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Comptia Security +: Cyber Ops

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1. Which of the following network devices will prevent port scans?






2. Which of the following is the purpose of the spanning tree protocol?






3. Which of the following is BEST described by a scenario where organizational management chooses to implement an internal Incident Response Structure for the business?






4. Which of the following security tools can Starbuck - an administrator - implement to mitigate the risks of theft?






5. Which of the following BEST allows Mal - a security administrator - to determine the type - source - and flags of the packet traversing a network for troubleshooting purposes?






6. Which of the following authentication protocols forces centralized wireless authentication?






7. While River Tam is logging into the server from her workstation - she notices Mal watching her enter the username and password. Which of the following social engineering attacks is Mal executing?






8. Which of the following malware types is MOST commonly associated with command and control?






9. Which of the following may cause Starbuck - the security administrator - to seek an ACL work around?






10. Mal - the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company - has increased his travel plans for the next two years to improve business relations. Which of the following would need to be in place in case something happens to Pete?






11. Starbuck - an IT security technician working at a bank - has implemented encryption between two locations. Which of the following security concepts BEST exemplifies the protection provided by this example?






12. While traveling Jayne - an employee - decides he would like to download some new movies onto his corporate laptop. While installing software designed to download movies from multiple computers across the Internet. Jayne agrees to share portions of hi






13. The human resources department of a company has requested full access to all network resources - including those of the financial department. Starbuck - the administrator - denies this - citing...






14. A company is performing internal security audits after a recent exploitation on one of their proprietary applications. River Tam - the security auditor - is given the workstation with limited documentation regarding the application installed for the






15. Which of the following is an attack where Mal spreads USB thumb drives throughout a bank's parking lot in order to have malware installed on the banking systems?






16. Which of the following is similar to a smurf attack - but uses UDP instead to ICMP?






17. Which of the following security concepts establishes procedures where creation and approval are performed through distinct functions?






18. River Tam - a security analyst - suspects that a rogue web server is running on the network. Which of the following would MOST likely be used to identify the server's IP address?






19. Which of the following does Starbuck - a software developer - need to do after compiling the source code of a program to attest the authorship of the binary?


20. Which of the following is Starbuck - a security administrator - MOST likely implementing when deleting all the unneeded files and modules of a newly install application?






21. River Tam - a security guard - reports that the side of the company building has been marked with spray paint. Which of the following could this be an example of?






22. An SQL injection vulnerability can be caused by which of the following?






23. Mal - a security engineer - is trying to inventory all servers in a rack. The engineer launches RDP sessions to five different PCs and notices that the hardware properties are similar. Additionally - the MAC addresses of all five servers appear on th






24. Which of the following is BEST used to break a group of IP addresses into smaller network segments or blocks?






25. An application programmer reports to River Tam - the security administrator - that the antivirus software installed on a server is interfering with one of the production HR applications - and requests that antivirus be temporarily turned off. How sho






26. Which of the following is a feature of Kerberos?






27. Which of the following is the MOST important security requirement for mobile devices storing PII?






28. Which of the following BEST describes a denial of service attack?






29. Which of the following is the MOST secure protocol for Mal - an administrator - to use for managing network devices?






30. Mal - a security administrator - has configured and implemented an additional public intermediate CA. Which of the following must Mal submit to the major web browser vendors in order for the certificates - signed by this intermediate - to be trusted?


31. Which of the following administrative controls BEST mitigates the risk of ongoing inappropriate employee activities in sensitive areas?






32. Starbuck - a VPN administrator - was asked to implement an encryption cipher with a MINIMUM effective security of 128-bits. Which of the following should Starbuck select for the tunnel encryption?






33. Which of the following is where an unauthorized device is found allowing access to a network?






34. Marketing creates a new folder and requests the following access be assigned: Sales Department - Read Marketing Department - Full Control Inside Sales - Read Write This is an example of which of the following?






35. River Tam - a security analyst - discovers which operating systems the client devices on the network are running by only monitoring a mirror port on the router. Which of the following techniques did River Tam use?






36. Which of the following open standards should Mal - a security administrator - select for remote authentication of users?






37. An application company sent out a software patch for one of their applications on Monday. The company has been receiving reports about intrusion attacks from their customers on Tuesday. Which of the following attacks does this describe?






38. Which of the following are security relevant policies?






39. Which of the following can Jayne - an administrator - use to ensure the confidentiality of a file when it is being sent over FTP?






40. Which of the following BEST explains the security benefit of a standardized server image?






41. Which of the following password policies is the MOST effective against a brute force network attack?






42. A company notices that there is a flaw in one of their proprietary programs that the company runs in-house. The flaw could cause damage to the HVAC system. Which of the following would the company transfer to an insurance company?






43. River Tam - a network security administrator - has been tasked with setting up a guest wireless network for her corporation. The requirements for this connection state that it must have password authentication - with passwords being changed every wee






44. Starbuck - a security administrator - wants to prevent users in sales from accessing their servers after 6:00 p.m. - and prevent them from accessing accounting's network at all times. Which of the following should Starbuck implement to accomplish the






45. Account lockout is a mitigation strategy used by Starbuck - the administrator - to combat which of the following attacks?






46. A company has sent all of its private keys to a third party. The third party company has created a secure list of these keys. Which of the following has just been implemented?






47. Which of the following malware types is MOST likely to execute its payload after Starbuck - an employee - has left the company?






48. Which of the following techniques floods an application with data in an attempt to find vulnerabilities?






49. Traffic has stopped flowing to and from the company network after the inline IPS hardware failed. Which of the following has occurred?






50. Jayne - a security administrator - needs to Telnet into a router to change some configurations. Which of the following ports would need to be open to allow Jayne to change the configurations?