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Comptia Security +: Cyber Ops

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1. 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?






2. Which of the following will help Jayne - an administrator; mitigate the risk of static electricity?






3. 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?






4. Mal - a security administrator - has observed repeated attempts to break into the network. Which of the following is designed to stop an intrusion on the network?






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






6. A company needs to remove sensitive data from hard drives in leased computers before the computers are returned to the supplier. Which of the following is the BEST solution?






7. Which of the following would MOST likely be implemented in order to prevent employees from accessing certain websites?






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






9. River Tam - a security administrator - suspects that a web server may be under attack. The web logs have several entries containing variations of the following entries: 'or 1=1-- or1'=1-- 'or1=1'






10. Which of the following should Mal - an administrator - use to verify the integrity of a downloaded file?






11. Social networking sites are used daily by the marketing team for promotional purposes. However - confidential company information - including product pictures and potential partnerships - have been inadvertently exposed to the public by dozens of emp






12. Workers of a small local organization have implemented an off-site location in which the organization can resume operations within 10 business days in the event of a disaster. This type of site is BEST known as which of the following?






13. Which of the following policies is implemented in order to minimize data loss or theft?






14. Which of the following is the BEST solution to securely administer remote servers?






15. Mal - a user - is having trouble dialing into the network from their house. The administrator checks the RADIUS server - the switch connected to the server - and finds that the switch lost configuration after a recent power outage. The administrator






16. 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?






17. Starbuck - a security administrator - has applied security labels to files and folders to manage and restrict access. Which of the following is Starbuck using?






18. Which of the following allows Mal - a security technician - to prevent email traffic from entering the company servers?






19. Which of the following data loss prevention strategies mitigates the risk of replacing hard drives that cannot be sanitized?






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






21. Which of the following attacks is characterized by River Tam attempting to send an email from a Chief Information Officer's (CIO's) non-corporate email account to an IT staff member in order to have a password changed?






22. Which of the following should River Tam - a security technician - perform as the FIRST step when creating a disaster recovery plan for a mission critical accounting system?






23. When integrating source material from an open source project into a highly secure environment - which of the following precautions should prevent hidden threats?






24. Which of the following is an example of authentication using something Starbuck - a user - has and something she knows?






25. Mal - a network administrator - implements the spanning tree protocol on network switches. Which of the following issues does this address?






26. River Tam - the software security engineer - is trying to detect issues that could lead to buffer overflows or memory leaks in the company software. Which of the following would help River Tam automate this detection?






27. 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?






28. A data loss prevention strategy would MOST likely incorporate which of the following to reduce the risk associated with data loss?






29. Which of the following would River Tam - a security administrator - utilize to identity a weakness within various applications without exploiting that weakness?






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






31. Which of the following attacks is manifested as an embedded HTML image object or JavaScript image tag in an email?






32. Mal - a user - submitted a form on the Internet but received an unexpected response shown below Server Error in "/" Application Runtime error in script on asp.net version 2.0 Which of the following controls should be put in place to prevent Mal from






33. 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?






34. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) tells the network administrator that a security company has been hired to perform a penetration test against their network. The security company asks the CISO which type of testing would be most beneficia






35. When reviewing a digital certificate for accuracy - which of the following would Jayne - a security administrator - focus on to determine who affirms the identity of the certificate owner?






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






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






38. Which of the following functions of a firewall allows Mal - an administrator - to map an external service to an internal host?






39. When Mal - an employee - leaves a company - which of the following should be updated to ensure Pete's security access is reduced or eliminated?






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






41. 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






42. While conducting a network audit - River Tam - a security administrator - discovers that most clients are routing their network traffic through a desktop client instead of the company router. Which of the following is this attack type?






43. The corporate NIPS requires a daily download from its vendor with updated definitions in order to block the latest attacks. Which of the following describes how the NIPS is functioning?






44. River Tam - an administrator - suspects a denial of service attack on the network - but does not know where the network traffic is coming from or what type of traffic it is. Which of the following would help River Tam further assess the situation?






45. Which of the following is based on X.500 standards?






46. 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?






47. 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?






48. In a wireless network - which of the following components could cause too much coverage - too little coverage - and interference?






49. Jayne - the security administrator - notices a spike in the number of SQL injection attacks against a web server connected to a backend SQL database. Which of the following practices should be used to prevent an application from passing these attacks






50. Mal - the security administrator - is implementing a web content fitter. Which of the following is the MOST important design consideration in regards to availability?