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WorksheetsCOMPTIA IT 12
Total questions: 88
Worksheet time: 44mins
You are adding a particular group to the network permissions for a folder. Which option do you use?
Single-factor authentication
Advanced sharing
sudo chown
Advanced permissions
How are the rules used in rule-based access enforced?
DAC
SSO
OTP
ACL
You are concerned about security when you log in to your remote server. The network administrator prints a list of credentials for you, and you can use each credential only once. What will you be using to log in?
Throwaway login
One-time password
Temporary authentication
Time-limited code
An app on your phone displays a numeric code you must use to log in to a secure network. If you don't log in in time, you must generate another code. What type of app is this?
Hardware token
Multifactor authentication
Single-factor authentication
Software token
Which of the following terms specifically refers to methods for recording users' access to internal and external resources?
Repudiation
Authorization
Accounting
Authentication
How would you disable location tracking in macOS?
Open Settings, Connections, Location, and turn off Location
Open system Preferences, Security & Privacy, Privacy, Location Services
Open Settings, Privacy, and Location
Open Settings, Privacy, Location Services, System Services, Significant Locations, and turn it off
Which Windows Event Viewer log records all login and logout information by account and type?
System log
Nonrepudiation log
Security log
Application log
Which of the following is a small keychain-sized device that generates one-time passwords or access codes for secure networks?
ACL token
Role-based token
Hardware token
Standard account token
What refers to situations in which an individual cannot deny being present in a specific location?
Access control location
Nonrepudiation
Mandatory access control
Discretionary access control
Your smartphone can accept a PIN of up to six characters after a software upgrade. For maximum security, what should you do?
Change your PIN to a new six character PIN
Use onlyfour characters because you are worried about forgetting a lonegr PIN
Disable encryption
Repeast the last character of your old PIN to create a new PIN
Implementing which of the follong policies would help stop a dictionary attack on your device?
Minimum password length
PIN
Alphabetical password requirement
Account lockout threshold
You have asked your users to stop using alphabetical passwords. Implementing which of the following policies would help enforce this?
Password must meet complexity requirements
Entice password history
Maximum password age
Minimum password length
A user has the following password: A9C2DD47FF. What type of password is this?
Easy to remember
All characters
Alphanumeric
HEX
Your company's network security is logging attempts to log on remotely. You company's name is DuzITAII, and its website says DuzITAII specializes in multivector, best-of-breed, converged, 2st century tech. These keywords are being used as passwords in login attempts. What type of password attack is being attempted?
Brute force
Hex
Dictionary
Spidering
It's time to change passwords again and you don't feel like entering a brand-new password. You use an old password yo used last year, but it is rejected. What policy is preventing you from reusing it?
Password history
Password complexity
Password expiration
Password reuse
You have received a message from a service you subscribe to that a password change has been requested, but you didn't request a password change. What should you do?
Ignore the message
Click the link
Call the service
Verify the message
You manage computers that run Windows. Which application do you use to set up password policies?
Password Setup Utility
User Account Control
Windows Password Manager
Local Group Policy Editor
You want to set up password history on your network to keep users from reusing old passwords. To make users change their passwords periodically, you also need to set up which of the following?
Password generator
Password Complexity
Password manager
Password expiration
You have received a call from an absent-minded user who has forgotten the password to their payroll account and cannot log in after five attempts. Which of the following is most likely being used?
Account lockout threshold
Password expiration
Account lockout duration
Password complexity
You are talking to a user about passwords, and the user is annoyed that you recommend not reusing passwords across sites. What can you recommend as an easy-to-use alterntive?
Setting up accounts without passwords
Password generator
Password manager
Password history
Your company requires complex passwords that use alphanumeric characters but doe not enforce any account lockout settings. Which type of attack is you company most vulnerable to?
Brute force
Dictionary
Spidering
Password generator
Your compnay is encouraging users to set up different passwords for different services and accounts. Which of the following would help users do this?
Password expiration
Password complexity
Proxy
Password generator
Which of the following is a set of rules designed to improve security in an organization by specifically encouraging the use of strong passwords?
Single sign-on
Business impact analysis
Disaster recovery plan
Password policy
Which statement is not true regarding strong password?
Should be at least three characters in length
Should contain both upper and lowercase alphabetic characters
Should have at least one special character
Should have at least one numerical character
What do Apple, Microsoft, and Google specifically use that enables a single login to provide access to multiple services?
Multifactor authentication
Complex algorithms
Single sign-on
Password reuse policies
Which of the following represents special characters?
0 through 9
~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) + =
A through Z and a through z
Qwerty
Which of the following is the strongest password?
mypassword
mY#p@$$~W0rD
mYp@SSw0rD
MiPassWord123
What can be used in Microsoft Windows to configure policy settings for password complexity, history, and expiration?
Encryption database
BitLocker To Go
Event Viewer
gpedit.msc
A user steps away from their computer frequently and is concerned about unauthorized users changing information while they are away. Which of the following would help prevent this?
BIOS/UEFI password
Screensaver or lock screen password
Password expiration policy
Password complexity password
A user discovers that their system has been booted with a USB flash drive and unauthorized data was copied to the drive. Whih of the following would help prevent this?
BIOS/UEFI password
Screensaver or lock screen password
BitLocker To Go
Single sign-on
HTTPS, VPN, and Email are examples of which of the following?
Data at rest
Encryption protocols
Data at play
Data in transit
You run an app that compares the contents of a local folder to a cloud folder and copies only new and changed files from the local folder to the cloud folder. This is an example of which of the following?
File copying
File history
File sychronization
Compression
Plain text and cipher text are related in which of the following ways?
Cipher text is the readable form of plain text
Cipher text is an encrypted form of plain text
Cipher text is another word for plain text
Plain text is cipher text withour punctuation
EFS (Encrypter File System) is an encryption standard for which of the following file systems for versions of Windows before Windows 10 1607?
FAT32
NTFS
ext4
exFAT
Which of the following is a correct statement about encryption on macOS?
File and folder encryption is built in
File and folder encryption requires installing EFS
Disk encryption is built in
Disk encryption requires installing optional software
"Filesystem stacked level encryption" refers to encryption used by which operating system?
Windows
Linux
iOS
Android
If you want to use BitLocker on a system without a TPM, which of the following programs do you need to run to enable it?
Device Manager
GPEDIT
FileVault 2
LUKS
Before you can send encrypted mail with Outlook or Apple Mail, you need to get which of the following?
Digital copy
Rootkit
Encryption key
Digital ID
OpenPGP is also known as which of the following?
Open Programmable GNU Product
Open Pretty Good Privacy
Open Pegasus Group Product
Open PowerShell Gnu Package
Which of the following is specifically designed to encrypt mail?
S/MIME
FileVault 2
BitLocker TO Go
If you want to use iCloud to unlock an encrypted drive and reset the password, which version of macOS is the minimum version to use?
Mavericks
High Sierra
Yosemite
Lion
The padlock in a web browser's address bar indicate which of the following?
Connection is secure
Website requires user to have digital certificate installed
Connection is insecure
Website requires user to have OpenPGP installed
A VPN sets up a private connection between your computer and which of the following?
An ISP
An email provider
An email account
A remotea computer
Which of the following is not an option for storing a BitLocker recovery key?
An email message
A writeable optical disc
A smart card
A user's Microsoft account
If you want to encrypt a file using the Home version of Windows 10, whic of the following could you use?
EFS
BitLocker
VeraCrypt
FireVault 2
Which of the following is used only with BitLocker?
TPM
EFS
LUKS
OpenPGP
Which of the following statements is false?
Microsoft Outlook doesn't support sending encrypted email on an individual message or for all messages
Encryption can talke place on a file level, a disk level, or in a mobile device
Data at rest is data that is being stored on a device
File-level encryption prevents an individual file from being read; other files on the devic are not affected
Where are digital certificates acquired?
The system drive
A user's Microsoft account
A VPN administrator
Certificate authority (CA)
iOS and ANdroid devices are encrypted automatically when you set up which of the following?
HTTP
Email and mobile apps
PIN or passcode
EFS or NTFS
Your company makes the world's crispiest breakfast cereal based on a secret formula. What is this an example of?
Customer information
Personal information
Metadata
Company confidential information
You are preparing to submit a digital photo to a photo contest and you don't want to reveal the camera and lens you used. Which of the following do you need to remove from the file?
Personal information
Metadata
Permissions
Company confidential information
Before you install a mobile app, you notice that the app wants to access your contact list and GPS navigation. These are examples of which of the following?
Personal information
Permissions
File sharing
Privacy
You are using a P2P file-sharing service ro download a Linux distribution. You notice that in addition to the Linux installation files on the remote server, you can also see files such as Salesforcast2019.xlsx and SuperCrisp2.pptx. If you download these files, you might be downloading what type of information?
Customer information
Company confidential information
Metadata
Personal information
You want to use IM to communicate breaking news to you company's sales force. However, you want to make sure the messages are removed after 72 hours. Which of the following features does you IM service need to support?
Self-destructing messages
Encryption
Screenshot blocking
Voice chat
Some of your co-workers using macOS computers are complaining about app permission settings. Which of the following do they need to use to view and change permissions?
Settings
System Preferences,Security, and Privacy
App Store
Finder
HR has received an email claiming to be from the company's CEO asking for the names, contact information, and social security numbers of its food scientists. The email is a phishing email that is attempting to compromise personal information. What else might the email be attempting to compromise?
Metadata
Customer information
Permissions
Company confidential information
Which of the following has a duplicate of your primary IT functions, with hardware, apps, and data ready to run in minutes or less in the event of a disaster?
RAID 10 site
Identical site
Hot site
DIsaster recovery site
Which of the following is not a true statement regarding redundant power supplies?
They are not often used in servers
They are designed to switch automatically from the primary module to the secondary module in the event of primary module failure
They fit into the same space as a standard power supply but are comrmised of two seperate power supply modules
They are often designed for rack-mounted use
You are part of a task force developing a privacy policy for your company. Which of the following do you need to add to the policy to cover personal smartphone usage?
BYOB policy
Permissions policy
IM policy
BYOD policy
Which of the following represents information that can be used to identify a person that is stored in a file's metadata?
SPIM
MDM
MAM
PII
Which of the following is an alias for a regular credit card number that can be used one time for online purchases?
Apply Pay
Single-use credit card
Single sign-on payment
Google Pay
Which of the following is a legal test to determine how the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applies to a particular issue of privacy, such as employee privacy?
Expectation of privacy
Permissions based on need to know
Permissions based on least privilege
Intrusion prevention system test
Which of the following is a file stored on a computer or device by a website, a computer, or device visited can can be used for targeted ads and to track where a user goes online?
Location data executable
Single-use applet
Tracking cookie
Metadata file
What can iOS users download from the App Store to view and fix privacy issues for already installed apps?
Location tracking remover
MyPermissions Privacy Cleaner
Apple App Privacy Filter (AAPF)
Personal information eraser
You have just been hired as a Certified Information Privacy Technologist. Before you start your new job, you have been asked to sign a document stipulating constraints and practices that you must agree to before accessing the corporate network. What is this document called?
AUP
NDA
EULA
PIIA
You are changing permissions on a workstation bu using sudo chmod. Which operating system are you using?
Windows
macOS
Linux
IOS
Which of the following is a network protocol that establishes a secure tunnel allowing remote users to log in securely?
MDM
SSH
HTTP
One-time pad (OTP)
What the user knows, what the user has, and who the user is are examples of which of the following?
Multifactor authentication
Software tokens
Nonrepudiation
Single-factor authentication
To view logs in macOS, you open which of the following apps?
Console
Logs
Settings
Applications
A user in Accounting needs to have someone in Security review information to check for fraud. What type of access control does their organization need to use to make this possible?
Multifactor authentication
Discretionary access control
Mandatory access control
Rule-based access
For security purposes, you need to encrypt several files and folders in Windows 10 Pro. What check box would you select in the Advanced Attributes for the files and folders?
Secure with EFS
Require additional authentication at startup
Encrypt contents to secure data
Turn on FireVault
How can you tell if a file is encrypted in Windows 10:
Key with blue file name
Padlock and green file name
Key with magenta file name
Padlock with red file name
A high availability database is which of the following?
A database that never has a problem
A database that uses a RAID array for storage
A database that can recover from a failure quickly
A database after being backed up
Which of the following provides data mirroring and striping using four drives?
RAID 4
RAID 10
RAID 0
RAID 5
You are building a RAID 1 array using two drives, a 1.5TB drive and a 2TB drive. WHat is the total capacity of this array?
3.5TB
2TB
1.5TB
1.75 TB
Your organization has set up two routers, each connected to a different Internet Service Provider. This is an example of which of the following?
Network backup
Network redundancy
High availability
RAID
You are in charge of the IT disaster planning team for a retailer. WHich of the following types of data is critical data?
Old catalog files
Current orders
Last year's inventory summary
Last quarter's promotions
You are responsible for planning the backup strategy needed for disaster recovery. You have already identified the need to back up the database and transactions. In case the server crashes and the drive must be replaced, you also need which of the following?
OS backup
Redundant power supple
HSM
RAID
As part of your disaster recovery planning, you have purchased replacement servers to run essential operations. Unfortunately, you were unable to purchase exact replacements. The new servers have different motherboards and processors. Which of the following steps might need to be taken during the OS backup process to ensure that the backups can be restored?
Configure the dissimilar hardware options
Run emulation
Determine if motherboards and processors from the old serverswork in the new servers
Set up virtual machines
Which of the following costs more than a cold site, and would require ongoing maintenance of hardware and possibly software, but can be made ready in hours, rather than days, compared to a cold site?
Redundant site
Warm site
Hot site
Mirrored site
A user in Windows can manage their own account but needs permission to install apps. Which type of user account does this user have?
Administrator account
Child account
Standard account
Guest account
You want to print a color presentation at 7 p.m., but the laser printer won't be available until 9 a.m. tomorrow. WHat type of access control is in use in your organization?
Mandatory
Rule-based
Discretionary
Single factor
Your organization enables a user to have access to only what is needed to perform assigned tasks. WHat is this an example of?
Least privilege model
Discretionary access
Accounting
Single factor authentication
A user in your organization signs on to the network at the stat of the workday and can use all company servers they have access to without signing in again. What is this an example of?
Single authentication
Single sign-on
Authorization
Advanced sharing
You are setting up new notebooks with support for Windows Hello. Windows Hello is an example of what?
Multifactor authentication
Biometrics
Software token
Single-factor authentication
You are creating a login for your device and you can choose from four or six digits. Which type of a login are you most likely creating?
OTP
PIN
SSO
RBAC
You are viewing log files for a computer. You can view Application, Security, and other logs in separate categories with the standard log file viewer. Which operating system are you using?
macOS
Windows
Linux
Any of the above
You open your browser and type in this search: "Tire shops near me." WHat operating system feature makes this search possible?
Wi-Fi
Location tracking
Bluetooth
Cellular
