CompTIA Security+ Practice Test of the Day 260717

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Today’s practice test is based on Subdomain 4.7 (Explain the importance of automation and orchestration related to secure operations) from the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 objectives.

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CompTIA Security+ Practice Test of the Day 260717
10 questions • Single best answer
Question 1
A DevSecOps lead at a retail company wants automated policies that prevent developers from deploying resources violating security standards, such as public storage buckets. These automated boundaries should stop noncompliant actions before they take effect. Which automation use case is described?
    Question 2
    After adopting automation, a small security team handles a workload that previously required many more analysts. Leadership highlights how scripting lets existing staff accomplish far more. Which benefit does this describe?
      Question 3
      A manager worries that routing every provisioning workflow through one orchestration server could halt all operations if that server fails. She raises this during a design review. Which automation consideration is she citing?
        Question 4
        An organization uses scripts to configure every new server identically to an approved secure standard, preventing configuration drift. Auditors praise the resulting consistency. Which benefit of automation does this represent?
          Question 5
          A team accumulated many quick automation scripts that are now poorly documented and hard to maintain, creating future rework. A reviewer flags this accumulated burden. Which drawback of automation is described?
            Question 6
            A company automates account creation so that when a new hire is added to HR, the system generates credentials and assigns group memberships. Manual onboarding previously took days. Which use case of automation does this illustrate?
              Question 7
              A SOAR platform must pull alerts from a firewall and push blocks to an endpoint tool programmatically without human clicks. Engineers connect these systems using defined programmatic interfaces. Which capability enables this system-to-system communication?
                Question 8
                When monitoring detects an anomaly, a workflow automatically opens a case in the service desk with relevant details for an analyst. This removes manual data entry. Which automation use case does this describe?
                  Question 9
                  A CISO cautions that heavily automated pipelines can become difficult to understand and troubleshoot as interdependencies grow. She lists this as a tradeoff when expanding orchestration. Which consideration is she raising?
                    Question 10
                    An automated playbook contains a threat within seconds of detection, far faster than an analyst responding manually overnight. Leadership emphasizes this speed advantage. Which benefit of automation does it show?
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