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CompTIA SY0-501 Security+ Take Ten Challenge #5

November 20, 2020

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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?
- The server license is invalid
- The server has a segmentation fault
- The server is configured with the default settings
- Web server version is outdated
- Certificate is expired

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?
- Segmentation
- Redundancy
- Fault-tolerance
- Elasticity
- Templates

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?
- Stretching
- Hashing
- Escrow
- Pinning
- Stapling

5-4: Which of these threat actors often gain access to remote systems without any sophisticated knowledge of exploits or attacks?
- Insider
- Hacktivist
- Nation state
- Script kiddie
- Competitor

5-5: Which of the following would be the best way to digitally sign email content?
- IMAP4
- SSH
- SSL
- S/MIME
- POP3

5-6: Which of the following would be the BEST way to identify employee fraud?
- Role-based awareness training
- Chain of custody
- Penetration testing
- Mandatory vacations
- Tabletop exercise

5-7: A security engineer is using the same key to encrypt and decrypt data. Which of the following is the engineer using?
- Blowfish
- Diffie-Hellman
- PGP
- ECC
- SHA-2

5-8: Which of the following would commonly require authentication to gain access to a network?
- STP
- Anti-spoofing
- 802.1Q
- SIEM
- DLP

5-9: Which of the following would be the BEST way to provide security of cloud-based applications?
- VPN
- IPS
- IaaS
- PKI
- CASB

5-10: Which of the following could be used to deploy a standard password setting on Windows computers?
- Permission auditing
- TOTP - Time-based one-time password algorithm
- Least privilege
- Group policies
- Biometrics

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