CompTIA SY0-501 Security+ Take Ten Challenge #5Step 1 of 1010%5-1: When visiting a website, a browser complains that the website is not trusted. Which of the following would be the MOST likely cause of this error? Web server version is outdated Certificate is expired The server license is invalid The server is configured with the default settings The server has a segmentation fault 5-2: A cloud service is configured to scale up when the application becomes busy, and scale down when the demand is low. Which of the following describes this characteristic? Templates Segmentation Redundancy Fault-tolerance Elasticity 5-3: An application developer has included the public key of a server as part of their app. Which of these would BEST describe this technique? Escrow Pinning Hashing Stretching Stapling 5-4: Which of these threat actors often gain access to remote systems without any sophisticated knowledge of exploits or attacks? Insider Script kiddie Hacktivist Competitor Nation state 5-5: Which of the following would be the best way to digitally sign email content? SSL POP3 IMAP4 SSH S/MIME 5-6: Which of the following would be the BEST way to identify employee fraud? Tabletop exercise Role-based awareness training Penetration testing Mandatory vacations Chain of custody 5-7: A security engineer is using the same key to encrypt and decrypt data. Which of the following is the engineer using? SHA-2 PGP Diffie-Hellman ECC Blowfish 5-8: Which of the following would commonly require authentication to gain access to a network? SIEM 802.1X Anti-spoofing DLP STP 5-9: Which of the following would be the BEST way to provide security of cloud-based applications? IPS IaaS CASB VPN PKI 5-10: Which of the following could be used to deploy a standard password setting on Windows computers? Group policies Biometrics Permission auditing TOTP - Time-based one-time password algorithm Least privilege
