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CompTIA CAS-004 CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) Exam Practice Test
Question 1
A security architect is given the following requirements to secure a rapidly changing enterprise with an increasingly distributed and remote workforce
* Cloud-delivered services
* Full network security stack
* SaaS application security management
* Minimal latency for an optimal user experience
* Integration with the cloud 1AM platform
Which of the following is the BEST solution?
Answer : D
Question 2
A security researcher detonated some malware in a lab environment and identified the following commands running from the EDR tool:
With which of the following MITRE ATT&CK TTPs is the command associated? (Select TWO).
Answer : B, E
OS credential dumping is the process of obtaining account login and password information, normally in the form of a hash or a clear text password, from the operating system and software. System information discovery is the process of gathering information about the system, such as hostname, IP address, OS version, running processes, etc. Both of these techniques are commonly used by adversaries to gain access to sensitive data and resources on the target system. The command shown in the image is using Mimikatz, a tool that can dump credentials from memory, and also querying the system information using WMIC. Verified Reference:
https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1003/
https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1082/
https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/wmic
Question 3
A security technician is investigating a system that tracks inventory via a batch update each night. The technician is concerned that the system poses a risk to the business, as errors are occasionally generated and reported inventory appears incorrect. The following output log is provided:
The technician reviews the output of the batch job and discovers that the inventory was never less than zero, and the final inventory was 100 rather than 60. Which of the following should the technician do to resolve this issue?
Answer : C
Question 4
A software developer created an application for a large, multinational company. The company is concerned the program code could be reverse engineered by a foreign entity and intellectual property would be lost. Which of the following techniques should be used to prevent this situation?
Answer : A
Obfuscation is a technique used to make the program code difficult to understand or read. It can help to prevent reverse engineering by making it more challenging to analyze the code and understand its structure and functionality, thereby protecting intellectual property.
Question 5
A company's claims processed department has a mobile workforce that receives a large number of email submissions from personal email addresses. An employees recently received an email that approved to be claim form, but it installed malicious software on the employee's laptop when was opened.
Answer : C
Implementing cloud-based content filtering with sandboxing capabilities is the best solution for preventing malicious software installation on the employee's laptop due to opening an email attachment that appeared to be a claim form. Cloud-based content filtering is a technique that uses acloud service to filter or block web traffic based on predefined rules or policies, preventing unauthorized or malicious access to web resources or services. Cloud-based content filtering canprevent malicious software installation on the employee's laptop due to opening an email attachment that appeared to be a claim form, as it can scan or analyze email attachments before they reach the mailbox and block or quarantine them if they are malicious. Sandboxing is a technique that uses an isolated or virtualized environment to execute or test suspicious or untrusted code or applications, preventing them from affecting the host system or network. Sandboxing can prevent malicious software installation on the employee's laptop due to opening an email attachment that appeared to be a claim form, as it can run or detonate email attachments in a safe environment and observe their behavior or impact before allowing them to reach the mailbox. Implementing application whitelisting and adding only the email client to the whitelist for laptops in the claims processing department is not a good solution for preventing malicious software installation on the employee's laptop due to opening an email attachment that appeared to be a claim form, as it could affect the usability or functionality of other applications on the laptops that may be needed for work purposes, as well as not prevent malicious software from running within the email client. Requiring all laptops to connect to the VPN (virtual private network) before accessing email is not a good solution for preventing malicious software installation on the employee's laptop due to opening an email attachment that appeared to be a claim form, as it could introduce latency or performance issues for accessing email, as well as not prevent malicious software from reaching or executing on the laptops. Installing a mail gateway to scan incoming messages and strip attachments before they reach the mailbox is not a good solution for preventing malicious software installation on the employee's laptop due to opening an email attachment that appeared to be a claim form, as it could affect the normal operations or functionality of email communication, as well as not prevent legitimate attachments from reaching the mailbox. Verified Reference: https://www.comptia.org/blog/what-is-cloud-based-content-filtering https://partners.comptia.org/docs/default-source/resources/casp-content-guide
Topic 2, Exam Pool B
Question 6
A threat analyst notices the following URL while going through the HTTP logs.
Which of the following attack types is the threat analyst seeing?
Answer : D
XSS stands for cross-site scripting, which is a type of attack that injects malicious code into a web page that is then executed by the browser of a victim. The URL in the question contains a script tag that tries to execute a JavaScript code from an external source, which is a sign of XSS. Verified Reference: https://www.comptia.org/training/books/casp-cas-004-study-guide , https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/
Question 7
An organization recently recovered from an attack that featured an adversary injecting Malicious logic into OS bootloaders on endpoint devices Therefore, the organization decided to require the use of TPM for measured boot and attestation, monitoring each component from the IJEFI through the full loading of OS components. of the following TPM structures enables this storage functionality?
Answer : D
TPMs provide the ability to store measurements of code and data that can be used to ensure that code and data remain unchanged over time. This is done through Platform Configuration Registers (PCRs), which are structures used to store measurements of code and data. The measurements are taken during the boot process and can be used to compare the state of the system at different times, which can be used to detect any changes to the system and verify that the system has not been tampered with.
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