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Q1. - (Topic 5)
The manager of the firewall team is getting complaints from various IT teams that firewall changes are causing issues. Which of the following should the manager recommend to BEST address these issues?
A. Set up a weekly review for relevant teams to discuss upcoming changes likely to have a broad impact.
B. Update the change request form so that requesting teams can provide additional details about the requested changes.
C. Require every new firewall rule go through a secondary firewall administrator for review before pushing the firewall policy.
D. Require the firewall team to verify the change with the requesting team before pushing the updated firewall policy.
Answer: A
Q2. - (Topic 2)
A web developer is responsible for a simple web application that books holiday accommodations. The front-facing web server offers an HTML form, which asks for a user’s age. This input gets placed into a signed integer variable and is then checked to ensure that the user is in the adult age range.
Users have reported that the website is not functioning correctly. The web developer has inspected log files and sees that a very large number (in the billions) was submitted just before the issue started occurring. Which of the following is the MOST likely situation that has occurred?
A. The age variable stored the large number and filled up disk space which stopped the application from continuing to function. Improper error handling prevented the application from recovering.
B. The age variable has had an integer overflow and was assigned a very small negative number which led to unpredictable application behavior. Improper error handling prevented the application from recovering.
C. Computers are able to store numbers well above “billions” in size. Therefore, the website issues are not related to the large number being input.
D. The application has crashed because a very large integer has lead to a “divide by zero”. Improper error handling prevented the application from recovering.
Answer: B
Q3. - (Topic 2)
A penetration tester is inspecting traffic on a new mobile banking application and sends the following web request:
POST http://www.example.com/resources/NewBankAccount HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json
{
“account”:
[
{ “creditAccount”:”Credit Card Rewards account”} {
“salesLeadRef”:”www.example.com/badcontent/exploitme.exe”}
],
“customer”:
[
{ “name”:”Joe Citizen”} { “custRef”:”3153151”}
]
}
The banking website responds with:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
“newAccountDetails”:
[
{ “cardNumber”:”1234123412341234”} { “cardExpiry”:”2021-12-31”}
{ “cardCVV”:”909”}
],
“marketingCookieTracker”:“JSESSIONID=000000001”
“returnCode”:“Account added successfully”
}
Which of the following are security weaknesses in this example? (Select TWO).
A. Missing input validation on some fields
B. Vulnerable to SQL injection
C. Sensitive details communicated in clear-text
D. Vulnerable to XSS
E. Vulnerable to malware file uploads
F. JSON/REST is not as secure as XML
Answer: A,C
Q4. - (Topic 2)
A security analyst, Ann, states that she believes Internet facing file transfer servers are being attacked. Which of the following is evidence that would aid Ann in making a case to management that action needs to be taken to safeguard these servers?
A. Provide a report of all the IP addresses that are connecting to the systems and their locations
B. Establish alerts at a certain threshold to notify the analyst of high activity
C. Provide a report showing the file transfer logs of the servers
D. Compare the current activity to the baseline of normal activity
Answer: D
Q5. - (Topic 2)
Which of the following technologies prevents an unauthorized HBA from viewing iSCSI target information?
A. Deduplication
B. Data snapshots
C. LUN masking
D. Storage multipaths
Answer: C
Q6. - (Topic 3)
A data processing server uses a Linux based file system to remotely mount physical disks on a shared SAN. The server administrator reports problems related to processing of files where the file appears to be incompletely written to the disk. The network administration team has conducted a thorough review of all network infrastructure and devices and found everything running at optimal performance. Other SAN customers are unaffected. The data being processed consists of millions of small files being written to disk from a network source one file at a time. These files are then accessed by a local Java program for processing before being transferred over the network to a SE Linux host for processing. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the processing problem?
A. The administrator has a PERL script running which disrupts the NIC by restarting the CRON process every 65 seconds.
B. The Java developers accounted for network latency only for the read portion of the processing and not the write process.
C. The virtual file system on the SAN is experiencing a race condition between the reads and writes of network files.
D. The Linux file system in use cannot write files as fast as they can be read by the Java program resulting in the errors.
Answer: D
Q7. - (Topic 2)
An insurance company has an online quoting system for insurance premiums. It allows potential customers to fill in certain details about their car and obtain a quote. During an investigation, the following patterns were detected:
Pattern 1 – Analysis of the logs identifies that insurance premium forms are being filled in but only single fields are incrementally being updated.
Pattern 2 – For every quote completed, a new customer number is created; due to legacy systems, customer numbers are running out.
Which of the following is the attack type the system is susceptible to, and what is the BEST way to defend against it? (Select TWO).
A. Apply a hidden field that triggers a SIEM alert
B. Cross site scripting attack
C. Resource exhaustion attack
D. Input a blacklist of all known BOT malware IPs into the firewall
E. SQL injection
F. Implement an inline WAF and integrate into SIEM
G. Distributed denial of service
H. Implement firewall rules to block the attacking IP addresses
Answer: C,F
Q8. - (Topic 5)
A large hospital has implemented BYOD to allow doctors and specialists the ability to access patient medical records on their tablets. The doctors and specialists access patient records over the hospital’s guest WiFi network which is isolated from the internal network with appropriate security controls. The patient records management system can be accessed from the guest network and requires two factor authentication. Using a remote desktop type interface, the doctors and specialists can interact with the hospital’s system. Cut and paste and printing functions are disabled to prevent the copying of data to BYOD devices. Which of the following are of MOST concern? (Select TWO).
A. Privacy could be compromised as patient records can be viewed in uncontrolled areas.
B. Device encryption has not been enabled and will result in a greater likelihood of data loss.
C. The guest WiFi may be exploited allowing non-authorized individuals access to confidential patient data.
D. Malware may be on BYOD devices which can extract data via key logging and screen scrapes.
E. Remote wiping of devices should be enabled to ensure any lost device is rendered inoperable.
Answer: A,D
Q9. - (Topic 4)
Due to a new regulatory requirement, ABC Company must now encrypt all WAN transmissions. When speaking with the network administrator, the security administrator learns that the existing routers have the minimum processing power to do the required level of encryption. Which of the following solutions minimizes the performance impact on the router?
A. Deploy inline network encryption devices
B. Install an SSL acceleration appliance
C. Require all core business applications to use encryption
D. Add an encryption module to the router and configure IPSec
Answer: A
Q10. - (Topic 5)
During a recent audit of servers, a company discovered that a network administrator, who required remote access, had deployed an unauthorized remote access application that communicated over common ports already allowed through the firewall. A network scan showed that this remote access application had already been installed on one third of the servers in the company. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate action that the company should take to provide a more appropriate solution?
A. Implement an IPS to block the application on the network
B. Implement the remote application out to the rest of the servers
C. Implement SSL VPN with SAML standards for federation
D. Implement an ACL on the firewall with NAT for remote access
Answer: C
Q11. - (Topic 3)
When attending the latest security conference, an information security administrator noticed only a few people carrying a laptop around. Most other attendees only carried their smartphones.
Which of the following would impact the security of conference’s resources?
A. Wireless network security may need to be increased to decrease access of mobile devices.
B. Physical security may need to be increased to deter or prevent theft of mobile devices.
C. Network security may need to be increased by reducing the number of available physical network jacks.
D. Wireless network security may need to be decreased to allow for increased access of mobile devices.
Answer: C
Q12. - (Topic 2)
An employee is performing a review of the organization’s security functions and noticed that there is some cross over responsibility between the IT security team and the financial fraud team. Which of the following security documents should be used to clarify the roles and responsibilities between the teams?
A. BPA
B. BIA
C. MOU
D. OLA
Answer: C
Q13. - (Topic 1)
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at a company knows that many users store business documents on public cloud-based storage, and realizes this is a risk to the company. In response, the CISO implements a mandatory training course in which all employees are instructed on the proper use of cloud-based storage. Which of the following risk strategies did the CISO implement?
A. Avoid
B. Accept
C. Mitigate
D. Transfer
Answer: C
Q14. - (Topic 1)
A web services company is planning a one-time high-profile event to be hosted on the corporate website. An outage, due to an attack, would be publicly embarrassing, so Joe, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), has requested that his security engineers put temporary preventive controls in place. Which of the following would MOST appropriately address Joe's concerns?
A. Ensure web services hosting the event use TCP cookies and deny_hosts.
B. Configure an intrusion prevention system that blocks IPs after detecting too many incomplete sessions.
C. Contract and configure scrubbing services with third-party DDoS mitigation providers.
D. Purchase additional bandwidth from the company’s Internet service provider.
Answer: C
Q15. - (Topic 2)
An administrator is implementing a new network-based storage device. In selecting a storage protocol, the administrator would like the data in transit's integrity to be the most important concern. Which of the following protocols meets these needs by implementing either AES-CMAC or HMAC-SHA256 to sign data?
A. SMB
B. NFS
C. FCoE
D. iSCSI
Answer: A