212-89 Exam Questions
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- Question #1Incident Handling and Response Process
Malicious Micky has moved from the delivery stage to the exploitation stage of the kill chain. This malware wants to find and report to the command center any useful services on th...
kill chainport scanningnetwork reconnaissanceexploitation stage - Question #2Incident Handling and Response Process
Raven is a part of an IH&R team and was informed by her manager to handle and lead the removal of the root cause for an incident and to close all attack vectors to prevent similar...
eradication phaseroot cause removalattack vectorsIH&R process - Question #3Incident Handling and Response Management
According to NITS, what are the 5 main actors in cloud computing?
cloud computingNIST actorscloud rolescloud provider - Question #4Incident Handling and Response Process
Which of the following is an Inappropriate usage incident?
incident classificationinsider threatinappropriate usageincident types - Question #5Incident Handling and Response Process
Which of the following is the ECIH phase that involves removing or eliminating the root cause of an incident and closing all attack vectors to prevent similar incidents in the futu...
eradication phaseECIH phasesroot cause removalattack vectors - Question #6Incident Handling and Response Planning
An insider threat response plan helps an organization minimize the damage caused by malicious insiders. One of the approaches to mitigate these threats is setting up controls from...
insider threatHR controlsaccess controlmitigation guidelines - Question #7Incident Handling and Response Process
Alice is an incident handler and she has been informed by her lead that the data on affected systems must be backed up so that it can be retrieved if it is damaged during the incid...
containment phasesystem backupevidence preservationIH&R process - Question #8Incident Handling and Response Process
A user downloaded what appears to be genuine software. Unknown to her, when she installed the application, it executed code that provided an unauthorized remote attacker access to...
Trojanmalware typesremote accesssocial engineering - Question #9Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Finn is working in the eradication phase, wherein he is eliminating the root cause of an incident that occurred in the Windows operating system installed in a system. He ran a tool...
eradication phasepatch managementMicrosoft Baseline Security AnalyzerWindows security - Question #10Computer Forensics in Incident Handling
Your manager hands you several items of digital evidence and asks you to investigate them in the order of volatility. Which of the following is the MOST volatile?
order of volatilitydigital evidencecache memoryevidence collection - Question #11Incident Handling and Response Planning
Ikeo Corp, hired an incident response team to assess the enterprise security. As part of the incident handling and response process, the IR team is reviewing the current security p...
security policy typespromiscuous policyinternet access controlspolicy review - Question #12Incident Handling and Response Process
You are a systems administrator for a company. You are accessing your file server remotely for maintenance. Suddenly, you are unable to access the server. After contacting others i...
denial-of-serviceincident detectionnetwork troubleshootingservice unavailability - Question #13Incident Handling and Response Process
Nervous Nat often sends emails with screenshots of what he thinks are serious incidents, but they always turn out to be false positives. Today, he sends another screenshot, suspect...
detection and analysisIR phasesfalse positivesincident identification - Question #14Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Which of the following does NOT reduce the success rate of SQL injection?
SQL injectioncountermeasuresinput validationapplication security - Question #15Incident Handling and Response Planning
Rica works as an incident handler for an international company. As part of her role, she must review the present security policy implemented. Upon inspection, Rica finds that the p...
security policy typespermissive policyfirewall policypolicy identification - Question #16Incident Handling and Response Technologies
An organization's customers are experiencing either slower network communication or unavailability of services. In addition, network administrators are receiving alerts from securi...
DoS/DDoS detectionnetstat commandnetwork commandsmanual detection techniques - Question #17Computer Forensics in Incident Handling
Which of the following is a volatile evidence collecting tool?
volatile evidencenetstatforensic toolslive evidence collection - Question #18Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Your company holds a large amount of customer PH. and you want to protect those data from theft or unauthorized modification. Among other actions, you classify and encrypt the data...
OWASP Top 10sensitive data exposuredata encryptiondata classification - Question #19Incident Handling and Response Process
Which of the following are malicious software programs that infect computers and corrupt or delete the data on them?
virusmalware typesdata corruptionmalicious software - Question #20Incident Handling and Response Process
Alex is an incident handler in QWERTY Company. He identified that an attacker created a backdoor inside the company's network by installing a fake AP inside a firewall. Which of th...
rogue access pointwireless attackbackdoornetwork intrusion - Question #21Computer Forensics in Incident Handling
Which of the following terms refers to an organization's ability to make optimal use of digital evidence in a limited period of time and with minimal investigation costs?
forensic readinessdigital evidenceinvestigation costorganizational capability - Question #22Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Bran is an incident handler who is assessing the network of the organization. He wants to detect ping sweep attempts on the network using Wireshark. Which of the following Wireshar...
ping sweepWireshark filtersICMPnetwork detection - Question #23Incident Handling and Response Planning
Which of the following is the BEST method to prevent email incidents?
email securityincident preventionend-user trainingsecurity awareness - Question #24Incident Handling and Response Process
Which of the following is a type of malicious code or software that appears legitimate but can take control of your computer?
trojanmalicious codemalware typessocial engineering - Question #25Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Which of the following terms refers to vulnerable account management functions, including account update, recovery of forgotten or lost passwords, and password reset, that might we...
broken account managementauthentication vulnerabilitiespassword resetweb application security - Question #26Incident Handling and Response Process
Otis is an incident handler working in an organization called Delmont. Recently, the organization faced several setbacks in business, whereby its revenues are decreasing. Otis was...
espionagedata theftinsider threatincident classification - Question #27Computer Forensics in Incident Handling
Which of the following is NOT part of the static data collection process?
static data collectionforensic processevidence acquisitiondigital forensics - Question #28Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Attackers or insiders create a backdoor into a trusted network by installing an unsecured access point inside a firewall. They then use any software or hardware access point to per...
rogue access pointwireless attacknetwork intrusionbackdoor - Question #29Incident Handling and Response Management
Which of the following is a standard framework that provides recommendations for implementing information security controls for organizations that initiate, implement, or maintain...
ISO/IEC 27002information security controlsISMScompliance frameworks - Question #30Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Alice is a disgruntled employee. She decided to acquire critical information from her organization for financial benefit. To acccomplish this, Alice started running a virtual machi...
side channel attackcloud securityvirtual machinecryptographic key theft - Question #31Incident Handling and Response Process
Sam. an employee of a multinational company, sends emails to third-party organizations with a spoofed email address of his organization. How can you categorize this type of inciden...
email spoofinginappropriate usageincident classificationinsider threat - Question #32Computer Forensics in Incident Handling
Jason is setting up a computer forensics lab and must perform the following steps: 1. physical location and structural design considerations; 2. planning and budgeting; 3. work are...
forensics lab setuplab designprocess sequencingforensic infrastructure - Question #33Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Which of the following options describes common characteristics of phishing emails?
phishingsocial engineeringemail characteristicsthreat awareness - Question #34Incident Handling and Response Process
In which of the following phases of the incident handling and response (IH&R) process is the identified security incidents analyzed, validated, categorized, and prioritized?
incident triageincident classificationIH&R processincident prioritization - Question #35Incident Handling and Response Management
Your company sells SaaS, and your company itself is hosted in the cloud (using it as a PaaS). In case of a malware incident in your customer's database, who is responsible for erad...
SaaS responsibilitycloud incident responsemalware eradicationshared responsibility model - Question #36Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Employee monitoring tools are mostly used by employers to find which of the following?
employee monitoringinsider threat detectionsecurity toolsmalicious insider - Question #37Computer Forensics in Incident Handling
BadGuy Bob hid files in the slack space, changed the file headers, hid suspicious files in executables, and changed the metadata for all types of files on his hacker laptop. What h...
anti-forensicsfile hidingmetadata manipulationevidence tampering - Question #38Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Which of the following is an attack that occurs when a malicious program causes a user's browser to perform an unwanted action on a trusted site for which the user is currently aut...
CSRFweb application attackbrowser exploitationsession abuse - Question #39Incident Handling and Response Process
Which one of the following is the correct flow of the stages in an incident handling and response (IH&R) process?
IH&R process flowincident response lifecycleprocess sequencingincident management - Question #40Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Eric works as an incident handler at Erinol software systems. He was assigned a task to protect the organization from any kind of DoS/DDoS attacks. Which of the following tools can...
DoS/DDoS mitigationIncapsulaincident prevention toolsnetwork protection - Question #41Incident Handling and Response Process
Richard is analyzing a corporate network. After an alert in the network's IPS. he identified that all the servers are sending huge amounts of traffic to the website abc.xyz. What t...
botnetattack vectorsnetwork trafficIPS alerts - Question #42Computer Forensics in Incident Handling
Which of the following is not called volatile data?
volatile datadigital evidencefile metadataforensics basics - Question #43Incident Handling and Response Process
Alex is an incident handler for Tech-o-Tech Inc. and is tasked to identify any possible insider threats within his organization. Which of the following insider threat detection tec...
insider threatsbehavioral analysisthreat detectionemployee monitoring - Question #44Incident Handling and Response Technologies
Francis is an incident handler and security expert. He works at MorisonTech Solutions based in Sydney, Australia. He was assigned a task to detect phishing/spam mails for the clien...
phishing detectionNetcraftemail securityincident handler tools - Question #45Incident Handling and Response Process
Allan performed a reconnaissance attack on his corporate network as part of a red-team activity. He scanned the IP range to find live host IP addresses. What type of technique did...
ping sweepreconnaissancenetwork scanningattack techniques - Question #46Incident Handling and Response Process
Sam received an alert through an email monitoring tool indicating that their company was targeted by a phishing attack. After analyzing the incident, Sam identified that most of th...
whalingphishingspear phishingsocial engineering - Question #47Incident Handling and Response Planning
A colleague wants to minimize their security responsibility because they are in a small organization. They are evaluating a new application that is offered in different forms. Whic...
SaaScloud service modelsshared responsibilitysecurity ownership - Question #48Incident Handling and Response Management
Eric works as a system administrator at ABC organization and previously granted several users with access privileges to the organizations systems with unlimited permissions. These...
privileged usersaccess controlinsider threatsadministrative accounts - Question #49Incident Handling and Response Process
Shiela is working at night as an incident handler. During a shift, servers were affected by a massive cyberattack. After she classified and prioritized the incident, she must repor...
incident notificationpoint of contactescalation proceduresincident response workflow - Question #50Incident Handling and Response Technologies
An attack on a network is BEST blocked using which of the following?
IPSinline devicenetwork attack preventionsecurity controls