CompTIA CS0-003 CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Exam Online Training
CompTIA CS0-003 Online Training
The questions for CS0-003 were last updated at Jan 28,2025.
- Exam Code: CS0-003
- Exam Name: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Exam
- Certification Provider: CompTIA
- Latest update: Jan 28,2025
The analyst reviews the following endpoint log entry:
Which of the following has occurred?
- A . Registry change
- B . Rename computer
- C . New account introduced
- D . Privilege escalation
A security program was able to achieve a 30% improvement in MTTR by integrating security controls into a SIEM. The analyst no longer had to jump between tools.
Which of the following best describes what the security program did?
- A . Data enrichment
- B . Security control plane
- C . Threat feed combination
- D . Single pane of glass
Due to reports of unauthorized activity that was occurring on the internal network, an analyst is performing a network discovery. The analyst runs an Nmap scan against a corporate network to evaluate which devices were operating in the environment.
Given the following output:
Which of the following choices should the analyst look at first?
- A . wh4dc-748gy.lan (192.168.86.152)
- B . lan (192.168.86.22)
- C . imaging.lan (192.168.86.150)
- D . xlaptop.lan (192.168.86.249)
- E . p4wnp1_aloa.lan (192.168.86.56)
When starting an investigation, which of the following must be done first?
- A . Notify law enforcement
- B . Secure the scene
- C . Seize all related evidence
- D . Interview the witnesses
Which of the following describes how a CSIRT lead determines who should be communicated with and when during a security incident?
- A . The lead should review what is documented in the incident response policy or plan
- B . Management level members of the CSIRT should make that decision
- C . The lead has the authority to decide who to communicate with at any t me
- D . Subject matter experts on the team should communicate with others within the specified area of expertise
A new cybersecurity analyst is tasked with creating an executive briefing on possible threats to the organization.
Which of the following will produce the data needed for the briefing?
- A . Firewall logs
- B . Indicators of compromise
- C . Risk assessment
- D . Access control lists
An analyst notices there is an internal device sending HTTPS traffic with additional characters in the header to a known-malicious IP in another country.
Which of the following describes what the analyst has noticed?
- A . Beaconing
- B . Cross-site scripting
- C . Buffer overflow
- D . PHP traversal
A security analyst is reviewing a packet capture in Wireshark that contains an FTP session from a potentially compromised machine. The analyst sets the following display filter: ftp. The analyst can see there are several RETR requests with 226 Transfer complete responses, but the packet list pane is not showing the packets containing the file transfer itself.
Which of the following can the analyst perform to see the entire contents of the downloaded files?
- A . Change the display filter to f cp. accive. pore
- B . Change the display filter to tcg.port=20
- C . Change the display filter to f cp-daca and follow the TCP streams
- D . Navigate to the File menu and select FTP from the Export objects option
A SOC manager receives a phone call from an upset customer. The customer received a vulnerability report two hours ago: but the report did not have a follow-up remediation response from an analyst.
Which of the following documents should the SOC manager review to ensure the team is meeting the appropriate contractual obligations for the customer?
- A . SLA
- B . MOU
- C . NDA
- D . Limitation of liability
Which of the following phases of the Cyber Kill Chain involves the adversary attempting to establish communication with a successfully exploited target?
- A . Command and control
- B . Actions on objectives
- C . Exploitation
- D . Delivery