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CompTIA SecurityX Certification Exam Questions and Answers

Question 37

As part of a security audit in the software development life cycle, a product manager must demonstrate and provide evidence of a complete representation of the code and modules used within the production-deployed application prior to the build. Which of the following best provides the required evidence?

Options:

A.

Software composition analysis

B.

Runtime application inspection

C.

Static application security testing

D.

Interactive application security testing

Question 38

A nation-state actor is exposed for attacking large corporations by establishing persistence in smaller companies that are likely to be acquired by these large corporations. The actor then provisions user accounts in the companies for use post-acquisition. Before an upcoming acquisition, a security officer conducts threat modeling with this attack vector. Which of the following practices is the best way to investigate this threat?

Options:

A.

Restricting internet traffic originating from countries in which the nation-state actor is known to operate

B.

Comparing all existing credentials to personnel and services

C.

Auditing vendors to mitigate supply chain risk during the acquisition

D.

Placing a hold on all information about corporate interest in acquisitions

Question 39

Which of the following supports the process of collecting a large pool of behavioral observations to inform decision-making?

Options:

A.

Linear regression

B.

Distributed consensus

C.

Big Data

D.

Machine learning

Question 40

Source code snippets for two separate malware samples are shown below:

Sample 1:

knockEmDown(String e) {

if(target.isAccessed()) {

target.toShell(e);

System.out.printIn(e.toString());

c2.sendTelemetry(target.hostname.toString + " is " + e.toString());

} else {

target.close();

}

}

Sample 2:

targetSys(address a) {

if(address.islpv4()) {

address.connect(1337);

address.keepAlive( " paranoid " );

String status = knockEmDown(address.current);

remote.sendC2(address.current + " is " + status);

} else {

throw Exception e;

}

}

Which of the following describes the most important observation about the two samples?

Options:

A.

Telemetry is first buffered and then transmitted in paranoid mode.

B.

The samples were probably written by the same developer.

C.

Both samples use IP connectivity for command and control.

D.

Sample 1 is the target agent while Sample 2 is the C2 server.

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