CompTIA CompTIA Security+ RC0-501 Questions & Answers

• Question 111:

  Which of the following best describes routine in which semicolons, dashes, quotes, and commas are removed from a string?

  A. Error handling to protect against program explogtation

  B. Exception handling to protect against XSRF attacks.

  C. Input validation to protect against SQL injection.

  D. Padding to protect against string buffer overflows.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 112:

  A security engineer is configuring a system that requires the X.509 certificate information to be pasted into a form field in Base64 encoded format to import it into the system. Which of the following certificate formats should the engineer use to obtain the information in the required format?

  A. PFX

  B. PEM

  C. DER

  D. CER

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 113:

  Which of the following attacks specifically impacts data availability?

  A. DDoS

  B. Trojan

  C. MITM

  D. Rootkit

  Correct Answer: A

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• Question 114:

  A security analyst is hardening a server with the directory services role installed. The analyst must ensure LDAP traffic cannot be monitored or sniffed and maintains compatibility with LDAP clients. Which of the following should the analyst implement to meet these requirements? (Select two.)

  A. Generate an X.509-compliant certificate that is signed by a trusted CA.

  B. Install and configure an SSH tunnel on the LDAP server.

  C. Ensure port 389 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.

  D. Ensure port 636 is open between the clients and the servers using the communication.

  E. Remote the LDAP directory service role from the server.

  Correct Answer: AD

• Question 115:

  Which of the following threat actors is MOST likely to steal a company's proprietary information to gain a market edge and reduce time to market?

  A. Competitor

  B. Hacktivist

  C. Insider

  D. Organized crime.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 116:

  Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a server's certificate?

  A. CA public key

  B. Server private key

  C. CSR

  D. OID

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 117:

  A security analyst is diagnosing an incident in which a system was compromised from an external IP address. The socket identified on the firewall was traced to 207.46.130.0:6666. Which of the following should the security analyst do to determine if the compromised system still has an active connection?

  A. tracert

  B. netstat

  C. ping

  D. nslookup

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 118:

  Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical wants to provide seamless wireless access for their employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented if all the organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices?

  A. Shibboleth

  B. RADIUS federation

  C. SAML

  D. OAuth

  E. OpenID connect

  Correct Answer: B

  http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/wireless/2005/01/01/authentication.html

• Question 119:

  Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor diversity?

  A. Sustainability

  B. Homogeneity

  C. Resiliency

  D. Configurability

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 120:

  In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand. Which of the following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested?

  A. Elasticity

  B. Scalability

  C. High availability

  D. Redundancy

  Correct Answer: A

  Elasticity is defined as "the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by provisioning and de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time the available resources match the current demand as closely as possible".