SY0-701 — questions

A security team is reviewing the findings in a report that was delivered after a third party performed a penetration test. One of the findings indicated that a web application form field is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Which of the following application security techniques should the security analyst recommend the developer implement to prevent this vulnerability?

Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two).

A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system. Which of the following steps should be taken first?

Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?

Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?

A company is developing a business continuity strategy and needs to determine how many staff members would be required to sustain the business in the case of a disruption. Which of the following best describes this step?

A company’s legal department drafted sensitive documents in a SaaS application and wants to ensure the documents cannot be accessed by individuals in high-risk countries. Which of the following is the most effective way to limit this access?

Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?

While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a “deny any” policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable. Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?

An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days. Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?

A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling. Which of the following best describes this policy?

A systems administrator works for a local hospital and needs to ensure patient data is protected and secure. Which of the following data classifications should be used to secure patient data?

A U.S.-based cloud-hosting provider wants to expand its data centers to new international locations. Which of the following should the hosting provider consider first?

Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?

A company hired a consultant to perform an offensive security assessment covering penetration testing and social engineering. Which of the following teams will conduct this assessment activity?

A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company. Which of the following options is the most appropriate?

Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?

During an investigation, an incident response team attempts to understand the source of an incident. Which of the following incident response activities describes this process?

A security practitioner completes a vulnerability assessment on a company’s network and finds several vulnerabilities, which the operations team remediates. Which of the following should be done next?

An administrator was notified that a user logged in remotely after hours and copied large amounts of data to a personal device. Which of the following best describes the user’s activity?