Pass CompTIA CySA+ CS0-003 in Just 3 Days – Stress-Free, No Study Needed!
Have questions? Contact us directly on WhatsApp for quick support!
Which of the following would a security analyst most likely use to compare TTPs between different known adversaries of an organization?
- A. MITRE ATT&CK
- B. Cyber Kill Cham
- C. OWASP
- D. STIX/TAXII
An analyst is remediating items associated with a recent incident. The analyst has isolated the vulnerability and is actively removing it from the system. Which of the following steps of the process does this describe?
- A. Eradication
- B. Recovery
- C. Containment
- D. Preparation
Joe, a leading sales person at an organization, has announced on social media that he is leaving his current role to start a new company that will compete with his current employer. Joe is soliciting his current employer’s customers. However, Joe has not resigned or discussed this with his current supervisor yet. Which of the following would be the best action for the incident response team to recommend?
- A. Isolate Joe’s PC from the network
- B. Reimage the PC based on standard operating procedures
- C. Initiate a remote wipe of Joe’s PC using mobile device management
- D. Perform no action until HR or legal counsel advises on next steps
The Chief Information Security Officer is directing a new program to reduce attack surface risks and threats as part of a zero trust approach. The IT security team is required to come up with priorities for the program. Which of the following is the best priority based on common attack frameworks?
- A. Reduce the administrator and privileged access accounts
- B. Employ a network-based IDS
- C. Conduct thorough incident response
- D. Enable SSO to enterprise applications
During an extended holiday break, a company suffered a security incident. This information was properly relayed to appropriate personnel in a timely manner and the server was up to date and configured with appropriate auditing and logging. The Chief Information Security Officer wants to find out precisely what happened. Which of the following actions should the analyst take first?
- A. Clone the virtual server for forensic analysis
- B. Log m to the affected server and begin analysis of the logs
- C. Restore from the last known-good backup to confirm there was no loss of connectivity
- D. Shut down the affected server immediately
A systems administrator is reviewing after-hours traffic flows from data-center servers and sees regular outgoing HTTPS connections from one of the servers to a public IP address. The server should not be making outgoing connections after hours. Looking closer, the administrator sees this traffic pattern around the clock during work hours as well. Which of the following is the most likely explanation?
- A. C2 beaconing activity
- B. Data exfiltration
- C. Anomalous activity on unexpected ports
- D. Network host IP address scanning
- E. A rogue network device
New employees in an organization have been consistently plugging in personal webcams despite the company policy prohibiting use of personal devices. The SOC manager discovers that new employees are not aware of the company policy. Which of the following will the SOC manager most likely recommend to help ensure new employees are accountable for following the company policy?
- A. Human resources must email a copy of a user agreement to all new employees
- B. Supervisors must get verbal confirmation from new employees indicating they have read the user agreement
- C. All new employees must take a test about the company security policy during the onboardmg process
- D. All new employees must sign a user agreement to acknowledge the company security policy
An analyst has been asked to validate the potential risk of a new ransomware campaign that the Chief Financial Officer read about in the newspaper. The company is a manufacturer of a very small spring used in the newest fighter jet and is a critical piece of the supply chain for this aircraft. Which of the following would be the best threat intelligence source to learn about this new campaign?
- A. Information sharing organization
- B. Blogs/forums
- C. Cybersecurity incident response team
- D. Deep/dark web
An incident response team finished responding to a significant security incident. The management team has asked the lead analyst to provide an after-action report that includes lessons learned. Which of the following is the most likely reason to include lessons learned?
- A. To satisfy regulatory requirements for incident reporting
- B. To hold other departments accountable
- C. To identify areas of improvement in the incident response process
- D. To highlight the notable practices of the organization’s incident response team
A vulnerability management team is unable to patch all vulnerabilities found during their weekly scans. Using the third-party scoring system described below, the team patches the most urgent vulnerabilities:
Additionally, the vulnerability management team feels that the metrics Smear and Channing are less important than the others, so these will be lower in priority. Which of the following vulnerabilities should be patched first, given the above third-party scoring system?
- A. InLoud:Cobain: Yes -Grohl: No -Novo: Yes -Smear: Yes –
Channing: No - B. TSpirit:Cobain: Yes –Grohl: Yes –Novo: Yes –Smear: No –
Channing: No - C. ENameless:Cobain: Yes -Grohl: No -Novo: Yes -Smear: No –
Channing: No - D. PBleach:Cobain: Yes -Grohl: No -Novo: No -Smear: No –
Channing: Yes