Which of the following is the FIRST step in responding …
A security analyst, while doing a security scan using packet capture security tools, noticed large volumes of data images of company products being exfiltrated to
foreign IP addresses. Which of the following is the FIRST step in responding to scan results?
Which of the following wireless protocols should be imp…
A company requires that all wireless communication be compliant with the advanced encryption standard (AES). The current wireless infrastructure implements
WEP + TKIP. Which of the following wireless protocols should be implemented?
Which of the following attacks did the security consult…
A corporate wireless guest network uses an open SSID with a captive portal to authenticate guest users. Guests can obtain their portal password at the service
desk. A security consultant alerts the administrator that the captive portal is easily bypassed, as long as one other wireless guest user is on the network. Which of
the following attacks did the security consultant use?
Which of the following is the best course of action for…
The security administrator receives a service ticket saying a host based firewall is interfering with the operation of a new application that is being tested in
development. The administrator asks for clarification on which ports need to be open. The software vendor replies that it could use up to 20 ports and many
customers have disabled the host based firewall. After examining the system the administrator sees several ports that are open for database and application
servers that only used locally. The vendor continues to recommend disabling the host based firewall. Which of the following is the best course of action for the
administrator to take?
Which of the following controls would be MOST appropria…
A chief information officer (CIO) is concerned about PII contained in the organization’s various data warehouse platforms. Since not all of the PII transferred to the
organization is required for proper operation of the data warehouse application, the CIO requests the needed PII data be parsed and securely discarded. Which of
the following controls would be MOST appropriate in this scenario?
This is an example of:
An employee finds a usb drive in the employee lunch room and plugs the drive into a shared workstation to determine who owns the drive. When the drive is
inserted, a command prompt opens and a script begins to run. The employee notifies a technician who determines that data on a server have been compromised.
This is an example of:
A security administrator suspects that the users are th…
Employees are reporting that they have been receiving a large number of emails advertising products and services. Links in the email direct the users’ browsers to
the websites for the items being offered. No reports of increased virus activity have been observed. A security administrator suspects that the users are the targets
of:
Which of the following represents the MOST relevant tec…
A security administrator is selecting an MDM solution for an organization, which has strict security requirements for the confidentiality of its data on end user
devices. The organization decides to allow BYOD, but requires that users wishing to participate agree to the following specific device configurations; camera
disablement, password enforcement, and application whitelisting. The organization must be able to support a device portfolio of differing mobile operating systems.
Which of the following represents the MOST relevant technical security criteria for the MDM?
Which of the following best describes the incorporation…
Joe has hired several new security administrators and have been explaining the design of the company’s network. He has described the position and descriptions of
the company’s firewalls, IDS sensors, antivirus server, DMZs, and HIPS. Which of the following best describes the incorporation of these elements?
Which of the following ciphers should be chosen?
a company is deploying an new video conferencing system to be used by the executive team for board meetings. The security engineer has been asked to choose
the strongest available asymmetric cipher to be used for encryption of board papers, and chose the strongest available stream cipher to be configured for video
streaming. Which of the following ciphers should be chosen? (Select two)