CompTIA Security+ Practice Test of the Day 070625

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Today’s practice test is based on Subdomain 3.4 (Explain the importance of resilience and recovery in security architecture) from the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 objectives.

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CompTIA Security+ Practice Test of the Day 070625

10 questions • Single best answer

Question 1

A regional bank's DR plan calls for a secondary facility with servers fully provisioned, data continuously synchronized from the primary data center, and staff able to resume operations within minutes of a failover. Which disaster recovery site type BEST describes this configuration?

A. Cold site B. Warm site C. Hot site D. Geographic dispersion site

Question 2

After a power failure corrupts a database, the recovery team restores it using a log of transactions recorded in near real-time since the last full backup. This allows them to reconstruct every committed change up to the point of failure. Which backup technique made this recovery possible?

A. Snapshots B. Replication C. Differential backup D. Journaling

Question 3

A healthcare organization wants its patient portal to remain available even if one of its web servers fails. The architect deploys multiple servers behind a device that distributes incoming HTTP requests across all available nodes based on current load. Which high availability mechanism is being implemented?

A. Clustering B. Geographic dispersion C. Load balancing D. Failover replication

Question 4

During a brief power interruption at a financial trading firm, servers rebooted unexpectedly, causing open transactions to be lost and corrupting several database files. Which power continuity solution would have MOST directly prevented this by providing immediate, uninterrupted power the instant the outage began?

A. Generator B. Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) C. Redundant power supply D. Automatic transfer switch

Question 5

A logistics company has a secondary data center with hardware installed and base OS images configured, but data is only synchronized weekly from the primary site. Following a declared disaster, the site requires several hours of additional setup before it is fully operational. Which site classification BEST describes this?

A. Hot site B. Cold site C. Warm site D. Mobile site

Question 6

A global e-commerce company places its primary data center in Virginia and a secondary facility in Ireland so that a natural disaster in one region cannot simultaneously impact both locations. Which resilience strategy does this BEST represent?

A. Platform diversity B. Multi-cloud deployment C. Geographic dispersion D. High availability clustering

Question 7

A university CISO schedules a meeting where department heads walk through their response to a ransomware outbreak, discussing roles, decision points, and escalation procedures without activating any systems or performing live actions. Which type of resilience test is this?

A. Failover test B. Simulation C. Parallel processing test D. Tabletop exercise

Question 8

A cloud administrator needs to capture the exact state of a virtual machine before deploying an untested application update so that, if the update fails, the VM can be restored to that precise point within minutes. Which backup method BEST meets this requirement?

A. Full backup B. Differential backup C. Snapshot D. Journaling

Question 9

An enterprise architect recommends deploying the company's SaaS platform across both AWS and Azure so that if one provider experiences a major outage, workloads automatically shift to the other. Which resilience strategy does this BEST represent?

A. Platform diversity B. High availability clustering C. Multi-cloud systems D. Geographic dispersion

Question 10

A security team is evaluating whether the current staff headcount can sustain 24/7 incident monitoring and response coverage following a company expansion that will double the number of endpoints to protect. Which dimension of capacity planning is the team assessing?