CompTIA SY0-501 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

CompTIA SY0-501 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1171:

  A company is developing a new secure technology and requires computers being used for development to be isolated. Which of the following should be implemented to provide the MOST secure environment?

  A. A perimeter firewall and IDS
  B. An air gapped computer network
  C. A honeypot residing in a DMZ
  D. An ad hoc network with NAT
  E. A bastion host
  B. An air gapped computer network

• Question 1172:

  A company is deploying MFDs in its office to improve employee productivity when dealing with paperwork. Which of the following concerns is MOST likely to be raised as a possible security issue in relation Io these devices?

  A. Sensitive scanned materials being saved on the local hard drive
  B. Faulty printer drivers causing PC performance degradation
  C. Improperly congured NIC settings interfering with network security
  D. Excessive disk space consumption due to storing large documents
  B. Faulty printer drivers causing PC performance degradation

• Question 1173:

  A company uses an enterprise desktop imaging solution to manage deployment of its desktop computers. Desktop computer users are only permitted to use software that is part of the baseline image. Which of the following technical solutions was MOST likely deployed by the company to ensure only known-good software can be installed on corporate desktops?

  A. Network access control
  B. Configuration manager
  C. Application whitelisting
  D. File integrity checks
  D. File integrity checks

• Question 1174:

  Management wishes to add another authentication factor in addition to fingerprints and passwords in order to have three-factor authentication. Which of the following would BEST satisfy this request?

  A. Retinal scan
  B. Passphrase
  C. Token fob
  D. Security question
  C. Token fob

• Question 1175:

  Which of the following should a company require prior to performing a penetration test?

  A. NDA
  B. CVE score
  C. Data classification
  D. List of threats
  B. CVE score

• Question 1176:

  An organization has hired a new remote workforce. Many new employees are reporting that they are unable to access the shared network resources while traveling. They need to be able to travel to and from different locations on a weekly basis. Shared offices are retained at the headquarters location. The remote workforce will have identical file and system access requirements, and must also be able to log in to the headquarters location remotely.

  Which of the following BEST represent how the remote employees should have been set up initially? (Choose two.)

  A. User-based access control
  B. Shared accounts
  C. Group-based access control
  D. Mapped drives
  E. Individual accounts
  F. Location-based policies
  C. Group-based access control
  E. Individual accounts

• Question 1177:

  A technician is investigating a potentially compromised device with the following symptoms:

  1.

  Browser slowness

  2.

  Frequent browser crashes

  3.

  Hourglass stuck

  4.

  New search toolbar

  5.

  Increased memory consumption

  Which of the following types of malware has infected the system?

  A. Man-in-the-browser
  B. Spoofer
  C. Spyware
  D. Adware
  D. Adware

• Question 1178:

  A security administrator must implement a system to ensure that invalid certificates are not used by a custom developed application. The system must be able to check the validity of certificates even when internet access is unavailable. Which of the following MUST be implemented to support this requirement?

  A. CSR
  B. OCSP
  C. CRL
  D. SSH
  C. CRL

• Question 1179:

  An organization requires that all workstations he issued client computer certicates from the organization`s PKI. Which of the following congurations should be implemented?

  A. EAP-PEAP
  B. LEAP
  C. EAP-TLS
  D. EAP-FAST/MSCHAPv2
  E. EAP-MD5
  C. EAP-TLS

• Question 1180:

  After running an online password cracking tool, an attacker recovers the following password:

  gh ;j SKSTOi;618and

  Based on the above information, which of the following technical controls have been implemented? (Choose two.)

  A. Complexity
  B. Encryption
  C. Hashing
  D. Length
  E. Salting
  F. Stretching
  A. Complexity
  D. Length