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

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

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

Which of the following is a Threat Intelligence Platform?

A. SolarWinds MS

B. TC Complete

C. Keepnote

D. Apility.io

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 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

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 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

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

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

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.

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 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

The threat intelligence, which will help you, understand adversary intent and make informed decision to ensure appropriate security in alignment with risk.
What kind of threat intelligence described above?

A. Tactical Threat Intelligence

B. Strategic Threat Intelligence

C. Functional Threat Intelligence

D. Operational Threat Intelligence

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 Windows features is used to enable Security Auditing in Windows?

A. Bitlocker

B. Windows Firewall

C. Local Group Policy Editor

D. Windows Defender

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

Where will you find the reputation IP database, if you want to monitor traffic from known bad IP reputation using OSSIM SIEM?

A. /etc/ossim/reputation

B. /etc/ossim/siem/server/reputation/data

C. /etc/siem/ossim/server/reputation.data

D. /etc/ossim/server/reputation.data

Which of the following command is used to view iptables logs on Ubuntu and Debian distributions?

A. $ tailf /var/log/sys/kern.log

B. $ tailf /var/log/kern.log

C. # tailf /var/log/messages

D. # tailf /var/log/sys/messages

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Which of the following Windows event is logged every time when a user tries to access the "Registry" key?

A. 4656

B. 4663

C. 4660

D. 4657

What does HTTPS Status code 403 represents?

A. Unauthorized Error

B. Not Found Error

C. Internal Server Error

D. Forbidden Error

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

A. 7045

B. 4625

C. 5140

D. 4624

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 command is used to enable logging in iptables?

A. $ iptables -B INPUT -j LOG

B. $ iptables -A OUTPUT -j LOG

C. $ iptables -A INPUT -j LOG

D. $ iptables -B OUTPUT -j LOG

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

A. SMTP Configuration

B. DHCP Configuration

C. DNS Configuration

D. Network Topology

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 attacks causes sudden changes in file extensions or increase in file renames at rapid speed?

A. Ransomware Attack

B. DoS Attack

C. DHCP starvation Attack

D. File Injection Attack

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

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 attack works like a dictionary attack, but adds some numbers and symbols to the words from the dictionary and tries to crack the password?

A. Hybrid Attack

B. Bruteforce Attack

C. Rainbow Table Attack

D. Birthday Attack

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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