CompTIA SY0-301 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

CompTIA SY0-301 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 441:

  After encrypting all laptop hard drives, an executive officer's laptop has trouble booting to the operating system. Now that it is successfully encrypted the helpdesk cannot retrieve the data. Which of the following can be used to decrypt the information for retrieval?

  A. Recovery agent
  B. Private key
  C. Trust models
  D. Public key
  A. Recovery agent

• Question 442:

  Company A sends a PGP encrypted file to company B. If company A used company B's public key to encrypt the file, which of the following should be used to decrypt data at company B?

  A. Registration
  B. Public key
  C. CRLs
  D. Private key
  D. Private key

• Question 443:

  Which of the following provides additional encryption strength by repeating the encryption process with additional keys?

  A. AES
  B. 3DES
  C. TwoFish
  D. Blowfish
  B. 3DES

• Question 444:

  Which of the following concepts is a term that directly relates to customer privacy considerations?

  A. Data handling policies
  B. Personally identifiable information
  C. Information classification
  D. Clean desk policies
  B. Personally identifiable information

• Question 445:

  Which of the following BEST describes part of the PKI process?

  A. User1 decrypts data with User2's private key
  B. User1 hashes data with User2's public key
  C. User1 hashes data with User2's private key
  D. User1 encrypts data with User2's public key
  D. User1 encrypts data with User2's public key

• Question 446:

  Which of the following is best practice to put at the end of an ACL?

  A. Implicit deny
  B. Time of day restrictions
  C. Implicit allow
  D. SNMP string
  A. Implicit deny

• Question 447:

  Which of the following is an example of a false positive?

  A. Anti-virus identifies a benign application as malware.
  B. A biometric iris scanner rejects an authorized user wearing a new contact lens.
  C. A user account is locked out after the user mistypes the password too many times.
  D. The IDS does not identify a buffer overflow.
  A. Anti-virus identifies a benign application as malware.

• Question 448:

  Which of the following is a hardware based encryption device?

  A. EFS
  B. TrueCrypt
  C. TPM
  D. SLE
  C. TPM

• Question 449:

  Pete, a security engineer, is trying to inventory all servers in a rack. The engineer launches RDP sessions to five different PCs and notices that the hardware properties are similar. Additionally, the MAC addresses of all five servers appear on the same switch port. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

  A. The system is running 802.1x.
  B. The system is using NAC.
  C. The system is in active-standby mode.
  D. The system is virtualized.
  D. The system is virtualized.

• Question 450:

  Which of the following is the BEST approach to perform risk mitigation of user access control rights?

  A. Conduct surveys and rank the results.
  B. Perform routine user permission reviews.
  C. Implement periodic vulnerability scanning.
  D. Disable user accounts that have not been used within the last two weeks.
  B. Perform routine user permission reviews.