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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)

Practice Exam 2 Answers and Explanations

  1. C. Ralph is conducting a privilege audit by ensuring that each permission assigned to a user account is backed by an approved access request. Usage auditing is a similar activity but it analyzes actual privilege usage, rather than privilege existence.
  2. C. Tom can use screen locking to prevent someone walking by from using a device that he or she is not authorized to use. Remote wiping is not an effective control for this scenario, as it would destroy all data on the device and is only effective when actively triggered. Geofencing is not an effective control because the device is located in the office where it is expected to be. Application control would limit the applications that users can install on the device but would not prevent an unauthorized user from accessing the device.
  3. B. The recovery time objective (RTO) is the amount of time that it is acceptable for a system to be down prior to recovery during a disaster. The recovery point...