WGU WGU-D488 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

WGU WGU-D488 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 111:

  A company with a hybrid cloud deployment needs to identify all possible threat types that could impact production systems. Which threat hunting technique should be used to identify potential attacks that have already occurred?

  A. Honeypots
  B. Log analysis
  C. Social engineering
  D. Penetration testing
  B. Log analysis

• Question 112:

  A company has recently failed a security audit. Many of the end users have passwords older than 365 days. Which password policy type will prevent this issue?

  A. Expiration
  B. Length
  C. Recovery
  D. Complexity
  A. Expiration

• Question 113:

  A security analyst for a financial institution is in the process of planning to upgrade the institution's IT infrastructure to meet current industry standards. There are various potential risks associated with the upgrade, including data breaches, system outages, and cost overruns. The analyst is tasked with managing these risks to ensure a successful upgrade.

  What is the first step in the risk management life cycle in this scenario?

  A. Assess
  B. Control
  C. Review
  D. Identify
  D. Identify

• Question 114:

  An organization wants to implement a new encryption solution for a real-time video conferencing application. The organization wants to ensure that the encryption solution provides protection for the video stream without causing significant delays or latency in the conference.

  Which type of encryption will meet the needs of the organization?

  A. Block ciphers
  B. Asymmetric encryption
  C. Stream ciphers
  D. Hash functions
  C. Stream ciphers

• Question 115:

  Which algorithm is suitable for ensuring the integrity of digital documents and detecting any unauthorized modifications?

  A. Data Encryption Standard (DES)
  B. Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256)
  C. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
  D. Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA)
  B. Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256)

• Question 116:

  A medium-sized grocery chain with locations all across the United States has a new business requirement that all devices must authenticate to access its resources. What should the grocery chain use for the devices to authenticate?

  A. Virtual private network (VPN)
  B. Public key infrastructure (PKI)
  C. Certificate signing
  D. Endpoint passwords
  B. Public key infrastructure (PKI)

• Question 117:

  What is a component of IT infrastructure?

  A. Data
  B. People
  C. Networks
  D. Printer
  C. Networks

• Question 118:

  A consultancy organization has many employees who travel with different mobile devices. Having the employees visit an office to update their devices is not feasible due to their travel schedule. How should the organization ensure that its employees receive the latest security updates?

  A. By providing remote module updates
  B. By providing tokenized container updates
  C. By providing mobile station updates
  D. By providing over-the-air updates
  D. By providing over-the-air updates

• Question 119:

  How should a security analyst detect a potential structured query language (SQL) injection attack?

  A. By looking for extra and unexpected symbols and characters in certain queries
  B. By looking for database primary key changes on the production environment
  C. By looking for repeated failed login attempts to the database server
  D. By looking for administrative command attempts within database log files
  A. By looking for extra and unexpected symbols and characters in certain queries

• Question 120:

  A cloud hosting provider is concerned about the potential risks associated with attacks that target the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data stored on its servers' volatile storage. The provider has decided to implement hardening techniques and endpoint security controls to mitigate the risk.

  Which hardening technique will meet the needs of this provider?

  A. Implementing secure encrypted enclaves and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Secure Memory Encryption
  B. Conducting regular security awareness training for all employees
  C. Implementing a next-generation antivirus system to detect and prevent malware attacks
  D. Enforcing a strong password complexity policy for all user accounts
  A. Implementing secure encrypted enclaves and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Secure Memory Encryption