Most Valid Dumps for CompTIA Security+ SY0-501 Exam

1. A high-security defense installation recently began utilizing large guard dogs that bark very loudly and excitedly at the slightest provocation.

Which of the following types of controls does this BEST describe?

2. An incident responder receives a call from a user who reports a computer is exhibiting symptoms consistent with a malware infection.

Which of the following steps should the responder perform NEXT?

3. Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical want to provide seamless wireless access for their employees as they visit the other organizations.

Which of the following should be implemented if all the organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices?

4. An analyst wants to implement a more secure wifeless authentication for office access points.

Which of the following technologies allows for encrypted authentication of wireless clients over TLS?

5. A security analyst is hardening an authentication server. One of the primary requirements is to ensure there is mutual authentication and delegation.

Given these requirements, which of the following technologies should the analyst recommend and configure?

6. An organization wishes to provide better security for its name resolution services.

Which of the following technologies BEST supports the deployment DNSSEC at the organization?

7. Ann, an employee in the payroll department, has contacted the help desk citing multiple issues with her device, including:

- Slow performance

- Word documents, PDFs, and images no longer opening

- A pop-up

Ann states the issues began after she opened an invoice that a vendor emailed to her. Upon opening the invoice, she had to click several security warnings to view it in her word processor.

With which of the following is the device MOST likely infected?

8. A department head at a university resigned on the first day of the spring semester. It was subsequently determined that the department head deleted numerous files and directories from the server-based home directory while the campus was closed.

Which of the following policies or procedures co have prevented this from occurring?

9. A company is using a mobile device deployment model in which employees use their personal devices for work at their own discretion.

Some of the problems the company is encountering include the following:

* There is no standardization.

* Employees ask for reimbursement for their devices.

* Employees do not replace their devices often enough to keep them running efficiently.

* The company does not have enough control over the devices.

Which of the following is a deployment model that would help the company overcome these problems?

10. A security administrator is developing controls for creating audit trails and tracking if a PHI data breach is to occur.

The administrator has been given the following requirements:

* All access must be correlated to a user account.

* All user accounts must be assigned to a single individual.

* User access to the PHI data must be recorded.

* Anomalies in PHI data access must be reported.

* Logs and records cannot be deleted or modified.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to meet the above requirements? (Select THREE).

11. Which of the following can be provided to an AAA system for the identification phase?

12. Hotspot Question

Select the appropriate attack from each drop down list to label the corresponding illustrated attack Instructions: Attacks may only be used once, and will disappear from drop down list if selected.

When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

13. Despite having implemented password policies, users continue to set the same weak passwords and reuse old passwords.

Which of the following technical controls would help prevent these policy violations? (Select TWO).

14. A security analyst is reviewing the following output from an IPS:

Given this output, which of the following can be concluded? (Select TWO).

15. An organization finds that most help desk calls ate regarding account lockout due to a variety of applications running on different systems.

Manager is looking for a solution to reduce the number of account lockouts while improving security.

Which of the following is the BEST solution for this organization?

16. Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company's proprietary information to gain a market edge and reduce time to market?

17. When trying to log onto a company's new ticketing system, some employees receive the following message: Access denied: too many concurrent sessions. The ticketing system was recently installed on a small VM with only the recommended hardware specifications.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for this error message?

18. A network administrator at a small office wants to simplify the configuration of mobile clients connecting to an encrypted wireless network.

Which of the following should be implemented if the administrator does not want to provide the wireless password or certificate to the employees?

19. A company is developing a new secure technology and requires computers being used for development to be isolated.

Which of the following should be implemented to provide the MOST secure environment?

20. Which of the following explains why vendors publish MD5 values when they provide software patches for their customers to download over the Internet?

21. Drag and Drop Question

A security administrator is given the security and availability profiles for servers that are being deployed.

1) Match each RAID type with the correct configuration and MINIMUM number of drives.

2) Review the server profiles and match them with the appropriate RAID type based on integrity, availability, I/O, storage requirements. Instructions:

- All drive definitions can be dragged as many times as necessary

- Not all placeholders may be filled in the RAID configuration boxes

- If parity is required, please select the appropriate number of parity checkboxes

- Server profiles may be dragged only once

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

When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit. Once the simulation is submitted, please select the Next button to continue.

22. Refer to the following code:

Which of the following vulnerabilities would occur if this is executed?

23. A database backup schedule consists of weekly full backups performed on Saturday at 12:00 A.m. and daily differential backups also performed at 12:00 A.m.

If the database is restored on Tuesday afternoon, which of the following is the number of individual backups that would need to be applied to complete the database recovery?

24. Which of the following technologies employ the use of SAML? (Select TWO).

25. An organization is using a tool to perform a source code review.

Which of the following describes the case in which the tool incorrectly identifies the vulnerability?

26. In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand.

Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?

27. A Security analyst is diagnosing an incident in which a system was compromised from an external IP address. The socket identified on the firewall was traced to 207.46.130.6666.

Which of the following should the security analyst do to determine if the compromised system still has an active connection?

28. Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?

29. Drag and Drop Question

You have been tasked with designing a security plan for your company.

Drag and drop the appropriate security controls on the floor plan.

Instructions:

All objects must be used and all place holders must be filled Order does not matter

When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

30. Which of the following encryption methods does PKI typically use to securely protect keys?

31. Which of the following characteristics differentiate a rainbow table attack from a brute force attack? (Select TWO).

32. Which of the following BEST describes a routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed from a string?

33. Which of the following is an important step to take BEFORE moving any installation packages from a test environment to production?

34. Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords render ineffective?

35. A network administrator wants to implement a method of securing internal routing.

Which of the following should the administrator implement?

36. Which of the following types of keys is found in a key escrow?

37. A senior incident response manager receives a call about some external IPs communicating with internal computers during off hours.

Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely causing this issue?

38. A company is currently using the following configuration:

* IAS server with certificate-based EAP-PEAP and MSCHAP

* Unencrypted authentication via PAP

A security administrator needs to configure a new wireless setup with the following configurations:

* PAP authentication method

* PEAP and EAP provide two-factor authentication

Which of the following forms of authentication are being used? (Select TWO).

39. A security administrator is trying to encrypt communication. For which of the following reasons should administrator take advantage of the Subject Alternative Name (SAM) attribute of a certificate?

40. After a merger between two companies a security analyst has been asked to ensure that the organization's systems are secured against infiltration by any former employees that were terminated during the transition.

Which of the following actions are MOST appropriate to harden applications against infiltration by former employees? (Select TWO)

41. A new mobile application is being developed in-house. Security reviews did not pick up any major flaws, however vulnerability scanning results show fundamental issues at the very end of the project cycle.

Which of the following security activities should also have been performed to discover vulnerabilities earlier in the lifecycle?

42. A security administrator is creating a subnet on one of the corporate firewall interfaces to use as a DMZ which is expected to accommodate at most 14 physical hosts.

Which of the following subnets would BEST meet the requirements?

43. A company has a security policy that specifies all endpoint computing devices should be assigned a unique identifier that can be tracked via an inventory management system. Recent changes to airline security regulations have cause many executives in the company to travel with mini tablet devices instead of laptops. These tablet devices are difficult to tag and track. An RDP application is used from the tablet to connect into the company network.

Which of the following should be implemented in order to meet the security policy requirements?

44. The security administrator receives an email on a non-company account from a coworker stating that some reports are not exporting correctly. Attached to the email was an example report file with several customers' names and credit card numbers with the PIN.

Which of the following is the BEST technical controls that will help mitigate this risk of disclosing sensitive data?

45. A technician is configuring a wireless guest network. After applying the most recent changes the technician finds the new devices can no longer find the wireless network by name but existing devices are still able to use the wireless network.

Which of the following security measures did the technician MOST likely implement to cause this Scenario?

46. A security administrator has been assigned to review the security posture of the standard corporate system image for virtual machines. The security administrator conducts a thorough review of the system logs, installation procedures, and network configuration of the VM image.

Upon reviewing the access logs and user accounts, the security administrator determines that several accounts will not be used in production.

Which of the following would correct the deficiencies?

47. Although a web enabled application appears to only allow letters in the comment field of a web form, malicious user was able to carry a SQL injection attack by sending special characters through the web comment field.

Which of the following has the application programmer failed to implement?

48. An attacker discovers a new vulnerability in an enterprise application. The attacker takes advantage of the vulnerability by developing new malware. After installing the malware the attacker is provided with access to the infected machine.

Which of the following is being described?

49. A security administrator returning from a short vacation receives an account lock-out message when attempting to log into the computer. After getting the account unlocked the security administrator immediately notices a large amount of emails alerts pertaining to several different user accounts being locked out during the past three days. The security administrator uses system logs to determine that the lock-outs were due to a brute force attack on all accounts that has been previously logged into that machine.

Which of the following can be implemented to

reduce the likelihood of this attack going undetected?

50. A bank requires tellers to get manager approval when a customer wants to open a new account. A recent audit shows that there have been four cases in the previous year where tellers opened accounts without management approval. The bank president thought separation of duties would prevent this from happening.

In order to implement a true separation of duties approach the bank could:

51. A security administrator has been tasked with improving the overall security posture related to desktop machines on the network. An auditor has recently that several machines with confidential customer information displayed in the screens are left unattended during the course of the day.

Which of the following could the security administrator implement to reduce the risk associated with the finding?

52. Company policy requires the use if passphrases instead if passwords.

Which of the following technical controls MUST be in place in order to promote the use of passphrases?

53. During a routine audit, it is discovered that someone has been using a stale administrator account to log into a seldom used server. The person has been using the server to view inappropriate websites that are prohibited to end users.

Which of the following could best prevent this from occurring again?

54. Which of the following should identify critical systems and components?

55. Which of the following works by implanting software on systems but delays execution until a specific set of conditions is met?

56. A web application is configured to target browsers and allow access to bank accounts to siphon money to a foreign account.

This is an example of which of the following attacks?

57. Technicians working with servers hosted at the company's datacenter are increasingly complaining of electric shocks when touching metal items which have been linked to hard drive failures.

Which of the following should be implemented to correct this issue?

58. A portable data storage device has been determined to have malicious firmware.

Which of the following is the BEST course of action to ensure data confidentiality?

59. A security administrator must implement a system to ensure that invalid certificates are not used by a custom developed application. The system must be able to check the validity of certificates even when internet access is unavailable.

Which of the following MUST be implemented to support this requirement?

60. A technician has installed new vulnerability scanner software on a server that is joined to the company domain. The vulnerability scanner is able to provide visibility over the patch posture of all company's clients.

Which of the following is being used?

61. The Chief Security Officer (CISO) at a multinational banking corporation is reviewing a plan to upgrade the entire corporate IT infrastructure. The architecture consists of a centralized cloud environment hosting the majority of data, small server clusters at each corporate location to handle the majority of customer transaction processing, ATMs, and a new mobile banking application accessible from smartphones, tablets, and the Internet via HTTP. The corporation does business having varying data retention and privacy laws.

Which of the following technical modifications to the architecture and corresponding security controls should be implemented to provide the MOST complete protection of data?

62. While reviewing the monthly internet usage it is noted that there is a large spike in traffic classified as "unknown" and does not appear to be within the bounds of the organizations Acceptable Use Policy.

Which of the following tool or technology would work BEST for obtaining

more information on this traffic?

63. A network administrator wants to ensure that users do not connect any unauthorized devices to the company network. Each desk needs to connect a VoIP phone and computer.

Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this?

64. An administrator has concerns regarding the traveling sales team who works primarily from smart

phones.

Given the sensitive nature of their work, which of the following would BEST prevent access to the data in case of loss or theft?

65. ) The wireless icon shows connectivity but has no network access

The wireless network is WPA2 Enterprise and users must be a member of the wireless security group to authenticate.

Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the connectivity issues?

66. A chief Financial Officer (CFO) has asked the Chief Information Officer (CISO) to provide responses to a recent audit report detailing deficiencies in the organization security controls. The CFO would like to know ways in which the organization can improve its authorization controls.

Given the request by the CFO, which of the following controls should the CISO focus on in the report? (Select Three)

67. A mobile device user is concerned about geographic positioning information being included in messages sent between users on a popular social network platform. The user turns off the functionality in the application, but wants to ensure the application cannot re-enable the setting without the knowledge of the user.

Which of the following mobile device capabilities should the

user disable to achieve the stated goal?

68. A member of a digital forensics team, Joe arrives at a crime scene and is preparing to collect system data. Before powering the system off, Joe knows that he must collect the most volatile date first.

Which of the following is the correct order in which Joe should collect the data?

69. An organization has hired a penetration tester to test the security of its ten web servers. The penetration tester is able to gain root/administrative access in several servers by exploiting vulnerabilities associated with the implementation of SMTP, POP, DNS, FTP, Telnet, and IMAP.

Which of the following recommendations should the penetration tester provide to the organization to better protect their web servers in the future?

70. A security engineer is faced with competing requirements from the networking group and database administrators. The database administrators would like ten application servers on the same subnet for ease of administration, whereas the networking group would like to segment all applications from one another.

Which of the following should the security administrator do to rectify this issue?

71. A security analyst has been asked to perform a review of an organization's software development lifecycle. The analyst reports that the lifecycle does not contain a phase in which team members evaluate and provide critical feedback of another developer's code.

Which of the following assessment techniques is BEST described in the analyst's report?

72. An attacker wearing a building maintenance uniform approached a company's receptionist asking for access to a secure area. The receptionist asks for identification, a building access badge and checks the company's list approved maintenance personnel prior to granting physical access to the secure are.

The controls used by the receptionist are in place to prevent which of the following types of attacks?

73. A security administrator is tasked with conducting an assessment made to establish the baseline security posture of the corporate IT infrastructure. The assessment must report actual flaws and weaknesses in the infrastructure. Due to the expense of hiring outside consultants, the testing must be performed using in-house or cheaply available resource. There cannot be a possibility of any requirement being damaged in the test.

Which of the following has the administrator been tasked to perform?

74. A network administrator is attempting to troubleshoot an issue regarding certificates on a secure website. During the troubleshooting process, the network administrator notices that the web gateway proxy on the local network has signed all of the certificates on the local machine.

Which of the following describes the type of attack the proxy has been legitimately programmed to perform?

75. Which of the following use the SSH protocol?

76. Which of the following is the GREATEST risk to a company by allowing employees to physically bring their personal smartphones to work?

77. Which of the following is the summary of loss for a given year?

78. A Security Officer on a military base needs to encrypt several smart phones that will be going into the field.

Which of the following encryption solutions should be deployed in this situation?

79. An organization relies heavily on an application that has a high frequency of security updates. At present, the security team only updates the application on the first Monday of each month, even though the security updates are released as often as twice a week.

Which of the following would be the BEST method of updating this application?

80. A technician must configure a firewall to block external DNS traffic from entering a network.

Which of the following ports should they block on the firewall?

81. A software development company needs to share information between two remote servers, using encryption to protect it. A programmer suggests developing a new encryption protocol, arguing that using an unknown protocol with secure, existing cryptographic algorithm libraries will provide strong encryption without being susceptible to attacks on other known protocols.

Which of the following summarizes the BEST response to the programmer's proposal?

82. A security technician would like to obscure sensitive data within a file so that it can be transferred without causing suspicion.

Which of the following technologies would BEST be suited to accomplish this?

83. A supervisor in your organization was demoted on Friday afternoon. The supervisor had the ability to modify the contents of a confidential database, as well as other managerial permissions. On Monday morning, the database administrator reported that log files indicated that several records were missing from the database.

Which of the following risk mitigation strategies should have been implemented when the supervisor was demoted?

84. Which of the following attack types is being carried out where a target is being sent unsolicited messages via Bluetooth?

85. Joe is exchanging encrypted email with another party. Joe encrypts the initial email with a key.

When Joe receives a response, he is unable to decrypt the response with the same key he used initially.

Which of the following would explain the situation?

86. Recently several employees were victims of a phishing email that appeared to originate from the company president. The email claimed the employees would be disciplined if they did not click on a malicious link in the message.

Which of the following principles of social engineering made this

attack successful?

87. Which of the following is the LEAST secure hashing algorithm?

88. An employee uses RDP to connect back to the office network. If RDP is misconfigured, which of the following security exposures would this lead to?

89. Joe, the security administrator, sees this in a vulnerability scan report:

"The server 10.1.2.232 is running Apache 2.2.20 which may be vulnerable to a mod_cgi exploit."

Joe verifies that the mod_cgi module is not enabled on 10.1.2.232.

This message is an example of:

90. A security analyst wishes to increase the security of an FTP server. Currently, all trails to the FTP server is unencrypted. Users connecting to the FTP server use a variety of modem FTP client software. The security analyst wants to keep the same port and protocol, while also still allowing unencrypted connections.

Which of the following would BEST accomplish these goals?

91. A company has three divisions, each with its own networks and services. The company decides to make its secure web portal accessible to all employees utilizing their existing usernames and passwords, The security administrator has elected to use SAML to support authentication.

In this scenario, which of the following will occur when users try to authenticate to the portal? (Select TWO)

92. Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a server's certificate?

93. A user suspects someone has been accessing a home network without permission by spoofing the MAC address of an authorized system While attempting to determine if an unauthorized user is togged into the home network, the user reviews the wireless router, which shows the following table for systems that are currently on the home network.

Which of the following should be the NEXT step to determine if there is an unauthorized user on the network?

94. Drag and Drop Question

A Security administrator wants to implement strong security on the company smart phones and

terminal servers located in the data center.

Drag and Drop the applicable controls to each asset type.

Instructions: Controls can be used multiple times and not all placeholders needs to be filled.

When you have completed the simulation, Please select Done to submit.

95. A security consultant discovers that an organization is using the PCL protocol to print documents, utilizing the default driver and print settings.

Which of the following is the MOST likely risk in this situation?

96. A security analyst is hardening a server with the directory services role installed. The analyst must ensure LDAP traffic cannot be monitored or sniffed and maintains compatibility with LDAP clients.

Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

97. Drag and Drop Question

Drag and drop the correct protocol to its default port.

98. A botnet has hit a popular website with a massive number of GRE-encapsulated packets to perform a DDoS attack News outlets discover a certain type of refrigerator was exploited and used to send outbound packets to the website that crashed.

To which of the following categories does the refrigerator belong?

99. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a company, Ann, is putting together a hardware budget for the next 10 years. She is asking for the average lifespan of each hardware device so that she is able to calculate when she will have to replace each device.

Which of the following categories BEST describes what she is looking for?

100. A software developer wants to ensure that the application is verifying that a key is valid before establishing SSL connections with random remote hosts on the Internet.

Which of the following should be used in the code? (Select TWO.)