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An analyst execute a vulnerability scan against an internet-facing DNS server and receives the following report:

Which of the following tools should the analyst use FIRST to validate the most critical vulnerability?

A.

Password cracker

B.

Port scanner

C.

Account enumerator

D.

Exploitation framework

A company hosts a large amount of data in blob storage for its customers. The company recently had a number of issues with this data being prematurely deleted before the scheduled backup processes could be completed. The management team has asked the security architect for a recommendation that allows blobs to be deleted occasionally, but only after a successful backup. Which of the following solutions will BEST meet this requirement?

A.

Mirror the blobs at a local data center.

B.

Enable fast recovery on the storage account.

C.

Implement soft delete for blobs.

D.

Make the blob immutable.

A company suspects a web server may have been infiltrated by a rival corporation. The security engineer reviews the web server logs and finds the following:

The security engineer looks at the code with a developer, and they determine the log entry is created when the following line is run:

Which of the following is an appropriate security control the company should implement?

A.

Restrict directory permission to read-only access.

B.

Use server-side processing to avoid XSS vulnerabilities in path input.

C.

Separate the items in the system call to prevent command injection.

D.

Parameterize a query in the path variable to prevent SQL injection.

A security consultant needs to protect a network of electrical relays that are used for monitoring and controlling the energy used in a manufacturing facility.

Which of the following systems should the consultant review before making a recommendation?

A.

CAN

B.

ASIC

C.

FPGA

D.

SCADA

An organization developed a social media application that is used by customers in multiple remote geographic locations around the world. The organization’s headquarters and only datacenter are located in New York City. The Chief Information Security Officer wants to ensure the following requirements are met for the social media application:

Low latency for all mobile users to improve the users’ experience

SSL offloading to improve web server performance

Protection against DoS and DDoS attacks

High availability

Which of the following should the organization implement to BEST ensure all requirements are met?

A.

A cache server farm in its datacenter

B.

A load-balanced group of reverse proxy servers with SSL acceleration

C.

A CDN with the origin set to its datacenter

D.

Dual gigabit-speed Internet connections with managed DDoS prevention

Which of the following technologies allows CSPs to add encryption across multiple data storages?

A.

Symmetric encryption

B.

Homomorphic encryption

C.

Data dispersion

D.

Bit splitting

Which of the following is the BEST disaster recovery solution when resources are running in a cloud environment?

A.

Remote provider BCDR

B.

Cloud provider BCDR

C.

Alternative provider BCDR

D.

Primary provider BCDR

A recent data breach stemmed from unauthorized access to an employee’s company account with a cloud-based productivity suite. The attacker exploited excessive permissions granted to a third-party OAuth application to collect sensitive information.

Which of the following BEST mitigates inappropriate access and permissions issues?

A.

SIEM

B.

CASB

C.

WAF

D.

SOAR

Due to budget constraints, an organization created a policy that only permits vulnerabilities rated high and critical according to CVSS to be fixed or mitigated. A security analyst notices that many vulnerabilities that were previously scored as medium are now breaching higher thresholds. Upon further investigation, the analyst notices certain ratings are not aligned with the approved system categorization. Which of the following can the analyst do to get a better picture of the risk while adhering to the organization's policy?

A.

Align the exploitability metrics to the predetermined system categorization.

B.

Align the remediation levels to the predetermined system categorization.

C.

Align the impact subscore requirements to the predetermined system categorization.

D.

Align the attack vectors to the predetermined system categorization.

A security analyst sees that a hacker has discovered some keys and they are being made available on a public website. The security analyst is then able to successfully decrypt the data using the keys from the website. Which of the following should the security analyst recommend to protect the affected data?

A.

Key rotation

B.

Key revocation

C.

Key escrow

D.

Zeroization

E.

Cryptographic obfuscation

A company has moved its sensitive workloads lo the cloud and needs to ensure high availability and resiliency of its web-based application. The cloud architecture team was given the following requirements

• The application must run at 70% capacity at all times

• The application must sustain DoS and DDoS attacks.

• Services must recover automatically.

Which of the following should the cloud architecture team implement? (Select THREE).

A.

Read-only replicas

B.

BCP

C.

Autoscaling

D.

WAF

E.

CDN

F.

Encryption

G.

Continuous snapshots

The Chief information Officer (CIO) wants to implement enterprise mobility throughout the organization. The goal is to allow employees access to company resources. However the CIO wants the ability to enforce configuration settings, manage data, and manage both company-owned and personal devices. Which of the following should the CIO implement to achieve this goal?

A.

BYOO

B.

CYOD

C.

COPE

D.

MDM

A vulnerability assessment endpoint generated a report of the latest findings. A security analyst needs to review the report and create a priority list of items that must be addressed. Which of the following should the analyst use to create the list quickly?

A.

Business impact rating

B.

CVE dates

C.

CVSS scores

D.

OVAL

A municipal department receives telemetry data from a third-party provider The server collecting telemetry sits in the municipal departments screened network and accepts connections from the third party over HTTPS. The daemon has a code execution vulnerability from a lack of input sanitization of out-of-bound messages, and therefore, the cybersecurity engineers would like to Implement nsk mitigations. Which of the following actions, if combined, would BEST prevent exploitation of this vulnerability? (Select TWO).

A.

Implementing a TLS inspection proxy on-path to enable monitoring and policy enforcement

B.

Creating a Linux namespace on the telemetry server and adding to it the servicing HTTP daemon

C.

Installing and configuring filesystem integrity monitoring service on the telemetry server

D.

Implementing an EDR and alert on Identified privilege escalation attempts to the SIEM

E.

Subscribing to a UTM service that enforces privacy controls between the internal network and the screened subnet

F.

Using the published data schema to monitor and block off nominal telemetry messages

A company recently acquired a SaaS provider and needs to integrate its platform into the company's existing infrastructure without impact to the customer's experience. The SaaS provider does not have a mature security program A recent vulnerability scan of the SaaS provider's systems shows multiple critical vulnerabilities attributed to very old and outdated Oss. Which of the following solutions would prevent these vulnerabilities from being introduced into the company's existing infrastructure?

A.

Segment the systems to reduce the attack surface if an attack occurs

B.

Migrate the services to new systems with a supported and patched OS.

C.

Patch the systems to the latest versions of the existing OSs

D.

Install anti-malware. HIPS, and host-based firewalls on each of the systems