CS0-003 Practice Test

CS0-003 Practice Test practice questions, page 18 of 26, with answer review and explanations.

Question 86

A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing SIEM logs and observes consistent requests originating from an internal host to a blocklisted external server. Which of the following best describes the activity that is taking place?

  1. Data exfiltration
  2. Rogue device
  3. Scanning
  4. Beaconing

Question 87

An incident response team is working with law enforcement to investigate an active web server compromise. The decision has been made to keep the server running and to implement compensating controls for a period of time. The web service must be accessible from the internet via the reverse proxy and must connect to a database server. Which of the following compensating controls will help contain the adversary while meeting the other requirements? (Choose two).

  1. Drop the tables on the database server to prevent data exfiltration.
  2. Deploy EDR on the web server and the database server to reduce the adversary’s capabilities.
  3. Stop the httpd service on the web server so that the adversary cannot use web exploits.
  4. Use microsegmentation to restrict connectivity to/from the web and database servers.
  5. Comment out the HTTP account in the /etc/passwd file of the web server.
  6. Move the database from the database server to the web server.

Question 88

An incident response team member is triaging a Linux server. The output is shown below: Which of the following is the adversary most likely trying to do?

  1. Create a backdoor root account named zsh.
  2. Execute commands through an unsecured service account.
  3. Send a beacon to a command-and-control server.
  4. Perform a denial-of-service attack on the web server.

Question 89

A SOC analyst identifies the following content while examining the output of a debugger command over a client-server application: getConnection(database01,"alpha" ,"AxTv.127GdCx94GTd"); Which of the following is the most likely vulnerability in this system?

  1. Lack of input validation
  2. SQL injection
  3. Hard-coded credential
  4. Buffer overflow

Question 90

A technician is analyzing output from a popular network mapping tool for a PCI audit: Which of the following best describes the output?

  1. The host is not up or responding.
  2. The host is running excessive cipher suites.
  3. The host is allowing insecure cipher suites.
  4. The Secure Shell port on this host is closed.