CompTIA SY0-601 Exam Dumps

CompTIA Security+ Exam 2023

CompTIA SY0-601 Sample Questions

Question # 1

Which of the following controls would be the MOST cost-effective and time-efficient to deter intrusions at the perimeter of a restricted, remote military training area? (Select TWO). 

A. Barricades 
B. Thermal sensors 
C. Drones 
D. Signage 
E. Motion sensors 
F. Guards 
G. Bollards 

Answer: A,E

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Question # 2

A security analyst needs an overview of vulnerabilities for a host on the network. Which of the following is the BEST type of scan for the analyst to run to discover which vulnerable services are running?

A. Non-credentialed 
B. Web application 
C. Privileged 
D. Internal 

Answer: B

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Question # 3

A company is concerned about individuals dnvmg a car into the building to gam access Which of the following security controls would work BEST to prevent this from happening? 

A. Bollard 
B. Camera 
C. Alarms 
D. Signage
 E. Access control vestibule 

Answer: A

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Question # 4

During a security assessment, a security finds a file with overly permissive permissions. Which of the following tools will allow the analyst to reduce the permission for the existing users and groups and remove the set-user-ID from the file? 

A. 1s 
B. chflags 
C. chmod 
D. lsof 
E. setuid 

Answer: C

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Question # 5

Which of the following incident response steps occurs before containment? 

A. Eradication 
B. Recovery 
C. Lessons learned 
D. Identification 

Answer: D

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Question # 6

A company acquired several other small companies The company thai acquired the others is transitioning network services to the cloud The company wants to make sure that performance and security remain intact Which of the following BEST meets both requirements? 

A. High availability 
B. Application security 
C. Segmentation 
D. Integration and auditing 

Answer: A

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Question # 7

Which of the following biometric authentication methods is the MOST accurate? 

A. Gait 
B. Retina 
C. Signature 
D. Voice 

Answer: B

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Question # 8

A security architect is implementing a new email architecture for a company. Due to security concerns, the Chief Information Security Officer would like the new architecture to support email encryption, as well as provide for digital signatures. Which of the following should the architect implement? 

A. TOP 
B. IMAP
C. HTTPS 
D. S/MIME

Answer: D

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Question # 9

A systems engineer is building a new system for production. Which of the following is the FINAL step to be performed prior to promoting to production? 

A. Disable unneeded services. 
B. Install the latest security patches. 
C. Run a vulnerability scan. 
D. Encrypt all disks. 

Answer: C

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Question # 10

A security team suspects that the cause of recent power consumption overloads is the unauthorized use of empty power outlets in the network rack Which of the following options will mitigate this issue without compromising the number of outlets available?

A. Adding a new UPS dedicated to the rack 
B. Installing a managed PDU 
C. Using only a dual power supplies unit
 D. Increasing power generator capacity 

Answer: B

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Question # 11

An organization's Chief Information Security Officer is creating a position that will be responsible for implementing technical controls to protect data, including ensuring backups are properly maintained Which of the following roles would MOST likely include these responsibilities?

A. Data protection officer
 B. Data owner 
C. Backup administrator 
D. Data custodian 
E. Internal auditor 

Answer: C

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Question # 12

Which of the following BEST describes the method a security analyst would use to confirm a file that is downloaded from a trusted security website is not altered in transit or corrupted using a verified checksum?

A. Hashing
 B. Salting 
C. Integrity 
D. Digital signature 

Answer: C

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Question # 13

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 employee's identity before sending him the prize. Which of the following BEST describes this type of email? 

A. Spear phishing
 B. Whaling 
C. Phishing 
D. Vishing

Answer: C

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Question # 14

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has decided to reorganize security staff to concentrate on incident response and to outsource outbound Internet URL categorization and filtering to an outside company. Additionally, the CISO would like this solution to provide the same protections even when a company laptop or mobile device is away from a home office. Which of the following should the CISO choose? 

A. CASB 
B. Next-generation SWG
 C. NGFW 
D. Web-application firewall 

Answer: B

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Question # 15

A third party asked a user to share a public key for secure communication. Which of the following file formats should the user choose to share the key?

 A. .pfx
 B. .csr 
C. .pvk 
D. .cer 

Answer: A

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Question # 16

As part of the building process for a web application, the compliance team requires that all PKI certificates are rotated annually and can only contain wildcards at the secondary subdomain level. Which of the following certificate properties will meet these requirements?

A. HTTPS://.comptia.org, Valid from April 10 00:00:00 2021 - April 8 12:00:00 2022 
B. HTTPS://app1.comptia.org, Valid from April 10 00:00:00 2021-April 8 12:00:00 2022 
C. HTTPS:// app1.comptia.org, Valid from April 10 00:00:00 2021-April 8 12:00:00 2022 
D. HTTPS://.comptia.org, Valid from April 10 00:00:00 2021 - April 8 12:00:00 

Answer: C

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Question # 17

A security analyst needs to implement an MDM solution for BYOD users that willallow the company to retain control over company emails residing on the devices andlimit data exfiltration that might occur if the devices are lost or stolen.Which of the following would BEST meet these requirements? (Select TWO). 

A. Full-device encryption
 B. Network usage rules 
C. Geofencing 
D. Containerization 
E. Application whitelisting 
F. Remote control 

Answer: A,B

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Question # 18

Employees at a company are receiving unsolicited text messages on their corporate cell phones. The unsolicited text messages contain a password reset Link. Which of the attacks is being used to target the company? 

A. Phishing 
B. Vishing 
C. Smishing 
D. Spam 

Answer: C

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Question # 19

Which of the technologies is used to actively monitor for specific file types being transmitted on the network? 

A. File integrity monitoring 
B. Honeynets 
C. Tcpreplay 
D. Data loss prevention 

Answer: B

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Question # 20

A company would like to set up a secure way to transfer data between users via their mobile phones The company's top pnonty is utilizing technology that requires users to be in as close proximity as possible to each other. Which of the following connection methods would BEST fulfill this need?

A. Cellular 
B. NFC 
C. Wi-Fi
 D. Bluetooth 

Answer: B

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Question # 21

Which of the following environments typically hosts the current version configurations and code, compares user-story responses and workflow, and uses a modified version of actual data for testing? 

A. Development 
B. Staging 
C. Production 
D. Test 

Answer: B

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Question # 22

A company Is planning to install a guest wireless network so visitors will be able to access the Internet. The stakeholders want the network to be easy to connect to so time is not wasted during meetings. The WAPs are configured so that power levels and antennas cover only the conference rooms where visitors will attend meetings. Which of the following would BEST protect the company's Internal wireless network against visitors accessing company resources?

A. Configure the guest wireless network to be on a separate VLAN from the company's internal wireless network 
B. Change the password for the guest wireless network every month. 
C. Decrease the power levels of the access points for the guest wireless network. 
D. Enable WPA2 using 802.1X for logging on to the guest wireless network. 

Answer: A

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Question # 23

A network administrator needs to determine Ihe sequence of a server farm's logs. Which of the following should Ihe administrator consider? (Select TWO). 

A. Chain of custody 
B. Tags
 C. Reports 
D. Time stamps 
E. Hash values 
F. Time offset 

Answer: A,F

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Question # 24

Which of the following BEST describes a technique that compensates researchers for finding vulnerabilities? 

A. Penetration testing 
B. Code review 
C. Wardriving 
D. Bug bounty

Answer: D

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Question # 25

The help desk has received calls from users in multiple locations who are unable to access core network services The network team has identified and turned off the network switches using remote commands. Which of the following actions should the network team take NEXT? 

A. Disconnect all external network connections from the firewall
 B. Send response teams to the network switch locations to perform updates 
C. Turn on all the network switches by using the centralized management software 
D. Initiate the organization's incident response plan. 

Answer: D

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Question # 26

An application owner reports suspicious activity on an internal financial application from various internal users within the past 14 days. A security analyst notices the following: •Financial transactions were occurring during irregular time frames and outside of business hours by unauthorized users. •Internal users in question were changing their passwords frequently during that time period. •A jump box that several domain administrator users use to connect to remote devices was recently compromised. •The authentication method used in the environment is NTLM. Which of the following types of attacks is MOST likely being used to gain unauthorized access? 

A. Pass-the-hash 
B. Brute-force 
C. Directory traversal 
D. Replay 

Answer: A

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Question # 27

A security engineer is hardening existing solutions to reduce application vulnerabilities. Which of the following solutions should the engineer implement FIRST? (Select TWO) 

A. Auto-update 
B. HTTP headers 
C. Secure cookies 
D. Third-party updates 
E. Full disk encryption 
F. Sandboxing 
G. Hardware encryption 

Answer: A,F

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Question # 28

Which of the following controls would provide the BEST protection against tailgating? 

A. Access control vestibule 
B. Closed-circuit television
 C. Proximity card reader 
D. Faraday cage 

Answer: A

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Question # 29

An employee received multiple messages on a mobile device. The messages instructing the employee to pair the device to an unknown device. Which of the following BEST describes What a malicious person might be doing to cause this issue to occur?

 A. Jamming 
B. Bluesnarfing 
C. Evil twin 
D. Rogue access point 

Answer: B

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Question # 30

A company is concerned about individuals driving a car into the building to gain access. Which of the following security controls would work BEST to prevent this from happening? 

A. Bollard 
B. Camera 
C. Alarms 
D. Signage 
E. Access control vestibule 

Answer: A

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Question # 31

An organization is concerned about hackers potentially entering a facility and plugging in a remotely accessible Kali Linux box. Which of the following should be the first lines of defense against such an attack? (Select TWO) 

A. MAC filtering 
B. Zero trust segmentation 
C. Network access control 
D. Access control vestibules 
E. Guards
F. Bollards 

Answer: C,D

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Question # 32

Which of the following should customers who are involved with Ul developer agreements be concerned with when considering the use of these products on highly sensitive projects? 

A. Weak configurations 
B. Integration activities 
C. Unsecure user accounts 
D. Outsourced code development 

Answer: A

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Question # 33

Hackers recently attacked a company's network and obtained several unfavorable pictures from the Chief Executive Officer's workstation. The hackers are threatening to send the images to the press if a ransom is not paid. Which of the following is impacted the MOST?

 A. Identify theft 
B. Data loss 
C. Data exfiltration 
D. Reputation 

Answer: D

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Question # 34

Which of the following is a physical security control that ensures only the authorized user is present when gaining access to a secured area?

A. A biometric scanner 
B. A smart card reader 
C. APKItoken 
D. A PIN pad 

Answer: A

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Question # 35

Which of the following provides a catalog of security and privacy controls related to the United States federal information systems? 

A. GDPR 
B. PCI DSS 
C. ISO 27000
 D. NIST 800-53 

Answer: D

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Question # 36

A Chief Information Officer is concerned about employees using company-issued laptops to steal data when accessing network shares. Which of the following should the company implement? 

A. DLP 
B. CASB 
C. HIDS 
D. EDR 
E. UEFI 

Answer: A

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Question # 37

A new security engineer has started hardening systems. One of the hardening techniques the engineer is using involves disabling remote logins to the NAS. Users are now reporting the inability to use SCP to transfer files to the NAS, even through the data is still viewable from the user’s PCs. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this issue?

A. TFTP was disabled on the local hosts 
B. SSH was turned off instead of modifying the configuration file 
C. Remote login was disabled in the networkd.config instead of using the sshd.conf 
D. Network services are no longer running on the NAS 

Answer: C

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Question # 38

Certain users are reporting their accounts are being used to send unauthorized emails and conduct suspicious activities. After further investigation, a security analyst notices the following: • All users share workstations throughout the day. • Endpoint protection was disabled on several workstations throughout the network. • Travel times on logins from the affected users are impossible. • Sensitive data is being uploaded to external sites. • All user account passwords were forced to be reset and the issue continued. Which of the following attacks is being used to compromise the user accounts?

A. Brute-force 
B. Keylogger 
C. Dictionary 
D. Rainbow 

Answer: B

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Question # 39

Which of the following Is the BEST reason to maintain a functional and effective asset management policy that aids in ensuring the security of an organization? 

A. To provide data to quantify risk based on the organization's systems 
B. To keep all software and hardware fully patched for known vulnerabilities 
C. To only allow approved, organization-owned devices onto the business network 
D. To standardize by selecting one laptop model for all users in the organization

Answer: A

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Question # 40

Per company security policy, IT staff members are required to have separate credentials to perform administrative functions using just-in-time permissions. Which of the following solutions is the company Implementing? 

A. Privileged access management 
B. SSO
 C. RADIUS 
D. Attribute-based access control 

Answer: A

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Question # 41

The Chief Information Security Officer wants to pilot a new adaptive, user-based authentication method. The concept Includes granting logical access based on physical location and proximity. Which of the following Is the BEST solution for the pilot? 

A. Geofencing 
B. Self-sovereign identification 
C. PKl certificates 
D. SSO 

Answer: A

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Question # 42

An information security manager for an organization is completing a PCI DSS selfassessment for the first time. which of the is following MOST likely reason for this type of assessment? 

A. An international expansion project is currently underway. 
B. Outside consultants utilize this tool to measure security maturity. 
C. The organization is expecting to process credit card information. 
D. A government regulator has requested this audit to be completed 

Answer: C

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Question # 43

A security administrator is seeking a solution to prevent unauthorized access to the internal network. Which of the following security solutions should the administrator choose? 

A. MAC filtering 
B. Anti-malware 
C. Translation gateway 
D. VPN 

Answer: D

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Question # 44

A network engineer and a security engineer are discussing ways to monitor network operations. Which of the following is the BEST method? 

A. Disable Telnet and force SSH. 
B. Establish a continuous ping. 
C. Utilize an agentless monitor 
D. Enable SNMPv3 With passwords. 

Answer: A

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Question # 45

A security analyst is using OSINT to gather information to verity whether company data is available publicly. Which of the following is the BEST application for the analyst to use? 

A. theHarvester B Cuckoo 
B. Nmap 
C. Nessus 

Answer: A

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Question # 46

A new plug-and-play storage device was installed on a PC in the corporate environment. Which of the following safeguards will BEST help to protect the PC from malicious files on the storage device? 

A. Change the default settings on the PC. 
B. Define the PC firewall rules to limit access. 
C. Encrypt the disk on the storage device. 
D. Plug the storage device in to the UPS 

Answer: B

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Question # 47

During an investigation, the incident response team discovers that multiple administrator accounts were suspected of being compromised. The host audit logs indicate a repeated brute-force attack on a single administrator account followed by suspicious logins from unfamiliar geographic locations. Which of the following data sources would be BEST to use to assess the accounts impacted by this attack? 

A. User behavior analytics 
B. Dump files 
C. Bandwidth monitors 
D. Protocol analyzer output 

Answer: A

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