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CompTIA Security+ Practice Tests SY0-501

By : Ian Neil
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CompTIA Security+ Practice Tests SY0-501

By: Ian Neil

Overview of this book

CompTIA Security+ is a core security certification that will validate your baseline skills for a career in cybersecurity. Passing this exam will not only help you identify security incidents but will also equip you to resolve them efficiently. This book builds on the popular CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide, which mirrors the SY0-501 exam pattern. This practice test-based guide covers all six domains of the Security+ SY0-501 exam: threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities; technologies and tools; architecture and design; identity and access management; cryptography and PKI; and risk management. You’ll take six mock tests designed as per the official Security+ certification exam pattern, each covering significant aspects from an examination point of view. For each domain, the book provides a dedicated cheat sheet that includes important concepts covered in the test. You can even time your tests to simulate the actual exam. These tests will help you identify gaps in your knowledge and discover answers to tricky exam questions. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed and enhanced the skills necessary to pass the official CompTIA Security+ exam.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Practice Test 17 – Open Questions – Cryptography and PKI

Start off by answering the questions that you have the knowledge base to answer, then on a separate list write down the questions that you do not know the answers to, because you need to revise those areas before testing:

1. A university professor has started a lesson on how encryption works. What was the format of the data input and what was the format of the encryption output?

2. The CEO has asked me to purchase a single X.509 that can be installed on several servers in the same domain and once installed, it will have those servers' names on the certificate. What type of certificate do I need to purchase?

3. A captain in the Army encrypted data five years ago with his old CAC card. Last week, he obtained a new CAC card; why can he not decrypt the old data?

4. After Bill has received the encrypted data from Ben, he wants to send an email to Bill saying that the data has been received. He decides to digitally...