CompTIA Security+ SY0 - 301

QUESTION NO: 1
A password history value of three means which of the following?
A. Three different passwords are used before one can be reused.
B. A password cannot be reused once changed for three years.
C. After three hours a password must be re-entered to continue.
D. The server stores passwords in the database for three days.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 2
In order to provide flexible working conditions, a company has decided to allow some employees
remote access into corporate headquarters. Which of the following security technologies could be
used to provide remote access? (Select TWO).
A. Subnetting
B. NAT
C. Firewall
D. NAC
E. VPN
Answer: C,E

QUESTION NO: 3
Which of the following is the BEST approach to perform risk mitigation of user access control rights?
A. Conduct surveys and rank the results.
B. Perform routine user permission reviews.
C. Implement periodic vulnerability scanning.
D. Disable user accounts that have not been used within the last two weeks.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 4
Which of the following devices is BEST suited for servers that need to store private keys?
A. Hardware security module
B. Hardened network firewall
C. Solid state disk drive
D. Hardened host firewall
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 5
All of the following are valid cryptographic hash functions EXCEPT:
A. RIPEMD.
B. RC4.
C. SHA-512.
D. MD4.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 6
Which of the following can prevent an unauthorized person from accessing the network by
plugging into an open network jack?
A. 802.1x
B. DHCP
C. 802.1q
D. NIPS
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 7
A targeted email attack sent to Sara, the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), is known as
which of the following?
A. Whaling
B. Bluesnarfing
C. Vishing
D. Dumpster diving
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 8
After verifying that the server and database are running, Jane, the administrator, is still unable to
make a TCP connection to the database. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this?
A. The server has data execution prevention enabled
B. The server has TPM based protection enabled
C. The server has HIDS installed
D. The server is running a host-based firewall
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 9
In regards to secure coding practices, why is input validation important?
A. It mitigates buffer overflow attacks.
B. It makes the code more readable.
C. It provides an application configuration baseline.
D. It meets gray box testing standards.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 10
Which of the following is a best practice before deploying a new desktop operating system image?
A. Install network monitoring software
B. Perform white box testing
C. Remove single points of failure
D. Verify operating system security settings
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 11
Which of the following steps should follow the deployment of a patch?
A. Antivirus and anti-malware deployment
B. Audit and verification
C. Fuzzing and exploitation
D. Error and exception handling
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 12
Which of the following would be used when a higher level of security is desired for encryption key
storage?
A. TACACS+
B. L2TP
C. LDAP
D. TPM
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 13
A security administrator needs to determine which system a particular user is trying to login to at
various times of the day. Which of the following log types would the administrator check?
A. Firewall
B. Application
C. IDS
D. Security
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 14
If Pete, a security administrator, wants to ensure that certain users can only gain access to the
system during their respective shifts, which of the following best practices would he implement?
A. Separation of duties
B. Time of day restrictions
C. Implicit deny rule
D. Least privilege
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 15
Which of the following MUST be updated immediately when an employee is terminated to prevent
unauthorized access?
A. Registration
B. CA
C. CRL
D. Recovery agent
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 16
A small business owner has asked the security consultant to suggest an inexpensive means to
deter physical intrusions at their place of business. Which of the following would BEST meet their
request?
A. Fake cameras
B. Proximity readers
C. Infrared cameras
D. Security guards
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 17
Employee badges are encoded with a private encryption key and specific personal information.
The encoding is then used to provide access to the network. Which of the following describes this
access control type?
A. Smartcard
B. Token
C. Discretionary access control
D. Mandatory access control
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 18
Which of the following devices would MOST likely have a DMZ interface?
A. Firewall
B. Switch
C. Load balancer
D. Proxy
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 19
A security administrator is observing congestion on the firewall interfaces and a high number of
half open incoming connections from different external IP addresses. Which of the following attack
types is underway?
A. Cross-site scripting
B. SPIM
C. Client-side
D. DDoS
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 20
Which of the following tools would Matt, a security administrator, MOST likely use to analyze a
malicious payload?
A. Vulnerability scanner
B. Fuzzer
C. Port scanner
D. Protocol analyzer
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 21
Which of the following application security testing techniques is implemented when an automated
system generates random input data?
A. Fuzzing
B. XSRF
C. Hardening
D. Input validation
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 22
Which of the following can be used by a security administrator to successfully recover a user’s
forgotten password on a password protected file?
A. Cognitive password
B. Password sniffing
C. Brute force
D. Social engineering
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 23
A security administrator wants to check user password complexity. Which of the following is the
BEST tool to use?
A. Password history
B. Password logging
C. Password cracker
D. Password hashing
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 24
Certificates are used for: (Select TWO).
A. client authentication.
B. WEP encryption.
C. access control lists.
D. code signing.
E. password hashing.
Answer: A,D

QUESTION NO: 25
Which of the following is a hardware based encryption device?
A. EFS
B. TrueCrypt
C. TPM
D. SLE
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 26
Which of the following BEST describes a protective countermeasure for SQL injection?
A. Eliminating cross-site scripting vulnerabilities
B. Installing an IDS to monitor network traffic
C. Validating user input in web applications
D. Placing a firewall between the Internet and database servers
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 27
Which of the following BEST describes a common security concern for cloud computing?
A. Data may be accessed by third parties who have compromised the cloud platform
B. Antivirus signatures are not compatible with virtualized environments
C. Network connections are too slow
D. CPU and memory resources may be consumed by other servers in the same cloud
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 28
Which of the following MOST interferes with network-based detection techniques?
A. Mime-encoding
B. SSL
C. FTP
D. Anonymous email accounts
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 29
A certificate authority takes which of the following actions in PKI?
A. Signs and verifies all infrastructure messages
B. Issues and signs all private keys
C. Publishes key escrow lists to CRLs
D. Issues and signs all root certificates
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 30
Use of a smart card to authenticate remote servers remains MOST susceptible to which of the
following attacks?
A. Malicious code on the local system
B. Shoulder surfing
C. Brute force certificate cracking
D. Distributed dictionary attacks
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 31
Separation of duties is often implemented between developers and administrators in order to
separate which of the following?
A. More experienced employees from less experienced employees
B. Changes to program code and the ability to deploy to production
C. Upper level management users from standard development employees
D. The network access layer from the application access layer
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 32
A security administrator needs to update the OS on all the switches in the company. Which of the
following MUST be done before any actual switch configuration is performed?
A. The request needs to be sent to the incident management team.
B. The request needs to be approved through the incident management process.
C. The request needs to be approved through the change management process.
D. The request needs to be sent to the change management team.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 33
Jane, an individual, has recently been calling various financial offices pretending to be another
person to gain financial information. Which of the following attacks is being described?
A. Phishing
B. Tailgating
C. Pharming
D. Vishing
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 34
The security administrator wants each user to individually decrypt a message but allow anybody to
encrypt it. Which of the following MUST be implemented to allow this type of authorization?
A. Use of CA certificate
B. Use of public keys only
C. Use of private keys only
D. Use of public and private keys
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 35
A user in the company is in charge of various financial roles but needs to prepare for an upcoming
audit. They use the same account to access each financial system. Which of the following security
controls will MOST likely be implemented within the company?
A. Account lockout policy
B. Account password enforcement
C. Password complexity enabled
D. Separation of duties
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 36
An employee is granted access to only areas of a network folder needed to perform their job.
Which of the following describes this form of access control?
A. Separation of duties
B. Time of day restrictions
C. Implicit deny
D. Least privilege
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 37
A CRL is comprised of:
A. malicious IP addresses.
B. trusted CA’s.
C. untrusted private keys.
D. public keys.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 38
Sara, a user, downloads a keygen to install pirated software. After running the keygen, system
performance is extremely slow and numerous antivirus alerts are displayed. Which of the following
BEST describes this type of malware?
A. Logic bomb
B. Worm
C. Trojan
D. Adware
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 39
Which of the following may significantly reduce data loss if multiple drives fail at the same time?
A. Virtualization
B. RAID
C. Load balancing
D. Server clustering
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 40
Which of the following should be considered to mitigate data theft when using CAT5 wiring?
A. CCTV
B. Environmental monitoring
C. Multimode fiber
D. EMI shielding
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 41
To help prevent unauthorized access to PCs, a security administrator implements screen savers
that lock the PC after five minutes of inactivity. Which of the following controls is being described
in this situation?
A. Management
B. Administrative
C. Technical
D. Operational
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 42
Pete, a network administrator, is capturing packets on the network and notices that a large amount
of the traffic on the LAN is SIP and RTP protocols. Which of the following should he do to segment
that traffic from the other traffic?
A. Connect the WAP to a different switch.
B. Create a voice VLAN.
C. Create a DMZ.
D. Set the switch ports to 802.1q mode.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 43
Which of the following IP addresses would be hosts on the same subnet given the subnet mask
255.255.255.224? (Select TWO).
A. 10.4.4.125
B. 10.4.4.158
C. 10.4.4.165
D. 10.4.4.189
E. 10.4.4.199
Answer: C,D

QUESTION NO: 44
Which of the following algorithms has well documented collisions? (Select TWO).
A. AES
B. MD5
C. SHA
D. SHA-256
E. RSA
Answer: B,C

QUESTION NO: 45
Jane, the security administrator, needs to be able to test malicious code in an environment where
it will not harm the rest of the network. Which of the following would allow Jane to perform this kind
of testing?
A. Local isolated environment
B. Networked development environment
C. Infrastructure as a Service
D. Software as a Service
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 46
A company is sending out a message to all users informing them that all internal messages need
to be digitally signed. This is a form of which of the following concepts?
A. Availability
B. Non-repudiation
C. Authorization
D. Cryptography
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 47
Which of the following transportation encryption protocols should be used to ensure maximum
security between a web browser and a web server?
A. SSLv2
B. SSHv1
C. RSA
D. TLS
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 48
Developers currently have access to update production servers without going through an approval
process. Which of the following strategies would BEST mitigate this risk?
A. Incident management
B. Clean desk policy
C. Routine audits
D. Change management
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 49
A server containing critical data will cost the company $200/hour if it were to be unavailable due to
DoS attacks. The security administrator expects the server to become unavailable for a total of two
days next year. Which of the following is true about the ALE?
A. The ALE is $48.
B. The ALE is $400.
C. The ALE is $4,800.
D. The ALE is $9,600.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 50
To reduce an organization’s risk exposure by verifying compliance with company policy, which of
the following should be performed periodically?
A. Qualitative analysis
B. Quantitative analysis
C. Routine audits
D. Incident management
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 51
Which of the following is a difference between TFTP and FTP?
A. TFTP is slower than FTP.
B. TFTP is more secure than FTP.
C. TFTP utilizes TCP and FTP uses UDP.
D. TFTP utilizes UDP and FTP uses TCP.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 52
A system administrator decides to use SNMPv3 on the network router in AuthPriv mode. Which of
the following algorithm combinations would be valid?
A. AES-RC4
B. 3DES-MD5
C. RSA-DSA
D. SHA1-HMAC
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 53
Which of the following are encryption algorithms that can use a 128-bit key size? (Select TWO).
A. AES
B. RC4
C. Twofish
D. DES
E. SHA2
Answer: A,C

QUESTION NO: 54
Matt, an administrator, notices a flood fragmented packet and retransmits from an email server.
After disabling the TCP offload setting on the NIC, Matt sees normal traffic with packets flowing in
sequence again. Which of the following utilities was he MOST likely using to view this issue?
A. Spam filter
B. Protocol analyzer
C. Web application firewall
D. Load balancer
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 55
Which of the following specifications would Sara, an administrator, implement as a network access
control?
A. 802.1q
B. 802.3
C. 802.11n
D. 802.1x
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 56
Which of the following is characterized by an attacker attempting to map out an organization’s staff
hierarchy in order to send targeted emails?
A. Whaling
B. Impersonation
C. Privilege escalation
D. Spear phishing
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 57
Which of the following defines when Pete, an attacker, attempts to monitor wireless traffic in order
to perform malicious activities?
A. XSS
B. SQL injection
C. Directory traversal
D. Packet sniffing
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 58
Which of the following provides the MOST protection against zero day attacks via email
attachments?
A. Anti-spam
B. Anti-virus
C. Host-based firewalls
D. Patch management
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 59
Which of the following would MOST likely ensure that swap space on a hard disk is encrypted?
A. Database encryption
B. Full disk encryption
C. Folder and file encryption
D. Removable media encryption
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 60
Which of the following access controls enforces permissions based on data labeling at specific
levels?
A. Mandatory access control
B. Separation of duties access control
C. Discretionary access control
D. Role based access control
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 61
A username provides which of the following?
A. Biometrics
B. Identification
C. Authorization
D. Authentication
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 62
Use of group accounts should be minimized to ensure which of the following?
A. Password security
B. Regular auditing
C. Baseline management
D. Individual accountability
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 63
Privilege creep among long-term employees can be mitigated by which of the following
procedures?
A. User permission reviews
B. Mandatory vacations
C. Separation of duties
D. Job function rotation
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 64
In which of the following scenarios is PKI LEAST hardened?
A. The CRL is posted to a publicly accessible location.
B. The recorded time offsets are developed with symmetric keys.
C. A malicious CA certificate is loaded on all the clients.
D. All public keys are accessed by an unauthorized user.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 65
Configuring the mode, encryption methods, and security associations are part of which of the
following?
A. IPSec
B. Full disk encryption
C. 802.1x
D. PKI
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 66
Which of the following assessments would Pete, the security administrator, use to actively test that
an application’s security controls are in place?
A. Code review
B. Penetration test
C. Protocol analyzer
D. Vulnerability scan
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 67
Which of the following would be used to identify the security posture of a network without actually
exploiting any weaknesses?
A. Penetration test
B. Code review
C. Vulnerability scan
D. Brute Force scan
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 68
A security administrator has just finished creating a hot site for the company. This implementation
relates to which of the following concepts?
A. Confidentiality
B. Availability
C. Succession planning
D. Integrity
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 69
In the initial stages of an incident response, Matt, the security administrator, was provided the hard
drives in question from the incident manager. Which of the following incident response procedures
would he need to perform in order to begin the analysis? (Select TWO).
A. Take hashes
B. Begin the chain of custody paperwork
C. Take screen shots
D. Capture the system image
E. Decompile suspicious files
Answer: A,D

QUESTION NO: 70
Which of the following is used to certify intermediate authorities in a large PKI deployment?
A. Root CA
B. Recovery agent
C. Root user
D. Key escrow
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 71
Which of the following components MUST be trusted by all parties in PKI?
A. Key escrow
B. CA
C. Private key
D. Recovery key
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 72
Which of the following should Matt, a security administrator, include when encrypting
smartphones? (Select TWO).
A. Steganography images
B. Internal memory
C. Master boot records
D. Removable memory cards
E. Public keys
Answer: B,D

QUESTION NO: 73
When checking his webmail, Matt, a user, changes the URL’s string of characters and is able to
get into another user’s inbox. This is an example of which of the following?
A. Header manipulation
B. SQL injection
C. XML injection
D. Session hijacking
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 74
Elliptic curve cryptography: (Select TWO)
A. is used in both symmetric and asymmetric encryption.
B. is used mostly in symmetric encryption.
C. is mostly used in embedded devices.
D. produces higher strength encryption with shorter keys.
E. is mostly used in hashing algorithms.
Answer: C,D

QUESTION NO: 75
Which of the following is the below pseudo-code an example of?
IF VARIABLE (CONTAINS NUMBERS = TRUE) THEN EXIT
A. Buffer overflow prevention
B. Input validation
C. CSRF prevention
D. Cross-site scripting prevention
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 76
Which of the following would an antivirus company use to efficiently capture and analyze new and
unknown malicious attacks?
A. Fuzzer
B. IDS
C. Proxy
D. Honeynet
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 77
Why is it important for a penetration tester to have established an agreement with management as
to which systems and processes are allowed to be tested?
A. Penetration test results are posted publicly, and some systems tested may contain corporate
secrets.
B. Penetration testers always need to have a comprehensive list of servers, operating systems, IP
subnets, and department personnel prior to ensure a complete test.
C. Having an agreement allows the penetration tester to look for other systems out of scope and
test them for threats against the in-scope systems.
D. Some exploits when tested can crash or corrupt a system causing downtime or data loss.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 78
A system administrator is using a packet sniffer to troubleshoot remote authentication. The
administrator detects a device trying to communicate to TCP port 49. Which of the following
authentication methods is MOST likely being attempted?
A. RADIUS
B. TACACS+
C. Kerberos
D. LDAP
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 79
An administrator wants to minimize the amount of time needed to perform backups during the
week. It is also acceptable to the administrator for restoration to take an extended time frame.
Which of the following strategies would the administrator MOST likely implement?
A. Full backups on the weekend and incremental during the week
B. Full backups on the weekend and full backups every day
C. Incremental backups on the weekend and differential backups every day
D. Differential backups on the weekend and full backups every day
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 80
Which of the following can be used in code signing?
A. AES
B. RC4
C. GPG
D. CHAP
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 81
Which of the following can use RC4 for encryption? (Select TWO).
A. CHAP
B. SSL
C. WEP
D. AES
E. 3DES
Answer: B,C

QUESTION NO: 82
Which of the following defines a business goal for system restoration and acceptable data loss?
A. MTTR
B. MTBF
C. RPO
D. Warm site
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 83
Which of the following defines an organization goal for acceptable downtime during a disaster or
other contingency?
A. MTBF
B. MTTR
C. RTO
D. RPO
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 84
If Organization A trusts Organization B and Organization B trusts Organization C, then
Organization A trusts Organization C. Which of the following PKI concepts is this describing?
A. Transitive trust
B. Public key trust
C. Certificate authority trust
D. Domain level trust
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 85
Which of the following is an attack vector that can cause extensive physical damage to a
datacenter without physical access?
A. CCTV system access
B. Dial-up access
C. Changing environmental controls
D. Ping of death
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 86
Which of the following concepts is BEST described as developing a new chain of command in the
event of a contingency?
A. Business continuity planning
B. Continuity of operations
C. Business impact analysis
D. Succession planning
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 87
An ACL placed on which of the following ports would block IMAP traffic?
A. 110
B. 143
C. 389
D. 465
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 88
Which of the following provides the HIGHEST level of confidentiality on a wireless network?
A. Disabling SSID broadcast
B. MAC filtering
C. WPA2
D. Packet switching
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 89
Which of the following controls should be used to verify a person in charge of payment processing
is not colluding with anyone to pay fraudulent invoices?
A. Least privilege
B. Security policy
C. Mandatory vacations
D. Separation of duties
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 90
Which of the following allows a company to maintain access to encrypted resources when
employee turnover is high?
A. Recovery agent
B. Certificate authority
C. Trust model
D. Key escrow
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 91
Which of the following should be implemented to stop an attacker from mapping out addresses
and/or devices on a network?
A. Single sign on
B. IPv6
C. Secure zone transfers
D. VoIP
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 92
Matt, an IT administrator, wants to protect a newly built server from zero day attacks. Which of the
following would provide the BEST level of protection?
A. HIPS
B. Antivirus
C. NIDS
D. ACL
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 93
Which of the following protocols is used to authenticate the client and server’s digital certificate?
A. PEAP
B. DNS
C. TLS
D. ICMP
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 94
Which of the following anti-malware solutions can be implemented to mitigate the risk of phishing?
A. Host based firewalls
B. Anti-spyware
C. Anti-spam
D. Anti-virus
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 95
Which of the following can be used to mitigate risk if a mobile device is lost?
A. Cable lock
B. Transport encryption
C. Voice encryption
D. Strong passwords
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 96
Which of the following security concepts would Sara, the security administrator, use to mitigate the
risk of data loss?
A. Record time offset
B. Clean desk policy
C. Cloud computing
D. Routine log review
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 97
Which of the following is an example of multifactor authentication?
A. Credit card and PIN
B. Username and password
C. Password and PIN
D. Fingerprint and retina scan
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 98
After Matt, a user, enters his username and password at the login screen of a web enabled portal,
the following appears on his screen:
‘Please only use letters and numbers on these fields’
Which of the following is this an example of?
A. Proper error handling
B. Proper input validation
C. Improper input validation
D. Improper error handling
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 99
Which of the following should the security administrator do when taking a forensic image of a hard
drive?
A. Image the original hard drive, hash the image, and analyze the original hard drive.
B. Copy all the files from the original into a separate hard drive, and hash all the files.
C. Hash the original hard drive, image the original hard drive, and hash the image.
D. Image the original hard drive, hash the original hard drive, and analyze the hash.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 100

Matt, a developer, recently attended a workshop on a new application. The developer installs the
new application on a production system to test the functionality. Which of the following is MOST
likely affected?
A. Application design
B. Application security
C. Initial baseline configuration
D. Management of interfaces
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 101

A marketing employee requests read and write permissions to the finance department’s folders.
The security administrator partially denies this request and only gives the marketing employee
read-only permissions. This is an example of which of the following?
A. Job rotation
B. Separation of duties
C. Least privilege
D. Change management
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 102

Sara, a company’s security officer, often receives reports of unauthorized personnel having
access codes to the cipher locks of secure areas in the building. Sara should immediately
implement which of the following?
A. Acceptable Use Policy
B. Physical security controls
C. Technical controls
D. Security awareness training
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 103

Mike, a network administrator, has been asked to passively monitor network traffic to the
company’s sales websites. Which of the following would be BEST suited for this task?
A. HIDS
B. Firewall
C. NIPS
D. Spam filter
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 104

An administrator notices an unusual spike in network traffic from many sources. The administrator
suspects that:
A. it is being caused by the presence of a rogue access point.
B. it is the beginning of a DDoS attack.
C. the IDS has been compromised.
D. the internal DNS tables have been poisoned.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 105

Mike, a security professional, is tasked with actively verifying the strength of the security controls
on a company’s live modem pool. Which of the following activities is MOST appropriate?
A. War dialing
B. War chalking
C. War driving
D. Bluesnarfing
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 106

Users at a company report that a popular news website keeps taking them to a web page with
derogatory content. This is an example of which of the following?
A. Evil twin
B. DNS poisoning
C. Vishing
D. Session hijacking
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 107

An encrypted message is sent using PKI from Sara, a client, to a customer. Sara claims she never
sent the message. Which of the following aspects of PKI BEST ensures the identity of the sender?
A. CRL
B. Non-repudiation
C. Trust models
D. Recovery agents
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 108

Which of the following protocols would be used to verify connectivity between two remote devices
at the LOWEST level of the OSI model?
A. DNS
B. SCP
C. SSH
D. ICMP
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 109

Users require access to a certain server depending on their job function. Which of the following
would be the MOST appropriate strategy for securing the server?
A. Common access card
B. Role based access control
C. Discretionary access control
D. Mandatory access control
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 110

Jane, a security administrator, has observed repeated attempts to break into a server. Which of
the following is designed to stop an intrusion on a specific server?
A. HIPS
B. NIDS
C. HIDS
D. NIPS
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 111

Matt, the security administrator, notices a large number of alerts on the NIDS. Upon further
inspection, it is determined that no attack has really taken place. This is an example of a:
A. false negative.
B. true negative.
C. false positive.
D. true positive.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 112

Which of the following would Pete, a security administrator, MOST likely implement in order to
allow employees to have secure remote access to certain internal network services such as file
servers?
A. Packet filtering firewall
B. VPN gateway
C. Switch
D. Router
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 113
Matt, the IT Manager, wants to create a new network available to virtual servers on the same
hypervisor, and does not want this network to be routable to the firewall. How could this BEST be
accomplished?
A. Create a VLAN without a default gateway.
B. Remove the network from the routing table.
C. Create a virtual switch.
D. Commission a stand-alone switch.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 114

A security administrator has configured FTP in passive mode. Which of the following ports should
the security administrator allow on the firewall by default?
A. 20
B. 21
C. 22
D. 23
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 115

Which of the following could cause a browser to display the message below?
“The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website’s address.”
A. The website certificate was issued by a different CA than what the browser recognizes in its
trusted CAs.
B. The website is using a wildcard certificate issued for the company’s domain.
C. HTTPS://127.0.01 was used instead of HTTPS://localhost.
D. The website is using an expired self signed certificate.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 116

A company that purchased an HVAC system for the datacenter is MOST concerned with which of
the following?
A. Availability
B. Integrity
C. Confidentiality
D. Fire suppression
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 117

Which of the following pseudocodes can be used to handle program exceptions?
A. If program detects another instance of itself, then kill program instance.
B. If user enters invalid input, then restart program.
C. If program module crashes, then restart program module.
D. If user’s input exceeds buffer length, then truncate the input.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 118

Which of the following devices can Sara, an administrator, implement to detect and stop known
attacks?
A. Signature-based NIDS
B. Anomaly-based NIDS
C. Signature-based NIPS
D. Anomaly-based NIPS
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 119

Which of the following protocols would be implemented to secure file transfers using SSL?
A. TFTP
B. SCP
C. SFTP
D. FTPS
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 120

Which of the following security concepts are used for data classification and labeling to protect
data? (Select TWO).
A. Need to know
B. Role based access control
C. Authentication
D. Identification
E. Authorization
Answer: A,E

QUESTION NO: 121

While setting up a secure wireless corporate network, which of the following should Pete, an
administrator, avoid implementing?
A. EAP-TLS
B. PEAP
C. WEP
D. WPA
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 122

Jane, an administrator, hears reports of circles being drawn in the parking lot. Because the
symbols fall within range of the company’s wireless AP, the MOST likely concern is:
A. that someone has used war chalking to help others access the company’s network.
B. that the symbols indicate the presence of an evil twin of a legitimate AP.
C. that someone is planning to install an AP where the symbols are, to cause interference.
D. that a rogue access point has been installed within range of the symbols.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 123

Which of the following are used to implement VPNs? (Select TWO).
A. SFTP
B. IPSec
C. HTTPS
D. SNMP
E. SSL
Answer: B,E

QUESTION NO: 124

Which of the following describes how Sara, an attacker, can send unwanted advertisements to a
mobile device?
A. Man-in-the-middle
B. Bluejacking
C. Bluesnarfing
D. Packet sniffing
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 125

Matt, a security administrator, is receiving reports about several SQL injections and buffer
overflows through his company’s website. Which of the following would reduce the amount of
these attack types?
A. Antivirus
B. Anti-spam
C. Input validation
D. Host based firewalls
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 126

Enforcing data encryption of removable media ensures that the:
A. lost media cannot easily be compromised.
B. media can be identified.
C. location of the media is known at all times.
D. identification of the user is non-repudiated.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 127

Pete, an employee, is terminated from the company and the legal department needs documents
from his encrypted hard drive. Which of the following should be used to accomplish this task?
(Select TWO).
A. Private hash
B. Recovery agent
C. Public key
D. Key escrow
E. CRL
Answer: B,D

QUESTION NO: 128

When employees that use certificates leave the company they should be added to which of the
following?
A. PKI
B. CA
C. CRL
D. TKIP
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 129

A company had decided to assign employees laptops instead of desktops to mitigate the risk of
company closures due to disasters. Which of the following is the company trying to ensure?
A. Succession planning
B. Fault tolerance
C. Continuity of operations
D. Removing single points of failure
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 130

Which of the following mitigation strategies is established to reduce risk when performing updates
to business critical systems?
A. Incident management
B. Server clustering
C. Change management
D. Forensic analysis
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 131

Which of the following can Pete, a security administrator, use to distribute the processing effort
when generating hashes for a password cracking program?
A. RAID
B. Clustering
C. Redundancy
D. Virtualization
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 132

Which of the following should Jane, a security administrator, perform before a hard drive is
analyzed with forensics tools?
A. Identify user habits
B. Disconnect system from network
C. Capture system image
D. Interview witnesses
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 133

Pete, the security administrator, wants to ensure that traffic to the corporate intranet is secure
using HTTPS. He configures the firewall to deny traffic to port 80. Now users cannot connect to
the intranet even through HTTPS. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the issue?
A. The web server is configured on the firewall’s DMZ interface.
B. The VLAN is improperly configured.
C. The firewall’s MAC address has not been entered into the filtering list.
D. The firewall executes an implicit deny.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 134

Mike, a user, receives an email from his grandmother stating that she is in another country and
needs money. The email address belongs to his grandmother. Which of the following attacks is
this?
A. Man-in-the-middle
B. Spoofing
C. Relaying
D. Pharming
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 135

Which of the following protocols can be used to secure traffic for telecommuters?
A. WPA
B. IPSec
C. ICMP
D. SMTP
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 136

Which of the following allows Pete, a security technician, to provide the MOST secure wireless
implementation?
A. Implement WPA
B. Disable SSID
C. Adjust antenna placement
D. Implement WEP
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 137

Which of the following is a management control?
A. Logon banners
B. Written security policy
C. SYN attack prevention
D. Access Control List (ACL)
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 138

Which of the following risk concepts BEST supports the identification of fraud?
A. Risk transference
B. Management controls
C. Mandatory vacations
D. Risk calculation
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 139

Which of the following incident response procedures BEST allows Sara, the security technician, to
identify who had possession of a hard drive prior to forensics analysis?
A. Chain of custody
B. Tracking man hours
C. Witnesses
D. Capturing system images
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 140

Which of the following security strategies allows a company to limit damage to internal systems
and provides loss control?
A. Restoration and recovery strategies
B. Deterrent strategies
C. Containment strategies
D. Detection strategies
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 141

In order for Sara, a client, to logon to her desktop computer, she must provide her username,
password, and a four digit PIN. Which of the following authentication methods is Sara using?
A. Three factor
B. Single factor
C. Two factor
D. Four factor
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 142

Which of the following must Jane, a security administrator, implement to ensure all wired ports are
authenticated before a user is allowed onto the network?
A. Intrusion prevention system
B. Web security gateway
C. Network access control
D. IP access control lists
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 143

Mike, a server engineer, has received four new servers and must place them in a rack in the
datacenter. Which of the following is considered best practice?
A. All servers’ air exhaust toward the cold aisle.
B. All servers’ air intake toward the cold aisle.
C. Alternate servers’ air intake toward the cold and hot aisle.
D. Servers’ air intake must be parallel to the cold/hot aisles.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 144

Mike, a security analyst, has captured a packet with the following payloaD.
GET ../../../../system32\/cmd.exe
Which of the following is this an example of?
A. SQL injection
B. Directory traversal
C. XML injection
D. Buffer overflow
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 145

A security administrator needs to open ports on the firewall to allow for secure data transfer.
Which of the following TCP ports would allow for secure transfer of files by default?
A. 21
B. 22
C. 23
D. 25
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 146

Which of the following technologies would allow for a secure tunneled connection from one site to
another? (Select TWO).
A. SFTP
B. IPSec
C. SSH
D. HTTPS
E. ICMP
Answer: B,C

QUESTION NO: 147

Which of the following sets numerous flag fields in a TCP packet?
A. XMAS
B. DNS poisoning
C. SYN flood
D. ARP poisoning
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 148

Which of the following network design elements provides for a one-to-one relationship between an
internal network address and an external network address?
A. NAT
B. NAC
C. VLAN
D. PAT
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 149

Using proximity card readers instead of the traditional key punch doors would help to mitigate:
A. impersonation.
B. tailgating.
C. dumpster diving.
D. shoulder surfing.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 150

In planning for a firewall implementation, Pete, a security administrator, needs a tool to help him
understand what traffic patterns are normal on his network. Which of the following tools would help
Pete determine traffic patterns?
A. Syslog
B. Protocol analyzer
C. Proxy server
D. Firewall
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 151

TKIP uses which of the following encryption ciphers?
A. RC5
B. AES
C. RC4
D. 3DES
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 152

Jane, an administrator, needs to transfer DNS zone files from outside of the corporate network.
Which of the following protocols must be used?
A. TCP
B. ICMP
C. UDP
D. IP
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 153

Common access cards use which of the following authentication models?
A. PKI
B. XTACACS
C. RADIUS
D. TACACS
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 154

Which of the following application attacks is used to gain access to SEH?
A. Cookie stealing
B. Buffer overflow
C. Directory traversal
D. XML injection
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 155

Which of the following does a second authentication requirement mitigate when accessing
privileged areas of a website, such as password changes or user profile changes?
A. Cross-site scripting
B. Cookie stealing
C. Packet sniffing
D. Transitive access
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 156

Jane, a security technician, has been tasked with preventing contractor staff from logging into the
company network after business hours. Which of the following BEST allows her to accomplish
this?
A. Time of day restrictions
B. Access control list
C. Personal identity verification
D. Mandatory vacations
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 157

Which of the following ports does DNS operate on, by default?
A. 23
B. 53
C. 137
D. 443
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 158

Sara from IT Governance wants to provide a mathematical probability of an earthquake using facts
and figures. Which of the following concepts would achieve this?
A. Qualitative Analysis
B. Impact Analysis
C. Quantitative Analysis
D. SLE divided by the ARO
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 159

A buffer overflow can result in which of the following attack types?
A. DNS poisoning
B. Zero-day
C. Privilege escalation
D. ARP poisoning
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 160

Which of the following is an authentication service that uses UDP as a transport medium?
A. TACACS+
B. LDAP
C. Kerberos
D. RADIUS
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 161

Which of the following is true concerning WEP security?
A. WEP keys are transmitted in plain text.
B. The WEP key initialization process is flawed.
C. The pre-shared WEP keys can be cracked with rainbow tables.
D. WEP uses the weak RC4 cipher.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 162

Which of the following can be used on a smartphone to BEST protect against sensitive data loss if
the device is stolen? (Select TWO).
A. Tethering
B. Screen lock PIN
C. Remote wipe
D. Email password
E. GPS tracking
F. Device encryption
Answer: C,F
QUESTION NO: 163
Which of the following can be implemented on a lost mobile device to help recover it?
A. Remote sanitization
B. GPS tracking
C. Voice encryption
D. Patch management
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 164

Sara, a security administrator, needs to implement the equivalent of a DMZ at the datacenter
entrance. Which of the following must she implement?
A. Video surveillance
B. Mantrap
C. Access list
D. Alarm
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 165

Jane, a security analyst, is reviewing logs from hosts across the Internet which her company uses
to gather data on new malware. Which of the following is being implemented by Jane’s company?
A. Vulnerability scanner
B. Honeynet
C. Protocol analyzer
D. Port scanner
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 166

Sara, a senior programmer for an application at a software development company, has also
assumed an auditing role within the same company. She will be assessing the security of the
application. Which of the following will she be performing?
A. Blue box testing
B. Gray box testing
C. Black box testing
D. White box testing
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 167

Jane, a security analyst, wants to ensure that data is being stored encrypted, in the event that a
corporate laptop is stolen. Which of the following encryption types will accomplish her goal?
A. IPSec
B. Secure socket layer
C. Whole disk
D. Transport layer security
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 168

Which of the following BEST describes a directory traversal attack?
A. A malicious user can insert a known pattern of symbols in a URL to access a file in another
section of the directory.
B. A malicious user can change permissions or lock out user access from a webroot directory or
subdirectories.
C. A malicious user can delete a file or directory in the webroot directory or subdirectories.
D. A malicious user can redirect a user to another website across the Internet.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 169

Sara, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a corporation, wishes to receive her corporate email
and file attachments on her corporate mobile computing device. If the device is lost or stolen, the
BEST security measure to ensure that sensitive information is not comprised would be:
A. to immediately file a police report and insurance report.
B. the ability to remotely wipe the device to remove the data.
C. to immediately issue a replacement device and restore data from the last backup.
D. to turn on remote GPS tracking to find the device and track its movements.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 170

In her morning review of new vendor patches, a security administrator has identified an exploit that
is marked as critical. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?
A. The security administrator should wait seven days before testing the patch to ensure that the
vendor does not issue an updated version, which would require reapplying the patch.
B. The security administrator should download the patch and install it to her workstation to test
whether it will be able to be applied to all workstations in the environment.
C. The security administrator should alert the risk management department to document the patch
and add it to the next monthly patch deployment cycle.
D. The security administrator should download the patch to the test network, apply it to affected
systems, and evaluate the results on the test systems.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 171

Which of the following protocols allows for secure transfer of files? (Select TWO).
A. ICMP
B. SNMP
C. SFTP
D. SCP
E. TFTP
Answer: C,D

QUESTION NO: 172

Sara, a security administrator, is configuring a new firewall. She has entered statements into the
firewall configuration as follows:
Allow all Web traffic
Deny all Telnet traffic
Allow all SSH traffic
Mike, a user on the network, tries unsuccessfully to use RDP to connect to his work computer at
home. Which of the following principles BEST explains why Mike’s attempt to connect is not
successful?
A. Explicit deny
B. Loop protection
C. Implicit deny
D. Implicit permit
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 173
Jane, a security administrator, notices that a program has crashed. Which of the following logs
should Jane check?
A. Access log
B. Firewall log
C. Audit log
D. Application log
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 174

Users at a corporation are unable to login using the directory access server at certain times of the
day. Which of the following concepts BEST describes this lack of access?
A. Mandatory access control
B. Least privilege
C. Time of day restrictions
D. Discretionary access control
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 175

Which of the following passwords is the LEAST complex?
A. MyTrain!45
B. Mytr@in!!
C. MyTr@in12
D. MyTr@in#8
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 176

During a penetration test from the Internet, Jane, the system administrator, was able to establish a
connection to an internal router, but not successfully log in to it. Which ports and protocols are
MOST likely to be open on the firewall? (Select FOUR).
A. 21
B. 22
C. 23
D. 69
E. 3389
F. SSH
G. Terminal services
H. Rlogin
I. Rsync
J. Telnet
Answer: B,C,F,J

QUESTION NO: 177

During an anonymous penetration test, Jane, a system administrator, was able to identify a shared
print spool directory, and was able to download a document from the spool. Which statement
BEST describes her privileges?
A. All users have write access to the directory.
B. Jane has read access to the file.
C. All users have read access to the file.
D. Jane has read access to the directory.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 178

Sara, an IT security technician, has identified security weaknesses within her company’s code.
Which of the following is a common security coding issue?
A. Input validation
B. Application fuzzing
C. Black box testing
D. Vulnerability scanning
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 179

Which of the following is an application security coding problem?
A. Error and exception handling
B. Patch management
C. Application hardening
D. Application fuzzing
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 180
Matt, an IT security technician, needs to create a way to recover lost or stolen company devices.
Which of the following BEST meets this need?
A. Locking cabinets
B. GPS tracking
C. Safe
D. Firewalls
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 181

An IT security technician needs to establish host based security for company workstations. Which
of the following will BEST meet this requirement?
A. Implement IIS hardening by restricting service accounts.
B. Implement database hardening by applying vendor guidelines.
C. Implement perimeter firewall rules to restrict access.
D. Implement OS hardening by applying GPOs.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 182

Jane, an IT security technician, receives a call from the vulnerability assessment team informing
her that port 1337 is open on a user’s workstation. Which of the following BEST describes this
type of malware?
A. Logic bomb
B. Spyware
C. Backdoor
D. Adware
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 183

Which of the following is the MOST specific plan for various problems that can arise within a
system?
A. Business Continuity Plan
B. Continuity of Operation Plan
C. Disaster Recovery Plan
D. IT Contingency Plan
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 184

Pete, an employee, needs a certificate to encrypt data. Which of the following would issue Pete a
certificate?
A. Certification authority
B. Key escrow
C. Certificate revocation list
D. Registration authority
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 185

Which of the following BEST describes the weakness in WEP encryption?
A. The initialization vector of WEP uses a crack-able RC4 encryption algorithm. Once enough
packets are captured an XOR operation can be performed and the asymmetric keys can be
derived.
B. The WEP key is stored in plain text and split in portions across 224 packets of random data.
Once enough packets are sniffed the IV portion of the packets can be removed leaving the plain
text key.
C. The WEP key has a weak MD4 hashing algorithm used. A simple rainbow table can be used to
generate key possibilities due to MD4 collisions.
D. The WEP key is stored with a very small pool of random numbers to make the cipher text. As
the random numbers are often reused it becomes easy to derive the remaining WEP key.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 186

Which of the following is used to ensure message integrity during a TLS transmission?
A. RIPEMD
B. RSA
C. AES
D. HMAC
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 187

Sara, the Chief Security Officer (CSO), has had four security breaches during the past two years.
Each breach has cost the company $3,000. A third party vendor has offered to repair the security
hole in the system for $25,000. The breached system is scheduled to be replaced in five years.
Which of the following should Sara do to address the risk?
A. Accept the risk saving $10,000.
B. Ignore the risk saving $5,000.
C. Mitigate the risk saving $10,000.
D. Transfer the risk saving $5,000.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 188

A company has asked Pete, a penetration tester, to test their corporate network. Pete was
provided with all of the server names, configurations, and corporate IP addresses. Pete was then
instructed to stay off of the Accounting subnet as well as the company web server in the DMZ.
Pete was told that social engineering was not in the test scope as well. Which of the following
BEST describes this penetration test?
A. Gray box
B. Black box
C. White box
D. Blue box
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 189

Which of the following is an authentication and accounting service that uses TCP for connecting to
routers and switches?
A. DIAMETER
B. RADIUS
C. TACACS+
D. Kerberos
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 190

Which of the following can BEST help prevent cross-site scripting attacks and buffer overflows on
a production system?
A. Input validation
B. Network intrusion detection system
C. Anomaly-based HIDS
D. Peer review
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 191

Pete, an IT Administrator, needs to secure his server room. Which of the following mitigation
methods would provide the MOST physical protection?
A. Sign in and sign out logs
B. Mantrap
C. Video surveillance
D. HVAC
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 192

Which of the following should be connected to the fire alarm system in order to help prevent the
spread of a fire in a server room without data loss to assist in an FM-200 deployment?
A. Water base sprinkler system
B. Electrical
C. HVAC
D. Video surveillance
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 193

Matt, a security consultant, has been tasked with increasing server fault tolerance and has been
given no budget to accomplish his task. Which of the following can Matt implement to ensure
servers will withstand hardware failure?
A. Hardware load balancing
B. RAID
C. A cold site
D. A host standby
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 194

Pete has obtained a highly sensitive document and has placed it on a network drive which has
been formatted with NTFS and is shared via CIFS. Which of the following access controls apply to
the sensitive file on the server?
A. Discretionary
B. Rule based
C. Role based
D. Mandatory
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 195

Which of the following fire suppression systems is MOST likely used in a datacenter?
A. FM-200
B. Dry-pipe
C. Wet-pipe
D. Vacuum
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 196

A security administrator has installed a new KDC for the corporate environment. Which of the
following authentication protocols is the security administrator planning to implement across the
organization?
A. LDAP
B. RADIUS
C. Kerberos
D. XTACACS
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 197

Which of the following uses only a private key?
A. RSA
B. ECC
C. AES
D. SHA
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 198

While opening an email attachment, Pete, a customer, receives an error that the application has
encountered an unexpected issue and must be shut down. This could be an example of which of
the following attacks?
A. Cross-site scripting
B. Buffer overflow
C. Header manipulation
D. Directory traversal
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 199

Jane has recently implemented a new network design at her organization and wishes to passively
identify security issues with the new network. Which of the following should Jane perform?
A. Vulnerability assessment
B. Black box testing
C. White box testing
D. Penetration testing
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 200

A database server containing personal information and a file server containing non-critical
information must be secured. Which of the following would be a BEST practice to secure the
servers? (Select TWO).
A. Place the file server behind a door requiring biometric authorization.
B. Place both servers under the system administrator’s desk.
C. Place the database server behind a door with a cipher lock.
D. Place the file server in an unlocked rack cabinet.
E. Place the database server behind a door requiring biometric authorization.
Answer: A,E

QUESTION NO: 201

A company is experiencing an extraordinary amount of web traffic that is crippling the server. The
web traffic suddenly stops. The mail server experiences the same amount of traffic as before then
crashes. Which of the following attacks would this BEST describe?
A. DoS
B. Spam
C. Man-in-the-middle
D. Replay
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 202

Matt, an account manager, arrives at work early in the morning and cannot log into his
workstation. He calls the help desk an hour later to open a trouble ticket, but they tell him there is
nothing wrong with his account. Matt tries his login once more and is granted access. Which of the
following control types BEST explains this anomaly?
A. Discretionary access control
B. Time of day restrictions
C. Separation of duties
D. Single sign-on
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 203

Which of the following would ensure confidentiality and authorization to the management interface
of a router?
A. Enable an access list and RADIUS
B. Enable SSH and TACACS
C. Enable an access list and PKI
D. Enable LDAP and strong passwords
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 204

Which of the following BEST describes a demilitarized zone?
A. A buffer zone between protected and unprotected networks.
B. A network where all servers exist and are monitored.
C. A sterile, isolated network segment with access lists.
D. A private network that is protected by a firewall and a VLAN.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 205

A security technician is attempting to explain why some of the company policies should be
changed for high risk IT positions. Which of the following concepts BEST explains the support for
fraud detection?
A. Time of day restrictions is more likely to discover fraud than the other fraud detection methods.
B. Least privilege principles allow internal audit teams to discover fraud while a staff member is
out of the office.
C. Separation of duties is a better fraud detection method than mandatory vacations; therefore, it
should be used.
D. Mandatory vacations support the company discovering fraud while staff members are out of the
office.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 206

A security technician is working with the network firewall team to implement access controls at the
company’s demarc as part of the initiation of configuration management processes. One of the
network technicians asks the security technician to explain the access control type found in a
firewall. With which of the following should the security technician respond?
A. Rule based access control
B. Role based access control
C. Discretionary access control
D. Mandatory access control
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 207

Sara, a security administrator, has been tasked with explaining smart cards to the company’s
management team. Which of the following are smart cards? (Select TWO).
A. DAC
B. Tokens
C. CAC
D. ACL
E. PIV
Answer: C,E

QUESTION NO: 208

Jane, a security administrator, has been tasked with explaining authentication services to the
company’s management team. The company runs an active directory infrastructure. Which of the
following solutions BEST relates to the host authentication protocol within the company’s
environment?
A. Kerberos
B. Least privilege
C. TACACS+
D. LDAP
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 209

Jane, a security architect, is implementing security controls throughout her organization. Which of
the following BEST explains the vulnerability in the formula that a Risk = Threat x Vulnerability x
Impact?
A. Vulnerability is related to the risk that an event will take place.
B. Vulnerability is related to value of potential loss.
C. Vulnerability is related to the probability that a control will fail.
D. Vulnerability is related to the probability of the event.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 210

The information security department regularly walks the campus and around the buildings looking
for unauthorized open wireless networks. This is an example of which of the following?
A. A site survey
B. Antenna placement
C. War dialing
D. War driving
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 211

The lobby of the hotel allows users to plug in their laptops to access the Internet. This network is
also used for the IP based phones in the hotel lobby. Mike, the security engineer, wants to secure
the phones so that guests cannot electronically eavesdrop on other guests. Which of the following
would Mike MOST likely implement?
A. VLAN
B. Port security
C. MPLS
D. Separate voice gateway
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 212

Jane, the security engineer, is tasked with hardening routers. She would like to ensure that
network access to the corporate router is allowed only to the IT group and from authorized
machines. Which of the following would MOST likely be implemented to meet this security goal?
(Select TWO).
A. SNMP
B. HTTPS
C. ACL
D. Disable console
E. SSH
F. TACACS+
Answer: C,F

QUESTION NO: 213

Which of the following can be used to discover if a security attack is occurring on a web server?
A. Creating a new baseline
B. Disable unused accounts
C. Implementing full disk encryption
D. Monitoring access logs
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 214

Jane, the CEO, receives an email wanting her to clink on a link to change her username and
password. Which of the following attacks has she just received?
A. Hoaxes
B. Whaling
C. Bluejacking
D. Vishing
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 215

Pete, the system administrator, wishes to monitor and limit users’ access to external websites.
Which of the following would BEST address this?
A. Block all traffic on port 80.
B. Implement NIDS.
C. Use server load balancers.
D. Install a proxy server.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 216

Sara, the security administrator, must configure the corporate firewall to allow all public IP
addresses on the internal interface of the firewall to be translated to one public IP address on the
external interface of the same firewall. Which of the following should Sara configure?
A. PAT
B. NAP
C. DNAT
D. NAC
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 217

Which of the following settings can Jane, the network administrator, implement in the computer lab
to ensure that user credentials cannot be captured by the next computer user?
A. Implement full drive encryption on all lab computers.
B. Reverse the computer to its original state upon reboot.
C. Do not display last username in logon screen.
D. Deploy privacy screens on all lab computers.
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 218

Jane, a security administrator, is reviewing the company’s official documentation to mitigate the
risk of data loss due to personally owned devices being connected to perform company related
work. Which of the following documentation should Jane MOST likely review and update?
A. Acceptable risk
B. Data retention policy
C. Acceptable use policy
D. End user license agreement
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 219

After a production outage, which of the following documents contains detailed information on the
order in which the system should be restored to service?
A. Succession planning
B. Disaster recovery plan
C. Information security plan
D. Business impact analysis
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 220

Pete, a security administrator, has implemented SSH across all network infrastructure devices in
the enterprise. Which of the following protocols will be used to exchange keying material within
SSH?
A. Transport layer protocol
B. IPSec
C. Diffie-Hellman
D. Secure socket layer
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 221

Matt, a security analyst, needs to select an asymmetric encryption method that allows for the
same level of encryption strength with a lower key length than is typically necessary. Which of the
following encryption methods offers this capability?
A. Twofish
B. Diffie-Hellman
C. ECC
D. RSA
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 222

Sara, a security analyst, is trying to prove to management what costs they could incur if their
customer database was breached. This database contains 250 records with PII. Studies show that
the cost per record for a breach is $300. The likelihood that their database would be breached in
the next year is only 5%. Which of the following is the ALE that Sara should report to management
for a security breach?
A. $1,500
B. $3,750
C. $15,000
D. $75,000
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 223

Matt must come up with a design solution which will enable remote users to securely access
network resources. Which of the following design elements will enable Matt to meet this objective?
A. DMZ
B. VLAN
C. VPN
D. NAT
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 224

Sara, a security technician, has been asked to design a solution which will enable external users
to have access to a Web server, while keeping the internal network unaffected by this access.
Which of the following would BEST meet this objective?
A. Place the Web server on a VLAN
B. Place the Web server inside of the internal firewall
C. Place the Web server in a DMZ
D. Place the Web server on a VPN
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 225

Pete needs to open ports on the firewall to allow for secure transmission of files. Which of the
following ports should be opened on the firewall?
A. TCP 23
B. UDP 69
C. TCP 22
D. TCP 21
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 226

Matt, a security technician, notices a high number of ARP spoofing attacks on his network. Which
of the following design elements would mitigate ARP spoofing attacks?
A. Flood guards
B. Implicit deny
C. VLANs
D. Loop protection
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 227

Matt works for an organization that requires data to be recovered in the shortest amount of time
possible. Which of the following backup types would BEST meet the organization’s needs?
A. Full backups daily
B. Differential backups monthly
C. Full backups weekly
D. Incremental backups monthly
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 228

Sara, a security architect, has developed a framework in which several authentication servers
work together to increase processing power for an application. Which of the following does this
represent?
A. Warm site
B. Load balancing
C. Clustering
D. RAID
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 229

How would a technician secure a router configuration if placed in an unsecured closet?
A. Mount the router into an immovable rack.
B. Enable SSH for maintenance of the router.
C. Disable the console port on the router.
D. Label the router with contact information.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 230
Which of the following firewall rules would only block tftp traffic and record it?
A. deny udp any server log
B. deny udp any server eq 69
C. deny tcp any server log
D. deny udp any server eq 69 log
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 231

Which of the following services should be disabled to stop attackers from using a web server as a
mail relay?
A. IMAP
B. SMTP
C. SNMP
D. POP3
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 232

A security administrator has a requirement to encrypt several directories that are non-hierarchical.
Which of the following encryption models would BEST meet this requirement?
A. AES512
B. Database encryption
C. File encryption
D. Full disk encryption
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 233

Pete, a security analyst, has been tasked with explaining the different types of malware to his
colleagues. The two malware types that the group seems to be most interested in are backdoors
and logic bombs. Which of the following differentiates these two types of malware?
A. A backdoor is a coding issue that can be discovered by proper configuration management
processes.
B. A logic bomb is typically hidden within the boot sector of the hard drive and is used to cause
DDoS.
C. A backdoor is a third generation attack which is typically low risk because only highly trained
staff can achieve it.
D. A logic bomb is undetectable by current antivirus signatures because a patch has not been
issued.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 234

Pete, a security analyst, has been tasked with explaining the different types of malware to his
colleagues. The two malware types that the group seems to be most interested in are botnets and
viruses. Which of the following explains the difference between these two types of malware?
A. Viruses are a subset of botnets which are used as part of SYN attacks.
B. Botnets are a subset of malware which are used as part of DDoS attacks.
C. Viruses are a class of malware which create hidden openings within an OS.
D. Botnets are used within DR to ensure network uptime and viruses are not.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 235
Which of the following BEST explains the use of an HSM within the company servers?
A. Thumb drives present a significant threat which is mitigated by HSM.
B. Software encryption can perform multiple functions required by HSM.
C. Data loss by removable media can be prevented with DLP.
D. Hardware encryption is faster than software encryption.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 236

Which of the following technologies can store multi-tenant data with different security
requirements?
A. Data loss prevention
B. Trusted platform module
C. Hard drive encryption
D. Cloud computing
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 237

Which of the following technologies prevents USB drives from being recognized by company
systems?
A. Registry keys
B. Full disk encryption
C. USB encryption
D. Data loss prevention
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 238

Matt, a security analyst, needs to implement encryption for company data and also prevent theft of
company data. Where and how should Matt meet this requirement?
A. Matt should implement access control lists and turn on EFS.
B. Matt should implement DLP and encrypt the company database.
C. Matt should install Truecrypt and encrypt the company server.
D. Matt should install TPMs and encrypt the company database.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 239

Which of the following types of encryption will help in protecting files on a PED?
A. Mobile device encryption
B. Transport layer encryption
C. Encrypted hidden container
D. Database encryption
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 240

Which of the following is MOST closely associated with BitLocker?
A. ACL
B. DOS
C. DLP
D. TPM
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 241
Which of the following does full disk encryption prevent?
A. Client side attacks
B. Clear text access
C. Database theft
D. Network-based attacks
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 242

Pete, a security analyst, has been informed that the development team has plans to develop an
application which does not meet the company’s password policy. Which of the following should
Pete do NEXT?
A. Contact the Chief Information Officer and ask them to change the company password policy so
that the application is made compliant.
B. Tell the application development manager to code the application to adhere to the company’s
password policy.
C. Ask the application development manager to submit a risk acceptance memo so that the issue
can be documented.
D. Inform the Chief Information Officer of non-adherence to the security policy so that the
developers can be reprimanded.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 243

Sara, a security manager, has decided to force expiration of all company passwords by the close
of business day. Which of the following BEST supports this reasoning?
A. A recent security breach in which passwords were cracked.
B. Implementation of configuration management processes.
C. Enforcement of password complexity requirements.
D. Implementation of account lockout procedures.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 244

Which of the following presents the STRONGEST access control?
A. MAC
B. TACACS
C. DAC
D. RBAC
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 245

Which of the following encompasses application patch management?
A. Configuration management
B. Policy management
C. Cross-site request forgery
D. Fuzzing
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 246

Sara, an application developer, implemented error and exception handling alongside input
validation. Which of the following does this help prevent?
A. Buffer overflow
B. Pop-up blockers
C. Cross-site scripting
D. Fuzzing
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 247

Which of the following is the LEAST volatile when performing incident response procedures?
A. Registers
B. RAID cache
C. RAM
D. Hard drive
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 248

Which of the following can allow Sara, a security analyst, to encrypt individual files on a system?
A. EFS
B. Single sign-on
C. TLS
D. Journaled file system
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 249

An encryption method where the plain text and cipher text are always the same size is an example
of which of the following types of encryption?
A. RC4
B. MD5
C. Steam Cipher
D. Block Cipher
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 250

The information security team does a presentation on social media and advises the participants
not to provide too much personal information on social media web sites. This advice would BEST
protect people from which of the following?
A. Rainbow tables attacks
B. Brute force attacks
C. Birthday attacks
D. Cognitive passwords attacks
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 251

The compliance team comes out with a new policy that all data stored on tapes over 3 years must
be degaussed. This BEST describes which of the following types of policies?
A. Data handling
B. Data classification
C. Data labeling
D. Data disposal
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 252

Pete's corporation has outsourced help desk services to a large provider. Management has
published a procedure that requires all users, when receiving support, to call a special number.
Users then need to enter the code provided to them by the help desk technician prior to allowing
the technician to work on their PC. Which of the following does this procedure prevent?
A. Collusion
B. Impersonation
C. Pharming
D. Transitive Access
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 253

Pete, the security engineer, would like to prevent wireless attacks on his network. Pete has
implemented a security control to limit the connecting MAC addresses to a single port. Which of
the following wireless attacks would this address?
A. Interference
B. Man-in-the-middle
C. ARP poisoning
D. Rogue access point
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 254

Which of the following can be implemented with multiple bit strength?
A. AES
B. DES
C. SHA-1
D. MD5
E. MD4
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 255

Jane, the security administrator, is having issues with unauthorized users connecting to the
wireless network. For administrative reasons, she cannot implement any wireless encryption
methods. Which of the following can she implement to prevent unauthorized users from
connecting to the network?
A. NIPS
B. Disable unused ports
C. MAC filtering
D. WEP
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 256

Matt, the security administrator, wants to secure the wireless network. Which of the following
encryption methods offers the MOST security?
A. WPA2 ENT AES
B. WPA2 PSK AES
C. WPA2 ENT TKIP
D. WPA2 PSK TKIP
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 257

Sara, the IT administrator, wants to control which devices can connect to the wireless network.
Which of the following can she implement to accomplish this task?
A. WPA2 Enterprise with AES encryption
B. Decrease the WAP’s power levels
C. Static IP addressing
D. MAC address filtering
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 258

Pete, the system administrator, has instituted a policy banning personal digital music and video
players from the company premises. Which of the following would be the BEST reason for such a
policy?
A. The company would be legally liable for any personal device that is lost on its premises.
B. It is difficult to verify ownership of offline device’s digital rights management and ownership.
C. The media players may act as distractions during work hours and adversely affect user
productivity.
D. If connected to a computer, unknown malware may be introduced into the environment.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 259

Pete, the system administrator, has blocked users from accessing social media web sites. In
addition to protecting company information from being accidentally leaked, which additional
security benefit does this provide?
A. No competition with the company’s official social presence
B. Protection against malware introduced by banner ads
C. Increased user productivity based upon fewer distractions
D. Elimination of risks caused by unauthorized P2P file sharing
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 260

Pete, the system administrator, is concerned about unauthorized access at all entrances into the
building. PIN pad readers have been installed, but users have developed the habit of holding the
door for others behind them. Which of the following would BEST prevent this?
A. Install mantraps at every unmanned entrance.
B. Replace the PIN pad readers with card readers.
C. Implement video and audio surveillance equipment.
D. Require users to sign conduct policies forbidding these actions.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 261

Pete, the system administrator, is reviewing his disaster recovery plans. He wishes to limit the
downtime in the event of a disaster, but does not have the budget approval to implement or
maintain an offsite location that ensures 99.99% availability. Which of the following would be
Pete’s BEST option?
A. Use hardware already at an offsite location and configure it to be quickly utilized.
B. Move the servers and data to another part of the company’s main campus from the server
room.
C. Retain data back-ups on the main campus and establish redundant servers in a virtual
environment.
D. Move the data back-ups to the offsite location, but retain the hardware on the main campus for
redundancy.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 262
Jane, a network administrator, has configured a 48-port switch to isolate four different
departments. Which of the following has Jane MOST likely configured on the switch?
A. NAC
B. 802.1x
C. VLAN
D. DMZ
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 263

A network stream needs to be encrypted. Sara, the network administrator, has selected a cipher
which will encrypt 8 bits at a time before sending the data across the network. Which of the
following has Sara selected?
A. Block cipher
B. Stream cipher
C. CRC
D. Hashing algorithm
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 264

Pete, a security auditor, has detected clear text passwords between the RADIUS server and the
authenticator. Which of the following is configured in the RADIUS server and what technologies
should the authentication protocol be changed to?
A. PAP, MSCHAPv2
B. CHAP, PAP
C. MSCHAPv2, NTLMv2
D. NTLM, NTLMv2
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 265

Which of the following is an important implementation consideration when deploying a wireless
network that uses a shared password?
A. Authentication server
B. Server certificate
C. Key length
D. EAP method
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 266

Which of the following would satisfy wireless network implementation requirements to use mutual
authentication and usernames and passwords?
A. EAP-MD5
B. WEP
C. PEAP-MSCHAPv2
D. EAP-TLS
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 267

A security analyst needs to ensure all external traffic is able to access the company’s front-end
servers but protect all access to internal resources. Which of the following network design
elements would MOST likely be recommended?
A. DMZ
B. Cloud computing
C. VLAN
D. Virtualization
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 268

Layer 7 devices used to prevent specific types of html tags are called:
A. firewalls.
B. content filters.
C. routers.
D. NIDS.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 269

Which of the following allows a network administrator to implement an access control policy based
on individual user characteristics and NOT on job function?
A. Attributes based
B. Implicit deny
C. Role based
D. Rule based
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 270

Which of the following network architecture concepts is used to securely isolate at the boundary
between networks?
A. VLAN
B. Subnetting
C. DMZ
D. NAT
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 271

In which of the following categories would creating a corporate privacy policy, drafting acceptable
use policies, and group based access control be classified?
A. Security control frameworks
B. Best practice
C. Access control methodologies
D. Compliance activity
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 272

Which of the following devices is typically used to provide protection at the edge of the network
attack surface?
A. Firewall
B. Router
C. Switch
D. VPN concentrator
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 273
A malicious program modified entries in the LMHOSTS file of an infected system. Which of the
following protocols would have been affected by this?
A. ICMP
B. BGP
C. NetBIOS
D. DNS
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 274

A router has a single Ethernet connection to a switch. In the router configuration, the Ethernet
interface has three sub-interfaces, each configured with ACLs applied to them and 802.1q trunks.
Which of the following is MOST likely the reason for the sub-interfaces?
A. The network uses the subnet of 255.255.255.128.
B. The switch has several VLANs configured on it.
C. The sub-interfaces are configured for VoIP traffic.
D. The sub-interfaces each implement quality of service.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 275

Digital Signatures provide which of the following?
A. Confidentiality
B. Authorization
C. Integrity
D. Authentication
E. Availability
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 276

-- Exhibit –
-- Exhibit --
Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack that is occurring?
A. Smurf Attack
B. Man in the middle
C. Backdoor
D. Replay
E. Spear Phishing
F. Xmas Attack
G. Blue Jacking
H. Ping of Death
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 277

Which of the following BEST describes a SQL Injection attack?
A. The attacker attempts to have the receiving server pass information to a back-end database
from which it can compromise the stored information.
B. The attacker attempts to have the receiving server run a payload using programming commonly
found on web servers.
C. The attacker overwhelms a system or application, causing it to crash and bring the server down
to cause an outage.
D. The attacker overwhelms a system or application, causing it to crash, and then redirects the
memory address to read from a location holding the payload.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 278

Which of the following is a hardware-based security technology included in a computer?
A. Symmetric key
B. Asymmetric key
C. Whole disk encryption
D. Trusted platform module
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 279

Pete, an employee, attempts to visit a popular social networking site but is blocked. Instead, a
page is displayed notifying him that this site cannot be visited. Which of the following is MOST
likely blocking Pete’s access to this site?
A. Internet content filter
B. Firewall
C. Proxy server
D. Protocol analyzer
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 280

Jane, the administrator of a small company, wishes to track people who access the secured server
room, which is secured only by a simple hardware key lock. Jane does not have much of a budget
or the approval to make significant construction changes. Given the limitations, which of the
following can she do in the meantime?
A. Implement an access log and a security guard
B. Install a 24/7 closed-circuit camera system
C. Install a separate hardware lock with limited keys
D. Implement a cipher key lock
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 281

An administrator might choose to implement a honeypot in order to:
A. provide load balancing for network switches.
B. distract potential intruders away from critical systems.
C. establish a redundant server in case of a disaster.
D. monitor any incoming connections from the Internet.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 282

In an enterprise environment, which of the following would be the BEST way to prevent users from
accessing inappropriate websites when AUP requirements are constantly changing?
A. Deploy a network proxy server.
B. Configure Internet content filters on each workstation.
C. Deploy a NIDS.
D. Deploy a HIPS.
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 283

How often, at a MINIMUM, should Sara, an administrator, review the accesses and right of the
users on her system?
A. Annually
B. Immediately after an employee is terminated
C. Every five years
D. Every time they patch the server
Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 284

An administrator notices that former temporary employees’ accounts are still active on a domain.
Which of the following can be implemented to increase security and prevent this from happening?
A. Implement a password expiration policy.
B. Implement an account expiration date for permanent employees.
C. Implement time of day restrictions for all temporary employees.
D. Run a last logon script to look for inactive accounts.
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 285

A trojan was recently discovered on a server. There are now concerns that there has been a
security breach that allows unauthorized people to access data. The administrator should be
looking for the presence of a/an:
A. logic bomb.
B. backdoor.
C. adware application.
D. rootkit.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 286

Which of the following protocols uses TCP instead of UDP and is incompatible with all previous
versions?
A. TACACS
B. XTACACS
C. RADIUS
D. TACACS+
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 287

Which of the following symmetric key algorithms are examples of block ciphers? (Select THREE).
A. RC4
B. 3DES
C. AES
D. MD5
E. PGP
F. Blowfish
Answer: B,C,F