CompTIA CompTIA Certifications SY0-501 Questions & Answers

• Question 321:

  Ann, a new employee, received an email from an unknown source indicating she needed to click on the provided link to update her company's profile. Once Ann clicked the link, a command prompt appeared with the following output:

  

  Which of the following types of malware was executed?

  A. Ransomware

  B. Adware

  C. Spyware

  D. Virus

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 322:

  A network technician is designing a network for a small company. The network technician needs to implement an email server and web server that will be accessed by both internal employees and external customers. Which of the following would BEST secure the internal network and allow access to the needed servers?

  A. Implementing a site-to-site VPN for server access.

  B. Implementing a DMZ segment for the server.

  C. Implementing NAT addressing for the servers.

  D. Implementing a sandbox to contain the servers.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 323:

  Which of the following identity access methods creates a cookie on the first login to a central authority to allow logins to subsequent applications without re-entering credentials?

  A. Multifactor authentication

  B. Transitive trust

  C. Federated access

  D. Single sign-on

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 324:

  A developer has incorporated routines into the source code for controlling the length of the input passed to the program. Which of the following types of vulnerabilities is the developer protecting the code against?

  A. DLL injection

  B. Memory leak

  C. Buffer overflow

  D. Pointer dereference

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 325:

  An application developer has neglected to include input validation checks in the design of the company's new web application. An employee discovers that repeatedly submitting large amounts of data, including custom code, to an application will allow the execution of the custom code at the administrator level. Which of the following BEST identifies this application attack?

  A. Cross-site scripting

  B. Clickjacking

  C. Buffer overflow

  D. Replay

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 326:

  Joe, a user, reports to the help desk that he can no longer access any documents on his PC. He states that he saw a window appear on the screen earlier, but he closed it without reading it. Upon investigation, the technician sees high disk activity on Joe's PC. Which of the following types of malware is MOST likely indicated by these findings?

  A. Keylogger

  B. Trojan

  C. Rootkit

  D. Crypto-malware

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 327:

  An administrator is implementing a secure web server and wants to ensure that if the web server application is compromised, the application does not have access to other parts of the server or network. Which of the following should the administrator implement? (Choose two.)

  A. Mandatory access control

  B. Discretionary access control

  C. Rule-based access control

  D. Role-based access control

  E. Attribute-based access control

  Correct Answer: AC

• Question 328:

  Management wants to ensure any sensitive data on company-provided cell phones is isolated in a single location that can be remotely wiped if the phone is lost. Which of the following technologies BEST meets this need?

  A. Geofencing

  B. Containerization

  C. Device encryption

  D. Sandboxing

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 329:

  A company is planning to utilize its legacy desktop systems by converting them into dummy terminals and moving all heavy applications and storage to a centralized server that hosts all of the company's required desktop applications. Which of the following describes the BEST deployment method to meet these requirements?

  A. IaaS

  B. VM sprawl

  C. VDI

  D. PaaS

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 330:

  When backing up a database server to LTO tape drives, the following backup schedule is used. Backups take one hour to complete:

  

  On Friday at 9:00 p.m., there is a RAID failure on the database server. The data must be restored from backup. Which of the following is the number of backup tapes that will be needed to complete this operation?

  A. 1

  B. 2

  C. 3

  D. 4

  E. 6

  Correct Answer: C