CompTIA Security+ Percipio Study Guide 100% Correct Answers Verified Latest 2024 Version
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What would a secret formula for a medicine classify as?
A) Private
B) Public
C) Confidential
D) Proprietary - D) Proprietary
It is YOUR formula that YOU own, so it is YOUR property.
Which of the following are used to measure integrity of an application? (Select all that apply)
A) Quality
B)...
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What would a secret formula for a medicine classify as?
A) Private
B) Public
C) Confidential
D) Proprietary - ✔✔D) Proprietary
It is YOUR formula that YOU own, so it is YOUR property.
Which of the following are used to measure integrity of an application? (Select all that apply)
A) Quality
B) Confidentiality
C) Maintainability
D) Reliability - ✔✔All of them are used (A,B,C,D)
In which of the following situations, creating a manual snapshot of an operating system is
recommended?
A) Before updates or major system changes
B) During security configuration
C) After an update or a major system change
D) Periodically at various times - ✔✔A) Before updates or major system changes
,This allows you to back up in case of failures
You have recently formatted your system after detecting a remote access trojan (RAT). You want to
ensure that the RAT is no longer able to get into your system. Which of the following methods should
you use? (Select all that apply)
A) Keep the antivirus up to date
B) Avoid downloading unknown programs
C) Avoid opening e-mail attachments from unknown senders
D) Block unused ports and shut down unwanted services
E) Monitor outgoing traffic regularly - ✔✔All of them (A, B, C, D, E) are standard information security
practices.
An internal user has been able to gain access to another user's internal Website password and logged to
his account. How would you classify this event as?
A) Event Anomaly
B) Security Misconfiguration
C) Access Violation
D) Invalid Login attempt - ✔✔C) Access Violation
The user is using another person's credentials to access the internal website. You should NEVER give your
password out to anyone (or use someone else's credentials).
As part of a recovery drill, an organization decides to move to a warm site, until the primary location is
back in action. Which of the following business continuity plan is performed here?
A) Alternate business process
B) Tabletop exercise
C) Failover
D) Location selection - ✔✔C) Failover
,Failover is a process of switching over to another option when the primary option becomes unavailable.
The IT helpdesk has been receiving complaints that when they connect their laptops through the Wi-Fi
connection, they are not able to access the organizational network. However, they can access the
Internet. On conducting a security scan, the IT helpdesk engineer notices that the users are being routed
to an access point that has not been installed by the organization.
Which of the following wireless attack does this scenario depict?
A) Jamming
B) Rogue AP
C) Packet sniffing
D) Evil Twin - ✔✔B) Rogue AP
Rouge Access Point (Rouge AP) is a wireless threat that bypasses all wired security measures (firewalls,
for example) by providing access to a wired enterprise network. Rogue access points could potentially
allow unchallenged access to the network by any wireless user or client in the physical vicinity.
You need to configure an encrypted E-mail for users within the network. The E-mail must be in its secure
form so that it is not transmitted in the clear-text form using a messaging client. What should you do?
A) Use the S/MIME protocol
B) Install SSL/TLS certificates on the messaging server
C) Configure HTTPS
D) Install the SSL/TLS certificate on all user systems - ✔✔A) Use the S/MIME protocol
S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Is used to encrypt emails at client side. S/MIME
is a standard for public key encryption and signing of MIME data.
Which of the following security protocol is used by EAP-FAST?
, A) Kerberos
B) RADIUS
C) Transport Layer Security (TLS)
D) Diameter - ✔✔C) Transport Layer Security (TLS)
FAST (Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling) uses TLS to perform authentication.
A forensic expert finds a hidden encrypted file that is useful for legal proceedings. Which of the following
actions is performed by the expert here?
A) Collecting the evidence
B) Recovery of the evidence
C) Keeping legal hold of the evidence
D) Preservation of the evidence - ✔✔B) Recovery of the evidence
Which of the following can help to identify a computer hoax?
A) Circuit-level gateways
B) Packet-filtering firewall
C) Application-level gateways
D) Spam filter - ✔✔D) Spam filter
Common spam filters will identify and help prevent hoaxes
Which of the following devices are likely to implement home automation?
A) IoT
B) Windows Embedded Compact
C) RTOS
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