CompTIA CompTIA Certifications N10-007 Questions & Answers

• Question 91:

  A network administrator is responding to a help desk ticket, which states an unknown wireless access point is broadcasting in a specific area. Upon investigation, the administrator finds that a user brought a wireless access point from home and plugged it into the corporate network. This resulted in an attacker using the unsecured wireless LAN to gain access to the network. Which of the following should the network administrator have done to BEST prevent this problem?

  A. Changed the default credentials on the network switches

  B. Installed a Layer 7 firewall

  C. Implemented port security

  D. Disabled unnecessary services on the network switches

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 92:

  A company hires some temporary workers. On day one, the temporary employees report they are unable to connect to the network. A network technician uses a packet analysis tool and finds that many clients are continuously sending out requests for an IP address, but many of them are not receiving a response. Which of the following could be the cause of this issue?

  A. Exhausted DHCP scope

  B. Untrusted SSL certificates

  C. Duplicate MAC addresses

  D. Incorrect firewall settings

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 93:

  A SAN serves out storage to a company's virtual environment and provides low-level disk access. The company wants to use its existing IP network and equipment to access the virtual disks. Which of the following network connection types would BEST accomplish this task?

  A. InfiniBand

  B. iSCSI

  C. Fibre Channel

  D. CIFS

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 94:

  When using a network monitoring system, a network technician notices that a switch returns many object identifiers that do not have descriptions. Which of the following should be imported into the monitoring system to describe these object identifiers?

  A. SNMPv3

  B. SIEM

  C. MIB

  D. SYSLOG

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 95:

  A network technician notices that switches of the same model have different commands and security features while administering them. Which of the following hardening techniques should the technician perform on a regular schedule to ensure all switches have the same features and security functionality?

  A. Change the default credentials.

  B. Verify the firmware file hash.

  C. Disable unused switchports.

  D. Apply patches and updates.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 96:

  A network administrator has deployed a secure wireless network that authenticates using Active Directory network credentials so individual users are uniquely identified when connected to the WLAN. Which of the following wireless technologies has the administrator configured?

  A. WEP

  B. EAP-PEAP

  C. PSK

  D. CCMP-AES

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 97:

  The process of searching for open or weakly secured wireless networks in a geographic area is known as:

  A. phishing.

  B. social engineering.

  C. war driving.

  D. an evil twin.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 98:

  A request is made to open an additional port on a firewall. The request is approved, and the port is opened. Which of the following BEST describes this process?

  A. Standard operating procedure

  B. Process management

  C. Project management

  D. Change management

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 99:

  Which of the following types of attacks is characterized by encrypting data and locking out a user from access to certain data within a workstation?

  A. Ransomware

  B. Phishing

  C. DDoS

  D. Social engineering

  E. Spoofing

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 100:

  A network engineer at a large company is restricting Internet browsing on the corporate WAN to only business-related external websites. Which of the following is the BEST solution to achieve this goal while avoiding the need to configure this restriction on each PC?

  A. Web application firewall

  B. Content filter

  C. IPS

  D. VPN concentrator

  Correct Answer: B