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1. 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.)

2. 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.)

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

7. After entering a username and password, and administrator must gesture on a touch screen .

Which of the following demonstrates what the administrator is providing?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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

Which of the following targeted the organization?

12. 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?

13. A public relations team will be taking a group of guest on a tour through the facility of a large e-commerce company. The day before the tour, the company sends out an email to employees to ensure all whiteboars are cleaned and all desks are cleared. The company is MOST likely trying to protect against.

14. 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?

15. 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).

16. A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platform to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application .

Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

17. An organization is developing a plan in the event of a complete loss of critical systems and data .

Which of the following plans is the organization MOST likely developing?

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

Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

19. An organization suffered an outage and a critical system took 90 minutes to come back online. Though there was no data loss during the outage, the expectation was that the critical system would be available again within 60 minutes.

Which of the following is the 60-minute expectation an example of:

20. 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?

21. 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:

22. 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?

23. 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?

24. 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?

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

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

Which of the following did the assessment identify?

27. 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?

28. 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?

29. An organization is developing an authentication service for use at the entry and exit ports of country borders. The service will use data feeds obtained from passport systems, passenger manifests, and high-definition video feeds from CCTV systems that are located at the ports. The service will incorporate machine-learning techniques to eliminate biometric enrollment processes while still allowing authorities to identify passengers with increasing accuracy over time. The more frequently passengers travel, the more accurately the service will identify them .

Which of the following biometrics will MOST likely be used, without the need for enrollment? (Choose two.)

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

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

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

33. 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?

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

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

36. 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?

37. 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?

38. 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?

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

40. 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?

41. 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?

42. 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?

43. A network engineer notices the VPN concentrator overloaded and crashes on days when there are a lot of remote workers. Senior management has placed greater importance on the availability of VPN resources for the remote workers than the security of the end users’ traffic .

Which of the following would be BEST to solve this issue?

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

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

45. 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)

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46. 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?

47. A company is adopting a BYOD policy and is looking for a comprehensive solution to protect company information on user devices .

Which of the following solutions would BEST support the policy?

48. 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?

49. 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?

50. 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?

51. 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?

52. 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?

53. 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?

54. 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?

55. 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?

56. An organization has a growing workforce that is mostly driven by additions to the sales department. Each newly hired salesperson relies on a mobile device to conduct business. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is wondering it the organization may need to scale down just as quickly as it scaled up. The ClO is also concerned about the organization's security and customer privacy .

Which of the following would be BEST to address the ClO’s concerns?

57. 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?

58. A network administrator would like to configure a site-to-site VPN utilizing iPSec. The administrator wants the tunnel to be established with data integrity encryption, authentication and anti- replay functions.

Which of the following should the administrator use when configuring the VPN?

59. 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?

60. 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?

61. 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?

62. 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?

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

64. 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.)

65. 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?

66. 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?

67. 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?

68. 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?

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

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

71. 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?

72. DRAG DROP

A security engineer is setting up passwordless 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.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

73. 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'?

74. 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?

75. While checking logs, a security engineer notices a number of end users suddenly downloading files with the .tar.gz extension. Closer examination of the files reveals they are PE32 files. The end users state they did not initiate any of the downloads. Further investigation reveals the end users all clicked on an external email containing an infected MHT file with an href link a week prior .

Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

76. 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?

77. 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?

78. 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?

79. Which of the following will provide the BEST physical security countermeasures to stop intruders? (Select TWO.)

80. 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)

81. 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?

82. 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?

83. 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?

84. 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?

85. 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?

86. 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?

87. 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?

88. HOTSPOT

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

INSTRUCTIONS

Not all attacks and remediation actions will be used.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

89. 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?

90. 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?

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

92. 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?

93. 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?

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

95. A security analyst has received an alert about being sent via email. The analyst’s Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has made it clear that PII must be handle with extreme care.

From which of the following did the alert MOST likely originate?

96. 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?

97. 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?

98. A security administrator needs to create a RAID 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?

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

100. 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.)