Cisco 300-215 Practice Exam Questions

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Question # 1

An engineer is analyzing a ticket for an unexpected server shutdown and discovers that the web-server ran out of useable memory and crashed. Which data is needed for further investigation? 

A. /var/log/access.log
 B. /var/log/messages.log 
C. /var/log/httpd/messages.log 
D. /var/log/httpd/access.log 

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Question # 2

Which technique is used to evade detection from security products by executing arbitrary code in the address space of a separate live operation? 

A. process injection 
B. privilege escalation 
C. GPO modification 
D. token manipulation 

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Question # 3

A network host is infected with malware by an attacker who uses the host to make calls for files and shuttle traffic to bots. This attack went undetected and resulted in a significant loss. The organization wants to ensure this does not happen in the future and needs a security solution that will generate alerts when command and control communication from an infected device is detected. Which network security solution should be recommended? 

A. Cisco Secure Firewall ASA 
B. Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (Firepower) 
C. Cisco Secure Email Gateway (ESA) 
D. Cisco Secure Web Appliance (WSA) 

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Question # 4

An employee receives an email from a “trusted” person containing a hyperlink that is malvertising. The employee clicks the link and the malware downloads. An information analyst observes an alert at the SIEM and engages the cybersecurity team to conduct an analysis of this incident in accordance with the incident response plan. Which event detail should be included in this root cause analysis? 

A. phishing email sent to the victim 
B. alarm raised by the SIEM 
C. information from the email header 
D. alert identified by the cybersecurity team 

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Question # 5

What are YARA rules based upon? 

A. binary patterns 
B. HTML code 
C. network artifacts 
D. IP addresses

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Question # 6

An engineer received a report of a suspicious email from an employee. The employee had already opened the attachment, which was an empty Word document. The engineer cannot identify any clear signs of compromise but while reviewing running processes, observes that PowerShell.exe was spawned by cmd.exe with a grandparent winword.exe process. What is the recommended action the engineer should take? 

A. Upload the file signature to threat intelligence tools to determine if the file is malicious.
 B. Monitor processes as this a standard behavior of Word macro embedded documents. 
C. Contain the threat for further analysis as this is an indication of suspicious activity. 
D. Investigate the sender of the email and communicate with the employee to determine the motives. 

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Question # 7

A security team received reports of users receiving emails linked to external or unknown URLs that are non- returnable and non-deliverable. The ISP also reported a 500% increase in the amount of ingress and egress email traffic received. After detecting the problem, the security team moves to the recovery phase in their incident response plan. Which two actions should be taken in the recovery phase of this incident? (Choose two.)

 A. verify the breadth of the attack 
B. collect logs 
C. request packet capture 
D. remove vulnerabilities 
E. scan hosts with updated signatures 

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Question # 8

What is the goal of an incident response plan? 

A. to identify critical systems and resources in an organization 
B. to ensure systems are in place to prevent an attack 
C. to determine security weaknesses and recommend solutions 
D. to contain an attack and prevent it from spreading 

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Question # 9

Which tool conducts memory analysis? 

A. MemDump 
B. Sysinternals Autoruns 
C. Volatility 
D. Memoryze 

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Question # 10

Which magic byte indicates that an analyzed file is a pdf file? 

A. cGRmZmlsZQ B. 706466666 
B. 255044462d 
C. 0a0ah4cg 

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