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Dictionary Attack
Syllable Attack
2) Which of the following security technology is used to attract and trap people who attempt unauthorized or illicit utilization of the host system?
Firewall
Honeypot
Answer: Honeypot
3) Which of the following service provides phishing protection and content filtering to manage the Internet experience on and off your network
with the acceptable use or compliance policies?
OpenDNS
Malstrom
Apility.io
-Blocklist
Answer: OpenDNS
4) An attacker exploits the logic validation mechanisms of an e commerce website. He successfully puncheses product worth $100 for $10 by
modifying the URL exchanged between the dient and the serve
Denial-of-Service Attack
5) Which of the following event detection techniques uses User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)?
Rule-based detection
Heuristic-based detection
Anomaly-based detection
Signature-based detection
6) Which of the following Windows Event Id will help you monitors file sharing across the network?
4625
4624
7045
5140
Answer: 5140
7) Which of the following is a correct flow of the stages in an incident handling and response (H&R) process?
8) InfoSystem LLC, a US-based company, is establishing an in-house SOC John has been given the responsibility to finalize strategy, policies, and
procedures for the SOC. Identify the job role of John.
Security Analyst-1
Security Engineer
Security Analyst-12
9) Wesley is an incident handler in a company named Maddison Tech. One day, he was learning techniques for eradicating the insecure
deserialization attacks. What among the following should Wesley avoid from considering?
Validate untrusted input, which is to be serialized to ensure that serialized data contain only trusted classes
10) Which of the following contains the performance measures, and proper project and time management details?
11) If the SIEM generates the following four alerts at the same time:
Which alert should be given least priority as per effective alert triaging?
• 1
• 4
• 2
• 3
Answer: Firewall blocking traffic from getting into the network alerts
12) Which one of the following is the correct flow for Setting Up a Computer Forensics Lab?
Planning and budgeting + Physical location and structural design considerations – Work area considerations-Human resource considerations-
Physical security recommendations -Forencics lab licensing
Planning and budgeting → Forensis lab licensing → Physical location and structural design
considerations - Work area considerations Physical security recommendations Human rexure considerations
Planning and budgeting → Physical location and structural design considerations- Frensis lab
recommendations
Planning and budgeting → Physical location and structural design considerations - Forensics lab
licensing → Work area considerations Human resource considerations - Physical secunty recommendations
Answer: Planning and budgeting + Physical location and structural design considerations – Work area considerations-Human resource
considerations- Physical security recommendations -Forencics lab licensing
What is the primary step that is advisable to Bonney in order to contain the malware incident from spreading?
Call the legal department in the organization and inform about the rodent
14) Which of the following data source will a SOC Analyst use to monitor connections to the insecure ports?
Netstat Data
OIS Data
DHCP Data
DNS Data
15) Daniel is a member of an IRT, which was started recently in a company named Mesh Tech. He wanted to find the purpose and scope of the
planned incident response capabilities. What is he looking for?
Client error
Redirection
Informational message
17) Robin, a SOC engineer in a multinational company, is planning to implement a SIEM. He realized that his organization is capable of performing
only Correlation, Analytics, Reporting, Retention, Alerting, and Visualization required for the SIEM implementation and has to take collection and
aggregation services from a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP). What kind of SIEM is Robin planning to implement?
Self-hosted, Self-Managed
Cloud, Self-Managed
18) In which phase of Lockheed Martin's-Cyber Kill Chain Methodology, adversary creates a deliverable malicious payload using an exploit and a
backdoor?
Weaponization
Delivery
Reconnaissance
Exploitation
Answer: Weaponization
19) Which of the following steps of incident handling and response process focus on limiting the scope and extent of an incident?
Eradication
CIdentification
Containment
Data Collection
Answer: Containment
20) Sam, a security analyst with INFOSOL INC, while monitoring and analyzing IIS logs, detected an event matching regex
SQL InjectionAttack
XSS Attack
21) Harley is working as a SOC analyst with Powell Tech. Powell Inc. is using Internet Information Service (IIS) version 7.0 to host their website.
Where will Harley find the web server logs, if he wants to investigate them for any anomalies?
%SystemDrive%\LogFiles\logs|W3SVCN
SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles|W3SVCN
SystemDrive%\LogFiles\inetpub\logs\W3SVCN
SystemDrive%\inetpubl LogFiles\logs\W3SVCN
Answer: SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles|W3SVCN
22) Ray is a SOC analyst in a company named Queens Tech. One Day, Queens Tech is affected by a DoS/DDoS attack. For the containment of this
incident, Ray and his team are trying to provide additional bandwidth to the network devices and increasing the capacity of the servers. What is
Ray and his team doing?
23) A type of threat intelligent that find out the information about the attacker by misleading them is known as
Operational Intellegence
Counter Intelligence
Ox XSS Attack
25) Charline is working as an L2 SOC Analyst. One day, an LI SOC Analyst escalated an incident to her for further investigation and confirmation.
Charline, after a thorough investigation, confirmed the incident and assigned it with an initial priority. What would be her next action according
to the SOC workflow?
She should immediately contact t o solve the problem t the network administrator to s
26) Which of the following directory will contain logs related to printer access?
Var/log/cups/accesslogfile
Var/log/cups/access_logfile
/var/log/cups/Printeraccess_log file
/var/log/cups/Printer_log file
Answer: Var/log/cups/access_logfile
27) Jason, a SOC Analyst with Maximus Tech, was investigating Cisco ASA Firewall logs and came across the following log entry.May 06 2018
21:27:27 asa 1: % ASA-5-11008: User 'enable_15' executed the 'configure term' command
Informational message
28) Which of the following framework describes the essential characteristics of an organization's security engineering process that must exist to
ensure good security engineering?
SOC-CMM
COBIT
SSE-CMM
ITIL
Answer: SSE-CMM
29) Which of the following command is used to view iptables logs on Ubuntu and Debian distributions?
$talif /var/log/kern.log
# talif /var/log/messages
$talif /var/log/sys/kerm.log
#talif /ar/log/sys/messages
30) Which of the following threat intelligence is used by a SIEM for supplying the analysts with context and "situational awareness" by using
threat actor TTPs, malware campaigns, tools used by threat actors.
land 3
2 and 3
land 2
3 and 4
Answer: 2 and 3
31) Which of the following attack can be eradicated by filtering improper XML syntax?
CAPTCHA Attacks
32) Which of the following fields in Windows logs defines the type of event occurred, such as Correlation Hint, Response Time, SQM, WDI
Context, and so on?
Source
Level
Keywords
Task Category
Answer: Keywords
33) Which of the following is a default directory in a Mac OS X that stores security-related logs?
/Library/Logs/Sync
/private/var/log
~/Library/Logs
/var/log/cups/access_log
Answer: /private/var/log
34) Banter is a threat analyst in Christine Group of Industries. As a part of the job, he is currently formatting and structuring the raw data. He is at
which stage of the threat intelligence life cycle?
Collection
Session Attack
Denial-of-Service Attack
36) The threat intelligence, which will help you, understand adversary intent and make informed decision to ensure appropriate security in
alignment with risk. What kind of threat intelligence described above?
Forbidden Error
Unauthorized Error
38) Which of the following process refers to the discarding of the packets at the routing level without informing the source that the data did not
reach its intended recipient?
Drop Requests
Load Balancing
Rate Limiting
39) Jane, a security analyst, while analyzing IDS logs, detected an event matching Regex
/{{\%3C]|<}{{\%69)|i|{\%49)}{(\%6D)|m|(\%4D))((\%67)|g|(\%47]][^\]*{{%3E]>)/
What does this event log indicates?
XSS Attack
40) Which attack works like a dictionary attack, but adds some numbers and symbols to the words from the dictionary and tries to crack the
password?
Hybrid Attack
Bruteforc Attack
Birthday Attack
41) According to the Risk Matrix table, what will be the risk level when the probability of an attack is very high and the impact of that attack is
major?
Low
Medium
Extreme
High
Answer: extreme
42) Properly applied cyber threat intelligence to the SOC team help them in discovering TTPs What does these TTPS refer to?
43) In which log collection mechanism, the system or application sends log records either on the local disk or over the network.
signature-based
push-based
pull-based
rule-based
Answer: push-based
44) Which of the following formula is used to calculate the EPS of the organization?
SolarWinds MS
Apility.io
Keepnote
TC Complete
Answer: SolarWinds MS
47) What type of event is recorded when an application diriver loads successfully in Windows?
Success Audit
Error
Warning
Information
Answer: Information
48) Which of the following is a set of standard guidelines for ongoing development, enhancement, storage,dissemination and implementation of
security standards for account data protection?
FISMA
PCI-DSS
CHIPAA
DARPA
Answer: PCI-DSS
49) According to the forensics investigation process, what is the next step carried out right after collecting the evidence?
50) John as a SOC analyst is worried about the amount of Tor traffic hitting the network. He wants to prepare a dashborad in the SIEM to get a
graph to identify the locations from where the TOR traffic is coming. Which of the following data source will he use to prepare the dashboard?
IIS/Web Server logs with IP addresses and user agent IPtouseragent resolution.
51) Which of the following Windows features is used to enable Security Auditing in Windows?
Bitlocker
Windows Firewall
Windows Defender
52) Which of the following threat intelligence helps cyber security professionals such as security operations managers, network operations center
and incident responders to understand how the adversaries are expected to perform the attack on the organization, a along with the attack
vectors? technical capabilities and the t s and goals of the attackers
53) Which of the following tool can be used to filter web requests associated with the SQL Injection attack?
ZAP proxy
UrlScan
Nmap
Hydra
Answer: UrlScan
54) Which of the following attack can be eradicated by converting all non-alphanumeric characters to HTML character entities before displaying
the user input in search engines and forums?
XSS Attacks
56) John, a threat analyst at GreenTech Solutions, wants to gather information about specific threats against the organization. He started
collecting information from various sources, such as humans, social media, chat room, and so on, and created a report that contains malicious
activity.
57) What does [-n] in the following checkpoint firewall log syntax represents?
fw log [-f [-t]] [-n] [-1] [-o] [-c action] [-h host] [-s starttime] [-e endtime] [-b starttime endtime] [u unification_scheme_file] [-m
unification_mode(initial|semijraw)] [-a] [-k (alert_name|jall] [-9] [logfile]
Display detailed log chains (all the log segments a log record consists of)
Speed up the process by not performing IP addresses DNS resolution in the Log files
Display both the date and the time for each log record
Answer: Speed up the process by not performing IP addresses DNS resolution in the Log files
58) According to the Risk Matrix table, what will be the risk level when the probability of an attack is very high, and the impact of that attack is
major?
High
Low
Medium
Extreme
Answer: High
59) Which of the following data source can be used to detect the traffic associated with Bad Bot User-Agents?
Switch Log
Router Logs
60) Which of the following factors determine the choice of SIEM architecture?
Network Topology
DHCP Configuration
DNS Configuration
SMTP Configuration
62) What is the process of monitoring and capturing all data packets passing through a given network using different tools?
Network Sniffing
DNS Footprinting
Port Scanning
Network Scanning
Session Attack
Denial-of-Service Attack
64) Identify the event severity level in Windows logs for the events that are not necessarily significant, but may indicate a possible future
problem.
Warning
Error
Information
Failure Audit
Answer: Warning
65) Identify the attack when an attacker by several trial and error can read the contents of a password file present in the restricted etc folder just
by manipulating the URL in the browser as shown: http://www.terabytes.com/process.php./././././etc/passwd
Denial-of-Service Attack
66) Which encoding replaces unusual ASCII characters with "%" followed by the character's two-digit ASCII code expressed in hexadecimal?
Unicode Encoding
URL Encoding
Base64 Encoding
UTF Encoding
Incident Prioritization
Incident Classification
Incident Recording
68) The Syslog message severity levels are labelled from level 0 to level 7. What does level 0 indicate?
Debugging
Alert
Notification
Emergency
Answer: Emergency
69) Which of the following technique protects from flooding attacks originated from the valid prefixes (IP addresses) so that they can be traced to
its true source?
Ingress Filtering
Rate Limiting
Throttling
Egress Filtering
70) An organization is implementing and deploying the SIEM with following capabilities. What kind of SIEM deployment architecture the
organization is planning to implement?
Self-hosted, Self-Managed
addresses?
72) What does the Security Log Event ID 4624 of Windows 10 indicate?
$iptables -A OUTPUT-JLOG
$iptables -A INPUT-JLOG
$iptables -B INPUT-JLOG
Self-hosted, Self-Managed
75) Which of the following technique involves scanning the headers of IP packets leaving a network to make sure that the unauthorized or
malicious traffic never leaves the internal network?
Throttling
Ingress Filtering
Rate Limiting
Egress Filtering
76) David is a SOC analyst in Karen Tech. One day an attack is initiated by the intruders but David was not able to find any suspicious events. This
type of incident is categorized into?
77) Which of the following attack can be eradicated by using a safe API to avoid the use of the interpreter entirely?
Maistrom
threat note
MagicTree
IntelMQ
Answer: MagicTree
79) Identify the attack, where an attacker tries to discover all the possible information about a target network before launching a further attack.
Man-In-Middle Attack
DoS Attack
Reconnaissance Attack
Ransomware Attack
80) John, SOC analyst wants to monitor the attempt of process creation activities from any of their Windows endpoints. Which of following
Splunk query will help him to fetch related logs associated with process creation?
81) John, a SOC analyst, while monitoring and analyzing Apache web server logs, identified an event log matching
XSS Attack
1.Collecting data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine.
2.Normalizing data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to engine. the central
3.Co-relating data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine.
4.Visualizing data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine.
2 and 3
1 and 4
3 and 1
1 and 2
Answer: 1 and 2
84) Which of the following attacks causes sudden changes in file extensions or increase in file renames at rapid speed?
Ransomware Attack
DoS Attack
86) Mike is an incident handler for PNP Infosystems Inc. One day, there was a ticket raised regarding a critical incident and Mike was assigned to
handle the incident. During the process of incident handling, at one stage, he has performed incident analysis and validation to check whether
the incident is a true incident or a false positive.
Incident Triag
Incident Disclosure
Post-Incident Activities
87) Which of the following can help you eliminate the burden of investigating false positives?
88) Where will you find the reputation IP database, if you want to monitor traffic from known bad IP reputation using OSSIM SIEM?
/etc/ossim/siem/server/reputation/data
/etc/siem/ossim/server/reputation.data
/etc/ossim/server/reputation.data
/etc/ossim/reputation
Answer: /etc/ossim/server/reputation.data
89) Which of the following attack can be eradicated by disabling of "allow_url_fopen and allow_url_include" in the php.ini file
90) Rinni, SOC analyst, while monitoring IDS logs detected events shown in the figure below.
XSS Attack
91) Which of the log storage method arranges event logs in the form of a circular buffer?
FIFO
LIFO
wrapping
non-wrapping
Answer: wrapping
92) Identify the attack in which the attacker exploits a target system through publicly known but still unpatched vulnerabilities.
DHCP Starvation
Zero-Day Attack
93) Which of the following Windows event is logged every time when a user tries to access the "Registry" key?
4660
4656
4657
4663
Answer: 4656
94) Which of the following tool is used to recover from web application incident?
Smoothwall SWG
Proxy Workbench
95) Chloe, a SOC analyst with Jake Tech, is checking Linux systems logs. She is investigating files at /var/log/wtmp.
Error log
Login records
96) Which of the following stage executed after identifying the required event sources?
97) Shawn is a security manager working at Lee Inc Solution. His organization wants to develop threat intelligent strategy plan. As a part of threat
intelligent strategy plan, he suggested various components, such as threat intelligence requirement analysis, intelligence and collection planning,
asset identification, threat reports, and intelligence buy-in.
Which one of the follwing component he should include in the above threat intelligent strategy plan to make it effective?
Threat trending
Threat buy-in
Threat boosting
Threat pivoting
99) Identify the HTTP status codes that represents the server error.
2XX
1XX
5XX
4XX
Answer: 5XX
100) In which of the following incident handling and response stages, the root cause of the incident must be found from the forensic results?
Eradication
Systems Recovery
Evidence Gathering
Evidence Handling
Answer: Eradication
101) 41) According to the Risk Matrix table, what will be the risk level when the probability of an attack is very low and the impact of that attack
is major?
Medium
Low
High
extreme
Answer:Medium
103) Jony, a security analyst, while monitoring IIS logs, identified events shown in the figure below.
OXSS Attack