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QUESTION: 65

A security analyst is writing a shell script to identify IP addresses from the same country.
Which of the following functions would help the analyst achieve the objective?

function w() { info=$(ping -c 1 $1 | awk -F “/” ‘END{print $1}’) && echo “$1 | $info” }
function x() { info=$(geoiplookup $1) && echo “$1 | $info” }
function y() { info=$(dig -x $1 | grep PTR | tail -n 1 ) && echo “$1 | $info” }
function z() { info=$(traceroute -m 40 $1 | awk ‘END{print $1}’) && echo “$1 | $info” }

Answer(s): B

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A security analyst obtained the following table of results from a recent vulnerability assessment that was conducted against a single web server in the environment:

Which of the following should be completed first to remediate the findings?

Ask the web development team to update the page contents
Add the IP address allow listing for control panel access
Purchase an appropriate certificate from a trusted root CA
Perform proper sanitization on all fields

Answer(s): D

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QUESTION: 67

While reviewing web server logs, an analyst notices several entries with the same time stamps, but all contain odd characters in the request line.
Which of the following steps should be taken next?

Shut the network down immediately and call the next person in the chain of command.
Determine what attack the odd characters are indicative of.
Utilize the correct attack framework and determine what the incident response will consist of.
Notify the local law enforcement for incident response.

Answer(s): B

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QUESTION: 68

A security team conducts a lessons-learned meeting after struggling to determine who should conduct the next steps following a security event.
Which of the following should the team create to address this issue?

Service-level agreement
Change management plan
Incident response plan
Memorandum of understanding

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 69

A cybersecurity analyst notices unusual network scanning activity coming from a country that the company does not do business with.
Which of the following is the best mitigation technique?

Geoblock the offending source country.
Block the IP range of the scans at the network firewall.
Perform a historical trend analysis and look for similar scanning activity.
Block the specific IP address of the scans at the network firewall.

Answer(s): A

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QUESTION: 70

An analyst has received an IPS event notification from the SIEM stating an IP address, which is known to be malicious, has attempted to exploit a zero-day vulnerability on several web servers. The exploit contained the following snippet:
/wp-json/trx_addons/V2/get/sc_layout?sc=wp_insert_user&role=administrator
Which of the following controls would work best to mitigate the attack represented by this snippet?

Limit user creation to administrators only.
Limit layout creation to administrators only.
Set the directory trx_addons to read only for all users.
Set the directory V2 to read only for all users.

Answer(s): A

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QUESTION: 71

A penetration tester submitted data to a form in a web application, which enabled the penetration tester to retrieve user credentials.
Which of the following should be recommended for remediation of this application vulnerability?

Implementing multifactor authentication on the server OS
Hashing user passwords on the web application
Performing input validation before allowing submission
Segmenting the network between the users and the web server

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 72

A cybersecurity team lead is developing metrics to present in the weekly executive briefs. Executives are interested in knowing how long it takes to stop the spread of malware that enters the network.
Which of the following metrics should the team lead include in the briefs?

Mean time between failures
Mean time to detect
Mean time to remediate
Mean time to contain

Answer(s): C

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