312-85 Online Practice Questions and Answers

What is the correct sequence of steps involved in scheduling a threat intelligence program?

1.

Review the project charter

2.

Identify all deliverables

3.

Identify the sequence of activities

4.

Identify task dependencies

5.

Develop the final schedule

6.

Estimate duration of each activity

7.

Identify and estimate resources for all activities

8.

Define all activities

9.

Build a work breakdown structure (WBS)

A. 1-->9-->2-->8-->3-->7-->4-->6-->5

B. 3-->4-->5-->2-->1-->9-->8-->7-->6

C. 1-->2-->3-->4-->5-->6-->9-->8-->7

D. 1-->2-->3-->4-->5-->6-->7-->8-->9

John, a professional hacker, is trying to perform APT attack on the target organization network. He gains access to a single system of a target organization and tries to obtain administrative login credentials to gain further access to the systems in the network using various techniques.

What phase of the advanced persistent threat lifecycle is John currently in?

A. Initial intrusion

B. Search and exfiltration

C. Expansion

D. Persistence

Mr. Bob, a threat analyst, is performing analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH). He has reached to a stage where he is required to apply his analysis skills effectively to reject as many hypotheses and select the best hypotheses from the identified bunch of hypotheses, and this is done with the help of listed evidence. Then, he prepares a matrix where all the screened hypotheses are placed on the top, and the listed evidence for the hypotheses are placed at the bottom.

What stage of ACH is Bob currently in?

A. Diagnostics

B. Evidence

C. Inconsistency

D. Refinement

Michael, a threat analyst, works in an organization named TechTop, was asked to conduct a cyber-threat intelligence analysis. After obtaining information regarding threats, he has started analyzing the information and understanding the nature of the threats.

What stage of the cyber-threat intelligence is Michael currently in?

A. Unknown unknowns

B. Unknowns unknown

C. Known unknowns

D. Known knowns

Steve works as an analyst in a UK-based firm. He was asked to perform network monitoring to find any evidence of compromise. During the network monitoring, he came to know that there are multiple logins from different locations in a short time span. Moreover, he also observed certain irregular log in patterns from locations where the organization does not have business relations. This resembles that somebody is trying to steal confidential information.

Which of the following key indicators of compromise does this scenario present?

A. Unusual outbound network traffic

B. Unexpected patching of systems

C. Unusual activity through privileged user account

D. Geographical anomalies

Sam works as an analyst in an organization named InfoTech Security. He was asked to collect information from various threat intelligence sources. In meeting the deadline, he forgot to verify the threat intelligence sources and used data from an open-source data provider, who offered it at a very low cost. Through it was beneficial at the initial stage but relying on such data providers can produce unreliable data and noise putting the organization network into risk.

What mistake Sam did that led to this situation?

A. Sam used unreliable intelligence sources.

B. Sam used data without context.

C. Sam did not use the proper standardization formats for representing threat data.

D. Sam did not use the proper technology to use or consume the information.

Lizzy, an analyst, wants to recognize the level of risks to the organization so as to plan countermeasures against cyber attacks. She used a threat modelling methodology where she performed the following stages: Stage 1: Build asset-based threat profiles Stage 2: Identify infrastructure vulnerabilities Stage 3: Develop security strategy and plans Which of the following threat modelling methodologies was used by Lizzy in the aforementioned scenario?

A. TRIKE

B. VAST

C. OCTAVE

D. DREAD

Alison, an analyst in an XYZ organization, wants to retrieve information about a company's website from the time of its inception as well as the removed information from the target website.

What should Alison do to get the information he needs.

A. Alison should use SmartWhois to extract the required website information.

B. Alison should use https://archive.org to extract the required website information.

C. Alison should run the Web Data Extractor tool to extract the required website information.

D. Alison should recover cached pages of the website from the Google search engine cache to extract the required website information.

In which of the following attacks does the attacker exploit vulnerabilities in a computer application before the software developer can release a patch for them?

A. Active online attack

B. Zero-day attack

C. Distributed network attack

D. Advanced persistent attack

Kim, an analyst, is looking for an intelligence-sharing platform to gather and share threat information from a variety of sources. He wants to use this information to develop security policies to enhance the overall security posture of his organization.

Which of the following sharing platforms should be used by Kim?

A. Cuckoo sandbox

B. OmniPeek

C. PortDroid network analysis

D. Blueliv threat exchange network

Andrews and Sons Corp. has decided to share threat information among sharing partners. Garry, a threat analyst, working in Andrews and Sons Corp., has asked to follow a trust model necessary to establish trust between sharing partners. In the trust model used by him, the first organization makes use of a body of evidence in a second organization, and the level of trust between two organizations depends on the degree and quality of evidence provided by the first organization.

Which of the following types of trust model is used by Garry to establish the trust?

A. Mediated trust

B. Mandated trust

C. Direct historical trust

D. Validated trust

In a team of threat analysts, two individuals were competing over projecting their own hypotheses on a given malware. However, to find logical proofs to confirm their hypotheses, the threat intelligence manager used a de-biasing strategy that involves learning strategic decision making in the circumstances comprising multistep interactions with numerous representatives, either having or without any perfect relevant information.

Which of the following de-biasing strategies the threat intelligence manager used to confirm their hypotheses?

A. Game theory

B. Machine learning

C. Decision theory

D. Cognitive psychology

A threat analyst obtains an intelligence related to a threat, where the data is sent in the form of a connection request from a remote host to the server. From this data, he obtains only the IP address of the source and destination but no contextual information. While processing this data, he obtains contextual information stating that multiple connection requests from different geo-locations are received by the server within a short time span, and as a result, the server is stressed and gradually its performance has reduced. He further performed analysis on the information based on the past and present experience and concludes the attack experienced by the client organization.

Which of the following attacks is performed on the client organization?

A. DHCP attacks

B. MAC spoofing attack

C. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack

D. Bandwidth attack

HandP, Inc. is a small-scale organization that has decided to outsource the network security monitoring due to lack of resources in the organization. They are looking for the options where they can directly incorporate threat intelligence into their existing network defense solutions.

Which of the following is the most cost-effective methods the organization can employ?

A. Recruit the right talent

B. Look for an individual within the organization

C. Recruit data management solution provider

D. Recruit managed security service providers (MSSP)

Alice, an analyst, shared information with security operation managers and network operations center (NOC) staff for protecting the organizational resources against various threats. Information shared by Alice was highly technical and include threat actor TTPs, malware campaigns, tools used by threat actors, and so on.

Which of the following types of threat intelligence was shared by Alice?

A. Strategic threat intelligence

B. Tactical threat intelligence

C. Technical threat intelligence

D. Operational threat intelligence