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A cybersecurity analyst receives a phone call from an unknown person with the number
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blocked on the caller ID. After starting conversation, the caller begins to request sensitive
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information. Which of the following techniques is being applied? |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




A. Social engineering
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B. Phishing
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C. Impersonation
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D. War dialing - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔A
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Which of the following is the main benefit of sharing incident details with partner
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organizations or external trusted parties during the incident response process? |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




A. It facilitates releasing incident results, findings and resolution to the media and all
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appropriate government agencies |||||| ||||||




B. It shortens the incident life cycle by allowing others to document incident details and
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prepare reports. ||||||




C. It enhances the response process, as others may be able to recognize the observed behavior
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and provide valuable insight.
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D. It allows the security analyst to defer incident-handling activities until all parties agree on
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how to proceed with analysis. - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔C
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,The security analyst determined that an email containing a malicious attachment was sent to
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several employees within the company, and it was not stopped by any of the email filtering
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devices. An incident was declared. During the investigation, it was determined that most users
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deleted the email, but one specific user executed the attachment. Based on the details
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gathered, which of the following actions should the security analyst perform NEXT? |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




A. Obtain a copy of the email with the malicious attachment. Execute the file on another user's
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machine and observe the behavior. Document all findings.
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B. Acquire a full backup of the affected machine. Reimage the machine and then restore from
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the full backup. |||||| ||||||




C. Take the affected machine off the network. Review local event logs looking for activity and
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processes related to unknown or unauthorized software. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




D. Take possession of the machine. Apply the latest OS updates and fir - ...,.🔹VERIFIED
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ANSWER **✔✔C ||||||




Which of the following tools should a cybersecurity analyst use to verify the integrity of a
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forensic image before and after an investigation? |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




A. strings ||||||




B. sha1sum
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C. file ||||||




D. dd ||||||




E. gzip - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔B
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Given the following logs: |||||| |||||| ||||||




Aug 18 11:00:57 comptia sshd[5657]: Failed password for root from 10.10.10.192 port 38980
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ssh2

Aug 18 23:08:26 comptia sshd[5768]: Failed password for root from 18.70.0.160 port 38156 ssh2
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Aug 18 23:08:30 comptia sshd[5770]: Failed password for admin from 18.70.0.160 port 38556
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ssh2

, Aug 18 23:08:34 comptia sshd[5772]: Failed password for invalid user asterisk from 18.70.0.160
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port 38864 ssh2
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Aug 18 23:08:38 comptia sshd[5774]: Failed password for invalid user sjobeck from 10.10.1.16
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port 39157 ssh2 |||||| ||||||




Aug 18 23:08:42 comptia sshd[5776]: Failed password for root from 18.70.0.160 port 39467 ssh2
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Which of the following can be suspected? |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




A. An unauthorized user is trying to gain access from 10.10.10.192.
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B. An authorized user is trying to gain access from 10.10.10.192.
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C. An authorized user is trying to gain access from 18.70.0.160.
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D. An unauthorized user is trying to gain access from 18.70.0.160 - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
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**✔✔D



A security analyst has been asked to review permissions on accounts within Active Directory
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to determine if they are appropriate to the user's role. During this process, the analyst notices
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that a user from building maintenance is part of the Domain Admin group. Which of the
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following does this indicate? |||||| |||||| ||||||




A. Cross-site scripting
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B. Session hijack |||||| ||||||




C. Privilege escalation
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D. Rootkit - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔C
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In the last six months, a company is seeing an increase in credential-harvesting attacks. The
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latest victim was the chief executive officer (CEO). Which of the following countermeasures
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will render the attack ineffective?
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A. Use a complex password according to the company policy.
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B. Implement an intrusion-prevention system.
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C. Isolate the CEO's computer in a higher security zone.
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