SY0-501

SY0-501 practice questions, page 14 of 46, with answer review and explanations.

Question 66

A company hires a consulting firm to crawl its Active Directory network with a non-domain account looking for unpatched systems. Actively taking control of systems is out of scope, as is the creation of new administrator accounts. For which of the following is the company hiring the consulting firm?

  1. Vulnerability scanning
  2. Penetration testing
  3. Application fuzzing
  4. User permission auditing

Question 67

An administrator is replacing a wireless router. The configuration of the old wireless router was not documented before it stopped functioning. The equipment connecting to the wireless network uses older legacy equipment that was manufactured prior to the release of the 802.11i standard. Which of the following configuration options should the administrator select for the new wireless router?

  1. WPA+CCMP
  2. WPA2+CCMP
  3. WPA+TKIP
  4. WPA2+TKIP

Question 68

An application team is performing a load-balancing test for a critical application during off-hours and has requested access to the load balancer to review which servers are up without having the administrator on call. The security analyst is hesitant to give the application team full access due to other critical applications running on the load balancer. Which of the following is the BEST solution for security analyst to process the request?

  1. Give the application team administrator access during off-hours.
  2. Disable other critical applications before granting the team access.
  3. Give the application team read-only access.
  4. Share the account with the application team.

Question 69

Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?

  1. Brute force
  2. Dictionary
  3. Rainbow tables
  4. Birthday

Question 70

A security analyst is hardening an authentication server. One of the primary requirements is to ensure there is mutual authentication and delegation. Given these requirements, which of the following technologies should the analyst recommend and configure?

  1. LDAP services
  2. Kerberos services
  3. NTLM services
  4. CHAP services