Jane, a security analyst, while analyzing IDS logs, detected an event matching Regex /((%3C)|)/|.
What does this event log indicate?

A. Directory Traversal Attack

B. Parameter Tampering Attack

C. XSS Attack

D. SQL Injection Attack

An organization is implementing and deploying the SIEM with following capabilities.
 
What kind of SIEM deployment architecture the organization is planning to implement?

A. Cloud, MSSP Managed

B. Self-hosted, Jointly Managed

C. Self-hosted, Self-Managed

D. Self-hosted, MSSP Managed

Juliea a SOC analyst, while monitoring logs, noticed large TXT, NULL payloads.
What does this indicate?

A. Concurrent VPN Connections Attempt

B. DNS Exfiltration Attempt

C. Covering Tracks Attempt

D. DHCP Starvation Attempt

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

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

Which of the following is a Threat Intelligence Platform?

A. SolarWinds MS

B. TC Complete

C. Keepnote

D. Apility.io

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

A. 7045

B. 4625

C. 5140

D. 4624

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

An attacker exploits the logic validation mechanisms of an e-commerce website. He successfully purchases a product worth $100 for $10 by modifying the URL exchanged between the client and the server.
Original URL: http://www.buyonline.com/product.aspx?profile=12&debit=100
Modified URL: http://www.buyonline.com/product.aspx?profile=12&debit=10
Identify the attack depicted in the above scenario.

A. Denial-of-Service Attack

B. SQL Injection Attack

C. Parameter Tampering Attack

D. Session Fixation Attack

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

In which of the following incident handling and response stages, the root cause of the incident must be found from the forensic results?

A. Evidence Gathering

B. Evidence Handling

C. Eradication

D. Systems Recovery

Which of the following fields in Windows logs defines the type of event occurred, such as Correlation Hint, Response Time, SQM, WDI Context, and so on?

A. Keywords

B. Task Category

C. Level

D. Source

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

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

Harley is working as a SOC analyst with Powell Tech. Powell Inc. is using Internet Information Service (IIS) version 7.0 to host their website.
Where will Harley find the web server logs, if he wants to investigate them for any anomalies?

A. SystemDrive%inetpublogsLogFilesW3SVCN

B. SystemDrive%LogFilesinetpublogsW3SVCN

C. %SystemDrive%LogFileslogsW3SVCN

D. SystemDrive% inetpubLogFileslogsW3SVCN

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

Charline is working as an L2 SOC Analyst. One day, an L1 SOC Analyst escalated an incident to her for further investigation and confirmation. Charline, after a thorough investigation, confirmed the incident and assigned it with an initial priority.
What would be her next action according to the SOC workflow?

A. She should immediately escalate this issue to the management

B. She should immediately contact the network administrator to solve the problem

C. She should communicate this incident to the media immediately

D. She should formally raise a ticket and forward it to the IRT

What is the process of monitoring and capturing all data packets passing through a given network using different tools?

A. Network Scanning

B. DNS Footprinting

C. Network Sniffing

D. Port Scanning

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

An organization wants to implement a SIEM deployment architecture. However, they have the capability to do only log collection and the rest of the SIEM functions must be managed by an MSSP.
Which SIEM deployment architecture will the organization adopt?

A. Cloud, MSSP Managed

B. Self-hosted, Jointly Managed

C. Self-hosted, MSSP Managed

D. Self-hosted, Self-Managed

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)

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

According to the Risk Matrix table, what will be the risk level when the probability of an attack is very low and the impact of that attack is major?

A. High

B. Extreme

C. Low

D. Medium

Which of the following threat intelligence is used by a SIEM for supplying the analysts with context and "situational awareness" by using threat actor TTPs, malware campaigns, tools used by threat actors.
1. Strategic threat intelligence
2. Tactical threat intelligence
3. Operational threat intelligence
4. Technical threat intelligence

A. 2 and 3

B. 1 and 3

C. 3 and 4

D. 1 and 2

John, a threat analyst at GreenTech Solutions, wants to gather information about specific threats against the organization. He started collecting information from various sources, such as humans, social media, chat room, and so on, and created a report that contains malicious activity.
Which of the following types of threat intelligence did he use?

A. Strategic Threat Intelligence

B. Technical Threat Intelligence

C. Tactical Threat Intelligence

D. Operational Threat Intelligence

John, a SOC analyst, while monitoring and analyzing Apache web server logs, identified an event log matching Regex /(.|(%|%25)2E)(.|(%|%25)2E)(/|(%|%25)2F||(%|%25)5C)/i.
What does this event log indicate?

A. XSS Attack

B. SQL injection Attack

C. Directory Traversal Attack

D. Parameter Tampering Attack

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

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

Identify the attack when an attacker by several trial and error can read the contents of a password file present in the restricted etc folder just by manipulating the URL in the browser as shown: http://www.terabytes.com/process.php./../../../../etc/passwd

A. Directory Traversal Attack

B. SQL Injection Attack

C. Denial-of-Service Attack

D. Form Tampering Attack

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

According to the forensics investigation process, what is the next step carried out right after collecting the evidence?

A. Create a Chain of Custody Document

B. Send it to the nearby police station

C. Set a Forensic lab

D. Call Organizational Disciplinary Team

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 of the following can help you eliminate the burden of investigating false positives?

A. Keeping default rules

B. Not trusting the security devices

C. Treating every alert as high level

D. Ingesting the context data

What type of event is recorded when an application driver loads successfully in Windows?

A. Error

B. Success Audit

C. Warning

D. Information

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 following framework describes the essential characteristics of an organization's security engineering process that must exist to ensure good security engineering?

A. COBIT

B. ITIL

C. SSE-CMM

D. SOC-CMM

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 formula is used to calculate the EPS of the organization?

A. EPS = average number of correlated events / time in seconds

B. EPS = number of normalized events / time in seconds

C. EPS = number of security events / time in seconds

D. EPS = number of correlated events / time in seconds

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