A routed overlay must carry multicast and multiprotocol traffic while providing confidentiality and integrity over an untrusted transport. Which design meets both requirements?
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MPLS forwarding without an added security layer
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GRE encapsulation without an added security layer
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GRE encapsulation carried through an IPsec tunnel
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IPsec transport without the required encapsulation
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ExplanationGRE supplies the encapsulation needed to carry multicast and multiple network-layer protocols across the routed overlay. IPsec then protects the GRE packets as they cross the untrusted transport, providing confidentiality and integrity. Carrying GRE through the IPsec tunnel therefore satisfies both the traffic and security requirements.
A logistics company wants to deploy an application in the cloud using cloud native techniques. The company must ensure that the development, testing, and production environments are as identical as possible with the lowest risk of the development and testing environments impacting production. Which solution must be used to accomplish the task?
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network access control list
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ExplanationSeparate cloud accounts create a strong administrative and resource boundary between development, testing, and production. Each account can contain an equivalent deployment while preventing routine activity, mistakes, or resource changes in nonproduction from directly affecting production resources. Network access lists provide traffic filtering within an environment, and functions or service quotas do not create the required environment-wide isolation boundary.
A legal services company wants to prevent remote employees from accessing personal email and social media accounts while using corporate laptops. Which security solution enforces the policy?
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ExplanationCisco Umbrella enforces internet access policy for users and corporate devices, including when employees work remotely. It can apply destination and application controls that prevent access to personal email and social media services from managed laptops. TrustSec and RADIUS govern network identity or access, while a monitoring tool observes activity without itself enforcing the requested web-use restriction.
The public web application needs protection against attacks that depend on HTTP request parameters and web-session behavior. Existing stateful network policy must remain. What should be added?
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A traditional firewall with additional transport-layer rules
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A passive IDS that only reports suspicious packets
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A web application firewall with web-specific policy
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A distributed firewall for unrelated workload segments
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ExplanationThe existing stateful network policy already handles network and transport connection state. Attacks based on HTTP parameters and web-session behavior require application-aware enforcement that understands web requests. Adding a web application firewall with web-specific policy supplies that layer while leaving the existing network control in place.
Access requires two independent factors and resistance to credential relay. Which authentication method best satisfies both requirements?
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A device-bound cryptographic authenticator unlocked by a biometric
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A password followed by another prompt for the same password
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A password followed by a phishable one-time code sent to a separate device
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Two knowledge questions drawn from the user's profile
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ExplanationThe device-bound cryptographic authenticator supplies possession, while the biometric used to unlock it supplies an independent inherence factor. Authentication relies on a cryptographic operation performed by the bound device rather than a reusable code that can be forwarded. That combination provides two factors and resists credential relay.
A global energy company moved a monolithic application from the data center to public cloud. Over time, the company added many capabilities to the application, and it is now difficult for the application team to scale it. The application owner decided to modernize the application by moving to a Kubernetes cluster. However, he wants to ensure that the new application architecture provides a container network interface that is scalable, offers options for cloud-native security, and helps with visibility and observability. Which solution must be used to accomplish the task?
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ExplanationCilium provides Kubernetes container networking together with cloud-native security policy and traffic visibility. Its role as a container network interface addresses pod connectivity at cluster scale, while its observability and security capabilities support the modernization requirements in the same networking layer. A security group or ENI is a narrower cloud networking primitive, and an ingress gateway handles entry traffic rather than the cluster's complete container network.
A manufacturing company recently experienced a network-down scenario due to malware spread on the management network. The company wants to implement a solution to detect and mitigate a similar threat in the future and protect the overall network. Which solution meets the requirements?
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endpoint detection and response
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encrypted threat analysis
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ExplanationThe malware spread affected managed systems and ultimately disrupted the network, so the required control must identify malicious endpoint activity and support containment. Endpoint detection and response continuously observes endpoint behavior and provides response capabilities for detected threats, helping stop propagation before business-critical infrastructure is affected. RADIUS handles authentication, IPsec protects traffic in transit, and encrypted threat analysis is not the direct endpoint containment control requested.
A construction company recently introduced a BYOD policy, where contractors can bring personal devices and connect to the wireless network. The network engineer configured a Wi-Fi network with a guest splash page to provide internet access only. Although the policy was limited to wireless devices, contractors started bringing devices that needed wired connections without authorization and connecting to the network. The network team suggested shutting down ports where unauthorized devices are connected. Which technology must be implemented to ensure that wired and wireless devices are granted network access only after successful authentication?
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Explanation802.1X provides port-based network access control for both wired switch ports and wireless connections. A device or user must successfully authenticate before the access port admits normal network traffic, so merely plugging an unauthorized wired device into an active outlet is insufficient. VLANs and access-control lists can segment or filter traffic after attachment, but they do not supply this authentication gate.
Under NIST SP 800-37, controls have been implemented and assessed. What preserves risk management through the remaining lifecycle?
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End the process once the assessment report is complete
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Authorize based on risk, then continue monitoring
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Replace assessment evidence with a vendor product topology
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Repeat control selection without an authorization decision
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ExplanationImplementation and assessment establish whether controls are present and effective, but they do not complete lifecycle risk management. Authorization makes the explicit decision to accept or reject the system's remaining risk. Continued monitoring then detects changes in controls, threats, or system conditions that could alter that authorization basis.
Question 10
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A software development company uses multiple cloud providers to host the applications. The company is designing a scalable firewall solution that must meet the requirements: Consistent security policies across multiple cloud environments. Centralized visibility and management. Scalability to accommodate different cloud platforms. Which type of firewall meets the requirements?
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ExplanationA distributed firewall places enforcement across the participating cloud environments while allowing policy and visibility to be managed consistently. Because enforcement is not tied to one physical perimeter or host, the design can expand as workloads are added on different cloud platforms. That combination directly meets the centralized management and multicloud scalability requirements.
Question 11
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A global marketing firm, based in California with customers on every continent, suffered a data breach that exposed employee and customer PII. Which regulations is the company in danger of violating?
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ExplanationThe company handles employee and customer personally identifiable information across every continent, which includes individuals protected by European data protection requirements. GDPR governs the processing and protection of that personal data, so exposure can create a compliance violation even though the firm is based in California. ISO 27001 and SP 800-53 are security frameworks, while FedRAMP concerns United States federal cloud authorization.
Question 12
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How is generative AI used in securing network?
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to provide real-time load balancing
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to improve resource consumption
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to perform real-time audits to ensure regulatory compliance
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to detect unusual patterns in network traffic
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ExplanationGenerative AI can support network security by analyzing large volumes of network observations and highlighting unusual traffic patterns that merit investigation. Deviations in communication behavior can indicate compromise or misuse, giving defenders a useful detection signal. Real-time load balancing and resource consumption are operational optimization tasks, while regulatory compliance requires broader controls and evidence than an AI-performed real-time audit alone.
Question 13
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A company has been facing recurring issues with SQL injection vulnerabilities affecting the products, leading to significant disruptions for customers. To address the security concerns proactively, the company wants to integrate a tool into the CI/CD pipeline. The tool must be capable of identifying vulnerabilities such as SQL injection early in the development process, which allows developers to rectify issues before the code is deployed. Which solution must be implemented to meet the requirement?
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Static Application Security Testing tools, such as Checkmarx, Fortify, SonarQube
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build log observability tools, such as Splunk, Datadog
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workflow automation tools, such as GitHub Actions, Azure
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Dynamic Application Security Testing tools, such as OWASP ZAP, Veracode, Burp Suite
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ExplanationStatic Application Security Testing analyzes source code or compiled artifacts without requiring the application to be running. Integrating SAST tools such as Checkmarx, Fortify, or SonarQube into CI/CD lets developers identify unsafe data handling that can lead to SQL injection while the code is being built. Dynamic testing exercises a running application later, while observability and workflow tools do not themselves perform the requested code vulnerability analysis.
Question 14
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How does a SOC leverage flow collectors?
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It performs data backup and recovery.
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It performs load balancing capabilities across systems to optimize performance.
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It provides data for analysis in threat detection and response system.
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It provides real time content filtering.
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ExplanationFlow collectors receive and organize network flow records that summarize communications between systems. A SOC feeds this data into threat detection and response analysis to identify unusual connections, investigate activity, and correlate network behavior with other security events. The records provide visibility rather than packet-content enforcement, so flow collection is not a backup, load-balancing, or real-time content-filtering function.
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