CompTIA SY0-301 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

CompTIA SY0-301 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 591:

  Sara, an employee, tethers her smartphone to her work PC to bypass the corporate web security gateway while connected to the LAN. While Sara is out at lunch her PC is compromised via the tethered connection and corporate data is stolen. Which of the following would BEST prevent this from occurring again?

  A. Disable the wireless access and implement strict router ACLs.
  B. Reduce restrictions on the corporate web security gateway.
  C. Security policy and threat awareness training.
  D. Perform user rights and permissions reviews.
  C. Security policy and threat awareness training.

• Question 592:

  A company has recently implemented a high density wireless system by having a junior technician install two new access points for every access point already deployed. Users are now reporting random wireless disconnections and slow network connectivity. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

  A. The old APs use 802.11a
  B. Users did not enter the MAC of the new APs
  C. The new APs use MIMO
  D. A site survey was not conducted
  D. A site survey was not conducted

• Question 593:

  Which of the following is a best practice when securing a switch from physical access?

  A. Disable unnecessary accounts
  B. Print baseline configuration
  C. Enable access lists
  D. Disable unused ports
  D. Disable unused ports

• Question 594:

  A system administrator needs to ensure that certain departments have more restrictive controls to their shared folders than other departments. Which of the following security controls would be implemented to restrict those departments?

  A. User assigned privileges
  B. Password disablement
  C. Multiple account creation
  D. Group based privileges
  D. Group based privileges

• Question 595:

  A small company has a website that provides online customer support. The company requires an account recovery process so that customers who forget their passwords can regain access. Which of the following is the BEST approach to implement this process?

  A. Replace passwords with hardware tokens which provide two-factor authentication to the online customer support site.
  B. Require the customer to physically come into the company's main office so that the customer can be authenticated prior to their password being reset.
  C. Web-based form that identifies customer by another mechanism and then emails the customer their forgotten password.
  D. Web-based form that identifies customer by another mechanism, sets a temporary password and forces a password change upon first login.
  D. Web-based form that identifies customer by another mechanism, sets a temporary password and forces a password change upon first login.

• Question 596:

  When reviewing security logs, an administrator sees requests for the AAAA record of www.comptia.com. Which of the following BEST describes this type of record?

  A. DNSSEC record
  B. IPv4 DNS record
  C. IPSEC DNS record
  D. IPv6 DNS record
  D. IPv6 DNS record

• Question 597:

  Which of the following provides the BEST application availability and is easily expanded as demand grows?

  A. Server virtualization
  B. Load balancing
  C. Active-Passive Cluster
  D. RAID 6
  B. Load balancing

• Question 598:

  Which of the following devices would be MOST useful to ensure availability when there are a large number of requests to a certain website?

  A. Protocol analyzer
  B. Load balancer
  C. VPN concentrator
  D. Web security gateway
  B. Load balancer

• Question 599:

  Which of the following types of data encryption would Matt, a security administrator, use to encrypt a specific table?

  A. Full disk
  B. Individual files
  C. Database
  D. Removable media
  C. Database

• Question 600:

  A group policy requires users in an organization to use strong passwords that must be changed every 15 days. Joe and Ann were hired 16 days ago. When Joe logs into the network, he is prompted to change his password; when Ann logs into the network, she is not prompted to change her password. Which of the following BEST explains why Ann is not required to change her password?

  A. Ann's user account has administrator privileges.
  B. Joe's user account was not added to the group policy.
  C. Ann's user account was not added to the group policy.
  D. Joe's user account was inadvertently disabled and must be re-created.
  C. Ann's user account was not added to the group policy.