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1. Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be hired by a foreign government to attack critical systems located in other countries?

2. Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?

3. 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?

4. A data administrator is configuring authentication for a SaaS application and would like to reduce the number of credentials employees need to maintain. The company prefers to use domain credentials to access new SaaS applications.

Which of the following methods would allow this functionality?

5. Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?

6. A company prevented direct access from the database administrators’ workstations to the network segment that contains database servers.

Which of the following should a database administrator use to access the database servers?

7. An organization’s internet-facing website was compromised when an attacker exploited a buffer overflow.

Which of the following should the organization deploy to best protect against similar attacks in the future?

8. An administrator notices that several users are logging in from suspicious IP addresses. After speaking with the users, the administrator determines that the employees were not logging in from those IP addresses and resets the affected users’ passwords.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to prevent this type of attack from succeeding in the future?

9. An employee receives a text message that appears to have been sent by the payroll department and is asking for credential verification.

Which of the following social engineering techniques are being attempted? (Choose two.)

A. Typosquatting

B. Phishing

C. Impersonation

D. Vishing

E. Smishing

F. Misinformation

10. Several employees received a fraudulent text message from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

The message stated:

“I’m in an airport right now with no access to email. I need you to buy gift cards for employee recognition awards. Please send the gift cards to following email address.”

Which of the following are the best responses to this situation? (Choose two).

11. A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks.

Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

12. Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?

13. 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?

14. Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?

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

16. A security analyst is reviewing the following logs:

Which of the following attacks is most likely occurring?

17. 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?

18. An engineer needs to find a solution that creates an added layer of security by preventing unauthorized access to internal company resources.

Which of the following would be the best solution?

19. 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?

20. During a security incident, the security operations team identified sustained network traffic from a malicious IP address:

10.1.4.9. A security analyst is creating an inbound firewall rule to block the IP address from accessing the organization’s network.

Which of the following fulfills this request?

21. A company needs to provide administrative access to internal resources while minimizing the traffic allowed through the security boundary.

Which of the following methods is most secure?

22. 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?

23. 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?

24. A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register.

Which of the following strategies does this represent?

25. A security administrator would like to protect data on employees’ laptops.

Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?

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

27. An IT manager informs the entire help desk staff that only the IT manager and the help desk lead will have access to the administrator console of the help desk software.

Which of the following security techniques is the IT manager setting up?

28. Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?

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

30. A company is expanding its threat surface program and allowing individuals to security test the company’s internet-facing application. The company will compensate researchers based on the vulnerabilities discovered.

Which of the following best describes the program the company is setting up?

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

32. Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?

33. Employees in the research and development business unit receive extensive training to ensure they understand how to best protect company data.

Which of the following is the type of data these employees are most likely to use in day-to-day work activities?

34. A company has begun labeling all laptops with asset inventory stickers and associating them with employee IDs.

Which of the following security benefits do these actions provide? (Choose two.)

A. If a security incident occurs on the device, the correct employee can be notified.

B. The security team will be able to send user awareness training to the appropriate device.

C. Users can be mapped to their devices when configuring software MFA tokens.

D. User-based firewall policies can be correctly targeted to the appropriate laptops.

E. When conducting penetration testing, the security team will be able to target the desired laptops.

F. Company data can be accounted for when the employee leaves the organization.

35. 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?

36. 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?

37. A systems administrator receives the following alert from a file integrity monitoring tool:

The hash of the cmd.exe file has changed.

The systems administrator checks the OS logs and notices that no patches were applied in the last two months.

Which of the following most likely occurred?

38. Which of the following roles, according to the shared responsibility model, is responsible for securing the company’s database in an IaaS model for a cloud environment?

39. A client asked a security company to provide a document outlining the project, the cost, and the completion time frame.

Which of the following documents should the company provide to the client?

40. 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?