Question 1

When attempting to implement a microsegmentation strategy within a heterogeneous on-premises data center containing both bare-metal servers and virtual machines, a security architect faces significant challenges with the existing network infrastructure. The current physical switches do not support the required level of policy enforcement. What is the MOST effective architectural solution to overcome this limitation?

Accepted Answer

Deploying a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system, Implementing an overlay network with host-based policy enforcement agents, Migrating all workloads to a fully virtualized environment, Upgrading the entire physical switch fabric to support advanced ACLs

Question 2

A mature security organization wants to leverage its GRC platform to automate and streamline the entire risk management lifecycle, from identification to remediation tracking. Which two of the following automated workflows are MOST representative of this goal? (Select Two)

Accepted Answer

Automatically generating a plan of action and milestones (POA&M) when a control test fails., Deploying patches to vulnerable systems identified by a scanner., Pushing security awareness training modules to new employees., Triggering a third-party risk assessment when a new vendor is added to the procurement system., Correlating SIEM alerts to build a timeline of a security incident.

Question 3

In an effort to enhance threat hunting, a security team is exploring the use of generative AI. What represents the most advanced and proactive application of a large language model (LLM) to identify novel attack patterns within vast amounts of unstructured security log data?

Accepted Answer

Summarizing lengthy incident reports into executive-level briefings., Translating natural language queries into complex search syntax for a SIEM., Training the model on baseline network and system behaviors to detect and describe anomalous multi-stage activities., Generating realistic phishing email templates for user awareness training.

Question 4

A medical research consortium requires a cloud-based platform for collaborative analysis of sensitive genomic datasets. A critical design constraint is that complex machine learning models must be trained directly on the encrypted data to ensure no party, including the cloud provider, can access the plaintext. Which cryptographic technology is specifically designed to enable arbitrary computations on ciphertext, fulfilling this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Lattice-based Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), Key Stretching using a function like PBKDF2, Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC)

Question 5

Analysis of web application firewall (WAF) logs reveals numerous attempts to submit form fields containing strings like `';--` and `OR 1=1`. These inputs are being sent to an API endpoint that processes user search queries. This pattern is a strong indicator of an attempt to exploit which type of vulnerability?

Accepted Answer

XML External Entity (XXE) injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection (SQLi), Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)

Question 6

A data science team needs to perform statistical analysis on highly sensitive medical research data stored and processed by a third-party cloud provider. A strict compliance requirement mandates that the data must remain encrypted at all times, including during computation, to prevent any possibility of plaintext exposure to the cloud environment. Which cryptographic technique enables the direct processing of encrypted data to fulfill this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), Homomorphic Encryption, Forward Secrecy, Key Stretching

Question 7

To effectively prioritize disaster recovery and business continuity efforts, a security architect is conducting a business impact analysis (BIA) for a financial institution. Which of the following are the primary outputs of the BIA that will directly inform the risk management strategy? (Select Two)

Accepted Answer

Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) for key business functions., A complete inventory of all hardware and software assets., A list of identified threats and vulnerabilities., The Annualized Rate of Occurrence (ARO) for system failures., Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) for critical processes.

Question 8

A multinational manufacturing firm aims to unify its server hardening process across all global subsidiaries. To achieve this, the firm needs to mandate specific configuration settings, such as disabling unnecessary services and enforcing minimum password complexity. Which document type is MOST appropriate for enforcing these specific, mandatory technical controls?

Accepted Answer

Guideline, Standard, Policy, Procedure

Question 9

After isolating several polymorphic malware samples from compromised industrial control systems where traditional hash analysis and network indicators failed to establish a common origin, what is the most effective forensic technique for an analyst to attribute these samples to a single threat actor?

Accepted Answer

Dynamic analysis in a sandbox, Metadata analysis of the file properties, Code stylometry, IoC extraction and correlation

Question 10

Excessive false positive alerts are overwhelming a manufacturing company's security team. These alerts stem from a SCADA application with a proprietary log format that the SIEM cannot parse correctly, misclassifying benign events. What initial step would most effectively fix this problem?

Accepted Answer

Migrate the SCADA application logs to a separate, isolated logging server., Create a suppression rule to ignore all alerts generated by the SCADA application., Increase the alert severity threshold for all events from the SCADA system., Develop and implement a custom event parser for the SCADA application's log format.

Question 11

A financial institution requires a high-throughput, low-latency, and private connection between its on-premises data center and its virtual private cloud (VPC) to support a hybrid database replication strategy. The solution must not traverse the public internet and must provide a consistent, dedicated bandwidth of 10 Gbps. Which connectivity method should the security architect select?

Accepted Answer

An always-on site-to-site VPN over the internet, A software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution with multiple internet links, A dedicated direct connection service from the cloud provider, An API gateway with mutual TLS authentication

Question 12

During the analysis of a persistent, multi-wave cyber-attack, an incident response team collects several malware samples that differ significantly in their command-and-control infrastructure and payload obfuscation. To establish a high-confidence link between these samples and attribute them to a single threat actor, which malware analysis technique would be most effective?

Accepted Answer

Code stylometry, Binary diffing of compiled executables, Dynamic sandboxing analysis, Yara rule matching based on string artifacts

Question 13

A logistics company is automating the deployment of its containerized applications using a CI/CD pipeline that builds an image and pushes it to a private container registry. To adhere to a "shift left" security policy, the CISO has mandated that automated security checks must identify vulnerabilities before any new image is stored in the registry. Which two security controls should be integrated into the pipeline to fulfill this requirement? (Select Two)

Accepted Answer

Deploy a runtime security agent as a sidecar to monitor container behavior., Perform Static Application Security Testing (SAST) on the source code., Execute Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) against the staging environment., Scan the built container image for known vulnerabilities (CVEs)., Implement a network policy to restrict pod-to-pod communication.

Question 14

An incident responder is analyzing network captures from a compromised host and needs to create a detection signature that identifies the command-and-control (C2) traffic. The signature must be able to inspect specific TCP flags, port numbers, and binary content within the packet payload. Which rule-based language is specifically designed for this type of network traffic analysis?

Accepted Answer

Sigma, Snort, YARA, TAXII

Question 15

A mature e-commerce enterprise, already leveraging ITIL for its service management, is now launching a formal enterprise architecture program. A key requirement is to ensure this new program is business-driven and that the security architecture is fully integrated from the start. Which frameworks should the security architect recommend to guide the enterprise architecture and the security architecture initiatives, respectively? (Select Two)

Accepted Answer

SABSA, TOGAF, NIST CSF, COBIT, ITIL

Question 16

To properly define the trust boundary and secure the data flows for a previously air-gapped Industrial Control System (ICS) environment being connected to the corporate IT network for remote monitoring, which two controls should an architect prioritize? (Select Two)

Accepted Answer

Upgrading all ICS operator workstations to the latest version of a general-purpose OS., Installing a cloud-based CASB solution to monitor all ICS traffic., Migrating the entire ICS monitoring application to a serverless platform., Implementing a demilitarized zone (DMZ) with a historian or jump server to broker all connections., Deploying a data diode to ensure one-way communication from the ICS to the IT network.

Question 17

To secure a containerized e-commerce application, an architect has placed an API gateway as a Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) for all east-west traffic between microservices. When the 'shopping-cart' microservice (subject) needs to call the 'payment-processing' microservice API (object), what is the most effective method for the API gateway to define and enforce this relationship based on zero trust principles?

Accepted Answer

Trust any traffic originating from within the Kubernetes cluster's private network namespace., Require the 'shopping-cart' service to present a short-lived, cryptographically signed token (e.g., JWT) that asserts its specific identity and permissions, which the gateway validates before proxying the request., Validate that both microservices are running on the same container host or node., Enforce network-level ACLs that only allow traffic between the IP addresses of the two microservice pods.

Question 18

Upon detecting a compromised user account, a security operations center (SOC) needs to programmatically revoke all active sessions for that specific IAM user within their AWS environment. A custom automation script is required for this task. Which scripting language and library combination is most natively suited for interacting with the AWS API to perform this action?

Accepted Answer

Ruby with the Fog library, PowerShell with the Azure Az module, Python with the Boto3 library, Bash with the AWS CLI

Question 19

An incident response team is analyzing a sophisticated malware sample that appears to use anti-VM detection techniques to alter its behavior. To observe the malware's full execution path and network callbacks without triggering its evasive logic, which environment would be the MOST suitable for dynamic analysis?

Accepted Answer

A debugger attached to the process on an infected, non-critical production system, A cloud-based sandbox service with automated reporting, A standard corporate workstation image in a Type 2 hypervisor, A bare-metal analysis system isolated on a dedicated network segment

Question 20

When managing cryptographic keys across a hybrid environment that spans multiple cloud providers and an on-premises data center, a company needs to enforce uniform access policies and centralize audit logs. Which solution BEST meets these requirements while providing the highest level of security for the key material?

Accepted Answer

Using the native KMS of the primary cloud provider and federating identities from other environments., Replicating keys across the native KMS of each cloud provider to ensure low latency., Deploying a dedicated, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated Hardware Security Module (HSM) cluster on-premises or in a colocation facility., Storing keys in a secrets management tool like HashiCorp Vault deployed on a virtual machine.

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