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IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate Assessment Exam Answers

IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate Assessment Exam Quiz Answers

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Question 1)

Implementing a Security Awareness training program would be an example of which type of control?

Administrative control

Question 2)

Putting locks on a door is an example of which type of control?

Preventative

Question 3)

How would you classify a piece of malicious code that can replicate itself and spread to new systems?

A worm

Question 4)

To engage in packet sniffing, you must implement promiscuous mode on which device ?

A network card
An Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
A sniffing router

Question 5)

Which mechanism would help assure the integrity of a message, but not do much to assure confidentiality or availability.

Hashing

Question 6)

An organization wants to restrict employee after-hours access to its systems so it publishes a policy forbidding employees to work outside of their assigned hours, and then makes sure the office doors remain locked on weekends. What two (2) types of controls are they using? (Select 2)

Physical
Administrative

Question 7)

Which two factors contribute to cryptographic strength? (Select 2)

The use of cyphers that are based on complex mathematical algorithms
The use of cyphers that have undergone public scrutiny

Question 8)

Trying to break an encryption key by trying every possible combination of characters is called what?

A brute force attack

Question 9)

Which of the following describes the core goals of IT security?

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Framework
The Business Process Management Framework
The CIA Triad

Question 10)

Which three (3) roles are typically found in an Information Security organization? (Select 3)

Vulnerability Assessor
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Penetration Tester

Question 11)

Problem Management, Change Management, and Incident Management are all key processes of which framework?

ITIL

Question 12)

Alice sends a message to Bob that is intercepted by Trudy. Which scenario describes an integrity violation?

Trudy changes the message and then forwards it on
Trudy deletes the message without forwarding it
Trudy reads the message
Trudy cannot read it because it is encrypted but allows it to be delivered to Bob in its original form

Question 13)

In cybersecurity, Accountability is defined as what?

Being able to map an action to an identity

Question 14)

Multifactor authentication (MFA) requires more than one authentication method to be used before identity is authenticated. Which three (3) are authentication methods? (Select 3)

Something a person is
Something a person has
Something a person knows

Question 15)

Which three (3) of the following are Physical Access Controls? (Select 3)

Door locks
Security guards
Fences

Question 16)

If you are setting up a Windows 10 laptop with a 32Gb hard drive, which two (2) file system could you select? (Select 2)

NTFS
FAT32

Question 17)

Which three (3) permissions can be set on a file in Linux? (Select 3)

write
execute
read

Question 18)

If cost is the primary concern, which type of cloud should be considered first?

Public cloud

Question 19)

Consolidating and virtualizing workloads should be done when?

Before moving the workloads to the cloud

Question 20)

Which of the following is a self-regulating standard set up by the credit card industry in the US?

PCI-DSS

Question 21)

Which two (2) of the following attack types target endpoints?

Ad Network
Spear Phishing

Question 22)

If an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) system detects that an endpoint does not have a required patch installed, which statement best characterizes the actions it is able to take automatically?

The endpoint can be quarantined from all network resources except those that allow it to download and install the missing patch

Question 23)

Granting access to a user based upon how high up he is in an organization violates what basic security premise?

The principle of least privileges

Question 24)

The Windows Security App available in Windows 10 provides uses with which of the following protections?

Firewall and network protection
Family options (parental controls)
All of the above

Question 25)

Hashing ensures which of the following?

Integrity

Question 26)

Which of the following practices helps assure the best results when implementing encryption?

Choose a reliable and proven published algorithm
Develop a unique cryptographic algorithm for your organization and keep them secret

Question 27)

Which of these methods ensures the authentication, non-repudiation and integrity of a digital communication?

Use of digital signatures

Question 28)

Which of the following practices will help assure the confidentiality of data in transit?

Disable certificate pinning
Accept self-signed certificates
Implement HTTP Strict Transport Protocol (HSTS)

Question 29)

Which three (3) of these are benefits you can realize from using a NAT (Network Address Translation) router? (Select 3)

Allows static 1-to-1 mapping of local IP addresses to global IP addresses
Allows dynamic mapping of many local IP addresses to a smaller number of global IP address only when they are needed
Allows internal IP addresses to be hidden from outside observers

Question 30)

Which statement best describes configuring a NAT router to use static mapping?

The organization will need as many registered IP addresses as it has computers that need Internet access

Question 31)

If a computer needs to send a message to a system that is part of the local network, where does it send the message?

To the system's MAC address

Question 32)

Which are properties of a highly available system?

Redundancy, failover and monitoring

Question 33)

Which three (3) of these statements about the UDP protocol are True? (Select 3)

UDP is faster than TCP
UDP packets are reassembled by the receiving system in whatever order they are received
UDP is connectionless

Question 34)

What is one difference between a Stateful Firewall and a Next Generation Firewall?

A NGFW understand which application sent a given packet

Question 35)

You are concerned that your organization is really not very experienced with securing data sources. Which hosting model would require you to secure the fewest data sources?

SaaS

Question 36)

Hassan is an engineer who works a normal day shift from his company's headquarters in Austin, TX USA. Which two (2) of these activities raise the most cause for concern? (Select 2)

Each night Hassan logs into his account from an ISP in China
One evening, Hassan downloads all of the files associated with the new product he is working on

Question 37)

Which three (3) of the following are considered safe coding practices? (Select 3)

Use library functions in place of OS commands
Avoid using OS commands whenever possible
Avoid running commands through a shell interpreter

Question 38)

Which three (3) items should be included in the Planning step of a penetration test? (Select 3)

Informing Need-to-know employees
Establishing Boundaries
Setting Objectives

Question 39)

Which portion of the pentest report would cover the risk ranking, recommendations and roadmap?

Executive Summary

Question 40)

Spare workstations and servers, blank removable media, packet sniffers and protocol analyzers, all belong to which Incident Response resource category?

Incident Post-Analysis Resources
Incident Analysis Hardware and Software

Question 41)

NIST recommends considering a number of items, including a high level of testing and monitoring, during which stage of a comprehensive Containment, Eradication & Recovery strategy?

Recovery

Question 42)

True or False. Digital forensics is effective in solving cyber crimes but is not considered effective in solving violent crimes such as rape and murder.

False

Question 43)

Which three (3) are common obstacles faced when trying to examine forensic data? (Select 3)

Selecting the right tools to help filter and exclude irrelevant data
Finding the relevant files among the hundreds of thousands found on most hard drives
Bypassing controls such as passwords

Question 44)

What scripting concept will repeatedly execute the same block of code while a specified condition remains true?

Loops

Question 45)

Which two (2) statements about Python are true? (Select 2)

Python code is considered easy to debug compared with other popular programming languages
Python code is considered very readable by novice programmers

Question 46)

In the Python statement

pi="3"

What data type is the data type of the variable pi?

Question 47)

What will be printed by the following block of Python code?

def Add5(in)

out=in+5

return out

print(Add5(10))

Question 48)

Which threat intelligence framework was developed by the US Government to enable consistent characterization and categorization of cyberthreat events?

Cyber Threat Framework

Question 49)

True or False. An organization's security immune system should be integrated with outside organizations, including vendors and other third-parties.

True

Question 50)

Which three (3) of these are among the top 12 capabilities that a good data security and protection solution should provide? (Select 3)

Vulnerability assessment
Real-time alerting
Tokenization

Question 51)

True or False. For iOS and Android mobile devices, users must interact with the operating system only through a series of applications, but not directly.

True

Question 52)

All industries have their own unique data security challenges. Which of these industries has a particular concern with PCI-DSS compliance while having a large number of access points staffed by low-level employees who have access to payment card data?

Retail

Question 53)

True or False. WireShark has an impressive array of features and is distributed free of charge.

True

Question 54)

In which component of a Common Vulnerability Score (CVSS) would privileges required be reflected?

Base-Exploitability Subscore

Question 55)

The Decommission step in the DevSecOps Release, Deploy & Decommission phase contains which of these activities?

IAM controls to regulate authorization

Question 56)

You calculate that there is a 2% probability that a cybercriminal will be able to steal credit card numbers from your online storefront which will result in $10M in losses to your company. What have you just determined?

A risk

Question 57)

Which one of the OWASP Top 10 Application Security Risks would be occur when an application's API exposes financial, healthcare or other PII data?

Sensitive data exposure

Question 58)

Which three (3) of these are Solution Building Blocks (SBBs)? (Select 3)

Virus Protection
Application Firewall
Spam Filter

Question 59)

A robust cybersecurity defense includes contributions from 3 areas, human expertise, security analytics and artificial intelligence. Rapidly analyzing large quantities of unstructured data lends itself best to which of these areas?

Artificial intelligence

Question 60)

The triad of a security operations centers (SOC) is People, Process and Technology. Which part of the triad would network monitoring belong?

Technology

Question 61)

Which of these is a good definition for cyber threat hunting?

The act of proactively and aggressively identifying, intercepting, tracking, investigating and eliminating cyber adversaries as early as possible in the cyber kill chain

Question 62)

There is value brought by each of the IBM i2 EIA use cases. Which one of these provides immediate alerting on brand compromises and fraud on the dark web.

Threat Discovery

Question 63)

Which three (3) soft skills are important to have in an organization's incident response team? (Select 3)

Communication
Teamwork
Problem solving and Critical thinking

Question 64)

Implementing strong endpoint detection and mitigation strategies falls into which phase of the incident response lifecycle?

Detection & Analysis

Question 65)

Which three (3) of these statistics about phishing attacks are real? (Select 3)

Around 15 million new phishing sites are created each month
Phishing accounts for nearly 20% of data breaches
30% of phishing messages are opened by their targeted users

Question 66)

Which three (3) of these control processes are included in the PCI-DSS standard? (Select 3)

Implement strong access control measures
Regularly monitor and test networks
Maintain an information security policy

Question 67)

Which three (3) are malware types commonly used in PoS attacks to steal credit card data? (Select 3)

Alina
BlackPOS
vSkimmer

Question 68)

According to a 2019 Ponemon study, what percent of consumers indicated they would be willing to pay more for a product or service from a provider with better security?

Question 69)

You get a phone call from a technician at the "Windows company" who tells you that they have detected a problem with your system and would like to help you resolve it. In order to help, they need you to go to a web site and download a simple utility that will allow them to fix the settings on your computer. Since you only own an Apple Mac, you are suspicious of this caller and hang up. What would the attack vector have been if you had downloaded the "simple utility" as asked?

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

Question 70)

What is an effective fully automated way to prevent malware from entering your system as an email attachment?

Anti-virus software

Question 71)

True or False. The large majority of stolen credit card numbers are used quickly by the thief or a member of his/her family.

False

Question 72)

Which three (3) of these are PCI-DSS requirements for any company handling, processing or transmitting credit card data? (Select 3)

Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know
Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access
Restrict physical access to cardholder data

Question 73)

True or False. Communications of a data breach should be handled by a team composed of members of the IR team, legal personnel and public relations.

True

Question 74)

A Coordinating incident response team model is characterized by which of the following?

Multiple incident response teams within an organization all of whom coordinate their activities only within their country or department

Multiple incident response teams within an organization but one with authority to assure consistent policies and practices are followed across all teams

This term refers to a structure that assures the incident response team's activities are coordinated with senior management and all appropriate departments within and organization

Question 75)

The cyber hunting team and the SOC analysts are informally referred to as the ____ and ____ teams, respectively.

Blue Red

Red, Blue

Question 76)

The partnership between security analysts and technology can be said to be grouped into 3 domains, human expertise, security analytics and artificial intelligence. The human expertise domain would contain which three (3) of these topics?

Abstraction
Dilemmas
Morals

Question 77)

Solution architectures often contain diagrams like the one below. What does this diagram show?

<<Solution Architecture Data Flow.png>>

Functional components and data flow

Question 78)

Port numbers 1024 through 49151 are known as what?

Registered Ports

Question 79)

Which layer of the OSI model to packet sniffers operate on?

Data Link

Question 80)

True or False. Internal attacks from trusted employees represents every bit as significant a threat as external attacks from professional cyber criminals.

True

Question 81)

According to the FireEye Mandiant's Security Effectiveness Report 2020, what fraction of security tools are deployed with default settings and thus underperform expectations?

Question 82)

Which country had the highest average cost per breach in 2018 at $8.19M

United States

Question 83)

Which two (2) of these Python libraries provides useful statistical functions? (Select 2)

StatsModels

Scikit-learn

Question 84)

What will print out when this block of Python code is run?

i=1

#i=i+1

#i=i+2

#i=i+3

print(i)

Question 85)

Which three (3) statements about Python variables are true? (Select 3)

A variable name must start with a letter or the underscore "_" character
Variables can change type after they have been set
Variables do not have to be declared in advance of their use

Question 86)

PowerShell is a configuration management framework for which operating system?

Windows

Question 87)

In digital forensics documenting the chain of custody of evidence is critical. Which of these should be included in your chain of custody log?

All of the above

Question 88)

Forensic analysis should always be conducted on a copy of the original data. Which two (2) types of copying are appropriate for getting data from a laptop acquired from a terminated employee, if you suspect he has deleted incriminating files? (Select 2)

An incremental backup

A logical backup

Question 89)

Which of the following would be considered an incident precursor?

An alert from your antivirus software indicating it had detected malware on your system

An announced threat against your organization by a hactivist group

Question 90)

If a penetration test calls for you to create a diagram of the target network including the identity of hosts and servers as well as a list of open ports and published services, which tool would be the best fit for this task?

Nmap

Question 91)

Which type of list is considered best for safe coding practice?

Whitelist

Question 92)

In reviewing the security logs for a company's headquarters in New York City, which of these activities should not raise much of a security concern?

A recently hired data scientist in the Medical Analytics department has repeatedly attempted to access the corporate financial database

An employee has started logging in from home for an hour or so during the last 2 weeks of each quarter

Question 93)

Data sources such as newspapers, books and web pages are considered which type of data?

Unstructured data

Semi-structured data

Structured data

Question 94)

Which three (3) of these statements about the TCP protocol are True? (Select 3)

TCP packets are reassembled by the receiving system in the order in which they were sent

TCP is more reliable than UDP

TCP is connection-oriented

Question 95)

In IPv4, how many of the 4 octets are used to define the network portion of the address in a Class B network?

Question 96)

A small company with 25 computers wishes to connect them to the Internet using a NAT router. How many Public IP addresses will this company need to assure all 25 computers can communicate with each other and other systems on the Internet if they implement Port Address Translations?

Question 97)

Why is symmetric key encryption the most common choice of methods to encryptic data at rest?

There are far more keys available for use

It is much faster than asymmetric key encryption

Question 98)

Which of the following statements about hashing is True?

Hashing uses algorithms that are known as "one-way" functions

Question 99)

Why is hashing not a common method used for encrypting data?

Hashing is a one-way process so the original data cannot be reconstructed from a hash value

Question 100)

Public key encryption incorporating digital signatures ensures which of the following?

Confidentiality and Integrity

Question 101)

What is the primary authentication protocol used by Microsoft in Active Directory?

Kerberos

Question 102)

Granting access to a user account only those privileges necessary to perform its intended functions is known as what?

The principle of least privileges

Question 103)

What is the most common patch remediation frequency for most organizations?

Monthly

Annually

Question 104)

Island hopping is an attack method commonly used in which scenario?

Supply Chain Infiltration
Blocking access to a website for all users
Compromising a corporate VIP
Trojan Horse attacks

Question 105)

Security training for IT staff is what type of control?

Virtual

Operational

Physical

Question 106)

Which security concerns follow your workload even after it is successfully moved to the cloud?

All of the above

Question 107)

Which form of Cloud computing combines both public and private clouds?

Hybrid cloud

Question 108)

Which component of the Linux operating system interacts with your computer's hardware?

The kernel

Question 109)

The encryption and protocols used to prevent unauthorized access to data are examples of which type of access control?

Technical

Question 110)

In cybersecurity, Authenticity is defined as what?

The property of being genuine and verifiable

Question 111)

ITIL is best described as what?

A collection of IT Service Management best practices

Question 112)

Which position is in charge of testing the security and effectiveness of computer information systems?

Information Security Auditor

Question 113)

A company wants to prevent employees from wasting time on social media sites. To accomplish this, a document forbidding use of these sites while at work is written and circulated and then the firewalls are updated to block access to Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites. Which two (2) types of security controls has the company just implemented? (Select 2)

Administrative

Technical

Question 114)

An email message that is encrypted, uses a digital signature and carries a hash value would address which aspects of the CIA Triad?

Confidentiality and Integrity

Question 115)

What would a piece of malicious code that gets installed on a computer and reports back to the controller your keystrokes and other information it can gather from your system be called?

Spyware

Question 116)

Fancy Bears and Anonymous are examples of what?

Hacking organizations

Question 117)

Select the answer the fills in the blanks in the correct order.

A weakness in a system is a/an ____. The potential danger associated with this is a/an ____ that becomes a/an ____ when attacked by a bad actor.

vulnerability, threat, exploit

threat, exposure, risk

threat actor, vulnerability, exposure

Question 118)

Implement a filter to remove flooded packets before they reach the host is a countermeasure to which form of attack?

A Denial of Service (DoS) attack

Question 119)

Trudy intercepts a romantic plain-text message from Alice to her boyfriend Sam. The message upsets Trudy so she forwards it to Bob, making it look like Alice intended it for Bob from the beginning. Which aspect of the CIA Triad has Trudy violated ?

All of the above

Question 120)

Which factor contributes most to the strength of an encryption system?

How many people have access to your public key

The length of the encryption key used

The number of private keys used by the system

Question 121)

What is an advantage asymmetric key encryption has over symmetric key encryption?

Asymmetric keys can be exchanged more securely than symmetric keys

Asymmetric key encryption is harder to break than symmetric key encryption

Asymmetric key encryption is faster than symmetric key encryption

Question 122)

Which position is responsible for the "ethical hacking" of an organizations computer systems?

A Penetration Tester

Question 123)

Which three (3) are considered best practices, baselines or frameworks? (Select 3)

ISO27000 series

ITIL

COBIT

Question 124)

What does the "A" in the CIA Triad stand for?

Availability

Question 125)

Which type of access control is based upon the subject's clearance level and the objects classification?

Hierarchical Access Control (HAC)
Discretionary Access Control (DAC)
Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Question 126)

Windows 10 stores 64-bit applications in which directory?

\Program Files

Question 127)

To build a virtual computing environment, where is the hypervisor installed?

Between the applications and the data sources
On the cloud's supervisory system
Between the hardware and operating system
Between the operating system and applications

Question 128)

An identical email sent to millions of addresses at random would be classified as which type of attack?

A Shark attack

A Phishing attack

Question 129)

Which statement about drivers running in Windows kernel mode is true?

Only critical processes are permitted to run in kernel mode since there is nothing to prevent a

Question 130)

Symmetric key encryption by itself ensures which of the following?

Confidentiality and Integrity

Confidentiality only

Confidentiality and Availability

Question 131)

Which statement best describes configuring a NAT router to use dynamic mapping?

The organization will need as many registered IP addresses as it has computers that need Internet access

Many registered IP addresses are mapped to a single registered IP address using different port numbers

Unregistered IP addresses are mapped to registered IP addresses as they are needed

The NAT router uses each computer's IP address for both internal and external communication

Question 132)

Which address type does a computer use to get a new IP address when it boots up?

The network's DHCP server address

Question 133)

What is the primary difference between the IPv4 and IPv6 addressing schema?

IPv6 is significantly faster than IPv4

IPv6 is used only for IOT devices

IPv6 allows for billions of times as many possible IP addresses

Question 134)

Which type of firewall understands which session a packet belongs to and analyzes it accordingly?

A Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

Question 135)

An employee calls the IT Helpdesk and admits that maybe, just possibly, the links in the email he clicked on this morning were not from the real Lottery Commission. What is the first thing you should tell the employee to do?

Run a Port scan

Run an antivirus scan

Question 136)

A penetration tester involved in a "Black box" attack would be doing what?

Attempting to penetrate a client's systems as if she were an external hacker with no inside knowled

Question 137)

Which Post Incident activity would be concerned with maintaining the proper chain-of-custody?

Lessons learned meeting
Evidence retention
Documentation review & update
Utilizing collected data

Question 138)

In digital forensics, which three (3) steps are involved in the collection of data? (Select 3)

Develop a plan to acquire the data

Verify the integrity of the data

Acquire the data

Question 139)

Which three (3) of the following are considered scripting languages? (Select 3)

Perl

Bash

Python

Question 140)

What is the largest number that will be printed during the execution of this Python while loop?

i=0

while (i<10):

print(i)

i=i+1

Question 141)

Activities performed as a part of security intelligence can be divided into pre-exploit and post-exploit activities. Which two (2) of these are post-exploit activities? (Select 2)

Gather full situational awareness through advanced security analytics

Perform forensic investigation

Question 142)

There are many good reasons for maintaining comprehensive backups of critical data. Which aspect of the CIA Triad is most impacted by an organization's backup practices?

Availability

Integrity

Authorization

Question 143)

Which phase of DevSecOps would contain the activities Internal/External testing, Continuous assurance, and Compliance checking?

Test

Code & build

Operate & monitor

Plan

Question 144)

Which one of the OWASP Top 10 Application Security Risks would be occur when there are no safeguards against a user being allowed to execute HTML or JavaScript in the user's browser that can hijack sessions.

Cross-site scripting

Question 145)

SIEM license costs are typically calculated based upon which two (2) factors? (Select 2)

Flows per minute (FPM)

Events per second (EPS)

Question 146)

True or False. If you have no better place to start hunting threats, start with a view of the global threat landscape and then drill down to a regional view, industry view and finally a view of the threats specific to your own organization.

True

Question 147)

True or False. Cloud-based storage or hosting providers are among the top sources of third-party breaches

True

Question 148)

You are looking very hard on the web for the lowest mortgage interest load you can find and you come across a rate that is so low it could not possibly be true. You check out the site to see that the terms are and quickly find you are the victim of a ransomware attack. What was the likely attack vector used by the bad actors?

Phishing

Malicious Links

Software Vulnerabilities

Question 149)

Very provocative articles that come up in news feeds or Google searches are sometimes called "click-bait". These articles often tempt you to link to other sites that can be infected with malware. What attack vector is used by these click-bait sites to get you to go to the really bad sites?

Malicious Links

More New Questions

Question 150)

Which of the following defines a security threat?

Any potential danger capable of exploiting a weakness in a system
The likelihood that the weakness in a system will be exploited
One instance of a weakness being exploited
A weakness in a system that could be exploited by a bad actor

Question 151)

Suspicious activity, like IP addresses or ports being scanned sequentially, is a sign of which type of attack?

A mapping attack
A denial of service (DoS) attack
A phishing attack
An IP spoofing attack

Question 152)

Alice sends a message to Bob that is intercepted by Trudy. Which scenario describes a confidentiality violation?

Trudy deletes the message without forwarding it
Trudy cannot read it because it is encrypted but allows it to be delivered to Bob in its original form
Trudy changes the message and then forwards it on
Trudy reads the message

Question 153)

Which regulation contains the security rule that requires all covered entities to maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for protecting electronic protected health information (e-PHI)?

PCI-DSS
ISO27000 series
HIPAA
GDPR
NIST 800-53A

Question 154)

A good Endpoint Detection and Response system (EDR) should have which three (3) of these capabilities? (Select 3)

Automatically quarantine noncompliant endpoints
Manage encryption keys for each endpoint
Manage thousands of devices at once
Deploying devices with network configurations

Question 155)

Which statement about encryption is True about data in use.

Data should always be kept encrypted since modern CPUs are fully capable of operating directly on encrypted data

It is vulnerable to theft and should be decrypted only for the briefest possible time while it is being operated on

Short of orchestrating a memory dump from a system crash, there is no practical way for malware to get at the data being processed, so dump logs are your only real concern

Data in active memory registers are not at risk of being stolen

Question 156)

For added security you decide to protect your network by conducting both a stateless and stateful inspection of incoming packets. How can this be done?

This cannot be done The network administrator must choose to run a given network segment in either stateful or stateless mode, and then select the corresponding firewall type

Install a single firewall that is capable of conducting both stateless and stateful inspections

Install a stateful firewall only These advanced devices inspect everything a stateless firewall inspects in addition to state related factors

You must install 2 firewalls in series, so all packets pass through the stateless firewall first and then the stateless firewall

Question 157)

In IPv4, how many of the 4 octets are used to define the network portion of the address in a Class A network?

Question 158)

If you have to rely upon metadata to work with the data at hand, you are probably working with which type of data?

Meta-structured data
Semi-structured data
Structured data
Unstructured data

Question 159)

Which two (2) forms of discovery must be conducted online? (Select 2)

Port scanning
Shoulder surfing
Social engineering
Packet sniffing

Question 160)

Which Incident Response Team model describes a team that runs all incident response activities for a company?

Distributed
Central
Coordinating
Control

Question 161)

Which is the data protection process that prevents a suspicious data request from being completed?

Data risk analysis
Data classification
Data discovery
Blocking, masking and quarantining

Question 162)

Which form of penetration testing allows the testers partial knowledge of the systems they are trying to penetrate in advance of their attack to streamline costs and focus efforts?

Red Box Testing
Gray Box Testing
White Box testing
Black Box Testing

Question 163)

Which type of application attack would include User denies performing an operation, attacker exploits an application without trace, and attacker covers her tracks?

Auditing and logging
Authentication
Authorization
Input validation

Question 164)

True or False. Thorough reconnaissance is an important step in developing an effective cyber kill chain.

True
False

Question 165)

True or False. One of the primary challenges in cyber threat hunting is a lack of useful tools sold by too few vendors.

True
False

Question 166)

True or False. A large company has a data breach involving the theft of employee personnel records but no customer data of any kind. Since no external data was involved, the company does not have to report the breach to law enforcement.

True
False

Question 167)

You are the CEO of a large tech company and have just received an angry email that looks like it came from one of your biggest customers. The email says your company is overbilling the customer and asks that you examine the attached invoice. You do but find it blank, so you reply politely to the sender asking for more details. You never hear back, but a week later your security team tells you that your credentials have been used to access and exfiltrate large amounts of company financial data. What kind of attack did you fall victim to?

As a phishing attack
As a whale attack
A shark attack
A fly phishing attack

Question 168)

Which of these statements about the PCI-DSS requirements for any company handling, processing or transmitting credit card data is true?

Muti-factor authentication is required for all new card holders
Some form of mobile device management (MDM) must be used on all mobile credit card processing devices
All employees with direct access to cardholder data must be bonded
Cardholder data must be encrypted if it is sent across open or public networks

Which Incident Response Team model describes a team that acts as consulting experts to advise local IR teams?

Control
Coordinating
Distributed
O Central

In a Linux file system, which files are contained in the \bin folder?

All user binary files, their libraries and headers
Executable files such as grep and ping
Configuration files such as fstab and inittab
Directories such as /home and /usr

If a computer needs to send a message to a system that is not part of the local network, where does it send the message?

To the system's domain name
To the system's IP address
The network's DNS server address
To the system's MAC address
The network's default gateway address
The network's DHCP server address

Which three (3) of these statements about the TCP protocol are True? (Select 3)

TCP is faster than UDP
TCP is connection-oriented
TCP packets are reassembled by the receiving system in the order in which they were sent
TCP is more reliable than UDP

A professor is not allowed to change a student's final grade after she submits it without completing a special form to explain the circumstances that necessitated the change. This additional step supports which aspect of the CIA Triad?

Authorization
Integrity
Confidentiality
Availability

Which of these is the best definition of a security risk?

An instance of being exposed to losses
Any potential danger that is associated with the exploitation of a vulnerability
A weakness in a system
The likelihood of a threat source exploiting a vulnerability

Trudy intercepts a plain text message sent by Alice to Bob, but in no way interferes with its delivery. Which aspect of the CIA Triad was violated?

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
All of the above

What is an advantage symmetric key encryption has over asymmetric key encryption?

Symmetric key encryption provides better security against Man-in-the-middle attacks than is possible with asymmetric key encryption
Symmetric key encryption is faster than asymmetric key encryption
Symmetric keys can be exchanged more securely than asymmetric keys
Symmetric key encryption is harder to break than asymmetric key encryption

Which type of application attack would include network eavesdropping, dictionary attacks and cookie replays?

Configuration management
Authentication
Authorization
Exception management

Why should you always look for common patterns before starting a new security architecture design?

They can help identify best practices
They can shorten the development lifecycle
Some document complete tested solutions
All of the above

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