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1. An organization is referencing NIST best practices for BCP creation while reviewing current internal organizational processes for mission-essential items.

Which of the following phases establishes the identification and prioritization of critical systems and functions?

2. An organization is preparing to migrate its production environment systems from an on-premises environment to a cloud service. The lead security architect is concerned that the organization's current methods for addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud environment.

Which of the following BEST describes the reason why traditional methods of addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud?

3. A company created an external application for its customers. A security researcher now reports that the application has a serious LDAP injection vulnerability that could be leveraged to bypass authentication and authorization.

Which of the following actions would BEST resolve the issue? (Choose two.)

4. Despite the fact that ten new API servers were added, the load across servers was heavy at peak times.

Which of the following infrastructure design changes would be BEST for the organization to implement to avoid these issues in the future?

5. During a remodel, a company’s computer equipment was moved to a secure storage room with cameras positioned on both sides of the door. The door is locked using a card reader issued by the security team, and only the security team and department managers have access to the room. The company wants to be able to identify any unauthorized individuals who enter the storage room by following an authorized employee.

Which of the following processes would BEST satisfy this requirement?

6. A company is preparing to deploy a global service.

Which of the following must the company do to ensure GDPR compliance? (Choose two.)

7. A SOC analyst is reviewing malicious activity on an external, exposed web server. During the investigation, the analyst determines specific traffic is not being logged, and there is no visibility from the WAF for the web application.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

8. A security analyst is reviewing the following output:

Which of the following would BEST mitigate this type of attack?

9. Which of the following terms refers to the delivery of encryption keys to a CASB or a third-party entity?

10. An organization is implementing a new identity and access management architecture with the following objectives:

Supporting MFA against on-premises infrastructure

Improving the user experience by integrating with SaaS applications

Applying risk-based policies based on location

Performing just-in-time provisioning

Which of the following authentication protocols should the organization implement to support these requirements?

11. Which of the following allows computation and analysis of data within a ciphertext without knowledge of the plaintext?

12. A company is looking to fortify its cybersecurity defenses and is focusing on its network infrastructure. The solution cannot affect the availability of the company’s services to ensure false positives do not drop legitimate traffic.

Which of the following would satisfy the requirement?

13. A disaster recovery team learned of several mistakes that were made during the last disaster recovery parallel test. Computational resources ran out at 70% of restoration of critical services.

Which of the following should be modified to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

14. A technician is reviewing the logs and notices a large number of files were transferred to remote sites over the course of three months. This activity then stopped. The files were transferred via TLS-protected HTTP sessions from systems that do not send traffic to those sites.

The technician will define this threat as:

15. A security engineer thinks the development team has been hard-coding sensitive environment variables in its code.

Which of the following would BEST secure the company’s CI/CD pipeline?

16. A small company recently developed prototype technology for a military program. The company’s security engineer is concerned about potential theft of the newly developed, proprietary information.

Which of the following should the security engineer do to BEST manage the threats proactively?

17. A security engineer has been asked to close all non-secure connections from the corporate network. The engineer is attempting to understand why the corporate UTM will not allow users to download email via IMAPS. The engineer formulates a theory and begins testing by creating the firewall ID 58, and users are able to download emails correctly by using IMAP instead.

The network comprises three VLANs:

The security engineer looks at the UTM firewall rules and finds the following:

Which of the following should the security engineer do to ensure IMAPS functions properly on the corporate user network?

18. A security analyst is reviewing network connectivity on a Linux workstation and examining the active TCP connections using the command line.

Which of the following commands would be the BEST to run to view only active Internet connections?

19. A shipping company that is trying to eliminate entire classes of threats is developing an SELinux policy to ensure its custom Android devices are used exclusively for package tracking.

After compiling and implementing the policy, in which of the following modes must the company ensure the devices are configured to run?

20. A security analyst receives an alert from the SIEM regarding unusual activity on an authorized public SSH jump server. To further investigate, the analyst pulls the event logs directly from /var/log/auth.log: graphic.ssh_auth_log.

Which of the following actions would BEST address the potential risks by the activity in the logs?

21. A high-severity vulnerability was found on a web application and introduced to the enterprise. The vulnerability could allow an unauthorized user to utilize an open-source library to view privileged user information. The enterprise is unwilling to accept the risk, but the developers cannot fix the issue right away.

Which of the following should be implemented to reduce the risk to an acceptable level until the issue can be fixed?

22. A security analyst discovered that the company’s WAF was not properly configured.

The main web server was breached, and the following payload was found in one of the malicious requests:

Which of the following would BEST mitigate this vulnerability?

23. A university issues badges through a homegrown identity management system to all staff and students. Each week during the summer, temporary summer school students arrive and need to be issued a badge to access minimal campus resources. The security team received a report from an outside auditor indicating the homegrown system is not consistent with best practices in the security field and leaves the institution vulnerable.

Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?

24. A customer reports being unable to connect to a website at www.test.com to consume services.

The customer notices the web application has the following published cipher suite:

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the customer’s inability to connect?

25. An IT administrator is reviewing all the servers in an organization and notices that a server is missing crucial practice against a recent exploit that could gain root access.

Which of the following describes the administrator’s discovery?

26. A security analyst is performing a vulnerability assessment on behalf of a client. The analyst must define what constitutes a risk to the organization.

Which of the following should be the analyst’s FIRST action?

27. While investigating a security event, an analyst finds evidence that a user opened an email attachment from an unknown source. Shortly after the user opened the attachment, a group of servers experienced a large amount of network and resource activity. Upon investigating the servers, the analyst discovers the servers were encrypted by ransomware that is demanding payment within 48 hours or all data will be destroyed. The company has no response plans for ransomware.

Which of the following is the NEXT step the analyst should take after reporting the incident to the management team?

28. A company plans to build an entirely remote workforce that utilizes a cloud-based infrastructure.

The Chief Information Security Officer asks the security engineer to design connectivity to meet the following requirements:

Only users with corporate-owned devices can directly access servers hosted by the cloud provider.

The company can control what SaaS applications each individual user can access.

User browser activity can be monitored.

Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?

29. During a system penetration test, a security engineer successfully gained access to a shell on a Linux host as a standard user and wants to elevate the privilege levels.

Which of the following is a valid Linux post-exploitation method to use to accomplish this goal?

30. A systems administrator is in the process of hardening the host systems before connecting to the network. The administrator wants to add protection to the boot loader to ensure the hosts are secure before the OS fully boots.

Which of the following would provide the BEST boot loader protection?

31. A developer is creating a new mobile application for a company. The application uses REST API and TLS 1.2 to communicate securely with the external back-end server. Due to this configuration, the company is concerned about HTTPS interception attacks.

Which of the following would be the BEST solution against this type of attack?

32. DRAG DROP

An organization is planning for disaster recovery and continuity of operations.

INSTRUCTIONS

Review the following scenarios and instructions. Match each relevant finding to the affected host. After associating scenario 3 with the appropriate host(s), click the host to select the appropriate corrective action for that finding.

Each finding may be used more than once.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simul-ation, please click the Reset All button.

33. A threat hunting team receives a report about possible APT activity in the network.

Which of the following threat management frameworks should the team implement?

34. Device event logs sources from MDM software as follows:

Which of the following security concerns and response actions would BEST address the risks posed by the device in the logs?

35. An energy company is required to report the average pressure of natural gas used over the past quarter. A PLC sends data to a historian server that creates the required reports.

Which of the following historian server locations will allow the business to get the required reports in an ОТ and IT environment?

36. Which of the following is a benefit of using steganalysis techniques in forensic response?

37. A new web server must comply with new secure-by-design principles and PCI DSS. This includes mitigating the risk of an on-path attack.

A security analyst is reviewing the following web server configuration:

Which of the following ciphers should the security analyst remove to support the business requirements?

38. A security analyst notices a number of SIEM events that show the following activity:

Which of the following response actions should the analyst take FIRST?

39. A company hired a third party to develop software as part of its strategy to be quicker to market. The company’s policy outlines the following requirements:

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The credentials used to publish production software to the container registry should be stored in a secure location.

Access should be restricted to the pipeline service account, without the ability for the third-party developer to read the credentials directly.

Which of the following would be the BEST recommendation for storing and monitoring access to these shared credentials?

40. A business stores personal client data of individuals residing in the EU in order to process requests for mortgage loan approvals.

Which of the following does the business’s IT manager need to consider?

41. A company publishes several APIs for customers and is required to use keys to segregate customer data sets.

Which of the following would be BEST to use to store customer keys?

42. An organization wants to perform a scan of all its systems against best practice security configurations.

Which of the following SCAP standards, when combined, will enable the organization to view each of the configuration checks in a machine-readable checklist format for fill automation? (Choose two.)

43. A company is migrating from company-owned phones to a BYOD strategy for mobile devices. The pilot program will start with the executive management team and be rolled out to the rest of the staff in phases. The company’s Chief Financial Officer loses a phone multiple times a year.

Which of the following will MOST likely secure the data on the lost device?

44. A security architect works for a manufacturing organization that has many different branch offices. The architect is looking for a way to reduce traffic and ensure the branch offices receive the latest copy of revoked certificates issued by the CA at the organization’s headquarters location. The solution must also have the lowest power requirement on the CA.

Which of the following is the BEST solution?

45. After a security incident, a network security engineer discovers that a portion of the company’s sensitive external traffic has been redirected through a secondary ISP that is not normally used.

Which of the following would BEST secure the routes while allowing the network to function in the event of a single provider failure?

46. A company’s SOC has received threat intelligence about an active campaign utilizing a specific vulnerability. The company would like to determine whether it is vulnerable to this active campaign.

Which of the following should the company use to make this determination?

47. A security engineer needs to recommend a solution that will meet the following requirements:

Identify sensitive data in the provider’s network

Maintain compliance with company and regulatory guidelines

Detect and respond to insider threats, privileged user threats, and compromised accounts Enforce datacentric security, such as encryption, tokenization, and access control

Which of the following solutions should the security engineer recommend to address these requirements?

48. A security engineer estimates the company’s popular web application experiences 100 attempted breaches per day. In the past four years, the company’s data has been breached two times.

Which of the following should the engineer report as the ARO for successful breaches?

49. Documents downloaded from websites must be scanned for malware.

Which of the following solutions should the network architect implement to meet the requirements?

50. A security engineer needs to implement a solution to increase the security posture of user endpoints by providing more visibility and control over local administrator accounts. The endpoint security team is overwhelmed with alerts and wants a solution that has minimal operational burdens. Additionally, the solution must maintain a positive user experience after implementation.

Which of the following is the BEST solution to meet these objectives?

51. An organization’s hunt team thinks a persistent threats exists and already has a foothold in the enterprise network.

Which of the following techniques would be BEST for the hunt team to use to entice the adversary to uncover malicious activity?

52. A junior developer is informed about the impact of new malware on an Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) CPU, and the code must be fixed accordingly. Based on the debug, the malware is able to insert itself in another process memory location.

Which of the following technologies can the developer enable on the ARM architecture to prevent this type of malware?

53. A company is implementing SSL inspection. During the next six months, multiple web applications that will be separated out with subdomains will be deployed.

Which of the following will allow the inspection of the data without multiple certificate deployments?

54. A small business requires a low-cost approach to theft detection for the audio recordings it produces and sells.

Which of the following techniques will MOST likely meet the business’s needs?

55. Clients are reporting slowness when attempting to access a series of load-balanced APIs that do not require authentication. The servers that host the APIs are showing heavy CPU utilization. No alerts are found on the WAFs sitting in front of the APIs.

Which of the following should a security engineer recommend to BEST remedy the performance issues in a timely manner?

56. An organization is considering a BYOD standard to support remote working. The first iteration of the solution will utilize only approved collaboration applications and the ability to move corporate data between those applications.

The security team has concerns about the following:

Unstructured data being exfiltrated after an employee leaves the organization

Data being exfiltrated as a result of compromised credentials

Sensitive information in emails being exfiltrated

Which of the following solutions should the security team implement to mitigate the risk of data loss?

57. A Chief Information Officer is considering migrating all company data to the cloud to save money on expensive SAN storage.

Which of the following is a security concern that will MOST likely need to be addressed during migration?

58. Due to locality and budget constraints, an organization’s satellite office has a lower bandwidth allocation than other offices in the organization. As a result, the local security infrastructure staff is assessing architectural options that will help preserve network bandwidth and increase speed to both internal and external resources while not sacrificing threat visibility.

Which of the following would be the BEST option to implement?

59. A security analyst is concerned that a malicious piece of code was downloaded on a Linux system. After some research, the analyst determines that the suspected piece of code is performing a lot of input/output (I/O) on the disk drive.

Based on the output above, from which of the following process IDs can the analyst begin an investigation?

60. Which of the following are risks associated with vendor lock-in? (Choose two.)

61. An organization recently experienced a ransomware attack. The security team leader is concerned about the attack reoccurring. However, no further security measures have been implemented.

Which of the following processes can be used to identify potential prevention recommendations?

62. A security architect is implementing a web application that uses a database back end. Prior to the production, the architect is concerned about the possibility of XSS attacks and wants to identify security controls that could be put in place to prevent these attacks.

Which of the following sources could the architect consult to address this security concern?

63. A security engineer was auditing an organization’s current software development practice and discovered that multiple open-source libraries were Integrated into the organization’s software. The organization currently performs SAST and DAST on the software it develops.

Which of the following should the organization incorporate into the SDLC to ensure the security of the open-source libraries?

64. A security analyst is investigating a possible buffer overflow attack.

The following output was found on a user’s workstation:

graphic.linux_randomization.prg

Which of the following technologies would mitigate the manipulation of memory segments?

65. An e-commerce company is running a web server on premises, and the resource utilization is usually less than 30%. During the last two holiday seasons, the server experienced performance issues because of too many connections, and several customers were not able to finalize purchase orders. The company is looking to change the server configuration to avoid this kind of performance issue.

Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective solution?

66. A company has decided to purchase a license for software that is used to operate a mission-critical process. The third-party developer is new to the industry but is delivering what the company needs at this time.

Which of the following BEST describes the reason why utilizing a source code escrow will reduce the operational risk to the company if the third party stops supporting the application?

67. A security analyst is researching containerization concepts for an organization. The analyst is concerned about potential resource exhaustion scenarios on the Docker host due to a single application that is overconsuming available resources.

Which of the following core Linux concepts BEST reflects the ability to limit resource allocation to containers?

68. A developer wants to maintain integrity to each module of a program and ensure the code cannot be altered by malicious users.

Which of the following would be BEST for the developer to perform? (Choose two.)

69. A company is moving most of its customer-facing production systems to the cloud-facing production systems to the cloud. IaaS is the service model being used. The Chief Executive Officer is concerned about the type of encryption available and requires the solution must have the highest level of security.

Which of the following encryption methods should the cloud security engineer select during the implementation phase?

70. A vulnerability analyst identified a zero-day vulnerability in a company’s internally developed software. Since the current vulnerability management system does not have any checks for this vulnerability, an engineer has been asked to create one.

Which of the following would be BEST suited to meet these requirements?

71. An organization recently started processing, transmitting, and storing its customers’ credit card information. Within a week of doing so, the organization suffered a massive breach that resulted in the exposure of the customers’ information.

Which of the following provides the BEST guidance for protecting such information while it is at rest and in transit?

72. Which of the following is the MOST important security objective when applying cryptography to control messages that tell an ICS how much electrical power to output?

73. A company wants to protect its intellectual property from theft. The company has already applied ACLs and DACs.

Which of the following should the company use to prevent data theft?

74. A satellite communications ISP frequently experiences outages and degraded modes of operation over one of its legacy satellite links due to the use of deprecated hardware and software. Three days per week, on average, a contracted company must follow a checklist of 16 different high-latency commands that must be run in serial to restore nominal performance. The ISP wants this process to be automated.

Which of the following techniques would be BEST suited for this requirement?

75. A company processes data subject to NDAs with partners that define the processing and storage constraints for the covered data. The agreements currently do not permit moving the covered data to the cloud, and the company would like to renegotiate the terms of the agreements.

Which of the following would MOST likely help the company gain consensus to move the data to the cloud?

76. Ransomware encrypted the entire human resources fileshare for a large financial institution. Security operations personnel were unaware of the activity until it was too late to stop it. The restoration will take approximately four hours, and the last backup occurred 48 hours ago. The management team has indicated that the RPO for a disaster recovery event for this data classification is 24 hours.

Based on RPO requirements, which of the following recommendations should the management team make?

77. A company undergoing digital transformation is reviewing the resiliency of a CSP and is concerned about meeting SLA requirements in the event of a CSP incident.

Which of the following would be BEST to proceed with the transformation?

78. A company has hired a security architect to address several service outages on the endpoints due to new malware. The Chief Executive Officer’s laptop was impacted while working from home. The goal is to prevent further endpoint disruption. The edge network is protected by a web proxy.

Which of the following solutions should the security architect recommend?

79. All staff at a company have started working remotely due to a global pandemic. To transition to remote work, the company has migrated to SaaS collaboration tools.

The human resources department wants to use these tools to process sensitive information but is concerned the data could be:

Leaked to the media via printing of the documents

Sent to a personal email address

Accessed and viewed by systems administrators

Uploaded to a file storage site

Which of the following would mitigate the department’s concerns?

80. A home automation company just purchased and installed tools for its SOC to enable incident identification and response on software the company develops.

The company would like to prioritize defenses against the following attack scenarios:

Unauthorized insertions into application development environments Authorized insiders making unauthorized changes to environment configurations

Which of the following actions will enable the data feeds needed to detect these types of attacks on development environments? (Choose two.)

81. An enterprise is deploying APIs that utilize a private key and a public key to ensure the connection string is protected. To connect to the API, customers must use the private key.

Which of the following would BEST secure the REST API connection to the database while preventing the use of a hard-coded string in the request string?

82. An application server was recently upgraded to prefer TLS 1.3, and now users are unable to connect their clients to the server.

Attempts to reproduce the error are confirmed, and clients are reporting the following:

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

Which of the following is MOST likely the root cause?

83. An organization is designing a network architecture that must meet the following requirements:

Users will only be able to access predefined services.

Each user will have a unique allow list defined for access.

The system will construct one-to-one subject/object access paths dynamically.

Which of the following architectural designs should the organization use to meet these requirements?

84. A company’s claims processed department has a mobile workforce that receives a large number of email submissions from personal email addresses. An employees recently received an email that approved to be claim form, but it installed malicious software on the employee’s laptop when was opened.

85. A company suspects a web server may have been infiltrated by a rival corporation.

The security engineer reviews the web server logs and finds the following:

The security engineer looks at the code with a developer, and they determine the log entry is created when the following line is run:

Which of the following is an appropriate security control the company should implement?

86. A company that uses AD is migrating services from LDAP to secure LDAP. During the pilot phase, services are not connecting properly to secure LDAP.

Block is an except of output from the troubleshooting session:

Which of the following BEST explains why secure LDAP is not working? (Select TWO.)

87. A threat analyst notices the following URL while going through the HTTP logs.

Which of the following attack types is the threat analyst seeing?

88. The Chief information Officer (CIO) of a large bank, which uses multiple third-party organizations to deliver a service, is concerned about the handling and security of customer data by the parties.

Which of the following should be implemented to BEST manage the risk?

89. Company A is establishing a contractual with Company B. The terms of the agreement are formalized in a document covering the payment terms, limitation of liability, and intellectual property rights.

Which of the following documents will MOST likely contain these elements

90. A company requires a task to be carried by more than one person concurrently.

This is an example of:

91. A health company has reached the physical and computing capabilities in its datacenter, but the computing demand continues to increase. The infrastructure is fully virtualized and runs custom and commercial healthcare application that process sensitive health and payment information.

Which of the following should the company implement to ensure it can meet the computing demand while complying with healthcare standard for virtualization and cloud computing?

92. A developer implement the following code snippet.

Which of the following vulnerabilities does the code snippet resolve?

93. A security analyst is investigating a series of suspicious emails by employees to the security team. The email appear to come from a current business partner and do not contain images or URLs. No images or URLs were stripped from the message by the security tools the company uses instead, the emails only include the following in plain text.

Which of the following should the security analyst perform?

94. A financial services company wants to migrate its email services from on-premises servers to a cloud-based email solution. The Chief information Security Officer (CISO) must brief board of directors on the potential security concerns related to this migration.

The board is concerned about the following.

* Transactions being required by unauthorized individual

* Complete discretion regarding client names, account numbers, and investment information.

* Malicious attacker using email to distribute malware and ransom ware.

* Exfiltration of sensitivity company information.

The cloud-based email solution will provide an6-malware, reputation-based scanning, signature-based scanning, and sandboxing.

Which of the following is the BEST option to resolve the board’s concerns for this email migration?