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Questions # 46:

An IDS was unable to detect malicious network traffic during a recent security incident, even though all traffic was being sent using HTTPS. As a result, a website used by employees was compromised. Which of the following detection mechanisms would allow the IDS to detect an attack like this one in the future?

Options:

A.

Deobfuscation

B.

Protocol decoding

C.

Inspection proxy

D.

Digital rights management

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Questions # 47:

A security administrator wants to enable a feature that would prevent a compromised encryption key from being used to decrypt all the VPN traffic. Which of the following should the security administrator use?

Options:

A.

Salsa20 cipher

B.

TLS-based VPN

C.

PKI-based IKE IPSec negotiation

D.

Perfect forward secrecy

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Questions # 48:

A security analyst is examining a former employee's laptop for suspected evidence of suspicious activity. The analyst usesddduring the investigation. Which of the following best explains why the analyst is using this tool?

Options:

A.

To capture an image of the hard drive

B.

To reverse engineer binary programs

C.

To recover deleted logs from the laptop

D.

To deduplicate unnecessary data from the hard drive

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Questions # 49:

An application engineer is using the Swagger framework to leverage REST APIs to authenticate endpoints. The engineer is receiving HTTP 403 responses. Which of the following should the engineer do to correct this issue? (Select two).

Options:

A.

Obtain a security token.

B.

Obtain a public key.

C.

Leverage Kerberos for authentication

D.

Leverage OAuth for authentication.

E.

Leverage LDAP for authentication.

F.

Obtain a hash value.

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Questions # 50:

A security engineer is reviewing event logs because an employee successfully connected a personal Windows laptop to the corporate network, which is against company policy. Company policy allows all Windows 10 and 11 laptops to connect to the system as long as the MDM agent installed by IT is running. Only compliant devices can connect, and the logic in the system to evaluate compliant laptops is as follows:

Question # 50

Which of the following most likely occurred when the employee connected a personally owned Windows laptop and was allowed on the network?

Options:

A.

The agent was not running on the laptop, which triggered a false positive.

B.

The OS was a valid version, but the MDM agent was not installed, triggering a true positive.

C.

The OS was running a Windows version below 10 and triggered a false negative.

D.

The OS version was higher than 11. and the MDM agent was running, triggering a true negative.

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Questions # 51:

The principal security analyst for a global manufacturer is investigating a security incident related to abnormal behavior in the ICS network. A controller was restarted as part of the troubleshooting process, and the following issue was identified when the controller was restarted:

Question # 51

During the investigation, this modified firmware version was identified on several other controllers at the site. The official vendor firmware versions do not have this checksum. Which of the following stages of the MITRE ATT&CK framework for ICS includes this technique?

Options:

A.

Evasion

B.

Persistence

C.

Collection

D.

Lateral movement

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Questions # 52:

A company's Chief Information Security Officer wants to prevent the company from being the target of ransomware. The company's IT assets need to be protected. Which of the following are the most secure options to address these concerns? (Select three).

Options:

A.

Antivirus

B.

EDR

C.

Sand boxing

D.

Application control

E.

Host-based firewall

F.

IDS

G.

SIEM

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Questions # 53:

Some end users of an e-commerce website are reporting a delay when browsing pages. The website uses TLS 1.2. A security architect for the website troubleshoots by connecting from home to the

website and capturing tramc via Wire-shark. The security architect finds that the issue is the time required to validate the certificate. Which of the following solutions should the security architect

recommend?

Options:

A.

Adding more nodes to the web server clusters

B.

Changing the cipher algorithm used on the web server

C.

Implementing OCSP stapling on the server

D.

Upgrading to TLS 1.3

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Questions # 54:

Which of the following processes involves searching and collecting evidence during an investigation or lawsuit?

Options:

A.

E-discovery

B.

Review analysis

C.

Information governance

D.

Chain of custody

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Questions # 55:

A systems administrator was given the following IOC to detect the presence of a malicious piece of software communicating with its command-and-control server:

post /malicious. php

User-Agent: Malicious Tool V 1.0

Host: www.rcalicious.com

The IOC documentation suggests the URL is the only part that could change. Which of the following regular expressions would allow the systems administrator to determine if any of the company hosts are compromised, while reducing false positives?

Options:

A.

User-Agent: Malicious Tool.*

B.

www\. malicious\. com\/malicious. php

C.

POST /malicious\. php

D.

Hose: [a-2] *\.malicious\.com

E.

malicious. *

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Questions # 56:

Which of the following is a risk associated with SDN?

Options:

A.

Expanded attack surface

B.

Increased hardware management costs

C.

Reduced visibility of scaling capabilities

D.

New firmware vulnerabilities

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Questions # 57:

During a recent security incident investigation, a security analyst mistakenly turned off the infected machine prior to consulting with a forensic analyst. upon rebooting the machine, a malicious script that

was running as a background process was no longer present. As a result, potentially useful evidence was lost. Which of the following should the security analyst have followed?

Options:

A.

Order of volatility

B.

Chain of custody

C.

Verification

D.

Secure storage

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Questions # 58:

During a recent breach, an attacker was able to get a user's login credentials by cracking a password that was retrieved via a stolen laptop. The attacker accessed the hashed passwords from the hard drive when it was connected to another device. Which of the following security measures could have helped prevent this account from being compromised?

Options:

A.

Host-based Intrusion Detection System

B.

Endpoint Detection and Response

C.

Host-based Firewall

D.

Full Disk Encryption

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Questions # 59:

After a cybersecurity incident, a judge found that a company did not conduct a proper forensic investigation. The company was ordered to pay penalties. Which of the following forensic steps would be best to prevent this from happening again?

Options:

A.

Evidence preservation

B.

Evidence verification

C.

Evidence collection

D.

Evidence analysis

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Questions # 60:

A company with customers in the United States and Europe wants to ensure its content is delivered to end users with low latency. Content includes both sensitive and public information. The company's data centers are located on the West Coast of the United States. Users on the East Coast of the United States and users in Europe are experiencing slow application response. Which of the following would allow the company to improve application response quickly?

Options:

A.

Installing reverse caching proxies in both data centers and implementing proxy auto scaling

B.

Using HTTPS to serve sensitive content and HTTP for public content

C.

Using colocation services in regions where the application response is slow

D.

Implementing a CDN and forcing all traffic through the CDN

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