CYSA 195 Exam Prep
CYSA 195 EXAM PREP NEWEST 2026/2027 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW
VERSION!!
An organization's threat intelligence team notes a recent trend in adversary
privilege escalation procedures. Multiple threat groups have been observed
utilizing native windows tools to bypass system controls and execute commands
with privileged credentials. Which of the following controls would be most
effective to reduce the rate of success of such attempts?
A. Set user account control protection to the most restrictive level on all devices
B. Implement MFA requirements for all internal resources
C. Harden systems by disabling or removing unnecessary services
D. Implement controls to block execution of untrusted applications
Implement controls to block execution of untrusted applications
A new zero-day vulnerability was released. A security analyst is prioritizing which
systems should receive deployment of compensating controls deployment first.
The systems have been grouped into the categories shown below:
Which of the following groups should be prioritized for compensating controls?
A. Group A
B. Group B
C. Group C
D. Group D
Group A
A Chief Information Security Officer wants to map all the attack vectors that the
company faces each day. Which of the following recommendations should the
company align their security controls around?
A. OSSTMM
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B. Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis
C. OWASP
D. MITRE ATT&CK
MITRE ATT&CK
Which of the following actions would an analyst most likely perform after an
incident has been investigated?
A. Risk assessment
B. Root cause analysis
C. Incident response plan
D. Tabletop exercise
Root cause analysis
Which of the following is the most important factor to ensure accurate incident
response reporting?
A. A well-defined timeline of the events
B. A guideline for regulatory reporting
C. Logs from the impacted system
D. A well-developed executive system
A well-defined timeline of the events
A security analyst is trying to detect connections to a suspicious IP address by
collecting the packet captures from the gateway. Which of the following
commands should the security analyst consider running?
A. grep [IP address] packets.grep
B. cat packets.pcap | grep [IP Address]
C. tcpdump -n -r packets.pcap host [IP Address]
D. strings packets.pcap | grep [IP Address]
tcpdump -n -r packets.pcap host [IP Address]
A security analyst reviews the latest vulnerability scans and observes that there
are vulnerabilities with similar CVSSv3 scores but different base score metrics.
Which of the following attack vectors should the analyst remediate first?
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A. CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
B. CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C. CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
D. CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
A security analyst must review a suspicious email to determine its legitimacy.
Which of the following should be performed? (Choose two)
A. Evaluate scoring fields, such as Spam Confidence Level and Bulk Complaint
Level
B. Review the headers from the forwarded email
C. Examine the recipient address field
D. Review the Content-Type header
E. Evaluate the HELO or EHLO string of the connecting email server
F. Examine the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC fields from the original email
Review the headers from the forwarded email, Examine the SPF, DKIM, and
DMARC fields from the original email
A vulnerability scan resulted in an abnormally large number of critical and high
findings that require patching. The SLA requires that the findings be remediated
within a specific amount of time. Which of the following is the best approach to
ensure all vulnerabilities are patched in accordance with the SLA?
A. Integrate an IT service delivery ticketing system to track remediation and
closure
B. Create a compensating control item until the system can be fully patched
C. Accept the risk and decommission current assets as end of life
D. Request an exception and manually patch each system
Integrate an IT delivery ticketing system to track remediation and closure
Which of the following would help an analyst to quickly find out whether the IP
address in a SIEM alert is a known-malicious IP address?
A. Join an information sharing and analysis center specific to the company's
industry
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B. Upload threat intelligence to the IPS in STIX'TAXII format
C. Add data enrichment for IPs in the ingestion pipeline
D. Review threat feeds after viewing the SIEM alert
Add data enrichment for IPs in the ingestion pipeline
An organization was compromised, and the usernames and passwords of all
employees were leaked online. Which of the following best describes the
remediation that could reduce the impact of this situation?
A. Multifactor authentication
B. Password changes
C. System hardening
D. Password encryption
Multifactor authentication
A company is deploying new vulnerability scanning software to assess its systems.
The current network is highly segmented, and the networking team wants to
minimize the number of unique firewall rules. Which of the following scanning
techniques would be most efficient to achieve the objective?
A. Deploy agents on all systems to perform the scans
B. Deploy a central scanner and perform non-credentialed scans
C. Deploy a cloud-based scanner and perform a network scan
D. Deploy a scanner sensor on every segment and perform credentialed scans
Deploy a scanner sensor on every segment and perform credentialed scans
A security administrator needs to import PII data records from the production
environment to the test environment for testing purposes. Which of the following
would best protect data confidentiality?
A. Data masking
B. Hashing
C. Watermarking
D. Encoding
Data masking
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CYSA 195 EXAM PREP NEWEST 2026/2027 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW
VERSION!!
An organization's threat intelligence team notes a recent trend in adversary
privilege escalation procedures. Multiple threat groups have been observed
utilizing native windows tools to bypass system controls and execute commands
with privileged credentials. Which of the following controls would be most
effective to reduce the rate of success of such attempts?
A. Set user account control protection to the most restrictive level on all devices
B. Implement MFA requirements for all internal resources
C. Harden systems by disabling or removing unnecessary services
D. Implement controls to block execution of untrusted applications
Implement controls to block execution of untrusted applications
A new zero-day vulnerability was released. A security analyst is prioritizing which
systems should receive deployment of compensating controls deployment first.
The systems have been grouped into the categories shown below:
Which of the following groups should be prioritized for compensating controls?
A. Group A
B. Group B
C. Group C
D. Group D
Group A
A Chief Information Security Officer wants to map all the attack vectors that the
company faces each day. Which of the following recommendations should the
company align their security controls around?
A. OSSTMM
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B. Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis
C. OWASP
D. MITRE ATT&CK
MITRE ATT&CK
Which of the following actions would an analyst most likely perform after an
incident has been investigated?
A. Risk assessment
B. Root cause analysis
C. Incident response plan
D. Tabletop exercise
Root cause analysis
Which of the following is the most important factor to ensure accurate incident
response reporting?
A. A well-defined timeline of the events
B. A guideline for regulatory reporting
C. Logs from the impacted system
D. A well-developed executive system
A well-defined timeline of the events
A security analyst is trying to detect connections to a suspicious IP address by
collecting the packet captures from the gateway. Which of the following
commands should the security analyst consider running?
A. grep [IP address] packets.grep
B. cat packets.pcap | grep [IP Address]
C. tcpdump -n -r packets.pcap host [IP Address]
D. strings packets.pcap | grep [IP Address]
tcpdump -n -r packets.pcap host [IP Address]
A security analyst reviews the latest vulnerability scans and observes that there
are vulnerabilities with similar CVSSv3 scores but different base score metrics.
Which of the following attack vectors should the analyst remediate first?
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A. CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
B. CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C. CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
D. CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
A security analyst must review a suspicious email to determine its legitimacy.
Which of the following should be performed? (Choose two)
A. Evaluate scoring fields, such as Spam Confidence Level and Bulk Complaint
Level
B. Review the headers from the forwarded email
C. Examine the recipient address field
D. Review the Content-Type header
E. Evaluate the HELO or EHLO string of the connecting email server
F. Examine the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC fields from the original email
Review the headers from the forwarded email, Examine the SPF, DKIM, and
DMARC fields from the original email
A vulnerability scan resulted in an abnormally large number of critical and high
findings that require patching. The SLA requires that the findings be remediated
within a specific amount of time. Which of the following is the best approach to
ensure all vulnerabilities are patched in accordance with the SLA?
A. Integrate an IT service delivery ticketing system to track remediation and
closure
B. Create a compensating control item until the system can be fully patched
C. Accept the risk and decommission current assets as end of life
D. Request an exception and manually patch each system
Integrate an IT delivery ticketing system to track remediation and closure
Which of the following would help an analyst to quickly find out whether the IP
address in a SIEM alert is a known-malicious IP address?
A. Join an information sharing and analysis center specific to the company's
industry
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B. Upload threat intelligence to the IPS in STIX'TAXII format
C. Add data enrichment for IPs in the ingestion pipeline
D. Review threat feeds after viewing the SIEM alert
Add data enrichment for IPs in the ingestion pipeline
An organization was compromised, and the usernames and passwords of all
employees were leaked online. Which of the following best describes the
remediation that could reduce the impact of this situation?
A. Multifactor authentication
B. Password changes
C. System hardening
D. Password encryption
Multifactor authentication
A company is deploying new vulnerability scanning software to assess its systems.
The current network is highly segmented, and the networking team wants to
minimize the number of unique firewall rules. Which of the following scanning
techniques would be most efficient to achieve the objective?
A. Deploy agents on all systems to perform the scans
B. Deploy a central scanner and perform non-credentialed scans
C. Deploy a cloud-based scanner and perform a network scan
D. Deploy a scanner sensor on every segment and perform credentialed scans
Deploy a scanner sensor on every segment and perform credentialed scans
A security administrator needs to import PII data records from the production
environment to the test environment for testing purposes. Which of the following
would best protect data confidentiality?
A. Data masking
B. Hashing
C. Watermarking
D. Encoding
Data masking
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