What Approved 312-85 Test Is

NEW QUESTION 1
ABC is a well-established cyber-security company in the United States. The organization implemented the automation of tasks such as data enrichment and indicator aggregation. They also joined various communities to increase their knowledge about the emerging threats. However, the security teams can only detect and prevent identified threats in a reactive approach.
Based on threat intelligence maturity model, identify the level of ABC to know the stage at which the
organization stands with its security and vulnerabilities.

• A. Level 2: increasing CTI capabilities
• B. Level 3: CTI program in place
• C. Level 1: preparing for CTI
• D. Level 0: vague where to start

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 2
Miley, an analyst, wants to reduce the amount of collected data and make the storing and sharing process easy. She uses filtering, tagging, and queuing technique to sort out the relevant and structured data from the large amounts of unstructured data.
Which of the following techniques was employed by Miley?

• A. Sandboxing
• B. Normalization
• C. Data visualization
• D. Convenience sampling

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3
Kim, an analyst, is looking for an intelligence-sharing platform to gather and share threat information from a variety of sources. He wants to use this information to develop security policies to enhance the overall security posture of his organization.
Which of the following sharing platforms should be used by Kim?

• A. Cuckoo sandbox
• B. OmniPeek
• C. PortDroid network analysis
• D. Blueliv threat exchange network

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 4
Jim works as a security analyst in a large multinational company. Recently, a group of hackers penetrated into their organizational network and used a data staging technique to collect sensitive data. They collected all sorts of sensitive data about the employees and customers, business tactics of the organization, financial information, network infrastructure information and so on.
What should Jim do to detect the data staging before the hackers exfiltrate from the network?

• A. Jim should identify the attack at an initial stage by checking the content of the user agent field.
• B. Jim should analyze malicious DNS requests, DNS payload, unspecified domains, and destination of DNS requests.
• C. Jim should monitor network traffic for malicious file transfers, file integrity monitoring, and event logs.
• D. Jim should identify the web shell running in the network by analyzing server access, error logs, suspicious strings indicating encoding, user agent strings, and so on.

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 5
Sarah is a security operations center (SOC) analyst working at JW Williams and Sons organization based in Chicago. As a part of security operations, she contacts information providers (sharing partners) for gathering information such as collections of validated and prioritized threat indicators along with a detailed technical analysis of malware samples, botnets, DDoS attack methods, and various other malicious tools. She further used the collected information at the tactical and operational levels.
Sarah obtained the required information from which of the following types of sharing partner?

• A. Providers of threat data feeds
• B. Providers of threat indicators
• C. Providers of comprehensive cyber-threat intelligence
• D. Providers of threat actors

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 6
Which of the following components refers to a node in the network that routes the traffic from a workstation to external command and control server and helps in identification of installed malware in the network?

• A. Repeater
• B. Gateway
• C. Hub
• D. Network interface card (NIC)

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 7
H&P, Inc. is a small-scale organization that has decided to outsource the network security monitoring due to lack of resources in the organization. They are looking for the options where they can directly incorporate threat intelligence into their existing network defense solutions.
Which of the following is the most cost-effective methods the organization can employ?

• A. Recruit the right talent
• B. Look for an individual within the organization
• C. Recruit data management solution provider
• D. Recruit managed security service providers (MSSP)

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 8
An attacker instructs bots to use camouflage mechanism to hide his phishing and malware delivery locations in the rapidly changing network of compromised bots. In this particular technique, a single domain name consists of multiple IP addresses.
Which of the following technique is used by the attacker?

• A. DNS zone transfer
• B. Dynamic DNS
• C. DNS interrogation
• D. Fast-Flux DNS

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
What is the correct sequence of steps involved in scheduling a threat intelligence program?
* 1. Review the project charter
* 2. Identify all deliverables
* 3. Identify the sequence of activities
* 4. Identify task dependencies
* 5. Develop the final schedule
* 6. Estimate duration of each activity
* 7. Identify and estimate resources for all activities
* 8. Define all activities
* 9. Build a work breakdown structure (WBS)

• A. 1-->9-->2-->8-->3-->7-->4-->6-->5
• B. 3-->4-->5-->2-->1-->9-->8-->7-->6
• C. 1-->2-->3-->4-->5-->6-->9-->8-->7
• D. 1-->2-->3-->4-->5-->6-->7-->8-->9

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 10
Alice, a threat intelligence analyst at HiTech Cyber Solutions, wants to gather information for identifying emerging threats to the organization and implement essential techniques to prevent their systems and networks from such attacks. Alice is searching for online sources to obtain information such as the method used to launch an attack, and techniques and tools used to perform an attack and the procedures followed for covering the tracks after an attack.
Which of the following online sources should Alice use to gather such information?

• A. Financial services
• B. Social network settings
• C. Hacking forums
• D. Job sites

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 11
Michael, a threat analyst, works in an organization named TechTop, was asked to conduct a cyber-threat intelligence analysis. After obtaining information regarding threats, he has started analyzing the information and understanding the nature of the threats.
What stage of the cyber-threat intelligence is Michael currently in?

• A. Unknown unknowns
• B. Unknowns unknown
• C. Known unknowns
• D. Known knowns

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 12
During the process of threat intelligence analysis, John, a threat analyst, successfully extracted an indication of adversary’s information, such as Modus operandi, tools, communication channels, and forensics evasion strategies used by adversaries.
Identify the type of threat intelligence analysis is performed by John.

• A. Operational threat intelligence analysis
• B. Technical threat intelligence analysis
• C. Strategic threat intelligence analysis
• D. Tactical threat intelligence analysis

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 13
Tyrion, a professional hacker, is targeting an organization to steal confidential information. He wants to perform website footprinting to obtain the following information, which is hidden in the web page header.
Connection status and content type
Accept-ranges and last-modified information
X-powered-by information
Web server in use and its version
Which of the following tools should the Tyrion use to view header content?

• A. Hydra
• B. AutoShun
• C. Vanguard enforcer
• D. Burp suite

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 14
Walter and Sons Company has faced major cyber attacks and lost confidential data. The company has decided to concentrate more on the security rather than other resources. Therefore, they hired Alice, a threat analyst, to perform data analysis. Alice was asked to perform qualitative data analysis to extract useful information from collected bulk data.
Which of the following techniques will help Alice to perform qualitative data analysis?

• A. Regression analysis, variance analysis, and so on
• B. Numerical calculations, statistical modeling, measurement, research, and so on.
• C. Brainstorming, interviewing, SWOT analysis, Delphi technique, and so on
• D. Finding links between data and discover threat-related information

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 15
In which of the following attacks does the attacker exploit vulnerabilities in a computer application before the software developer can release a patch for them?

• A. Active online attack
• B. Zero-day attack
• C. Distributed network attack
• D. Advanced persistent attack

Answer: B

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