Which of the following techniques enables a highly secured organization to assess security weaknesses in real time?
A. Access control lists
B. Continuous monitoring
C. Video surveillance
D. Baseline reporting
CompTIA Security+ Question E-49
Which of the following application security testing techniques is implemented when an automated system generates random input data?
A. Fuzzing
B. XSRF
C. Hardening
D. Input validation
CompTIA Security+ Question E-48
A recent audit of a company’s identity management system shows that 30% of active accounts belong to people no longer with the firm. Which of the following should be performed to help avoid this scenario? (Select TWO).
A. Automatically disable accounts that have not been utilized for at least 10 days.
B. Utilize automated provisioning and de-provisioning processes where possible.
C. Request that employees provide a list of systems that they have access to prior to leaving the firm.
D. Perform regular user account review / revalidation process.
E. Implement a process where new account creations require management approval.
CompTIA Security+ Question E-47
An organization has three divisions: Accounting, Sales, and Human Resources. Users in the Accounting division require access to a server in the Sales division, but no users in the Human Resources division should have access to resources in any other division, nor should any users in the Sales division have access to resources in the Accounting division. Which of the following network segmentation schemas would BEST meet this objective?
A. Create two VLANS, one for Accounting and Sales, and one for Human Resources.
B. Create one VLAN for the entire organization.
C. Create two VLANs, one for Sales and Human Resources, and one for Accounting.
D. Create three separate VLANS, one for each division.
CompTIA Security+ Question E-46
An administrator needs to secure RADIUS traffic between two servers. Which of the following is the BEST solution?
A. Require IPSec with AH between the servers
B. Require the message-authenticator attribute for each message
C. Use MSCHAPv2 with MPPE instead of PAP
D. Require a long and complex shared secret for the servers
CompTIA Security+ Question E-45
Peter, a security administrator, is concerned with users tailgating into the restricted areas. Given a limited budget, which of the following would BEST assist Peter with detecting this activity?
A. Place a full-time guard at the entrance to confirm user identity.
B. Install a camera and DVR at the entrance to monitor access.
C. Revoke all proximity badge access to make users justify access.
D. Install a motion detector near the entrance.
CompTIA Security+ Question E-44
An organization does not want the wireless network name to be easily discovered. Which of the following software features should be configured on the access points?
A. SSID broadcast
B. MAC filter
C. WPA2
D. Antenna placement
CompTIA Security+ Question E-43
A security analyst has been notified that trade secrets are being leaked from one of the executives in the corporation. When reviewing this executive’s laptop they notice several pictures of the employee’s pets are on the hard drive and on a cloud storage network. When the analyst hashes the images on the hard drive against the hashes on the cloud network they do not match.
Which of the following describes how the employee is leaking these secrets?
A. Social engineering
B. Steganography
C. Hashing
D. Digital signatures
CompTIA Security+ Question E-42
A security administrator implements access controls based on the security classification of the data and need-to-know information. Which of the following BEST describes this level of access control?
A. Implicit deny
B. Role-based Access Control
C. Mandatory Access Controls
D. Least privilege
CompTIA Security+ Question E-41
Which of the following means of wireless authentication is easily vulnerable to spoofing?
A. MAC Filtering
B. WPA – LEAP
C. WPA – PEAP
D. Enabled SSID