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CyberSec First Responder®

Provider
Pearson VUE; test centers or Pearson OnVUE
Format
Multiple Choice/Multiple Response
Exam questions
Total questions: 80.
Time limit
120 minutes including 5 minutes for the Candidate Agreement and 5 minutes for the Pearson VUE tutorial
Passing score
70% or 73% depending on exam form; forms have been statistically equated
Examination outline
  • Identify (22%)
    • Identify assets (applications, workstations, servers, appliances, operating systems, and others).
    • Identify factors that affect the tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination architecture’s form and function.
    • Identify and evaluate vulnerabilities and threat actors.
    • Identify applicable compliance, standards, frameworks, and best practices for privacy.
    • Identify applicable compliance, standards, frameworks, and best practices for security.
    • Identify and conduct vulnerability assessment processes.
    • Establish relationships between internal teams and external groups like law enforcement agencies and vendors.
  • Protect (24%)
    • Analyze and report system security posture trends.
    • Apply security policies to meet the system’s cybersecurity objectives and defend against cyber attacks and intrusions.
    • Collaborate across internal and external organizational lines to enhance the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information.
    • Employ approved defense-in-depth principles and practices.
    • Develop and implement cybersecurity independent audit processes.
    • Ensure that plans of action are in place for vulnerabilities identified during risk assessments, audits, and inspections.
    • Protect organizational resources through security updates.
    • Protect identity management and access control within the organization, including physical and remote access.
  • Detect (18%)
    • Analyze common indicators of potential compromise, anomalies, and patterns.
    • Perform analysis of log files from various sources to identify possible threats to network security.
    • Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.
    • Take appropriate action to document and escalate incidents that may cause an ongoing and immediate impact on the environment.
    • Determine the extent of threats and recommend courses of action or countermeasures to mitigate risks.
  • Respond (19%)
    • Execute the incident response process.
    • Collect and seize documentary or physical evidence and create a forensically sound duplicate that ensures the original evidence is not unintentionally modified to use for data recovery and analysis processes.
    • Correlate incident data and create reports.
    • Implement system security measures in accordance with established procedures.
    • Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of intrusion sets.
    • Interface with internal teams and external organizations to ensure appropriate and accurate dissemination of incident information.
  • Recover (17%)
    • Implement recovery planning processes and procedures to restore systems and assets affected by cybersecurity incidents.
    • Implement specific cybersecurity countermeasures for systems and applications.
    • Review forensic images and other data sources for recovery of potentially relevant information.
    • Provide advice and input for disaster recovery, contingency, and continuity of operations plans.
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