CompTIA Security+ Exam 2021 SY0-601 Real Questions

1. A cybersecurity manager has scheduled biannual meetings with the IT team and department leaders to discuss how they would respond to hypothetical cyberattacks. During these meetings, the manager presents a scenario and injects additional information throughout the session to replicate what might occur in a dynamic cybersecurity event involving the company, its facilities, its data, and its staff.

Which of the following describes what the manager is doing?

2. A company has drafted an insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices.

Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

3. Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

4. Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company’s IT/security operations?

5. A security analyst receives a SIEM alert that someone logged in to the appadmin test account, which is only used for the early detection of attacks.

The security analyst then reviews the following application log:

Which of the following can the security analyst conclude?

6. A recently discovered zero-day exploit utilizes an unknown vulnerability in the SMB network protocol to rapidly infect computers. Once infected, computers are encrypted and held for ransom.

Which of the following would BEST prevent this attack from reoccurring?

7. Which of the following would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hot-spots?

8. A company’s bank has reported that multiple corporate credit cards have been stolen over the past several weeks. The bank has provided the names of the affected cardholders to the company’s forensics team to assist in the cyber-incident investigation.

An incident responder learns the following information:

– The timeline of stolen card numbers corresponds closely with affected users making Internet-based purchases from diverse websites via enterprise desktop PCs.

– All purchase connections were encrypted, and the company uses an SSL inspection proxy for the inspection of encrypted traffic of the hardwired network.

– Purchases made with corporate cards over the corporate guest WiFi network,

where no SSL inspection occurs, were unaffected.

Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?

9. A company recently set up an e-commerce portal to sell its product online. The company wants to start accepting credit cards for payment, which requires compliance with a security standard.

Which of the following standards must the company comply with before accepting credit cards on its e-commerce platform?

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

11. A network administrator needs to build out a new datacenter, with a focus on resiliency and uptime.

Which of the following would BEST meet this objective? (Choose two.)

12. An employee has been charged with fraud and is suspected of using corporate assets.

As authorities collect evidence, and to preserve the admissibility of the evidence, which of the following forensic techniques should be used?

13. 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?

14. Phishing and spear-phishing attacks have been occurring more frequently against a company’s staff.

Which of the following would MOST likely help mitigate this issue?

15. A security analyst is reviewing a new website that will soon be made publicly available.

The analyst sees the following in the URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=77276554&loc=us

The analyst then sends an internal user a link to the new website for testing purposes, and when the user clicks the link, the analyst is able to browse the website with the following URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=98988475&loc=us

Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

16. A network engineer needs to build a solution that will allow guests at the company’s headquarters to access the Internet via WiFi. This solution should not allow access to the internal corporate network, but it should require guests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the Internet.

Which of the following should the engineer employ to meet these requirements?

17. Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

18. Which of the following BEST explains the reason why a server administrator would place a document named password.txt on the desktop of an administrator account on a server?

19. Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but nothing else?

20. A company processes highly sensitive data and senior management wants to protect the sensitive data by utilizing classification labels.

Which of the following access control schemes would be BEST for the company to implement?

21. Which of the following will MOST likely adversely impact the operations of unpatched traditional programmable-logic controllers, running a back-end LAMP server and OT systems with human-management interfaces that are accessible over the Internet via a web interface? (Choose two.)

22. A small business just recovered from a ransomware attack against its file servers by purchasing the decryption keys from the attackers. The issue was triggered by a phishing email and the IT administrator wants to ensure it does not happen again.

Which of the following should the IT administrator do FIRST after recovery?

23. An attacked is attempting to exploit users by creating a fake website with the URL www.validwebsite.com. The attacker’s intent is to imitate the look and feel of a legitimate website to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users.

Which of the following social-engineering attacks does this describe?

24. Which of the following is a team of people dedicated testing the effectiveness of organizational security programs by emulating the techniques of potential attackers?

25. To reduce costs and overhead, an organization wants to move from an on-premises email solution to a cloud-based email solution. At this time, no other services will be moving.

Which of the following cloud models would BEST meet the needs of the organization?

26. A security engineer at an offline government facility is concerned about the validity of an SSL certificate. The engineer wants to perform the fastest check with the least delay to determine if the certificate has been revoked.

Which of the following would BEST these requirement?

27. A security analyst needs to complete an assessment. The analyst is logged into a server and must use native tools to map services running on it to the server’s listening ports.

Which of the following tools can BEST accomplish this talk?

28. On which of the following is the live acquisition of data for forensic analysis MOST dependent? (Choose two.)

29. 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?

30. During a routine scan of a wireless segment at a retail company, a security administrator discovers several devices are connected to the network that do not match the company’s naming convention and are not in the asset Inventory. WiFi access Is protected with 255-Wt encryption via WPA2. Physical access to the company’s facility requires two-factor authentication using a badge and a passcode.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to find and remediate the Issue? (Select TWO).

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

32. An organization routes all of its traffic through a VPN Most users are remote and connect into a corporate datacenter that houses confidential information There is a firewall at the Internet border followed by a DIP appliance, the VPN server and the datacenter itself.

Which of the following is the WEAKEST design element?

33. Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe’s identity before sending him the prize.

Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?

34. A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public area.

Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this breach?

35. A security analyst discovers several .jpg photos from a cellular phone during a forensics investigation involving a compromised system. The analyst runs a forensics tool to gather file metadata.

Which of the following would be part of the images if all the metadata is still intact?

36. A security analyst discovers that a company username and password database was posted on an internet forum. The username and passwords are stored in plan text.

Which of the following would mitigate the damage done by this type of data exfiltration in the future?

37. Which of the following would be BEST to establish between organizations that have agreed cooperate and are engaged in early discussion to define the responsibilities of each party, but do not want to establish a contractually binding agreement?

38. A RAT that was used to compromise an organization’s banking credentials was found on a user’s computer. The RAT evaded antivirus detection. It was installed by a user who has local administrator rights to the system as part of a remote management tool set.

Which of the following recommendations would BEST prevent this from reoccurring?

39. Users have been issued smart cards that provide physical access to a building. The cards also contain tokens that can be used to access information systems. Users can log m to any thin client located throughout the building and see the same desktop each time.

Which of the following technologies are being utilized to provide these capabilities? (Select TWO)

40. A malicious actor recently penetration a company’s network and moved laterally to the datacenter. Upon investigation, a forensics firm wants to know was in the memory on the compromised server.

Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?

41. A security administrator currently spends a large amount of time on common security tasks, such aa report generation, phishing investigations, and user provisioning and deprovisioning This prevents the administrator from spending time on other security projects. The business does not have the budget to add more staff members.

Which of the following should the administrator implement?

42. A security analyst needs to be proactive in understand the types of attacks that could potentially target the company’s execute.

Which of the following intelligence sources should to security analyst review?

43. Which of the following organizational policies are MOST likely to detect fraud that is being conducted by existing employees? (Select TWO).

44. A user enters a password to log in to a workstation and is then prompted to enter an authentication code.

Which of the following MFA factors or attributes are being utilized in the authentication process? (Select TWO).

45. A network engineer has been asked to investigate why several wireless barcode scanners and wireless computers in a warehouse have intermittent connectivity to the shipping server. The barcode scanners and computers are all on forklift trucks and move around the warehouse during their regular use.

Which of the following should the engineer do to determine the issue? (Choose two.)

46. Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows on hosts?

47. A user recently attended an exposition and received some digital promotional materials The user later noticed blue boxes popping up and disappearing on the computer, and reported receiving several spam emails, which the user did not open.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the reported issue?

48. A company is upgrading its wireless infrastructure to WPA2-Enterprise using EAP-TLS.

Which of the following must be part of the security architecture to achieve AAA? (Select TWO)

49. A company recently experienced an attack in which a malicious actor was able to exfiltrate data by cracking stolen passwords, using a rainbow table the sensitive data.

Which of the following should a security engineer do to prevent such an attack in the future?

50. A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better.

51. A company’s Chief Information Office (CIO) is meeting with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to plan some activities to enhance the skill levels of the company’s developers.

Which of the following would be MOST suitable for training the developers’?

52. A database administrator needs to ensure all passwords are stored in a secure manner, so the administrate adds randomly generated data to each password before string.

Which of the following techniques BEST explains this action?

53. A pharmaceutical sales representative logs on to a laptop and connects to the public WiFi to check emails and update reports.

Which of the following would be BEST to prevent other devices on the network from directly accessing the laptop? (Choose two.)

54. Which of the following control sets should a well-written BCP include? (Select THREE)

55. A smart switch has the ability to monitor electrical levels and shut off power to a building in the event of power surge or other fault situation. The switch was installed on a wired network in a hospital and is monitored by the facilities department via a cloud application. The security administrator isolated the switch on a separate VLAN and set up a patch routine.

Which of the following steps should also be taken to harden the smart switch?

56. A company recently moved sensitive videos between on-premises. Company-owned websites. The company then learned the videos had been uploaded and shared to the internet.

Which of the following would MOST likely allow the company to find the cause?

57. In which of the following common use cases would steganography be employed?

58. An end user reports a computer has been acting slower than normal for a few weeks. During an investigation, an analyst determines the system is sending the user’s email address and a ten-digit number to an IP address once a day.

The only recent log entry regarding the user’s computer is the following:

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

59. A cybersecurity department purchased o new PAM solution. The team is planning to randomize the service account credentials of the Windows server first.

Which of the following would be the BEST method to increase the security on the Linux server?

60. Phishing and spear-phishing attacks have been occurring more frequently against a company’s staff.

Which of the following would MOST likely help mitigate this issue?

61. An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organization already uses a smart card and password.

Which of the following would meet the organization’s needs for a third factor?

62. Which of the following will MOST likely cause machine learning and Al-enabled systems to operate with unintended consequences?

63. A manufacturer creates designs for very high security products that are required to be protected and controlled by the government regulations. These designs are not accessible by corporate networks or the Internet.

Which of the following is the BEST solution to protect these designs?

64. A security auditor is reviewing vulnerability scan data provided by an internal security team.

Which of the following BEST indicates that valid credentials were used?

65. After a ransomware attack a forensics company needs to review a cryptocurrency transaction between the victim and the attacker.

Which of the following will the company MOST likely review to trace this transaction?

66. A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the amount of PII that is stored locally on each salesperson’s laptop. The sales department has a higher-than-average rate of lost equipment.

Which of the following recommendations would BEST address the CSO’s concern?

67. A company has decided to move its operations to the cloud. It wants to utilize technology that will prevent users from downloading company applications for personal use, restrict data that is uploaded, and have visibility into which applications are being used across the company.

Which of the following solutions will BEST meet these requirements?

68. 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 attack is MOST likely being conducted?

69. A network technician is installing a guest wireless network at a coffee shop. When a customer purchases an Item, the password for the wireless network is printed on the recent so the customer can log in.

Which of the following will the technician MOST likely configure to provide the highest level of security with the least amount of overhead?

70. When used at the design stage, which of the following improves the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of a database?

71. Employees are having issues accessing the company’s website. Some employees report very slow performance, while others cannot the website at all. The web and security administrators search the logs and find millions of half-open connections to port 443 on the web server. Further analysis reveals thousands of different source IPs initiating this traffic.

Which of the following attacks is MOST likely occurring?

72. A company has determined that if its computer-based manufacturing is not functioning for 12 consecutive hours, it will lose more money that it costs to maintain the equipment.

Which of the following must be less than 12 hours to maintain a positive total cost of ownership?

73. Which of the following environments minimizes end-user disruption and is MOST likely to be used to assess the impacts of any database migrations or major system changes by using the final version of the code?

74. Which of the following ISO standards is certified for privacy?

75. A network administrator needs to build out a new datacenter, with a focus on resiliency and uptime.

Which of the following would BEST meet this objective? (Choose two.)

76. An organization has implemented a policy requiring the use of conductive metal lockboxes for personal electronic devices outside of a secure research lab.

Which of the following did the organization determine to be the GREATEST risk to intellectual property when creating this policy?

77. A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate-owned mobile devices.

Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company’s data?

78. Several employees return to work the day after attending an industry trade show. That same day, the security manager notices several malware alerts coming from each of the employee’s workstations. The security manager investigates but finds no signs of an attack on the perimeter firewall or the NIDS.

Which of the following is MOST likely causing the malware alerts?

79. The IT department’s on-site developer has been with the team for many years. Each time an application is released, the security team is able to identify multiple vulnerabilities.

Which of the following would BEST help the team ensure the application is ready to be released to production?

80. 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? (Select TWO).

81. A recently discovered zero-day exploit utilizes an unknown vulnerability in the SMB network

protocol to rapidly infect computers. Once infected, computers are encrypted and held for ransom.

Which of the following would BEST prevent this attack from reoccurring?

82. A system administrator needs to implement an access control scheme that will allow an object’s access policy be determined by its owner.

Which of the following access control schemes BEST fits the requirements?

83. An information security incident recently occurred at an organization, and the organization was required to report the incident to authorities and notify the affected parties. When the organization’s customers became of aware of the incident, some reduced their orders or stopped placing orders entirely.

Which of the following is the organization experiencing?

84. A security engineer needs to implement an MDM solution that complies with the corporate mobile device policy.

The policy states that in order for mobile users to access corporate resources on their devices the following requirements must be met:

• Mobile device OSs must be patched up to the latest release

• A screen lock must be enabled (passcode or biometric)

• Corporate data must be removed if the device is reported lost or stolen

Which of the following controls should the security engineer configure? (Select TWO)

85. The IT department at a university is concerned about professors placing servers on the university network in an attempt to bypass security controls.

Which of the following BEST represents this type of threat?

86. An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.

Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

87. An attacker is trying to gain access by installing malware on a website that is known to be visited by the target victims.

Which of the following is the attacker MOST likely attempting?

88. 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 requirements?

89. Following a prolonged datacenter outage that affected web-based sales, a company has decided to move its operations to a private cloud solution.

The security team has received the following requirements:

• There must be visibility into how teams are using cloud-based services.

• The company must be able to identify when data related to payment cards is being sent to the cloud.

• Data must be available regardless of the end user’s geographic location

• Administrators need a single pane-of-glass view into traffic and trends.

Which of the following should the security analyst recommend?

90. Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

91. An auditor is performing an assessment of a security appliance with an embedded OS that was vulnerable during the last two assessments.

Which of the following BEST explains the appliance’s vulnerable state?

92. 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?

93. A cybersecurity analyst reviews the log files from a web server and sees a series of files that indicates a directory-traversal attack has occurred.

Which of the following is the analyst MOST likely seeing?

A)

B)

C)

D)

94. A security analyst needs to determine how an attacker was able to use User3 to gain a foothold within a company’s network. The company’s lockout policy requires that an account be locked out for a minimum of 15 minutes after three unsuccessful attempts.

While reviewing the log files, the analyst discovers the following:

Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred?

95. A security analyst is logged into a Windows file server and needs to see who is accessing files and from which computers.

Which of the following tools should the analyst use?

96. A Chief Security Office’s (CSO’s) key priorities are to improve preparation, response, and recovery practices to minimize system downtime and enhance organizational resilience to ransomware attacks.

Which of the following would BEST meet the CSO’s objectives?

97. A security manager for a retailer needs to reduce the scope of a project to comply with PCI DSS. The PCI data is located in different offices than where credit cards are accepted. All the offices are connected via MPLS back to the primary datacenter.

Which of the following should the security manager implement to achieve the objective?

98. Which of the following describes the BEST approach for deploying application patches?

99. A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture.

Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

100. Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

101. Which of the following provides the BEST protection for sensitive information and data stored in cloud-based services but still allows for full functionality and searchability of data within the cloud-based services?

102. Which of the following incident response steps involves actions to protect critical systems while maintaining business operations?

103. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about the organization’s ability to continue business operation in the event of a prolonged DDoS attack on its local datacenter that consumes database resources.

Which of the following will the CISO MOST likely recommend to mitigate this risk?

104. A company is implementing MFA for all applications that store sensitive data. The IT manager wants MFA to be non-disruptive and user friendly.

Which of the following technologies should the IT manager use when implementing MFA?

105. Which of the following BEST explains the reason why a server administrator would place a document named password.txt on the desktop of an administrator account on a server?

106. A security analyst receives a SIEM alert that someone logged in to the appadmin test account, which is only used for the early detection of attacks.

The security analyst then reviews the following application log:

Which of the following can the security analyst conclude?

107. A security assessment determines DES and 3DES at still being used on recently deployed production servers.

Which of the following did the assessment identify?

108. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of an insurance company received an email from Ann, the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), requesting a transfer of $10,000 to an account. The email states Ann is on vacation and has lost her purse, containing cash and credit cards.

Which of the following social-engineering techniques is the attacker using?

109. A security analyst needs to perform periodic vulnerability scans on production systems.

Which of the following scan Types would produce the BEST vulnerability scan report?

110. A security modern may have occurred on the desktop PC of an organization’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) A duplicate copy of the CEO’s hard drive must be stored securely to ensure appropriate forensic processes and the chain of custody are followed.

Which of the following should be performed to accomplish this task?

111. A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the seventy levels of the organization’s vulnerabilities.

Which of the following would BEST meet this need?

112. 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’? (Select TWO)

113. An organization is concerned that is hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.

Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

114. A security analyst is investigation an incident that was first reported as an issue connecting to network shares and the internet.

While reviewing logs and tool output, the analyst sees the following:

Which of the following attacks has occurred?

115. The CSIRT is reviewing the lessons learned from a recent incident. A worm was able to spread unhindered throughout the network and infect a large number of computers and servers.

Which of the following recommendations would be BEST to mitigate the impacts of a similar incident in the future?

116. A security administrator suspects there may be unnecessary services running on a server.

Which of the following tools will the administrator MOST likely use to confirm the suspicions?

117. A recent audit uncovered a key finding regarding the use of a specific encryption standard in a web application that is used to communicate with business customers. Due to the technical limitations of its customers the company is unable to upgrade the encryption standard.

Which of the following types of controls should be used to reduce the risk created by this scenario?

118. 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?

119. Which of the following job roles would sponsor data quality and data entry initiatives that ensure business and regulatory requirements are met?

120. Which of the following types of controls is a turnstile?

121. Which of the following allows for functional test data to be used in new systems for testing and training purposes to protect the read data?

122. A network engineer needs to build a solution that will allow guests at the company’s headquarters to access the Internet via WiFi. This solution should not allow access to the internal corporate network, but it should require guests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the Internet.

Which of the following should the engineer employ to meet these requirements?

123. Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company’s IT/security operations?

124. In which of the following risk management strategies would cybersecurity insurance be used?

125. A company’s Chief Information Office (CIO) is meeting with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to plan some activities to enhance the skill levels of the company’s developers.

Which of the following would be MOST suitable for training the developers’?

126. A manufacturer creates designs for very high security products that are required to be protected and controlled by the government regulations. These designs are not accessible by corporate networks or the Internet.

Which of the following is the BEST solution to protect these designs?

127. A company has drafted an insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices.

Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

128. An organization just experienced a major cyberattack modem. The attack was well coordinated sophisticated and highly skilled.

Which of the following targeted the organization?

129. Company engineers regularly participate in a public Internet forum with other engineers throughout the industry.

Which of the following tactics would an attacker MOST likely use in this scenario?

130. Which of the following relets to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

131. Which of the following would be BEST to establish between organizations that have agreed cooperate and are engaged in early discussion to define the responsibilities of each party, but do not want to establish a contractually binding agreement?

132. A security administrator checks the table of a network switch, which shows the following output:

Which of the following is happening to this switch?

133. A system administrator needs to implement an access control scheme that will allow an object’s access policy be determined by its owner.

Which of the following access control schemes BEST fits the requirements?

134. An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organization already uses a smart card and password.

Which of the following would meet the organization’s needs for a third factor?

135. Which of the following BEST describes a security exploit for which a vendor patch is not readily available?

136. A network administrator needs to build out a new datacenter, with a focus on resiliency and uptime.

Which of the following would BEST meet this objective? (Choose two.)

137. A financial organization has adopted a new secure, encrypted document-sharing application to help with its customer loan process. Some important PII needs to be shared across this new platform, but it is getting blocked by the DLP systems.

Which of the following actions will BEST allow the PII to be shared with the secure application without compromising the organization’s security posture?

138. An organization has implemented a policy requiring the use of conductive metal lockboxes for personal electronic devices outside of a secure research lab.

Which of the following did the organization determine to be the GREATEST risk to intellectual property when creating this policy?

139. Which of the following organizational policies are MOST likely to detect fraud that is being conducted by existing employees? (Select TWO).

140. A security analyst has been asked to investigate a situation after the SOC started to receive alerts from the SIEM.

The analyst first looks at the domain controller and finds the following events:

To better understand what is going on, the analyst runs a command and receives the following output:

Based on the analyst’s findings, which of the following attacks is being executed?

141. Which of the following scenarios BEST describes a risk reduction technique?

142. An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or data theft.

Which of the following would be the MOST acceptable?

143. An end user reports a computer has been acting slower than normal for a few weeks. During an investigation, an analyst determines the system is sending the user’s email address and a ten-digit number to an IP address once a day.

The only recent log entry regarding the user’s computer is the following:

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the issue?

144. A company processes highly sensitive data and senior management wants to protect the sensitive data by utilizing classification labels.

Which of the following access control schemes would be BEST for the company to implement?

145. A company provides mobile devices to its users to permit access to email and enterprise applications. The company recently started allowing users to select from several different vendors and device models.

When configuring the MDM, which of the following is a key security implication of this heterogeneous device approach?

146. An engineer wants to access sensitive data from a corporate-owned mobile device. Personal data is not allowed on the device.

Which of the following MDM configurations must be considered when the engineer travels for business?

147. A technician needs to prevent data loss in a laboratory. The laboratory is not connected to any external networks.

Which of the following methods would BEST prevent the exfiltration of data? (Select TWO).

148. A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the seventy levels of the organization’s vulnerabilities.

Which of the following would BEST meet this need?

149. A cybersecurity administrator needs to add disk redundancy for a critical server. The solution must have a two- drive failure for better fault tolerance.

Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator select?

150. Which of the following scenarios would make a DNS sinkhole effective in thwarting an attack?

151. A security administrator needs to create a RAIS configuration that is focused on high read speeds and fault tolerance. It is unlikely that multiple drivers will fail simultaneously.

Which of the following RAID configurations should the administration use?

152. A symmetric encryption algorithm Is BEST suited for:

153. A security analyst is investigation an incident that was first reported as an issue connecting to network shares and the internet, While reviewing logs and tool output, the analyst sees the following:

Which of the following attacks has occurred?

154. A software developer needs to perform code-execution testing, black-box testing, and non-functional testing on a new product before its general release.

Which of the following BEST describes the tasks the developer is conducting?

155. An analyst needs to identify the applications a user was running and the files that were open before the user’s computer was shut off by holding down the power button.

Which of the following would MOST likely contain that information?

156. A cybersecurity analyst reviews the log files from a web server and sees a series of files that indicates a directory-traversal attack has occurred.

Which of the following is the analyst MOST likely seeing?

A)

B)

C)

D)

157. A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture.

Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

158. A security analyst reviews the datacenter access logs for a fingerprint scanner and notices an abundance of errors that correlate with users’ reports of issues accessing the facility.

Which of the following MOST likely the cause of the cause of the access issues?

159. A company’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) recently warned the security manager that the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is planning to publish a controversial option article in a national newspaper, which may result in new cyberattacks.

Which of the following would be BEST for the security manager to use in a threat mode?

160. A university with remote campuses, which all use different service providers, loses Internet connectivity across all locations. After a few minutes, Internet and VoIP services are restored, only to go offline again at random intervals, typically within four minutes of services being restored. Outages continue throughout the day, impacting all inbound and outbound connections and services. Services that are limited to the local LAN or WiFi network are not impacted, but all WAN and VoIP services are affected.

Later that day, the edge-router manufacturer releases a CVE outlining the ability of an attacker to exploit the SIP protocol handling on devices, leading to resource exhaustion and system reloads.

Which of the following BEST describe this type of attack? (Choose two.)

161. When used at the design stage, which of the following improves the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of a database?

162. 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? (Select TWO).

163. An analyst needs to set up a method for securely transferring files between systems. One of the requirements is to authenticate the IP header and the payload.

Which of the following services would BEST meet the criteria?

164. A security administrator currently spends a large amount of time on common security tasks, such aa report generation, phishing investigations, and user provisioning and deprovisioning This prevents the administrator from spending time on other security projects. The business does not have the budget to add more staff members.

Which of the following should the administrator implement?

165. A recent audit uncovered a key finding regarding the use of a specific encryption standard in a web application that is used to communicate with business customers. Due to the technical limitations of its customers the company is unable to upgrade the encryption standard.

Which of the following types of controls should be used to reduce the risk created by this scenario?

166. A network engineer needs to create a plan for upgrading the wireless infrastructure in a large office Priority must be given to areas that are currently experiencing latency and connection issues.

Which of the following would be the BEST resource for determining the order of priority?

167. A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate-owned mobile devices.

Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company’s data?

168. A company recently set up an e-commerce portal to sell its product online. The company wants to start accepting credit cards for payment, which requires compliance with a security standard.

Which of the following standards must the company comply with before accepting credit cards on its e-commerce platform?

169. A malicious actor recently penetration a company’s network and moved laterally to the datacenter. Upon investigation, a forensics firm wants to know was in the memory on the compromised server.

Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?

170. An analyst visits an internet forum looking for information about a tool. The analyst finds a threat that appears to contain relevant information.

One of the posts says the following:

Which of the following BEST describes the attack that was attempted against the forum readers?

171. A security administrator suspects there may be unnecessary services running on a server.

Which of the following tools will the administrator MOST likely use to confirm the suspicions?

172. On which of the following is the live acquisition of data for forensic analysis MOST dependent? (Choose two.)

173. A company is implementing MFA for all applications that store sensitive data. The IT manager wants MFA to be non-disruptive and user friendly.

Which of the following technologies should the IT manager use when implementing MFA?

174. Which of the following describes the BEST approach for deploying application patches?

175. A Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO) personal information was stolen in a social engineering attack.

Which of the following sources would reveal if the CEO’s personal information is for sale?

176. The following is an administrative control that would be MOST effective to reduce the occurrence of malware execution?

177. Which of the following BEST explains the reason why a server administrator would place a document named password.txt on the desktop of an administrator account on a server?

178. A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better.

179. After a ransomware attack a forensics company needs to review a cryptocurrency transaction between the victim and the attacker.

Which of the following will the company MOST likely review to trace this transaction?

180. Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

181. A company has determined that if its computer-based manufacturing is not functioning for 12 consecutive hours, it will lose more money that it costs to maintain the equipment.

Which of the following must be less than 12 hours to maintain a positive total cost of ownership?

182. Which of the following control sets should a well-written BCP include? (Select THREE)

183. Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows on hosts?

184. A company has limited storage available and online presence that cannot for more than four hours.

Which of the following backup methodologies should the company implement to allow for the FASTEST database restore time In the event of a failure, which being maindful of the limited available storage space?

185. The manager who is responsible for a data set has asked a security engineer to apply encryption to the data on a hard disk. The security engineer is an example of a:

186. The Chief Security Officer (CSO) at a major hospital wants to implement SSO to help improve in the environment patient data, particularly at shared terminals. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned that training and guidance have been provided to frontline staff, and a risk analysis has not been performed.

Which of the following is the MOST likely

cause of the CRO’s concerns?

187. Which of the following disaster recovery tests is The LEAST time-consuming for the disaster recovery team?

188. Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside

189. Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks

but nothing else?

190. A network engineer has been asked to investigate why several wireless barcode scanners and wireless computers in a warehouse have intermittent connectivity to the shipping server. The barcode scanners and computers are all on forklift trucks and move around the warehouse during their regular use.

Which of the following should the engineer do to determine the issue? (Choose two.)