CompTIA CompTIA Certifications CS0-002 Questions & Answers

• Question 561:

  A cybersecurity professional typed in a URL and discovered the admin panel for the e-commerce application is accessible over the open web with the default password. Which of the following is the MOST secure solution to remediate this vulnerability?

  A. Rename the URL to a more obscure name, whitelist all corporate IP blocks, and require two-factor authentication.

  B. Change the default password, whitelist specific source IP addresses, and require two-factor authentication.

  C. Whitelist all corporate IP blocks, require an alphanumeric passphrase for the default password, and require two-factor authentication.

  D. Change the username and default password, whitelist specific source IP addresses, and require two-factor authentication.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 562:

  An organization is requesting the development of a disaster recovery plan. The organization has grown and so has its infrastructure. Documentation, policies, and procedures do not exist. Which of the following steps should be taken to assist in the development of the disaster recovery plan?

  A. Conduct a risk assessment.

  B. Develop a data retention policy.

  C. Execute vulnerability scanning.

  D. Identify assets.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 563:

  External users are reporting that a web application is slow and frequently times out when attempting to submit information. Which of the following software development best practices would have helped prevent this issue?

  A. Stress testing

  B. Regression testing

  C. Input validation

  D. Fuzzing

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 564:

  A vulnerability scan has returned the following information:

  

  Which of the following describes the meaning of these results?

  A. There is an unknown bug in a Lotus server with no Bugtraq ID.

  B. Connecting to the host using a null session allows enumeration of share names.

  C. Trend Micro has a known exploit that must be resolved or patched.

  D. No CVE is present, so it is a false positive caused by Lotus running on a Windows server.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 565:

  A cybersecurity analyst is conducting a security test to ensure that information regarding the web server is protected from disclosure. The cybersecurity analyst requested an HTML file from the web server, and the response came back as follows:

  

  Which of the following actions should be taken to remediate this security issue?

  A. Set "Allowlatescanning" to 1 in the URLScan.ini configuration file.

  B. Set "Removeserverheader" to 1 in the URLScan.ini configuration file.

  C. Set "Enablelogging" to 0 in the URLScan.ini configuration file.

  D. Set "Perprocesslogging" to 1 in the URLScan.ini configuration file.

  Correct Answer: B

  Reference: http://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/configure-web-server-disclose-identity/

• Question 566:

  A security analyst has created an image of a drive from an incident. Which of the following describes what the analyst should do NEXT?

  A. The analyst should create a backup of the drive and then hash the drive.

  B. The analyst should begin analyzing the image and begin to report findings.

  C. The analyst should create a hash of the image and compare it to the original drive's hash.

  D. The analyst should create a chain of custody document and notify stakeholders.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 567:

  A cybersecurity analyst is currently investigating a server outage. The analyst has discovered the following value was entered for the username: 0xbfff601a. Which of the following attacks may be occurring?

  A. Buffer overflow attack

  B. Man-in-the-middle attack

  C. Smurf attack

  D. Format string attack

  E. Denial of service attack

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 568:

  File integrity monitoring states the following files have been changed without a written request or approved change. The following change has been made:

  chmod 777 -Rv /usr

  Which of the following may be occurring?

  A. The ownership pf /usr has been changed to the current user.

  B. Administrative functions have been locked from users.

  C. Administrative commands have been made world readable/writable.

  D. The ownership of/usr has been changed to the root user.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 569:

  An organization has recently recovered from an incident where a managed switch had been accessed and reconfigured without authorization by an insider. The incident response team is working on developing a lessons learned report with recommendations. Which of the following recommendations will BEST prevent the same attack from occurring in the future?

  A. Remove and replace the managed switch with an unmanaged one.

  B. Implement a separate logical network segment for management interfaces.

  C. Install and configure NAC services to allow only authorized devices to connect to the network.

  D. Analyze normal behavior on the network and configure the IDS to alert on deviations from normal.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 570:

  A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing the current BYOD security posture. The users must be able to synchronize their calendars, email, and contacts to a smartphone or other personal device. The recommendation must provide the most flexibility to users. Which of the following recommendations would meet both the mobile data protection efforts and the business requirements described in this scenario?

  A. Develop a minimum security baseline while restricting the type of data that can be accessed.

  B. Implement a single computer configured with USB access and monitored by sensors.

  C. Deploy a kiosk for synchronizing while using an access list of approved users.

  D. Implement a wireless network configured for mobile device access and monitored by sensors.

  Correct Answer: D