CompTIA SecurityX Certification (CAS-005) Free Practice Test
Question 1
Which of the following best describes a common use case for homomorphic encryption?
Correct Answer: C
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Question 2
A company must meet the following security requirements when implementing controls in order to be compliant with government policy:
* Access to the system document repository must be MFA enabled.
* Ongoing risk monitoring must be displayed on a system dashboard.
* Staff must receive email notifications about periodic tasks.
Which of the following best meets all of these requirements?
* Access to the system document repository must be MFA enabled.
* Ongoing risk monitoring must be displayed on a system dashboard.
* Staff must receive email notifications about periodic tasks.
Which of the following best meets all of these requirements?
Correct Answer: D
Question 3
A network engineer must ensure that always-on VPN access is enabled Curt restricted to company assets Which of the following best describes what the engineer needs to do ' '
Correct Answer: B
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Question 4
A user reports application access issues to the help desk. The help desk reviews the logs for the user:

Which of the following is most likely the reason for the issue?

Which of the following is most likely the reason for the issue?
Correct Answer: C
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Question 5
Embedded malware has been discovered in a popular PDF reader application and is currently being exploited in the wild. Because the supply chain was compromised, this malware is present in versions 10.0 through 10.3 of the software ' s official versions. The malware is not present in version 10.4.
Since the details around this malware are still emerging, the Chief Information Security Officer has asked the senior security analyst to collaborate with the IT asset inventory manager to find instances of the installed software in order to begin response activities. The asset inventory manager has asked an analyst to provide a regular expression that will identify the affected versions. The software installation entries are formatted as follows:
Reader 10.0
Reader 10.1
Reader 10.2
Reader 10.3
Reader 10.4
Which of the following regular expression entries will accuratelyidentify all the affected versions?
Since the details around this malware are still emerging, the Chief Information Security Officer has asked the senior security analyst to collaborate with the IT asset inventory manager to find instances of the installed software in order to begin response activities. The asset inventory manager has asked an analyst to provide a regular expression that will identify the affected versions. The software installation entries are formatted as follows:
Reader 10.0
Reader 10.1
Reader 10.2
Reader 10.3
Reader 10.4
Which of the following regular expression entries will accuratelyidentify all the affected versions?
Correct Answer: C
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Question 6
An organization is looking for gaps in its detection capabilities based on the APTs that may target the industry Which of the following should the security analyst use to perform threatmodeling?
Correct Answer: D
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Question 7
A security engineer needs to remediate a SWEET32 vulnerability in an OpenSSH-based application and review existing configurations. Which of the following should the security engineer do? (Select two.)
Correct Answer: A,D
Question 8
During a security review for the CI/CD process, a security engineer discovers the following information in a testing repository from the company:

Which of the following options is the best countermeasure to prevent this issue in the future?

Which of the following options is the best countermeasure to prevent this issue in the future?
Correct Answer: A
Question 9
A security analyst is reviewingsuspicious log-in activity and sees the following data in the SICM:

Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the analyst to take?

Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the analyst to take?
Correct Answer: C
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Question 10
During a gap assessment, an organization notes that OYOD usage is asignificant risk. The organization implemented administrative policies prohibiting BYOD usage However, the organization has not implemented technical controls to prevent the unauthorized use of BYOD assets when accessing the organization ' s resources. Which of the following solutions should the organization implement to best reduce the risk of OYOD devices? (Select two).
Correct Answer: A,F
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Question 11
Which of the following best describes the challenges associated with widespread adoption of homomorphic encryption techniques?
Correct Answer: C
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Question 12
A company'sSIEMis designed to associate the company'sasset inventorywith user events. Given the following report:

Which of thefollowing should asecurity engineer investigate firstas part of alog audit?

Which of thefollowing should asecurity engineer investigate firstas part of alog audit?
Correct Answer: A
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Question 13
An analyst has prepared several possible solutions to a successful attack on the company. The solutions need to be implemented with the least amount of downtime. Which of the following should the analyst perform?
Correct Answer: D
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