iSQI CSET-F Exam Prep
A4Q Certified Selenium Tester Foundation (Page 2 )

• B — AWS DataSync: Transfers data between storage systems, such as S3, file systems, and on-premises storage. It is not a marketplace or catalog for third-party datasets.
• C — Kinesis Data Streams and CodeCommit: CodeCommit is a source-code repository, not a third-party data provider. Kinesis is for streaming data ingestion.
• D — Kinesis Data Streams and ECR: ECR stores container images, not datasets. Kinesis does not provide access to ECR data as an external dataset source.

• Correct answer: A
• What this is saying: You need to write a Transact-SQL query that uses REGEXP_SUBSTR to extract the ID from MessageText, and you should apply STRING_ESCAPE(MessageText, 'json') before calling REGEXP_SUBSTR.

• MessageText may contain JSON characters (quotes, backslashes, etc.). Escaping the JSON content first ensures the string you pass to the regex is safe and won’t confuse the regex engine.
• The pattern you apply with REGEXP_SUBSTR would then extract the first substring that matches your ID pattern from the (escaped) text.

• Example (conceptual):

• The question implies REGEXP_SUBSTR is available in this environment; some SQL Server and Fabric contexts don’t expose it natively in all versions. If REGEXP_SUBSTR isn’t available, you’d need an alternative approach (e.g., using built-in regex-like capabilities or CLR/UDFs).
• If you need the ID specifically from the first paragraph, you might first isolate the first paragraph and then apply REGEXP_SUBSTR, or compose a single pattern that anchors to the first paragraph.

• A: Security groups do not control traffic to an S3 gateway endpoint in this way. Gateway endpoints are configured through route tables.
• B: An S3 bucket policy may be needed for authorization, but the error specifically indicates a connectivity or endpoint-routing problem.
• C: Glue connection settings do not require a fully qualified domain name to resolve this endpoint issue.

• Amazon GuardDuty: Detects suspicious activity and threats using security-related data sources; it is not primarily a software vulnerability scanner.
• Amazon Detective: Helps investigate and analyze the root cause of security findings after an event.
• Amazon Cognito: Provides user authentication and authorization for applications.

• What wipe does: A factory reset that erases all data, apps, and settings and returns the device to the OOBE. It removes the device from management and resets identity.
• Why not for this scenario: The goal is to repurpose the same device to a new user with Autopilot. Autopilot Reset keeps the device’s Azure AD/Intune identity and re-provisions the device for the next user without a full wipe.
• What Autopilot Reset does: Removes user data and apps but preserves device identity and management connection, then reapplies the Autopilot provisioning for the next user.
• When you’d use wipe instead: If you’re selling or permanently discarding the device, or you truly want to scrub all traces and start fresh without re-enrolling.

• The files are stored in a document library, which is exposed through the SharePoint Folder connector.
• The connector returns file metadata, including Folder Path, Name, and Content.
• In Power Query, filter Folder Path so only files in the manufacturing reports folder are retained.
• You can then combine the remaining Excel files because they all have the same structure.

• SharePoint List is for SharePoint lists, not document-library files.
• Combine & Load combines files immediately, before you filter to the required folder, and may include unwanted files.
• Transform gives you the opportunity to filter the file list first, which is more efficient and targeted.

• Define the contractor’s deliverables, responsibilities, acceptance criteria, and deadlines.
• Agree on a reporting cadence to monitor progress.
• Allow the local company to use its expertise and manage its own work.

• A: “Under the supervision of the project manager” suggests excessive direct control and is less empowering.
• B: Micromanaging prevents the contractor from functioning independently and is inefficient.
• D: Deploying the contractor’s staff under the PM’s supervision creates a staffing/control arrangement rather than empowering the contracted company.

• Startup scripts run at computer startup, before any user logs on, making them ideal for machine-wide configuration on each new VM.
• They execute under the Local System account, which is appropriate for initial setup tasks.
• Linking a GPO to the OU ensures every new VM in that domain automatically receives the configuration—great for scalability.

• A) SetupComplete.cmd runs only once, right after Windows Setup, not on every boot, so it isn’t ideal for provisioning multiple VMs consistently.
• B) Logon scripts run per user, not per machine, so they aren’t reliable for initial VM configuration before a user signs in.
• D) Placing scripts in a VHD doesn’t automatically execute them.

• Increase/decrease the number of epochs: Changes how long training runs, but does not reuse a pre-trained model.
• Unsupervised learning: Trains from unlabeled data and does not specifically address adapting an existing model.

• Why: If an application on EC2 needs to call other AWS services, using an IAM role (attached to the EC2 instance as an instance profile) provides temporary, automatically rotated credentials. This avoids embedding access keys in the application.
• How it works: Create a role with the minimum required permissions, attach it to the EC2 instance, and let the AWS SDK used by the application retrieve credentials from the instance metadata service. The credentials rotate automatically and are scoped to the policy you define.
• Why not other options:

• Drop violating frames
• Log or alert on the violation
• Shut down or restrict the port

• Load balancer: Distributes application traffic; it does not control switch MAC learning.
• IPS: May detect some network attacks but is not the primary control for switch MAC-table exhaustion.
• NGFW: Protects traffic crossing network boundaries, while MAC flooding occurs at the switching/LAN layer.

• Ensure that only users who manage the production environment sign in to the Azure portal from a hybrid Entra-joined device and authenticate with MFA.

• Use Microsoft Entra ID Protection (Identity Protection) to enforce MFA enrollment:

• Update the existing Capolicy1 (a Conditional Access policy):

• Identity Protection MFA registration policy ensures users are enrolled in MFA (Box 1 choice).
• CA policy Capolicy1 with aGrant control of “Require MFA” enforces MFA during sign-in (Box 2 choice).
• Both work together with the hybrid-joined device requirement to satisfy the authentication/authorization rules.

• Apply the MFA registration policy to the production-management users.
• Apply the MFA grant to Capolicy1 for those same users/groups.

• Correct answer: D (Special category data)

• Why:

• Quick notes:

• Phishing can map to two MITRE ATT&CK tactics depending on the attacker’s objective.

• Therefore, phishing isn’t confined to a single tactic; it can serve both Reconnaissance and Initial Access, which is why option D (Reconnaissance, Initial Access) is correct.

• Enable the owner dimension
• Allocate a standard costing inventory model

• Owner dimension (B): This dimension Lets you track who owns the stock. By enabling the owner dimension, items can be configured as either company owned or consignment (vendor-owned) when you create or edit items. Without enabling this dimension, you can’t designate ownership per item.
• Standard costing inventory model (D): Selecting a costing model determines how item costs are calculated and posted. Standard costing provides a fixed cost per unit, which is commonly used for agreed pricing scenarios like consignment arrangements for easier accounting and valuation. It helps ensure consistent cost treatment across transactions for items that can be owned by the company or on consignment.

• Batch dimension (A): Batch tracking is unrelated to ownership and isn’t required to support company-owned vs. consignment configurations.
• Moving average costing (C): This is an alternative costing method. It’s not required to enable ownership config, and the exam’s expected choice focuses on standard costing for this scenario.

• State is stored remotely in Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, not as a local file.
• Terraform runs (plan/apply) can be executed on remote infrastructure, with results visible in the remote workspace UI.
• Supports workspace-based organization, state locking, and concurrency control.
• Useful for team collaboration, centralized governance, and auditable logs.

• In your configuration, you use a backend block like backend "remote" { ... }.
• You still run terraform init to configure/migrate to the remote backend.
• After setup, terraform plan/terraform apply may be executed remotely, and the outputs/logs appear in the Terraform Cloud/Enterprise UI rather than (only) in your local terminal.

• Other backends store state remotely but typically do not provide remote execution; with the remote backend you get remote runs and a collaborative UI, not just remote state storage.

• Multi-factor authentication
• A secure password change for users whose credentials may be compromised

• The diagnostic output shows that the protocol is TCP (proto=6) and the session state is 2.
• In FortiGate’s session output, state=2 maps to SYN_SENT. This means the TCP SYN has been sent but the handshake hasn’t completed yet.
• Therefore, the session is not ESTABLISHED, FIN/ACK-related states, or other states; it’s in SYN_SENT.

• Goal: serving a static website globally with minimal latency.
• Why C works: CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that caches content at many edge locations around the world. When users request the site, CloudFront serves cached copies from the nearest edge location, greatly reducing latency. It also reduces load on your EC2 origin by handling many requests at the edge.
• Why the other options aren’t as good:

• Why this is correct: In Azure Virtual Desktop, user access to a host pool is controlled through App Groups. The default app group for a host pool publishes the full desktop, so adding members to that app group grants them sign-in and access to the desktop (and any RemoteApps in that group). This is the standard way to give users access to AVD resources.

• Why the other options are not correct:

• Practical steps (high level):

• Customers access the portal without needing a full Dynamics 365 license.
• They submit case information through portal forms.
• The submitted data is stored in Dataverse tables, such as the Case table.
• Security is controlled using web roles and table permissions, so customers can access only appropriate records.

• Dynamics 365 Connector — connects apps to Dynamics 365 data but is not the portal’s underlying data platform.
• Microsoft SharePoint — useful for documents and collaboration, not the standard case-management data source for portals.
• Microsoft Azure Storage — stores files or other data, but is not the native portal business-data platform.

1. Define Power Platform DLP policies
2. Add custom prompt modifications
3. Conduct adversarial testing

1. DLP policies first

1. Prompt modifications second

1. Adversarial testing last

• AWS IoT Greengrass supports local ML inference using models trained in Amazon SageMaker.
• The model and inference code run on the factory’s local server, so processing continues even when internet connectivity is unavailable.
• A Greengrass component can:

• This provides low latency and avoids sending images to AWS for every inference.

• A: Uses AWS-hosted services and therefore depends on internet connectivity. It would fail during an outage.
• C: Snowball Edge is unnecessary for this use case and adds deployment complexity. A local Greengrass server is the intended edge-inference solution.
• D: Amazon Monitron is designed for monitoring industrial equipment health, not analyzing camera images with a custom SageMaker model.

• Step 1: From Power BI Desktop, select Get Data, choose Folder, enter the folder path, and click OK, then choose Transform data to open Power Query Editor.

• Step 2: In Power Query Editor, expand the Attributes column.

• Step 3: From the Power Query Editor, select the Content column and use Home > Combine Files (aka “Combine binaries”) to consolidate the files.

• Enable the owner dimension

• Assign a standard costing inventory model

• Batch dimension tracks batches or lots, such as expiration or production batches. It does not identify inventory ownership.
• Moving average is a costing method, but it is not the required choice for this consignment configuration.

• The correct answer is A: CCTV recordings are not regularly reviewed.

• CCTV is a monitoring/control mechanism. If recordings aren’t reviewed, security events (break-ins, policy violations, equipment tampering) can go undetected and unaddressed.
• Regular review is essential for deterrence, incident response, and forensic evidence. Without it, the entire CCTV control provides little value.

• B (records deleted after one year) affects forensic availability, but it’s a data-retention issue rather than the ongoing effectiveness of the surveillance program.
• C (footage not recorded 24x7) creates gaps in coverage, which is a concern, but regular review of available footage still supports detection; 24x7 coverage is a separate policy/perimeter issue.
• D (cameras not in break rooms) is more about privacy and space planning than core data-center security monitoring.

• The explanation states that Traffic Analytics can be enabled by a user with one of these subscription-level roles:

• Question 34 — Network Contributor: Yes
• Question 35 — Owner: Yes
• Question 36 — Reader: Yes, according to the stated explanation and documentation

• Answer: A

• Reason: The Standard web tier is the lowest tier that provides dedicated compute, built-in load balancing across instances, and sufficient storage to host multiple apps with custom domains. Basic may lack the required scalability/storage, while Free/Shared do not offer dedicated compute or proper load balancing.

• Ethical red-teaming is adversarial testing aimed at uncovering weaknesses and potential exploits in an AI system before deployment.
• A (improving accuracy) is not the primary?? of red-teaming.
• B (simulate model risk scenarios) is related but narrower; red-teaming centers on finding vulnerabilities and risk exposure, not just simulating risks.
• D (ensure compliance) is not the main goal of red-teaming.

Simple explanation

• The Azure VPN gateway to connect to
• Authentication settings
• Routes for networks that the client can access

• Question 142: Security governance is MOST associated with which IT infrastructure component? Network / Application / Platform / Process
• Answer: D. Process

• Security governance is about how decisions are made, accountability, and oversight to ensure security objectives align with business goals. These are implemented through governance processes (policy development, risk management, assurance, monitoring, escalation, etc.).
• The other options (Network, Application, Platform) are concrete IT components; governance affects them, but it’s exercised primarily through the processes that govern how those components are managed and controlled.

• In governance-related questions, focus on the decision-making, accountability, and control processes rather than the underlying technology components.

• Co to znaczy: transakcje zachowuja sie tak, jakby byly wykonywane jeden po drugim. Dzieki temu nie ma brudnych odczytów, niepowtarzalnych odczytów ani phantom reads.

• Implementacja: PostgreSQL uzywa SSI (Serializable Snapshot Isolation). W praktyce oznacza to, ze jesli wykryje konflikt miedzy transakcjami, jedna z nich zostanie zakonczona bledem “serialization failure” i trzeba ja ponowic.

• Zalózmy tabele orders(customer_id int, amount int).

• Transakcja T1:

• Transakcja T2, równoczesnie:

• T1 ponownie wykonuje to zapytanie:

• A: True. You can change the size of a Virtual Warehouse after creation (via UI or ALTER WAREHOUSE).

• B: True. A warehouse can be resized while it’s running; the resize will take effect without needing to stop queries.

• C: True. A warehouse can be configured to suspend after a period of inactivity (AUTO_SUSPEND).

• D: True. A warehouse can be configured to auto-resume when new queries are submitted (AUTO_RESUME).

• Basic: billing/subscription support only; no technical support requests can be opened.
• Developer, Standard, Professional Direct, and Premier: include technical support and allow opening new support requests.

• If option A corresponds to “Developer, Standard, Professional Direct, Premier,” that is the correct choice.
• If the option text is really “Premier only,” that would be incorrect per current Azure docs.

• Answer: A — EC2 Image Builder

• Why: EC2 Image Builder is AWS’s fully managed service designed to automate the creation, testing, and ongoing management of custom EC2 AMIs. It lets you build image pipelines that start from a base image, apply software/components, run tests, and publish/distribute the resulting AMIs across regions or accounts.

• How it works (high level):

• Why not the other options:

• Quick tip: Use EC2 Image Builder to reduce manual image maintenance and drift, and to enforce consistent, tested base images across environments.

• Pay-as-you-go in Azure is an operating expense (OPEX) model, not an “elastic” expenditure model.
• Elastic or scalable terms describe capacity planning, not the cost category. The cost should be treated as OPEX since you pay for usage each month.
• The parallel question (Question 12) shows the correct approach is using an operational expenditure model.

• The correct AAA mapping (per Cisco objectives) is:

• Why the given options aren’t fully correct:

• Quick takeaway: when you configure AAA, you should conceptually map them as:

• Example commands (to reinforce concepts):

• Disabling GPS: Affects location services, not email connectivity.
• Configuring 4G usage only: Does not enable international data access and could prevent connectivity if 4G is unavailable.
• Connecting using a hotspot: Could provide data, but it is not the most direct solution and depends on another network or device.

• S3 Versioning stores all versions of an object. If an object is overwritten or deleted, you can recover the previous version using its version ID.
• This protects against accidental deletion or overwriting because the original data remains accessible as an older version.
• How to enable:

• Practical notes:

• S3 Lifecycle rules: automate moving/expiring data, not specifically protection against deletion.
• S3 bucket policies: control access but don’t inherently preserve previous data.
• S3 server-side encryption: protects data at rest, not against deletion/overwrite.

• Correct answer: C — The model is deployed at UK border checkpoints.

• The EU AI Act applies to AI systems used within the EU or by entities established in the EU. So:

• A single Construction Job can use multiple Machinery records.
• A single Machinery record may be used on multiple Construction Jobs.
• This is a many-to-many relationship, which Salesforce models using a junction object.
• The junction object can contain fields such as:

• Master-detail to Machinery
• Master-detail to Construction Job
• Date and cost fields

• A — IDS attack signatures: An IDS generally detects suspicious network activity but does not necessarily scan uploaded PDF files or prevent them from being accepted.
• C — Load balancer: Distributes traffic among servers; it does not inspect files for malware.
• D — WAF command-injection blocking: A WAF can help block web attacks such as command injection, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting, but this option does not specifically address malicious PDF uploads.

• Goal: Guests should not use cameras, but company users can.
• Correct configuration: Guest access settings in the Org-wide settings.

• External access: Controls external-domain communication, not guest capabilities inside Teams.
• Teams settings in Org-wide settings: Too generic; doesn’t specifically target guest capabilities.
• Audio & Video in the default Meeting Policy: Would affect everyone assigned to that policy. To meet the requirement without impacting internal users, you’d need separate policies or guest-specific settings; the exam focuses on the guest-access policy.

• Port 515: LPD/LPR line-printer service
• Port 631: IPP — Internet Printing Protocol
• Port 9100: JetDirect/RAW printing, commonly used by network printers

• Linux machine: Linux could run these services, but the three printer-specific ports strongly indicate a printer.
• Router: Routers may use Telnet and HTTP, but normally would not expose ports 515, 631, and 9100 together.
• Windows machine: Windows can share printers, but this particular service combination is more characteristic of a network printer’s embedded operating system.

sql 
GRANT ALTER ON SCHEMA::schemaA TO User1;

• TRUNCATE TABLE is a DDL operation, not a normal DELETE.
• Having DELETE permission on a table is not sufficient to truncate it.
• The minimum relevant permission is ALTER on the table.
• Granting ALTER on SCHEMA::schemaA allows the user to truncate tables within schemaA.
• It does not grant equivalent permissions on schemaB or schemaC, satisfying least privilege.

• IPsec: Protects traffic at the network layer, commonly for VPNs; it is not WPA2’s authentication protocol.
• SSL: Protects specific application sessions and has largely been replaced by TLS.
• SSH: Secures remote command-line administration.

• A. Implement retries with exponential backoff

• C. Reduce the frequency and/or size of requests

• B. Use PutRecord instead of PutRecords — PutRecord sends one record per call and does not remove the underlying throughput limitation. It may increase request overhead.
• D. Use Amazon SNS instead — SNS is not a direct fix for Kinesis shard throttling and changes the required streaming architecture.
• E. Reduce KCL consumers — KCL consumers read from Kinesis; they do not solve producer-side PutRecords throttling.

• Answer: D) Out-of-band management

• Why this is correct:

• Why the other options aren’t suitable here:

• I can’t view the images, so I can’t tell which table is labeled as A in your screenshot. But here’s how to decide:

• How to identify the fact table:

• How to identify the surrogate key in the Patient table:

• Relationship: