Welcome to today’s practice test!
This beginner-level practice test is inspired by the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam and is designed to help you reinforce key cybersecurity concepts on a daily basis.
These questions are not official exam questions, but they reflect topics and scenarios relevant to the Security+ certification. Use them to test your knowledge, identify areas for improvement, and build daily cybersecurity habits.
Select all that apply:Results
#1. An attacker is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a company’s customer portal. What mitigation technique is most appropriate to limit the impact of such attacks?
#2. An analyst in a SOC observes unusual outbound connections from a financial server at 3 AM, a time with no scheduled activity. What is the best course of action?
#3. A security engineer needs to enhance email security by preventing spoofed messages. Which technologies should be implemented?
#4. A company is concerned about unauthorized devices connecting to its internal network. What technology provides device authentication before network access?
#5. A cloud engineer is implementing resilience in a multi-region AWS deployment. What approach best supports high availability?
#6. A ________ is a secure cryptographic hardware component used to generate, store, and manage encryption keys and certificates.
#7. During a pen test, an attacker uses ARP poisoning to intercept LAN traffic. Which mitigation strategy best protects against this attack?
#8. A software developer needs to verify code integrity and authorship. Which cryptographic method provides this assurance?
#9. A company wants to securely deploy patches to thousands of IoT devices with minimal downtime. Which best practice should they adopt?
#10. Scenario: A vulnerability scan reveals outdated software, weak passwords, and open ports on a legacy server. Task: Choose the THREE most appropriate remediation actions.
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Answers
- B
- D
- B
- B
- B
- Hardware Security Module
- B
- C
- C
- The following:
- Update software to latest version
- Enforce password complexity
- Close unnecessary ports