CompTIA Security+ Practice Test of the Day 260611

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Today’s practice test is based on Subdomain 3.3 (Compare and contrast concepts and strategies to protect data) from the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 objectives.

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CompTIA Security+ Practice Test of the Day 260611

10 questions • Single best answer

Question 1

A data protection officer replaces stored credit card numbers with non-sensitive surrogate values, while the real numbers reside in a separate secured vault. The surrogate has no exploitable relationship to the original. Which method is this?

A. Tokenization B. Encryption C. Masking D. Hashing

Question 2

A support application displays only the last four digits of a customer's account number, hiding the rest with asterisks on screen. Agents can verify identity without seeing full data. Which method protects the data here?

A. Tokenization B. Hashing C. Masking D. Encryption

Question 3

To verify file integrity, a system computes a fixed-length one-way digest of each file and compares it later to detect tampering. The original data cannot be recovered from the output. Which technique is used?

A. Encryption B. Hashing C. Tokenization D. Masking

Question 4

To protect stored data so only holders of the correct key can read it, an organization applies a reversible cryptographic transformation to files on disk. Without the key the contents are unintelligible. Which method is this?

A. Hashing B. Masking C. Tokenization D. Encryption

Question 5

To comply with data sovereignty laws, a company configures systems so regulated records can only be accessed or stored within specific countries. Requests from other regions are blocked. Which method is applied?

A. Tokenization B. Masking C. Geographic restrictions D. Hashing

Question 6

A company labels patient health records as subject to legal compliance mandates such as HIPAA, requiring strict handling controls. The label reflects external legal obligations governing the data. Which data type is this?

A. Regulated data B. Trade secret C. Public data D. Intellectual property

Question 7

An organization protects its proprietary manufacturing formula, which provides competitive advantage and is never disclosed publicly. Its value depends entirely on remaining confidential. Which data classification best fits?

A. Public data B. Regulated data C. Financial information D. Trade secret

Question 8

A security team focuses on protecting information as it actively moves across the network between a client and server. Encryption is applied to this flow to prevent interception. Which data state is being secured?

A. Data at rest B. Data in transit C. Data in use D. Tokenized data

Question 9

An organization wants to protect sensitive information while it is actively being processed within a running application's memory. At that moment the data is decrypted and operated on by the CPU. Which data state does this describe?

A. Data at rest B. Data in transit C. Data in use D. Masked data

Question 10

A team encrypts databases and backup files stored on disk to protect information that is not currently moving or being processed. The data simply sits in storage. Which data state is being protected?

A. Data at rest B. Data in transit C. Data in use D. Hashed data

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