CS0-003 Practice Test

CS0-003 Practice Test practice questions, page 14 of 26, with answer review and explanations.

Question 66

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?

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

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?

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

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?

  1. Service-level agreement
  2. Change management plan
  3. Incident response plan
  4. Memorandum of understanding

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?

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

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?

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