CompTIA Practice Questions

You were visiting a website but accidentally misspelt the name. You were taken to the same website that you intended to visit. After you exit the website, your system becomes unstable. Which of the following attacks has occurred?

• Typosquatting

• Spear Phishing

• Whaling

• Prepending

Someone has created a Facebook page with your name. The Facebook page contains your information and photos. Which type of social engineering attack has occurred?

• Impersonation

• Whaling

• Identity Theft

• Spear Phishing

Which of the following attack reverse a cryptography hash function?

• Dictionary Attack

• Password Spraying Attack

• Brute-force attack

• Rainbow table attack

An attacker inserted a piece of malicious code into a live process. Which of the following type of attack is taking place?

• Buffer Overflow

• DLL Injection

• Privilege Escalation

• Replay Attack

A group of attackers stole sensitive information in an attack. After this attack, you found that they had been in the network for several months during the investigation. Which type of attackers were these?

• Advanced Persistent Threat (APTs)

• Script Kiddies

• Hacktivists

• Insider Threats

You want to name all systems on the network based on their department names. Which of the following should you use for this purpose?

• Network Diagram

• Baseline Configuration

• IP Schema

• Standard naming convention

You want to perform integration testing of the application that you are developing. You also need to measure the application performance. Which of the following environment should you use for this purpose?

• Development

• Testing

• Staging

• Production

Which of the following would be a secure replacement of Telnet?

• HTTPS

• DNSSec

• SNMP

• SSH

In which of the wireless network, a user does not need to know the password to connect?

• WPS

• WEP

• WPA

• WPA2

Which of the following can reduce the impact of lateral movement in an attack?

• Network Segementation

• VPN

• Screened Subnet

• Private Subnet