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Question 1 of 146

A security engineer is reviewing event logs because an employee successfully connected a personal Windows laptop to the corporate network, which is against company policy. Company policy allows all Windows 10 and 11 laptops to connect to the system as long as the MDM agent installed by IT is running. Only compliant devices can connect, and the logic in the system to evaluate compliant laptops is as follows:
Which of the following most likely occurred when the employee connected a personally owned Windows laptop and was allowed on the network?
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The agent was not running on the laptop, which triggered a false positive.

The OS was a valid version, but the MDM agent was not installed, triggering a true positive.

The OS was running a Windows version below 10 and triggered a false negative.

The OS version was higher than 11, and the MDM agent was running, triggering a true negative.

Correct Answer: C

Question 2 of 146

An organization is working to secure its development process to ensure developers cannot deploy artifacts directly into the production environment. Which of the following security practice recommendations would be the best to accomplish this objective?

Implement least privilege access to all systems.

Roll out security awareness training for all users.

Set up policies and systems with separation of duties.

Enforce job rotations for all developers and administrators.

Utilize mandatory vacations for all developers.

Review all access to production systems on a quarterly basis.

Correct Answer: C

Question 3 of 146

A security architect discovers the following while reviewing code for a company's website: selection = "SELECT Item FROM Catalog WHERE ItemID = " & Request("ItemID")
Which of the following should the security architect recommend?

Client-side processing

Query parameterization

Data normalization

Escape character blocking

URL encoding

Correct Answer: B

Question 4 of 146

A security architect needs to enable a container orchestrator for DevSecOps and SOAR initiatives. The engineer has discovered that several Ansible YAML files used for the automation of configuration management have the following content:
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Which of the following should the engineer do to correct the security issues presented within this content?

Update the kubernetes.core.k8s module to kubernetes.core.k8s_service in the main.yml file.

Update the COMPTIA001 hostname to localhost using the hostnamectl command.

Update the state: present module to state: absent in the main.yml file.

Update or remove the ansible.cfg file.

Update the insecure-bind-address from localhost to the COMPTIA001 in the manifests file.

Correct Answer: E

Question 5 of 146

A CRM company leverages a CSP PaaS service to host and publish Its SaaS product. Recently, a large customer requested that all infrastructure components must meet strict regulatory requirements, including configuration management, patch management, and life-cycle management. Which of the following organizations is responsible for ensuring those regulatory requirements are met?

The CRM company

The CRM company's customer

The CSP

The regulatory body

Correct Answer: A