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A small company uses a public cloud service provider to host an online store. The online store uses a web application as the front end and a database as the…

A software company uses a public cloud service for hosting software development and deployment services. The company is concerned that software code in development might leak to competitors and result…

You are asked for advice on how to best prevent unauthorized hosts from accessing the home network of employees. Which of the following security measures do you think would be…

What are the most effective ways to defend against malware? Select two correct answers Implement a VPN Implement RAID Install and update antivirus software Implement network firewalls Implement strong passwords…

What is a feature of the ANY.RUN malware sandbox? It is an open source tool that can be used to create signatures to prevent the malware file from entering the…

A cyberanalyst is looking for an open source malware analysis tool that can run locally on the network. Which tool would meet the needs of the cyberanalyst? AMP Cuckoo Sandbox…

What are the two important components of a public key infrastructure (PKI) used in network security? (Choose two.) digital certificates pre-shared key generation symmetric encryption algorithms intrusion prevention system certificate…

What is used by PKI entities to verify the validity of a digital certificate? CRL SSL X.509 S/MIME Explanation & Hint: The Certificate Revocation List (CRL) contains a list of…

What type of cipher encrypts plaintext one byte or one bit at a time? block stream enigma hash elliptical Explanation & Hint: Stream ciphers encrypt plaintext one byte or one…

Because of a pandemic, a company decides to let employees work from home. What security technology should be implemented to ensure that data communications between the employees and the company's…

Which method of wireless authentication can take advantage of identity verification using a Radius server? WPA-Personal WEP Open WPA2-Enterprise Explanation & Hint: Although more complicated to set up, WPA2-Enterprise provides…

Which of the following protocols use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)? Select two correct answers WPA TKIP WEP EAP WPA2 Explanation & Hint: AES is the encryption method used by WPA2.…

What names are given to a database where all cryptocurrency transactions are recorded? Select two correct answers Spreadsheet Ledger Blockchain Table Explanation & Hint: When a cryptocurrency transation occurs, the…

What type of attack disrupts services by overwhelming network devices with bogus traffic? Brute force Zero-day DDoS Port scans Explanation & Hint: A Denial of Service attack or a Distributed…

A technician enters the commands shown to configure a zone-pair between two security zones on a router. Router(config)# zone-pair security PRIV-PUB source PRIVATE destination PUBLIC Router(config-sec-zone-pair)# What information must now be…

Refer to the exhibit. A router is configured with a zone-based policy firewall as shown. Which two statements describe how traffic between the LAN and external hosts will be processed? (Choose…

A cyber security analyst is reviewing security alerts in Sguil. What are three pieces of information included in an alert to identify the device generating the alert? (Choose three.) host…

Which tool is integrated into the Security Onion and displays full packet captures for analysis? Kibana Zeek Wireshark Sguil Explanation & Hint: Security Onion uses several tools to integrate IDS…

What is the most compressed representation of the IPv6 address 2001:0db8:0000:abcd:0000:0000:0000:0001? 2001:db8::abcd:0:1 2001:0db8:0000:abcd::1 2001:0db8:abcd::0001 2001:db8:0:abcd::1 2001:0db8:abcd::1 Explanation & Hint: The IPv6 address 2001:0db8:0000:abcd:0000:0000:0000:0001 in its most compressed format would be…

A threat actor is using ping to discover hosts on a network. What type of attack is taking place? ICMP DoS address spoofing amplification Explanation & Hint: In an ICMP…