Security+ 701 Final Assessment 1 (601)

Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be hired by a foreign government to attack critical systems located in other countries?

An employee clicked a link in an email from a payment website that asked the employee to update contact information. The employee entered the
log-in information but received a “page not found” error message. Which of the following types of social engineering attacks occurred?

Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?

An enterprise is trying to limit outbound DNS traffic originating from its internal network. Outbound DNS requests will only be allowed from one
device with the IP address 10.50.10.25. Which of the following firewall ACLs will accomplish this goal?

A data administrator is configuring authentication for a SaaS application and would like to reduce the number of credentials employees need to
maintain. The company prefers to use domain credentials to access new SaaS applications. Which of the following methods would allow this
functionality?

Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?

A company prevented direct access from the database administrators’ workstations to the network segment that contains database servers. Which
of the following should a database administrator use to access the database servers?

An organization’s internet-facing website was compromised when an attacker exploited a buffer overflow. Which of the following should the
organization deploy to best protect against similar attacks in the future?

An administrator notices that several users are logging in from suspicious IP addresses. After speaking with the users, the administrator
determines that the employees were not logging in from those IP addresses and resets the affected users’ passwords. Which of the following
should the administrator implement to prevent this type of attack from succeeding in the future?

An employee receives a text message that appears to have been sent by the payroll department and is asking for credential verification. Which of
the following social engineering techniques are being attempted? (Choose two.)

Several employees received a fraudulent text message from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The message stated:
“I’m in an airport right now with no access to email. I need you to buy gift cards for employee recognition awards. Please send the gift cards to
following email address.”
Which of the following are the best responses to this situation? (Choose two).

A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with
procuring counterfeit hardware?

Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?

A penetration tester begins an engagement by performing port and service scans against the client environment according to the rules of
engagement. Which of the following reconnaissance types is the tester performing?

Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?

Which of the following vulnerabilities is associated with installing software outside of a manufacturer’s approved software repository?

A security analyst is reviewing the following logs:

Which of the following attacks is most likely occurring?

An analyst is evaluating the implementation of Zero Trust principles within the data plane. Which of the following would be most relevant for the
analyst to evaluate?

An engineer needs to find a solution that creates an added layer of security by preventing unauthorized access to internal company resources.
Which of the following would be the best solution?

A company’s web filter is configured to scan the URL for strings and deny access when matches are found. Which of the following search strings
should an analyst employ to prohibit access to non-encrypted websites?

During a security incident, the security operations team identified sustained network traffic from a malicious IP address: 10.1.4.9. A security
analyst is creating an inbound firewall rule to block the IP address from accessing the organization’s network. Which of the following fulfills this
request?

A company needs to provide administrative access to internal resources while minimizing the traffic allowed through the security boundary.
Which of the following methods is most secure?

A security analyst is reviewing alerts in the SIEM related to potential malicious network traffic coming from an employee’s corporate laptop. The
security analyst has determined that additional data about the executable running on the machine is necessary to continue the investigation.
Which of the following logs should the analyst use as a data source?

A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks.
SIEM alerts have not yet been configured. Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?

A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register. Which of the following strategies does this represent?

A security administrator would like to protect data on employees’ laptops. Which of the following encryption techniques should the security
administrator use?

Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?

An IT manager informs the entire help desk staff that only the IT manager and the help desk lead will have access to the administrator console of
the help desk software. Which of the following security techniques is the IT manager setting up?

Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?

Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?

A company is expanding its threat surface program and allowing individuals to security test the company’s internet-facing application. The
company will compensate researchers based on the vulnerabilities discovered. Which of the following best describes the program the company is
setting up?

Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?

Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?

Employees in the research and development business unit receive extensive training to ensure they understand how to best protect company
data. Which of the following is the type of data these employees are most likely to use in day-to-day work activities?

A company has begun labeling all laptops with asset inventory stickers and associating them with employee IDs. Which of the following security
benefits do these actions provide? (Choose two.)

A technician wants to improve the situational and environmental awareness of existing users as they transition from remote to in-office work.
Which of the following is the best option?

A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of
incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors. Which of the
following should the systems administrator use?

A systems administrator receives the following alert from a file integrity monitoring tool:
The hash of the cmd.exe file has changed.
The systems administrator checks the OS logs and notices that no patches were applied in the last two months. Which of the following most likely
occurred?

Which of the following roles, according to the shared responsibility model, is responsible for securing the company’s database in an IaaS model
for a cloud environment?

A client asked a security company to provide a document outlining the project, the cost, and the completion time frame. Which of the following
documents should the company provide to the client?

A security team is reviewing the findings in a report that was delivered after a third party performed a penetration test. One of the findings
indicated that a web application form field is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Which of the following application security techniques should the
security analyst recommend the developer implement to prevent this vulnerability?

Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two).

A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system. Which of the following steps should be taken first?

Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?

Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?

A company is developing a business continuity strategy and needs to determine how many staff members would be required to sustain the
business in the case of a disruption. Which of the following best describes this step?

A company’s legal department drafted sensitive documents in a SaaS application and wants to ensure the documents cannot be accessed by
individuals in high-risk countries. Which of the following is the most effective way to limit this access?

Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?

While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a “deny any” policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The
technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable.
Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?

An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days.
Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?

A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling. Which of the following best describes
this policy?

A systems administrator works for a local hospital and needs to ensure patient data is protected and secure. Which of the following data
classifications should be used to secure patient data?

A U.S.-based cloud-hosting provider wants to expand its data centers to new international locations. Which of the following should the hosting
provider consider first?

Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?

A company hired a consultant to perform an offensive security assessment covering penetration testing and social engineering.
Which of the following teams will conduct this assessment activity?

A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company. Which of the following options is the most
appropriate?

Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?

During an investigation, an incident response team attempts to understand the source of an incident. Which of the following incident response
activities describes this process?

A security practitioner completes a vulnerability assessment on a company’s network and finds several vulnerabilities, which the operations team
remediates. Which of the following should be done next?

An administrator was notified that a user logged in remotely after hours and copied large amounts of data to a personal device.
Which of the following best describes the user’s activity?

Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?

Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?

Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?

An organization recently updated its security policy to include the following statement:
Regular expressions are included in source code to remove special characters such as $, |, ;. &, `, and ? from variables set by forms in a web
application.
Which of the following best explains the security technique the organization adopted by making this addition to the policy?

A security analyst and the management team are reviewing the organizational performance of a recent phishing campaign. The user click-through
rate exceeded the acceptable risk threshold, and the management team wants to reduce the impact when a user clicks on a link in a phishing
message. Which of the following should the analyst do?

Which of the following has been implemented when a host-based firewall on a legacy Linux system allows connections from only specific internal
IP addresses?

The management team notices that new accounts that are set up manually do not always have correct access or permissions.
Which of the following automation techniques should a systems administrator use to streamline account creation?

A company is planning to set up a SIEM system and assign an analyst to review the logs on a weekly basis. Which of the following types of
controls is the company setting up?

A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based. Which of the following meets these
requirements?

A security operations center determines that the malicious activity detected on a server is normal. Which of the following activities describes the
act of ignoring detected activity in the future?

A security analyst reviews domain activity logs and notices the following:

Which of the following is the best explanation for what the security analyst has discovered?

A company is concerned about weather events causing damage to the server room and downtime. Which of the following should the company
consider?

Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?

A company decided to reduce the cost of its annual cyber insurance policy by removing the coverage for ransomware attacks.
Which of the following analysis elements did the company most likely use in making this decision?

Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?

Which of the following is the phase in the incident response process when a security analyst reviews roles and responsibilities?

After a recent vulnerability scan, a security engineer needs to harden the routers within the corporate network. Which of the following is the most
appropriate to disable?

A security administrator needs a method to secure data in an environment that includes some form of checks so track any changes. Which of the
following should the administrator set up to achieve this goal?

An administrator is reviewing a single server’s security logs and discovers the following:

Which of the following best describes the action captured in this log file?

A security engineer is implementing FDE for all laptops in an organization. Which of the following are the most important for the engineer to
consider as part of the planning process? (Choose two.)