IAT/IAM Certification Quiz

1. Question

Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical want to provide seamless wireless access for their employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented if all the organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices?

RADIUS federation
SAML
OAuth
OpenID connect

2. Question

Which of the following attacks specifically impact data availability?

DDoS
Trojan
MiTM
Rootkit

3. Question

A security analyst is hardening a server with the directory services role installed. The analyst must ensure LDAP traffic cannot be monitored or sniffed and maintains compatibility with LDAP clients. Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Generate an X.509-compliant certificate that is signed by a trusted CA.
Install and configure an SSH tunnel on the LDAP server.
Ensure port 389 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.
Ensure port 636 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.

4. Question

Which of the following characteristics differentiate a rainbow table attack from a brute force attack? (Choose two.)

Rainbow table attacks greatly reduce compute cycles at attack time.
Rainbow tables must include pre-computed hashes.
Rainbow table attacks do not require access to hashed passwords.
Rainbow table attacks must be performed on the network.

5. Question

Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company’s proprietary information to gain a market edge and reduce time to market?

Competitor
Hacktivist
Insider
Organized Crime

6. Question

A penetration tester is crawling a target website that is available to the public. Which of the following represents the actions the penetration tester is performing?

Reconnaissance
URL hijacking
White box testing
Escalation of privilege

7. Question

Which of the following best describes routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed from a string?

Input validation to protect against SQL injection.
Exception handling to protect against XSRF attacks.
Error handling to protect against program exploitation.
Padding to protect against string buffer overflows.

8. Question

Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for their customers to download over the Internet?

The recipient can verify integrity of the software patch.
The recipient can verify the authenticity of the site used to download the patch.
The recipient can request future updates to the software using the published MD5 value.
The recipient can successfully activate the new software patch.

9. Question

An organization has determined it can tolerate a maximum of three hours of downtime. Which of the following has been specified?

RTO
RPO
MTBF
MTTR

10. Question

Which of the following types of keys is found in a key escrow?

Public
Private
Shared
Session

11. Question

Despite having implemented password policies, users continue to set the same weak passwords and reuse old passwords. Which of the following technical controls would help prevent these policy violations? (Choose two)

Password expiration
Password length
Password complexity
Password history
Password lockout

12. Question

Which of the following types of cloud infrastructures would allow several organizations with similar structures and interests to realize the benefits of shared storage and resources?

Private
Hybrid
Public
Community

13. Question

A company determines that it is prohibitively expensive to become compliant with new credit card regulations. Instead, the company decides to purchase insurance to cover the cost of any potential loss. Which of the following is the company doing?

Transferring the risk
Accepting the risk
Avoiding the risk
Migrating the risk

14. Question

Malicious traffic from an internal network has been detected on an unauthorized port on an application server. Which of the following network-based security controls should the engineer consider implementing?

ACLs
Torrent Server
NAT
MAC filtering

15. Question

A network administrator wants to implement a method of securing internal routing. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

DMZ
NAT
VPN
PAT

16. Question

Which of the following encryption methods does PKI typically use to securely protect keys?

Elliptic curve
Digital signatures
Asymmetric
Obfuscation

17. Question

A department head at a university resigned on the first day of the spring semester. It was subsequently determined that the department head deleted numerous files and directories from the server-based home directory while the campus was closed. Which of the following policies or procedures could have prevented this from occurring?

Offboarding
Account expiration
Permission auditing and review
Time-of-day restrictions

18. Question

An organization finds that most help desk calls are regarding account lockout due to a variety of applications running on different systems. Management is looking for a solution to reduce the number of account lockouts while improving security.

Which of the following is the BEST solution for this organization?

Create multiple application accounts for each user
Provide secure tokens
Implement SSO
Terminate the employees who get locked out too often

19. Question

Ann, a security administrator, has been instructed to perform fuzz-based testing on the company’s applications. Which of the following best describes what she will do?

Enter random or invalid data into the application in an attempt to cause it to fault
Work with the developers to eliminate horizontal privilege escalation opportunities
Test the applications for the existence of built-in- back doors left by the developers
Hash the application to verify it won't cause a false positive on the HIPS

20. Question

A network administrator at a small office wants to simplify the configuration of mobile clients connecting to an encrypted wireless network. Which of the following should be implemented if the administrator does not want to provide the wireless password or the certificate to the employees?

WPS
802.1x
Packet Tracer
TKIP

21. Question

When connected to a secure WAP, which of the following encryption technologies is MOST likely to be configured when connecting to WPA2–PSK?

DES
AES
MD5
MS-DOS

22. Question

When configuring settings in a mandatory access control environment, which of the following specifies the subjects that can access specific data objects?

Owner
System
Administrator
User

23. Question

A high–security defense installation recently begun utilizing large guard dogs that bark very loudly and excitedly at the slightest provocation. Which of the following types of controls does this BEST describe?

Deterrent
Preventive
Detective
Compensating

24. Question

A company’s user lockout policy is enabled after five unsuccessful login attempts. The help desk notices a user is repeatedly locked out over the course of a workweek. Upon contacting the user, the help desk discovers the user is on vacation and does not have network access.

Which of the following types of attacks are MOST likely occurring? (Select two.)

Replay
SQL Injection
Brute force
Browser Hijacking
Dictionary

25. Question

Ann. An employee in the payroll department, has contacted the help desk citing multiple issues with her device, including Slow performance Word documents, PDFs, and images no longer opening a pop-up. Ann states the issues began after she opened an invoice that a vendor emailed to her. Upon opening the invoice, she had to click several security warnings to view it in her word processor. With which of the following is the device MOST likely infected?

Spyware
Crypto-malware
Rootkit
Backdoor

26. Question

A company is terminating an employee for misbehavior. Which of the following steps is MOST important in the process of disengagement from this employee?

Obtain a list of passwords used by the employee.
Generate a report on outstanding projects the employee handled.
Have the employee surrender company identification.
Have the employee sign an NDA before departing

27. Question

A company is developing a new secure technology and requires computers being used for development to be isolated. Which of the following should be implemented to provide the MOST secure environment?

A perimeter firewall and IDS
An air gapped computer network
A honeypot residing in a DMZ
An ad hoc network with NAT
A bastion host

28. Question

A user clicked an email link that led to a website than infected the workstation with a virus. The virus encrypted all the network shares to which the user had access. The virus was not deleted or blocked by the company’s email filter, website filter, or antivirus. Which of the following describes what occurred?

The user's account was over-privileged.
Improper error handling triggered a false negative in all three controls.
The email originated from a private email server with no malware protection.
The virus was a zero-day attack.

29. Question

An organization wishes to provide better security for its name resolution services. Which of the following technologies BEST supports the deployment of DNSSEC at the organization?

LDAP
TPM
PKI
TLS

30. Question

A company hires a consulting firm to crawl its Active Directory network with a non-domain account looking for unpatched systems. Actively taking control of systems is out of scope, as is the creation of new administrator accounts. For which of the following is the company hiring the consulting firm?

Vulnerability scanning
Penetration testing
Application fuzzing
DevOps

31. Question

An administrator is replacing a wireless router. The configuration of the old wireless router was not documented before it stopped functioning. The equipment connecting to the wireless network uses older legacy equipment that was manufactured prior to the release of the 802.11i standard. Which of the following configuration options should the administrator select for the new wireless router?

WPA+CCMP
WPA2+CCMP
WPA+TKIP
WPA2+TKIP

32. Question

An application team is performing a load-balancing test for a critical application during off-hours and has requested access to the load balancer to review which servers are up without having the administrator on call. The security analyst is hesitant to give the application team full access due to other critical applications running on the load balancer.

Which of the following is the BEST solution for security analyst to process the request?

Give the application team administrator access during off-hours.
Disable other critical applications before granting the team access.
Give the application team read-only access.
Share the account with the application team.

33. Question

A security analyst is hardening an authentication server. One of the primary requirements is to ensure there is mutual authentication and delegation. Given these requirements, which of the following technologies should the analyst recommend and configure?

LDAP services
Kerberos services
NTLM services
CHAP services

34. Question

Two users need to send each other emails over unsecured channels. The system should support the principle of non-repudiation. Which of the following should be used to sign the user’s certificates?

RA
CA
CRL
CSR

35. Question

Which of the following attack types BEST describes a client–side attack that is used to manipulate an HTML iframe with JavaScript code via a web browser?

Buffer overflow
MITM
XSS
SQLi

36. Question

An incident responder receives a call from a user who reports a computer is exhibiting symptoms consistent with a malware infection. Which of the following steps should the responder perform NEXT?

Capture and document necessary information to assist in the response.
Request the user capture and provide a screenshot or recording of the symptoms.
Use a remote desktop client to collect and analyze the malware in real time.
Ask the user to back up files for later recovery.

37. Question

A senior incident response manager receives a call about an external IP communicating with internal computers during off hours. Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely causing this issue?

Botnet
Ransomware
Polymorphic malware
Armored virus

38. Question

Which of the following technologies employ the use of SAML? (Choose two.)

Single sign-on
Federation
LDAP
Jitter
Crackmapexec

39. Question

Which of the following network vulnerability scan indicators BEST validates a successful, active scan?

The scan job is scheduled to run during off-peak hours.
The scan output lists SQL injection attack vectors.
The scan data identifies the use of privileged-user credentials.
The scan results identify the hostname and IP address.

40. Question

Which of the following is the BEST explanation of why control diversity is important in a defense–in–depth architecture?

Social engineering is used to bypass technical controls, so having diversity in controls minimizes the risk of demographic exploitation
Hackers often impact the effectiveness of more than one control, so having multiple copies of individual controls provides redundancy
Technical exploits to defeat controls are released almost every day; control diversity provides overlapping protection.
Defense-in-depth is just an industry buzzword and is not an effective security strategy.

41. Question

An information security specialist is reviewing the following output from a Linux server.

user@server:~$ crontab -l

5**** /usr/local/bin/backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

if ! grep – – quiet joeuser/etc/passwd

then rm -rf /

fi

Based on the above information, which of the following types of malware was installed on the server?

Logic bomb
Trojan
Backdoor
Ransomware
Password Stealer

42. Question

In terms of encrypting data, which of the following is BEST described as a way to safeguard password data by adding random data to it in storage?

Using salt
Using hash algorithms
Implementing Wireguard
Implementing PKI

43. Question

A system administrator wants to provide for and enforce wireless access accountability during events where external speakers are invited to make presentations to a mixed audience of employees and non-employees. Which of the following should the administrator implement?

Shared accounts
Preshared passwords
Least privilege
Sponsored guest

44. Question

Which of the following would MOST likely appear in an uncredentialed vulnerability scan?

Self-signed certificates
Missing patches
Auditing parameters
Inactive local accounts

45. Question

A security analyst observes the following events in the logs of an employee workstation

Given the information provided, which of the following MOST likely occurred on the workstation?

Application whitelisting controls blocked an exploit payload from executing.
Antivirus software found and quarantined three malware files.
Automatic updates were initiated but failed because they had not been approved.
The SIEM log agent was not tuned properly and reported a false positive.

46. Question

When considering a third–party cloud service provider, which of the following criteria would be the BEST to include in the security assessment process? (Choose two.)

Cost estimates
Adherence to regulatory compliance
Data retention policies
Size of the corporation
Breadth of applications support

47. Question

Which of the following occurs when the security of a web application relies on JavaScript for input validation?

The integrity of the data is at risk.
The security of the application relies on antivirus.
A host-based firewall is required.
The application is vulnerable to race conditions.

48. Question

An organization’s file server has been virtualized to reduce costs. Which of the following types of backups would be MOST appropriate for the particular file server?

Snapshot
Full
Incremental
Differential

49. Question

An employer requires that employees use a key-generating app on their smartphones to log into corporate applications. In terms of authentication of an individual, this type of access policy is BEST defined as

Something you have
Something you know
Something you do
Something you are

50. Question

A manager wants to distribute a report to several other managers within the company. Some of them reside in remote locations that are not connected to the domain but have a local server. Because there is sensitive data within the reportand the size of the report is beyond the limit of the email attachment size, emailing the report is not an option.

Which of the following protocols should be implemented to distribute the report securely? (Choose three.)

S/MIME
SSH
Telnet
FTPS
HTTPS
LDAPS

51. Question

Which of the following must be intact for evidence to be admissible in court?

Chain of custody
Order of volatility
Legal hold
Order of Operations

52. Question

Which of the following cryptography algorithms will produce a fixed-length, irreversible output?

AES
3DES
RSA
MD5

53. Question

A technician suspects that a system has been compromised. The technician reviews the following log entry

WARNING– hash mismatch: C:\Window\SysWOW64\user32.dll
WARNING– hash mismatch: C:\Window\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll

Based solely on the above information, which of the following types of malware is MOST likely installed on the system?

Rootkit
Ransomware
Trojan
Backdoor

54. Question

Which of the following are the MAIN reasons why a systems administrator would install security patches in a staging environment before the patches are applied to the production server? (Choose two.)

To prevent server availability issues
To make things more complicated
To generate a new baseline hash after patching
To allow users to test functionality

55. Question

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) drafts an agreement between the organization and its employees. The agreement outlines ramifications for releasing information without consent and/or approvals. Which of the following BEST describes this type of agreement?

lSA
NDA
MOU
SLA
IOU

56. Question

Which of the following would meet the requirements for multifactor authentication?

Username, PIN, and employee ID number
Fingerprint and password
Smart card and hardware token
Voice recognition and retina scan

57. Question

A manager suspects that an IT employee with elevated database access may be knowingly modifying financial transactions for the benefit of a competitor.

Which of the following practices should the manager implement to validate the concern?

Separation of duties
Mandatory vacations
Background checks
Security awareness training

58. Question

A penetration tester finds that a company’s login credentials for the email client were being sent in clear text.

Which of the following should be done to provide encrypted logins to the email server?

Enable IPSec and configure SMTP
Enable SSH and LDAP credentials
Enable MIME services and POP3
Enable an SSL certificate for IMAP services

59. Question

Before an infection was detected, several of the infected devices attempted to access a URL that was similar to the company name but with two letters transposed. Which of the following BEST describes the attack vector used to infect the devices?

Cross-site scripting
DNS poisoning
Typo squatting
URL renaming

60. Question

Joe, a security administrator, needs to extend the organization’s remote access functionality to be used by staff while traveling. Joe needs to maintain separate access control functionalities for internal, external, and VOIP services.

Which of the following represents the BEST access technology for Joe to use?

RADIUS
TACACS+
Diameter
Kerberos

61. Question

The availability of a system has been labeled as the highest priority.

Which of the following should be focused on the MOST to ensure the objective?

Authentication
HVAC
Full-disk encryption
File Integrity Checking

62. Question

Someone purchased several used hard drives from a company and was able to obtain confidential data from one of the hard drives. The company then discovers its information is posted online. Which of the following methods would have MOST likely prevented the data from being exposed while still keeping the drive usable?

Drilling holes into the disc platters
Using software to repeatedly rewrite over the disk space
Using Blowfish encryption on the hard drives
Using magnetic fields to erase the data

63. Question

Which of the following are methods to implement HA in a web application server environment? (Choose two.)

Load balancers
Application layer firewalls
Reverse proxies
Reverse shell
Proxy chain

64. Question

Which of the following precautions MINIMIZES the risk from network attacks directed at multi-function printers, as well as the impact on functionality at the same time?

Isolating the systems using VLANs
Installing a software-based IPS on all devices
Enabling full disk encryption
Implementing a unique user PIN access functions

65. Question

A company was recently audited by a third party. The audit revealed the company’s network devices were transferring files in the clear. Which of the following protocols should the company use to transfer files?

HTTP
LDAPS
SCP
FTP

66. Question

During a monthly vulnerability scan, a server was flagged for being vulnerable to an Apache Struts exploit. Upon further investigation, the developer responsible for the server informs the security team that Apache Struts is not installed on the server.

Which of the following BEST describes how the security team should reach to this incident?

The finding is a false positive and can be disregarded
The Struts module needs to be hardened on the server
The Apache software on the server needs to be patched and updated
The server has been compromised by malware and needs to be quarantined

67. Question

A security engineer is configuring a wireless network that must support mutual authentication of the wireless client and the authentication server before users provide credentials. The wireless network must also support authentication with usernames and passwords.

Which of the following authentication protocols MUST the security engineer select?

EAP-FAST
EAP-TLS
PEAP
EAP

68. Question

Which of the following vulnerability types would the type of hacker known as a script kiddie be MOST dangerous against?

Passwords written on the bottom of a keyboard
Unpatched exploitable Internet-facing services
Unencrypted backup tapes
Misplaced hardware token

69. Question

Which of the following cryptographic algorithms is irreversible?

RC4
SHA-256
DES
AES

70. Question

A security analyst receives an alert from a WAF with the following payload

var data= “<test test test>” ++
<../../../../../../etc/passwd>”

Which of the following types of attacks is this?

Buffer underflow
SQL injection
JavaScript data insertion
Firewall evasion script

71. Question

An organization is comparing and contrasting migration from its standard desktop configuration to the newest version of the platform. Before this can happen, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) voices the need to evaluate the functionality of the newer desktop platform to ensure interoperability with existing software in use by the organization. In which of the following principles of architecture and design is the CISO engaging?

Dynamic analysis
Change management
Situational Awareness
Waterfalling

72. Question

A network technician is setting up a segmented network that will utilize a separate ISP to provide wireless access to the public area for a company.

Which of the following wireless security methods should the technician implement to provide basic accountability for access to the public network?

Captive portal
Pre-shared key
Enterprise
Wi-Fi Protected Setup

73. Question

After a routine audit, a company discovers that engineering documents have been leaving the network on a particular port. The company must allow outbound traffic on this port, as it has a legitimate business use. Blocking the port would cause an outage.

Which of the following technology controls should the company implement?

NAC
Web proxy
DLP
ACL

74. Question

A security analyst reviews the following output

The analyst loads the hash into the SIEM to discover if this hash is seen in other parts of the network. After inspecting a large number of files, the security analyst reports the following

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the hash being found in other areas?

Jan Smith is an insider threat
There are MD5 hash collisions
The file is encrypted
Shadow copies are present

75. Question

Which of the following tools can aggregate intelligence from internal and external sources to provide fusion analysis and other insights, combine data and also provide for case management and automated workflow?

Security Orchestration Automation and Response
Firewall
Windows Sysinternals Suite
Tripwire

76. Question

In the context of cybersecurity, what does CIA stand for?

Central Intelligence Agency
Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
Cybersecurity Information Alliance
Cybernetic Information Accessibility

77. Question

In the context of cybersecurity, what does ICS stand for?

Industrial Control Systems
Ice Cream Sandwich
InterCom System
Interface Component System

78. Question

OCSP is one of two common methods for maintaining the security of a server and other network resources by verifying the status of certificates. The other, older method, is known as Certificate Revocation List.

True
False

79. Question

A type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet

Caesar Cipher
Diffie-Hellman
Asymmetric Encryption
Advanced Encryption Standard

80. Question

What is the name of the Microsoft authentication protocol that was introduced with the release of Windows Server 2000, that is the only authentication protocol that uses tickets.

Kerberos
KDC
CER
GDPR

81. Question

PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy

True
False

82. Question

Fences, guard dogs, lights, cameras and badges are examples of what type of security controls?

Technical
Physical
Corrective
Detective

83. Question

You are developing a new web application for your company. Your boss is worried about the security of your application, mainly cross-site scripting and SQL injection. Which of the following would best defend against these attacks?

Input Validation
Intrusion Prevention System
W3C Code Validation
Firewall

84. Question

The following attack is when an attacker sends falsified ARP messages over a network to link an attacker’s MAC address with the IP address of a legitimate computer or server on the network.

Backdoor
Buffer overflow
ARP Poisoning
Inverse ARP

85. Question

Your boss calls you from the airport and is alarmed. He says there is an issue with your company web site and that it looks like it’s been hacked. You check it from your computer and it appears fine.

Which of the following is a reason that your boss is seeing a different page when visiting the companies website?

DNS Poisoning
Rootkit
Logic Bomb
Fragmentation Grenade

86. Question

Which of the following is a process regarding the detection of insider threats, targeted attacks, and financial fraud that tracks users, looks at patterns of human behavior, and then analyzes them to detect anomalies that may indicate potential threats.

UEBA
OID
UEM
EDR

87. Question

Which of the following is a domain-specific language designed for managing data, or for stream processing in relational data stream management systems (RDSMS).

Structure Query Language
Python
IDE
MongoDB

88. Question

Which of the following is a secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud where customers can run code, store data, host websites, but the private cloud is hosted remotely by a public cloud service provider.

Virtual Private Cloud
Virtual Machine
BNC
Remote Desktop Protocol

89. Question

Which cloud service model would a web developer most likely choose if their intentions were to create a web application?

Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Functions as a Service

90. Question

Which of the following refers to the inability to deny responsibility for performing a specific action, such as creating information, sending a message, approving information, or receiving a message.

Non Repudiation
Transitive access
Remediation
Plausible Deniability