Exact Comptia SK0-501 Real Exam Questions - SK0-501 Dumps PDF
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SY0-50 1
CompTIA Security+ Certification Exam
 
Question: 1  
   
DRAG DROP 
A security administrator wants to implement strong security on the company smart phones and terminal 
servers located in the data center. Drag and drop the applicable controls to each asset types? 
Instructions: Controls can be used multiple times and not all placeholders need to be filled. When you 
have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit. 
 
Answer:  
Company Manages Smart Phone 
Screen Lock 
Strong Password 
Device Encryption 
Remote Wipe 
GPS Tracking 
Pop-up blocker 
Data Center Terminal Server 
Cable Locks 
Antivirus 
Host Based Firewall 
Proximity Reader 
 
Sniffer 
Mantrap 
 
Question: 2  
 
HOTSPOT 
Select the appropriate attack from each drop down list to label the corresponding illustrated attack. 
Instructions: Attacks may only be used once, and will disappear from drop down list if selected. When 
you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit. 
 
 
 
Answer:  
 
1: Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets a specific organization, seeking 
unauthorized access to confidential dat 
a. As with the e-mail messages used in regular phishing expeditions, spear phishing messages appear to 
come from a trusted source. Phishing messages usually appear to come from a large and well-known 
company or Web site with a broad membership base, such as eBay or PayPal. In the case of spear 
phishing, however, the apparent source of the e-mail is likely to be an individual within the recipient's 
own company and generally someone in a position of authority. 
2: The Hoax in this question is designed to make people believe that the fake AV (anti- virus) software is 
genuine. 
3: Vishing is the act of using the telephone in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private 
information that will be used for identity theft. The scammer usually pretends to be a legitimate 
business, and fools the victim into thinking he or she will profit. 
4: Phishing is the act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate 
enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for 
identity theft. 
Phishing email will direct the user to visit a website where they are asked to update personal 
information, such as a password, credit card, social security, or bank account numbers, that the 
 
legitimate organization already has. The website, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the 
information the user enters on the page. 
5: Similar in nature to e-mail phishing, pharming seeks to obtain personal or private (usually financial 
related) information through domain spoofing. Rather than being spammed with malicious and 
mischievous e-mail requests for you to visit spoof Web sites which appear legitimate, pharming 'poisons' 
a DNS server by infusing false information into the DNS server, resulting in a user's request being 
redirected elsewhere. Your browser, however will show you are at the correct Web site, which makes 
pharming a bit more serious and more difficult to detect. Phishing attempts to scam people one at a 
time with an e-mail while pharming allows the scammers to target large groups of people at one time 
through domain spoofing. 
References: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/spear-
phishing http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/vishing.html http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/phis
hing.html http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/pharming.html 
 
Question: 3  
DRAG DROP 
You have been tasked with designing a security plan for your company. Drag and drop the appropriate 
security controls on the floor plan. 
Instructions: All objects must be used and all place holders must be filled. Order does not matter. When 
you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit. 
 
 
 
Answer:      
 
 
Cable locks - Adding a cable lock between a laptop and a desk prevents someone from picking it up and 
walking away 
Proximity badge + reader 
Safe is a hardware/physical security measure 
Mantrap can be used to control access to sensitive areas. CCTV can be used as video surveillance. 
Biometric reader can be used to control and prevent unauthorized access. Locking cabinets can be used 
to protect backup media, documentation and other physical artefacts. 
 
Question: 4 
   
Which of the following would a security specialist be able to determine upon examination of a server’s 
certificate? 
 
A. CA public key 
B. Server private key 
 
C. CSR 
D. OID 
 
Answer: D     
 
Question: 5 
   
A security analyst is diagnosing an incident in which a system was compromised from an external IP 
address. 
The socket identified on the firewall was traced to 207.46.130.0:6666. Which of the following should the 
security analyst do to determine if the compromised system still has an active connection? 
 
A. tracert 
B. netstat 
C. ping 
D. nslookup 
 
Answer: B     
 
Question: 6 
   
Multiple organizations operating in the same vertical want to provide seamless wireless access for their 
employees as they visit the other organizations. Which of the following should be implemented if all the 
organizations use the native 802.1x client on their mobile devices? 
 
A. Shibboleth 
B. RADIUS federation 
C. SAML 
D. OAuth 
E. OpenID connect 
 
Answer: B     
 
Explanation:  
http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/wireless/2005/01/01/authentication.html 
 
Question: 7 
   
Which of the following BEST describes an important security advantage yielded by implementing vendor 
diversity? 
 
A. Sustainability 
 
B. Homogeneity 
C. Resiliency 
D. Configurability 
 
Answer: C     
 
Question: 8 
   
In a corporation where compute utilization spikes several times a year, the Chief Information Officer 
(CIO) has requested a cost-effective architecture to handle the variable capacity demand. Which of the 
following characteristics BEST describes what the CIO has requested? 
 
A. Elasticity 
B. Scalability 
C. High availability 
D. Redundancy 
 
Answer: A     
 
Explanation:  
Elasticity is defined as “the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by 
provisioning and de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time the 
available resources match the current demand as closely as possible”. 
 
Question: 9 
   
A security engineer is configuring a system that requires the X.509 certificate information to be pasted 
into a form field in Base64 encoded format to import it into the system. Which of the following 
certificate formats should the engineer use to obtain the information in the required format? 
 
A. PFX 
B. PEM 
C. DER 
D. CER 
 
Answer: B     
 
Question: 10 
   
Which of the following attacks specifically impact data availability? 
 
A. DDoS 
 
B. Trojan 
C. MITM 
D. Rootkit 
 
Answer: A