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SY0-701 exam is a new exam code for CompTIA Security+ certification. If you decide to earn CompTIA Security+ certification, you can choose to take the SY0-601 or SY0-701 exam. Please note: The SY0-601 exam will be retired in July 2024. There are a maximum of 90 multiple-choice and performance-based questions in the real CompTIA SY0-701 exam, and you have 90 minutes to answer all the questions. The passing score for the CompTIA certification SY0-701 exam is 750 (on a scale of 100-900). We have cracked the latest CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam dumps, which are valuable in your preparation. Free CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam dumps are below.

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1. Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to be hired by a foreign government to attack critical systems located in other countries?

Hacktivist

Whistleblower

Organized crime

Unskilled attacker

2. Which of the following is used to add extra complexity before using a one-way data transformation algorithm?

Key stretching

Data masking

Steganography

Salting

3. An employee clicked a link in an email from a payment website that asked the employee to update contact information. The employee entered the log-in information but received a “page not found” error message.

Which of the following types of social engineering attacks occurred?

Brand impersonation

Pretexting

Typosquatting

Phishing

4. 50.10.25 32 port 53

D. Access list outbound permit 10.50.10.25 32 0.0.0.0/0 port 53 Access list outbound deny 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0/0 port 53

5. A data administrator is configuring authentication for a SaaS application and would like to reduce the number of credentials employees need to maintain. The company prefers to use domain credentials to access new SaaS applications.

Which of the following methods would allow this functionality?

SSO

LEAP

MFA

PEAP

6. Which of the following scenarios describes a possible business email compromise attack?

An employee receives a gift card request in an email that has an executive's name in the display field of the email.

Employees who open an email attachment receive messages demanding payment in order to access files.

A service desk employee receives an email from the HR director asking for log-in credentials to a cloud administrator account.

An employee receives an email with a link to a phishing site that is designed to look like the company's email portal.

7. A company prevented direct access from the database administrators’ workstations to the network segment that contains database servers.

Which of the following should a database administrator use to access the database servers?

Jump server

RADIUS

HSM

Load balancer

8. An organization’s internet-facing website was compromised when an attacker exploited a buffer overflow.

Which of the following should the organization deploy to best protect against similar attacks in the future?

NGFW

WAF

TLS

SD-WAN

9. An administrator notices that several users are logging in from suspicious IP addresses. After speaking with the users, the administrator determines that the employees were not logging in from those IP addresses and resets the affected users’ passwords.

Which of the following should the administrator implement to prevent this type of attack from succeeding in the future?

Multifactor authentication

Permissions assignment

Access management

Password complexity

10. An employee receives a text message that appears to have been sent by the payroll department and is asking for credential verification.

Which of the following social engineering techniques are being attempted? (Choose two.)

Typosquatting

Phishing

Impersonation

Vishing

Smishing

Misinformation

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11. Several employees received a fraudulent text message from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

The message stated:

“I’m in an airport right now with no access to email. I need you to buy gift cards for employee recognition awards. Please send the gift cards to following email address.”

Which of the following are the best responses to this situation? (Choose two).

Cancel current employee recognition gift cards.

Add a smishing exercise to the annual company training.

Issue a general email warning to the company.

Have the CEO change phone numbers.

Conduct a forensic investigation on the CEO's phone.

Implement mobile device management.

12. A company is required to use certified hardware when building networks.

Which of the following best addresses the risks associated with procuring counterfeit hardware?

A thorough analysis of the supply chain

A legally enforceable corporate acquisition policy

A right to audit clause in vendor contracts and SOWs

An in-depth penetration test of all suppliers and vendors

13. Which of the following provides the details about the terms of a test with a third-party penetration tester?

Rules of engagement

Supply chain analysis

Right to audit clause

Due diligence

14. A penetration tester begins an engagement by performing port and service scans against the client environment according to the rules of engagement.

Which of the following reconnaissance types is the tester performing?

Active

Passive

Defensive

Offensive

15. Which of the following is required for an organization to properly manage its restore process in the event of system failure?

IRP

DRP

RPO

SDLC

16. Which of the following vulnerabilities is associated with installing software outside of a manufacturer’s approved software repository?

Jailbreaking

Memory injection

Resource reuse

Side loading

17. A security analyst is reviewing the following logs:

Which of the following attacks is most likely occurring?

Password spraying

Account forgery

Pass-t he-hash

Brute-force

18. An analyst is evaluating the implementation of Zero Trust principles within the data plane.

Which of the following would be most relevant for the analyst to evaluate?

Secured zones

Subject role

Adaptive identity

Threat scope reduction

19. An engineer needs to find a solution that creates an added layer of security by preventing unauthorized access to internal company resources.

Which of the following would be the best solution?

RDP server

Jump server

Proxy server

Hypervisor

20. A company’s web filter is configured to scan the URL for strings and deny access when matches are found.

Which of the following search strings should an analyst employ to prohibit access to non-encrypted websites?

encryption=off

http://

www.*.com

:443

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21. 1.4.9. A security analyst is creating an inbound firewall rule to block the IP address from accessing the organization’s network.

Which of the following fulfills this request?

access-list inbound deny ig source 0.0.0.0/0 destination 10.1.4.9/32

access-list inbound deny ig source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0

access-list inbound permit ig source 10.1.4.9/32 destination 0.0.0.0/0

access-list inbound permit ig source 0.0.0.0/0 destination 10.1.4.9/32

22. A company needs to provide administrative access to internal resources while minimizing the traffic allowed through the security boundary.

Which of the following methods is most secure?

Implementing a bastion host

Deploying a perimeter network

Installing a WAF

Utilizing single sign-on

23. A security analyst is reviewing alerts in the SIEM related to potential malicious network traffic coming from an employee’s corporate laptop. The security analyst has determined that additional data about the executable running on the machine is necessary to continue the investigation.

Which of the following logs should the analyst use as a data source?

Application

IPS/IDS

Network

Endpoint

24. A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks.

SIEM alerts have not yet been configured.

Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?

[Digital forensics

E-discovery

Incident response

Threat hunting

25. A company purchased cyber insurance to address items listed on the risk register.

Which of the following strategies does this represent?

Transfer

Mitigate

Avoid

26. A security administrator would like to protect data on employees’ laptops.

Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?

Partition

Asymmetric

Full disk

Database

27. Which of the following security control types does an acceptable use policy best represent?

Detective

Compensating

Corrective

Preventive

28. An IT manager informs the entire help desk staff that only the IT manager and the help desk lead will have access to the administrator console of the help desk software.

Which of the following security techniques is the IT manager setting up?

Hardening

Employee monitoring

Configuration enforcement

Least privilege

29. Which of the following is the most likely to be used to document risks, responsible parties, and thresholds?

Risk tolerance

Risk transfer

Risk register

Risk analysis

30. Which of the following should a security administrator adhere to when setting up a new set of firewall rules?

Disaster recovery plan

Incident response procedure

Business continuity plan

Change management procedure

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31. A company is expanding its threat surface program and allowing individuals to security test the company’s internet-facing application. The company will compensate researchers based on the vulnerabilities discovered.

Which of the following best describes the program the company is setting up?

Open-source intelligence

Bug bounty

Red team

Penetration testing

32. Which of the following threat actors is the most likely to use large financial resources to attack critical systems located in other countries?

Insider

Unskilled attacker

Nation-state

Hacktivist

33. Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?

Cross-site scripting

Side loading

Buffer overflow

SQL injection

34. Employees in the research and development business unit receive extensive training to ensure they understand how to best protect company data.

Which of the following is the type of data these employees are most likely to use in day-to-day work activities?

Encrypted

Intellectual property

Critical

Data in transit

35. A company has begun labeling all laptops with asset inventory stickers and associating them with employee IDs.

Which of the following security benefits do these actions provide? (Choose two.)

If a security incident occurs on the device, the correct employee can be notified.

The security team will be able to send user awareness training to the appropriate device.

Users can be mapped to their devices when configuring software MFA tokens.

User-based firewall policies can be correctly targeted to the appropriate laptops.

When conducting penetration testing, the security team will be able to target the desired laptops.

Company data can be accounted for when the employee leaves the organization.

36. A technician wants to improve the situational and environmental awareness of existing users as they transition from remote to in-office work.

Which of the following is the best option?

Send out periodic security reminders.

Update the content of new hire documentation.

Modify the content of recurring training. D Implement a phishing campaign

37. A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors.

Which of the following should the systems administrator use?

Packet captures

Vulnerability scans

Metadata

Dashboard

38. A systems administrator receives the following alert from a file integrity monitoring tool:

The hash of the cmd.exe file has changed.

The systems administrator checks the OS logs and notices that no patches were applied in the last two months.

Which of the following most likely occurred?

The end user changed the file permissions.

A cryptographic collision was detected.

A snapshot of the file system was taken.

A rootkit was deployed.

39. Which of the following roles, according to the shared responsibility model, is responsible for securing the company’s database in an IaaS model for a cloud environment?

Client

Third-party vendor

Cloud provider

DBA

40. A client asked a security company to provide a document outlining the project, the cost, and the completion time frame.

Which of the following documents should the company provide to the client?

MSA

SLA

BPA

SOW

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41. A security team is reviewing the findings in a report that was delivered after a third party performed a penetration test. One of the findings indicated that a web application form field is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Which of the following application security techniques should the security analyst recommend the developer implement to prevent this vulnerability?

Secure cookies

Version control

Input validation

Code signing

42. Which of the following must be considered when designing a high-availability network? (Choose two).

Ease of recovery

Ability to patch

Physical isolation

Responsiveness

Attack surface

Extensible authentication

43. A technician needs to apply a high-priority patch to a production system.

Which of the following steps should be taken first?

Air gap the system.

Move the system to a different network segment.

Create a change control request.

Apply the patch to the system.

44. Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?

To gather loCs for the investigation

To discover which systems have been affected

To eradicate any trace of malware on the network

To prevent future incidents of the same nature

45. Which of the following is the most likely outcome if a large bank fails an internal PCI DSS compliance assessment?

Fines

Audit findings

Sanctions

Reputation damage

46. A company is developing a business continuity strategy and needs to determine how many staff members would be required to sustain the business in the case of a disruption.

Which of the following best describes this step?

Capacity planning

Redundancy

Geographic dispersion

Tablet exercise

47. A company’s legal department drafted sensitive documents in a SaaS application and wants to ensure the documents cannot be accessed by individuals in high-risk countries.

Which of the following is the most effective way to limit this access?

Data masking

Encryption

Geolocation policy

Data sovereignty regulation

48. Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?

Firmware version

Buffer overflow

SQL injection

Cross-site scripting

49. While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a “deny any” policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable.

Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?

Documenting the new policy in a change request and submitting the request to change management

Testing the policy in a non-production environment before enabling the policy in the production network

Disabling any intrusion prevention signatures on the 'deny any* policy prior to enabling the new policy

Including an 'allow any1 policy above the 'deny any* policy

50. An organization is building a new backup data center with cost-benefit as the primary requirement and RTO and RPO values around two days.

Which of the following types of sites is the best for this scenario?

Real-time recovery

Hot

Cold

Warm

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51. A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling.

Which of the following best describes this policy?

Enumeration

Sanitization

Destruction

Inventory

52. A systems administrator works for a local hospital and needs to ensure patient data is protected and secure.

Which of the following data classifications should be used to secure patient data?

Private

Critical

Sensitive

Public

53. A U.S.-based cloud-hosting provider wants to expand its data centers to new international locations.

Which of the following should the hosting provider consider first?

Local data protection regulations

Risks from hackers residing in other countries

Impacts to existing contractual obligations

Time zone differences in log correlation

54. Which of the following would be the best way to block unknown programs from executing?

Access control list

Application allow list.

Host-based firewall

DLP solution

55. A company hired a consultant to perform an offensive security assessment covering penetration testing and social engineering.

Which of the following teams will conduct this assessment activity?

White

Purple

Blue

Red

56. A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company.

Which of the following options is the most appropriate?

Testing input validation on the user input fields

Performing code signing on company-developed software

Performing static code analysis on the software

Ensuring secure cookies are use

57. Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?

Honey pot

Video surveillance

Zero Trust

Geofencing

58. During an investigation, an incident response team attempts to understand the source of an incident.

Which of the following incident response activities describes this process?

Analysis

Lessons learned

Detection

Containment

59. A security practitioner completes a vulnerability assessment on a company’s network and finds several vulnerabilities, which the operations team remediates.

Which of the following should be done next?

Conduct an audit.

Initiate a penetration test.

Rescan the network.

Submit a report.

60. An administrator was notified that a user logged in remotely after hours and copied large amounts of data to a personal device.

Which of the following best describes the user’s activity?

Penetration testing

Phishing campaign

External audit

Insider threat

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61. Which of the following allows for the attribution of messages to individuals?

Adaptive identity

Non-repudiation

Authentication

Access logs

62. Which of the following is the best way to consistently determine on a daily basis whether security settings on servers have been modified?

Automation

Compliance checklist

Attestation

Manual audit

63. Which of the following tools can assist with detecting an employee who has accidentally emailed a file containing a customer’s PII?

SCAP

Net Flow

Antivirus

DLP

64. An organization recently updated its security policy to include the following statement:

Regular expressions are included in source code to remove special characters such as $, |, ;. &, `, and ? from variables set by forms in a web application.

Which of the following best explains the security technique the organization adopted by making this addition to the policy?

Identify embedded keys

Code debugging

Input validation

Static code analysis

65. A security analyst and the management team are reviewing the organizational performance of a recent phishing campaign. The user click-through rate exceeded the acceptable risk threshold, and the management team wants to reduce the impact when a user clicks on a link in a phishing message.

Which of the following should the analyst do?

Place posters around the office to raise awareness of common phishing activities.

Implement email security filters to prevent phishing emails from being delivered

Update the EDR policies to block automatic execution of downloaded programs.

Create additional training for users to recognize the signs of phishing attempts.

66. Which of the following has been implemented when a host-based firewall on a legacy Linux system allows connections from only specific internal IP addresses?

Compensating control

Network segmentation

Transfer of risk

SNMP traps

67. The management team notices that new accounts that are set up manually do not always have correct access or permissions.

Which of the following automation techniques should a systems administrator use to streamline account creation?

Guard rail script

Ticketing workflow

Escalation script

User provisioning script

68. A company is planning to set up a SIEM system and assign an analyst to review the logs on a weekly basis.

Which of the following types of controls is the company setting up?

Corrective

Preventive

Detective

Deterrent

SY0-701 Exam Dumps Available – New Code for CompTIA Security+ Certification

SY0-701 Exam Dumps Available – New Code for CompTIA Security+ Certification

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