CompTIA

SY0-501
CompTIA Security+

QUESTION & ANSWERS

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 Product Questions: 751
Version: 32.0
Question: 1

DRAG DROP
Drag and drop the correct protocol to its default port.

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 Answer:

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Explanation:
FTP uses TCP port 21. Telnet uses port 23.
SSH uses TCP port 22.
All protocols encrypted by SSH, including SFTP, SHTTP, SCP, SExec, and slogin, also use TCP port 22.
Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) is a secure file-transfer facility based on SSH and Remote Copy Protocol
(RCP).

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Secure FTP (SFTP) is a secured alternative to standard File Transfer Protocol (FTP). SMTP uses TCP
port 25.
Port 69 is used by TFTP.
SNMP makes use of UDP ports 161 and 162.
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Question: 2

HOTSPOT
Select the appropriate attack from each drop down list to label the corresponding illustrated attack.
Instructions: Attacks may only be used once, and will disappear from drop down list if selected.
When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

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 Answer:

Explanation:
1: Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets a specific organization, seeking
unauthorized access to confidential dat
a. As with the e-mail messages used in regular phishing expeditions, spear phishing messages appear
to come from a trusted source. Phishing messages usually appear to come from a large and well-
known company or Web site with a broad membership base, such as eBay or PayPal. In the case of
spear phishing, however, the apparent source of the e-mail is likely to be an individual within the
recipient's own company and generally someone in a position of authority.
2: The Hoax in this question is designed to make people believe that the fake AV (anti- virus)
software is genuine.
3: Vishing is the act of using the telephone in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private
information that will be used for identity theft. The scammer usually pretends to be a legitimate
business, and fools the victim into thinking he or she will profit.
4: Phishing is the act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate
enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for
identity theft.
Phishing email will direct the user to visit a website where they are asked to update personal
information, such as a password, credit card, social security, or bank account numbers, that the
legitimate organization already has. The website, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the

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information the user enters on the page.
5: Similar in nature to e-mail phishing, pharming seeks to obtain personal or private (usually financial
related) information through domain spoofing. Rather than being spammed with malicious and
mischievous e-mail requests for you to visit spoof Web sites which appear legitimate, pharming
'poisons' a DNS server by infusing false information into the DNS server, resulting in a user's request
being redirected elsewhere. Your browser, however will show you are at the correct Web site, which
makes pharming a bit more serious and more difficult to detect. Phishing attempts to scam people
one at a time with an e-mail while pharming allows the scammers to target large groups of people at
one time through domain spoofing.
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Question: 3
DRAG DROP
You have been tasked with designing a security plan for your company. Drag and drop the
appropriate security controls on the floor plan.
Instructions: All objects must be used and all place holders must be filled. Order does not matter.
When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

Answer:

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Explanation:
Cable locks - Adding a cable lock between a laptop and a desk prevents someone from picking it up
and walking away
Proximity badge + reader
Safe is a hardware/physical security measure
Mantrap can be used to control access to sensitive areas. CCTV can be used as video surveillance.
Biometric reader can be used to control and prevent unauthorized access. Locking cabinets can be
used to protect backup media, documentation and other physical artefacts.

Question: 4

Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a
server’s certificate?

A. CA public key
B. Server private key
C. CSR
D. OID

Answer: D

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Question: 5

A security analyst is reviewing the following output from an IPS:

Given this output, which of the following can be concluded? (Select two.)

A. The source IP of the attack is coming from 250.19.18.22.

Answer: BC

Question: 6

Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical want to provide seamless wireless access for
their employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented
if all the organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices?

A. Shibboleth
B. RADIUS federation
C. SAML
D. OAuth
E. OpenID connect

Answer: B

Explanation:
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Question: 7

Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing
vendor diversity?

A. Sustainability
B. Homogeneity

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C. Resiliency
D. Configurability

Answer: C

Question: 8

In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer
(CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand. Which of
the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?

A. Elasticity
B. Scalability
C. High availability
D. Redundancy

Answer: A

Explanation:
Elasticity is defined as “the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by
provisioning and de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time
the available resources match the current demand as closely as possible”.

Question: 9

A security engineer is configuring a system that requires the X.509 certificate information to be
pasted into a form field in Base64 encoded format to import it into the system. Which of the
following certificate formats should the engineer use to obtain the information in the required
format?

A. PFX
B. PEM
C. DER
D. CER

Answer: B

Question: 10

Which of the following attacks specifically impact data availability?

A. DDoS
B. Trojan
C. MITM

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D. Rootkit

Answer: A

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