CompTIA SY0-501 Security+ Take Ten Challenge #2Step 1 of 1010%2-1: Which of the following would best describe data in-use? A laptop drive is configured for whole disk encryption Customer information is transmitted across an IPsec tunnel A switch forwards a frame to a router A point of sale terminal encrypts a credit card number 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? Cross-site request forgery Data injection Buffer overflow Man in the middle Driver manipulation 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? VPN concentrator Load balancer Proxy Firewall IPS 2-4: Which of these best describes TPM functionality? Reverse proxy EAL4 Hardware root of trust Application blacklisting EMI prevention 2-5: Which of the following would be a disadvantage to using PAP during authentication? The password hash is easy to brute force The credentials are passed in the clear Must be used with a third-party trust Only operates over dial-up lines The passwords are stored as a salted hash 2-6: Which data label would be most associated with patient records from a medical doctor? NDA PII DSS PHI PCI 2-7: Which of the following would NOT commonly be associated with a server's certificate chain? Root CA certificate Private key Server certificate Root CA certificate hash Intermediate certificates 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? Man-in-the-middle Cross-site request forgery Watering hole 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? DoS Penetration test Man-in-the-middle Spoofing 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? DLP Firewall NAC SIEM Proxy Take Ten Challenge #2 companion video with detailed answers:
