15 question Security+ Quiz March 2023

Your organization hosts an e-commerce web server. The server randomly

experiences a high volume of sales and usage from mid-November to the

end of December, causing spikes in resource usage. These spikes have

resulted in outages during the past year. Which of the following should be

implemented to prevent these outages?

• Stored Procedures

• Scalability

• Version Control

• Memory Management

Employees currently log in with their username and a password but

management wants to increase login security by implementing smart cards.

However, the IT department anticipates it will take a long time to purchase

the necessary equipment and issue smart cards for everyone. You need to

identify a solution that will provide comparable security until the smart

cards are implemented. Which of the following is a compensating control

that will meet these needs?

• Implement an account lockout policy

• Increase password policy requirements.

• Implement a TOTP solution.

• Require users to change their password more often.

You have configured a firewall in your network to block ICMP traffic.

You want to verify that it is working as expected. Which of the following

commands would you use?

• ARP

• IPCONFIG

• ROUTE

• PING

You need to reboot a database server. Before doing so, you need to verify

it doesn’t have any active network connections. Which of the following

commands will BEST meet your needs?

• arp

• ipconfig

• hping3

• netstat

You are troubleshooting an issue with the collaboration application hosted on a

Linux system. You suspect that the issue is caused when performing a

specific function. You execute the function and see a generic error message.

You now want to view the detailed error logged in the messages file. Which

of the following commands would be the BEST choice to use?

• head

• tail

• chmod

• logger

Which of the following would be the BEST option to remove all the rules from the firewall?

• # iptables -F

• # iptables -P INPUT -j DROP

• # iptables -Z

• # iptables -t mangle -X

Clarca Corp. based out of Fairfax, VA is in the process of implementing automation with IoT devices and sensors all over their facility for better surveillance at the edge. Which of the following should the organization consider first to keep the network secure from breaches?

• Z-Wave compatibility

• Network site survey

• Zigbee configuration

• Communication protocols

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

• HTTPS

• DNSSec

• SNMP

• SSH

Which of the following protocol should you use to secure voice and video?

• IPSec

• HTTPS

• SFTP

• SRTP

Datasio Corp. based out of Austin, TX is moving its workloads into cloud and is concerned about service availability and cyber attacks. The company is looking to remediate the risk associated with its cloud service provider not meeting its advertised 5 nines of 99.999% availability metrics. Which of the following should Datasio Corp. reference in order to understand and enforce the exact uptime requirements for the cloud provider?

• SLA

• BPA

• UPS

• MOU