Question 11
Which of the following is an effective tool to stop or prevent the exfiltration of data from a network?
A. DLP
B. NIDS
C. TPM
D. FDE
Question 12
Several attempts have been made to pick the door lock of a secure facility. As a result, the security engineer has been assigned to implement a stronger preventative access control. Which of the following would BEST complete the engineer's assignment?
A. Replacing the traditional key with an RFID key
B. Installing and monitoring a camera facing the door
C. Setting motion-sensing lights to illuminate the door on activity
D. Surrounding the property with fencing and gates
Question 13
Which of the following can be used by a monitoring tool to compare values and detect password leaks without providing the actual credentials?
A. Hashing
B. Tokenization
C. Masking
D. Encryption
Question 14
A security engineer is building a file transfer solution to send files to a business partner. The users would like to drop off the files in a specific directory and have the server send the file to the business partner. The connection to the business partner is over the internet and needs to be secure. Which of the following can be used?
A. S/MIME
B. LDAPS
C. SSH
D. SRTP
Question 15
An administrator needs to protect user passwords and has been advised to hash the passwords. Which of the following BEST describes what the administrator is being advised to do?
A. Perform a mathematical operation on the passwords that will convert them into unique strings.
B. Add extra data to the passwords so their length is increased, making them harder to brute force.
C. Store all passwords in the system in a rainbow table that has a centralized location.
D. Enforce the use of one-time passwords that are changed for every login session.
Question 16
Which of the following would be indicative of a hidden audio file found inside of a piece of source code?
A. Steganography
B. Homomorphic encryption
C. Cipher suite
D. Blockchain
Question 17
A user enters a username and a password at the login screen for a web portal. A few seconds later the following message appears on the screen:
Please use a combination of numbers, special characters, and letters in the password field.
Which of the following concepts does this message describe?
A. Password complexity
B. Password reuse
C. Password history
D. Password age
Question 18
A company recently experienced an inside attack using a corporate machine that resulted in data compromise. Analysis indicated an unauthorized change to the software circumvented technological protection measures. The analyst was tasked with determining the best method to ensure the integrity of the systems remains intact and local and remote boot attestation can take place. Which of the following would provide the BEST solution?
A. HIPS
B. FIM
C. TPM
D. DLP
Question 19
Which of the following is a reason to publish files' hashes?
A. To validate the integrity of the files
B. To verify if the software was digitally signed
C. To use the hash as a software activation key
D. To use the hash as a decryption passphrase
Question 20
A security manager has tasked the security operations center with locating all web servers that respond to an unsecure protocol. Which of the following commands could an analyst run to find the requested servers?
A. nslookup 10.10.10.0
B. nmap -p 80 10.10.10.0/24
C. pathping 10.10.10.0 -p 80
D. ne -l -p 80
