CompTIA CompTIA Certifications CS0-002 Questions & Answers

• Question 511:

  During a routine review of firewall logs, an analyst identified that an IP address from the organization's server subnet had been connecting during nighttime hours to a foreign IP address, and had been sending between 150 and 500 megabytes of data each time. This had been going on for approximately one week, and the affected server was taken offline for forensic review. Which of the following is MOST likely to drive up the incident's impact assessment?

  A. PII of company employees and customers was exfiltrated.

  B. Raw financial information about the company was accessed.

  C. Forensic review of the server required fall-back on a less efficient service.

  D. IP addresses and other network-related configurations were exfiltrated.

  E. The local root password for the affected server was compromised.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 512:

  A university wants to increase the security posture of its network by implementing vulnerability scans of both centrally managed and student/employee laptops. The solution should be able to scale, provide minimum false positives and high accuracy of results, and be centrally managed through an enterprise console. Which of the following scanning topologies is BEST suited for this environment?

  A. A passive scanning engine located at the core of the network infrastructure

  B. A combination of cloud-based and server-based scanning engines

  C. A combination of server-based and agent-based scanning engines

  D. An active scanning engine installed on the enterprise console

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 513:

  A cybersecurity analyst is completing an organization's vulnerability report and wants it to reflect assets accurately. Which of the following items should be in the report?

  A. Processor utilization

  B. Virtual hosts

  C. Organizational governance

  D. Log disposition

  E. Asset isolation

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 514:

  A threat intelligence feed has posted an alert stating there is a critical vulnerability in the kernel. Unfortunately, the company's asset inventory is not current. Which of the following techniques would a cybersecurity analyst perform to find all affected servers within an organization?

  A. A manual log review from data sent to syslog

  B. An OS fingerprinting scan across all hosts

  C. A packet capture of data traversing the server network

  D. A service discovery scan on the network

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 515:

  A cybersecurity analyst traced the source of an attack to compromised user credentials. Log analysis revealed that the attacker successfully authenticated from an unauthorized foreign country. Management asked the security analyst to research and implement a solution to help mitigate attacks based on compromised passwords. Which of the following should the analyst implement?

  A. Self-service password reset

  B. Single sign-on

  C. Context-based authentication

  D. Password complexity

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 516:

  Which of the following remediation strategies are MOST effective in reducing the risk of a network-based compromise of embedded ICS? (Select two.)

  A. Patching

  B. NIDS

  C. Segmentation

  D. Disabling unused services

  E. Firewalling

  Correct Answer: CD

• Question 517:

  An analyst is observing unusual network traffic from a workstation. The workstation is communicating with a known malicious site over an encrypted tunnel. A full antivirus scan with an updated antivirus signature file does not show any sign of infection. Which of the following has occurred on the workstation?

  A. Zero-day attack

  B. Known malware attack

  C. Session hijack

  D. Cookie stealing

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 518:

  While a threat intelligence analyst was researching an indicator of compromise on a search engine, the web proxy generated an alert regarding the same indicator. The threat intelligence analyst states that related sites were not visited but were searched for in a search engine. Which of the following MOST likely happened in this situation?

  A. The analyst is not using the standard approved browser.

  B. The analyst accidently clicked a link related to the indicator.

  C. The analyst has prefetch enabled on the browser in use.

  D. The alert in unrelated to the analyst's search.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 519:

  After reviewing the following packet, a cybersecurity analyst has discovered an unauthorized service is running on a company's computer.

  

  Which of the following ACLs, if implemented, will prevent further access ONLY to the unauthorized service and will not impact other services?

  A. DENY TCP ANY HOST 10.38.219.20 EQ 3389

  B. DENY IP HOST 10.38.219.20 ANY EQ 25

  C. DENY IP HOST192.168.1.10 HOST 10.38.219.20 EQ 3389

  D. DENY TCP ANY HOST 192.168.1.10 EQ 25

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 520:

  The new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is seeking recommendations for network monitoring services for the local intranet. The CTO would like the capability to monitor all traffic to and from the gateway, as well as the capability to block certain content. Which of the following recommendations would meet the needs of the organization?

  A. Recommend setup of IP filtering on both the internal and external interfaces of the gateway router.

  B. Recommend installation of an IDS on the internal interface and a firewall on the external interface of the gateway router.

  C. Recommend installation of a firewall on the internal interface and a NIDS on the external interface of the gateway router.

  D. Recommend installation of an IPS on both the internal and external interfaces of the gateway router.

  Correct Answer: C