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Q1. - (Topic 1)
An organization has decided to reduce labor costs by outsourcing back office processing of credit applications to a provider located in another country. Data sovereignty and privacy concerns raised by the security team resulted in the third-party provider only accessing and processing the data via remote desktop sessions. To facilitate communications and improve productivity, staff at the third party has been provided with corporate email accounts that are only accessible via the remote desktop sessions. Email forwarding is blocked and staff at the third party can only communicate with staff within the organization. Which of the following additional controls should be implemented to prevent data loss? (Select THREE).
A. Implement hashing of data in transit
B. Session recording and capture
C. Disable cross session cut and paste
D. Monitor approved credit accounts
E. User access audit reviews
F. Source IP whitelisting
Answer: C,E,F
Q2. - (Topic 4)
An organization is preparing to upgrade its firewall and NIPS infrastructure and has narrowed the vendor choices down to two platforms. The integrator chosen to assist the organization with the deployment has many clients running a mixture of the possible combinations of environments. Which of the following is the MOST comprehensive method for evaluating the two platforms?
A. Benchmark each possible solution with the integrators existing client deployments.
B. Develop testing criteria and evaluate each environment in-house.
C. Run virtual test scenarios to validate the potential solutions.
D. Use results from each vendor’s test labs to determine adherence to project requirements.
Answer: B
Q3. - (Topic 1)
Ann, a software developer, wants to publish her newly developed software to an online store. Ann wants to ensure that the software will not be modified by a third party or end users before being installed on mobile devices. Which of the following should Ann implement to stop modified copies of her software from running on mobile devices?
A. Single sign-on
B. Identity propagation
C. Remote attestation
D. Secure code review
Answer: C
Q4. - (Topic 5)
A security manager is concerned about performance and patch management, and, as a result, wants to implement a virtualization strategy to avoid potential future OS vulnerabilities in the host system. The IT manager wants a strategy that would provide the hypervisor with direct communications with the underlying physical hardware allowing the hardware resources to be paravirtualized and delivered to the guest machines. Which of the following recommendations from the server administrator BEST meets the IT and security managers’ requirements? (Select TWO).
A. Nested virtualized hypervisors
B. Type 1 hypervisor
C. Hosted hypervisor with a three layer software stack
D. Type 2 hypervisor
E. Bare metal hypervisor with a software stack of two layers
Answer: B,E
Q5. - (Topic 1)
Joe, a hacker, has discovered he can specifically craft a webpage that when viewed in a browser crashes the browser and then allows him to gain remote code execution in the context of the victim’s privilege level. The browser crashes due to an exception error when a heap memory that is unused is accessed. Which of the following BEST describes the application issue?
A. Integer overflow
B. Click-jacking
C. Race condition
D. SQL injection
E. Use after free
F. Input validation
Answer: E
Q6. - (Topic 3)
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a technology company is likely to move away from a de-perimeterized model for employee owned devices. This is because there were too many issues with lack of patching, malware incidents, and data leakage due to lost/stolen devices which did not have full-disk encryption. The ‘bring your own computing’ approach was originally introduced because different business units preferred different operating systems and application stacks. Based on the issues and user needs, which of the following is the BEST recommendation for the CIO to make?
A. The de-perimeterized model should be kept as this is major industry trend and other companies are following this direction. Advise that the issues being faced are standard business as usual concerns in a modern IT environment.
B. Update the policy to disallow non-company end-point devices on the corporate network. Develop security-focused standard operating environments (SOEs) for all required operating systems and ensure the needs of each business unit are met.
C. The de-perimeterized model should be kept but update company policies to state that non-company end-points require full disk encryption, anti-virus software, and regular patching.
D. Update the policy to disallow non-company end-point devices on the corporate network. Allow only one type of outsourced SOE to all users as this will be easier to provision, secure, and will save money on operating costs.
Answer: B
Q7. - (Topic 1)
A company is in the process of outsourcing its customer relationship management system to a cloud provider. It will host the entire organization’s customer database. The database will be accessed by both the company’s users and its customers. The procurement department has asked what security activities must be performed for the deal to proceed. Which of the following are the MOST appropriate security activities to be performed as part of due diligence? (Select TWO).
A. Physical penetration test of the datacenter to ensure there are appropriate controls.
B. Penetration testing of the solution to ensure that the customer data is well protected.
C. Security clauses are implemented into the contract such as the right to audit.
D. Review of the organizations security policies, procedures and relevant hosting certifications.
E. Code review of the solution to ensure that there are no back doors located in the software.
Answer: C,D
Q8. - (Topic 4)
A sensitive database needs its cryptographic integrity upheld. Which of the following controls meets this goal? (Select TWO).
A. Data signing
B. Encryption
C. Perfect forward secrecy
D. Steganography
E. Data vaulting
F. RBAC
G. Lock and key
Answer: A,F
Q9. - (Topic 5)
Two universities are making their 802.11n wireless networks available to the other university’s students. The infrastructure will pass the student’s credentials back to the home school for authentication via the Internet.
The requirements are:
Mutual authentication of clients and authentication server The design should not limit connection speeds Authentication must be delegated to the home school No passwords should be sent unencrypted The following design was implemented: WPA2 Enterprise using EAP-PEAP-MSCHAPv2 will be used for wireless security RADIUS proxy servers will be used to forward authentication requests to the home school The RADIUS servers will have certificates from a common public certificate authority A strong shared secret will be used for RADIUS server authentication
Which of the following security considerations should be added to the design?
A. The transport layer between the RADIUS servers should be secured
B. WPA Enterprise should be used to decrease the network overhead
C. The RADIUS servers should have local accounts for the visiting students
D. Students should be given certificates to use for authentication to the network
Answer: A
Q10. - (Topic 4)
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a large prestigious enterprise has decided to reduce business costs by outsourcing to a third party company in another country. Functions to be outsourced include: business analysts, testing, software development and back office functions that deal with the processing of customer data. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned about the outsourcing plans. Which of the following risks are MOST likely to occur if adequate controls are not implemented?
A. Geographical regulation issues, loss of intellectual property and interoperability agreement issues
B. Improper handling of client data, interoperability agreement issues and regulatory issues
C. Cultural differences, increased cost of doing business and divestiture issues
D. Improper handling of customer data, loss of intellectual property and reputation damage
Answer: D
Q11. - (Topic 3)
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has decided that servers in the company datacenter should be virtualized to conserve physical space. The risk assurance officer is concerned that the project team in charge of virtualizing servers plans to co-mingle many guest operating systems with different security requirements to speed up the rollout and reduce the number of host operating systems or hypervisors required.
Which of the following BEST describes the risk assurance officer’s concerns?
A. Co-mingling guest operating system with different security requirements allows guest OS privilege elevation to occur within the guest OS via shared memory allocation with the host OS.
B. Co-mingling of guest operating systems with different security requirements increases the risk of data loss if the hypervisor fails.
C. A weakly protected guest OS combined with a host OS exploit increases the chance of a successful VMEscape attack being executed, compromising the hypervisor and other guest OS.
D. A weakly protected host OS will allow the hypervisor to become corrupted resulting in data throughput performance issues.
Answer: C
Q12. - (Topic 4)
An organization has just released a new mobile application for its customers. The application has an inbuilt browser and native application to render content from existing websites and the organization’s new web services gateway. All rendering of the content is performed on the mobile application.
The application requires SSO between the application, the web services gateway and legacy UI. Which of the following controls MUST be implemented to securely enable SSO?
A. A registration process is implemented to have a random number stored on the client.
B. The identity is passed between the applications as a HTTP header over REST.
C. Local storage of the authenticated token on the mobile application is secured.
D. Attestation of the XACML payload to ensure that the client is authorized.
Answer: C
Q13. - (Topic 5)
Which of the following is the information owner responsible for?
A. Developing policies, standards, and baselines.
B. Determining the proper classification levels for data within the system.
C. Integrating security considerations into application and system purchasing decisions.
D. Implementing and evaluating security controls by validating the integrity of the data.
Answer: B
Q14. - (Topic 2)
A security administrator is performing VDI traffic data collection on a virtual server which migrates from one host to another. While reviewing the data collected by the protocol analyzer, the security administrator notices that sensitive data is present in the packet capture. Which of the following should the security administrator recommend to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive information during live VM migration, while minimizing latency issues?
A. A separate physical interface placed on a private VLAN should be configured for live host operations.
B. Database record encryption should be used when storing sensitive information on virtual servers.
C. Full disk encryption should be enabled across the enterprise to ensure the confidentiality of sensitive data.
D. Sensitive data should be stored on a backend SAN which uses an isolated fiber channel network.
Answer: A
Q15. - (Topic 4)
A large bank deployed a DLP solution to detect and block customer and credit card data from leaving the organization via email. A disgruntled employee was able to successfully exfiltrate data through the corporate email gateway by embedding a word processing document containing sensitive data as an object in a CAD file. Which of the following BEST explains why it was not detected and blocked by the DLP solution? (Select TWO).
A. The product does not understand how to decode embedded objects.
B. The embedding of objects in other documents enables document encryption by default.
C. The process of embedding an object obfuscates the data.
D. The mail client used to send the email is not compatible with the DLP product.
E. The DLP product cannot scan multiple email attachments at the same time.
Answer: A,C