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SY0-701 CompTIA Security+ Exam 2025 Questions and Answers

Questions 4

An administrator wants to perform a risk assessment without using proprietary company information. Which of the following methods should the administrator use to gather information?

Options:

A.

Network scanning

B.

Penetration testing

C.

Open-source intelligence

D.

Configuration auditing

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Questions 5

Which of the following methods would most likely be used to identify legacy systems?

Options:

A.

Bug bounty program

B.

Vulnerability scan

C.

Package monitoring

D.

Dynamic analysis

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Questions 6

Which of the following considerations is the most important for an organization to evaluate as it establishes and maintains a data privacy program?

Options:

A.

Reporting structure for the data privacy officer

B.

Request process for data subject access

C.

Role as controller or processor

D.

Physical location of the company

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Questions 7

Which of the following involves an attempt to take advantage of database misconfigurations?

Options:

A.

Buffer overflow

B.

SQL injection

C.

VM escape

D.

Memory injection

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Questions 8

A systems administrator receives an alert that a company's internal file server is very slow and is only working intermittently. The systems administrator reviews the server management software and finds the following information about the server:

Which of the following indicators most likely triggered this alert?

Options:

A.

Concurrent session usage

B.

Network saturation

C.

Account lockout

D.

Resource consumption

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Questions 9

Which of the following should a systems administrator use to ensure an easy deployment of resources within the cloud provider?

Options:

A.

Software as a service

B.

Infrastructure as code

C.

Internet of Things

D.

Software-defined networking

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Questions 10

Which of the following is the best way to validate the integrity and availability of a disaster recovery site?

Options:

A.

Lead a simulated failover.

B.

Conduct a tabletop exercise.

C.

Periodically test the generators.

D.

Develop requirements for database encryption.

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Questions 11

Which of the following describes the process of concealing code or text inside a graphical image?

Options:

A.

Symmetric encryption

B.

Hashing

C.

Data masking

D.

Steganography

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Questions 12

A systems administrator is concerned about vulnerabilities within cloud computing instances Which of the following is most important for the administrator to consider when architecting a cloud computing environment?

Options:

A.

SQL injection

B.

TOC/TOU

C.

VM escape

D.

Tokenization

E.

Password spraying

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Questions 13

A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors. Which of the following should the systems administrator use?

Options:

A.

Packet captures

B.

Vulnerability scans

C.

Metadata

D.

Dashboard

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Questions 14

Which of the following Is a common, passive reconnaissance technique employed by penetration testers in the early phases of an engagement?

Options:

A.

Open-source intelligence

B.

Port scanning

C.

Pivoting

D.

Exploit validation

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Questions 15

Cadets speaking a foreign language are using company phone numbers to make unsolicited phone calls lo a partner organization. A security analyst validates through phone system logs that the calls are occurring and the numbers are not being spoofed. Which of the following is the most likely explanation?

Options:

A.

The executive team is traveling internationally and trying to avoid roaming charges

B.

The company's SIP server security settings are weak.

C.

Disgruntled employees are making calls to the partner organization.

D.

The service provider has assigned multiple companies the same numbers

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Questions 16

A security operations center determines that the malicious activity detected on a server is normal. Which of the following activities describes the act of ignoring detected activity in the future?

Options:

A.

Tuning

B.

Aggregating

C.

Quarantining

D.

Archiving

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Questions 17

A growing organization, which hosts an externally accessible application, adds multiple virtual servers to improve application performance and decrease the resource usage on individual servers Which of the following solutions is the organization most likely to employ to further increase performance and availability?

Options:

A.

Load balancer

B.

Jump server

C.

Proxy server

D.

SD-WAN

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Questions 18

Several employees received a fraudulent text message from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The message stated:

“I’m in an airport right now with no access to email. I need you to buy gift cards for employee recognition awards. Please send the gift cards to following email address.”

Which of the following are the best responses to this situation? (Choose two).

Options:

A.

Cancel current employee recognition gift cards.

B.

Add a smishing exercise to the annual company training.

C.

Issue a general email warning to the company.

D.

Have the CEO change phone numbers.

E.

Conduct a forensic investigation on the CEO's phone.

F.

Implement mobile device management.

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Questions 19

Which of the following topics would most likely be included within an organization's SDLC?

Options:

A.

Service-level agreements

B.

Information security policy

C.

Penetration testing methodology

D.

Branch protection requirements

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Questions 20

Which of the following organizational documents is most often used to establish and communicate expectations associated with integrity and ethical behavior within an organization?

Options:

A.

AUP

B.

SLA

C.

EULA

D.

MOA

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Questions 21

A growing company would like to enhance the ability of its security operations center to detect threats but reduce the amount of manual work required tor the security analysts. Which of the following would best enable the reduction in manual work?

Options:

A.

SOAR

B.

SIEM

C.

MDM

D.

DLP

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Questions 22

Which of the following phases of an incident response involves generating reports?

Options:

A.

Recovery

B.

Preparation

C.

Lessons learned

D.

Containment

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Questions 23

Which of the following teams combines both offensive and defensive testing techniques to protect an organization's critical systems?

Options:

A.

Red

B.

Blue

C.

Purple

D.

Yellow

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Questions 24

Which of the following would best explain why a security analyst is running daily vulnerability scans on all corporate endpoints?

Options:

A.

To track the status of patching installations

B.

To find shadow IT cloud deployments

C.

To continuously the monitor hardware inventory

D.

To hunt for active attackers in the network

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Questions 25

A new employee logs in to the email system for the first time and notices a message from human resources about onboarding. The employee hovers over a few of the links within the email and discovers that the links do not correspond to links associated with the company. Which of the following attack vectors is most likely being used?

Options:

A.

Business email

B.

Social engineering

C.

Unsecured network

D.

Default credentials

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Questions 26

Which of the following documents details how to accomplish a technical security task?

Options:

A.

Standard

B.

Policy

C.

Guideline

D.

Procedure

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Questions 27

Which of the following actions best addresses a vulnerability found on a company's web server?

Options:

A.

Patching

B.

Segmentation

C.

Decommissioning

D.

Monitoring

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Questions 28

A systems administrator is auditing all company servers to ensure. They meet the minimum security baseline While auditing a Linux server, the systems administrator observes the /etc/shadow file has permissions beyond the baseline recommendation. Which of the following commands should the systems administrator use to resolve this issue?

Options:

A.

chmod

B.

grep

C.

dd

D.

passwd

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Questions 29

Which of the following describes the procedures a penetration tester must follow while conducting a test?

Options:

A.

Rules of engagement

B.

Rules of acceptance

C.

Rules of understanding

D.

Rules of execution

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Questions 30

Which of the following would be the most appropriate way to protect data in transit?

Options:

A.

SHA-256

B.

SSL 3.0

C.

TLS 1.3

D.

AES-256

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Questions 31

Which of the following control types is AUP an example of?

Options:

A.

Physical

B.

Managerial

C.

Technical

D.

Operational

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Questions 32

An organization has a new regulatory requirement to implement corrective controls on a financial system. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the new requirement?

Options:

A.

To defend against insider threats altering banking details

B.

To ensure that errors are not passed to other systems

C.

To allow for business insurance to be purchased

D.

To prevent unauthorized changes to financial data

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Questions 33

A systems administrator is concerned users are accessing emails through a duplicate site that is not run by the company. Which of the following is used in this scenario?

Options:

A.

Impersonation

B.

Replication

C.

Phishing

D.

Smishing

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Questions 34

A security team is setting up a new environment for hosting the organization's on-premises software application as a cloud-based service. Which of the following should the team ensure is in place in order for the organization to follow security best practices?

Options:

A.

Visualization and isolation of resources

B.

Network segmentation

C.

Data encryption

D.

Strong authentication policies

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Questions 35

A company wants to verify that the software the company is deploying came from the vendor the company purchased the software from. Which of the following is the best way for the company to confirm this information?

Options:

A.

Validate the code signature.

B.

Execute the code in a sandbox.

C.

Search the executable for ASCII strings.

D.

Generate a hash of the files.

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Questions 36

A company is currently utilizing usernames and passwords, and it wants to integrate an MFA method that is seamless, can Integrate easily into a user's workflow, and can utilize employee-owned devices. Which of the following will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Push notifications

B.

Phone call

C.

Smart card

D.

Offline backup codes

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Questions 37

An external vendor recently visited a company's headquarters tor a presentation. Following the visit a member of the hosting team found a file that the external vendor left behind on a server. The file contained detailed architecture information and code snippets. Which of the following data types best describes this file?

Options:

A.

Government

B.

Public

C.

Proprietary

D.

Critical

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Questions 38

A company is adding a clause to its AUP that states employees are not allowed to modify the operating system on mobile devices. Which of the following vulnerabilities is the organization addressing?

Options:

A.

Cross-site scripting

B.

Buffer overflow

C.

Jailbreaking

D.

Side loading

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Questions 39

Client files can only be accessed by employees who need to know the information and have specified roles in the company. Which of the following best describes this security concept?

Options:

A.

Availability

B.

Confidentiality

C.

Integrity

D.

Non-repudiation

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Questions 40

Which of the following explains why an attacker cannot easily decrypt passwords using a rainbow table attack?

Options:

A.

Digital signatures

B.

Salting

C.

Hashing

D.

Perfect forward secrecy

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Questions 41

Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?

Options:

A.

Firmware version

B.

Buffer overflow

C.

SQL injection

D.

Cross-site scripting

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Questions 42

An IT manager is increasing the security capabilities of an organization after a data classification initiative determined that sensitive data could be exfiltrated from the environment. Which of the following solutions would mitigate the risk?

Options:

A.

XDR

B.

SPF

C.

DLP

D.

DMARC

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Questions 43

A Chief Information Security Officer wants to monitor the company's servers for SQLi attacks and allow for comprehensive investigations if an attack occurs. The company uses SSL decryption to allow traffic monitoring. Which of the following strategies would best accomplish this goal?

Options:

A.

Logging all NetFlow traffic into a SIEM

B.

Deploying network traffic sensors on the same subnet as the servers

C.

Logging endpoint and OS-specific security logs

D.

Enabling full packet capture for traffic entering and exiting the servers

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Questions 44

An enterprise is trying to limit outbound DNS traffic originating from its internal network. Outbound DNS requests will only be allowed from one device with the IP address 10.50.10.25. Which of the following firewall ACLs will accomplish this goal?

Options:

A.

Access list outbound permit 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53Access list outbound deny 10.50.10.25/32 0.0.0.0/0 port 53

B.

Access list outbound permit 0.0.0.0/0 10.50.10.25/32 port 53Access list outbound deny 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53

C.

Access list outbound permit 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53Access list outbound deny 0.0.0.0/0 10.50.10.25/32 port 53

D.

Access list outbound permit 10.50.10.25/32 0.0.0.0/0 port 53Access list outbound deny 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 port 53

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Questions 45

After failing an audit twice, an organization has been ordered by a government regulatory agency to pay fines. Which of the following caused this action?

Options:

A.

Non-compliance

B.

Contract violations

C.

Government sanctions

D.

Rules of engagement

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Questions 46

Which of the following factors are the most important to address when formulating a training curriculum plan for a security awareness program? (Select two).

Options:

A.

Channels by which the organization communicates with customers

B.

The reporting mechanisms for ethics violations

C.

Threat vectors based on the industry in which the organization operates

D.

Secure software development training for all personnel

E.

Cadence and duration of training events

F.

Retraining requirements for individuals who fail phishing simulations

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Questions 47

Which of the following would best prepare a security team for a specific incident response scenario?

Options:

A.

Situational awareness

B.

Risk assessment

C.

Root cause analysis

D.

Tabletop exercise

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Questions 48

Sine© a recent upgrade (o a WLAN infrastructure, several mobile users have been unable to access the internet from the lobby. The networking team performs a heat map survey of the building and finds several WAPs in the area. The WAPs are using similar frequencies with high power settings. Which of the following installation considerations should the security team evaluate next?

Options:

A.

Channel overlap

B.

Encryption type

C.

New WLAN deployment

D.

WAP placement

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Questions 49

Which of the following has been implemented when a host-based firewall on a legacy Linux system allows connections from only specific internal IP addresses?

Options:

A.

Compensating control

B.

Network segmentation

C.

Transfer of risk

D.

SNMP traps

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Questions 50

Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be hired by a foreign government to attack critical systems located in other countries?

Options:

A.

Hacktivist

B.

Whistleblower

C.

Organized crime

D.

Unskilled attacker

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Questions 51

Which of the following activities is the first stage in the incident response process?

Options:

A.

Detection

B.

Declaration

C.

Containment

D.

Vacation

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Questions 52

A company is using a legacy FTP server to transfer financial data to a third party. The legacy system does not support SFTP, so a compensating control is needed to protect the sensitive, financial data in transit. Which of the following would be the most appropriate for the company to use?

Options:

A.

Telnet connection

B.

SSH tunneling

C.

Patch installation

D.

Full disk encryption

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Questions 53

Which of the following is the main consideration when a legacy system that is a critical part of a company's infrastructure cannot be replaced?

Options:

A.

Resource provisioning

B.

Cost

C.

Single point of failure

D.

Complexity

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Questions 54

A security consultant is working with a client that wants to physically isolate its secure systems. Which of the following best describes this architecture?

Options:

A.

SDN

B.

Air gapped

C.

Containerized

D.

Highly available

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Questions 55

Which of the following is the most effective way to protect an application server running software that is no longer supported from network threats?

Options:

A.

Air gap

B.

Barricade

C.

Port security

D.

Screen subnet

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Questions 56

During a recent company safety stand-down, the cyber-awareness team gave a presentation on the importance of cyber hygiene. One topic the team covered was best practices for printing centers. Which of the following describes an attack method that relates to printing centers?

Options:

A.

Whaling

B.

Credential harvesting

C.

Prepending

D.

Dumpster diving

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Questions 57

A legacy device is being decommissioned and is no longer receiving updates or patches. Which of the following describes this scenario?

Options:

A.

End of business

B.

End of testing

C.

End of support

D.

End of life

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Questions 58

A security analyst has determined that a security breach would have a financial impact of $15,000 and is expected to occur twice within a three-year period. Which of the following is the ALE for this risk?

Options:

A.

$7,500

B.

$10,000

C.

$15,000

D.

$30,000

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Questions 59

Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?

Options:

A.

To gather loCs for the investigation

B.

To discover which systems have been affected

C.

To eradicate any trace of malware on the network

D.

To prevent future incidents of the same nature

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Questions 60

A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks. Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

Options:

A.

A thorough analysis of the supply chain

B.

A legally enforceable corporate acquisition policy

C.

A right to audit clause in vendor contracts and SOWs

D.

An in-depth penetration test of all suppliers and vendors

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Questions 61

Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Select two).

Options:

A.

Ease of recovery

B.

Ability to patch

C.

Physical isolation

D.

Responsiveness

E.

Attack surface

F.

Extensible authentication

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Questions 62

The private key for a website was stolen, and a new certificate has been issued. Which of the following needs to be updated next?

Options:

A.

SCEP

B.

CRL

C.

OCSP

D.

CSR

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Questions 63

A security analyst and the management team are reviewing the organizational performance of a recent phishing campaign. The user click-through rate exceeded the acceptable risk threshold, and the management team wants to reduce the impact when a user clicks on a link in a phishing message. Which of the following should the analyst do?

Options:

A.

Place posters around the office to raise awareness of common phishing activities.

B.

Implement email security filters to prevent phishing emails from being delivered

C.

Update the EDR policies to block automatic execution of downloaded programs.

D.

Create additional training for users to recognize the signs of phishing attempts.

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Questions 64

A company is developing a business continuity strategy and needs to determine how many staff members would be required to sustain the business in the case of a disruption. Which of the following best describes this step?

Options:

A.

Capacity planning

B.

Redundancy

C.

Geographic dispersion

D.

Tablet exercise

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Questions 65

A business needs a recovery site but does not require immediate failover. The business also wants to reduce the workload required to recover from an outage. Which of the following recovery sites is the best option?

Options:

A.

Hot

B.

Cold

C.

Warm

D.

Geographically dispersed

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Questions 66

Which of the following are the best for hardening end-user devices? (Selecttwo)

Options:

A.

Full disk encryption

B.

Group-level permissions

C.

Account lockout

D.

Endpoint protection

E.

Proxy server

F.

Segmentation

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Questions 67

Which of the following should an organization focus on the most when making decisions about vulnerability prioritization?

Options:

A.

Exposure factor

B.

CVSS

C.

CVE

D.

Industry impact

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Questions 68

Which of the following is used to quantitatively measure the criticality of a vulnerability?

Options:

A.

CVE

B.

CVSS

C.

CIA

D.

CERT

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Questions 69

An administrator assists the legal and compliance team with ensuring information about customer transactions is archived for the proper time period. Which of the following data policies is the administrator carrying out?

Options:

A.

Compromise

B.

Retention

C.

Analysis

D.

Transfer

E.

Inventory

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Questions 70

Which of the following is the most likely to be included as an element of communication in a security awareness program?

Options:

A.

Reporting phishing attempts or other suspicious activities

B.

Detecting insider threats using anomalous behavior recognition

C.

Verifying information when modifying wire transfer data

D.

Performing social engineering as part of third-party penetration testing

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Questions 71

An analyst is reviewing an incident in which a user clicked on a link in a phishing email. Which of the following log sources would the analyst utilize to determine whether the connection was successful?

Options:

A.

Network

B.

System

C.

Application

D.

Authentication

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Questions 72

Which of the following is a benefit of an RTO when conducting a business impact analysis?

Options:

A.

It determines the likelihood of an incident and its cost.

B.

It determines the roles and responsibilities for incident responders.

C.

It determines the state that systems should be restored to following an incident.

D.

It determines how long an organization can tolerate downtime after an incident.

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Questions 73

A technician wants to improve the situational and environmental awareness of existing users as they transition from remote to in-office work. Which of the following is the best option?

Options:

A.

Send out periodic security reminders.

B.

Update the content of new hire documentation.

C.

Modify the content of recurring training.D Implement a phishing campaign

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Questions 74

Which of the following roles, according to the shared responsibility model, is responsible for securing the company’s database in an IaaS model for a cloud environment?

Options:

A.

Client

B.

Third-party vendor

C.

Cloud provider

D.

DBA

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Questions 75

Which of the following would be the greatest concern for a company that is aware of the consequences of non-compliance with government regulations?

Options:

A.

Right to be forgotten

B.

Sanctions

C.

External compliance reporting

D.

Attestation

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Questions 76

A malicious insider from the marketing team alters records and transfers company funds to a personal account. Which of the following methods would be the best way to secure company records in the future?

Options:

A.

Permission restrictions

B.

Hashing

C.

Input validation

D.

Access control list

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Questions 77

An organization needs to monitor its users' activities to prevent insider threats. Which of the following solutions would help the organization achieve this goal?

Options:

A.

Behavioral analytics

B.

Access control lists

C.

Identity and access management

D.

Network intrusion detection system

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Questions 78

A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register. Which of the following strategies does this represent?

Options:

A.

Accept

B.

Transfer

C.

Mitigate

D.

Avoid

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Questions 79

The Cruel Information Security Officer (CISO) asks a security analyst to install an OS update to a production VM that has a 99% uptime SLA. The CISO tells me analyst the installation must be done as quickly as possible. Which of the following courses of action should the security analyst take first?

Options:

A.

Log in to the server and perform a health check on the VM.

B.

Install the patch Immediately.

C.

Confirm that the backup service is running.

D.

Take a snapshot of the VM.

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Questions 80

Two companies are in the process of merging. The companies need to decide how to standardize their information security programs. Which of the following would best align the security programs?

Options:

A.

Shared deployment of CIS baselines

B.

Joint cybersecurity best practices

C.

Both companies following the same CSF

D.

Assessment of controls in a vulnerability report

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Questions 81

Which of the following threat actors would most likely deface the website of a high-profile music group?

Options:

A.

Unskilled attacker

B.

Organized crime

C.

Nation-state

D.

Insider threat

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Questions 82

Which of the following security concepts is accomplished when granting access after an individual has logged into a computer network?

Options:

A.

Authorization

B.

Identification

C.

Non-repudiation

D.

Authentication

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Questions 83

An attorney prints confidential documents to a copier in an office space near multiple workstations and a reception desk. When the attorney goes to the copier to retrieve the documents, the documents are missing. Which of the following would best prevent this from reoccurring?

Options:

A.

Place the copier in the legal department.

B.

Configure DLP on the attorney's workstation.

C.

Set up LDAP authentication on the printer.

D.

Conduct a physical penetration test.

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Questions 84

Which of the following threat vectors is most commonly utilized by insider threat actors attempting data exfiltration?

Options:

A.

Unidentified removable devices

B.

Default network device credentials

C.

Spear phishing emails

D.

Impersonation of business units through typosquatting

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Questions 85

An employee receives a text message that appears to have been sent by the payroll department and is asking for credential verification. Which of the following social engineering techniques are being attempted? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Typosquatting

B.

Phishing

C.

Impersonation

D.

Vishing

E.

Smishing

F.

Misinformation

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Questions 86

An administrator notices that several users are logging in from suspicious IP addresses. After speaking with the users, the administrator determines that the employees were not logging in from those IP addresses and resets the affected users’ passwords. Which of the following should the administrator implement to prevent this type of attack from succeeding in the future?

Options:

A.

Multifactor authentication

B.

Permissions assignment

C.

Access management

D.

Password complexity

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Questions 87

A company is implementing a policy to allow employees to use their personal equipment for work. However, the company wants to ensure that only company-approved applications can be installed. Which of the following addresses this concern?

Options:

A.

MDM

B.

Containerization

C.

DLP

D.

FIM

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Questions 88

An organization issued new laptops to all employees and wants to provide web filtering both in and out of the office without configuring additional access to the network. Which of the following types of web filtering should a systems administrator configure?

Options:

A.

Agent-based

B.

Centralized proxy

C.

URL scanning

D.

Content categorization

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Questions 89

A company is considering an expansion of access controls for an application that contractors and internal employees use to reduce costs. Which of the following risk elements should the implementation team understand before granting access to the application?

Options:

A.

Threshold

B.

Appetite

C.

Avoidance

D.

Register

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Questions 90

A group of developers has a shared backup account to access the source code repository. Which of the following is the best way to secure the backup account if there is an SSO failure?

Options:

A.

RAS

B.

EAP

C.

SAML

D.

PAM

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Questions 91

Which of the following is the best way to secure an on-site data center against intrusion from an insider?

Options:

A.

Bollards

B.

Access badge

C.

Motion sensor

D.

Video surveillance

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Questions 92

Visitors to a secured facility are required to check in with a photo ID and enter the facility through an access control vestibule Which of the following but describes this form of security control?

Options:

A.

Physical

B.

Managerial

C.

Technical

D.

Operational

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Questions 93

Which of the following would a security administrator use to comply with a secure baseline during a patch update?

Options:

A.

Information security policy

B.

Service-level expectations

C.

Standard operating procedure

D.

Test result report

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Questions 94

An employee emailed a new systems administrator a malicious web link and convinced the administrator to change the email server's password. The employee used this access to remove the mailboxes of key personnel. Which of the following security awareness concepts would help prevent this threat in the future?

Options:

A.

Recognizing phishing

B.

Providing situational awareness training

C.

Using password management

D.

Reviewing email policies

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Questions 95

An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days. Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?

Options:

A.

Real-time recovery

B.

Hot

C.

Cold

D.

Warm

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Questions 96

An administrator needs to perform server hardening before deployment. Which of the following steps should the administrator take? (Select two).

Options:

A.

Disable default accounts.

B.

Add the server to the asset inventory.

C.

Remove unnecessary services.

D.

Document default passwords.

E.

Send server logs to the SIEM.

F.

Join the server to the corporate domain.

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Questions 97

Which of the following are cases in which an engineer should recommend the decommissioning of a network device? (Select two).

Options:

A.

The device has been moved from a production environment to a test environment.

B.

The device is configured to use cleartext passwords.

C.

The device is moved to an isolated segment on the enterprise network.

D.

The device is moved to a different location in the enterprise.

E.

The device's encryption level cannot meet organizational standards.

F.

The device is unable to receive authorized updates.

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Questions 98

A systems administrate wants to implement a backup solution. the solution needs to allow recovery of the entire system, including the operating system, in case of a disaster. Which of the following backup types should the administrator consider?

Options:

A.

Incremental

B.

Storage area network

C.

Differential

D.

Image

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Questions 99

Which of the following allows a systems administrator to tune permissions for a file?

Options:

A.

Patching

B.

Access control list

C.

Configuration enforcement

D.

Least privilege

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Questions 100

Which of the following should a systems administrator use to decrease the company's hardware attack surface?

Options:

A.

Replication

B.

Isolation

C.

Centralization

D.

Virtualization

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Questions 101

An organization is struggling with scaling issues on its VPN concentrator and internet circuit due to remote work. The organization is looking for a software solution that will allow it to reduce traffic on the VPN and internet circuit, while still providing encrypted tunnel access to the data center and monitoring of remote employee internet traffic. Which of the following will help achieve these objectives?

Options:

A.

Deploying a SASE solution to remote employees

B.

Building a load-balanced VPN solution with redundant internet

C.

Purchasing a low-cost SD-WAN solution for VPN traffic

D.

Using a cloud provider to create additional VPN concentrators

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Questions 102

A business received a small grant to migrate its infrastructure to an off-premises solution. Which of the following should be considered first?

Options:

A.

Security of cloud providers

B.

Cost of implementation

C.

Ability of engineers

D.

Security of architecture

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Questions 103

A user is attempting to patch a critical system, but the patch fails to transfer. Which of the following access controls is most likely inhibiting the transfer?

Options:

A.

Attribute-based

B.

Time of day

C.

Role-based

D.

Least privilege

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Questions 104

Which of the following best describe the benefits of a microservices architecture when compared to a monolithic architecture? (Select two).

Options:

A.

Easter debugging of the system

B.

Reduced cost of ownership of the system

C.

Improved scalability of the system

D.

Increased compartmentalization of the system

E.

Stronger authentication of the system

F.

Reduced complexity of the system

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Questions 105

A university employee logged on to the academic server and attempted to guess the system administrators' log-in credentials. Which of the following security measures should the university have implemented to detect the employee's attempts to gain access to the administrators' accounts?

Options:

A.

Two-factor authentication

B.

Firewall

C.

Intrusion prevention system

D.

User activity logs

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Questions 106

Which of the following techniques can be used to sanitize the data contained on a hard drive while allowing for the hard drive to be repurposed?

Options:

A.

Degaussing

B.

Drive shredder

C.

Retention platform

D.

Wipe tool

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Questions 107

A certificate authority needs to post information about expired certificates. Which of the following would accomplish this task?

Options:

A.

TPM

B.

CRL

C.

PKI

D.

CSR

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Questions 108

Which of the following best describe a penetration test that resembles an actual external attach?

Options:

A.

Known environment

B.

Partially known environment

C.

Bug bounty

D.

Unknown environment

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Questions 109

Which of the following best protects sensitive data in transit across a geographically dispersed Infrastructure?

Options:

A.

Encryption

B.

Masking

C.

Tokenization

D.

Obfuscation

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Questions 110

An administrator is Investigating an incident and discovers several users’ computers were Infected with malware after viewing files mat were shared with them. The administrator discovers no degraded performance in the infected machines and an examination of the log files does not show excessive failed logins. Which of the following attacks Is most likely the cause of the malware?

Options:

A.

Malicious flash drive

B.

Remote access Trojan

C.

Brute-forced password

D.

Cryptojacking

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Questions 111

A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks.

SIEM alerts have not yet been configured. Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?

Options:

A.

[Digital forensics

B.

E-discovery

C.

Incident response

D.

Threat hunting

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Questions 112

A security administrator would like to protect data on employees’ laptops. Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?

Options:

A.

Partition

B.

Asymmetric

C.

Full disk

D.

Database

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Questions 113

Which of the following are the best security controls for controlling on-premises access? (Select two.)

Options:

A.

Swipe card

B.

Picture ID

C.

Phone authentication application

D.

Biometric scanner

E.

Camera

F.

Memorable

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Questions 114

A company is developing a critical system for the government and storing project information on a fileshare. Which of the following describes how this data will most likely be classified? (Select two).

Options:

A.

Private

B.

Confidential

C.

Public

D.

Operational

E.

Urgent

F.

Restricted

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Questions 115

A client asked a security company to provide a document outlining the project, the cost, and the completion time frame. Which of the following documents should the company provide to the client?

Options:

A.

MSA

B.

SLA

C.

BPA

D.

SOW

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Questions 116

Which of the following best describe why a process would require a two-person integrity security control?

Options:

A.

To Increase the chance that the activity will be completed in half of the time the process would take only one user to complete

B.

To permit two users from another department to observe the activity that is being performed by an authorized user

C.

To reduce the risk that the procedures are performed incorrectly or by an unauthorized user

D.

To allow one person to perform the activity while being recorded on the CCTV camera

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Questions 117

A security analyst needs to improve the company’s authentication policy following a password audit. Which of the following should be included in the policy? (Select two).

Options:

A.

Length

B.

Complexity

C.

Least privilege

D.

Something you have

E.

Security keys

F.

Biometrics

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Questions 118

Which of the following best represents an application that does not have an on-premises requirement and is accessible from anywhere?

Options:

A.

Pass

B.

Hybrid cloud

C.

Private cloud

D.

IaaS

E.

SaaS

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Questions 119

While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a “deny any” policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable.

Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?

Options:

A.

Documenting the new policy in a change request and submitting the request to change management

B.

Testing the policy in a non-production environment before enabling the policy in the production network

C.

Disabling any intrusion prevention signatures on the 'deny any* policy prior to enabling the new policy

D.

Including an 'allow any1 policy above the 'deny any* policy

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Questions 120

Which of the following environments utilizes a subset of customer data and is most likely to be used to assess the impacts of major system upgrades and demonstrate system features?

Options:

A.

Development

B.

Test

C.

Production

D.

Staging

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Questions 121

A company evaluates several options that would allow employees to have remote access to the network. The security team wants to ensure the solution includes AAA to comply with internal security policies. Which of the following should the security team recommend?

Options:

A.

IPSec with RADIUS

B.

RDP connection with LDAPS

C.

Web proxy for all remote traffic

D.

Jump server with 802.1X

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Questions 122

Which of the following activities should a systems administrator perform to quarantine a potentially infected system?

Options:

A.

Move the device into an air-gapped environment.

B.

Disable remote log-in through Group Policy.

C.

Convert the device into a sandbox.

D.

Remote wipe the device using the MDM platform.

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Questions 123

To which of the following security categories does an EDR solution belong?

Options:

A.

Physical

B.

Operational

C.

Managerial

D.

Technical

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Questions 124

A website user is locked out of an account after clicking an email link and visiting a different website Web server logs show the user's password was changed, even though the user did not change the password. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

Options:

A.

Cross-sue request forgery

B.

Directory traversal

C.

ARP poisoning

D.

SQL injection

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Questions 125

Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?

Options:

A.

Risk tolerance

B.

Risk transfer

C.

Risk register

D.

Risk analysis

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Questions 126

A security analyst locates a potentially malicious video file on a server and needs to identify both the creation date and the file's creator. Which of the following actions would most likely give the security analyst the information required?

Options:

A.

Obtain the file's SHA-256 hash.

B.

Use hexdump on the file's contents.

C.

Check endpoint logs.

D.

Query the file's metadata.

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Questions 127

Which of the following cryptographic solutions protects data at rest?

Options:

A.

Digital signatures

B.

Full disk encryption

C.

Private key

D.

Steganography

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Questions 128

Which of the following is the most common data loss path for an air-gapped network?

Options:

A.

Bastion host

B.

Unsecured Bluetooth

C.

Unpatched OS

D.

Removable devices

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Questions 129

Which of the following most accurately describes the order in which a security engineer should implement secure baselines?

Options:

A.

Deploy, maintain, establish

B.

Establish, maintain, deploy

C.

Establish, deploy, maintain

D.

Deploy, establish, maintain

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Questions 130

A small business uses kiosks on the sales floor to display product information for customers. A security team discovers the kiosks use end-of-life operating systems. Which of the following is the security team most likely to document as a security implication of the current architecture?

Options:

A.

Patch availability

B.

Product software compatibility

C.

Ease of recovery

D.

Cost of replacement

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Questions 131

Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?

Options:

A.

Disaster recovery plan

B.

Incident response procedure

C.

Business continuity plan

D.

Change management procedure

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Questions 132

Which of the following is the best method to reduce the attack surface of an enterprise network?

Options:

A.

Disable unused network services on servers.

B.

Use port security for wired connections.

C.

Change default passwords for network printers.

D.

Create a guest wireless network for visitors.

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Questions 133

A company decided to reduce the cost of its annual cyber insurance policy by removing the coverage for ransomware attacks.

Which of the following analysis elements did the company most likely use in making this decision?

Options:

A.

IMTTR

B.

RTO

C.

ARO

D.

MTBF

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Questions 134

An employee receives a text message from an unknown number claiming to be the company's Chief Executive Officer and asking the employee to purchase several gift cards. Which of the following types of attacks does this describe?

Options:

A.

Vishing

B.

Smishing

C.

Pretexting

D.

Phishing

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Questions 135

A security analyst wants to automate a task that shares data between systems. Which of the following is the best option for the analyst to use?

Options:

A.

SOAR

B.

API

C.

SFTP

D.

RDP

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Questions 136

A security analyst is investigating a workstation that is suspected of outbound communication to a command-and-control server. During the investigation, the analyst discovered that logs on the endpoint were deleted. Which of the following logs would the analyst most likely look at next?

Options:

A.

IPS

B.

Firewall

C.

ACL

D.

Windows security

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Questions 137

An IT manager informs the entire help desk staff that only the IT manager and the help desk lead will have access to the administrator console of the help desk software. Which of the following security techniques is the IT manager setting up?

Options:

A.

Hardening

B.

Employee monitoring

C.

Configuration enforcement

D.

Least privilege

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Questions 138

While investigating a recent security breach an analyst finds that an attacker gained access by SOL infection through a company website. Which of the following should the analyst recommend to the website developers to prevent this from reoccurring?

Options:

A.

Secure cookies

B.

Input sanitization

C.

Code signing

D.

Blocklist

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Questions 139

A systems administrator works for a local hospital and needs to ensure patient data is protected and secure. Which of the following data classifications should be used to secure patient data?

Options:

A.

Private

B.

Critical

C.

Sensitive

D.

Public

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Questions 140

An attacker used XSS to compromise a web server. Which of the following solutions could have been used to prevent this attack?

Options:

A.

NGFW

B.

UTM

C.

WAF

D.

NAC

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Questions 141

Which of the following would be the best way to test resiliency in the event of a primary power failure?

Options:

A.

Parallel processing

B.

Tabletop exercise

C.

Simulation testing

D.

Production failover

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Questions 142

A company plans to secure its systems by:

Preventing users from sending sensitive data over corporate email

Restricting access to potentially harmful websites

Which of the following features should the company set up? (Select two).

Options:

A.

DLP software

B.

DNS filtering

C.

File integrity monitoring

D.

Stateful firewall

E.

Guardralls

F.

Antivirus signatures

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Questions 143

Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?

Options:

A.

An employee receives a gift card request in an email that has an executive's name in the display field of the email.

B.

Employees who open an email attachment receive messages demanding payment in order to access files.

C.

A service desk employee receives an email from the HR director asking for log-in credentials to a cloud administrator account.

D.

An employee receives an email with a link to a phishing site that is designed to look like the company's email portal.

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Questions 144

A security analyst is assessing several company firewalls. Which of the following cools would The analyst most likely use to generate custom packets to use during the assessment?

Options:

A.

hping

B.

Wireshark

C.

PowerShell

D.

netstat

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Questions 145

A newly identified network access vulnerability has been found in the OS of legacy loT devices. Which of the following would best mitigate this vulnerability quickly?

Options:

A.

Insurance

B.

Patching

C.

Segmentation

D.

Replacement

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Questions 146

In order to strengthen a password and prevent a hacker from cracking it, a random string of 36 characters was added to the password. Which of the following best describes this technique?

Options:

A.

Key stretching

B.

Tokenization

C.

Data masking

D.

Salting

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Questions 147

Which of the following should be used to ensure an attacker is unable to read the contents of a mobile device's drive if the device is lost?

Options:

A.

TPM

B.

ECC

C.

FDE

D.

HSM

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Questions 148

A healthcare organization wants to provide a web application that allows individuals to digitally report health emergencies.

Which of the following is the most important consideration during development?

Options:

A.

Scalability

B.

Availability

C.

Cost

D.

Ease of deployment

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Questions 149

A vendor salesperson is a personal friend of a company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The company recently made a large purchase from the vendor, which was directly approved by the CFO. Which of the following best describes this situation?

Options:

A.

Rules of engagement

B.

Conflict of interest

C.

Due diligence

D.

Contractual impact

E.

Reputational damage

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Questions 150

A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company. Which of the following options is the most appropriate?

Options:

A.

Testing input validation on the user input fields

B.

Performing code signing on company-developed software

C.

Performing static code analysis on the software

D.

Ensuring secure cookies are use

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Questions 151

An incident response specialist must stop a malicious attack from expanding to other parts of an organization. Which of the following should the incident response specialist perform first?

Options:

A.

Eradication

B.

Recovery

C.

Containment

D.

Simulation

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Questions 152

One of a company's vendors sent an analyst a security bulletin that recommends a BIOS update. Which of the following vulnerability types is being addressed by the patch?

Options:

A.

Virtualization

B.

Firmware

C.

Application

D.

Operating system

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Questions 153

Which of the following would be best suited for constantly changing environments?

Options:

A.

RTOS

B.

Containers

C.

Embedded systems

D.

SCADA

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Questions 154

A company is utilizing an offshore team to help support the finance department. The company wants to keep the data secure by keeping it on a company device but does not want to provide equipment to the offshore team. Which of the following should the company implement to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

VDI

B.

MDM

C.

VPN

D.

VPC

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Questions 155

An employee clicked a link in an email from a payment website that asked the employee to update contact information. The employee entered the log-in information but received a “page not found” error message. Which of the following types of social engineering attacks occurred?

Options:

A.

Brand impersonation

B.

Pretexting

C.

Typosquatting

D.

Phishing

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Questions 156

An administrator has configured a quarantine subnet for all guest devices that connect to the network. Which of the following would be best for the security team to configure on the MDM before allowing access to corporate resources?

Options:

A.

Device fingerprinting

B.

Compliance attestation

C.

NAC

D.

802.1X

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Questions 157

Various company stakeholders meet to discuss roles and responsibilities in the event of a security breach affecting offshore offices. Which of the following is this an example of?

Options:

A.

Tabletop exercise

B.

Penetration test

C.

Geographic dispersion

D.

Incident response

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Exam Code: SY0-701
Exam Name: CompTIA Security+ Exam 2025
Last Update: Apr 25, 2025
Questions: 518
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