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ComptiA Security+ Certification Exam Questions and answer - Part 57

Mary Smith

Sat, 12 Jul 2025

ComptiA Security+ Certification Exam Questions and answer - Part 57

1. Corporations choose to exceed regulatory framework standards because of which of the following incentives?

A) It proves to investors that the company takes APT cyber actors seriously
B) It gives a social defense that the company is not violating customer privacy laws.
C) It results in overall industrial security standards being raised voluntarily.
D) It improves the legal defensibility of the company.



2. Malicious traffic from an internal network has been detected on an unauthorized port on an application server. Which of the following network-based security controls should the engineer consider implementing?

A) NAT
B) MAC filtering
C) HIPS
D) ACLs



3. A workstation puts out a network request to locate another system. Joe,a hacker on the network,responds before the real system does,and he tricks the workstation into communicating with him. Which of the following BEST describes what occurred?

A) The hacker exploited weak switch configuration.
B) The hacker-exploited improper key management.
C) The hacker used a pass-the-hash attack.
D) The hacker used a race condition.



4. In a lessons learned report,it is suspected that a well-organized,well-funded,and extremely sophisticated group of attackers may have been responsible for a breach at a nuclear facility. Which of the following describes the type of actors that may have been implicated?

A) Nation state
B) Hacktivist
C) Competitor
D) Insider



5. A systems administrator has created network file shares for each department with associated security groups for each role within the organization. Which of the following security concepts is the systems administrator implementing?

A) Separation of duties
B) Standard naming conversation
C) Permission auditing
D) Least privilege



1. Right Answer: D
Explanation:

2. Right Answer: D
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3. Right Answer: A
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4. Right Answer: A
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5. Right Answer: D
Explanation:

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