CompTIA Security+ Certification - JK0-018 Exam Practice Test
A software development company wants to implement a digital rights management solution to protect its intellectual property. Which of the following should the company implement to enforce software digital rights?
Correct Answer: A
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The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has mandated that all IT systems with credit card data be segregated from the main corporate network to prevent unauthorized access and that access to the IT systems should be logged. Which of the following would BEST meet the CISO's requirements?
Correct Answer: D
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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?
Correct Answer: D
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Which of the following is used by Matt, a security administrator, to lower the risks associated with electrostatic discharge, corrosion, and thermal breakdown?
Correct Answer: D
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Which of the following is the MOST important step for preserving evidence during forensic procedures?
Correct Answer: B
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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?
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?
Correct Answer: D
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Mandatory vacations are a security control which can be used to uncover which of the following?
Correct Answer: B
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One of the servers on the network stops responding due to lack of available memory. Server administrators did not have a clear definition of what action should have taken place based on the available memory. Which of the following would have BEST kept this incident from occurring?
Correct Answer: C
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Which of the following types of authentication solutions use tickets to provide access to various resources from a central location?
Correct Answer: C
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A system administrator has been instructed by the head of security to protect their data at-rest. Which of the following would provide the strongest protection?
Correct Answer: C
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A company is trying to limit the risk associated with the use of unapproved USB devices to copy documents. Which of the following would be the BEST technology control to use in this scenario?
Correct Answer: B
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A merchant acquirer has the need to store credit card numbers in a transactional database in a high performance environment. Which of the following BEST protects the credit card data?
Correct Answer: B
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A user has unknowingly gone to a fraudulent site. The security analyst notices the following system change on the user's host:
Old 'hosts' file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
New 'hosts' file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
5.5.5.5 www.comptia.com
Which of the following attacks has taken place?
Old 'hosts' file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
New 'hosts' file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
5.5.5.5 www.comptia.com
Which of the following attacks has taken place?
Correct Answer: B
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Users report that after downloading several applications, their systems' performance has noticeably decreased. Which of the following would be used to validate programs prior to installing them?
Correct Answer: C
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