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Security+® Practice Tests

By : Mike Chapple
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Security+® Practice Tests

By: Mike Chapple

Overview of this book

Security+ certification is the most popular entry-level certification for cybersecurity professionals. It has no work experience requirement, making it accessible to everyone willing to put in the time to prepare for the exam. Security+? Practice Tests are the perfect tools to prepare for the CompTIA Security+ exam. The first six chapters each cover one of the six Security+ domains. Each of those chapters contains around 100 practice test questions covering the material from that domain. The last two chapters each contain a full-length Security+ practice test that’s designed to assess your readiness to take the actual test. At the end of each chapter, you’ll find the answers to all of the questions along with detailed explanations to help reinforce your learning of the material. By the end of the book, you’ll have enough practice to easily ace the CompTIA Security+ exam.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Domain 5 Answers and Explanations

  1. B. Any active testing that's done against an organization should only be conducted with advance approval. This includes penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and social engineering. Open source intelligence involves consulting publicly available information sources and is passive in nature. It does not require any prior approval.
  2. C. The responsibility of determining appropriate access to information is the data owner. This data owner may, by the nature of their job, fit into other categories, such as system owner, privileged user, or executive user, but it is the person's assignment to the data owner role that gives them this authority and responsibility.
  3. A. Continuing education is an important component of security awareness training. All users should receive some level of awareness training on a recurring basis, but users with privileged access, such as system administrators, should receive more frequent training. This training...