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QUESTION 6
Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical want to provide seamless wireless access for their
employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented if all the
organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices?
A. Shibboleth
B. RADIUS federation
C. SAML
D. OAuth
E. OpenID connect
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
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Explanation: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/wireless/2005/01/01/authentication.html
QUESTION 7
Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor
diversity?
A. Sustainability
B. Homogeneity
C. Resiliency
D. Configurability
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 8
In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has
requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand. Which of the following
characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?
A. Elasticity
B. Scalability
C. High availability
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D. Redundancy
Correct Answer: A
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Elasticity is defined as “the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by provisioning and
de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time the available resources
match the current demand as closely as possible”.
QUESTION 9
A security engineer is configuring a system that requires the X.509 certificate information to be pasted into a
form field in Base64 encoded format to import it into the system. Which of the following certificate formats
should the engineer use to obtain the information in the required format?
A. PFX
B. PEM
C. DER
D. CER
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 10
Which of the following attacks specifically impact data availability?
A. DDoS
B. Trojan
C. MITM
D. Rootkit
Correct Answer: A
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Reference: https://www.netscout.com/what-is-ddos
QUESTION 11
A security analyst is hardening a server with the directory services role installed. The analyst must ensure
LDAP traffic cannot be monitored or sniffed and maintains compatibility with LDAP clients. Which of the
following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Generate an X.509-compliant certificate that is signed by a trusted CA.
B. Install and configure an SSH tunnel on the LDAP server.
C. Ensure port 389 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.
D. Ensure port 636 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.
E. Remote the LDAP directory service role from the server.
Correct Answer: AD
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QUESTION 12
Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company’s proprietary information to gain a
market edge and reduce time to market?
A. Competitor
B. Hacktivist
C. Insider
D. Organized crime.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 13
A penetration tester is crawling a target website that is available to the public. Which of the following represents
the actions the penetration tester is performing?
A. URL hijacking
B. Reconnaissance
C. White box testing
D. Escalation of privilege
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 14
Which of the following characteristics differentiate a rainbow table attack from a brute force attack? (Choose
two.)
A. Rainbow table attacks greatly reduce compute cycles at attack time.
B. Rainbow tables must include precomputed hashes.
C. Rainbow table attacks do not require access to hashed passwords.
D. Rainbow table attacks must be performed on the network.
E. Rainbow table attacks bypass maximum failed login restrictions.
Correct Answer: BE
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QUESTION 15
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Which of the following best describes routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed
from a string?
A. Error handling to protect against program exploitation
B. Exception handling to protect against XSRF attacks.
C. Input validation to protect against SQL injection.
D. Padding to protect against string buffer overflows.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 16
A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all traffic to the FTP server is
unencrypted. Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modern FTP client software.
The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing unencrypted
connections. Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?
A. Require the SFTP protocol to connect to the file server.
B. Use implicit TLS on the FTP server.
C. Use explicit FTPS for connections.
D. Use SSH tunneling to encrypt the FTP traffic.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 17
Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for their
customers to download over the Internet?
A. The recipient can verify integrity of the software patch.
B. The recipient can verify the authenticity of the site used to download the patch.
C. The recipient can request future updates to the software using the published MD5 value.
D. The recipient can successfully activate the new software patch.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 23
Despite having implemented password policies, users continue to set the same weak passwords and reuse old
passwords. Which of the following technical controls would help prevent these policy violations? (Choose two.)
A. Password expiration
B. Password length
C. Password complexity
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D. Password history
E. Password lockout
Correct Answer: CD
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QUESTION 24
Which of the following types of cloud infrastructures would allow several organizations with similar structures
and interests to realize the benefits of shared storage and resources?
A. Private
B. Hybrid
C. Public
D. Community
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 25
A company is currently using the following configuration:
IAS server with certificate-based EAP-PEAP and MSCHAP
Unencrypted authentication via PAP
A security administrator needs to configure a new wireless setup with the following configurations:
PAP authentication method
PEAP and EAP provide two-factor authentication
Which of the following forms of authentication are being used? (Choose two.)
A. PAP
B. PEAP
C. MSCHAP
D. PEAP- MSCHAP
E. EAP
F. EAP-PEAP
Correct Answer: AC
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QUESTION 28
A company is using a mobile device deployment model in which employees use their personal devices for work
at their own discretion. Some of the problems the company is encountering include the following:
There is no standardization.
Employees ask for reimbursement for their devices.
Employees do not replace their devices often enough to keep them running efficiently.
The company does not have enough control over the devices.
Which of the following is a deployment model that would help the company overcome these problems?
A. BYOD
B. VDI
C. COPE
D. CYOD
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 29
A botnet has hit a popular website with a massive number of GRE-encapsulated packets to perform a DDoS
attack. News outlets discover a certain type of refrigerator was exploited and used to send outbound packets to
the website that crashed. To which of the following categories does the refrigerator belong?
A. SoC
B. ICS
C. IoT
D. MFD
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 30
Users report the following message appears when browsing to the company’s secure site: This website
cannot be trusted. Which of the following actions should a security analyst take to resolve these
messages? (Choose two.)
A. Verify the certificate has not expired on the server.
B. Ensure the certificate has a .pfx extension on the server.
C. Update the root certificate into the client computer certificate store.
D. Install the updated private key on the web server.
E. Have users clear their browsing history and relaunch the session.
Correct Answer: AC
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QUESTION 31
When trying to log onto a company’s new ticketing system, some employees receive the following message:
Access denied: too many concurrent sessions. The ticketing system was recently installed on a
small VM with only the recommended hardware specifications. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause
for this error message?
A. Network resources have been exceeded.
B. The software is out of licenses.
C. The VM does not have enough processing power.
D. The firewall is misconfigured.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 32
Joe, an employee, wants to show his colleagues how much he knows about smartphones. Joe demonstrates a
free movie application that he installed from a third party on his corporate smartphone. Joe’s colleagues were
unable to find the application in the app stores. Which of the following allowed Joe to install the application?
(Choose two.)
A. Near-field communication.
B. Rooting/jailbreaking
C. Ad-hoc connections
D. Tethering
E. Sideloading
Correct Answer: BE
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