CompTIA CAS-005 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 12

A company is developing a new service product offering that will involve the Security Officer (CISO) researching the relevant compliance regulations. Which of the following best describes the CISO's action?

A company is developing a new service product offering that will involve the Security Officer (CISO) researching the relevant compliance regulations. Which of the following best describes the CISO's action?

An endpoint security engineer finds that a newly acquired company has a variety of non-standard applications running and no defined ownership for those applications. The engineer needs to find a solution that restricts malicious programs and software from running in that environment, while allowing the non-standard applications to function without interruption. Which of the following application control configurations should the engineer apply?

Embedded malware has been discovered in a popular PDF reader application and is currently being exploited in the wild. Because the supply chain was compromised, this malware is present in versions 10.0 through 10.3 of the software's official versions. The malware is not present in version 10.4.

Since the details around this malware are still emerging, the Chief Information Security Officer has asked the senior security analyst to collaborate with the IT asset inventory manager to find instances of the installed software in order to begin response activities. The asset inventory manager has asked an analyst to provide a regular expression that will identify the affected versions. The software installation entries are formatted as follows:

Reader 10.0

Reader 10.1

Reader 10.2

Reader 10.3

Reader 10.4

Which of the following regular expression entries will accurately identify all the affected versions?

An organization found a significant vulnerability associated with a commonly used package in a variety of operating systems. The organization develops a registry of software dependencies to facilitate incident response activities. As part of the registry, the organization creates hashes of packages that have been formally vetted. Which of the following attack vectors does this registry address?

The security team is looking into aggressive bot behavior that is resulting in performance issues on the web server. After further investigation, the security engineer determines that the bot traffic is legitimate. Which of the following is the best course of action to reduce performance issues without allocating additional resources to the server?

An organization is implementing advanced security controls associated with the execution of software applications on corporate endpoints. The organization must implement a deny-all, permit-by-exception approach to software authorization for all systems regardless of OS. Which of the following should be implemented to meet these requirements?

A security architect wants to develop a baseline of security configurations These configurations automatically will be utilized machine is created Which of the following technologies should the security architect deploy to accomplish this goal?

A company updates its cloud-based services by saving infrastructure code in a remote repository. The code is automatically deployed into the development environment every time the code is saved lo the repository The developers express concern that the deployment often fails, citing minor code issues and occasional security control check failures in the development environment Which of the following should a security engineer recommend to reduce the deployment failures? (Select two).