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
An organization wants to move non-essential services into a cloud computing environment. The management team has a cost focus and would like to achieve a recovery time objective of 12 hours.
Which of the following cloud recovery strategies would work best to attain the desired outcome?
- A . Duplicate all services in another instance and load balance between the instances.
- B . Establish a hot site with active replication to another region within the same cloud provider.
- C . Set up a warm disaster recovery site with the same cloud provider in a different region.
- D . Configure the systems with a cold site at another cloud provider that can be used for failover.
A security analyst discovers the company’s website is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.
Which of the following solutions will best remedy the vulnerability?
- A . Prepared statements
- B . Server-side input validation
- C . Client-side input encoding
- D . Disabled JavaScript filtering
An organization supports a large number of remote users.
Which of the following is the best option to protect the data on the remote users’ laptops?
- A . Require the use of VPNs.
- B . Require employees to sign an NDA.
- C . Implement a DLP solution.
- D . Use whole disk encryption.
A security analyst is monitoring a company’s network traffic and finds ping requests going to accounting and human resources servers from a SQL server. Upon investigation, the analyst discovers a technician responded to potential network connectivity issues.
Which of the following is the best way for the security analyst to respond?
- A . Report this activity as a false positive, as the activity is legitimate.
- B . Isolate the system and begin a forensic investigation to determine what was compromised.
- C . Recommend network segmentation to the management team as a way to secure the various environments.
- D . Implement host-based firewalls on all systems to prevent ping sweeps in the future.
Which of the following software assessment methods world peak times?
- A . Security regression testing
- B . Stress testing
- C . Static analysis testing
- D . Dynamic analysis testing
- E . User acceptance testing
During an incident response procedure, a security analyst acquired the needed evidence from the hard drive of a compromised machine.
Which of the following actions should the analyst perform next to ensure the data integrity of the evidence?
- A . Generate hashes for each file from the hard drive.
- B . Create a chain of custody document.
- C . Determine a timeline of events using correct time synchronization.
- D . Keep the cloned hard drive in a safe place.
As a proactive threat-hunting technique, hunters must develop situational cases based on likely attack scenarios derived from the available threat intelligence information. After forming the basis of the scenario, which of the following may the threat hunter construct to establish a framework for threat assessment?
- A . Critical asset list
- B . Threat vector
- C . Attack profile
- D . Hypothesis
A company creates digitally signed packages for its devices.
Which of the following best describes the
method by which the security packages are delivered to the company’s customers?
- A . Antitamper mechanism
- B . SELinux
- C . Trusted firmware updates
- D . eFuse
During an audit, several customer order forms were found to contain inconsistencies between the actual price of an item and the amount charged to the customer. Further investigation narrowed the cause of the issue to manipulation of the public-facing web form used by customers to order products.
Which of the following would be the best way to locate this issue?
- A . Reduce the session timeout threshold
- B . Deploy MFA for access to the web server.
- C . Implement input validation.
- D . Run a dynamic code analysis.
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about new privacy regulations that apply to the company. The CISO has tasked a security analyst with finding the proper control functions to verify that a user’s data is not altered without the user’s consent.
Which of the following would be an appropriate course of action?
- A . Automate the use of a hashing algorithm after verified users make changes to their data.
- B . Use encryption first and then hash the data at regular, defined times.
- C . Use a DLP product to monitor the data sets for unauthorized edits and changes.
- D . Replicate the data sets at regular intervals and continuously compare the copies for unauthorized changes.