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CompTIA SecurityX Certification Exam Questions and Answers

Question 57

A university issues badges through a homegrown identity management system to all staff and students. Each week during the summer, temporary summer school students arrive and need to be issued a badge to access minimal campus resources. The security team received a report from an outside auditor indicating the homegrown system is not consistent with best practices in the security field and leaves the institution vulnerable.

Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?

Options:

A.

Investigating a potential threat identified in logs related to the identity management system

B.

Updating the identity management system to use discretionary access control

C.

Beginning research on two-factor authentication to later introduce into the identity management system

D.

Working with procurement and creating a requirements document to select a new IAM system/vendor

Question 58

A SOC analyst is reviewing malicious activity on an external, exposed web server. During the investigation, the analyst determines specific traffic is not being logged, and there is no visibility from the WAF for the web application.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Options:

A.

The user agent client is not compatible with the WAF.

B.

A certificate on the WAF is expired.

C.

HTTP traffic is not forwarding to HTTPS to decrypt.

D.

Old, vulnerable cipher suites are still being used.

Question 59

After a security incident, a network security engineer discovers that a portion of the company’s sensitive external traffic has been redirected through a secondary ISP that is not normally used.

Which of the following would BEST secure the routes while allowing the network to function in the event of a single provider failure?

Options:

A.

Disable BGP and implement a single static route for each internal network.

B.

Implement a BGP route reflector.

C.

Implement an inbound BGP prefix list.

D.

Disable BGP and implement OSPF.

Question 60

During a system penetration test, a security engineer successfully gained access to a shell on a Linux host as a standard user and wants to elevate the privilege levels.

Which of the following is a valid Linux post-exploitation method to use to accomplish this goal?

Options:

A.

Spawn a shell using sudo and an escape string such as sudo vim -c ‘!sh’.

B.

Perform ASIC password cracking on the host.

C.

Read the /etc/passwd file to extract the usernames.

D.

Initiate unquoted service path exploits.

E.

Use the UNION operator to extract the database schema.

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