Which of the following is the BEST approach to perform risk mitigation of user access control rights?
C. Perform routine user permission reviews.
Which of the following devices is BEST suited for servers that need to store private keys?
D. Hardware security module
All of the following are valid cryptographic hash functions EXCEPT:
A. RC4.
In regards to secure coding practices, why is input validation important?
A. It mitigates buffer overflow attacks.
Which of the following would be used when a higher level of security is desired for encryption key storage?
D. TPM
A security administrator needs to determine which system a particular user is trying to login to at various times of the day. Which of the following log types would the administrator check?
C. Security
QUESTION 7Which of the following MUST be updated immediately when an employee is terminated to prevent unauthorized access?
B. CRL
QUESTION 8Employee badges are encoded with a private encryption key and specific personal information. The encoding is then used to provide access to the network. Which of the following describes this access control type?
B. Smartcard
Which of the following devices would MOST likely have a DMZ interface?
C. Firewall
Which of the following application security testing techniques is implemented when an automated system generates random input data?
B. Fuzzing
Which of the following can be used by a security administrator to successfully recover a user's forgottenpassword on a password protected file?
D. Brute force
A security administrator wants to check user password complexity. Which of the following is the BEST tool touse?
B. Password cracker
Certificates are used for: (Select TWO).
E. Client authentication.
E. Password hashing.
Which of the following is a hardware based encryption device?
C. TPM
Which of the following BEST describes a protective countermeasure for SQL injection?
A. Validating user input in web applications
Which of the following MOST interferes with network-based detection techniques?
B. SSL
A certificate authority takes which of the following actions in PKI?
A. Issues and signs all root certificates
Use of a smart card to authenticate remote servers remains MOST susceptible to which of the following attacks?
C. Malicious code on the local system
Separation of duties is often implemented between developers and administrators in order to separate which of the following?
C. Changes to program code and the ability to deploy to production
A security administrator needs to update the OS on all the switches in the company. Which of the following MUST be done before any actual switch configuration is performed?
D. The request needs to be approved through the change management process.
Jane, an individual, has recently been calling various financial offices pretending to be another person to gain financial information. Which of the following attacks is being described?
D. Vishing
A user in the company is in charge of various financial roles but needs to prepare for an upcoming audit. They use the same account to access each financial system. Which of the following security controls will MOST likely be implemented within the company?
B. Separation of duties
A CRL is comprised of:
C. Public keys.
Sara, a user, downloads a keygen to install pirated software. After running the keygen, system performance is extremely slow and numerous antivirus alerts are displayed. Which of the following BEST describes this type of malware?
A. Trojan
Which of the following may significantly reduce data loss if multiple drives fail at the same time?
B. RAID
Which of the following should be considered to mitigate data theft when using CAT5 wiring?
C. EMI shielding
To help prevent unauthorized access to PCs, a security administrator implements screen savers that lock the PC after five minutes of inactivity. Which of the following controls is being described in this situation?
C. Technical
Pete, a network administrator, is capturing packets on the network and notices that a large amount of the traffic on the LAN is SIP and RTP protocols. Which of the following should he do to segment that traffic from the other traffic?
A. Create a voice VLAN.
Which of the following IP addresses would be hosts on the same subnet given the subnet mask 255.255.255.224? (Select TWO).
A. 10.4.4.125
B. 10.4.4.158
C. 10.4.4.165
D. 10.4.4.189
E. 10.4.4.199
C. 10.4.4.165
D. 10.4.4.189
Which of the following algorithms has well documented collisions? (Select TWO).
A. AES
B. MD5
C. SHA
D. SHA-256
E. RSA
B. MD5
C. SHA
Which of the following is BEST used as a secure replacement for TELNET?
D. SSH
An email client says a digital signature is invalid and the sender cannot be verified. The recipient is concerned with which of the following concepts?
B. Integrity
Which of the following is an effective way to ensure the BEST temperature for all equipment within a datacenter?
D. Hot or cool aisle containment
Which of the following transportation encryption protocols should be used to ensure maximum security between a web browser and a web server?
B. TLS
Developers currently have access to update production servers without going through an approval process. Which of the following strategies would BEST mitigate this risk?
D. Change management
Which of the following is a difference between TFTP and FTP?
D. TFTP utilizes UDP and FTP uses TCP.
Matt, an administrator, notices a flood fragmented packet and retransmits from an email server. After disabling the TCP offload setting on the NIC, Matt sees normal traffic with packets flowing in sequence again. Which of the following utilities was he MOST likely using to view this issue?
B. Protocol analyzer
Which of the following is characterized by an attacker attempting to map out an organization's staff hierarchy in order to send targeted emails?
A. Whaling
Which of the following would a security administrator implement in order to discover comprehensive security threats on a network?
C. Vulnerability scan
Which of the following is an example of a false positive?
B. Anti-virus identifies a benign application as malware.
Data execution prevention is a feature in most operating systems intended to protect against which type of attack?
A. Buffer overflow
Use of group accounts should be minimized to ensure which of the following?
A. Individual accountability
Privilege creep among long-term employees can be mitigated by which of the following procedures?
C. User permission reviews
In which of the following scenarios is PKI LEAST hardened?
D. A malicious CA certificate is loaded on all the clients.
Configuring the mode, encryption methods, and security associations are part of which of the following?
D. IPSec
Which of the following assessments would Pete, the security administrator, use to actively test that an application's security controls are in place?
D. Penetration test
A security administrator has just finished creating a hot site for the company. This implementation relates to which of the following concepts?
D. Availability
In the initial stages of an incident response, Matt, the security administrator, was provided the hard drives in question from the incident manager. Which of the following incident response procedures would he need to perform in order to begin the analysis? (Select TWO).
B. Take hashes
D. Capture the system image
Which of the following is used to certify intermediate authorities in a large PKI deployment?
B. Root CA
Which of the following components MUST be trusted by all parties in PKI?
B. CA
Which of the following should Matt, a security administrator, include when encrypting smartphones? (SelectTWO).
A. Steganography images
B. Internal memory
C. Master boot records
D. Removable memory cards
E. Public keys
B. Internal memory
C. Master boot records
Which of the following is the below pseudo-code an example of?
IF VARIABLE (CONTAINS NUMBERS = TRUE) THEN EXIT
B. Input validation
A system administrator is using a packet sniffer to troubleshoot remote authentication. The administrator detects a device trying to communicate to TCP port 49. Which of the following authentication methods is MOST likely being attempted?
C. TACACS+
Which of the following can use RC4 for encryption? (Select TWO).
A. CHAP
B. SSL
C. WEP
D. AES
E. 3DES
B. SSL
C. WEP
Which of the following defines a business goal for system restoration and acceptable data loss?
A. RPO
If Organization A trusts Organization B and Organization B trusts Organization C, then Organization A trustsOrganization C. Which of the following PKI concepts is this describing?
B. Transitive trust
Which of the following concepts is BEST described as developing a new chain of command in the event of a contingency?
C. Succession planning
Which of the following allows a company to maintain access to encrypted resources when employee turnover is high?
C. Recovery agent
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Which of the following is the MOST secure protocol to transfer files?
B. FTPS
Suspicious traffic without a specific signature was detected. Under further investigation, it was determined that these were false indicators. Which of the following security devices needs to be configured to disable future false alarms?
A. Anomaly based IDS
A company storing data on a secure server wants to ensure it is legally able to dismiss and prosecute staff who intentionally access the server via Telnet and illegally tamper with customer data. Which of the following administrative controls should be implemented to BEST achieve this?
D. Warning banners
Which of the following protocols is used to authenticate the client and server's digital certificate?
B. TLS
Which of the following can be used to mitigate risk if a mobile device is lost?
D. Strong passwords
Which of the following security concepts would Sara, the security administrator, use to mitigate the risk of dataloss?
D. Clean desk policy
Which of the following is an example of multifactor authentication?
A. Credit card and PIN
After Matt, a user, enters his username and password at the login screen of a web enabled portal, the following appears on his screen:
`Please only use letters and numbers on these fields'
Which of the following is this an example of?
A. Proper input validation
Which of the following should the security administrator implement to limit web traffic based on country of origin? (Select THREE).
A. Spam filter
B. Load balancer
C. Antivirus
D. Proxies
E. Firewall
F. NIDS
G. URL filtering
D. Proxies
E. Firewall
G. URL filtering
Several bins are located throughout a building for secure disposal of sensitive information. Which of the following does this prevent?
B. Dumpster diving
Matt, a developer, recently attended a workshop on a new application. The developer installs the new application on a production system to test the functionality. Which of the following is MOST likely affected?
D. Initial baseline configuration
Sara, a company's security officer, often receives reports of unauthorized personnel having access codes tothe cipher locks of secure areas in the building. Sara should immediately implement which of the following?
D. Security awareness training
Mike, a network administrator, has been asked to passively monitor network traffic to the company's sales websites. Which of the following would be BEST suited for this task?
C. NIPS
Mike, a security professional, is tasked with actively verifying the strength of the security controls on a company's live modem pool. Which of the following activities is MOST appropriate?
A. War dialing
Users at a company report that a popular news website keeps taking them to a web page with derogatory content. This is an example of which of the following?
D. DNS poisoning
An encrypted message is sent using PKI from Sara, a client, to a customer. Sara claims she never sent the message. Which of the following aspects of PKI BEST ensures the identity of the sender?
A. Non-repudiation
Jane, a security administrator, has observed repeated attempts to break into a server. Which of the following is designed to stop an intrusion on a specific server?
C. HIPS
Matt, the IT Manager, wants to create a new network available to virtual servers on the same hypervisor, and does not want this network to be routable to the firewall. How could this BEST be accomplished?
A. Create a virtual switch.
A security administrator implements access controls based on the security classification of the data and need-to-know information. Which of the following BEST describes this level of access control?
D. Mandatory Access Controls
A security administrator has configured FTP in passive mode. Which of the following ports should the security administrator allow on the firewall by default?
D. 21
Which of the following could cause a browser to display the message below?
"The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address."
B. HTTPS://127.0.01 was used instead of HTTPS://localhost.
A company that purchased an HVAC system for the datacenter is MOST concerned with which of the following?
D. Availability
Which of the following pseudocodes can be used to handle program exceptions?
B. If program module crashes, then restart program module.
Which of the following technologies uses multiple devices to share work?
C. Load balancing
Which of the following protocols uses an asymmetric key to open a session and then establishes a symmetric key for the remainder of the session?
C. HTTPS
Which of the following describes how Sara, an attacker, can send unwanted advertisements to a mobile device?
A. Bluejacking
Pete, an employee, is terminated from the company and the legal department needs documents from his encrypted hard drive. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task? (Select TWO).
A. Recovery agent
D. Key escrow
Which of the following mitigation strategies is established to reduce risk when performing updates to business critical systems?
C. Change management
Which of the following can Pete, a security administrator, use to distribute the processing effort when generating hashes for a password cracking program?
D. Clustering
Which of the following should Jane, a security administrator, perform before a hard drive is analyzed with forensics tools?
D. Capture system image
Jane, an administrator, needs to make sure the wireless network is not accessible from the parking area of their office. Which of the following would BEST help Jane when deploying a new access point?
B. Placement of antenna
Which of the following allows Pete, a security technician, to provide the MOST secure wireless implementation?
A. Implement WPA
Which of the following is a management control?
B. Written security policy
Which of the following security strategies allows a company to limit damage to internal systems and provides loss control?
D. Containment strategies
In order for Sara, a client, to logon to her desktop computer, she must provide her username, password, and a four digit PIN. Which of the following authentication methods is Sara using?
D. Single factor
Using proximity card readers instead of the traditional key punch doors would help to mitigate:
A. Shoulder surfing
Which of the following application attacks is used to gain access to SEH?
A. Buffer overflow
Which of the following is an authentication service that uses UDP as a transport medium?
B. RADIUS
Which of the following can be used on a smartphone to BEST protect against sensitive data loss if the device is stolen? (Select TWO).
E. Remote wipe
F. Device encryption
Jane, a security analyst, is reviewing logs from hosts across the Internet which her company uses to gatherdata on new malware. Which of the following is being implemented by Jane's company?
A. Honeynet
Which of the following should Pete, a security manager, implement to reduce the risk of employees working in collusion to embezzle funds from their company?
