Security+ Practice Quiz: SY0-601 Quiz 4

1. Which of the following BEST describes a cyber terrorist?

• Desires some kind of financial reward or revenge
• Downloads and runs attacks available on the internet
• Exploits internal vulnerabilities to steal information
• Disrupts network-dependent institutions

2. Which of the following is the correct definition of a threat?

• Absence or weakness of a safeguard that could be exploited
• Any potential danger to the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information or systems
• The likelihood of an attack taking advantage of a vulnerability
• Instance of exposure to losses from an attacker

3. If Mark has a read-write permission to the share \fileserversecurefiles and a read-only permission to the file coolstuff.docx on the NTFS file system shared by the file share, he is able to perform which action?

• Change the contents of the file
• Read the file
• Delete the file
• Rename the file

4. What does the netstat -a command show?

• All listening and non-listening sockets
• All connected hosts
• All network users
• All listening sockets

5. You are teaching new users about security and passwords. Which of the following is the BEST example of a secure password?

• Stiles_2031
• 8181952
• JoHnSmITh
• T1a73gZ9!

6. Which of the following utilities could you use to lock a user account? (Choose two)

• useradd
• passwd
• ulimit
• usermod
• userdel

7. Which of the following BEST describes the Physical SDN layer?

• Gives new life to old networking hardware
• Sometimes called northbound APIs
• Receives its requests from the Application layer
• Also known as the Infrastructure layer

8. A group of small local businesses have joined together to share access to a cloud-based payment system. Which type of cloud is MOST likely being implemented?

• Community
• Public
• Hybrid
• Private

9. Which of the following techniques involves adding random bits of data to a password before it is stored as a hash?

• Keylogging
• Password sniffing
• Password salting
• Pass-the-hash attack

10. What is the purpose of audit trails?

• To prevent security breaches
• To correct system problems
• To detect security-violating events
• To restore systems to normal operations