[Q212-Q231] Get 100% Passing Success With True CS0-001 Exam! [Dec-2024]

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CompTIA CS0-001 PDF Questions – Exceptional Practice To CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Certification Exam

CompTIA CS0-001 exam consists of 85 multiple-choice and performance-based questions that must be completed within a time limit of 165 minutes. CS0-001 exam is computer-based and is administered at Pearson VUE testing centers located worldwide. CS0-001 exam is intended for individuals with at least four years of experience in information security or related fields, and it is recommended that candidates have completed the CompTIA Security+ certification or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Certification is designed to provide IT professionals with practical knowledge and skills to identify and address vulnerabilities, threats, and risks to an organization. CySA+ certified professionals have expertise in threat management, security architecture and toolsets, vulnerability management, incident response, and compliance requirements. CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Certification Exam certification provides a comprehensive understanding of current cybersecurity protocols, procedures, and technologies.

NO.212 In reviewing service desk requests, management has requested that the security analyst investigate the requests submitted by the new human resources manager. The requests consist of “unlocking” files that belonged to the previous human manager. The security analyst has uncovered a tool that is used to display five-level passwords. This tool is being used by several members of the service desk to unlock files. The content of these particular files is highly sensitive information pertaining to personnel. Which of the following BEST describes this scenario? (Choose two.)

Unauthorized data exfiltration

Unauthorized data masking

Unauthorized access

Unauthorized software

Unauthorized controls

NO.213 The security operations team is conducting a mock forensics investigation. Which of the following should be the FIRST action taken after seizing a compromised workstation?

Activate the escalation checklist

Implement the incident response plan

Analyze the forensic image

Perform evidence acquisition

Explanation/Reference: https://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/forensics/

NO.214 A cybersecurity analyst is retained by a firm for an open investigation. Upon arrival, the cybersecurity analyst reviews several security logs.
Given the following snippet of code:

Which of the following combinations BEST describes the situation and recommendations to be made for this situation?

The cybersecurity analyst has discovered host 192.168.0.101 using Windows Task Scheduler at 13:30 to runnc.exe; recommend proceeding with the next step of removing the host from the network.

The cybersecurity analyst has discovered host 192.168.0.101 to be running thenc.exe file at 13:30 using the auto cron job remotely, there are no recommendations since this is not a threat currently.

The cybersecurity analyst has discovered host 192.168.0.101 is beaconing every day at
13:30 using thenc.exe file; recommend proceeding with the next step of removing the host from the network.

The security analyst has discovered host 192.168.0.101 is a rogue device on the network, recommend proceeding with the next step of removing the host from the network.

NO.215 A company has recently launched a new billing invoice website for a few key vendors. The cybersecurity analyst is receiving calls that the website is performing slowly and the pages sometimes time out. The analyst notices the website is receiving millions of requests, causing the service to become unavailable. Which of the following can be implemented to maintain the availability of the website?

VPN

Honeypot

Whitelisting

DMZ

MAC filtering

NO.216 A vulnerability scan has returned the following information:

Which of the following describes the meaning of these results?

There is an unknown bug in a Lotus server with no Bugtraq ID.

Connecting to the host using a null session allows enumeration of share names.

Trend Micro has a known exploit that must be resolved or patched.

No CVE is present, so it is a false positive caused by Lotus running on a Windows server.

NO.217 An organization has a policy prohibiting remote administration of servers where web services are running. One of the Nmap scans is shown here:

Given the organization’s policy, which of the following services should be disabled on this server?

rpcbind

netbios-ssn

mysql

ssh

telnet

NO.218 A cybersecurity analyst is conducting a security test to ensure that information regarding the web server is protected from disclosure. The cybersecurity analyst requested an HTML file from the web server, and the response came back as follows:

Which of the following actions should be taken to remediate this security issue?

Set “Allowlatescanning” to 1 in the URLScan.ini configuration file.

Set “Removeserverheader” to 1 in the URLScan.ini configuration file.

Set “Enablelogging” to 0 in the URLScan.ini configuration file.

Set “Perprocesslogging” to 1 in the URLScan.ini configuration file.

Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
ref: http://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/configure-web-server-disclose-identity/

NO.219 A retail corporation with widely distributed store locations and IP space must meet PCI requirements relating to vulnerability scanning. The organization plans to outsource this function to a third party to reduce costs.
Which of the following should be used to communicate expectations related to the execution of scans?

Vulnerability assessment report

Lessons learned documentation

SLA

MOU

NO.220 A software assurance lab is performing a dynamic assessment on an application by automatically generating and inputting different, random data sets to attempt to cause an error/failure condition. Which of the following software assessment capabilities is the lab performing AND during which phase of the SDLC should this occur? (Select two.)

Fuzzing

Behavior modeling

Static code analysis

Prototyping phase

Requirements phase

Planning phase

NO.221 A cybersecurity analyst has received an alert that well-known “call home” messages are continuously observed by network sensors at the network boundary. The proxy firewall successfully drops the messages. After determining the alert was a true positive, which of the following represents the MOST likely cause?

Attackers are running reconnaissance on company resources.

An outside command and control system is attempting to reach an infected system.

An insider is trying to exfiltrate information to a remote network.

Malware is running on a company system.

NO.222 An analyst has received unusual alerts on the SIEM dashboard. The analyst wants to get payloads that the hackers are sending toward the target systems without impacting the business operation. Which of the following should the analyst implement?

Honeypot

Jump box

Sandboxing

Virtualization

Explanation/Reference:

NO.223 A security analyst has discovered that an outbound SFTP process is occurring at the same time of day for the past several days. At the time this was discovered large amounts of business critical data delivered. The authentication for this process occurred using a service account with proper credentials. The security analyst investigated the destination IP for (his transfer and discovered that this new process s not documented in the change management log. Which of the following would be the BESST course of action for the analyst to take?

Investigate a potential incident

Verify user per missions

Run a vulnerability scan

Verify SLA with cloud provider

NO.224 A security analyst performed a review of an organization’s software development life cycle. The analyst
reports that the life cycle does not contain in a phase in which team members evaluate and provide critical
feedback on another developer’s code. Which of the following assessment techniques is BEST for
describing the analyst’s report?

Architectural evaluation

Waterfall

Whitebox testing

Peer review

NO.225 An analyst is troubleshooting a PC that is experiencing high processor and memory consumption.
Investigation reveals the following processes are running on the system:
lsass.exe

csrss.exe

wordpad.exe

notepad.exe

Which of the following tools should the analyst utilize to determine the rogue process?

Ping 127.0.0.1.

Use grepto search.

Use Netstat.

Use Nessus.

NO.226 An organization has been conducting penetration testing to identify possible network vulnerabilities. One of the security policies states that web servers and database servers must not be co-located on the same server unless one of them runs on a non-standard. The penetration tester has received the following outputs from the latest set of scans:

Which of the following servers is out of compliance?

finServer

adminServer

orgServer

opsServer

NO.227 A security professional is analyzing the results of a network utilization report. The report includes the following information:

Which of the following servers needs further investigation?

hr.dbprod.01

R&D.file.srvr.01

mrktg.file.srvr.02

web.srvr.03

NO.228 Review the following results:

Which of the following has occurred?

This is normal network traffic.

123.120.110.212 is infected with a Trojan.

172.29.0.109 is infected with a worm.

172.29.0.109 is infected with a Trojan.

Section: (none)
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:

NO.229 Three similar production servers underwent a vulnerability scan. The scan results revealed that the three servers had two different vulnerabilities rated “Critical”.
The administrator observed the following about the three servers:
* The servers are not accessible by the Internet
* AV programs indicate the servers have had malware as recently as two weeks ago
* The SIEM shows unusual traffic in the last 20 days
* Integrity validation of system files indicates unauthorized modifications Which of the following assessments is valid and what is the most appropriate NEXT step?
(Select TWO).

Servers may have been built inconsistently

Servers may be generating false positives via the SIEM

Servers may have been tampered with

Activate the incident response plan

Immediately rebuild servers from known good configurations

Schedule recurring vulnerability scans on the servers

NO.230 A security analyst is Investigating some unusual network traffic to and from one or the company’s email servers. Reviewing a packet capture, the analyst notes the following sequence of packets:

Which of the following should be the NEXT step In the Investigation?