Cisco 350-201 Practice Test 20
Question 190
For an original CBRCOR educational scenario, consider: A newly tuned SIEM rule lowers false positives dramatically yet also misses known malicious test events during evaluation. Select TWO complementary steps: the targeted correction and its strongest prechange validation.
- Disable every noisy detection permanently and declare monitoring improved because total alerts decreased.
- Check: Re-run a labeled set of benign and malicious activity against the rule and review precision, recall and handling effort.
- Change: Assign guest operating-system hardening, identity policy and network exposure controls to the IaaS customer while recording provider infrastructure duties.
- Check: Review agency system boundary, NIST control baseline, authorization package and cloud service FedRAMP listing.
- Change: Track precision, missed detections, analyst workload and case outcomes together when measuring and tuning alert efficacy.
Explanation
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B:A smaller alert queue is not evidence of better coverage if true threats are suppressed alongside noise. Acceptance: The rule reduces avoidable work without unacceptable loss of validated malicious cases.
E:A smaller alert queue is not evidence of better coverage if true threats are suppressed alongside noise. Evidence: Re-run a labeled set of benign and malicious activity against the rule and review precision, recall and handling effort.
Incorrect Answers
A:For this select two assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it. A smaller alert queue is not evidence of better coverage if true threats are suppressed alongside noise.
C:Change: Assign guest operating-system hardening, identity policy and network exposure controls to the IaaS customer while recording provider infrastructure duties. A smaller alert queue is not evidence of better coverage if true threats are suppressed alongside noise.
D:Check: Review agency system boundary, NIST control baseline, authorization package and cloud service FedRAMP listing. A smaller alert queue is not evidence of better coverage if true threats are suppressed alongside noise.
Question 191
A SOC analyst is examining this cybersecurity operations situation: A regulated research group mistakenly identifies a dedicated private cloud as a public multitenant SaaS environment. A proposed shortcut is: Treat every system reachable through a company VPN as a private cloud regardless of who owns the infrastructure. What should the SOC analyst recommend as the narrowly scoped correction? Select ONE best answer.
- Rank risks by connecting asset business value, vulnerability exploitability, threat activity and control exposure rather than severity alone.
- Identify the deployment model and operational boundary for public, private, hybrid and multicloud architectures.
- Treat every system reachable through a company VPN as a private cloud regardless of who owns the infrastructure.
- Select a permitted endpoint-response collection tool and prioritize volatile evidence according to the case and chain-of-custody policy.
Explanation
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B:This targeted action addresses the observed security or operational control gap without discarding necessary controls. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
Incorrect Answers
A:Rank risks by connecting asset business value, vulnerability exploitability, threat activity and control exposure rather than severity alone. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
C:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. For this best change assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it.
D:Select a permitted endpoint-response collection tool and prioritize volatile evidence according to the case and chain-of-custody policy. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
Question 192
A Cisco cybersecurity incident response review finds: A regulated research group mistakenly identifies a dedicated private cloud as a public multitenant SaaS environment. The team proposes: Identify the deployment model and operational boundary for public, private, hybrid and multicloud architectures. Which engineering principle most strongly supports the recommended response? Select ONE best answer.
- GDPR concerns personal-data processing rights and duties, SOX centers on public-company financial controls and SOC reports assess defined service controls.
- Distributed floods require traffic characterization and scalable mitigation that keeps permitted business flows available when possible.
- Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
- Recovering service availability is insufficient if compromise mechanisms or stolen credentials remain in place.
Explanation
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C:Demonstrable success requires: The diagram correctly labels each hosting boundary and avoids assuming shared security responsibilities across unlike environments. This principle explains the proposed technical approach, which is: Identify the deployment model and operational boundary for public, private, hybrid and multicloud architectures.
Incorrect Answers
A:GDPR concerns personal-data processing rights and duties, SOX centers on public-company financial controls and SOC reports assess defined service controls. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
B:Distributed floods require traffic characterization and scalable mitigation that keeps permitted business flows available when possible. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
D:Recovering service availability is insufficient if compromise mechanisms or stolen credentials remain in place. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
Question 193
The SOC team has not yet approved changes. Current evidence indicates: A regulated research group mistakenly identifies a dedicated private cloud as a public multitenant SaaS environment. Which evidence best tests the technical diagnosis before approving a disruptive change? Select ONE best answer.
- Review runtime patch boundaries, service identities, secret storage, data grants and audit logs in the platform's responsibility matrix.
- Compare baseline and attack traffic, origin distribution, edge capacity and business request success before and after controls.
- Inventory sensor placement, DNS log fields, flow sampling and bounded packet capture coverage for a test event.
- Trace workload locations, ownership, identity federation, physical administration and connectivity across a representative service.
Explanation
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D:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. Confirm afterward that: The diagram correctly labels each hosting boundary and avoids assuming shared security responsibilities across unlike environments.
Incorrect Answers
A:Review runtime patch boundaries, service identities, secret storage, data grants and audit logs in the platform's responsibility matrix. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
B:Compare baseline and attack traffic, origin distribution, edge capacity and business request success before and after controls. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
C:Inventory sensor placement, DNS log fields, flow sampling and bounded packet capture coverage for a test event. A regulated research group mistakenly identifies a dedicated private cloud as a public multitenant SaaS environment.
Question 194
A candidate correction has been tested and the platform team requires a post-change acceptance check. Original problem: A regulated research group mistakenly identifies a dedicated private cloud as a public multitenant SaaS environment. The response owner needs positive and negative results and evidence that legitimate security and business workflows still function. Which acceptance result demonstrates correct security operations behavior without disrupting authorized workflows? Select ONE best answer.
- Owners receive the correct control requirements and gaps are not hidden behind an unrelated audit report.
- The diagram correctly labels each hosting boundary and avoids assuming shared security responsibilities across unlike environments.
- Applications use restricted credentials and approved data permissions while platform maintenance follows the correct provider contract.
- The collection captures the needed volatile indicators without altering evidence beyond the authorized acquisition procedure.
Explanation
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B:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. The result must be validated using the documented device, service or access context.
Incorrect Answers
A:Owners receive the correct control requirements and gaps are not hidden behind an unrelated audit report. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
C:Applications use restricted credentials and approved data permissions while platform maintenance follows the correct provider contract. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
D:The collection captures the needed volatile indicators without altering evidence beyond the authorized acquisition procedure. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
Question 195
An implementation sign-off request identifies the following problem: A regulated research group mistakenly identifies a dedicated private cloud as a public multitenant SaaS environment. Which paired technical change and validation should close the implementation review? Select ONE best answer.
- Change: Preserve web and identity evidence, remove unauthorized access, restore trusted content and validate integrity using the defacement playbook. Verify: Compare known-good artifact hashes, content history, CMS authentication events and deployment approvals with the changed files.
- Change: Map the payment-data flows and contracted provider responsibilities to applicable PCI DSS controls and scope. Verify: Trace card data paths, payment integrations, service-provider attestations and relevant encryption and access controls.
- Change: Validate eradication, credential rotation, clean restoration and heightened post-recovery monitoring before formal closure. Verify: Test restored image integrity, credential invalidation, control alerts and service behavior with a staged re-entry scenario.
- Change: Identify the deployment model and operational boundary for public, private, hybrid and multicloud architectures. Verify: Trace workload locations, ownership, identity federation, physical administration and connectivity across a representative service.
Explanation
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D:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. The change is successful only when: The diagram correctly labels each hosting boundary and avoids assuming shared security responsibilities across unlike environments.
Incorrect Answers
A:This option addresses a different security operations topic (Website-defacement response workflow) rather than the documented Private public hybrid and multicloud boundaries decision.
B:Change: Map the payment-data flows and contracted provider responsibilities to applicable PCI DSS controls and scope. A regulated research group mistakenly identifies a dedicated private cloud as a public multitenant SaaS environment.
C:Change: Validate eradication, credential rotation, clean restoration and heightened post-recovery monitoring before formal closure. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
Question 196
A SOC analyst is examining this cybersecurity operations situation: An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN. A proposed shortcut is: Treat every system reachable through a company VPN as a private cloud regardless of who owns the infrastructure. What should the SOC analyst recommend as the narrowly scoped correction? Select ONE best answer.
- Map federal-system requirements to applicable FISMA and NIST risk-management guidance and verify FedRAMP authorization scope where relevant.
- Identify the deployment model and operational boundary for public, private, hybrid and multicloud architectures.
- Treat every system reachable through a company VPN as a private cloud regardless of who owns the infrastructure.
- Follow the privilege-escalation playbook by validating grant provenance, securing affected identities and preserving identity and endpoint logs.
Explanation
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B:This targeted action addresses the observed security or operational control gap without discarding necessary controls. Applied case: An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN.
Incorrect Answers
A:This option addresses a different security operations topic (Government compliance mapping) rather than the documented Private public hybrid and multicloud boundaries decision.
C:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. Applied case: An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN.
D:This option addresses a different security operations topic (Privilege-escalation incident playbook) rather than the documented Private public hybrid and multicloud boundaries decision.
Question 197
A Cisco cybersecurity incident response review finds: An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN. The team proposes: Identify the deployment model and operational boundary for public, private, hybrid and multicloud architectures. Which engineering principle most strongly supports the recommended response? Select ONE best answer.
- Distributed floods require traffic characterization and scalable mitigation that keeps permitted business flows available when possible.
- Vulnerability severity informs risk, but impact and likelihood depend on asset criticality, attacker opportunity and compensating controls.
- Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
- PaaS reduces customer infrastructure-management burden but does not transfer application security and data authorization to the provider.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Demonstrable success requires: The diagram correctly labels each hosting boundary and avoids assuming shared security responsibilities across unlike environments. Applied case: An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN.
Incorrect Answers
A:Distributed floods require traffic characterization and scalable mitigation that keeps permitted business flows available when possible. An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN.
B:Vulnerability severity informs risk, but impact and likelihood depend on asset criticality, attacker opportunity and compensating controls. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
D:PaaS reduces customer infrastructure-management burden but does not transfer application security and data authorization to the provider. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
Question 198
The SOC team has not yet approved changes. Current evidence indicates: An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN. Which evidence best tests the technical diagnosis before approving a disruptive change? Select ONE best answer.
- Walk a mock alert through the entry conditions and ownership matrix while recording decisions and approvals.
- Review control test evidence, exception scope, business-owner authorization and review date against the documented threat.
- Trace workload locations, ownership, identity federation, physical administration and connectivity across a representative service.
- Inspect personal-data flows, financial reporting systems, report criteria and contractual assurance scope separately.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. This check tests the actual security, identity or operational boundary before an operationally risky response.
Incorrect Answers
A:This option addresses a different security operations topic (Playbook triggers and owners) rather than the documented Private public hybrid and multicloud boundaries decision.
B:Review control test evidence, exception scope, business-owner authorization and review date against the documented threat. An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN.
D:Inspect personal-data flows, financial reporting systems, report criteria and contractual assurance scope separately. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
Question 199
A candidate correction has been tested and the platform team requires a post-change acceptance check. Original problem: An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN. The response owner needs positive and negative results and evidence that legitimate security and business workflows still function. Which acceptance result demonstrates correct security operations behavior without disrupting authorized workflows? Select ONE best answer.
- The cloud VM follows customer-owned guest and access controls without falsely attributing them to the provider.
- The diagram correctly labels each hosting boundary and avoids assuming shared security responsibilities across unlike environments.
- The production remediation order reflects real-world exposure and documented residual risks rather than a raw score ranking.
- The case can be audited from initial alert through validated recovery and documented corrective action.
Explanation
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B:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. The approved implementation step was: Identify the deployment model and operational boundary for public, private, hybrid and multicloud architectures.
Incorrect Answers
A:The cloud VM follows customer-owned guest and access controls without falsely attributing them to the provider. An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN.
C:The production remediation order reflects real-world exposure and documented residual risks rather than a raw score ranking. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
D:The case can be audited from initial alert through validated recovery and documented corrective action. An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN.
Question 200
For an original CBRCOR educational scenario, consider: An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN. Select THREE compatible elements: a proper correction, a targeted diagnostic and an acceptance result.
- Result: The diagram correctly labels each hosting boundary and avoids assuming shared security responsibilities across unlike environments.
- Result: Trend metrics identify the specific stage that slows response and are reproducible from incident evidence.
- Change: Separate provider-managed runtime maintenance from customer responsibilities for application code, identities, secrets and data access on PaaS.
- Check: Trace workload locations, ownership, identity federation, physical administration and connectivity across a representative service.
- Check: Compare modeled incident losses with coverage triggers, sublimits, deductibles and proof-of-controls requirements.
- Change: Identify the deployment model and operational boundary for public, private, hybrid and multicloud architectures.
Explanation
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A:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. Required intervention: Identify the deployment model and operational boundary for public, private, hybrid and multicloud architectures.
D:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. Acceptance: The diagram correctly labels each hosting boundary and avoids assuming shared security responsibilities across unlike environments.
F:Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid. Evidence: Trace workload locations, ownership, identity federation, physical administration and connectivity across a representative service.
Incorrect Answers
B:Result: Trend metrics identify the specific stage that slows response and are reproducible from incident evidence. An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN.
C:Change: Separate provider-managed runtime maintenance from customer responsibilities for application code, identities, secrets and data access on PaaS. Deployment model describes hosting and governance boundaries, while multicloud describes use of more than one provider and can coexist with hybrid.
E:Check: Compare modeled incident losses with coverage triggers, sublimits, deductibles and proof-of-controls requirements. An architecture team describes two different public cloud providers as one private cloud because both are reached by VPN.
