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CS0-001
CompTIA CSA+ Cer tification Exam
 
Question: 1 
   
Which of the following BEST describes the offensive participants in a tabletop exercise? 
 
A. Red team 
B. Blue team 
C. System administrators 
D. Security analysts 
E. Operations team 
 
Answer: A     
 
Question: 2 
   
After analyzing and correlating activity from multiple sensors, the security analyst has determined a 
group from a high-risk country is responsible for a sophisticated breach of the company network and 
continuous administration of targeted attacks for the past three months. Until now, the attacks went 
unnoticed. This is an example of: 
 
A. privilege escalation. 
B. advanced persistent threat. 
C. malicious insider threat. 
D. spear phishing. 
 
Answer: B     
 
Question: 3 
   
A system administrator who was using an account with elevated privileges deleted a large amount of 
log files generated by a virtual hypervisor in order to free up disk space. These log files are needed by 
the security team to analyze the health of the virtual machines. Which of the following 
compensating controls would help prevent this from reoccurring? (Select two.) 
 
A. Succession planning 
B. Separation of duties 
C. Mandatory vacation 
D. Personnel training 
E. Job rotation 
 
Answer: B,D     
 
 
Question: 4 
   
Which of the following best practices is used to identify areas in the network that may be vulnerable 
to penetration testing from known external sources? 
 
A. Blue team training exercises 
B. Technical control reviews 
C. White team training exercises 
D. Operational control reviews 
 
Answer: A     
 
Question: 5 
   
An organization has recently recovered from an incident where a managed switch had been accessed 
and reconfigured without authorization by an insider. The incident response team is working on 
developing a lessons learned report with recommendations. Which of the following 
recommendations will BEST prevent the same attack from occurring in the future? 
 
A. Remove and replace the managed switch with an unmanaged one. 
B. Implement a separate logical network segment for management interfaces. 
C. Install and configure NAC services to allow only authorized devices to connect to the network. 
D. Analyze normal behavior on the network and configure the IDS to alert on deviations from normal. 
 
Answer: B     
 
Question: 6 
   
A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing the current BYOD security posture. The users must be able to 
synchronize their calendars, email, and contacts to a smartphone or other personal device. The 
recommendation must provide the most flexibility to users. Which of the following 
recommendations would meet both the mobile data protection efforts and the business 
requirements described in this scenario? 
 
A. Develop a minimum security baseline while restricting the type of data that can be accessed. 
B. Implement a single computer configured with USB access and monitored by sensors. 
C. Deploy a kiosk for synchronizing while using an access list of approved users. 
D. Implement a wireless network configured for mobile device access and monitored by sensors. 
 
Answer: D     
 
 
Question: 7 
   
A security analyst received a compromised workstation. The workstation’s hard drive may contain 
evidence of criminal activities. Which of the following is the FIRST thing the analyst must do to 
ensure the integrity of the hard drive while performing the analysis? 
 
A. Make a copy of the hard drive. 
B. Use write blockers. 
C. Run rm –R command to create a hash. 
D. Install it on a different machine and explore the content. 
 
Answer: B     
 
Question: 8 
   
File integrity monitoring states the following files have been changed without a written request or 
approved change. The following change has been made: 
chmod 777 –Rv /usr 
Which of the following may be occurring? 
 
A. The ownership pf /usr has been changed to the current user. 
B. Administrative functions have been locked from users. 
C. Administrative commands have been made world readable/writable. 
D. The ownership of/usr has been changed to the root user. 
 
Answer: C     
 
Question: 9 
   
A security analyst has created an image of a drive from an incident. Which of the following describes 
what the analyst should do NEXT? 
 
A. The analyst should create a backup of the drive and then hash the drive. 
B. The analyst should begin analyzing the image and begin to report findings. 
C. The analyst should create a hash of the image and compare it to the original drive’s hash. 
D. The analyst should create a chain of custody document and notify stakeholders. 
 
Answer: C     
 
Question: 10 
 
   
A cybersecurity analyst is currently investigating a server outage. The analyst has discovered the 
following value was entered for the username: 0xbfff601a. Which of the following attacks may be 
occurring? 
 
A. Buffer overflow attack 
B. Man-in-the-middle attack 
C. Smurf attack 
D. Format string attack 
E. Denial of service attack 
 
Answer: D