SY0-601 v3 - Active untill 4 NOV 21

Which of the following would be the BEST way to analyze diskless malware that has infected a VDI?

Users are presented with a banner upon each login to a workstation. The banner mentions that users are not entitled to any reasonable expectation of privacy and access is for authorized personnel only. In order to proceed past that banner, users must click the OK button.

 

Which of the following is this an example of?

The Chief Information Security Officer is concerned about employees using personal email rather than company email to communicate with clients and sending sensitive business information and Pll.

 

Which of the following would be the BEST solution to install on the employees’ workstations to prevent information from leaving the company's network?

On the way into a secure building, an unknown individual strikes up a conversation with an employee. The employee scans the required badge at the door while the unknown individual holds the door open, seemingly out of courtesy, for the employee.

 

Which of the following social engineering techniques is being utilized?

Two hospitals merged into a single organization. The privacy officer requested a review of all records to ensure encryption was used during record storage, in compliance with regulations. During the review, the officer discovered that medical diagnosis codes and patient names were left unsecured.

 

Which of the following types of data does this combination BEST represent?

A company discovered that terabytes of data have been exfiltrated over the past year after an employee clicked on an email link. The threat continued to evolve and remain undetected until a security analyst noticed an abnormal amount of external connections when the employee was not working.

 

Which of the following is the MOST likely threat actor?

An untrusted SSL certificate was discovered during the most recent vulnerability scan. A security analyst determines the certificate is signed properly and is a valid wildcard. This same certificate is installed on the other company servers without issue.

 

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this finding?

A company wants to improve end users’ experiences when they log in to a trusted partner website. The company does not want the users to be issued separate credentials for the partner website.

 

Which of the following should be implemented to allow users to authenticate using their own credentials to log in to the trusted partner's website?

A company is under investigation for possible fraud. As part of the investigation, the authorities need to review all emails and ensure data is not deleted.

 

Which of the following should the company implement to assist in the investigation?

A user wanted to catch up on some work over the weekend but had issues logging in to the corporate network using a VPN. On Monday, the user opened a ticket for this issue but was able to log in successfully.

 

Which of the following BEST describes the policy that is being implemented?

A major political party experienced a server breach. The hacker then publicly posted stolen internal communications concerning campaign strategies to give the opposition party an advantage.

 

Which of the following BEST describes these threat actors?

A company is required to continue using legacy software to support a critical service.

 

Which of the following BEST explains a risk of this practice?

A security analyst has been tasked with ensuring all programs that are deployed into the enterprise have been assessed in a runtime environment. Any critical issues found in the program must be sent back to the developer for verification and remediation.

 

Which of the following BEST describes the type of assessment taking place.

Which of the following can work as an authentication method and as an alerting mechanism for unauthorized access attempts.

A company has a flat network in the cloud. The company needs to implement a solution to segment its production and non-production servers without migrating servers to a new network.

 

Which of the following solutions should the company implement?

The president of a regional bank likes to frequently provide SOC tours to potential investors.

 

Which of the following policies BEST reduces the risk of malicious activity occurring after a tour?

A Chief Information Security Officer has defined resiliency requirements for a new data center architecture. The requirements are as follows:

Which of the following are required to BEST meet these objectives? (Choose three.)

Which of the following is a security best practice that ensures the integrity of aggregated log files within a SIEM?

A security analyst is evaluating the risks of authorizing multiple security solutions to collect data from the company's cloud environment.

 

Which of the following is an immediate consequence of these integrations?

Which of the following explains why RTO is included in a BIA?

A security analyst is reviewing web-application logs and finds the following log:

 

 

Which of the following attacks is being observed?

A security analyst is reviewing the vulnerability scan report for a web server following an incident. The vulnerability that was used to exploit the server is present in historical vulnerability scan reports, and a patch is available for the vulnerability.

 

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Which of the following is a known security risk associated with data archives that contain financial information?

Which of the following BEST describes the process of documenting who has access to evidence.

A systems engineer want to leverage a cloud-based architecture with low latency between network-connected devices that also reduces the bandwidth that is required by performing analytics directly on the endpoints.

 

Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements? (Choose two.)

Which of the following is a policy that provides a greater depth and breadth of knowledge across an organization?

A company is moving its retail website to a public cloud provider. The company wants to tokenize credit card data but not allow the cloud provider to see the stored credit card information.

 

Which of the following would BEST meet these objectives?

A security analyst is tasked with defining the "something you are" factor of the company's MFA settings.

 

Which of the following is BEST to use to complete the configuration?

Which of the following processes will eliminate data using a method that will allow the storage device to be reused after the process is complete?

A user's account is constantly being locked out. Upon further review, a security analyst found the following in the SIEM:

 

 

Which of the following describes what is occurring?

A web server has been compromised due to a ransomware attack. Further investigation reveals the ransomware has been in the server for the past 72 hours. The systems administrator needs to get the services back up as soon as possible.

 

Which of the following should the administrator use to restore services to a secure state?

A network engineer created two subnets that will be used for production and development servers. Per security policy production and development servers must each have a dedicated network that cannot communicate with one another directly.

 

Which of the following should be deployed so that server administrators can access these devices?

A social media company based in North America is looking to expand into new global markets and needs to maintain compliance with international standards.

 

With which of the following is the company's data protection officer MOST likely concerned?

A security architect is required to deploy to conference rooms some workstations that will allow sensitive data to be displayed on large screens. Due to the nature of the data, it cannot be stored in the conference rooms. The file share is located in a local data center.

 

Which of the following should the security architect recommend to BEST meet the requirement?

A Chief Information Security Officer wants to ensure the organization is validating and checking the integrity of zone transfers.

 

Which of the following solutions should be implemented?

Which of the following controls is used to make an organization initially aware of a data compromise?

An annual information security assessment has revealed that several OS-level configurations are not in compliance due to outdated hardening standards the company is using.

 

Which of the following would be BEST to use to update and reconfigure the OS-level security configurations?

A company acquired several other small companies. The company that acquired the others is transitioning network services to the cloud. The company wants to make sure that performance and security remain intact.

 

Which of the following BEST meets both requirements?

After a recent external audit, the compliance team provided a list of several non-compliant, in-scope hosts that were not encrypting cardholder data at rest.

 

Which of the following compliance frameworks would address the compliance team's GREATEST concern?

A security analyst is receiving several alerts per user and is trying to determine if various logins are malicious. The security analyst would like to create a baseline of normal operations and reduce noise.

 

Which of the following actions should the security analyst perform?

Which of the following is the MOST effective way to detect security flaws present on third-party libraries embedded on software before it is released into production?

Which of the following prevents an employee from seeing a colleague who is visiting an inappropriate website?

A user reports falling for a phishing email to an analyst. Which of the following system logs would the analyst check FIRST?

An attacker has determined the best way to impact operations to infiltrate third-party software vendors.

 

Which of the following vectors is being exploited.

An organization would like to give remote works the ability to use applications hosted inside the corporate network. Users will be allowed to use their personal computers, or they will be provided an organization asset. Either way, no data or application will be installed locally or any user systems.

 

Which of the following mobile solutions would accomplish these goals.

Which of the following is used to ensure that the evidence is admissible in legal proceedings when it is collected and provided to the authorities?

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a bank recently updated the incident response policy. The CISO is concerned that members of the incident response team do not understand their roles. The bank wants to test the policy but with the least amount of resources or impact.

 

Which of the following BEST meets the requirements?

Which of the following control types fixes a previously identified issue and mitigates a risk?

 

Which of the following attacks did the analyst observe?

A security engineer must deploy two wireless routers in an office suite. Other tenants in the office building should not be able to connect to this wireless network.

 

Which of the following protocols should the engineer implement to ensure the STRONGEST encryption?

An attacker browses a company's online job board attempting to find any relevant information regarding the technologies the company uses.

 

Which of the following BEST describes this social engineering technique?

During an incident response process involving a laptop, a host was identified as the entry point for malware. The management team would like to have the laptop restored and given back to the user. The cybersecurity analyst would like to continue investigating the intrusion on the host.

 

Which of the following would allow the analyst to continue the investigation and also return the laptop to the user as soon as possible?

An analyst is trying to identify insecure services that are running on the internal network. After performing a port scan, the analyst identifies that a server has some insecure services enabled on default ports.

 

Which of the following BEST describes the services that are currently running and the secure alternatives for replacing them? (Choose three.)

A security analyst needs to produce a document that details how a security incident occurred, the steps that were taken for recovery, and how future incidents can be avoided.

 

During which of the following stages of the response process will this activity take place?

An administrator is configuring a firewall rule set for a subnet to only access DHCP, web pages, and SFTP, and to specifically block FTP.

 

Which of the following would BEST accomplish this goal

While investigating a recent security incident, a security analyst decides to view all network connections on a particular server.

 

Which of the following would provide the desired information?

A company recently decided to allow its employees to use their personally owned devices for tasks like checking email and messaging via mobile applications. The company would like to use MDM, but employees are concerned about the loss of personal data.

 

Which of the following should the IT department implement to BEST protect the company against company data loss while still addressing the employees’ concerns?

The concept of connecting a user account across the systems of multiple enterprises is BEST known as:

A user received an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank details.

 

Which of the following social-engineering techniques was used in this case?

A company is working on mobile device security after a report revealed that users granted non-verified software access to corporate data.

 

Which of the following is the MOST effective security control to mitigate this risk?

A security analyst needs to implement security features across smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

 

Which of the following would be the MOST effective across heterogeneous platforms?

The new Chief Information Security Officer at a company has asked the security team to implement stronger user account policies. The new policies require:

Which of the following should the security team implement? (Choose two.)

Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data processors?

Which of the following is MOST likely to contain ranked and ordered information on the likelihood and potential impact of catastrophic events that may affect business processes and systems, while also highlighting the residual risks that need to be managed after mitigating controls have been implemented.

A worldwide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromises. In one incident, a user logged in from the corporate office in France, but then seconds later, the same user account attempted a login from Brazil.

 

Which of the following account policies would BEST prevent this type of attack?

A new vulnerability in the SMB protocol on the Windows systems was recently discovered, but no patches are currently available to resolve the issue. The security administrator is concerned that servers in the company’s DMZ will be vulnerable to external attack; however, the administrator cannot disable the service on the servers, as SMB is used by a number of internal systems and applications on the LAN.

 

Which of the following TCP ports should be blocked for all external inbound connections to the DMZ as a workaround to protect the servers? (Choose two.)

A recent phishing campaign resulted in several compromised user accounts. The security incident response team has been tasked with reducing the manual labor of filtering through all the phishing emails as they arrive and blocking the sender's email address, along with other time consuming mitigation actions.

 

Which of the following can be configured to streamline those tasks?

A penetration tester is brought on site to conduct a full attack simulation at a hospital. The penetration tester notices a WAP that is hanging from the drop ceiling by its cabling and is reachable.

 

Which of the following recommendations would the penetration tester MOST likely make given this observation?

Which of the following techniques eliminates the use of rainbow tables for password cracking?

During a security assessment, a security analyst finds a file with overly permissive permissions.

 

Which of the following tools will allow the analyst to reduce the permissions for the existing users and groups and remove the set-user-ID bit from the file?

A network administrator is concerned about users being exposed to malicious content when accessing company cloud applications. The administrator wants to be able to block access to sites based on the AUP. The users must also be protected because many of them work from home or at remote locations, providing on-site customer support.

 

Which of the following should the administrator employ to meet these criteria?

A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert for the most appropriate way to store credit card numbers to create an easy reordering process.

 

Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?

Which of the following supplies non-repudiation during a forensics investigation?

A security analyst is tasked with classifying data to be stored on company servers.

 

Which of the following should be classified as proprietary?

Which of the following holds staff accountable while escorting unauthorized personnel?

An organization’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) wants to validate the business’s involvement in the incident response plan to ensure its validity and thoroughness.

 

Which of the following will the CSO MOST likely use?

Which of the following documents provides guidance regarding the recommended deployment of network security systems from the manufacturer?

During a recent security assessment, a vulnerability was found in a common OS. The OS vendor was unaware of the issue and promised to release a patch within the next quarter.

 

Which of the following BEST describes this type of vulnerability?

Which of the following is a targeted attack aimed at compromising users within a specific industry or group?

To reduce and limit software and infrastructure costs, the Chief Information Officer has requested to move email services to the cloud. The cloud provider and the organization must have security controls to protect sensitive data.

 

Which of the following cloud services would BEST accommodate the request?

A security engineer is concerned that the strategy for detection on endpoints is too heavily dependent on previously defined attacks. The engineer would like a tool to monitor for changes to key files and network traffic on the device.

 

Which of the following tools BEST addresses both detection and prevention?

 

 

While reviewing the wireless router, a systems administrator of a small business determines someone is spoofing the MAC address of an authorized device. Given the table below:

 

Hostname	IP address	MAC	MAC filter
PC1	192.168.1.20	00:1E:1B:43:21:B2	On
PC2	192.168.1.23	31:1C:3C:13:25:C4	Off
PC3	192.168.1.25	20:A2:22:45:11:D2	On
UNKNOWN	192.168.1.21	12:44:B2:FF:A1:22	Off

 

Which of the following should be the administrator’s NEXT step to detect if there is a rogue system without impacting availability?

A security analyst in a SOC has been tasked with onboarding a new network into the SIEM.

 

Which of the following BEST describes the information that should feed into a SIEM solution in order to adequately support an investigation?

An organization just implemented a new security system. Local laws state that citizens must be notified prior to encountering the detection mechanism to deter malicious activities.

 

Which of the following is being implemented?

An IT security manager requests a report on company information that is publicly available. The manager's concern is that malicious actors will be able to access the data without engaging in active reconnaissance.

 

Which of the following is the MOST efficient approach to perform the analysis?

Which of the following environments utilizes dummy data and is MOST likely to be installed locally on a system that allows code to be assessed directly and modified easily with each build?

An analyst receives multiple alerts for beaconing activity for a host on the network. After analyzing the activity, the analyst observes the following activity:

Which of the following types of attacks was observed?

Which of the following in the incident response process is the BEST approach to improve the speed of the identification phase?

A security administrator is analyzing the corporate wireless network. The network only has two access points running on channels 1 and 11. While using airodump-ng, the administrator notices other access points are running with the same corporate ESSID on all available channels and with the same BSSID of one of the legitimate access points.

 

Which of the following attacks is happening on the corporate network?

When implementing automation with IoT devices, which of the following should be considered FIRST to keep the network secure?

An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.

 

Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

A news article states hackers have been selling access to IoT camera feeds.

 

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this issue?

A company wants to build a new website to sell products online. The website will host a storefront application that will allow visitors to add products to a shopping cart and pay for the products using a credit card.

 

Which of the following protocols would be the MOST secure to implement?

An IT manager is estimating the mobile device budget for the upcoming year. Over the last five years, the number of devices that were replaced due to loss, damage, or theft steadily increased by 10%.

 

Which of the following would BEST describe the estimated number of devices to be replaced next year?

An organization is repairing the damage after an incident.

 

Which of the following controls is being implemented?

A Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO) personal information was stolen in a social-engineering attack.

 

Which of the following sources would reveal if the CEO’s personal information is for sale?

Which of the following typically uses a combination of human and artificial intelligence to analyze event data and take action without intervention?

A security analyst has been tasked with creating a new WiFi network for the company. The requirements received by the analyst are as follows:

Which of the following options BEST accommodates these requirements?

A security administrator is trying to determine whether a server is vulnerable to a range of attacks. After using a tool, the administrator obtains the following output:

 

 

 

Which of the following attacks was successfully implemented based on the output?

A Chief Security Officer is looking for a solution that can reduce the occurrence of customers receiving errors from back-end infrastructure when systems go offline unexpectedly. The security architect would like the solution to help maintain session persistence.

 

Which of the following would BEST meet the requirements?

Which of the following should an organization consider implementing in the event executives need to speak to the media after a publicized data breach?