Updated CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 Practice Exam Questions [3-28-2022]

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1. During an incident response, a security analyst observes the following log entry on the web server.

Which of the following BEST describes the type of attack the analyst is experience?

SQL injection

Cross-site scripting

Pass-the-hash

Directory traversal

2. An organization’s help desk is flooded with phone calls from users stating they can no longer access certain websites. The help desk escalates the issue to the security team, as these websites were accessible the previous day. The security analysts run the following command: ipconfig /flushdns, but the issue persists. Finally, an analyst changes the DNS server for an impacted machine, and the issue goes away.

Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred on the original DNS server?

DNS cache poisoning

Domain hijacking

Distributed denial-of-service

DNS tunneling

3. A root cause analysis reveals that a web application outage was caused by one of the company’s developers uploading a newer version of the third-party libraries that were shared among several applications.

Which of the following implementations would be BEST to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

CASB

SWG

Containerization

Automated failover

4. Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

The data owner is responsible for adhering to the rules for using the data, while the data custodian is responsible for determining the corporate governance regarding the data

The data owner is responsible for determining how the data may be used, while the data custodian is responsible for implementing the protection to the data

The data owner is responsible for controlling the data, while the data custodian is responsible for maintaining the chain of custody when handling the data

The data owner grants the technical permissions for data access, while the data custodian maintains the database access controls to the data

5. A company is adopting a BYOD policy and is looking for a comprehensive solution to protect company information on user devices.

Which of the following solutions would BEST support the policy?

Mobile device management

Full-device encryption

Remote wipe

Biometrics

6. A company recently set up an e-commerce portal to sell its product online. The company wants to start accepting credit cards for payment, which requires compliance with a security standard.

Which of the following standards must the company comply with before accepting credit cards on its e-commerce platform?

PCI DSS

ISO 22301

ISO 27001

NIST CSF

7. Which of the following would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hot-spots?

Footprinting

White-box testing

A drone/UAV

Pivoting

8. A network engineer notices the VPN concentrator overloaded and crashes on days when there are a lot of remote workers. Senior management has placed greater importance on the availability of VPN resources for the remote workers than the security of the end users’ traffic.

Which of the following would be BEST to solve this issue?

iPSec

Always On

Split tunneling

L2TP

9. An organization suffered an outage and a critical system took 90 minutes to come back online. Though there was no data loss during the outage, the expectation was that the critical system would be available again within 60 minutes.

Which of the following is the 60-minute expectation an example of:

MTBF

RPO

MTTR

RTO

10. A security assessment determines DES and 3DES at still being used on recently deployed production servers.

Which of the following did the assessment identify?

Unsecme protocols

Default settings

Open permissions

Weak encryption

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11. A cybersecurity administrator has a reduced team and needs to operate an on-premises network and security infrastructure efficiently. To help with the situation, the administrator decides to hire a service provider.

Which of the following should the administrator use?

SDP

AAA

IaaS

MSSP

Microservices

12. A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the seventy levels of the organization’s vulnerabilities.

Which of the following would BEST meet this need?

CVE

SIEM

SOAR

CVSS

13. A network administrator has been asked to install an IDS to improve the security posture of an organization.

Which of the following control types is an IDS?

Corrective

Physical

Detective

Administrative

14. CORRECT TEXT

A company recently added a DR site and is redesigning the network. Users at the DR site are having issues browsing websites.

INSTRUCTIONS

Click on each firewall to do the following:

✑ Deny cleartext web traffic.

✑ Ensure secure management protocols are used. Please Resolve issues at the DR site.

The ruleset order cannot be modified due to outside constraints.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

15. A small business just recovered from a ransomware attack against its file servers by purchasing the decryption keys from the attackers. The issue was triggered by a phishing email and the IT administrator wants to ensure it does not happen again.

Which of the following should the IT administrator do FIRST after recovery?

Scan the NAS for residual or dormant malware and take new daily backups that are tested on a frequent basis

Restrict administrative privileges and patch ail systems and applications.

Rebuild all workstations and install new antivirus software

Implement application whitelisting and perform user application hardening

16. In the middle of a cybersecurity, a security engineer removes the infected devices from the network and lock down all compromised accounts.

In which of the following incident response phases is the security engineer currently operating?

Identification

Preparation

Eradiction

Recovery

Containment

17. The IT department at a university is concerned about professors placing servers on the university network in an attempt to bypass security controls.

Which of the following BEST represents this type of threat?

A script kiddie

Shadow IT

Hacktivism

White-hat

18. The SOC is reviewing process and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than 30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. The allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained.

Which of the following would be BEST to improve the incident response process?

Updating the playbooks with better decision points

Dividing the network into trusted and untrusted zones

Providing additional end-user training on acceptable use

Implementing manual quarantining of infected hosts

19. A network engineer needs to build a solution that will allow guests at the company’s headquarters to access the Internet via WiFi. This solution should not allow access to the internal corporate network, but it should require guests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the Internet.

Which of the following should the engineer employ to meet these requirements?

Implement open PSK on the APs

Deploy a WAF

Configure WIPS on the APs

Install a captive portal

20. A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times.

After determining it is not a routing or DNS issue, the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, and receives the following output:

Which of the following is the router experiencing?

DDoS attack

Memory leak

Buffer overflow

Resource exhaustion

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21. A company uses wireless tor all laptops and keeps a very detailed record of its assets, along with a comprehensive list of devices that are authorized to be on the wireless network. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about a script kiddie potentially using an unauthorized device to brute force the wireless PSK and obtain access to the internal network.

Which of the following should the company implement to BEST prevent this from occurring?

A BPDU guard

WPA-EAP

IP filtering

A WIDS

22. After reading a security bulletin, a network security manager is concerned that a malicious actor may have breached the network using the same software flaw. The exploit code is publicly available and has been reported as being used against other industries in the same vertical.

Which of the following should the network security manager consult FIRST to determine a priority list for forensic review?

The vulnerability scan output

The IDS logs

The full packet capture data

The SIEM alerts

23. Which of the following types of controls is a turnstile?

Physical

Detective

Corrective

Technical

24. A security analyst discovers that a company username and password database was posted on an internet forum. The username and passwords are stored in plan text.

Which of the following would mitigate the damage done by this type of data exfiltration in the future?

Create DLP controls that prevent documents from leaving the network

Implement salting and hashing

Configure the web content filter to block access to the forum.

Increase password complexity requirements

25. A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate-owned mobile devices.

Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company’s data?

Containerization

Geofencing

Full-disk encryption

Remote wipe

26. Which of the following are the MOST likely vectors for the unauthorized inclusion of vulnerable code in a software company’s final software releases? (Select TWO.)

Unsecure protocols

Use of penetration-testing utilities

Weak passwords

Included third-party libraries

Vendors/supply chain

Outdated anti-malware software

27. A security analyst receives a SIEM alert that someone logged in to the appadmin test account, which is only used for the early detection of attacks.

The security analyst then reviews the following application log:

Which of the following can the security analyst conclude?

A replay attack is being conducted against the application.

An injection attack is being conducted against a user authentication system.

A service account password may have been changed, resulting in continuous failed logins within the application.

A credentialed vulnerability scanner attack is testing several CVEs against the application.

28. A work wide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromised. In one incident, a user logged in from the corporate office in France, but then seconds later, the same user account attempted a login from Brazil.

Which of the following account policies would BEST prevent this type of attack?

Network location

Impossible travel time

Geolocation

Geofencing

29. A security auditor is reviewing vulnerability scan data provided by an internal security team.

Which of the following BEST indicates that valid credentials were used?

The scan results show open ports, protocols, and services exposed on the target host

The scan enumerated software versions of installed programs

The scan produced a list of vulnerabilities on the target host

The scan identified expired SSL certificates

30. An organization has a growing workforce that is mostly driven by additions to the sales department. Each newly hired salesperson relies on a mobile device to conduct business. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is wondering it the organization may need to scale down just as quickly as it scaled up. The ClO is also concerned about the organization's security and customer privacy.

Which of the following would be BEST to address the ClO’s concerns?

Disallow new hires from using mobile devices for six months

Select four devices for the sales department to use in a CYOD model

Implement BYOD for the sates department while leveraging the MDM

Deploy mobile devices using the COPE methodology

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31. A network administrator is setting up wireless access points in all the conference rooms and wants to authenticate device using PKI.

Which of the following should the administrator configure?

A captive portal

PSK

802.1X

WPS

32. After a ransomware attack a forensics company needs to review a cryptocurrency transaction between the victim and the attacker.

Which of the following will the company MOST likely review to trace this transaction?

The public ledger

The NetFlow data

A checksum

The event log

33. An organization has implemented a policy requiring the use of conductive metal lockboxes for personal electronic devices outside of a secure research lab.

Which of the following did the organization determine to be the GREATEST risk to intellectual property when creating this policy?

The theft of portable electronic devices

Geotagging in the metadata of images

Bluesnarfing of mobile devices

Data exfiltration over a mobile hotspot

34. Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

To define the level or risk using probability and likelihood

To register the risk with the required regulatory agencies

To identify the risk, the risk owner, and the risk measures

To formally log the type of risk mitigation strategy the organization is using

35. After entering a username and password, and administrator must gesture on a touch screen.

Which of the following demonstrates what the administrator is providing?

Multifactor authentication

Something you can do

Biometric

Two-factor authentication

36. A network administrator needs to build out a new datacenter, with a focus on resiliency and uptime.

Which of the following would BEST meet this objective? (Choose two.)

Dual power supply

Off-site backups

Automatic OS upgrades

NIC teaming

Scheduled penetration testing

Network-attached storage

37. Joe, a user at a company, clicked an email link led to a website that infected his workstation. Joe, was connected to the network, and the virus spread to the network shares. The protective measures failed to stop this virus, and It has continues to evade detection.

Which of the following should administrator implement to protect the environment from this malware?

Install a definition-based antivirus.

Implement an IDS/IPS

Implement a heuristic behavior-detection solution.

Implement CASB to protect the network shares.

38. A large industrial system's smart generator monitors the system status and sends alerts to third-party maintenance personnel when critical failures occur. While reviewing the network logs the company's security manager notices the generator's IP is sending packets to an internal file server's IP.

Which of the following mitigations would be BEST for the security manager to implement while maintaining alerting capabilities?

Segmentation

Firewall whitelisting

Containment

isolation

39. A user enters a password to log in to a workstation and is then prompted to enter an authentication code.

Which of the following MFA factors or attributes are being utilized in the authentication process? (Select TWO).

Something you know

Something you have

Somewhere you are

Someone you are

Something you are

Something you can do

40. An analyst needs to identify the applications a user was running and the files that were open before the user’s computer was shut off by holding down the power button.

Which of the following would MOST likely contain that information?

NGFW

Pagefile

NetFlow

RAM

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41. The Chief Security Officer (CSO) at a major hospital wants to implement SSO to help improve in the environment patient data, particularly at shared terminals. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned that training and guidance have been provided to frontline staff, and a risk analysis has not been performed.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the CRO’s concerns?

SSO would simplify username and password management, making it easier for hackers to pass guess accounts.

SSO would reduce password fatigue, but staff would still need to remember more complex passwords.

SSO would reduce the password complexity for frontline staff.

SSO would reduce the resilience and availability of system if the provider goes offline.

42. A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platform to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application.

Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platforms?

SIEM

DLP

CASB

SWG

43. A cybersecurity manager has scheduled biannual meetings with the IT team and department leaders to discuss how they would respond to hypothetical cyberattacks. During these meetings, the manager presents a scenario and injects additional information throughout the session to replicate what might occur in a dynamic cybersecurity event involving the company, its facilities, its data, and its staff.

Which of the following describes what the manager is doing?

Developing an incident response plan

Building a disaster recovery plan

Conducting a tabletop exercise

Running a simulation exercise

44. An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or data theft.

Which of the following would be the MOST acceptable?

SED

HSM

DLP

TPM

45. A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce staffing at others.

Which of the following would be BEST to help the organization’s executives determine the next course of action?

An incident response plan

A communications plan

A disaster recovery plan

A business continuity plan

46. A document that appears to be malicious has been discovered in an email that was sent to a company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Which of the following would be BEST to allow a security analyst to gather information and confirm it is a malicious document without executing any code it may contain?

Open the document on an air-gapped network

View the document's metadata for origin clues

Search for matching file hashes on malware websites

Detonate the document in an analysis sandbox

47. A cybersecurity analyst needs to implement secure authentication to third-party websites without users’ passwords.

Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

OAuth

SSO

SAML

PAP

48. A public relations team will be taking a group of guest on a tour through the facility of a large e-commerce company. The day before the tour, the company sends out an email to employees to ensure all whiteboars are cleaned and all desks are cleared. The company is MOST likely trying to protect against.

Loss of proprietary information

Damage to the company’s reputation

Social engineering

Credential exposure

49. Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe’s identity before sending him the prize.

Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?

Spear phishing

Whaling

Phishing

Vishing

50. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to create a policy set that meets international standards for data privacy and sharing.

Which of the following should the CISO read and understand before writing the policies?

PCI DSS

GDPR

NIST

ISO 31000

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51. A company recently moved sensitive videos between on-premises. Company-owned websites. The company then learned the videos had been uploaded and shared to the internet.

Which of the following would MOST likely allow the company to find the cause?

Checksums

Watermarks

Oder of volatility

A log analysis

A right-to-audit clause

52. A security audit has revealed that a process control terminal is vulnerable to malicious users installing and executing software on the system. The terminal is beyond end-of-life support and cannot be upgraded, so it is placed on a projected network segment.

Which of the following would be MOST effective to implement to further mitigate the reported vulnerability?

DNS sinkholding

DLP rules on the terminal

An IP blacklist

Application whitelisting

53. A Chief Security Office's (CSO's) key priorities are to improve preparation, response, and recovery practices to minimize system downtime and enhance organizational resilience to ransomware attacks.

Which of the following would BEST meet the CSO's objectives?

Use email-filtering software and centralized account management, patch high-risk systems, and restrict administration privileges on fileshares.

Purchase cyber insurance from a reputable provider to reduce expenses during an incident.

Invest in end-user awareness training to change the long-term culture and behavior of staff and executives, reducing the organization's susceptibility to phishing attacks.

Implement application whitelisting and centralized event-log management, and perform regular testing and validation of full backups.

54. DRAG DROP

A security engineer is setting up password less authentication for the first time.

INSTRUCTIONS

Use the minimum set of commands to set this up and verify that it works. Commands cannot be reused.

If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.

55. On which of the following is the live acquisition of data for forensic analysis MOST dependent? (Choose two.)

Data accessibility

Legal hold

Cryptographic or hash algorithm

Data retention legislation

Value and volatility of data

Right-to-audit clauses

56. A financial organization has adopted a new secure, encrypted document-sharing application to help with its customer loan process. Some important PII needs to be shared across this new platform, but it is getting blocked by the DLP systems.

Which of the following actions will BEST allow the PII to be shared with the secure application without compromising the organization’s security posture?

Configure the DLP policies to allow all PII

Configure the firewall to allow all ports that are used by this application

Configure the antivirus software to allow the application

Configure the DLP policies to whitelist this application with the specific PII

Configure the application to encrypt the PII

57. A recently discovered zero-day exploit utilizes an unknown vulnerability in the SMB network protocol to rapidly infect computers. Once infected, computers are encrypted and held for ransom.

Which of the following would BEST prevent this attack from reoccurring?

Configure the perimeter firewall to deny inbound external connections to SMB ports.

Ensure endpoint detection and response systems are alerting on suspicious SMB connections.

Deny unauthenticated users access to shared network folders.

Verify computers are set to install monthly operating system, updates automatically.

58. An organization is developing an authentication service for use at the entry and exit ports of country borders. The service will use data feeds obtained from passport systems, passenger manifests, and high-definition video feeds from CCTV systems that are located at the ports. The service will incorporate machine-learning techniques to eliminate biometric enrollment processes while still allowing authorities to identify passengers with increasing accuracy over time. The more frequently passengers travel, the more accurately the service will identify them.

Which of the following biometrics will MOST likely be used, without the need for enrollment? (Choose two.)

Voice

Gait

Vein

Facial

Retina

Fingerprint

59. A security analyst is reviewing a new website that will soon be made publicly available. The analyst sees the following in the URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=77276554&loc=us

The analyst then sends an internal user a link to the new website for testing purposes, and when the user clicks the link, the analyst is able to browse the website with the following URL:

http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=98988475&loc=us

Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

Pass-the-hash

Session replay

Object deference

Cross-site request forgery

60. Which of the following will provide the BEST physical security countermeasures to stop intruders? (Select TWO.)

Alarms

Signage

Lighting

Mantraps

Fencing

Sensors

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61. A user recently entered a username and password into a recruiting application website that had been forged to look like the legitimate site Upon investigation, a security analyst the identifies the following:

• The legitimate websites IP address is 10.1.1.20 and eRecruit local resolves to the IP

• The forged website's IP address appears to be 10.2.12.99. based on NetFtow records

• AH three at the organization's DNS servers show the website correctly resolves to the legitimate IP

• DNS query logs show one of the three DNS servers returned a result of 10.2.12.99 (cached) at the approximate time of the suspected compromise.

Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

A reverse proxy was used to redirect network traffic

An SSL strip MITM attack was performed

An attacker temporarily pawned a name server

An ARP poisoning attack was successfully executed

62. Which of the following should be put in place when negotiating with a new vendor about the timeliness of the response to a significant outage or incident?

MOU

MTTR

SLA

NDA

63. Which of the following incident response steps involves actions to protect critical systems while maintaining business operations?

Investigation

Containment

Recovery

Lessons learned

64. A cybersecurity administrator needs to add disk redundancy for a critical server. The solution must have a two- drive failure for better fault tolerance.

Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator select?

65. A software developer needs to perform code-execution testing, black-box testing, and non-functional testing on a new product before its general release.

Which of the following BEST describes the tasks the developer is conducting?

Verification

Validation

Normalization

Staging

66. Which of the following technical controls is BEST suited for the detection and prevention of buffer overflows on hosts?

DLP

HIDS

EDR

NIPS

67. In which of the following risk management strategies would cybersecurity insurance be used?

Transference

Avoidance

Acceptance

Mitigation

68. A company has drafted an insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices.

Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

Monitoring large data transfer transactions in the firewall logs

Developing mandatory training to educate employees about the removable media policy

Implementing a group policy to block user access to system files

Blocking removable-media devices and write capabilities using a host-based security tool

69. An employee has been charged with fraud and is suspected of using corporate assets.

As authorities collect evidence, and to preserve the admissibility of the evidence, which of the following forensic techniques should be used?

Order of volatility

Data recovery

Chain of custody

Non-repudiation

70. An auditor is performing an assessment of a security appliance with an embedded OS that was vulnerable during the last two assessments.

Which of the following BEST explains the appliance’s vulnerable state?

The system was configured with weak default security settings.

The device uses weak encryption ciphers.

The vendor has not supplied a patch for the appliance.

The appliance requires administrative credentials for the assessment.

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71. An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organization already uses a smart card and password.

Which of the following would meet the organization’s needs for a third factor?

Date of birth

Fingerprints

TPM

72. 1.A database administrator needs to ensure all passwords are stored in a secure manner, so the administrate adds randomly generated data to each password before string.

Which of the following techniques BEST explains this action?

Predictability

Key stretching

Salting

Hashing

73. Which of the following ISO standards is certified for privacy?

ISO 9001

ISO 27002

ISO 27701

ISO 31000

74. Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside

Fog computing

VM escape

Software-defined networking

Image forgery

Container breakout

75. A smart switch has the ability to monitor electrical levels and shut off power to a building in the event of power surge or other fault situation. The switch was installed on a wired network in a hospital and is monitored by the facilities department via a cloud application. The security administrator isolated the switch on a separate VLAN and set up a patch routine.

Which of the following steps should also be taken to harden the smart switch?

Set up an air gap for the switch.

Change the default password for the switch.

Place the switch In a Faraday cage.

Install a cable lock on the switch

76. A development team employs a practice of bringing all the code changes from multiple team members into the same development project through automation. A tool is utilized to validate the code and track source code through version control.

Which of the following BEST describes this process?

Continuous delivery

Continuous integration

Continuous validation

Continuous monitoring

77. A company is implementing MFA for all applications that store sensitive data. The IT manager wants MFA to be non-disruptive and user friendly.

Which of the following technologies should the IT manager use when implementing MFA?

One-time passwords

Email tokens

Push notifications

Hardware authentication

78. The IT department’s on-site developer has been with the team for many years. Each time an application is released, the security team is able to identify multiple vulnerabilities.

Which of the following would BEST help the team ensure the application is ready to be released to production?

Limit the use of third-party libraries.

Prevent data exposure queries.

Obfuscate the source code.

Submit the application to QA before releasing it.

79. Phishing and spear-phishing attacks have been occurring more frequently against a company’s staff.

Which of the following would MOST likely help mitigate this issue?

DNSSEC and DMARC

DNS query logging

Exact mail exchanger records in the DNS

The addition of DNS conditional forwarders

80. A malicious actor recently penetration a company’s network and moved laterally to the datacenter. Upon investigation, a forensics firm wants to know was in the memory on the compromised server.

Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?

Security

Application

Dump

Syslog

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81. An organization needs to implement more stringent controls over administrator/root credentials and service accounts.

Requirements for the project include:

✑ Check-in/checkout of credentials

✑ The ability to use but not know the password

✑ Automated password changes

✑ Logging of access to credentials

Which of the following solutions would meet the requirements?

OAuth 2.0

Secure Enclave

A privileged access management system

An OpenID Connect authentication system

82. A company's Chief Information Office (CIO) is meeting with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to plan some activities to enhance the skill levels of the company's developers.

Which of the following would be MOST suitable for training the developers'?

A capture-the-flag competition

A phishing simulation

Physical security training

Baste awareness training

83. Which of the following BEST explains the reason why a server administrator would place a document named password.txt on the desktop of an administrator account on a server?

The document is a honeyfile and is meant to attract the attention of a cyberintruder.

The document is a backup file if the system needs to be recovered.

The document is a standard file that the OS needs to verify the login credentials.

The document is a keylogger that stores all keystrokes should the account be compromised.

84. A user recent an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank delays.

Which of the following social-engineering techniques was used in this case?

SPIM

Vishing

Spear phishing

Smishing

85. A security analyst is using a recently released security advisory to review historical logs, looking for the specific activity that was outlined in the advisory.

Which of the following is the analyst doing?

A packet capture

A user behavior analysis

Threat hunting

Credentialed vulnerability scanning

86. A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture.

Which of the following would BEST assist the company?

MSSP

SOAR

IaaS

PaaS

87. Which of the following allows for functional test data to be used in new systems for testing and training purposes to protect the real data?

Data encryption

Data masking

Data deduplication

Data minimization

88. A user reports constant lag and performance issues with the wireless network when working at a local coffee shop. A security analyst walks the user through an installation of Wireshark and get a five-minute pcap to analyze.

The analyst observes the following output:

Which of the following attacks does the analyst MOST likely see in this packet capture?

Session replay

Evil twin

Bluejacking

ARP poisoning

89. An organization is concerned that is hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software.

Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?

Hping3 Cs comptia, org Cp 80

Nc -1 Cv comptia, org Cp 80

nmp comptia, org Cp 80 CaV

nslookup Cport=80 comtia.org

90. A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert for the most appropriate way to store credit card numbers to create an easy reordering process.

Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?

Salting the magnetic strip information

Encrypting the credit card information in transit.

Hashing the credit card numbers upon entry.

Tokenizing the credit cards in the database

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91. A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did not receive any emails with links, but he had been browsing the Internet all day.

Which of the following would MOST likely show where the malware originated?

The DNS logs

The web server logs

The SIP traffic logs

The SNMP logs

92. Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but nothing else?

SaaS

PaaS

IaaS

DaaS

93. Users have been issued smart cards that provide physical access to a building. The cards also contain tokens that can be used to access information systems. Users can log m to any thin client located throughout the building and see the same desktop each time.

Which of the following technologies are being utilized to provide these capabilities? (Select TWO)

COPE

VDI

GPS

TOTP

RFID

BYOD

94. While checking logs, a security engineer notices a number of end users suddenly downloading files with the .tar.gz extension. Closer examination of the files reveals they are PE32 files. The end users state they did not initiate any of the downloads. Further investigation reveals the end users all clicked on an external email containing an infected MHT file with an href link a week prior.

Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

A RAT was installed and is transferring additional exploit tools.

The workstations are beaconing to a command-and-control server.

A logic bomb was executed and is responsible for the data transfers.

A fireless virus is spreading in the local network environment.

95. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an organization would like staff members to have the flexibility to work from home anytime during business hours, incident during a pandemic or crisis, However, the CEO is concerned that some staff members may take advantage of the of the flexibility and work from high-risk countries while on holidays work to a third-party organization in another country. The Chief information Officer (CIO) believes the company can implement some basic to mitigate the majority of the risk.

Which of the following would be BEST to mitigate CEO’s concern? (Select TWO).

Geolocation

Time-of-day restrictions

Certificates

Tokens

Geotagging

Role-based access controls

96. A security administrator suspects an employee has been emailing proprietary information to a competitor. Company policy requires the administrator to capture an exact copy of the employee’s hard disk.

Which of the following should the administrator use?

chmod

dnsenum

logger

97. A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public area.

Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this breach?

A firewall

A device pin

A USB data blocker

Biometrics

98. A retail executive recently accepted a job with a major competitor. The following week, a security analyst reviews the security logs and identifies successful logon attempts to access the departed executive's accounts.

Which of the following security practices would have addressed the issue?

A non-disclosure agreement

Least privilege

An acceptable use policy

Ofboarding

99. Which of the following is a team of people dedicated testing the effectiveness of organizational security programs by emulating the techniques of potential attackers?

Red team

While team

Blue team

Purple team

100. Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

Asymmetric encryption

Blockchain

Transport Layer Security

Perfect forward secrecy

Updated CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 Practice Exam Questions [3-28-2022]