A type of threat intelligent that find out the information about the attacker by misleading them is known as __________.

A. Threat trending Intelligence

B. Detection Threat Intelligence

C. Operational Intelligence

D. Counter Intelligence

Which of the following is a correct flow of the stages in an incident handling and response (IH&R) process?

A. Containment –> Incident Recording –> Incident Triage –> Preparation –> Recovery –> Eradication –> Post-Incident Activities

B. Preparation –> Incident Recording –> Incident Triage –> Containment –> Eradication –> Recovery –> Post-Incident Activities

C. Incident Triage –> Eradication –> Containment –> Incident Recording –> Preparation –> Recovery –> Post-Incident Activities

D. Incident Recording –> Preparation –> Containment –> Incident Triage –> Recovery –> Eradication –> Post-Incident Activities

Which of the log storage method arranges event logs in the form of a circular buffer?

A. FIFO

B. LIFO

C. non-wrapping

D. wrapping

What does Windows event ID 4740 indicate?

A. A user account was locked out.

B. A user account was disabled.

C. A user account was enabled.

D. A user account was created.

Identify the event severity level in Windows logs for the events that are not necessarily significant, but may indicate a possible future problem.

A. Failure Audit

B. Warning

C. Error

D. Information

In which phase of Lockheed Martin's – Cyber Kill Chain Methodology, adversary creates a deliverable malicious payload using an exploit and a backdoor?

A. Reconnaissance

B. Delivery

C. Weaponization

D. Exploitation

In which log collection mechanism, the system or application sends log records either on the local disk or over the network.

A. rule-based

B. pull-based

C. push-based

D. signature-based

Emmanuel is working as a SOC analyst in a company named Tobey Tech. The manager of Tobey Tech recently recruited an Incident Response Team (IRT) for his company. In the process of collaboration with the IRT, Emmanuel just escalated an incident to the IRT.
What is the first step that the IRT will do to the incident escalated by Emmanuel?

A. Incident Analysis and Validation

B. Incident Recording

C. Incident Classification

D. Incident Prioritization

What does [-n] in the following checkpoint firewall log syntax represents? fw log [-f [-t]] [-n] [-l] [-o] [-c action] [-h host] [-s starttime] [-e endtime] [-b starttime endtime] [-u unification_scheme_file] [-m unification_mode(initial|semi|raw)] [-a] [-k (alert name|all)] [-g] [logfile]

A. Speed up the process by not performing IP addresses DNS resolution in the Log files

B. Display both the date and the time for each log record

C. Display account log records only

D. Display detailed log chains (all the log segments a log record consists of)

Which of the following contains the performance measures, and proper project and time management details?

A. Incident Response Policy

B. Incident Response Tactics

C. Incident Response Process

D. Incident Response Procedures

Which of the following attack inundates DHCP servers with fake DHCP requests to exhaust all available IP addresses?

A. DHCP Starvation Attacks

B. DHCP Spoofing Attack

C. DHCP Port Stealing

D. DHCP Cache Poisoning

What is the correct sequence of SOC Workflow?

A. Collect, Ingest, Validate, Document, Report, Respond

B. Collect, Ingest, Document, Validate, Report, Respond

C. Collect, Respond, Validate, Ingest, Report, Document

D. Collect, Ingest, Validate, Report, Respond, Document

Wesley is an incident handler in a company named Maddison Tech. One day, he was learning techniques for eradicating the insecure deserialization attacks.
What among the following should Wesley avoid from considering?

A. Deserialization of trusted data must cross a trust boundary

B. Understand the security permissions given to serialization and deserialization

C. Allow serialization for security-sensitive classes

D. Validate untrusted input, which is to be serialized to ensure that serialized data contain only trusted classes

Jason, a SOC Analyst with Maximus Tech, was investigating Cisco ASA Firewall logs and came across the following log entry:
May 06 2018 21:27:27 asa 1: %ASA -5 – 11008: User 'enable_15' executed the 'configure term' command
What does the security level in the above log indicates?

A. Warning condition message

B. Critical condition message

C. Normal but significant message

D. Informational message

Which of the following formula represents the risk?

A. Risk = Likelihood × Severity × Asset Value

B. Risk = Likelihood × Consequence × Severity

C. Risk = Likelihood × Impact × Severity

D. Risk = Likelihood × Impact × Asset Value

An attacker, in an attempt to exploit the vulnerability in the dynamically generated welcome page, inserted code at the end of the company’s URL as follows: http://technosoft.com.com/alert("WARNING: The application has encountered an error");.
Identify the attack demonstrated in the above scenario.

A. Cross-site Scripting Attack

B. SQL Injection Attack

C. Denial-of-Service Attack

D. Session Attack

Which of the following attack can be eradicated by filtering improper XML syntax?

A. CAPTCHA Attacks

B. SQL Injection Attacks

C. Insufficient Logging and Monitoring Attacks

D. Web Services Attacks

Which of the following attack can be eradicated by using a safe API to avoid the use of the interpreter entirely?

A. Command Injection Attacks

B. SQL Injection Attacks

C. File Injection Attacks

D. LDAP Injection Attacks

Which of the following is a report writing tool that will help incident handlers to generate efficient reports on detected incidents during incident response process?

A. threat_note

B. MagicTree

C. IntelMQ

D. Malstrom

Ray is a SOC analyst in a company named Queens Tech. One Day, Queens Tech is affected by a DoS/DDoS attack. For the containment of this incident, Ray and his team are trying to provide additional bandwidth to the network devices and increasing the capacity of the servers.
What is Ray and his team doing?

A. Blocking the Attacks

B. Diverting the Traffic

C. Degrading the services

D. Absorbing the Attack

Which of the following technique involves scanning the headers of IP packets leaving a network to make sure that the unauthorized or malicious traffic never leaves the internal network?

A. Egress Filtering

B. Throttling

C. Rate Limiting

D. Ingress Filtering

Which one of the following is the correct flow for Setting Up a Computer Forensics Lab?

A. Planning and budgeting –> Physical location and structural design considerations –> Work area considerations –> Human resource considerations –> Physical security recommendations –> Forensics lab licensing

B. Planning and budgeting –> Physical location and structural design considerations–> Forensics lab licensing –> Human resource considerations –> Work area considerations –> Physical security recommendations

C. Planning and budgeting –> Forensics lab licensing –> Physical location and structural design considerations –> Work area considerations –> Physical security recommendations –> Human resource considerations

D. Planning and budgeting –> Physical location and structural design considerations –> Forensics lab licensing –>Work area considerations –> Human resource considerations –> Physical security recommendations

Jony, a security analyst, while monitoring IIS logs, identified events shown in the figure below.
 
What does this event log indicate?

A. Parameter Tampering Attack

B. XSS Attack

C. Directory Traversal Attack

D. SQL Injection Attack

According to the Risk Matrix table, what will be the risk level when the probability of an attack is very high, and the impact of that attack is major?
NOTE: It is mandatory to answer the question before proceeding to the next one.

A. High

B. Extreme

C. Low

D. Medium

Peter, a SOC analyst with Spade Systems, is monitoring and analyzing the router logs of the company and wanted to check the logs that are generated by access control list numbered 210.
What filter should Peter add to the 'show logging' command to get the required output?

A. show logging | access 210

B. show logging | forward 210

C. show logging | include 210

D. show logging | route 210

Banter is a threat analyst in Christine Group of Industries. As a part of the job, he is currently formatting and structuring the raw data.
He is at which stage of the threat intelligence life cycle?

A. Dissemination and Integration

B. Processing and Exploitation

C. Collection

D. Analysis and Production

Which of the following are the responsibilities of SIEM Agents?
1. Collecting data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine.
2. Normalizing data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine.
3. Co-relating data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine.
4. Visualizing data received from various devices sending data to SIEM before forwarding it to the central engine.

A. 1 and 2

B. 2 and 3

C. 1 and 4

D. 3 and 1

Which of the following stage executed after identifying the required event sources?

A. Identifying the monitoring Requirements

B. Defining Rule for the Use Case

C. Implementing and Testing the Use Case

D. Validating the event source against monitoring requirement

Daniel is a member of an IRT, which was started recently in a company named Mesh Tech. He wanted to find the purpose and scope of the planned incident response capabilities.
What is he looking for?

A. Incident Response Intelligence

B. Incident Response Mission

C. Incident Response Vision

D. Incident Response Resources

David is a SOC analyst in Karen Tech. One day an attack is initiated by the intruders but David was not able to find any suspicious events.
This type of incident is categorized into __________?

A. True Positive Incidents

B. False positive Incidents

C. True Negative Incidents

D. False Negative Incidents

The Syslog message severity levels are labelled from level 0 to level 7.
What does level 0 indicate?

A. Alert

B. Notification

C. Emergency

D. Debugging

Sam, a security analyst with INFOSOL INC., while monitoring and analyzing IIS logs, detected an event matching regex /w*((%27)|(’))((%6F)|o|(%4F))((%72)|r|(%52))/ix.
What does this event log indicate?

A. SQL Injection Attack

B. Parameter Tampering Attack

C. XSS Attack

D. Directory Traversal Attack

Which of the following tool is used to recover from web application incident?

A. CrowdStrike FalconTM Orchestrator

B. Symantec Secure Web Gateway

C. Smoothwall SWG

D. Proxy Workbench

Shawn is a security manager working at Lee Inc Solution. His organization wants to develop threat intelligent strategy plan. As a part of threat intelligent strategy plan, he suggested various components, such as threat intelligence requirement analysis, intelligence and collection planning, asset identification, threat reports, and intelligence buy-in.
Which one of the following components he should include in the above threat intelligent strategy plan to make it effective?

A. Threat pivoting

B. Threat trending

C. Threat buy-in

D. Threat boosting

Identify the type of attack, an attacker is attempting on www.example.com website.
 

A. Cross-site Scripting Attack

B. Session Attack

C. Denial-of-Service Attack

D. SQL Injection Attack

What does the Security Log Event ID 4624 of Windows 10 indicate?

A. Service added to the endpoint

B. A share was assessed

C. An account was successfully logged on

D. New process executed

Identify the password cracking attempt involving a precomputed dictionary of plaintext passwords and their corresponding hash values to crack the password.

A. Dictionary Attack

B. Rainbow Table Attack

C. Bruteforce Attack

D. Syllable Attack

Which of the following is a default directory in a Mac OS X that stores security-related logs?

A. /private/var/log

B. /Library/Logs/Sync

C. /var/log/cups/access_log

D. ~/Library/Logs

Which of the following Windows features is used to enable Security Auditing in Windows?

A. Bitlocker

B. Windows Firewall

C. Local Group Policy Editor

D. Windows Defender

Bonney's system has been compromised by a gruesome malware.
What is the primary step that is advisable to Bonney in order to contain the malware incident from spreading?

A. Complaint to police in a formal way regarding the incident

B. Turn off the infected machine

C. Leave it to the network administrators to handle

D. Call the legal department in the organization and inform about the incident

Which encoding replaces unusual ASCII characters with "%" followed by the character’s two-digit ASCII code expressed in hexadecimal?

A. Unicode Encoding

B. UTF Encoding

C. Base64 Encoding

D. URL Encoding

Chloe, a SOC analyst with Jake Tech, is checking Linux systems logs. She is investigating files at /var/log/wtmp.
What Chloe is looking at?

A. Error log

B. System boot log

C. General message and system-related stuff

D. Login records

Which of the following Windows Event Id will help you monitors file sharing across the network?

A. 7045

B. 4625

C. 5140

D. 4624

Which of the following factors determine the choice of SIEM architecture?

A. SMTP Configuration

B. DHCP Configuration

C. DNS Configuration

D. Network Topology

Mike is an incident handler for PNP Infosystems Inc. One day, there was a ticket raised regarding a critical incident and Mike was assigned to handle the incident. During the process of incident handling, at one stage, he has performed incident analysis and validation to check whether the incident is a true incident or a false positive.
Identify the stage in which he is currently in.

A. Post-Incident Activities

B. Incident Recording and Assignment

C. Incident Triage

D. Incident Disclosure

Robin, a SOC engineer in a multinational company, is planning to implement a SIEM. He realized that his organization is capable of performing only Correlation, Analytics, Reporting, Retention, Alerting, and Visualization required for the SIEM implementation and has to take collection and aggregation services from a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP).
What kind of SIEM is Robin planning to implement?

A. Self-hosted, Self-Managed

B. Self-hosted, MSSP Managed

C. Hybrid Model, Jointly Managed

D. Cloud, Self-Managed

What does HTTPS Status code 403 represents?

A. Unauthorized Error

B. Not Found Error

C. Internal Server Error

D. Forbidden Error

Identify the HTTP status codes that represents the server error.

A. 2XX

B. 4XX

C. 1XX

D. 5XX

Which of the following event detection techniques uses User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)?

A. Rule-based detection

B. Heuristic-based detection

C. Anomaly-based detection

D. Signature-based detection

Which of the following attack can be eradicated by converting all non-alphanumeric characters to HTML character entities before displaying the user input in search engines and forums?

A. Broken Access Control Attacks

B. Web Services Attacks

C. XSS Attacks

D. Session Management Attacks