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Q1. - (Topic 5)
A company uses a custom Line of Business (LOB) application to facilitate all back-end manufacturing control. Upon investigation, it has been determined that the database used by the LOB application uses a proprietary data format. The risk management group has flagged this as a potential weakness in the company’s operational robustness. Which of the following would be the GREATEST concern when analyzing the manufacturing control application?
A. Difficulty backing up the custom database
B. Difficulty migrating to new hardware
C. Difficulty training new admin personnel
D. Difficulty extracting data from the database
Answer: D
Q2. - (Topic 1)
A company is facing penalties for failing to effectively comply with e-discovery requests. Which of the following could reduce the overall risk to the company from this issue?
A. Establish a policy that only allows filesystem encryption and disallows the use of individual file encryption.
B. Require each user to log passwords used for file encryption to a decentralized repository.
C. Permit users to only encrypt individual files using their domain password and archive all old user passwords.
D. Allow encryption only by tools that use public keys from the existing escrowed corporate PKI.
Answer: D
Q3. - (Topic 3)
A Physical Security Manager is ready to replace all 50 analog surveillance cameras with IP cameras with built-in web management. The Security Manager has several security guard desks on different networks that must be able to view the cameras without unauthorized people viewing the video as well. The selected IP camera vendor does not have the ability to authenticate users at the camera level. Which of the following should the Security Manager suggest to BEST secure this environment?
A. Create an IP camera network and deploy NIPS to prevent unauthorized access.
B. Create an IP camera network and only allow SSL access to the cameras.
C. Create an IP camera network and deploy a proxy to authenticate users prior to accessing the cameras.
D. Create an IP camera network and restrict access to cameras from a single management host.
Answer: C
Q4. - (Topic 1)
The risk manager is reviewing a report which identifies a requirement to keep a business critical legacy system operational for the next two years. The legacy system is out of support because the vendor and security patches are no longer released. Additionally, this is a proprietary embedded system and little is documented and known about it. Which of the following should the Information Technology department implement to reduce the security risk from a compromise of this system?
A. Virtualize the system and migrate it to a cloud provider.
B. Segment the device on its own secure network.
C. Install an antivirus and HIDS on the system.
D. Hire developers to reduce vulnerabilities in the code.
Answer: B
Q5. - (Topic 1)
An organization would like to allow employees to use their network username and password to access a third-party service. The company is using Active Directory Federated Services for their directory service. Which of the following should the company ensure is supported by the third-party? (Select TWO).
A. LDAP/S
B. SAML
C. NTLM
D. OAUTH
E. Kerberos
Answer: B,E
Q6. - (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
Q7. - (Topic 2)
ABC Company must achieve compliance for PCI and SOX. Which of the following would BEST allow the organization to achieve compliance and ensure security? (Select THREE).
A. Establish a list of users that must work with each regulation
B. Establish a list of devices that must meet each regulation
C. Centralize management of all devices on the network
D. Compartmentalize the network
E. Establish a company framework
F. Apply technical controls to meet compliance with the regulation
Answer: B,D,F
Q8. - (Topic 3)
A health service provider is considering the impact of allowing doctors and nurses access to the internal email system from their personal smartphones. The Information Security Officer (ISO) has received a technical document from the security administrator explaining that the current email system is capable of enforcing security policies to personal smartphones, including screen lockout and mandatory PINs. Additionally, the system is able to remotely wipe a phone if reported lost or stolen. Which of the following should the Information Security Officer be MOST concerned with based on this scenario? (Select THREE).
A. The email system may become unavailable due to overload.
B. Compliance may not be supported by all smartphones.
C. Equipment loss, theft, and data leakage.
D. Smartphone radios can interfere with health equipment.
E. Data usage cost could significantly increase.
F. Not all smartphones natively support encryption.
G. Smartphones may be used as rogue access points.
Answer: B,C,F
Q9. - (Topic 3)
Company XYZ has transferred all of the corporate servers, including web servers, to a cloud hosting provider to reduce costs. All of the servers are running unpatched, outdated versions of Apache. Furthermore, the corporate financial data is also hosted by the cloud services provider, but it is encrypted when not in use. Only the DNS server is configured to audit user and administrator actions and logging is disabled on the other virtual machines. Given this scenario, which of the following is the MOST significant risk to the system?
A. All servers are unpatched and running old versions.
B. Financial data is processed without being encrypted.
C. Logging is disabled on critical servers.
D. Server services have been virtualized and outsourced.
Answer: A
Q10. - (Topic 1)
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company that allows telecommuting has challenged the Chief Security Officer’s (CSO) request to harden the corporate network’s perimeter. The CEO argues that the company cannot protect its employees at home, so the risk at work is no different. Which of the following BEST explains why this company should proceed with protecting its corporate network boundary?
A. The corporate network is the only network that is audited by regulators and customers.
B. The aggregation of employees on a corporate network makes it a more valuable target for attackers.
C. Home networks are unknown to attackers and less likely to be targeted directly.
D. Employees are more likely to be using personal computers for general web browsing when they are at home.
Answer: B
Q11. - (Topic 1)
A human resources manager at a software development company has been tasked with recruiting personnel for a new cyber defense division in the company. This division will require personnel to have high technology skills and industry certifications. Which of the following is the BEST method for this manager to gain insight into this industry to execute the task?
A. Interview candidates, attend training, and hire a staffing company that specializes in technology jobs
B. Interview employees and managers to discover the industry hot topics and trends
C. Attend meetings with staff, internal training, and become certified in software management
D. Attend conferences, webinars, and training to remain current with the industry and job requirements
Answer: D
Q12. - (Topic 4)
A general insurance company wants to set up a new online business. The requirements are that the solution needs to be:
The conceptual solution architecture has specified that the application will consist of a traditional three tiered architecture for the front end components, an ESB to provide services, data transformation capability and legacy system integration and a web services gateway.
Which of the following security components will BEST meet the above requirements and fit into the solution architecture? (Select TWO).
A. Implement WS-Security for services authentication and XACML for service authorization.
B. Use end-to-end application level encryption to encrypt all fields and store them encrypted in the database.
C. Implement a certificate based solution on a smart card in combination with a PIN to provide authentication and authorization of users.
D. Implement WS-Security as a federated single sign-on solution for authentication authorization of users.
E. Implement SSL encryption for all sensitive data flows and encryption of passwords of the data at rest.
F. Use application level encryption to encrypt sensitive fields, SSL encryption on sensitive flows, and database encryption for sensitive data storage.
Answer: A,F
Q13. - (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
Q14. - (Topic 1)
A software development manager is taking over an existing software development project. The team currently suffers from poor communication due to a long delay between requirements documentation and feature delivery. This gap is resulting in an above average number of security-related bugs making it into production. Which of the following development methodologies is the team MOST likely using now?
A. Agile
B. Waterfall
C. Scrum
D. Spiral
Answer: B
Q15. - (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