Provide CompTIA CAS-004 Practice Test Engine for Preparation [Q124-Q142]

Q124. A security engineer thinks the development team has been hard-coding sensitive environment variables in its code.
Which of the following would BEST secure the company’s CI/CD pipeline?

Q125. A product development team has submitted code snippets for review prior to release.
INSTRUCTIONS
Analyze the code snippets, and then select one vulnerability, and one fix for each code snippet.
Code Snippet 1

Code Snippet 2

Vulnerability 1:
* SQL injection
* Cross-site request forgery
* Server-side request forgery
* Indirect object reference
* Cross-site scripting
Fix 1:
* Perform input sanitization of the userid field.
* Perform output encoding of queryResponse,
* Ensure usex:ia belongs to logged-in user.
* Inspect URLS and disallow arbitrary requests.
* Implement anti-forgery tokens.
Vulnerability 2
1) Denial of service
2) Command injection
3) SQL injection
4) Authorization bypass
5) Credentials passed via GET
Fix 2
A) Implement prepared statements and bind
variables.
B) Remove the serve_forever instruction.
C) Prevent the “authenticated” value from being overridden by a GET parameter.
D) HTTP POST should be used for sensitive parameters.
E) Perform input sanitization of the userid field.

Q126. A company in the financial sector receives a substantial number of customer transaction requests via email. While doing a root-cause analysis conceding a security breach, the CIRT correlates an unusual spike in port 80 traffic from the IP address of a desktop used by a customer relations employee who has access to several of the compromised accounts. Subsequent antivirus scans of the device do not return an findings, but the CIRT finds undocumented services running on the device. Which of the following controls would reduce the discovery time for similar in the future.

Q127. A recent security assessment generated a recommendation to transition Wi-Fi to WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise requiring EAP-TLS. Which of the following conditions must be met for the organization’s mobile devices to be able to successfully join the corporate wireless network?

Q128. SIMULATION
An IPSec solution is being deployed. The configuration files for both the VPN concentrator and the AAA server are shown in the diagram.
Complete the configuration files to meet the following requirements:
* The EAP method must use mutual certificate-based authentication (With issued client certificates).
* The IKEv2 Cipher suite must be configured to the MOST secure
authenticated mode of operation,
* The secret must contain at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character, one numeric character, and one special character, and it must meet a minimum length requirement of eight characters, INSTRUCTIONS Click on the AAA server and VPN concentrator to complete the configuration.
Fill in the appropriate fields and make selections from the drop-down menus.

VPN Concentrator:

AAA Server:

Q129. A software company wants to build a platform by integrating with another company’s established product. Which of the following provisions would be MOST important to include when drafting an agreement between the two companies?

Q130. An organization is planning for disaster recovery and continuity of operations.
INSTRUCTIONS
Review the following scenarios and instructions. Match each relevant finding to the affected host.
After associating scenario 3 with the appropriate host(s), click the host to select the appropriate corrective action for that finding.
Each finding may be used more than once.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

Q131. A security architect is working with a new customer to find a vulnerability assessment solution that meets the following requirements:
– Fast scanning
– The least false positives possible
– Signature-based
– A low impact on servers when performing a scan
In addition, the customer has several screened subnets, VLANs, and branch offices. Which of the following will BEST meet the customer’s needs?

Q132. An organization is preparing to migrate its production environment systems from an on-premises environment to a cloud service. The lead security architect is concerned that the organization’s current methods for addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud environment.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why traditional methods of addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud?

Q133. A company has decided to purchase a license for software that is used to operate a mission-critical process.
The third-party developer is new to the industry but is delivering what the company needs at this time.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why utilizing a source code escrow will reduce the operational risk to the company if the third party stops supporting the application?

Q134. A security analyst needs to recommend a remediation to the following threat:

Which of the following actions should the security analyst propose to prevent this successful exploitation?

Q135. 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?

Q136. After installing an unapproved application on a personal device, a Chief Executive Officer reported an incident to a security analyst. This device is not controlled by the MDM solution, as stated in the BYOD policy. However, the device contained critical confidential information. The cyber incident response team performed the analysis on the device and found the following log:

Which of the following is the most likely reason for the successful attack?

Q137. A security analyst discovered that a database administrator’s workstation was compromised by malware. After examining the Jogs. the compromised workstation was observed connecting to multiple databases through ODBC. The following query behavior was captured:

Assuming this query was used to acquire and exfiltrate data, which of the following types of data was compromised, and what steps should the incident response plan contain?
A) Personal health information: Inform the human resources department of the breach and review the DLP logs.
#) Account history; Inform the relationship managers of the breach and create new accounts for the affected users.
C) Customer IDs: Inform the customer service department of the breach and work to change the account numbers.
D) PAN: Inform the legal department of the breach and look for this data in dark web monitoring.

Q138. A bank is working with a security architect to find the BEST solution to detect database management system compromises. The solution should meet the following requirements:
* Work at the application layer
* Send alerts on attacks from both privileged and malicious users
* Have a very low false positive
Which of the following should the architect recommend?

Q139. A cloud engineer is tasked with improving the responsiveness and security of a company’s cloud- based web application. The company is concerned that international users will experience increased latency.
Which of the following is the BEST technology to mitigate this concern?

Q140. A security consultant needs to protect a network of electrical relays that are used for monitoring and controlling the energy used in a manufacturing facility.
Which of the following systems should the consultant review before making a recommendation?

Q141. A junior security researcher has identified a buffer overflow vulnerability leading to remote code execution in a former employer’s software. The security researcher asks for the manager’s advice on the vulnerability submission process. Which of the following is the best advice the current manager can provide the security researcher?

Q142. A developer wants to develop a secure external-facing web application. The developer is looking for an online community that produces tools, methodologies, articles, and documentation in the field of
web-application security Which of the following is the BEST option?