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Q401. Ann wants to send a file to Joe using PKI. Which of the following should Ann use in order to sign the file? 

A. Joe’s public key 

B. Joe’s private key 

C. Ann’s public key 

D. Ann’s private key 

Answer: D 

Explanation: 

The sender uses his private key, in this case Ann's private key, to create a digital signature. The message is, in effect, signed with the private key. The sender then sends the message to the receiver. The receiver uses the public key attached to the message to validate the digital signature. If the values match, the receiver knows the message is authentic. The receiver uses a key provided by the sender—the public key—to decrypt the message. Most digital signature implementations also use a hash to verify that the message has not been altered, intentionally or accidently, in transit. 


Q402. All of the following are valid cryptographic hash functions EXCEPT: 

A. RIPEMD. 

B. RC4. 

C. SHA-512. 

D. MD4. 

Answer: B 

Explanation: 

RC4 is not a hash function. RC4 is popular with wireless and WEP/WPA encryption. 


Q403. While configuring a new access layer switch, the administrator, Joe, was advised that he needed to make sure that only devices authorized to access the network would be permitted to login and utilize resources. Which of the following should the administrator implement to ensure this happens? 

A. Log Analysis 

B. VLAN Management 

C. Network separation 

D. 802.1x 

Answer: D 

Explanation: 

802.1x is a port-based authentication mechanism. It’s based on Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) and is commonly used in closed-environment wireless networks. 802.1x was initially used to compensate for the weaknesses of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), but today it’s often used as a component in more complex authentication and connection-management systems, including Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), Diameter, Cisco System’s Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+), and Network Access Control (NAC). 


Q404. Purchasing receives an automated phone call from a bank asking to input and verify credit card information. The phone number displayed on the caller ID matches the bank. Which of the following attack types is this? 

A. Hoax 

B. Phishing 

C. Vishing 

D. Whaling 

Answer: C 

Explanation: 

Vishing (voice or VoIP phishing) is an electronic fraud tactic in which individuals are tricked into revealing critical financial or personal information to unauthorized entities. Vishing works like phishing but does not always occur over the Internet and is carried out using voice technology. A vishing attack can be conducted by voice email, VoIP (voice over IP), or landline or cellular telephone. The potential victim receives a message, often generated by speech synthesis, indicating that suspicious activity has taken place in a credit card account, bank account, mortgage account or other financial service in their name. The victim is told to call a specific telephone number and provide information to "verify identity" or to "ensure that fraud does not occur." If the attack is carried out by telephone, caller ID spoofing can cause the victim's set to indicate a legitimate source, such as a bank or a government agency. 

Vishing is difficult for authorities to trace, particularly when conducted using VoIP. Furthermore, like many legitimate customer services, vishing scams are often outsourced to other countries, which may render sovereign law enforcement powerless. 

Consumers can protect themselves by suspecting any unsolicited message that suggests they are targets of illegal activity, no matter what the medium or apparent source. Rather than calling a number given in any unsolicited message, a consumer should directly call the institution named, using a number that is known to be valid, to verify all recent activity and to ensure that the account information has not been tampered with. 


Q405. A systems engineer has been presented with storage performance and redundancy requirements for a new system to be built for the company. The storage solution must be designed to support the highest performance and must also be able to support more than one drive failure. Which of the following should the engineer choose to meet these requirements? 

A. A mirrored striped array with parity 

B. A mirrored mirror array 

C. A striped array 

D. A striped array with parity 

Answer: B 

Explanation: 


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Q406. Which of the following protocols is the security administrator observing in this packet capture? 

12:33:43, SRC 192.168.4.3:3389, DST 10.67.33.20:8080, SYN/ACK 

A. HTTPS 

B. RDP 

C. HTTP 

D. SFTP 

Answer: B 

Explanation: 

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides 

a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection. 

Example of RDP tracing output: 

No. Time Delta Source Destination Protocol Length Info 

5782, 2013-01-06 09:52:15.407, 0.000 , SRC 10.7.3.187 , DST 10.0.107.58, TCP, 62, 3389 > 

59193 [SYN, ACK] 


Q407. ION NO: 93 Which of the following is an advantage of implementing individual file encryption on a hard drive which already deploys full disk encryption? 

A. Reduces processing overhead required to access the encrypted files 

B. Double encryption causes the individually encrypted files to partially lose their properties 

C. Individually encrypted files will remain encrypted when copied to external media 

D. File level access control only apply to individually encrypted files in a fully encrypted drive 

Answer: C 

Explanation: 

With full disk encryption a file is encrypted as long as it remains on the disk. This is because the data on the disk is decrypted when the user logs on, thus the data is in a decrypted form when it is copied to another disk. Individually encrypted files on the other hand remain encrypted. 


Q408. Which of the following concepts are included on the three sides of the "security triangle"? (Select THREE). 

A. Confidentiality 

B. Availability 

C. Integrity 

D. Authorization 

E. Authentication 

F. Continuity 

Answer: A,B,C 

Explanation: 

Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are the three most important concepts in security. Thus they form the security triangle. 


Q409. Identifying residual risk is MOST important to which of the following concepts? 

A. Risk deterrence 

B. Risk acceptance 

C. Risk mitigation 

D. Risk avoidance 

Answer: B 

Explanation: 

Risk acceptance is often the choice you must make when the cost of implementing any of the other four choices exceeds the value of the harm that would occur if the risk came to fruition. To truly qualify as acceptance, it cannot be a risk where the administrator or manager is unaware of its existence; it has to be an identified risk for which those involved understand the potential cost or damage and agree to accept it. Residual risk is always present and will remain a risk thus it should be accepted (risk acceptance) 


Q410. Which of the following would be used as a secure substitute for Telnet? 

A. SSH 

B. SFTP 

C. SSL 

D. HTTPS 

Answer: A 

Explanation: 

Secure Shell (SSH) is a tunneling protocol originally designed for Unix systems. It uses encryption to establish a secure connection between two systems. SSH also provides alternative, security-equivalent programs for such Unix standards as Telnet, FTP, and many other communications-oriented applications. SSH is available for use on Windows systems as well. This makes it the preferred method of security for Telnet and other cleartext oriented programs in the Unix environment.