SANS GSEC mel FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS||100% GUARANTEED
PASS|| UPDATED 2026/2027
SYLLABUS||ALREADY A+
GRADED||<<RECENT VERSION>>
SCA - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration and Analysis snap-in tool. Secedit.exe
cli version of tool. Compare computer policies against a template.
SCA - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration and Analysis Tool
SCA - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration and Analysis Tool
Scanning - ANSWER ✓ Ping, Nikto, Netcat, nmap.
Scanning - ANSWER ✓ Advanced probing of the target for vulnerabilities that
can be easily exploited. Network mapping, port mapping, vulnerability scanning,
OS fingerprinting, war dialing, wireless scanning.
Scanport - ANSWER ✓ Port scan tool
SCCM - ANSWER ✓ M$ System Center Configuration Manager used for CM of
BYOD devices. Integrates with InTune
Schema - ANSWER ✓ Defines all possible types of objects and their attributes in
the directory.
schtasks.exe - ANSWER ✓ Task Scheduler. CLI, PowerShell or MMC.
,scw.exe - ANSWER ✓ Deprecated. Moved into Server Manager tool in Server
2016. Not available in client OSes.
SCW.exe - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration Wizard
scwcmd.exe - ANSWER ✓ cli version of SCW. Used on Server OSes. Great for
auditing and creating a GPO from an XML policy file.
scwcmd.exe - ANSWER ✓ cli version of Security Configuration Wizard
(scw.exe).
SDCs - ANSWER ✓ Self Driving Cars
SDN - ANSWER ✓ Software Defined Network
SEC - ANSWER ✓ Log analysis tool. Rule correlation and analysis of logs in
near real-time. Flexible. Hard to use. Correlate and alert.
Secedit - ANSWER ✓ Windows
secedit - ANSWER ✓ security template management. Secedit /configure /db
A:\dbase.sdb as PowerShell scripte to update security template, p145.
secedit.exe /analyze - ANSWER ✓ Comapares setttings of .inf Security
Templates.
Secret (Govt Classification) - ANSWER ✓
Secrets - ANSWER ✓ Don't build secrets into your code.
secure - ANSWER ✓ security-related messages like authentication failures,
possible break-in attempts, ssh logins, failed passwords, sshd logouts, and invalid
user accounts.
Secure Coding Basics - ANSWER ✓
Secure Simple Pairing (SSP) - ANSWER ✓ Uses public key cryptography to
make Bluetooth pairing more secure. Added in Bluetooth 2.1.
,Secure Web Development - ANSWER ✓
Security - ANSWER ✓ All about understanding, managing and mitigating risk.
What is the risk? Is this the highest priority risk? Is this the most cost-effective way
of reducing the risk?
Security as a Service - ANSWER ✓ Barriers are compliance, multi-tenancy and
vendor lock-in. Multi-tenancy presents concerns of data leakage between virtual
instances. Providers should take extra precautions to ensure data is
compartmentalized and any data shared is anonymous to protect the identity of the
source.
Security Association - ANSWER ✓ Critical part of IPSec. They document
common services, called transforms, that are particular to an IPSec connection.
Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration
Wizard gui wizard to disable uneeded services, Windows Firewall, IPSec policies,
IIS web stuff, etc for selected roles on older Windows OSes. XML policy.
Security Event Log & Audit Policies - ANSWER ✓
Security Event Log and Audit Policies - ANSWER ✓
Security Log - ANSWER ✓ List of Key Event ID Numbers
Security Policy - ANSWER ✓ Protects organization, the people and the
information. Establishes what must be done to protect information stored on
computers. Protects people who are trying to do the right thing. Policies are the
laws of an organization that set the boundaries of what is and is not acceptable.
Security Policy - ANSWER ✓ Establishes what you must do to protect
information. Used to help identify, measure and evaluate how. Strategic.
Security Utilities - ANSWER ✓
sed - ANSWER ✓ Parses and transforms text. One of earliest tools to support
regex.
, sed -n '1,5p' license.txt - ANSWER ✓ Sed will print first five lines of the
license.txt file and will only print them once (-n)
sed -n '1~2' license.txt - ANSWER ✓ Sed will print every other line of license.txt
file.
Sefl-encrypting HDD - ANSWER ✓ Must support TCG Opal 2.0 and IEEE-1667
and motherboard must support UEFI Secure Boot to use BitLocker for access
control.
SELinux - ANSWER ✓ Supports role-based access controls
SELinux - ANSWER ✓ Security Enhanced Linux is a loadable kernel module
that provides mandatory access control policies. Security model is based on least
privilege and starts with users having no rights at all. It doesn't replace existing
Linux security, it enhances it. Good for systems that have default "allow."
SELinux Policy - ANSWER ✓
Semi-Public - ANSWER ✓ DMZ. Resources that are our contributions to
Internet. Must be reachable from the Internet and also need Internet access (eg
DNS, email). Cannot contain sensitive information.
Sensitive Information - ANSWER ✓ Must reside on private network. Not visible
from Internet.
Separation - ANSWER ✓ Separate test VMs from production VMs.
Separation of Duties - ANSWER ✓ Break critical task across multiple people to
limit your points of exposure. No single person can make a decision.
Server Core - ANSWER ✓ 5GB size. Server 2008 or later.
Server Editions - ANSWER ✓ Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Small Business
and Server Essentials
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS||100% GUARANTEED
PASS|| UPDATED 2026/2027
SYLLABUS||ALREADY A+
GRADED||<<RECENT VERSION>>
SCA - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration and Analysis snap-in tool. Secedit.exe
cli version of tool. Compare computer policies against a template.
SCA - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration and Analysis Tool
SCA - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration and Analysis Tool
Scanning - ANSWER ✓ Ping, Nikto, Netcat, nmap.
Scanning - ANSWER ✓ Advanced probing of the target for vulnerabilities that
can be easily exploited. Network mapping, port mapping, vulnerability scanning,
OS fingerprinting, war dialing, wireless scanning.
Scanport - ANSWER ✓ Port scan tool
SCCM - ANSWER ✓ M$ System Center Configuration Manager used for CM of
BYOD devices. Integrates with InTune
Schema - ANSWER ✓ Defines all possible types of objects and their attributes in
the directory.
schtasks.exe - ANSWER ✓ Task Scheduler. CLI, PowerShell or MMC.
,scw.exe - ANSWER ✓ Deprecated. Moved into Server Manager tool in Server
2016. Not available in client OSes.
SCW.exe - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration Wizard
scwcmd.exe - ANSWER ✓ cli version of SCW. Used on Server OSes. Great for
auditing and creating a GPO from an XML policy file.
scwcmd.exe - ANSWER ✓ cli version of Security Configuration Wizard
(scw.exe).
SDCs - ANSWER ✓ Self Driving Cars
SDN - ANSWER ✓ Software Defined Network
SEC - ANSWER ✓ Log analysis tool. Rule correlation and analysis of logs in
near real-time. Flexible. Hard to use. Correlate and alert.
Secedit - ANSWER ✓ Windows
secedit - ANSWER ✓ security template management. Secedit /configure /db
A:\dbase.sdb as PowerShell scripte to update security template, p145.
secedit.exe /analyze - ANSWER ✓ Comapares setttings of .inf Security
Templates.
Secret (Govt Classification) - ANSWER ✓
Secrets - ANSWER ✓ Don't build secrets into your code.
secure - ANSWER ✓ security-related messages like authentication failures,
possible break-in attempts, ssh logins, failed passwords, sshd logouts, and invalid
user accounts.
Secure Coding Basics - ANSWER ✓
Secure Simple Pairing (SSP) - ANSWER ✓ Uses public key cryptography to
make Bluetooth pairing more secure. Added in Bluetooth 2.1.
,Secure Web Development - ANSWER ✓
Security - ANSWER ✓ All about understanding, managing and mitigating risk.
What is the risk? Is this the highest priority risk? Is this the most cost-effective way
of reducing the risk?
Security as a Service - ANSWER ✓ Barriers are compliance, multi-tenancy and
vendor lock-in. Multi-tenancy presents concerns of data leakage between virtual
instances. Providers should take extra precautions to ensure data is
compartmentalized and any data shared is anonymous to protect the identity of the
source.
Security Association - ANSWER ✓ Critical part of IPSec. They document
common services, called transforms, that are particular to an IPSec connection.
Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) - ANSWER ✓ Security Configuration
Wizard gui wizard to disable uneeded services, Windows Firewall, IPSec policies,
IIS web stuff, etc for selected roles on older Windows OSes. XML policy.
Security Event Log & Audit Policies - ANSWER ✓
Security Event Log and Audit Policies - ANSWER ✓
Security Log - ANSWER ✓ List of Key Event ID Numbers
Security Policy - ANSWER ✓ Protects organization, the people and the
information. Establishes what must be done to protect information stored on
computers. Protects people who are trying to do the right thing. Policies are the
laws of an organization that set the boundaries of what is and is not acceptable.
Security Policy - ANSWER ✓ Establishes what you must do to protect
information. Used to help identify, measure and evaluate how. Strategic.
Security Utilities - ANSWER ✓
sed - ANSWER ✓ Parses and transforms text. One of earliest tools to support
regex.
, sed -n '1,5p' license.txt - ANSWER ✓ Sed will print first five lines of the
license.txt file and will only print them once (-n)
sed -n '1~2' license.txt - ANSWER ✓ Sed will print every other line of license.txt
file.
Sefl-encrypting HDD - ANSWER ✓ Must support TCG Opal 2.0 and IEEE-1667
and motherboard must support UEFI Secure Boot to use BitLocker for access
control.
SELinux - ANSWER ✓ Supports role-based access controls
SELinux - ANSWER ✓ Security Enhanced Linux is a loadable kernel module
that provides mandatory access control policies. Security model is based on least
privilege and starts with users having no rights at all. It doesn't replace existing
Linux security, it enhances it. Good for systems that have default "allow."
SELinux Policy - ANSWER ✓
Semi-Public - ANSWER ✓ DMZ. Resources that are our contributions to
Internet. Must be reachable from the Internet and also need Internet access (eg
DNS, email). Cannot contain sensitive information.
Sensitive Information - ANSWER ✓ Must reside on private network. Not visible
from Internet.
Separation - ANSWER ✓ Separate test VMs from production VMs.
Separation of Duties - ANSWER ✓ Break critical task across multiple people to
limit your points of exposure. No single person can make a decision.
Server Core - ANSWER ✓ 5GB size. Server 2008 or later.
Server Editions - ANSWER ✓ Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Small Business
and Server Essentials
