SY0-501

SY0-501 practice questions, page 4 of 46, with answer review and explanations.

Question 16

A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all traffic to the FTP server is unencrypted. Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modern FTP client software. The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing unencrypted connections. Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?

  1. Require the SFTP protocol to connect to the file server.
  2. Use implicit TLS on the FTP server.
  3. Use explicit FTPS for connections.
  4. Use SSH tunneling to encrypt the FTP traffic.

Question 17

Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for their customers to download over the Internet?

  1. The recipient can verify integrity of the software patch.
  2. The recipient can verify the authenticity of the site used to download the patch.
  3. The recipient can request future updates to the software using the published MD5 value.
  4. The recipient can successfully activate the new software patch.

Question 18

Refer to the following code: Which of the following vulnerabilities would occur if this is executed?

  1. Page exception
  2. Pointer deference
  3. NullPointerException
  4. Missing null check

Question 19

Multiple employees receive an email with a malicious attachment that begins to encrypt their hard drives and mapped shares on their devices when it is opened. The network and security teams perform the following actions: ✑ Shut down all network shares. ✑ Run an email search identifying all employees who received the malicious message. ✑ Reimage all devices belonging to users who opened the attachment. Next, the teams want to re-enable the network shares. Which of the following BEST describes this phase of the incident response process?

  1. Eradication
  2. Containment
  3. Recovery
  4. Lessons learned

Question 20

An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime. Which of the following has been specified?

  1. RTO
  2. RPO
  3. MTBF
  4. MTTR