning of a network device? (Choose two.)

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A company is required to perform a risk assessment on an annual basis. Which of the following types of risk assessments does this requirement describe?

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After a recent ransomware attack on a company's system, an administrator reviewed the log files. Which of the following control types did the administrator use?

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Which of the following exercises should an organization use to improve its incident response process?

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Which of the following best ensures minimal downtime and data loss for organizations with critical computing equipment located in earthquake-prone areas?

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A newly identified network access vulnerability has been found in the OS of legacy IoT devices. Which of the following would best mitigate this vulnerability quickly?

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After an audit, an administrator discovers all users have access to confidential data on a file server. Which of the following should the administrator use to restrict access to the data quickly?

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A client demands at least 99.99% uptime from a service provider's hosted security services. Which of the following documents includes the information the service provider should return to the client?

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A company is discarding a classified storage array and hires an outside vendor to complete the disposal. Which of the following should the company request from the vendor?

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A company is planning a disaster recovery site and needs to ensure that a single natural disaster would not result in the complete loss of regulated backup data. Which of the following should the company consider?

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A security analyst locates a potentially malicious video file on a server and needs to identify both the creation date and the file's creator. Which of the following actions would most likely give the security analyst the information required?

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Which of the following teams combines both offensive and defensive testing techniques to protect an organization's critical systems?

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A small business uses kiosks on the sales floor to display product information for customers. A security team discovers the kiosks use end-of-life operating systems. Which of the following is the security team most likely to document as a security implication of the current architecture?

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Which of the following would help ensure a security analyst is able to accurately measure the overall risk to an organization when a new vulnerability is disclosed?

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Which of the following best practices gives administrators a set period to perform changes to an operational system to ensure availability and minimize business impacts?

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A company must ensure sensitive data at rest is rendered unreadable. Which of the following will the company most likely use?

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A legacy device is being decommissioned and is no longer receiving updates or patches. Which of the following describes this scenario?

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A bank insists all of its vendors must prevent data loss on stolen laptops. Which of the following strategies is the bank requiring?

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A company's end users are reporting that they are unable to reach external websites. After reviewing the performance data for the DNS severs, the analyst discovers that the CPU, disk, and memory usage are minimal, but the network interface is flooded with inbound traffic. Network logs show only a small number of DNS queries sent to this server. Which of the following best describes what the security analyst is seeing?

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A systems administrator wants to prevent users from being able to access data based on their responsibilities. The administrator also wants to apply the required access structure via a simplified format. Which of the following should the administrator apply to the site recovery resource group?

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During the onboarding process, an employee needs to create a password for an intranet account. The password must include ten characters, numbers, and letters, and two special characters. Once the password is created, the company will grant the employee access to other company-owned websites based on the intranet profile. Which of the following access management concepts is the company most likely using to safeguard intranet accounts and grant access to multiple sites based on a user's intranet account? (Choose two.)

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Which of the following describes a security alerting and monitoring tool that collects system, application, and network logs from multiple sources in a centralized system?

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A network manager wants to protect the company's VPN by implementing multifactor authentication that uses: Something you know - Something you have - Something you are -
Which of the following would accomplish the manager's goal?

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Which of the following would be the best way to handle a critical business application that is running on a legacy server?

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Which of the following vulnerabilities is exploited when an attacker overwrites a register with a malicious address?

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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?

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

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An employee receives a text message from an unknown number claiming to be the company’s Chief Executive Officer and asking the employee to purchase several gift cards. Which of the following types of attacks does this describe?

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Which of the following risk management strategies should an enterprise adopt first if a legacy application is critical to business operations and there are preventative controls that are not yet implemented?

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Visitors to a secured facility are required to check in with a photo ID and enter the facility through an access control vestibule. Which of the following best describes this form of security control?

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The local administrator account for a company's VPN appliance was unexpectedly used to log in to the remote management interface. Which of the following would have most likely prevented this from happening?

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Which of the following is the best way to secure an on-site data center against intrusion from an insider?

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An engineer moved to another team and is unable to access the new team's shared folders while still being able to access the shared folders from the former team. After opening a ticket, the engineer discovers that the account was never moved to the new group. Which of the following access controls is most likely causing the lack of access?

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Which of the following factors are the most important to address when formulating a training curriculum plan for a security awareness program? (Choose two.)

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A network administrator is working on a project to deploy a load balancer in the company's cloud environment. Which of the following fundamental security requirements does this project fulfil?

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A systems administrator is changing the password policy within an enterprise environment and wants this update implemented on all systems as quickly as possible. Which of the following operating system security measures will the administrator most likely use?

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Which of the following would be most useful in determining whether the long-term cost to transfer a risk is less than the impact of the risk?

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In order to strengthen a password and prevent a hacker from cracking it, a random string of 36 characters was added to the password. Which of the following best describes this technique?

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A technician is deploying a new security camera. Which of the following should the technician do?

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A company is experiencing a web services outage on the public network. The services are up and available but inaccessible. The network logs show a sudden increase in network traffic that is causing the outage. Which of the following attacks is the organization experiencing?

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Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be motivated by profit?

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An organization experiences a cybersecurity incident involving a command-and-control server. Which of the following logs should be analyzed to identify the impacted host? (Choose two.)

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During a penetration test, a vendor attempts to enter an unauthorized area using an access badge. Which of the following types of tests does this represent?

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A systems administrator uses a key to encrypt a message being sent to a peer in a different branch office. The peer then uses the same key to decrypt the message. Which of the following describes this example?

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A visitor plugs a laptop into a network jack in the lobby and is able to connect to the company's network. Which of the following should be configured on the existing network infrastructure to best prevent this activity?

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A security administrator is reissuing a former employee's laptop. Which of the following is the best combination of data handling activities for the administrator to perform? (Choose two.)

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A systems administrator would like to deploy a change to a production system. Which of the following must the administrator submit to demonstrate that the system can be restored to a working state in the event of a performance issue?

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

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A bank set up a new server that contains customers' PII. Which of the following should the bank use to make sure the sensitive data is not modified?

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Users at a company are reporting they are unable to access the URL for a new retail website because it is flagged as gambling and is being blocked. Which of the following changes would allow users to access the site?

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Which of the following most impacts an administrator's ability to address CVEs discovered on a server?

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Which of the following describes effective change management procedures?

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The CIRT is reviewing an incident that involved a human resources recruiter exfiltrating sensitive company data. The CIRT found that the recruiter was able to use HTTP over port 53 to upload documents to a web server. Which of the following security infrastructure devices could have identified and blocked this activity?

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An enterprise is working with a third party and needs to allow access between the internal networks of both parties for a secure file migration. The solution needs to ensure encryption is applied to all traffic that is traversing the networks. Which of the following solutions should most likely be implemented?

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An administrator has identified and fingerprinted specific files that will generate an alert if an attempt is made to email these files outside of the organization. Which of the following best describes the tool the administrator is using?

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A software developer released a new application and is distributing application files via the developer's website. Which of the following should the developer post on the website to allow users to verify the integrity of the downloaded files?

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An organization wants to limit potential impact to its log-in database in the event of a breach. Which of the following options is the security team most likely to recommend?

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An administrator finds that all user workstations and servers are displaying a message that is associated with files containing an extension of .ryk. Which of the following types of infections is present on the systems?

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A systems administrator is advised that an external web server is not functioning property. The administrator reviews the following firewall logs containing traffic going to the web server:

Which of the following attacks is likely occurring?

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An organization would like to calculate the time needed to resolve a hardware issue with a server. Which of the following risk management processes describes this example?

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A security engineer is installing an IPS to block signature-based attacks in the environment. Which of the following modes will best accomplish this task?

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An IT manager is increasing the security capabilities of an organization after a data classification initiative determined that sensitive data could be exfiltrated from the environment. Which of the following solutions would mitigate the risk?

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Which of the following is used to protect a computer from viruses, malware, and Trojans being installed and moving laterally across the network?

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Client files can only be accessed by employees who need to know the information and have specified roles in the company. Which of the following best describes this security concept?

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Which of the following describes the category of data that is most impacted when it is lost?

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A new employee logs in to the email system for the first time and notices a message from human resources about onboarding. The employee hovers over a few of the links within the email and discovers that the links do not correspond to links associated with the company. Which of the following attack vectors is most likely being used?

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Which of the following describes the understanding between a company and a client about what will be provided and the accepted time needed to provide the company with the resources?

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A company that is located in an area prone to hurricanes is developing a disaster recovery plan and looking at site considerations that allow the company to immediately continue operations. Which of the following is the best type of site for this company?

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Which of the following security controls is most likely being used when a critical legacy server is segmented into a private network?

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Which of the following best describes the practice of researching laws and regulations related to information security operations within a specific industry?

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Which of the following considerations is the most important for an organization to evaluate as it establishes and maintains a data privacy program?

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A security analyst is investigating a workstation that is suspected of outbound communication to a command-and-control server. During the investigation, the analyst discovered that logs on the endpoint were deleted. Which of the following logs would the analyst most likely look at next?

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An IT manager is putting together a documented plan describing how the organization will keep operating in the event of a global incident. Which of the following plans is the IT manager creating?

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A business needs a recovery site but does not require immediate failover. The business also wants to reduce the workload required to recover from an outage. Which of the following recovery sites is the best option?

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A security team is setting up a new environment for hosting the organization's on-premises software application as a cloud-based service. Which of the following should the team ensure is in place in order for the organization to follow security best practices?

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A manager receives an email that contains a link to receive a refund. After hovering over the link, the manager notices that the domain's URL points to a suspicious link. Which of the following security practices helped the manager to identify the attack?

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A company wants to verify that the software the company is deploying came from the vendor the company purchased the software from. Which of the following is the best way for the company to confirm this information?

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A systems administrator notices that one of the systems critical for processing customer transactions is running an end-of-life operating system. Which of the following techniques would increase enterprise security?

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The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at a large company would like to gain an understanding of how the company's security policies compare to the requirements imposed by external regulators. Which of the following should the CISO use?

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A systems administrator notices that the research and development department is not using the company VPN when accessing various company-related services and systems. Which of the following scenarios describes this activity?

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The marketing department set up its own project management software without telling the appropriate departments. Which of the following describes this scenario?

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Which of the following would best explain why a security analyst is running daily vulnerability scans on all corporate endpoints?

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Which of the following is classified as high availability in a cloud environment?

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Which of the following security measures is required when using a cloud-based platform for IoT management?

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Which of the following threat vectors is most commonly utilized by insider threat actors attempting data exfiltration?

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Which of the following methods to secure credit card data is best to use when a requirement is to see only the last four numbers on a credit card?

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The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has determined the company is non-compliant with local data privacy regulations. The CISO needs to justify the budget request for more resources. Which of the following should the CISO present to the board as the direct consequence of non-compliance?

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Which of the following alert types is the most likely to be ignored over time?

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A security analyst is investigating an application server and discovers that software on the server is behaving abnormally. The software normally runs batch jobs locally and does not generate traffic, but the process is now generating outbound traffic over random high ports. Which of the following vulnerabilities has likely been exploited in this software?

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An important patch for a critical application has just been released, and a systems administrator is identifying all of the systems requiring the patch. Which of the following must be maintained in order to ensure that all systems requiring the patch are updated?

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Which of the following should a security operations center use to improve its incident response procedure?

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Which of the following describes an executive team that is meeting in a board room and testing the company's incident response plan?

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A healthcare organization wants to provide a web application that allows individuals to digitally report health emergencies. Which of the following is the most important consideration during development?

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Which of the following agreement types defines the time frame in which a vendor needs to respond?

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Which of the following is a feature of a next-generation SIEM system?

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To improve the security at a data center, a security administrator implements a CCTV system and posts several signs about the possibility of being filmed. Which of the following best describe these types of controls? (Choose two.)

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Which of the following examples would be best mitigated by input sanitization?

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An attacker posing as the Chief Executive Officer calls an employee and instructs the employee to buy gift cards. Which of the following techniques is the attacker using?

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After conducting a vulnerability scan, a systems administrator notices that one of the identified vulnerabilities is not present on the systems that were scanned. Which of the following describes this example?

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A recent penetration test identified that an attacker could flood the MAC address table of network switches. Which of the following would best mitigate this type of attack?

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A user would like to install software and features that are not available with a smartphone's default software. Which of the following would allow the user to install unauthorized software and enable new features?

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Which of the following phases of an incident response involves generating reports?

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Which of the following methods would most likely be used to identify legacy systems?

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Employees located off-site must have access to company resources in order to complete their assigned tasks. These employees utilize a solution that allows remote access without interception concerns. Which of the following best describes this solution?

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A company allows customers to upload PDF documents to its public e-commerce website. Which of the following would a security analyst most likely recommend?

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A security analyst developed a script to automate a trivial and repeatable task. Which of the following best describes the benefits of ensuring other team members understand how the script works?

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A company is decommissioning its physical servers and replacing them with an architecture that will reduce the number of individual operating systems. Which of the following strategies should the company use to achieve this security requirement?

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An administrator needs to perform server hardening before deployment. Which of the following steps should the administrator take? (Choose two.)

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A Chief Information Security Officer would like to conduct frequent, detailed reviews of systems and procedures to track compliance objectives. Which of the following will be the best method to achieve this objective?

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Which of the following security concepts is accomplished with the installation of a RADIUS server?

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After creating a contract for IT contractors, the human resources department changed several clauses. The contract has gone through three revisions. Which of the following processes should the human resources department follow to track revisions?

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The executive management team is mandating the company develop a disaster recovery plan. The cost must be kept to a minimum, and the money to fund additional internet connections is not available. Which of the following would be the best option?

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An administrator at a small business notices an increase in support calls from employees who receive a blocked page message after trying to navigate to a spoofed website. Which of the following should the administrator do?

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Which of the following teams is best suited to determine whether a company has systems that can be exploited by a potential, identified vulnerability?

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A company is reviewing options to enforce user logins after several account takeovers. The following conditions must be met as part of the solution: • Allow employees to work remotely or from assigned offices around the world. • Provide a seamless login experience. • Limit the amount of equipment required. Which of the following best meets these conditions?

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Which of the following methods can be used to detect attackers who have successfully infiltrated a network? (Choose two.)

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A company wants to ensure that the software it develops will not be tampered with after the final version is completed. Which of the following should the company most likely use?

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An organization completed a project to deploy SSO across all business applications last year. Recently, the finance department selected a new cloud-based accounting software vendor. Which of the following should most likely be configured during the new software deployment?

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A user, who is waiting for a flight at an airport, logs in to the airline website using the public Wi-Fi, ignores a security warning and purchases an upgraded seat. When the flight lands, the user finds unauthorized credit card charges. Which of the following attacks most likely occurred?

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A network engineer deployed a redundant switch stack to increase system availability. However, the budget can only cover the cost of one ISP connection. Which of the following best describes the potential risk factor?

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A network team segmented a critical, end-of-life server to a VLAN that can only be reached by specific devices but cannot be reached by the perimeter network. Which of the following best describe the controls the team implemented? (Choose two.)

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A threat actor was able to use a username and password to log in to a stolen company mobile device. Which of the following provides the best solution to increase mobile data security on all employees' company mobile devices?

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Which of the following best describes the risk present after controls and mitigating factors have been applied?

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A software development team asked a security administrator to recommend techniques that should be used to reduce the chances of the software being reverse engineered. Which of the following should the security administrator recommend?

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Which of the following is a possible factor for MFA?

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Easy-to-guess passwords led to an account compromise. The current password policy requires at least 12 alphanumeric characters, one uppercase character, one lowercase character, a password history of two passwords, a minimum password age of one day, and a maximum password age of 90 days. Which of the following would reduce the risk of this incident from happening again? (Choose two.)

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A user downloaded software from an online forum. After the user installed the software, the security team observed external network traffic connecting to the user's computer on an uncommon port. Which of the following is the most likely explanation of this unauthorized connection?

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A utility company is designing a new platform that will host all the virtual machines used by business applications. The requirements include: • A starting baseline of 50% memory utilization • Storage scalability • Single circuit failure resilience Which of the following best meets all of these requirements?

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Which of the following best describes a use case for a DNS sinkhole?

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An incident analyst finds several image files on a hard disk. The image files may contain geolocation coordinates. Which of the following best describes the type of information the analyst is trying to extract from the image files?

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Which of the following most likely describes why a security engineer would configure all outbound emails to use S/MIME digital signatures?

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During a recent company safety stand-down, the cyber-awareness team gave a presentation on the importance of cyber hygiene. One topic the team covered was best practices for printing centers. Which of the following describes an attack method that relates to printing centers?

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Which of the following considerations is the most important regarding cryptography used in an IoT device?

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A coffee shop owner wants to restrict internet access to only paying customers by prompting them for a receipt number. Which of the following is the best method to use given this requirement?

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While performing digital forensics, which of the following is considered the most volatile and should have the contents collected first?

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A hosting provider needs to prove that its security controls have been in place over the last six months and have sufficiently protected customer data. Which of the following would provide the best proof that the hosting provider has met the requirements?

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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?

Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?

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?

An enterprise is trying to limit outbound DNS traffic originating from its internal network. Outbound DNS requests will only be allowed from one device with the IP address 10.50.10.25. Which of the following firewall ACLs will accomplish this goal?

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?

Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?

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?

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?

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 company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?

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?

Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?

Which of the following vulnerabilities is associated with installing software outside of a manufacturer’s approved software repository?

Which of the following attacks is most likely occurring?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register. Which of the following strategies does this represent?

A security administrator would like to protect data on employees’ laptops. Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?

Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?

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?

Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?

Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?

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?

Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?

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

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?

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 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?

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?

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?

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?

Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two).

A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system. Which of the following steps should be taken first?

Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?

Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?

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?

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?

Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?

An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days. Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?

A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling. Which of the following best describes this policy?

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?

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?

Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?

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?

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?

Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?

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?

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?

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?

Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?

Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?

Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?

Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?

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?

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?

A company is planning to set up a SIEM system and assign an analyst to review the logs on a weekly basis. Which of the following types of controls is the company setting up?

A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based. Which of the following meets these requirements?

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?

A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime. Which of the following should the company consider?

Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?

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?

Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?

Which of the following is the phase in the incident response process when a security analyst reviews roles and responsibilities?

After a recent vulnerability scan, a security engineer needs to harden the routers within the corporate network. Which of the following is the most appropriate to disable?

A security administrator needs a method to secure data in an environment that includes some form of checks so track any changes. Which of the following should the administrator set up to achieve this goal?

A security engineer is implementing FDE for all laptops in an organization. Which of the following are the most important for the engineer to consider as part of the planning process? (Choose two.)

A security analyst scans a company's public network and discovers a host is running a remote desktop that can be used to access the production network. Which of the following changes should the security analyst recommend?

An enterprise has been experiencing attacks focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in older browser versions with well-known exploits. Which of the following security solutions should be configured to best provide the ability to monitor and block these known signature-based attacks?

Security controls in a data center are being reviewed to ensure data is properly protected and that human life considerations are included. Which of the following best describes how the controls should be set up?

Which of the following would be best suited for constantly changing environments?

Which of the following incident response activities ensures evidence is properly handled?

An accounting clerk sent money to an attacker's bank account after receiving fraudulent instructions to use a new account. Which of the following would most likely prevent this activity in the future?

A systems administrator is creating a script that would save time and prevent human error when performing account creation for a large number of end users. Which of the following would be a good use case for this task?

A company's marketing department collects, modifies, and stores sensitive customer data. The infrastructure team is responsible for securing the data while in transit and at rest. Which of the following data roles describes the customer?

Which of the following describes the maximum allowance of accepted risk?

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?

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?

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?

A systems administrator is working on a solution with the following requirements:
• Provide a secure zone. • Enforce a company-wide access control policy. • Reduce the scope of threats.
Which of the following is the systems administrator setting up?

After reviewing the following vulnerability scanning report:

A security analyst performs the following test:

Which of the following would the security analyst conclude for this reported vulnerability?

A network manager wants to protect the company's VPN by implementing multifactor authentication that uses: Something you know - Something you have - Something you are -
Which of the following would accomplish the manager's goal?