CompTIA Security+ Practice Exam 2

A technician is opening ports on a firewall for a new system being deployed and supported by a SaaS provider. Which of the following is a risk in the new system?

A systems administrator is working on a solution with the following requirements:
• Provide a secure zone.
• Enforce a company-wide access control policy.
• Reduce the scope of threats.
Which of the following is the systems administrator setting up?

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

Which of the following is used to validate a certificate when it is presented to a user?

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?

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

Which of the following actions could a security engineer take to ensure workstations and servers are properly monitored for unauthorized changes and software?

An organization is leveraging a VPN between its headquarters and a branch location. Which of the following is the VPN protecting?

After reviewing the following vulnerability scanning report:

A security analyst performs the following test:

Which of the following would the security analyst conclude for this reported vulnerability?

An organization disabled unneeded services and placed a firewall in front of a business-critical legacy system. Which of the following best describes the actions taken by the organization?

A security consultant needs secure, remote access to a client environment. Which of the following should the security consultant most likely use to gain access?

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

After a security awareness training session, a user called the IT help desk and reported a suspicious call. The suspicious caller stated that the Chief Financial Officer wanted credit card information in order to close an invoice. Which of the following topics did the user recognize from the training?

A security administrator is deploying a DLP solution to prevent the exfiltration of sensitive customer data. Which of the following should the administrator do first?

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?

A company is working with a vendor to perform a penetration test. Which of the following includes an estimate about the number of hours required to complete the engagement?

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) wants to explicitly raise awareness about the increase of ransomware-as-a-service in a report to the management team. Which of the following best describes the threat actor in the CISO’s report?

Which of the following practices would be best to prevent an insider from introducing malicious code into a company’s development process?

Which of the following can best protect against an employee inadvertently installing malware on a company system?

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?

Which of the following would be the best ways to ensure only authorized personnel can access a secure facility? (Choose two.)

An organization would like to store customer data on a separate part of the network that is not accessible to users on the main corporate network. Which of the following should the administrator use to accomplish this goal?

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

Malware spread across a company’s network after an employee visited a compromised industry blog. Which of the following best describes this type of attack?

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?

Which of the following is the best reason to complete an audit in a banking environment?

Which of the following security concepts is the best reason for permissions on a human resources fileshare to follow the principle of least privilege?

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

A company is required to perform a risk assessment on an annual basis. Which of the following types of risk assessments does this requirement describe?

After a recent ransomware attack on a company’s system, an administrator reviewed the log files. Which of the following control types did the administrator use?

Which of the following exercises should an organization use to improve its incident response process?

Which of the following best ensures minimal downtime and data loss for organizations with critical computing equipment located in earthquake-prone areas?

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

After an audit, an administrator discovers all users have access to confidential data on a file server. Which of the following should the administrator use to restrict access to the data quickly?

A client demands at least 99.99% uptime from a service provider’s hosted security services. Which of the following documents includes the information the service provider should return to the client?

A company is discarding a classified storage array and hires an outside vendor to complete the disposal. Which of the following should the company request from the vendor?

A company is planning a disaster recovery site and needs to ensure that a single natural disaster would not result in the complete loss of regulated backup data. Which of the following should the company consider?

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?

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

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?

Which of the following would help ensure a security analyst is able to accurately measure the overall risk to an organization when a new vulnerability is disclosed?

Which of the following best practices gives administrators a set period to perform changes to an operational system to ensure availability and minimize business impacts?

A company must ensure sensitive data at rest is rendered unreadable. Which of the following will the company most likely use?

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

A bank insists all of its vendors must prevent data loss on stolen laptops. Which of the following strategies is the bank requiring?

A company’s end users are reporting that they are unable to reach external websites. After reviewing the performance data for the DNS severs, the analyst discovers that the CPU, disk, and memory usage are minimal, but the network interface is flooded with inbound traffic. Network logs show only a small number of DNS queries sent to this server. Which of the following best describes what the security analyst is seeing?

A systems administrator wants to prevent users from being able to access data based on their responsibilities. The administrator also wants to apply the required access structure via a simplified format. Which of the following should the administrator apply to the site recovery resource group?

During the onboarding process, an employee needs to create a password for an intranet account. The password must include ten characters, numbers, and letters, and two special characters. Once the password is created, the company will grant the employee access to other company-owned websites based on the intranet profile. Which of the following access management concepts is the company most likely using to safeguard intranet accounts and grant access to multiple sites based on a user’s intranet account? (Choose two.)

Which of the following describes a security alerting and monitoring tool that collects system, application, and network logs from multiple sources in a centralized system?

A network manager wants to protect the company’s VPN by implementing multifactor authentication that uses:

Something you know –

Something you have –

Something you are –
Which of the following would accomplish the manager’s goal?

Which of the following would be the best way to handle a critical business application that is running on a legacy server?

Which of the following vulnerabilities is exploited when an attacker overwrites a register with a malicious address?

After a company was compromised, customers initiated a lawsuit. The company’s attorneys have requested that the security team initiate a legal hold in response to the lawsuit. Which of the following describes the action the security team will most likely be required to take?

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

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?

Which of the following risk management strategies should an enterprise adopt first if a legacy application is critical to business operations and there are preventative controls that are not yet implemented?

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 best describes this form of security control?

The local administrator account for a company’s VPN appliance was unexpectedly used to log in to the remote management interface. Which of the following would have most likely prevented this from happening?

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

An engineer moved to another team and is unable to access the new team’s shared folders while still being able to access the shared folders from the former team. After opening a ticket, the engineer discovers that the account was never moved to the new group. Which of the following access controls is most likely causing the lack of access?

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

A network administrator is working on a project to deploy a load balancer in the company’s cloud environment. Which of the following fundamental security requirements does this project fulfil?

A systems administrator is changing the password policy within an enterprise environment and wants this update implemented on all systems as quickly as possible. Which of the following operating system security measures will the administrator most likely use?

Which of the following would be most useful in determining whether the long-term cost to transfer a risk is less than the impact of the risk?

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?

A technician is deploying a new security camera. Which of the following should the technician do?

A company is experiencing a web services outage on the public network. The services are up and available but inaccessible. The network logs show a sudden increase in network traffic that is causing the outage. Which of the following attacks is the organization experiencing?

Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be motivated by profit?

An organization experiences a cybersecurity incident involving a command-and-control server. Which of the following logs should be analyzed to identify the impacted host? (Choose two.)

During a penetration test, a vendor attempts to enter an unauthorized area using an access badge. Which of the following types of tests does this represent?

A systems administrator uses a key to encrypt a message being sent to a peer in a different branch office. The peer then uses the same key to decrypt the message. Which of the following describes this example?

A visitor plugs a laptop into a network jack in the lobby and is able to connect to the company’s network. Which of the following should be configured on the existing network infrastructure to best prevent this activity?

A security administrator is reissuing a former employee’s laptop. Which of the following is the best combination of data handling activities for the administrator to perform? (Choose two.)

A systems administrator would like to deploy a change to a production system. Which of the following must the administrator submit to demonstrate that the system can be restored to a working state in the event of a performance issue?

A company is redesigning its infrastructure and wants to reduce the number of physical servers in use. Which of the following architectures is best suited for this goal?

A bank set up a new server that contains customers’ PII. Which of the following should the bank use to make sure the sensitive data is not modified?

Users at a company are reporting they are unable to access the URL for a new retail website because it is flagged as gambling and is being blocked. Which of the following changes would allow users to access the site?

Which of the following most impacts an administrator’s ability to address CVEs discovered on a server?

Which of the following describes effective change management procedures?

The CIRT is reviewing an incident that involved a human resources recruiter exfiltrating sensitive company data. The CIRT found that the recruiter was able to use HTTP over port 53 to upload documents to a web server. Which of the following security infrastructure devices could have identified and blocked this activity?

An enterprise is working with a third party and needs to allow access between the internal networks of both parties for a secure file migration. The solution needs to ensure encryption is applied to all traffic that is traversing the networks. Which of the following solutions should most likely be implemented?

An administrator has identified and fingerprinted specific files that will generate an alert if an attempt is made to email these files outside of the organization. Which of the following best describes the tool the administrator is using?

A software developer released a new application and is distributing application files via the developer’s website. Which of the following should the developer post on the website to allow users to verify the integrity of the downloaded files?

An organization wants to limit potential impact to its log-in database in the event of a breach. Which of the following options is the security team most likely to recommend?

An administrator finds that all user workstations and servers are displaying a message that is associated with files containing an extension of .ryk. Which of the following types of infections is present on the systems?

A systems administrator is advised that an external web server is not functioning property. The administrator reviews the following firewall logs containing traffic going to the web server:

Which of the following attacks is likely occurring?

An organization would like to calculate the time needed to resolve a hardware issue with a server. Which of the following risk management processes describes this example?

A security engineer is installing an IPS to block signature-based attacks in the environment.

Which of the following modes will best accomplish this task?

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?

Which of the following is used to protect a computer from viruses, malware, and Trojans being installed and moving laterally across the network?