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Q1. - (Topic 1)
A system administrator needs to meet the maximum amount of security goals for a new DNS infrastructure. The administrator deploys DNSSEC extensions to the domain names
and infrastructure. Which of the following security goals does this meet? (Select TWO).
A. Availability
B. Authentication
C. Integrity
D. Confidentiality
E. Encryption
Answer: B,C
Q2. - (Topic 3)
An intrusion detection system logged an attack attempt from a remote IP address. One week later, the attacker successfully compromised the network. Which of the following MOST likely occurred?
A. The IDS generated too many false negatives.
B. The attack occurred after hours.
C. The IDS generated too many false positives.
D. No one was reviewing the IDS event logs.
Answer: D
Q3. - (Topic 4)
An Association is preparing to upgrade their firewalls at five locations around the United States. Each of the three vendor’s RFP responses is in-line with the security and other requirements. Which of the following should the security administrator do to ensure the firewall platform is appropriate for the Association?
A. Correlate current industry research with the RFP responses to ensure validity.
B. Create a lab environment to evaluate each of the three firewall platforms.
C. Benchmark each firewall platform’s capabilities and experiences with similar sized companies.
D. Develop criteria and rate each firewall platform based on information in the RFP responses.
Answer: B
Q4. - (Topic 2)
A risk manager has decided to use likelihood and consequence to determine the risk of an event occurring to a company asset. Which of the following is a limitation of this approach to risk management?
A. Subjective and based on an individual's experience.
B. Requires a high degree of upfront work to gather environment details.
C. Difficult to differentiate between high, medium, and low risks.
D. Allows for cost and benefit analysis.
E. Calculations can be extremely complex to manage.
Answer: A
Q5. - (Topic 1)
A new piece of ransomware got installed on a company’s backup server which encrypted the hard drives containing the OS and backup application configuration but did not affect the deduplication data hard drives. During the incident response, the company finds that all backup tapes for this server are also corrupt. Which of the following is the PRIMARY concern?
A. Determining how to install HIPS across all server platforms to prevent future incidents
B. Preventing the ransomware from re-infecting the server upon restore
C. Validating the integrity of the deduplicated data
D. Restoring the data will be difficult without the application configuration
Answer: D
Q6. - (Topic 3)
Staff from the sales department have administrator rights to their corporate standard operating environment, and often connect their work laptop to customer networks when onsite during meetings and presentations. This increases the risk and likelihood of a security incident when the sales staff reconnects to the corporate LAN. Which of the following controls would BEST protect the corporate network?
A. Implement a network access control (NAC) solution that assesses the posture of the laptop before granting network access.
B. Use an independent consulting firm to provide regular network vulnerability assessments and biannually qualitative risk assessments.
C. Provide sales staff with a separate laptop with no administrator access just for sales visits.
D. Update the acceptable use policy and ensure sales staff read and acknowledge the policy.
Answer: A
Q7. - (Topic 2)
An enterprise must ensure that all devices that connect to its networks have been previously approved. The solution must support dual factor mutual authentication with strong identity assurance. In order to reduce costs and administrative overhead, the security architect wants to outsource identity proofing and second factor digital delivery to the third party. Which of the following solutions will address the enterprise requirements?
A. Implementing federated network access with the third party.
B. Using a HSM at the network perimeter to handle network device access.
C. Using a VPN concentrator which supports dual factor via hardware tokens.
D. Implementing 802.1x with EAP-TTLS across the infrastructure.
Answer: D
Q8. - (Topic 4)
The lead systems architect on a software development project developed a design which is optimized for a distributed computing environment. The security architect assigned to the project has concerns about the integrity of the system, if it is deployed in a commercial cloud. Due to poor communication within the team, the security risks of the proposed design are not being given any attention. A network engineer on the project has a security background and is concerned about the overall success of the project. Which of the following is the BEST course of action for the network engineer to take?
A. Address the security concerns through the network design and security controls.
B. Implement mitigations to the security risks and address the poor communications on the team with the project manager.
C. Document mitigations to the security concerns and facilitate a meeting between the architects and the project manager.
D. Develop a proposal for an alternative architecture that does not leverage cloud computing and present it to the lead architect.
Answer: C
Q9. - (Topic 4)
A medium-sized company has recently launched an online product catalog. It has decided to keep the credit card purchasing in-house as a secondary potential income stream has been identified in relation to sales leads. The company has decided to undertake a PCI assessment in order to determine the amount of effort required to meet the business objectives. Which compliance category would this task be part of?
A. Government regulation
B. Industry standard
C. Company guideline
D. Company policy
Answer: B
Q10. - (Topic 5)
A security engineer has inherited an authentication project which integrates 1024-bit PKI certificates into the company infrastructure and now has a new requirement to integrate 2048-bit PKI certificates so that the entire company will be interoperable with its vendors when the project is completed. The project is now 25% complete, with 15% of the company staff being issued 1024-bit certificates. The provisioning of network based accounts has not occurred yet due to other project delays. The project is now expected to be over budget and behind its original schedule. Termination of the existing project and beginning a new project is a consideration because of the change in scope. Which of the following is the security engineer’s MOST serious concern with implementing this solution?
A. Succession planning
B. Performance
C. Maintainability
D. Availability
Answer: C
Q11. - (Topic 1)
A penetration tester is assessing a mobile banking application. Man-in-the-middle attempts via a HTTP intercepting proxy are failing with SSL errors. Which of the following controls has likely been implemented by the developers?
A. SSL certificate revocation
B. SSL certificate pinning
C. Mobile device root-kit detection
D. Extended Validation certificates
Answer: B
Q12. - (Topic 4)
A security architect is designing a new infrastructure using both type 1 and type 2 virtual machines. In addition to the normal complement of security controls (e.g. antivirus, host hardening, HIPS/NIDS) the security architect needs to implement a mechanism to securely store cryptographic keys used to sign code and code modules on the VMs. Which of the following will meet this goal without requiring any hardware pass-through implementations?
A. vTPM
B. HSM
C. TPM
D. INE
Answer: A
Q13. - (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
Q14. - (Topic 5)
A high-tech company dealing with sensitive data seized the mobile device of an employee suspected of leaking company secrets to a competitive organization. Which of the following is the BEST order for mobile phone evidence extraction?
A. Device isolation, evidence intake, device identification, data processing, verification of data accuracy, documentation, reporting, presentation and archival.
B. Evidence intake, device identification, preparation to identify the necessary tools, device isolation, data processing, verification of data accuracy, documentation, reporting, presentation and archival.
C. Evidence log, device isolation ,device identification, preparation to identify the necessary tools, data processing, verification of data accuracy, presentation and archival.
D. Device identification, evidence log, preparation to identify the necessary tools, data processing, verification of data accuracy, device isolation, documentation, reporting, presentation and archival.
Answer: B
Q15. - (Topic 1)
An application present on the majority of an organization’s 1,000 systems is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. Which of the following is the MOST comprehensive way to resolve the issue?
A. Deploy custom HIPS signatures to detect and block the attacks.
B. Validate and deploy the appropriate patch.
C. Run the application in terminal services to reduce the threat landscape.
D. Deploy custom NIPS signatures to detect and block the attacks.
Answer: B