ISC2 CC Timed Practice Test 2 — 10 Questions

Question 1

Refer to the exhibit. What action did the firewall take on the traffic from 10.0.1.15 to 10.0.2.10?

Accepted Answer

Denied the traffic. The firewall denied the traffic from 10.0.1.15 to 10.0.2.10 because the access control list (ACL) or security policy explicitly denies the source IP 10.0.1.15, as shown in the exhibit. The firewall processes rules sequentially, and the first matching rule for this traffic is a deny entry, so the packet is dropped without further inspection or logging unless specified.

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Logged and permitted

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Permitted the traffic

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Translated the source address

Question 2

A security administrator notices that a user with standard privileges was able to modify a system file. Which security principle has been violated?

Accepted Answer

Least privilege. The principle of least privilege requires that users be granted only the permissions necessary to perform their job functions. A standard user modifying a system file indicates they have been assigned unnecessary administrative rights, violating this principle. This could occur if the user is a member of a group like Administrators or has been granted explicit write access to protected directories such as %SystemRoot%\System32.

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Need to know

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Defense in depth

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Separation of duties

Question 3

An organization uses a primary data center and a backup site 500 miles away. The backup site replicates data synchronously. Which risk is MOST likely introduced by this configuration?

Accepted Answer

Increased latency for write operations. Synchronous replication requires the primary site to wait for an acknowledgment from the backup site before completing each write operation. The 500-mile distance introduces a minimum round-trip latency of approximately 8-10 ms (based on fiber optic propagation at ~200 km/ms), which directly increases the time taken for write operations. This latency impact is the most likely risk introduced by this configuration.

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High recovery point objective (RPO)

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Data encryption overhead

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Insufficient bandwidth between sites

Question 4

Based on the exhibit, what is the most likely result of the client's HTTP request?

Accepted Answer

The HTTP request is blocked, but other traffic from the client is allowed.. The exhibit shows an extended ACL applied inbound on the client's interface that permits TCP traffic from the client to the server on port 80 (HTTP) but denies all other IP traffic from the client. Therefore, the HTTP request is permitted, but any other traffic from the client (e.g., DNS, ICMP) is blocked. Option D correctly states that the HTTP request is blocked, but other traffic is allowed, which matches the ACL behavior.

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The HTTP request is permitted because the ACL is applied to the wrong interface.

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The HTTP request is permitted because the ACL only blocks traffic from the router's own IP.

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The HTTP request is blocked, and all other traffic from the client is also blocked.

Question 5

Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer reviews this firewall ACL. Which of the following best describes the security posture?

Accepted Answer

The ACL is misconfigured because the deny for SSH is never reached. Option A is correct because the ACL is evaluated top-down, and the first matching rule is applied. Since the 'permit tcp any any eq 443' rule appears before the 'deny tcp any any eq 22' rule, SSH traffic (TCP/22) is actually permitted by the implicit 'permit ip any any' that follows the explicit permit for HTTPS, or more accurately, the SSH deny is never reached because the permit for HTTPS matches all TCP traffic to port 443, but SSH traffic on port 22 is not matched by that rule; however, the key point is that the ACL lacks an explicit deny at the end, so any traffic not matching the first two rules (including SSH) is implicitly permitted by the default 'permit ip any any' at the end of the ACL, making the SSH deny rule ineffective.

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The ACL is properly ordered with most specific rules first

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The ACL should have a deny any any at the end to be secure

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The ACL correctly allows HTTPS and denies SSH, blocking other traffic

Question 6

A SOC analyst reviews an alert indicating a high number of failed login attempts from a single external IP address targeting multiple user accounts. Which security control is most effective at preventing this type of attack?

Accepted Answer

Implementing account lockout policies. Option D is correct because account lockout policies directly mitigate brute-force attacks by temporarily disabling an account after a defined number of failed login attempts (e.g., 5 failures within 15 minutes). This prevents the attacker from continuing to guess passwords for multiple user accounts from a single external IP, without affecting legitimate users who can be unlocked after a lockout duration or via an administrative reset.

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Deploying a web application firewall

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Enabling verbose logging for authentication events

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Increasing password complexity requirements

Question 7

A SOC analyst notices that a large volume of outbound traffic is occurring from a single workstation to an external IP address known to be associated with a command-and-control server. What is the most likely conclusion?

Accepted Answer

The workstation is infected with malware that is beaconing to the attacker. The large volume of outbound traffic from a single workstation to a known command-and-control (C2) server is a classic indicator of malware beaconing. Beaconing involves the infected host periodically sending small packets or HTTP/HTTPS requests to the C2 server to receive instructions or exfiltrate data, which matches the observed behavior. This is distinct from legitimate traffic patterns because the destination IP is specifically associated with malicious activity.

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The network is experiencing a denial of service attack

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The user is streaming video from a blocked site

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The workstation is performing a legitimate software update

Question 8

Which TWO of the following are primary objectives of an incident response plan? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Return affected systems to normal operation. Option B is correct because a primary objective of an incident response plan is to return affected systems to normal operation. This involves containment, eradication, and recovery steps to restore business functions after a security incident, ensuring the organization can resume operations securely.

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Ensure business continuity during the incident

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Collect evidence for legal proceedings

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Identify the root cause of the incident

Question 9

A company's primary data center experiences a complete power failure, and operations are shifted to a secondary site. The failover process takes 4 hours, but the recovery point objective (RPO) is set to 1 hour. Which of the following is the most likely consequence of this incident?

Accepted Answer

Data loss of up to 3 hours occurred.. The RPO of 1 hour means the company can tolerate losing up to 1 hour of data. Since the failover took 4 hours, any data written in the 3 hours before the power failure that had not yet been replicated to the secondary site would be lost. This results in a data loss window of up to 3 hours, exceeding the RPO.

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The failover process was unsuccessful.

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No data loss occurred because the secondary site was available.

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The recovery time objective (RTO) was not met.

Question 10

Refer to the exhibit. A security analyst observes that users from the 192.168.1.0/24 network cannot access HTTPS websites, but HTTP access works fine. What is the most likely cause?

Accepted Answer

The ACL is applied to the wrong interface or direction.. The exhibit shows an ACL that permits HTTP (TCP 80) but does not explicitly permit HTTPS (TCP 443). However, the question states that HTTP works and HTTPS does not, which suggests the ACL is correctly filtering inbound traffic on the outside interface. The most likely cause is that the ACL is applied to the wrong interface or direction, because if it were applied inbound on the inside interface, it would block outbound HTTPS traffic from the 192.168.1.0/24 network. The implicit deny at the end of the ACL would block any traffic not explicitly permitted, but since HTTP works, the issue is not the implicit deny itself but rather the placement of the ACL.

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The implicit deny at the end of the ACL blocks HTTPS traffic.

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The ACL is missing a permit statement for TCP port 443 return traffic.

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The ACL explicitly denies TCP port 443.

ISC2 CC Timed Practice Test 2 — 10 Questions

Exhibit

ISC2 CC Timed Practice Test 2 — 10 Questions

Exhibit