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Q1. - (Topic 1)
A security analyst has been asked to develop a quantitative risk analysis and risk assessment for the company’s online shopping application. Based on heuristic information from the Security Operations Center (SOC), a Denial of Service Attack (DoS) has been successfully executed 5 times a year. The Business Operations department has determined the loss associated to each attack is $40,000. After implementing application caching, the number of DoS attacks was reduced to one time a year. The cost of the countermeasures was $100,000. Which of the following is the monetary value earned during the first year of operation?
A. $60,000
B. $100,000
C. $140,000
D. $200,000
Answer: A
Q2. - (Topic 1)
At 9:00 am each morning, all of the virtual desktops in a VDI implementation become extremely slow and/or unresponsive. The outage lasts for around 10 minutes, after which everything runs properly again. The administrator has traced the problem to a lab of thin clients that are all booted at 9:00 am each morning. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the problem and the BEST solution? (Select TWO).
A. Add guests with more memory to increase capacity of the infrastructure.
B. A backup is running on the thin clients at 9am every morning.
C. Install more memory in the thin clients to handle the increased load while booting.
D. Booting all the lab desktops at the same time is creating excessive I/O.
E. Install 10-Gb uplinks between the hosts and the lab to increase network capacity.
F. Install faster SSD drives in the storage system used in the infrastructure.
G. The lab desktops are saturating the network while booting.
H. The lab desktops are using more memory than is available to the host systems.
Answer: D,F
Q3. - (Topic 1)
A company has received the contract to begin developing a new suite of software tools to replace an aging collaboration solution. The original collaboration solution has been in place for nine years, contains over a million lines of code, and took over two years to develop originally. The SDLC has been broken up into eight primary stages, with each stage requiring an in-depth risk analysis before moving on to the next phase. Which of the following software development methods is MOST applicable?
A. Spiral model
B. Incremental model
C. Waterfall model
D. Agile model
Answer: C
Q4. - (Topic 3)
An administrator at a small company replaces servers whenever budget money becomes available. Over the past several years the company has acquired and still uses 20 servers and 50 desktops from five different computer manufacturers. Which of the following are management challenges and risks associated with this style of technology lifecycle management?
A. Decreased security posture, decommission of outdated hardware, inability to centrally manage, and performance bottlenecks on old hardware.
B. Increased mean time to failure rate of legacy servers, OS variances, patch availability, and ability to restore to dissimilar hardware.
C. OS end-of-support issues, ability to backup data, hardware parts availability, and firmware update availability and management.
D. Inability to use virtualization, trusted OS complexities, and multiple patch versions based on OS dependency.
Answer: B
Q5. - (Topic 1)
A security administrator is tasked with implementing two-factor authentication for the company VPN. The VPN is currently configured to authenticate VPN users against a backend RADIUS server. New company policies require a second factor of authentication, and the Information Security Officer has selected PKI as the second factor. Which of the following should the security administrator configure and implement on the VPN concentrator to implement the second factor and ensure that no error messages are displayed to the user during the VPN connection? (Select TWO).
A. The user’s certificate private key must be installed on the VPN concentrator.
B. The CA’s certificate private key must be installed on the VPN concentrator.
C. The user certificate private key must be signed by the CA.
D. The VPN concentrator’s certificate private key must be signed by the CA and installed on the VPN concentrator.
E. The VPN concentrator’s certificate private key must be installed on the VPN concentrator.
F. The CA’s certificate public key must be installed on the VPN concentrator.
Answer: E,F
Q6. - (Topic 1)
A developer has implemented a piece of client-side JavaScript code to sanitize a user’s provided input to a web page login screen. The code ensures that only the upper case and lower case letters are entered in the username field, and that only a 6-digit PIN is entered in the password field. A security administrator is concerned with the following web server log:
10.235.62.11 – - [02/Mar/2014:06:13:04] “GET /site/script.php?user=admin&pass=pass%20or%201=1 HTTP/1.1” 200 5724
Given this log, which of the following is the security administrator concerned with and which fix should be implemented by the developer?
A. The security administrator is concerned with nonprintable characters being used to gain administrative access, and the developer should strip all nonprintable characters.
B. The security administrator is concerned with XSS, and the developer should normalize Unicode characters on the browser side.
C. The security administrator is concerned with SQL injection, and the developer should implement server side input validation.
D. The security administrator is concerned that someone may log on as the administrator, and the developer should ensure strong passwords are enforced.
Answer: C
Q7. CORRECT TEXT - (Topic 4)
The IDS has detected abnormal behavior on this network. Click on the network devices to view device information. Based on this information, the following tasks should be completed:
1. Select the server that is a victim of a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.
2 Select the source of the brute force password attack.
3. Modify the access control list (ACL) on the router(s) to ONLY block the XSS attack.
Instructions: Simulations can be reset at anytime to the initial state: however, all selections will be deleted
Answer: Please review following steps:
Q8. - (Topic 5)
As a cost saving measure, a company has instructed the security engineering team to allow all consumer devices to be able to access the network. They have asked for recommendations on what is needed to secure the enterprise, yet offer the most flexibility in terms of controlling applications, and stolen devices. Which of the following is BEST suited for the requirements?
A. MEAP with Enterprise Appstore
B. Enterprise Appstore with client-side VPN software
C. MEAP with TLS
D. MEAP with MDM
Answer: D
Q9. - (Topic 1)
An external penetration tester compromised one of the client organization’s authentication servers and retrieved the password database. Which of the following methods allows the penetration tester to MOST efficiently use any obtained administrative credentials on the client organization’s other systems, without impacting the integrity of any of the systems?
A. Use the pass the hash technique
B. Use rainbow tables to crack the passwords
C. Use the existing access to change the password
D. Use social engineering to obtain the actual password
Answer: A
Q10. - (Topic 4)
Two storage administrators are discussing which SAN configurations will offer the MOST confidentiality. Which of the following configurations would the administrators use? (Select TWO).
A. Deduplication
B. Zoning
C. Snapshots
D. Multipathing
E. LUN masking
Answer: B,E
Q11. - (Topic 2)
ABC Corporation has introduced token-based authentication to system administrators due to the risk of password compromise. The tokens have a set of HMAC counter-based codes and are valid until they are used. Which of the following types of authentication mechanisms does this statement describe?
A. TOTP
B. PAP
C. CHAP
D. HOTP
Answer: D
Q12. - (Topic 5)
An extensible commercial software system was upgraded to the next minor release version to patch a security vulnerability. After the upgrade, an unauthorized intrusion into the system was detected. The software vendor is called in to troubleshoot the issue and reports that all core components were updated properly. Which of the following has been overlooked in securing the system? (Select TWO).
A. The company’s IDS signatures were not updated.
B. The company’s custom code was not patched.
C. The patch caused the system to revert to http.
D. The software patch was not cryptographically signed.
E. The wrong version of the patch was used.
F. Third-party plug-ins were not patched.
Answer: B,F
Q13. - (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
Q14. - (Topic 4)
A system administrator has installed a new Internet facing secure web application that consists of a Linux web server and Windows SQL server into a new corporate site. The administrator wants to place the servers in the most logical network security zones and implement the appropriate security controls. Which of the following scenarios BEST accomplishes this goal?
A. Create an Internet zone, DMZ, and Internal zone on the firewall. Place the web server in the DMZ. Configure IPtables to allow TCP 80 and 443. Set SELinux to permissive. Place the SQL server in the internal zone. Configure the Windows firewall to allow TCP 80 and
443. Configure the Internet zone with ACLs of allow 80 and 443 destination DMZ.
B. Create an Internet zone, DMZ, and Internal zone on the firewall. Place the web server in the DMZ. Configure IPtables to allow TCP 443. Set enforcement threshold on SELinux to one. Place the SQL server in the internal zone. Configure the Windows firewall to allow TCP 1433 and 1443. Configure the Internet zone with ACLs of allow 443 destination DMZ.
C. Create an Internet zone and two DMZ zones on the firewall. Place the web server in the DMZ one. Set the enforcement threshold on SELinux to 100, and configure IPtables to allow TCP 80 and 443. Place the SQL server in DMZ two. Configure the Windows firewall to allow TCP 80 and 443. Configure the Internet zone with an ACL of allow 443 destination ANY.
D. Create an Internet zone and two DMZ zones on the firewall. Place the web server in DMZ one. Set enforcement threshold on SELinux to zero, and configure IPtables to allow TCP 80 and 443. Place the SQL server in DMZ two. Configure the Internet zone ACLs with allow 80, 443, 1433, and 1443 destination ANY.
Answer: B
Q15. - (Topic 2)
A company has a difficult time communicating between the security engineers, application developers, and sales staff. The sales staff tends to overpromise the application deliverables. The security engineers and application developers are falling behind schedule. Which of the following should be done to solve this?
A. Allow the sales staff to shadow the developers and engineers to see how their sales impact the deliverables.
B. Allow the security engineering team to do application development so they understand why it takes so long.
C. Allow the application developers to attend a sales conference so they understand how business is done.
D. Allow the sales staff to learn application programming and security engineering so they understand the whole lifecycle.
Answer: A