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1. A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based.

Which of the following meets these requirements?

2. A security analyst reviews domain activity logs and notices the following:

Which of the following is the best explanation for what the security analyst has discovered?

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

4. A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors.

Which of the following should the systems administrator use?

5. A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system.

Which of the following steps should be taken first?

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

7. A U.S.-based cloud-hosting provider wants to expand its data centers to new international locations.

Which of the following should the hosting provider consider first?

8. A technician wants to improve the situational and environmental awareness of existing users as they transition from remote to in-office work.

Which of the following is the best option?

9. A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks.

SIEM alerts have not yet been configured.

Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?

10. 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?

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

12. You are security administrator investigating a potential infection on a network.

Click on each host and firewall. Review all logs to determine which host originated the Infecton and then deny each remaining hosts clean or infected.

13. A security analyst is reviewing alerts in the SIEM related to potential malicious network traffic coming from an employee’s corporate laptop. The security analyst has determined that additional data about the executable running on the machine is necessary to continue the investigation.

Which of the following logs should the analyst use as a data source?

14. An administrator was notified that a user logged in remotely after hours and copied large amounts of data to a personal device.

Which of the following best describes the user’s activity?

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

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

17. An employee clicked a link in an email from a payment website that asked the employee to update contact information. The employee entered the log-in information but received a “page not found” error message.

Which of the following types of social engineering attacks occurred?

18. A security analyst and the management team are reviewing the organizational performance of a recent phishing campaign. The user click-through rate exceeded the acceptable risk threshold, and the management team wants to reduce the impact when a user clicks on a link in a phishing message.

Which of the following should the analyst do?

19. The management team notices that new accounts that are set up manually do not always have correct access or permissions.

Which of the following automation techniques should a systems administrator use to streamline account creation?

20. Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation.

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21. A penetration tester begins an engagement by performing port and service scans against the client environment according to the rules of engagement.

Which of the following reconnaissance types is the tester performing?

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

23. An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days.

Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?

24. A security team is reviewing the findings in a report that was delivered after a third party performed a penetration test. One of the findings indicated that a web application form field is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Which of the following application security techniques should the security analyst recommend the developer implement to prevent this vulnerability?

25. A company’s web filter is configured to scan the URL for strings and deny access when matches are found.

Which of the following search strings should an analyst employ to prohibit access to non-encrypted websites?

26. An analyst is evaluating the implementation of Zero Trust principles within the data plane.

Which of the following would be most relevant for the analyst to evaluate?

27. A security practitioner completes a vulnerability assessment on a company’s network and finds several vulnerabilities, which the operations team remediates.

Which of the following should be done next?

28. A company decided to reduce the cost of its annual cyber insurance policy by removing the coverage for ransomware attacks.

Which of the following analysis elements did the company most likely use in making this decision?

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

30. Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?