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1. A security analyst is analyzing systems on his network for known indicators of compromise. What term best describes the work he is performing?

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2. Which one of the following controls may be used to attract the attention of intruders who gain access to a network segment so that they are distracted from high-value targets and may be monitored?

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3. A network analyst needs to give IT staff members remote access to the company's internal systems through the DMZ. What type of system should this professional place in the DMZ to accommodate these members' needs?

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4. Josh is configuring the host firewall on a web server that allows both encrypted and unencrypted web connections. It also must allow SSH access for users to securely drop off files. Which one of the following ports should NOT be open on the host firewall?

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5. Will's company is implementing a new cloud service. They are configuring the operating system on a server built in the cloud provider's environment. What cloud service model is in use?

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6. Dropbox is an example of a cloud service named

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7. Amazon EWS EC2 is an example of a cloud service called

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8. Huroku is an example of a cloud service called

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9. A security analyst has been asked to secure the wired network that is normally a suite of offices that will be temporarily used by a visiting team from another company. If this professional wants to continue to allow members of his team to use the jacks, what technical means can he use to do this while also verifying the security posture of the systems that connect?

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10. What type of firewall is able to incorporate contextual information about the user and application when making permit/deny decisions?

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11. Which team is responsible for securing the targeted environment during a network attack simulation?

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12. Which team is responsible for attacking the targeted environment during a network attack simulation?

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13. An attacker was able to breach company ABC's security resources and steal a file. According to the triad of information security, the basic security concept that has been violated is

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14. _________________ is not an incident response activity to take place during the eradication phase.

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15. Companies that deal with credit card transactions must be __________________ compliant.

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16. Companies/organizations that deal with sensitive users' health information must be __________________ compliant.

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17. Educational institutions such as schools and universities deal with sensitive student data, therefore they must be __________________ compliant.

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18. This activity is not part of the attacking phase in a penetration test.

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19. This activity is deployed during the information gathering phase.

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20. Security analyst Josh is evaluating the risk to his organization from APT attackers. He assesses the likelihood of this risk as medium and the impact as high. How would this risk be categorized?

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21. A security system that is capable of detecting AND blocking anomalies is called a(n)

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22. Marie, a security administrator, was assigned to scan the company's network in order to identify possible vulnerabilities. Which tool could she use?

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23. Now, Marie has another assignment: test whether the company's public web server can handle a number of simultaneous requests. Which tool can she use?

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24. It's been brought to the network analyst's attention that sales representatives are not able to connect to the company's database from the public network. After some debugging, Kyle determines that there is an issue with a node within the path between those sales representatives the database server. Which tool can Kyle use to try to identify such node?

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25. Vulnerability scanners are very powerful, however they also generate too much traffic and can issue alarms. A more silent way of gathering info of targets is using port scanners. Which of the following tools is recommended and broadly adopted to run passive port scans?

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26. The most traditional implementation of anomaly detection is characterized by ____________________ analysis.

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27. Wireshark is classified as a(n) ________________ tool.

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28. OllyDBG and GNU debugger (GDB) are examples of tools that can be used to implement __________________________.

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29. Tripwire is an example of a tool that can be used to implement __________________________.

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30. Abby is analyzing a system that is experiencing abnormal behavior. She would like a list of the open network connections on that system. Which one of the following tools would be helpful in this scenario?

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31. Imaging live systems should be avoided due to several reasons, except:

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32. Harry suspects that one of the company's Linux servers is running a bit slower than usual. Therefore, he decides to take a look at the list of processes. He does such by running ' aux'.

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33. The 'ps' Linux command supports several options/switches. But users generally use the '' option because it displays all processes attached or not to a terminal belonging to any user.

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34. After running a portscan, Mike sees that one of the company's server has port 22 open. The protocol that is most likely associated with that port is .

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35. Company Umbrella Inc decided to migrate their HTTP website to HTTPS. That means that after migration, their web server will listen to port instead of

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36. SQL injection is a common and diverse type of attack. One way to reduce the chances of such risk is to implement/deploy:

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37. What component of a virtualized infrastructure is responsible for ensuring that software running on one virtualized system does not receive access to areas of memory that are reserved for use by another virtualized system?

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38. HTTPS certificates must be issued by a Certificate .

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39. is the industry-standard network management protocol.

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40. The industry-standard network management protocol uses as its transport protocol.

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41. A vulnerability scan reported a blind SQL injection vulnerability that was later on determined to be an impossible attack. This characterizes a false .

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42. What type of term describes review of code by running it?

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43. These two regulatory schemes require vulnerability scans:

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44. compliance requires federal agencies to implement information security plans to protect sensitive data.

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45. Bill cybersecurity manager for a federal government agency subject to FISMA. He is evaluating the potential confidentiality impact of a system and decides that the unauthorized disclosure of information stored on the system could have a serious adverse impact on citizens served by his agency. How should Bill rate the confidentiality impact?

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46. Most vulnerability scanners allow admins to use credentials for specific softwares for maximum effectiveness. This type of scanning is called:

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47. The vulnerability management lifecycle is composed of detection, remediation and:

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48. The standard nomenclature used to describe security-related software flaws is called:

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49. The scoring standard nomenclature used to grade security-related software flaws is called:

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50. 'md5sum' is a command that can be used as part of a forensic image preparation. What operation does it perform?

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