CompTIA SY0-701 Security+ Exam Questions
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Continue with free SY0-701 CompTIA Security+ practice questions and answers. Review questions 11–15 and check your understanding. Select Reveal Solution after choosing your answer.
Employees are contacting support after a web filter blocks access to spoofed websites. What should the administrator do to reduce the risk?
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Awareness training helps employees recognize spoofed sites and understand how to respond to blocked-page warnings.
Which team is best suited to test whether systems are exploitable through a newly identified vulnerability?
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A red team simulates attacker techniques to test whether vulnerabilities can be exploited.
Which two methods can help detect attackers who have already infiltrated a network? (Choose two.)
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Honeypots act as monitored decoys, while DNS sinkholes capture or redirect requests to known-malicious domains.
A company wants to detect whether its completed software release has been altered. Which method should it use?
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A cryptographic hash can be recalculated and compared with a trusted value to detect changes to the software.
A company already uses single sign-on (SSO) and is adding a cloud-based accounting application. Which protocol should it configure for federated SSO?
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SAML is commonly used to exchange authentication assertions between an identity provider and a service provider.