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ComptiA Security+ Certification Exam Questions and answer - Part 76

Mary Smith

Thu, 15 May 2025

ComptiA Security+ Certification Exam Questions and answer - Part 76

1. Recently several employees were victims of a phishing email that appeared to originate from the company president. The email claimed the employees would be disciplined if they did not click on a malicious link in the message. Which of the following principles of social engineering made this attack successful?

A) Scarcity
B) Authority
C) Social proof
D) Spamming



2. Which of the following is a deployment concept that can be used to ensure only the required OS access is exposed to software applications?

A) Trusted OS
B) Staging environment
C) Secure baseline
D) Sandboxing



3. Which of the following differentiates ARP poisoning from a MAC spoofing attack?

A) ARP poisoning overflows a switch - s CAM table.
B) ARP poisoning uses unsolicited ARP replies.
C) MAC spoofing can be performed across multiple routers.
D) MAC spoofing uses DHCPOFFER/DHCPACK packets.



4. User from two organizations,each with its own PKI,need to begin working together on a joint project. Which of the following would allow the users of the separate PKIs to work together without connection errors?

A) Stapling
B) Trust model
C) Key escrow
D) Intermediate CA



5. To get the most accurate results on the security posture of a system,which of the following actions should the security analyst do prior to scanning?

A) Update the web plugins
B) Patch the scanner
C) Log all users out of the system
D) Reboot the target host



1. Right Answer: B
Explanation:

2. Right Answer: D
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3. Right Answer: B
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4. Right Answer: B
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5. Right Answer: B
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