Which of the following provides the LEAST availability?
A. RAID 0
B. RAID 1
C. RAID 3
D. RAID 5
CompTIA exam questions
Which of the following provides the LEAST availability?
A. RAID 0
B. RAID 1
C. RAID 3
D. RAID 5
Peter, a user, wants to protect sensitive information stored on his hard drive. He uses a program that encrypted the whole hard drive. Once the hard drive is fully encrypted, he uses the same program to create a hidden volume within the encrypted hard drive and stores the sensitive information within the hidden volume. This is an example of which of the following? (Select TWO).
A. Multi-pass encryption
B. Transport encryption
C. Plausible deniability
D. Steganography
E. Transitive encryption
F. Trust models
During a disaster recovery planning session, a security administrator has been tasked with determining which threats and vulnerabilities pose a risk to the organization. Which of the following should the administrator rate as having the HIGHEST frequency of risk to the organization?
A. Hostile takeovers
B. Large scale natural disasters
C. Malware and viruses
D. Corporate espionage
A new application needs to be deployed on a virtual server. The virtual server hosts a SQL server that is used by several employees.
Which of the following is the BEST approach for implementation of the new application on the virtual server?
A. Take a snapshot of the virtual server after installing the new application and store the snapshot in a secure location.
B. Generate a baseline report detailing all installed applications on the virtualized server after installing the new application.
C. Take a snapshot of the virtual server before installing the new application and store the snapshot in a secure location.
D. Create an exact copy of the virtual server and store the copy on an external hard drive after installing the new application.
The security manager received a report that an employee was involved in illegal activity and has saved data to a workstation’s hard drive. During the investigation, local law enforcement’s criminal division confiscates the hard drive as evidence. Which of the following forensic procedures is involved?
A. Chain of custody
B. System image
C. Take hashes
D. Order of volatility
Which of the following can be used to maintain a higher level of security in a SAN by allowing isolation of mis-configurations or faults?
A. VLAN
B. Protocol security
C. Port security
D. VSAN
One of the senior managers at a company called the help desk to report to report a problem. The manager could no longer access data on a laptop equipped with FDE. The manager requested that the FDE be removed and the laptop restored from a backup. The help desk informed the manager that the recommended solution was to decrypt the hard drive prior to reinstallation and recovery. The senior manager did not have a copy of the private key associated with the FDE on the laptop. Which of the following tools or techniques did the help desk use to avoid losing the data on the laptop?
A. Public key
B. Recovery agent
C. Registration details
D. Trust Model
A small business needs to incorporate fault tolerance into their infrastructure to increase data availability. Which of the following options would be the BEST solution at a minimal cost?
A. Clustering
B. Mirrored server
C. RAID
D. Tape backup
Which of the following is the BEST method for ensuring all files and folders are encrypted on all corporate laptops where the file structures are unknown?
A. Folder encryption
B. File encryption
C. Whole disk encryption
D. Steganography
After working on his doctoral dissertation for two years, Peter, a user, is unable to open his dissertation file. The screen shows a warning that the dissertation file is corrupted because it is infected with a backdoor, and can only be recovered by upgrading the antivirus software from the free version to the commercial version. Which of the following types of malware is the laptop MOST likely infected with?
A. Ransomware
B. Trojan
C. Backdoor
D. Armored virus