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SY0-501 · Question #109

Multiple employees receive an email with a malicious attachment that begins to encrypt their hard drives and mapped shares on their devices when it is opened. The network and security teams perform th

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Submitted by fernanda_arg· Mar 4, 2026Security operations

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Multiple employees receive an email with a malicious attachment that begins to encrypt their hard drives and mapped shares on their devices when it is opened. The network and security teams perform the following actions:

  • Shut down all network shares.
  • Run an email search identifying all employees who received the

malicious message.

  • Reimage all devices belonging to users who opened the attachment.

Next, the teams want to re-enable the network shares. Which of the following BEST describes this phase of the incident response process?

Options

  • AEradication
  • BContainment
  • CRecovery
  • DLessons learned

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#incident response#recovery phase#ransomware#network shares
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