CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) CS0-002 Exam Dumps (V14.02) Updated Materials For Preparation

1. Which of the following technologies can be used to house the entropy keys for disk encryption on desktops and laptops?

2. An analyst is investigating an anomalous event reported by the SOC. After reviewing the system logs the analyst identifies an unexpected addition of a user with root-level privileges on the endpoint .

Which of the following data sources will BEST help the analyst to determine whether this event constitutes an incident?

3. A cyber-incident response analyst is investigating a suspected cryptocurrency miner on a company's server.

Which of the following is the FIRST step the analyst should take?

4. Which of the following should be found within an organization's acceptable use policy?

5. A security analyst working in the SOC recently discovered Balances m which hosts visited a specific set of domains and IPs and became infected with malware .

Which of the following is the MOST appropriate action to take in the situation?

6. An organization was alerted to a possible compromise after its proprietary data was found for sale on the Internet. An analyst is reviewing the logs from the next-generation UTM in an attempt to find evidence of this breach.

Given the following output:





Which of the following should be the focus of the investigation?

7. After receiving reports latency, a security analyst performs an Nmap scan and observes the following output:





Which of the following suggests the system that produced output was compromised?

8. A security analyst is investigating a compromised Linux server.

The analyst issues the ps command and receives the following output.





Which of the following commands should the administrator run NEXT to further analyze the compromised system?

9. Which of the following MOST accurately describes an HSM?

10. An information security analyst observes anomalous behavior on the SCADA devices in a power plant. This behavior results in the industrial generators overheating and destabilizing the power supply.

Which of the following would BEST identify potential indicators of compromise?

11. A small organization has proprietary software that is used internally. The system has not been well maintained and cannot be updated with the rest of the environment.

Which of the following is the BEST solution?

12. A security analyst has been alerted to several emails that snow evidence an employee is planning malicious activities that involve employee Pll on the network before leaving the organization.

The security analysis BEST response would be to coordinate with the legal department and:

13. An information security analyst is reviewing backup data sets as part of a project focused on eliminating archival data sets.

Which of the following should be considered FIRST prior to disposing of the electronic data?

14. An analyst has been asked to provide feedback regarding the control required by a revised regulatory framework. At this time, the analyst only needs to focus on the technical controls .

Which of the following should the analyst provide an assessment of?

15. During a cyber incident, which of the following is the BEST course of action?

16. A monthly job to install approved vendor software updates and hot fixes recently stopped working. The security team performed a vulnerability scan, which identified several hosts as having some critical OS vulnerabilities, as referenced in the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) database.

Which of the following should the security team do NEXT to resolve the critical findings in the most effective manner? (Choose two.)

17. A company just chose a global software company based in Europe to implement a new supply chain management solution .

Which of the following would be the MAIN concern of the company?

18. A web developer wants to create a new web part within the company website that aggregates sales from individual team sites. A cybersecurity analyst wants to ensure security measurements are implemented during this process .

Which of the following remediation actions should the analyst take to implement a vulnerability management process?

19. Which of the following BEST describes the process by which code is developed, tested, and deployed in small batches?

20. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to upgrade an organization's security posture by improving proactive activities associated with attacks from internal and external threats.

Which of the following is the MOST proactive tool or technique that feeds incident response capabilities?

21. A security analyst recently discovered two unauthorized hosts on the campus's wireless network segment from a man-m-the-middle attack. The security analyst also verified that privileges were not escalated, and the two devices did not gain access to other network devices.

Which of the following would BEST mitigate and improve the security posture of the wireless network for this type of attack?

22. During an investigation, a security analyst determines suspicious activity occurred during the night shift over the weekend. Further investigation reveals the activity was initiated from an internal IP going to an external website.

Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate recommendation to prevent the activity from happening in the future?

23. During an incident, a cybersecurity analyst found several entries in the web server logs that are related to an IP with a bad reputation.

Which of the following would cause the analyst to further review the incident?

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24. A security analyst discovers accounts in sensitive SaaS-based systems are not being removed in a timely manner when an employee leaves the organization To BEST resolve the issue, the organization should implement

25. The inability to do remote updates of certificates. keys software and firmware is a security issue commonly associated with:

26. Which of the following attacks can be prevented by using output encoding?

27. An analyst is participating in the solution analysis process for a cloud-hosted SIEM platform to centralize log monitoring and alerting capabilities in the SOC.

Which of the following is the BEST approach for supply chain assessment when selecting a vendor?

28. Which of the following are components of the intelligence cycle? (Select TWO.)

29. A security analyst reviews the following aggregated output from an Nmap scan and the border firewall ACL:





Which of the following should the analyst reconfigure to BEST reduce organizational risk while maintaining current functionality?

30. A security analyst is reviewing the logs from an internal chat server.

The chat.log file is too large to review manually, so the analyst wants to create a shorter log file that only includes lines associated with a user demonstrating anomalous activity.

Below is a snippet of the log:





Which of the following commands would work BEST to achieve the desired result?

31. For machine learning to be applied effectively toward security analysis automation, it requires.

32. An analyst identifies multiple instances of node-to-node communication between several endpoints within the 10.200.2.0/24 network and a user machine at the IP address 10.200.2.5. This user machine at the IP address 10.200.2.5 is also identified as initiating outbound communication during atypical business hours with several IP addresses that have recently appeared on threat feeds.

Which of the following can be inferred from this activity?

33. A security analyst on the threat-hunting team has developed a list of unneeded, benign services that are currently running as part of the standard OS deployment for workstations.

The analyst will provide this list to the operations team to create a policy that will automatically disable the services for all workstations in the organization.

Which of the following BEST describes the security analyst's goal?

34. An executive assistant wants to onboard a new cloud based product to help with business analytics and dashboarding.

When of the following would be the BEST integration option for the service?

35. The computer incident response team at a multinational company has determined that a breach of sensitive data has occurred in which a threat actor has compromised the organization’s email system. Per the incident response procedures, this breach requires notifying the board immediately .

Which of the following would be the BEST method of communication?

36. A large amount of confidential data was leaked during a recent security breach. As part of a forensic investigation, the security team needs to identify the various types of traffic that were captured between two compromised devices.

Which of the following should be used to identify the traffic?

37. Which of the following is the use of tools to simulate the ability for an attacker to gain access to a specified network?

38. A product manager is working with an analyst to design a new application that will perform as a data analytics platform and will be accessible via a web browser. The product manager suggests using a PaaS provider to host the application.

Which of the following is a security concern when using a PaaS solution?

39. An organization is moving its infrastructure to the cloud in an effort to meet the budget and reduce staffing requirements. The organization has three environments: development, testing, and production. These environments have interdependencies but must remain relatively segmented.

Which of the following methods would BEST secure the company's infrastructure and be the simplest to manage and maintain?

40. As part of a merger with another organization, a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is working with an assessor to perform a risk assessment focused on data privacy compliance. The CISO is primarily concerned with the potential legal liability and fines associated with data privacy.

Based on the CISO's concerns, the assessor will MOST likely focus on:

41. A security analyst is building a malware analysis lab. The analyst wants to ensure malicious applications are not capable of escaping the virtual machines and pivoting to other networks.

To BEST mitigate this risk, the analyst should use.

42. A network attack that is exploiting a vulnerability in the SNMP is detected.

Which of the following should the cybersecurity analyst do FIRST?

43. A security analyst suspects a malware infection was caused by a user who downloaded malware after clicking http://<malwaresource>/A.php in a phishing email.

To prevent other computers from being infected by the same malware variation, the analyst should create a rule on the.

44. A team of security analysis has been alerted to potential malware activity. The initial examination indicates one of the affected workstations on beaconing on TCP port 80 to five IP addresses and attempting to spread across the network over port 445 .

Which of the following should be the team's NEXT step during the detection phase of this response process?

45. A system is experiencing noticeably slow response times, and users are being locked out frequently. An analyst asked for the system security plan and found the system comprises two servers: an application server in the DMZ and a database server inside the trusted domain .

Which of the following should be performed NEXT to investigate the availability issue?

46. A security team is implementing a new vulnerability management program in an environment that has a historically poor security posture. The team is aware of issues patch management in the environment and expects a large number of findings .

Which of the following would be the MOST efficient way to increase the security posture of the organization in the shortest amount of time?

47. A security administrator needs to create an IDS rule to alert on FTP login attempts by root .

Which of the following rules is the BEST solution?

48. Because some clients have reported unauthorized activity on their accounts, a security analyst is reviewing network packet captures from the company's API server.

A portion of a capture file is shown below:

POST /services/v1_0/Public/Members.svc/soap <s:Envelope+xmlns:s="http://schemas.s/soap/envelope/"><s:Body><GetIPLocation+xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">

<request+xmlns:a="http://schemas.somesite.org"+xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"></s:Body></s:Envelope> 192.168.1.22 --api.somesite.com 200 0 1006 1001 0 192.168.1.22

POST /services/v1_0/Public/Members.svc/soap <<a:Password>Password123</a:Password><a:ResetPasswordToken+i:nil="true"/> <a:ShouldImpersonatedAuthenticationBePopulated+i:nil="true"/><a:Username>[email protected]</a:Username></request></Login></s:Body></s:Envelope> 192.168.5.66 --api.somesite.com 200 0 11558 1712 2024 192.168.4.89

POST /services/v1_0/Public/Members.svc/soap <s:Envelope+xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><s:Body><GetIPLocation+xmlns="http://tempuri.org/"> <a:IPAddress>516.7.446.605</a:IPAddress><a:ZipCode+i:nil="true"/></request></GetIPLocation></s:Body></s:Envelope> 192.168.1.22 --api.somesite.com 200 0 1003 1011 307 192.168.1.22

POST /services/v1_0/Public/Members.svc/soap <s:Envelope+xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><s:Body><IsLoggedIn+xmlns="http://tempuri.org/"> <request+xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/somesite.web+xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><a:Authentication> <a:ApiToken>kmL4krg2CwwWBan5BReGv5Djb7syxXTNKcWFuSjd</a:ApiToken><a:ImpersonateUserId>0</a:ImpersonateUserId><a:LocationId>161222</a:LocationId> <a:NetworkId>4</a:NetworkId><a:ProviderId>''1=1</a:ProviderId><a:UserId>13026046</a:UserId></a:Authentication></request></IsLoggedIn></s:Body></s:Envelope> 192.168.5.66 --api.somesite.com 200 0 1378 1209 48 192.168.4.89

Which of the following MOST likely explains how the clients' accounts were compromised?

49. A security analyst received an alert from the SIEM indicating numerous login attempts from users outside their usual geographic zones, all of which were initiated through the web-based mail server. The logs indicate all domain accounts experienced two login attempts during the same time frame.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

50. Which of the following technologies can be used to house the entropy keys for task encryption on desktops and laptops?

51. A human resources employee sends out a mass email to all employees that contains their personnel records. A security analyst is called in to address the concern of the human resources director on how to prevent this from happening in the future.

Which of the following would be the BEST solution to recommend to the director?

52. A cybersecurity analyst is contributing to a team hunt on an organization's endpoints.

Which of the following should the analyst do FIRST?

53. A security analyst has observed several incidents within an organization that are affecting one specific piece of hardware on the network. Further investigation reveals the equipment vendor previously released a patch.

Which of the following is the MOST appropriate threat classification for these incidents?

54. A company was recently awarded several large government contracts and wants to determine its current risk from one specific APT.

Which of the following threat modeling methodologies would be the MOST appropriate to use during this analysis?

55. A security analyst is investigating malicious traffic from an internal system that attempted to download proxy avoidance software as identified from the firewall logs but the destination IP is blocked and not captured .

Which of the following should the analyst do?

56. A security analyst, who is working for a company that utilizes Linux servers, receives the following results from a vulnerability scan:





Which of the following is MOST likely a false positive?

57. Bootloader malware was recently discovered on several company workstations. All the workstations run Windows and are current models with UEFI capability.

Which of the following UEFI settings is the MOST likely cause of the infections?

58. 1.A development team signed a contract that requires access to an on-premises physical server. Access must be restricted to authorized users only and cannot be connected to the Internet.

Which of the following solutions would meet this requirement?

59. Which of the following would MOST likely be included in the incident response procedure after a security breach of customer PII?

60. A storage area network (SAN) was inadvertently powered off while power maintenance was being performed in a datacenter. None of the systems should have lost all power during the maintenance. Upon review, it is discovered that a SAN administrator moved a power plug when testing the SAN's fault notification features.

Which of the following should be done to prevent this issue from reoccurring?

61. A SIEM solution alerts a security analyst of a high number of login attempts against the company's webmail portal. The analyst determines the login attempts used credentials from a past data breach.

Which of the following is the BEST mitigation to prevent unauthorized access?

62. An organization has not had an incident for several month. The Chief information Security Officer (CISO) wants to move to proactive stance for security investigations .

Which of the following would BEST meet that goal?

63. A security analyst needs to assess the web server versions on a list of hosts to determine which are running a vulnerable version of the software and output that list into an XML file named webserverlist.xml. The host list is provided in a file named webserverlist.txt .

Which of the following Nmap commands would BEST accomplish this goal?

64. A security architect is reviewing the options for performing input validation on incoming web form submissions .

Which of the following should the architect as the MOST secure and manageable option?

65. An analyst is reviewing a list of vulnerabilities, which were reported from a recent vulnerability scan of a Linux server.

Which of the following is MOST likely to be a false positive?

66. A security analyst is investigating a system compromise. The analyst verities the system was up to date on OS patches at the time of the compromise .

Which of the following describes the type of vulnerability that was MOST likely expiated?

67. A cybersecurity analyst is responding to an incident. The company’s leadership team wants to attribute the incident to an attack group .

Which of the following models would BEST apply to the situation?

68. A security analyst for a large financial institution is creating a threat model for a specific threat actor that is likely targeting an organization's financial assets.

Which of the following is the BEST example of the level of sophistication this threat actor is using?

69. An organization developed a comprehensive incident response policy. Executive management approved the policy and its associated procedures .

Which of the following activities would be MOST beneficial to evaluate personnel’s familiarity with incident response procedures?

70. The security team at a large corporation is helping the payment-processing team to prepare for a regulatory compliance audit and meet the following objectives:

✑ Reduce the number of potential findings by the auditors.

✑ Limit the scope of the audit to only devices used by the payment-processing team for activities directly impacted by the regulations.

✑ Prevent the external-facing web infrastructure used by other teams from coming into scope.

✑ Limit the amount of exposure the company will face if the systems used by the payment-processing team are compromised.

Which of the following would be the MOST effective way for the security team to meet these objectives?

71. A security analyst discovered a specific series of IP addresses that are targeting an organization. None of the attacks have been successful .

Which of the following should the security analyst perform NEXT?

72. A security analyst needs to reduce the overall attack surface.

Which of the following infrastructure changes should the analyst recommend?

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74. Which of the following roles is ultimately responsible for determining the classification levels assigned to specific data sets?

75. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned the development team, which consists of contractors, has too much access to customer datA. Developers use personal workstations, giving the company little to no visibility into the development activities.

Which of the following would be BEST to implement to alleviate the CISO's concern?

76. A security analyst wants to identify which vulnerabilities a potential attacker might initially exploit if the network is compromised.

Which of the following would provide the BEST results?

77. A development team is testing a new application release. The team needs to import existing client PHI data records from the production environment to the test environment to test accuracy and functionality.

Which of the following would BEST protect the sensitivity of this data while still allowing the team to perform the testing?

78. Data spillage occurred when an employee accidentally emailed a sensitive file to an external recipient.

Which of the following controls would have MOST likely prevented this incident?

79. An analyst is performing penetration testing and vulnerability assessment activities against a new vehicle automation platform.

Which of the following is MOST likely an attack vector that is being utilized as part of the testing and assessment?

80. A cybersecurity analyst needs to rearchitect the network using a firewall and a VPN server to achieve the highest level of security.

To BEST complete this task, the analyst should place the:

81. A security analyst has discovered trial developers have installed browsers on all development servers in the company's cloud infrastructure and are using them to browse the Internet .

Which of the following changes should the security analyst make to BEST protect the environment?

82. A security analyst is reviewing the following log from an email security service.





Which of the following BEST describes the reason why the email was blocked?

83. A cybersecurity analyst is supposing an incident response effort via threat intelligence .

Which of the following is the analyst MOST likely executing?

84. A security analyst receives an alert that highly sensitive information has left the company's network Upon investigation, the analyst discovers an outside IP range has had connections from three servers more than 100 times m the past month. The affected servers are virtual machines.

Which of the following is the BEST course of action?

85. During an investigation, an incident responder intends to recover multiple pieces of digital media.

Before removing the media, the responder should initiate:

86. Which of the following is the BEST way to share incident-related artifacts to provide non-repudiation?

87. A security analyst discovers a vulnerability on an unpatched web server that is used for testing machine learning on Bing Data sets. Exploitation of the vulnerability could cost the organization $1.5 million in lost productivity. The server is located on an isolated network segment that has a 5% chance of being compromised .

Which of the following is the value of this risk?

88. An organization has not had an incident for several months. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to move to a more proactive stance for security investigations .

Which of the following would BEST meet that goal?

89. An organization developed a comprehensive modern response policy Executive management approved the policy and its associated procedures .

Which of the following activities would be MOST beneficial to evaluate personnel's familiarity with incident response procedures?

90. Which of the following sets of attributes BEST illustrates the characteristics of an insider threat from a security perspective?

91. An incident responder successfully acquired application binaries off a mobile device for later forensic analysis.

Which of the following should the analyst do NEXT?

92. Which of the following is the MOST important objective of a post-incident review?

93. Which of the following technologies can be used to store digital certificates and is typically used in high-security implementations where integrity is paramount?

94. An analyst is working with a network engineer to resolve a vulnerability that was found in a piece of legacy hardware, which is critical to the operation of the organization's production line. The legacy hardware does not have third-party support, and the OEM manufacturer of the controller is no longer in operation. The analyst documents the activities and verifies these actions prevent remote exploitation of the vulnerability.

Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate to remediate the controller?

95. Which of the following software security best practices would prevent an attacker from being able to run arbitrary SQL commands within a web application? (Choose two.)

96. Which of the following will allow different cloud instances to share various types of data with a minimal amount of complexity?

97. A cybersecurity analyst has access to several threat feeds and wants to organize them while simultaneously comparing intelligence against network traffic.

Which of the following would BEST accomplish this goal?

98. An organization needs to limit its exposure to accidental disclosure when employees send emails that contain personal information to recipients outside the company.

Which of the following technical controls would BEST accomplish this goal?

99. A large software company wants to move «s source control and deployment pipelines into a cloud-computing environment. Due to the nature of the business management determines the recovery time objective needs to be within one hour .

Which of the following strategies would put the company in the BEST position to achieve the desired recovery time?

100. A cybersecurity analyst is currently checking a newly deployed server that has an access control list applied.

When conducting the scan, the analyst received the following code snippet of results:





Which of the following describes the output of this scan?