CompTIA Security+ Certified SY0-601 Dumps Questions V14.02 – Valid SY0-601 Materials

1. 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?

2. Which of the following should be put in place when negotiating with a new vendor about the timeliness of the response to a significant outage or incident?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert for the most appropriate way to store credit card numbers to create an easy reordering process.

Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?

6. 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?

7. HOTSPOT

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

INSTRUCTIONS

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8. A document that appears to be malicious has been discovered in an email that was sent to a company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Which of the following would be BEST to allow a security analyst to gather information and confirm it is a malicious document without executing any code it may contain?

9. 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?

10. A company uses wireless tor all laptops and keeps a very detailed record of its assets, along with a comprehensive list of devices that are authorized to be on the wireless network. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about a script kiddie potentially using an unauthorized device to brute force the wireless PSK and obtain access to the internal network.

Which of the following should the company implement to BEST prevent this from occurring?

11. 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?

12. A commercial cyber-threat intelligence organization observes IoCs across a variety of unrelated customers.

Prior to releasing specific threat intelligence to other paid subscribers, the organization is MOST likely obligated by contracts to:

13. A researcher has been analyzing large data sets for the last ten months. The researcher works with colleagues from other institutions and typically connects via SSH to retrieve additional data.

Historically, this setup has worked without issue, but the researcher recently started getting the following message:

Which of the following network attacks is the researcher MOST likely experiencing?

14. 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?

15. A cybersecurity administrator has a reduced team and needs to operate an on-premises network and security infrastructure efficiently. To help with the situation, the administrator decides to hire a service provider.

Which of the following should the administrator use?

16. 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?

17. A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did not receive any emails with links, but he had been browsing the Internet all day.

Which of the following would MOST likely show where the malware originated?

18. A development team employs a practice of bringing all the code changes from multiple team members into the same development project through automation. A tool is utilized to validate the code and track source code through version control.

Which of the following BEST describes this process?

19. 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?

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

21. A user reports constant lag and performance issues with the wireless network when working at a local coffee shop. A security analyst walks the user through an installation of Wireshark and get a five-minute pcap to analyze.

The analyst observes the following output:

Which of the following attacks does the analyst MOST likely see in this packet capture?

22. A security analyst is using a recently released security advisory to review historical logs, looking for the specific activity that was outlined in the advisory.

Which of the following is the analyst doing?

23. 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?

24. A remote user recently took a two-week vacation abroad and brought along a corporate-owned laptop. Upon returning to work, the user has been unable to connect the laptop to the VPN.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the user’s inability to connect the laptop to the VPN?

25. An organization that is located in a flood zone is MOST likely to document the concerns associated with the restoration of IT operation in a:

26. When selecting a technical solution for identity management, an architect chooses to go from an in-house to a third-party SaaS provider.

Which of the following risk management strategies is this an example of?

27. 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?

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B)

C)

D)

28. 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?

29. To secure an application after a large data breach, an e-commerce site will be resetting all users’ credentials.

Which of the following will BEST ensure the site’s users are not compromised after the reset?

30. 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?

31. In which of the following situations would it be BEST to use a detective control type for mitigation?

32. 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?

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

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

35. A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times.

After determining it is not a routing or DNS issue, the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, and receives the following output:

Which of the following is the router experiencing?

36. A security engineer is reviewing log files after a third discovered usernames and passwords for the organization’s accounts. The engineer sees there was a change in the IP address for a vendor website one earlier. This change lasted eight hours.

Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used?

37. 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?

38. 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?

39. A security administrator suspects an employee has been emailing proprietary information to a competitor. Company policy requires the administrator to capture an exact copy of the employee’s hard disk.

Which of the following should the administrator use?

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

Which of the following did the assessment identify?

41. 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'?

42. 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?

43. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to create a policy set that meets international standards for data privacy and sharing.

Which of the following should the CISO read and understand before writing the policies?

44. 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?

45. 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?

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

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

48. 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.)

49. 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?

50. 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?

51. 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?

52. A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce staffing at others.

Which of the following would be BEST to help the organization’s executives determine the next course of action?

53. During an incident response, a security analyst observes the following log entry on the web server.

Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack the analyst is experience?

54. A root cause analysis reveals that a web application outage was caused by one of the company’s developers uploading a newer version of the third-party libraries that were shared among several applications.

Which of the following implementations would be BEST to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

55. The SOC is reviewing process and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than 30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. The allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained.

Which of the following would be BEST to improve the incident response process?

56. CORRECT TEXT

A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.

INSTRUCTIONS

Click on each firewall to do the following:

✑ Deny cleartext web traffic.

✑ Ensure secure management protocols are used.

✑ Resolve issues at the DR site.

The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.

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57. A security analyst is reviewing the following attack log output:

Which of the following types of attacks does this MOST likely represent?

58. 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?

59. 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?

60. DRAG DROP

A security engineer is setting up password less authentication for the first time.

INSTRUCTIONS

Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.

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61. 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?

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

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

64. A workwide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromised. In one incident, a user logged in from the corporate office in France, but then seconds later, the same user account attempted a login from Brazil.

Which of the following account policies would BEST prevent this type of attack?

65. A user recent an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank delays.

Which of the following social-engineering techniques was used in this case?

66. A user contacts the help desk to report the following:

✑ Two days ago, a pop-up browser window prompted the user for a name and password after connecting to the corporate wireless SSID. This had never happened before, but the user entered the information as requested.

✑ The user was able to access the Internet but had trouble accessing the department share until the next day.

✑ The user is now getting notifications from the bank about unauthorized transactions.

Which of the following attack vectors was MOST likely used in this scenario?

67. A network administrator is setting up wireless access points in all the conference rooms and wants to authenticate device using PKI.

Which of the following should the administrator configure?

68. 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?

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

70. 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.)

71. A user recently entered a username and password into a recruiting application website that had been forged to look like the legitimate site Upon investigation, a security analyst the identifies the following:

• The legitimate websites IP address is 10.1.1.20 and eRecruit local resolves to the IP

• The forged website's IP address appears to be 10.2.12.99. based on NetFtow records

• AH three at the organization's DNS servers show the website correctly resolves to the legitimate IP

• DNS query logs show one of the three DNS servers returned a result of 10.2.12.99 (cached) at the approximate time of the suspected compromise.

Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

72. 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?

73. A network administrator has been asked to install an IDS to improve the security posture of an organization.

Which of the following control types is an IDS?

74. 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?

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

77. 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.)

78. 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?

79. Which of the following are the MOST likely vectors for the unauthorized inclusion of vulnerable code in a software company’s final software releases? (Select TWO.)

80. Joe, a user at a company, clicked an email link led to a website that infected his workstation. Joe, was connected to the network, and the virus spread to the network shares. The protective measures failed to stop this virus, and It has continues to evade detection.

Which of the following should administrator implement to protect the environment from this malware?

81. 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?

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

83. A security audit has revealed that a process control terminal is vulnerable to malicious users installing and executing software on the system. The terminal is beyond end-of-life support and cannot be upgraded, so it is placed on a projected network segment.

Which of the following would be MOST effective to implement to further mitigate the reported vulnerability?

84. 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?

85. 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?

86. After reading a security bulletin, a network security manager is concerned that a malicious actor may have breached the network using the same software flaw. The exploit code is publicly available and has been reported as being used against other industries in the same vertical.

Which of the following should the network security manager consult FIRST to determine a priority list for forensic review?

87. A security analyst is performing a forensic investigation compromised account credentials. Using the Event Viewer, the analyst able to detect the following message, ‘’Special privileges assigned to new login.’’ Several of these messages did not have a valid logon associated with the user before these privileges were assigned.

Which of the following attacks is MOST likely being detected?

88. 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?

89. 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?

90. 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?

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

92. A cybersecurity analyst needs to implement secure authentication to third-party websites without users’ passwords.

Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

93. 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)

94. 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?

95. 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?

96. A large industrial system's smart generator monitors the system status and sends alerts to third-party maintenance personnel when critical failures occur. While reviewing the network logs the company's security manager notices the generator's IP is sending packets to an internal file server's IP.

Which of the following mitigations would be BEST for the security manager to implement while maintaining alerting capabilities?

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

98. In the middle of a cybersecurity, a security engineer removes the infected devices from the network and lock down all compromised accounts.

In which of the following incident response phases is the security engineer currently operating?

99. 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?

100. An organization’s help desk is flooded with phone calls from users stating they can no longer access certain websites. The help desk escalates the issue to the security team, as these websites were accessible the previous day. The security analysts run the following command: ipconfig /flushdns, but the issue persists. Finally, an analyst changes the DNS server for an impacted machine, and the issue goes away.

Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred on the original DNS server?