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Cisco 350-201 Practice Test 6

Question 50

For an original CBRCOR educational scenario, consider: A data-exfiltration case needs a traffic timeline and flow direction but the team relies only on a single screenshot of a firewall dashboard. Select TWO complementary steps: the targeted correction and its strongest prechange validation.

  1. Check: Inventory sensor placement, DNS log fields, flow sampling and bounded packet capture coverage for a test event.
  2. Assume any one security dashboard screenshot proves full packet contents and precise data exfiltration volume.
  3. Change: Assign guest operating-system hardening, identity policy and network exposure controls to the IaaS customer while recording provider infrastructure duties.
  4. Check: Reconstruct an incident timeline and check the recorded decision, evidence and closure prerequisites for each stage.
  5. Change: Combine approved DNS telemetry, flow metadata and packet capture where available, choosing visibility according to the investigative question.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

DNS logs identify queried names while flow records show connection summaries and packet capture can expose protocol detail subject to encryption. Required intervention: Combine approved DNS telemetry, flow metadata and packet capture where available, choosing visibility according to the investigative question.

E:

DNS logs identify queried names while flow records show connection summaries and packet capture can expose protocol detail subject to encryption. Acceptance: Investigators can correlate the query source, destination, timing and relevant traffic while stating each source's limitations.

Incorrect Answers

B:

For this select two assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it. DNS logs identify queried names while flow records show connection summaries and packet capture can expose protocol detail subject to encryption.

C:

Change: Assign guest operating-system hardening, identity policy and network exposure controls to the IaaS customer while recording provider infrastructure duties. DNS logs identify queried names while flow records show connection summaries and packet capture can expose protocol detail subject to encryption.

D:

Check: Reconstruct an incident timeline and check the recorded decision, evidence and closure prerequisites for each stage. DNS logs identify queried names while flow records show connection summaries and packet capture can expose protocol detail subject to encryption.

Question 51

A SOC analyst is examining this cybersecurity operations situation: An ordinary finance account is suddenly added to a domain-admin group and the change is followed by privileged remote logins. A proposed shortcut is: Delete all audit history after removing the admin role because revoking one grant proves no prior misuse occurred. What should the SOC analyst recommend as the narrowly scoped correction? Select ONE best answer.

  1. Validate the attack pattern and coordinate rate controls, upstream mitigation and service-health monitoring through the DDoS playbook.
  2. Follow the privilege-escalation playbook by validating grant provenance, securing affected identities and preserving identity and endpoint logs.
  3. Delete all audit history after removing the admin role because revoking one grant proves no prior misuse occurred.
  4. Add evidence-based decision branches, severity thresholds and controlled fallback instructions to the relevant playbook.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

This targeted action addresses the observed security or operational control gap without discarding necessary controls. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Validate the attack pattern and coordinate rate controls, upstream mitigation and service-health monitoring through the DDoS playbook. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

C:

Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review. For this best change assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it.

D:

Add evidence-based decision branches, severity thresholds and controlled fallback instructions to the relevant playbook. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

Question 52

A Cisco cybersecurity incident response review finds: An ordinary finance account is suddenly added to a domain-admin group and the change is followed by privileged remote logins. The team proposes: Follow the privilege-escalation playbook by validating grant provenance, securing affected identities and preserving identity and endpoint logs. Which engineering principle most strongly supports the recommended response? Select ONE best answer.

  1. PaaS reduces customer infrastructure-management burden but does not transfer application security and data authorization to the provider.
  2. Restoration alone can reintroduce compromise when the entry point, credential abuse or altered deployment artifacts remain active.
  3. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.
  4. In IaaS the provider protects underlying cloud infrastructure, but the customer manages guest configuration and workloads under shared responsibility.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Relevant validation before approval: Compare directory audit events, cloud role grants, sign-in history and approved change tickets around the escalation. Demonstrable success requires: Unauthorized grants are contained with approved access restoration and investigators preserve a sequenced record of use.

Incorrect Answers

A:

PaaS reduces customer infrastructure-management burden but does not transfer application security and data authorization to the provider. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

B:

Restoration alone can reintroduce compromise when the entry point, credential abuse or altered deployment artifacts remain active. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

D:

In IaaS the provider protects underlying cloud infrastructure, but the customer manages guest configuration and workloads under shared responsibility. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

Question 53

The SOC team has not yet approved changes. Current evidence indicates: An ordinary finance account is suddenly added to a domain-admin group and the change is followed by privileged remote logins. Which evidence best tests the technical diagnosis before approving a disruptive change? Select ONE best answer.

  1. Compare directory audit events, cloud role grants, sign-in history and approved change tickets around the escalation.
  2. Review runtime patch boundaries, service identities, secret storage, data grants and audit logs in the platform's responsibility matrix.
  3. Reconstruct an incident timeline and check the recorded decision, evidence and closure prerequisites for each stage.
  4. Inventory sensor placement, DNS log fields, flow sampling and bounded packet capture coverage for a test event.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review. Confirm afterward that: Unauthorized grants are contained with approved access restoration and investigators preserve a sequenced record of use.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Review runtime patch boundaries, service identities, secret storage, data grants and audit logs in the platform's responsibility matrix. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

C:

Reconstruct an incident timeline and check the recorded decision, evidence and closure prerequisites for each stage. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

D:

Inventory sensor placement, DNS log fields, flow sampling and bounded packet capture coverage for a test event. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

Question 54

A candidate correction has been tested and the platform team requires a post-change acceptance check. Original problem: An ordinary finance account is suddenly added to a domain-admin group and the change is followed by privileged remote logins. 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.

  1. The production remediation order reflects real-world exposure and documented residual risks rather than a raw score ranking.
  2. Investigators can correlate the query source, destination, timing and relevant traffic while stating each source's limitations.
  3. Unauthorized grants are contained with approved access restoration and investigators preserve a sequenced record of use.
  4. Attack traffic is attenuated and agreed legitimate availability indicators recover without an uncontrolled network-wide outage.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review. The result must be validated using the documented device, service or access context.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The production remediation order reflects real-world exposure and documented residual risks rather than a raw score ranking. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

B:

Investigators can correlate the query source, destination, timing and relevant traffic while stating each source's limitations. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

D:

Attack traffic is attenuated and agreed legitimate availability indicators recover without an uncontrolled network-wide outage. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

Question 55

An implementation sign-off request identifies the following problem: An ordinary finance account is suddenly added to a domain-admin group and the change is followed by privileged remote logins. Which paired technical change and validation should close the implementation review? Select ONE best answer.

  1. Change: Map federal-system requirements to applicable FISMA and NIST risk-management guidance and verify FedRAMP authorization scope where relevant. Verify: Review agency system boundary, NIST control baseline, authorization package and cloud service FedRAMP listing.
  2. Change: Define observable entry conditions, responsible roles, decision points and escalation targets in the incident playbook. Verify: Walk a mock alert through the entry conditions and ownership matrix while recording decisions and approvals.
  3. Change: Match containment urgency to evidence, blast radius and predefined approval authority, documenting alternative isolation options. Verify: Verify affected host and identity scope, ongoing traffic, critical workflows and allowed emergency actions.
  4. Change: Follow the privilege-escalation playbook by validating grant provenance, securing affected identities and preserving identity and endpoint logs. Verify: Compare directory audit events, cloud role grants, sign-in history and approved change tickets around the escalation.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review. The change is successful only when: Unauthorized grants are contained with approved access restoration and investigators preserve a sequenced record of use.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Change: Map federal-system requirements to applicable FISMA and NIST risk-management guidance and verify FedRAMP authorization scope where relevant.

B:

Change: Define observable entry conditions, responsible roles, decision points and escalation targets in the incident playbook.

C:

Change: Match containment urgency to evidence, blast radius and predefined approval authority, documenting alternative isolation options. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

Question 56

A SOC analyst is examining this cybersecurity operations situation: A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations. A proposed shortcut is: Delete all audit history after removing the admin role because revoking one grant proves no prior misuse occurred. What should the SOC analyst recommend as the narrowly scoped correction? Select ONE best answer.

  1. Follow the privilege-escalation playbook by validating grant provenance, securing affected identities and preserving identity and endpoint logs.
  2. Measure detection, acknowledgment, containment and recovery intervals with consistent event definitions and representative incident populations.
  3. Map the payment-data flows and contracted provider responsibilities to applicable PCI DSS controls and scope.
  4. Delete all audit history after removing the admin role because revoking one grant proves no prior misuse occurred.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

This targeted action addresses the observed security or operational control gap without discarding necessary controls. Applied case: A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Measure detection, acknowledgment, containment and recovery intervals with consistent event definitions and representative incident populations. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

C:

Map the payment-data flows and contracted provider responsibilities to applicable PCI DSS controls and scope. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

D:

Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review. Applied case: A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations.

Question 57

A Cisco cybersecurity incident response review finds: A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations. The team proposes: Follow the privilege-escalation playbook by validating grant provenance, securing affected identities and preserving identity and endpoint logs. Which engineering principle most strongly supports the recommended response? Select ONE best answer.

  1. Government assurance depends on designated system categorization, assessed controls and authorization scope; unrelated certificates are not substitutes.
  2. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.
  3. PaaS reduces customer infrastructure-management burden but does not transfer application security and data authorization to the provider.
  4. In IaaS the provider protects underlying cloud infrastructure, but the customer manages guest configuration and workloads under shared responsibility.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Relevant validation before approval: Compare directory audit events, cloud role grants, sign-in history and approved change tickets around the escalation. Applied case: A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Government assurance depends on designated system categorization, assessed controls and authorization scope; unrelated certificates are not substitutes. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

C:

PaaS reduces customer infrastructure-management burden but does not transfer application security and data authorization to the provider. A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations.

D:

In IaaS the provider protects underlying cloud infrastructure, but the customer manages guest configuration and workloads under shared responsibility. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

Question 58

The SOC team has not yet approved changes. Current evidence indicates: A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations. Which evidence best tests the technical diagnosis before approving a disruptive change? Select ONE best answer.

  1. Inspect personal-data flows, financial reporting systems, report criteria and contractual assurance scope separately.
  2. Re-run a labeled set of benign and malicious activity against the rule and review precision, recall and handling effort.
  3. Compare directory audit events, cloud role grants, sign-in history and approved change tickets around the escalation.
  4. Verify affected host and identity scope, ongoing traffic, critical workflows and allowed emergency actions.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review. This check tests the actual security, identity or operational boundary before an operationally risky response.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Inspect personal-data flows, financial reporting systems, report criteria and contractual assurance scope separately. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

B:

Re-run a labeled set of benign and malicious activity against the rule and review precision, recall and handling effort. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

D:

Verify affected host and identity scope, ongoing traffic, critical workflows and allowed emergency actions. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

Question 59

A candidate correction has been tested and the platform team requires a post-change acceptance check. Original problem: A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations. 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.

  1. The diagram correctly labels each hosting boundary and avoids assuming shared security responsibilities across unlike environments.
  2. Unauthorized grants are contained with approved access restoration and investigators preserve a sequenced record of use.
  3. The production remediation order reflects real-world exposure and documented residual risks rather than a raw score ranking.
  4. Responders select proportionate actions and still have an approved route when the primary mitigation dependency fails.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review. The approved implementation step was: Follow the privilege-escalation playbook by validating grant provenance, securing affected identities and preserving identity and endpoint logs.

Incorrect Answers

A:

This option addresses a different security operations topic (Private public hybrid and multicloud boundaries) rather than the documented Privilege-escalation incident playbook decision.

C:

The production remediation order reflects real-world exposure and documented residual risks rather than a raw score ranking. A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations.

D:

Responders select proportionate actions and still have an approved route when the primary mitigation dependency fails. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

Question 60

For an original CBRCOR educational scenario, consider: A contractor token unexpectedly acquires cloud administrator permissions while a CI workload continues issuing sensitive API operations. Select TWO complementary steps: the targeted correction and its strongest prechange validation.

  1. Check: Trace card data paths, payment integrations, service-provider attestations and relevant encryption and access controls.
  2. Change: Follow the privilege-escalation playbook by validating grant provenance, securing affected identities and preserving identity and endpoint logs.
  3. Change: Measure detection, acknowledgment, containment and recovery intervals with consistent event definitions and representative incident populations.
  4. Delete all audit history after removing the admin role because revoking one grant proves no prior misuse occurred.
  5. Check: Compare directory audit events, cloud role grants, sign-in history and approved change tickets around the escalation.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review. Evidence: Compare directory audit events, cloud role grants, sign-in history and approved change tickets around the escalation.

E:

Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review. Acceptance: Unauthorized grants are contained with approved access restoration and investigators preserve a sequenced record of use.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Check: Trace card data paths, payment integrations, service-provider attestations and relevant encryption and access controls. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

C:

Change: Measure detection, acknowledgment, containment and recovery intervals with consistent event definitions and representative incident populations. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

D:

For this select two assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it. Unexpected privilege changes can expand the attacker's control, so authentication, authorization changes and subsequent actions require correlated review.

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