Cisco 100-160 Certification Sample Questions and Answers

Cisco 100-160 sample questions for Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Cybersecurity preparationThe Cisco 100-160 Certification Sample Questions on this page help you become familiar with the question style and knowledge areas of the Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Cybersecurity exam. Each question is written to reflect the syllabus topics and the level of understanding the certification expects, so you can see how theoretical concepts are tested in practice. Working through them lets you check your understanding, identify topics that need further study, and get comfortable interpreting certification-style questions before you sit the official exam.

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Cisco 100-160 (CCST Cybersecurity) Sample Questions:

01. While reviewing a host, an analyst wants to separate an indicator of compromise (IoC) from a vulnerability.
Which observation is an IoC rather than a vulnerability?
a) A service configured to allow weak, easily guessed passwords
b) An unrecognized administrator account that was created on the host overnight
c) An open network port running an outdated application version
d) An operating system that is missing several months of security patches
 
02. Which tool category is commonly used to identify network vulnerabilities?
a) Email clients
b) Word processors
c) Vulnerability assessment and scanning tools
d) Presentation software
 
03. During an incident, a responder deletes the malicious accounts the attacker created, removes the installed malware, and closes the software flaw that was exploited.
Which incident response phase do these actions belong to?
a) Eradication
b) Recovery
c) Containment
d) Detection and analysis
 
04. Two people who have never communicated before need to protect messages sent over the public internet. They have no secure channel to agree on a shared secret key in advance, so they need a way to exchange keys safely with someone they have not met.
Which cryptographic approach is designed to solve this key-exchange problem?
a) Steganography
b) Asymmetric (public-key) encryption
c) Hashing
d) Symmetric encryption alone
 
05. Which finding is most clearly a security weakness that a risk assessment could identify?
a) Approved software running as expected
b) Documented security policies being followed correctly
c) Misconfigured access controls on sensitive systems
d) A planned maintenance window on the calendar
 
06. Employees near a company office report a second wireless network advertising the same SSID as the corporate Wi-Fi but requiring no password. Devices that connect to it can still reach the internet, yet a technician confirms the company operates only one authorized access point.
Which attack does this scenario most likely describe?
a) An evil-twin (rogue access point) attack
b) A SQL injection attack
c) A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack
d) A port-scanning reconnaissance attack
 
07. An analyst confirms that a workstation is infected with a worm that is actively spreading to other systems across the local network.
Before removing the malware, what should the analyst do first?
a) Document the timeline of events in a lessons-learned report
b) Reimage the workstation immediately to remove the worm
c) Restore the workstation's files from the most recent backup
d) Isolate the workstation from the network to stop the worm from spreading
 
08. Which activity belongs in the preparation phase of incident handling?
a) Waiting for an incident before defining procedures
b) Developing and maintaining the incident response plan and team readiness
c) Skipping planning to shorten response time later
d) Deleting all historical logs before incidents occur
 
09. Concerned that employees may fall for phishing, an organization deploys an email-filtering system and rolls out mandatory security-awareness training to reduce the chance of a successful attack.
Which risk treatment strategy is the organization applying?
a) Risk transfer
b) Risk avoidance
c) Risk mitigation
d) Risk acceptance
 
10. After a suspicious event is detected, what action is most important first?
a) Validate the event, begin analysis, and escalate according to the incident response process if required
b) Skip analysis and erase all logs
c) Restore all systems before containment decisions are made
d) Publish a final incident report immediately

Answers:

Question: 01

Answer: b

Question: 02

Answer: c

Question: 03

Answer: a

Question: 04

Answer: b

Question: 05

Answer: c

Question: 06

Answer: a

Question: 07

Answer: d

Question: 08

Answer: b

Question: 09

Answer: c

Question: 10

Answer: a

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