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Comptia Security +: Cyber Ops

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1. Which of the following will help Jayne - an administrator; mitigate the risk of static electricity?






2. Which of the following should Starbuck - the security administrator - do FIRST when an employee reports the loss of a corporate mobile device?






3. Social networking sites are used daily by the marketing team for promotional purposes. However - confidential company information - including product pictures and potential partnerships - have been inadvertently exposed to the public by dozens of emp






4. Which of the following mitigates the risk of proprietary information being compromised?






5. Which of the following is an attack where Mal spreads USB thumb drives throughout a bank's parking lot in order to have malware installed on the banking systems?






6. Which of the following authentication protocols forces centralized wireless authentication?






7. River Tam - a user - on a public Wi-Fi network logs into a webmail account and is redirected to a search engine. Which of the following attacks may be occurring?






8. Which of the following ports would be blocked if Mal - a security administrator - wants to disable FTP?






9. Which of the following is a best practice when securing a switch from physical access?






10. River Tam - an attacker - is recording a person typing in their ID number into a keypad to gain access to the building. River Tam then calls the helpdesk and informs them that their PIN no longer works and would like to change it. Which of the follow






11. Which of the following can River Tam - a security administrator - implement to ensure that encrypted files and devices can be recovered if the passphrase is lost?






12. Which of the following is the BEST solution to securely administer remote servers?






13. Which of the following is used by Jayne - a security administrator - to lower the risks associated with electrostatic discharge - corrosion - and thermal breakdown?






14. Which of the following techniques floods an application with data in an attempt to find vulnerabilities?






15. Which of the following would be the BEST reason for Starbuck - a security administrator - to initially select individual file encryption over whole disk encryption?






16. Which of the following open standards should Mal - a security administrator - select for remote authentication of users?






17. Jayne - a security administrator - needs to Telnet into a router to change some configurations. Which of the following ports would need to be open to allow Jayne to change the configurations?






18. Starbuck has a vendors server in-house for shipping and receiving. She wants to ensure that if the server goes down that the server in-house will be operational again within 24 hours. Which of the following should Starbuck define with the vendor?






19. River Tam - the security engineer - has discovered that a breach is in progress on a non-production system of moderate importance. Which of the following should River Tam collect FIRST?






20. Starbuck - a VPN administrator - was asked to implement an encryption cipher with a MINIMUM effective security of 128-bits. Which of the following should Starbuck select for the tunnel encryption?






21. Which of the following implements two factor authentication based on something you know and something you have?






22. Which of the following would help Mal - an administrator - prevent access to a rogue access point connected to a switch?






23. While River Tam is logging into the server from her workstation - she notices Mal watching her enter the username and password. Which of the following social engineering attacks is Mal executing?






24. Which of the following reduces the likelihood of a single point of failure when a server fails?






25. In a wireless network - which of the following components could cause too much coverage - too little coverage - and interference?






26. Which of the following is used to verify the identity of the sender of a signed email?






27. An application programmer reports to River Tam - the security administrator - that the antivirus software installed on a server is interfering with one of the production HR applications - and requests that antivirus be temporarily turned off. How sho






28. Which of the following BEST explains the security benefit of a standardized server image?






29. Hashing algorithms are used to address which of the following?






30. Starbuck - the administrator - is tasked with deploying a strong encryption cipher. Which of the following ciphers would she be the LEAST likely to choose?






31. Which of the following network devices will prevent port scans?






32. River Tam - a security analyst - discovers which operating systems the client devices on the network are running by only monitoring a mirror port on the router. Which of the following techniques did River Tam use?






33. Starbuck - an IT security technician working at a bank - has implemented encryption between two locations. Which of the following security concepts BEST exemplifies the protection provided by this example?






34. Starbuck - a security administrator - has completed the imaging process for 20 computers that were deployed. The image contains the operating system and all required software. Which of the following is this an example of?






35. Which of the following would River Tam - a security administrator - utilize to identity a weakness within various applications without exploiting that weakness?






36. River Tam - an attacker - calls the company's from desk and tries to gain insider information by providing specific company information to gain the attendant's trust. The front desk immediately alerts the IT department about this incident. This is an






37. Which of the following protocols provides Mal - an administrator - with the HIGHEST level of security for device traps?






38. Which of the following does Starbuck - a software developer - need to do after compiling the source code of a program to attest the authorship of the binary?

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39. Mal - a security administrator - has observed repeated attempts to break into the network. Which of the following is designed to stop an intrusion on the network?






40. River Tam and Starbuck - users - are reporting an increase in the amount of unwanted email that they are receiving each day. Which of the following would be the BEST way to respond to this issue without creating a lot of administrative overhead?






41. A company notices that there is a flaw in one of their proprietary programs that the company runs in-house. The flaw could cause damage to the HVAC system. Which of the following would the company transfer to an insurance company?






42. Which of the following BEST describes a denial of service attack?






43. Which of the following risks could IT management be mitigating by removing an all-in-one device?






44. Which of the following inspects traffic entering or leaving a network to look for anomalies against expected baselines?






45. While performing basic forensic analysis of a hard drive in River Tam's - the security administrator - possession - which of the following should be verified during the analysis?






46. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to protect laptop users from zero day attacks. Which of the following would BEST achieve the CIO's goal?






47. Which of the following BEST allows Mal - a security administrator - to determine the type - source - and flags of the packet traversing a network for troubleshooting purposes?






48. Jayne - a security administrator - wants to allow content owners to determine who has access to tiles. Which of the following access control types does this describe?






49. Jayne - a systems security engineer - is determining which credential-type authentication to use within a planned 802.1x deployment. He is looking for a method that does not require a client certificate - has a server side certificate - and uses TLS






50. While conducting a network audit - River Tam - a security administrator - discovers that most clients are routing their network traffic through a desktop client instead of the company router. Which of the following is this attack type?






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