CompTIA Security+ Practice Test of the Day 072925

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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 072925

10 questions • Single best answer

Question 1

A cloud security team creates automation that prevents developers from launching any EC2 instance with a public IP unless the request includes an approved exception tag and is made from within the deployment pipeline. Attempts to violate this policy are blocked automatically before the resource is created. Which automation use case does this BEST represent?

A. Resource provisioning B. Guard rails C. Security group automation D. Ticket creation

Question 2

A security operations team implements a playbook that automatically opens a priority-one incident ticket, pages the on-call engineer, and enriches the ticket with threat intelligence data whenever a SIEM alert fires for a confirmed malware detection. Which two automation use cases are being combined here?

A. Resource provisioning and guard rails B. Ticket creation and escalation C. User provisioning and enabling services D. API integration and security groups

Question 3

An organization automates the process of creating employee accounts in Active Directory, assigning them to appropriate security groups, and provisioning access to required SaaS applications the moment HR marks a new hire as active in the HRIS. Which automation use case does this describe?

A. Resource provisioning B. Guard rails C. User provisioning D. Continuous integration and testing

Question 4

A security engineer flags a concern that the organization's entire alerting, ticketing, and threat intelligence workflow depends on a single orchestration platform. If that platform becomes unavailable, no alerts would be processed and no incidents would be created. Which automation consideration does this represent?

A. Technical debt B. Complexity C. Single point of failure D. Ongoing supportability

Question 5

A security architect notes that the organization's new automated compliance checking platform was built with custom proprietary scripts that only two engineers understand. If those engineers leave, no one else can maintain or modify the automation. Which automation consideration does this BEST describe?

A. Cost B. Complexity C. Single point of failure D. Ongoing supportability

Question 6

An organization deploys automation that enforces consistent firewall rules, patch levels, and logging configurations across all newly provisioned cloud servers by applying approved templates at deployment time. Which benefit of automation does this MOST directly provide?

A. Workforce multiplier B. Employee retention C. Enforcing baselines D. Reaction time

Question 7

A DevSecOps team integrates automated security scanning tools into the build pipeline so that every code commit is tested for known vulnerabilities, dependency issues, and insecure coding patterns before the build can proceed to the next stage. Which automation use case does this represent?

A. Guard rails B. User provisioning C. Continuous integration and testing D. API integration

Question 8

A retail company grows from 50 to 500 stores in 18 months. Its automated security tooling provisions firewall rules, endpoint agents, and log forwarding for each new store location automatically without requiring the security team to increase headcount. Which benefit of automation does this BEST illustrate?

A. Reaction time B. Enforcing baselines C. Scaling in a secure manner D. Employee retention

Question 9

A security team uses scripts and automation platforms to connect its SIEM, threat intelligence platform, and ticketing system so that enrichment data flows between them automatically when an alert is triggered. Which automation use case does this describe?

A. Guard rails B. Escalation C. Integrations and APIs D. Security groups

Question 10

An organization adopts a new automation platform that requires extensive custom coding, integration with 12 separate tools, and a dedicated team of engineers to operate. The CISO warns that the long-term cost of maintaining this system may outweigh its benefits. Which automation consideration is the CISO raising?

A. Single point of failure B. Ongoing supportability C. Complexity D. Technical debt

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