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15 question Security+ Quiz March 2023

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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?

a)

Stored Procedures

b)

Scalability

c)

Version Control

d)

Memory Management

2.

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?

a)

Implement an account lockout policy

b)

Increase password policy requirements.

c)

Implement a TOTP solution.

d)

Require users to change their password more often.

3.

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?

a)

ARP

b)

IPCONFIG

c)

ROUTE

d)

PING

4.

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?

a)

arp

b)

ipconfig

c)

hping3

d)

netstat

5.

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?

a)

head

b)

tail

c)

chmod

d)

logger

6.

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

a)

# iptables -F

b)

# iptables -P INPUT -j DROP

c)

# iptables -Z

d)

# iptables -t mangle -X

7.

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?

a)

Z-Wave compatibility

b)

Network site survey

c)

Zigbee configuration

d)

Communication protocols

8.

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

a)

HTTPS

b)

DNSSec

c)

SNMP

d)

SSH

9.

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

a)

IPSec

b)

HTTPS

c)

SFTP

d)

SRTP

10.

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?

a)

SLA

b)

BPA

c)

UPS

d)

MOU

11.

Recognia Corp. is a retail company who is looking to migrate their workloads to the cloud and needs to enhance its ability to maintain a scalable cloud infrastructure as it grows into new customer segments. The company runs marketing deals and promotions from time to time. The organization's cloud infrastructure needs to handle the unpredictable loads on the company's web application. Which of the following cloud concepts would best meet these requirements?

a)

SaaS

b)

VDI

c)

Containers

d)

Microservices

12.

ScoutSwag Corp. is a marketing firm based out of Goofytown, FL. Jerome has been hired as a Security Engineer and is tasked with ensuring that the data at rest on the hard drives in the servers are fully encrypted. The security engineer in this scenario is an example of a:

a)

Data Controller

b)

Data Owner

c)

Data Custodian

d)

Data Processor

13.

What is the best way to overcome the test anxiety and pass the test at the rist attempt with flying colors?

a)

Practice the questions, do the simulations and understand the acronyms and concepts.

b)

Memorize the questions word by word, ditch the concepts, don't worry about acronyms

c)

Just glance over the book and the glossary.

d)

Ditch the process, skip the class, go to the bar and watch a movie.

14.

Management wants to increase security for any users accessing the

network with a VPN. They plan to implement a method that will require

users to install an application on their smartphones. This application will

generate a key that they’ll have to enter in addition to their username and

password. What is the BEST description of this added authentication

method?

a)

Something you know

b)

Something you have

c)

Something you are

d)

Something you do

15.

Homer is not able to access any network resources from his Linux-based

computer. Which of the following commands would he use to view the

network configuration of his system?

a)

ifconfig

b)

ipconfig

c)

netstat

d)

tracert