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CompTIA SY0-501 Security+ Take Ten Challenge #2

April 13, 2020

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2-1: Which of the following would best describe data in-use?
- A switch forwards a frame to a router
- Customer information is transmitted across an IPsec tunnel
- A point of sale terminal encrypts a credit card number
- A laptop drive is configured for whole disk encryption
- Encrypted data is stored in a SQL database

2-2: An attacker has determined that they can intentionally overwrite an area of memory to perform an exploit. Which of these would best describe this exploitation method?
- Buffer overflow
- Driver manipulation
- Man in the middle
- Cross-site request forgery
- Data injection

2-3: A security administrator would like to limit internal users from directly communicating to external web sites. Which of these security technologies would be the best choice for this objective?
- Firewall
- VPN concentrator
- Load balancer
- Proxy
- IPS

2-4: Which of these best describes TPM functionality?
- EAL4
- Reverse proxy
- Application blacklisting
- Hardware root of trust
- EMI prevention

2-5: Which of the following would be a disadvantage to using PAP during authentication?
- Must be used with a third-party trust
- The passwords are stored as a salted hash
- The credentials are passed in the clear
- Only operates over dial-up lines
- The password hash is easy to brute force

2-6: Which data label would be most associated with patient records from a medical doctor?
- PHI
- NDA
- PCI
- DSS
- PII

2-7: Which of the following would NOT commonly be associated with a server's certificate chain?
- Root CA certificate
- Intermediate certificates
- Server certificate
- Root CA certificate hash
- Private key

2-8: An attacker has infected a government healthcare reporting web site with malware in an effort to gain access to a hospital network. When the hospital visits the government site, the malware will attempt to infect the hospital computer. Which of the following would best describe this attack type?
- Watering hole
- Man-in-the-middle
- Cross-site request forgery
- Data injection
- Hoax

2-9: During a scheduled event, a security administrator was able to exploit a known vulnerability on a server to gain root access. Which of the following would best describe this event?
- Spoofing
- Man-in-the-middle
- Penetration test
- DoS
- Vulnerability scan

2-10: A security administrator needs to create a report each day that shows the number of invalid login attempts across all of their servers. Which of these would be the best way to provide this information?
- SIEM
- Firewall
- DLP
- NAC
- Proxy

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