SY0-301 Exam Questions
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- Question #251Security operations
A security specialist has been asked to evaluate a corporate network by performing a vulnerability assessment. Which of the following will MOST likely be performed?
vulnerability assessmentpenetration testingpassive testingsecurity assessment - Question #252Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
A security technician is attempting to access a wireless network protected with WEP. The technician does not know any information about the network. Which of the following should t...
WEPMAC spoofingwireless reconnaissancewireless security - Question #253Security architecture
After an assessment, auditors recommended that an application hosting company should contract with additional data providers for redundant high speed Internet connections. Which of...
ISP redundancysingle point of failurebusiness continuitynetwork availability - Question #254Security architecture
A router has a single Ethernet connection to a switch. In the router configuration, the Ethernet interface has three sub-interfaces, each configured with ACLs applied to them and 8...
VLAN802.1q trunkingnetwork segmentationrouter sub-interfaces - Question #255General security concepts
Which of the following should be enabled in a laptop's BIOS prior to full disk encryption?
TPMfull disk encryptionBIOS securityhardware security module - Question #256Security operations
Company employees are required to have workstation client certificates to access a bank website. These certificates were backed up as a precautionary step before the new computer u...
PKIclient certificatescertificate deploymentmutual authentication - Question #257General security concepts
Digital Signatures provide which of the following?
digital signaturesintegritycryptographynon-repudiation - Question #258General security concepts
A user ID and password together provide which of the following?
authenticationcredentialsidentity verificationaccess control - Question #259General security concepts
RADIUS provides which of the following?
RADIUSAAAauthenticationaccounting - Question #260Security operations
A recent intrusion has resulted in the need to perform incident response procedures. The incident response team has identified audit logs throughout the network and organizational...
NTPtime synchronizationlog correlationincident response - Question #261Security operations
A recent computer breach has resulted in the incident response team needing to perform a forensics examination. Upon examination, the forensics examiner determines that they cannot...
forensicsevidence labelingchain of custodyincident response - Question #262Security operations
An IT staff member was entering the datacenter when another person tried to piggyback into the datacenter as the door was opened. While the IT staff member attempted to question th...
physical securitytailgatingincident responseaccess control - Question #263Security program management and oversight
During a recent user awareness and training session, a new staff member asks the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) why the company does not allow personally owned devices i...
BYOD policyacceptable userisk managementsecurity awareness - Question #264Security operations
A user has received an email from an external source which asks for details on the company's new product line set for release in one month. The user has a detailed spec sheet but i...
data classificationincident responseinformation handlingsocial engineering - Question #265Security operations
Which of the following techniques enables a highly secured organization to assess security weaknesses in real time?
continuous monitoringreal-time assessmentsecurity controlsvulnerability management - Question #266Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
Which of the following techniques can be used to prevent the disclosure of system information resulting from arbitrary inputs when implemented properly?
error handlinginput validationinformation disclosuresecure coding - Question #267General security concepts
Encryption of data at rest is important for sensitive information because of which of the following?
data at restencryptionphysical theftdata protection - Question #268General security concepts
Which of the following is synonymous with a server's certificate?
PKIcertificatespublic keycryptography - Question #269Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
A network administrator noticed various chain messages have been received by the company. Which of the following security controls would need to be implemented to mitigate this iss...
spamemail securityanti-spamchain messages - Question #270Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
Which of the following types of application attacks would be used to specifically gain unauthorized information from databases that did not have any input validation implemented?
SQL injectioninput validationdatabase attacksweb application security - Question #271Security architecture
Which of the following should be deployed to prevent the transmission of malicious traffic between virtual machines hosted on a singular physical device on a network?
virtualization securityHIPSVM isolationeast-west traffic - Question #272Security operations
A security administrator wants to get a real time look at what attackers are doing in the wild, hoping to lower the risk of zero-day attacks. Which of the following should be used...
honeynetsthreat intelligencezero-daydeception technology - Question #273Security operations
Which of the following protocols is the security administrator observing in this packet capture? 12:33:43, SRC 192.168.4.3:3389, DST 10.67.33.20:8080, SYN/ACK
packet analysisRDPport numbersnetwork protocols - Question #274General security concepts
Which of the following is true about asymmetric encryption?
asymmetric encryptionpublic keyprivate keycryptography - Question #275General security concepts
Which of the following is true about an email that was signed by User A and sent to User B?
digital signaturesPKInon-repudiationpublic key cryptography - Question #276Security architecture
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned with moving an application to a SaaS cloud provider. Which of the following can be implemented to provide for data confidentiality...
cloud securitySaaSDLPdata confidentiality - Question #277General security concepts
Which of the following protocols encapsulates an IP packet with an additional IP header?
IPSectunnelingVPNnetwork protocols - Question #278Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
A program has been discovered that infects a critical Windows system executable and stays dormant in memory. When a Windows mobile phone is connected to the host, the program infec...
virusmalware classificationboot sectormalware propagation - Question #279Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
A user has unknowingly gone to a fraudulent site. The security analyst notices the following system change on the user's host: Old `hosts' file: 127.0.0.1 localhost New `hosts' fil...
pharminghosts file manipulationDNS poisoningsocial engineering - Question #280Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
An investigator recently discovered that an attacker placed a remotely accessible CCTV camera in a public area overlooking several Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs). It is also beli...
shoulder surfingphysical securityATM attackscredential theft - Question #281Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
A user commuting to work via public transport received an offensive image on their smart phone from another commuter. Which of the following attacks MOST likely took place?
Bluetoothbluejackingwireless attacksmobile security - Question #282Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
An attacker attempted to compromise a web form by inserting the following input into the username field: admin)(|(password=*)) Which of the following types of attacks was attempted...
LDAP injectioninjection attacksweb application securityinput validation - Question #283Security operations
Which of the following is BEST carried out immediately after a security breach is discovered?
incident responseincident managementsecurity breachsecurity operations - Question #284Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack that is occurring?
Smurf attackICMP floodingDDoSnetwork attacks - Question #285Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack that is occurring? (Select TWO).
DNS spoofingARP poisoningnetwork attacksman-in-the-middle - Question #286General security concepts
Which of the following is a hardware-based security technology included in a computer?
TPMtrusted platform modulehardware securityendpoint security - Question #287Security operations
Pete, an employee, attempts to visit a popular social networking site but is blocked. Instead, a page is displayed notifying him that this site cannot be visited. Which of the foll...
content filteringweb filteringinternet access controlURL filtering - Question #288Security program management and oversight
How often, at a MINIMUM, should Sara, an administrator, review the accesses and right of the users on her system?
access reviewuser rights managementaccount lifecyclesecurity policy - Question #289Security operations
An administrator is concerned that a company's web server has not been patched. Which of the following would be the BEST assessment for the administrator to perform?
vulnerability scanningpatch managementweb server securityassessment tools - Question #290Security operations
An administrator notices that former temporary employees' accounts are still active on a domain. Which of the following can be implemented to increase security and prevent this fro...
account managementinactive accountstemporary employeesuser lifecycle - Question #291Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations
A trojan was recently discovered on a server. There are now concerns that there has been a security breach that allows unauthorized people to access data. The administrator should...
backdoortrojanmalwareunauthorized access - Question #292Security architecture
Which of the following protocols uses TCP instead of UDP and is incompatible with all previous versions?
TACACS+AAA protocolsauthentication protocolsTCP vs UDP - Question #293General security concepts
Which of the following symmetric key algorithms are examples of block ciphers? (Select THREE).
block cipherssymmetric encryptionAES3DES - Question #296General security concepts
Which of the following must be kept secret for a public key infrastructure to remain secure?
PKIprivate keypublic key infrastructurecryptography - Question #297Security architecture
Which of the following devices is BEST suited to protect an HTTP-based application that is susceptible to injection attacks?
WAFLayer 7 firewallinjection attack mitigationapplication security - Question #298Security architecture
Which of the following is best practice to put at the end of an ACL?
ACLimplicit denyaccess control listsnetwork security policy - Question #299General security concepts
An achievement in providing worldwide Internet security was the signing of certificates associated with which of the following protocols?
SSLdigital certificatesPKItransport security - Question #300General security concepts
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to implement two-factor authentication within the company. Which of the following would fulfill the CISO's requirements?
multi-factor authenticationauthentication factorstokensomething you have - Question #301Security operations
Which of the following can a security administrator implement on mobile devices that will help prevent unwanted people from viewing the data if the device is left unattended?
screen lockmobile device securityphysical access controlunattended device - Question #302General security concepts
Which of the following security concepts can prevent a user from logging on from home during the weekends?
time of day restrictionsaccess controllogical access controls