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Question: 1
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 te stingand
assessment?
A. FaaS
B. RTOS
C. SoC
D. GPS
E. CAN bus
Answer: E
Explanation:
Question: 2
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?
A. Use Burp Suite to capture packets to the SCADA device's IP.
B. Use tcpdump to capture packets from the SCADA device IP.
C. Use Wireshark to capture packets between SCADA devices and the management system.
D. Use Nmap to capture packets from the management system to the SCADA devices.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Question: 3
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Which of the following would MOST likely be included in the incident response procedure after a
security breach of customer PII?
A. Human resources
B. Public relations
C. Marketing
D. Internal network operations center
Answer: B
Explanation:
Question: 4
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?
A. Segment the network to constrain access to administrative interfaces.
B. Replace the equipment that has third-party support.
C. Remove the legacy hardware from the network.
D. Install an IDS on the network between the switch and the legacy equipment.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Question: 5
A small electronics company decides to use a contractor to assist with the development of a new
FPGA-based device. Several of the development phases will occur off-site at the contractor's labs.
Which of the following is the main concern a security analyst should have with this arrangement?
A. Making multiple trips between development sites increases the chance of physical damage to the
FPGAs.
B. Moving the FPGAs between development sites will lessen the time that is available for security
testing.
C. Development phases occurring at multiple sites may produce change management issues.
D. FPGA applications are easily cloned, increasing the possibility of intellectual property theft.
Answer: D
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Explanation:
Reference: https://www.eetimes.com/how-to-protect-intellectual-property-in-fpgas-devices-part-
1/#
Question: 6
A security analyst is trying to determine if a host is active on a network. The analyst first attempts the
following:
The analyst runs the following command next:
Which of the following would explain the difference in results?
A. ICMP is being blocked by a firewall.
B. The routing tables for ping and hping3 were different.
C. The original ping command needed root permission to execute.
D. hping3 is returning a false positive.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Question: 7
A cybersecurity analyst is contributing to a team hunt on an organization's endpoints.
Which of the following should the analyst do FIRST?
A. Write detection logic.
B. Establish a hypothesis.
C. Profile the threat actors and activities.
D. Perform a process analysis.
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Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cybereason.com/blog/blog-the-eight-steps-to-threat-hunting
Question: 8
A security analyst received a SIEM alert regarding high levels of memory consumption for a critical
system. After several attempts to remediate the issue, the system went down. A root cause analysis
revealed a bad actor forced the application to not reclaim memory. This caused the system to be
depleted of resources.
Which of the following BEST describes this attack?
A. Injection attack
B. Memory corruption
C. Denial of service
D. Array attack
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/memory-corruption
Question: 9
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.)
A. Parameterized queries
B. Session management
C. Input validation
D. Output encoding
E. Data protection
F. Authentication
Answer: A, C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/knowledge-base/how-to-prevent-sql-
injection-attacks/
Question: 10
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Question: 1
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 te stingand
assessment?
A. FaaS
B. RTOS
C. SoC
D. GPS
E. CAN bus
Answer: E
Explanation:
Question: 2
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?
A. Use Burp Suite to capture packets to the SCADA device's IP.
B. Use tcpdump to capture packets from the SCADA device IP.
C. Use Wireshark to capture packets between SCADA devices and the management system.
D. Use Nmap to capture packets from the management system to the SCADA devices.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Question: 3
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Which of the following would MOST likely be included in the incident response procedure after a
security breach of customer PII?
A. Human resources
B. Public relations
C. Marketing
D. Internal network operations center
Answer: B
Explanation:
Question: 4
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?
A. Segment the network to constrain access to administrative interfaces.
B. Replace the equipment that has third-party support.
C. Remove the legacy hardware from the network.
D. Install an IDS on the network between the switch and the legacy equipment.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Question: 5
A small electronics company decides to use a contractor to assist with the development of a new
FPGA-based device. Several of the development phases will occur off-site at the contractor's labs.
Which of the following is the main concern a security analyst should have with this arrangement?
A. Making multiple trips between development sites increases the chance of physical damage to the
FPGAs.
B. Moving the FPGAs between development sites will lessen the time that is available for security
testing.
C. Development phases occurring at multiple sites may produce change management issues.
D. FPGA applications are easily cloned, increasing the possibility of intellectual property theft.
Answer: D
pg. 3
, P-4
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.eetimes.com/how-to-protect-intellectual-property-in-fpgas-devices-part-
1/#
Question: 6
A security analyst is trying to determine if a host is active on a network. The analyst first attempts the
following:
The analyst runs the following command next:
Which of the following would explain the difference in results?
A. ICMP is being blocked by a firewall.
B. The routing tables for ping and hping3 were different.
C. The original ping command needed root permission to execute.
D. hping3 is returning a false positive.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Question: 7
A cybersecurity analyst is contributing to a team hunt on an organization's endpoints.
Which of the following should the analyst do FIRST?
A. Write detection logic.
B. Establish a hypothesis.
C. Profile the threat actors and activities.
D. Perform a process analysis.
pg. 4
, P-5
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cybereason.com/blog/blog-the-eight-steps-to-threat-hunting
Question: 8
A security analyst received a SIEM alert regarding high levels of memory consumption for a critical
system. After several attempts to remediate the issue, the system went down. A root cause analysis
revealed a bad actor forced the application to not reclaim memory. This caused the system to be
depleted of resources.
Which of the following BEST describes this attack?
A. Injection attack
B. Memory corruption
C. Denial of service
D. Array attack
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/memory-corruption
Question: 9
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.)
A. Parameterized queries
B. Session management
C. Input validation
D. Output encoding
E. Data protection
F. Authentication
Answer: A, C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/knowledge-base/how-to-prevent-sql-
injection-attacks/
Question: 10
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