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CompTIA Security+ SY0-701

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A help-desk caller pressures an employee to bypass identity checks because an executive is waiting. Which technique is most evident?

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  1. A help-desk caller pressures an employee to bypass identity checks because an executive is waiting. Which technique is most evident?

  2. A company requires a password and a hardware security key. What is the main security benefit?

  3. An account should read reports but never edit them. Which principle should guide its permissions?

  4. Two employees must approve a high-value transfer. Which control is being used?

  5. A server stores password verification data. Which design is preferable?

  6. An application uses parameterized database queries. Which threat does this primarily mitigate?

  7. A developer encodes untrusted text before inserting it into an HTML page. Which attack is this addressing?

  8. A compromised workstation should not freely access payroll servers. Which architecture helps?

  9. An organization protects stored laptop data against theft using encryption. What is a remaining requirement?

  10. Which control helps detect unauthorized changes to a critical file?

  11. A team aggregates logs from servers, firewalls and identity systems to correlate suspicious activity. Which capability fits?

  12. A newly published flaw has no vendor patch yet. What should defenders consider first?

  13. A vulnerability scanner reports a service version that is not installed. What should the analyst do?

  14. After containing ransomware, why verify backups before restoration?

  15. Which metric expresses the maximum targeted time to restore a service?

  16. A business can tolerate losing at most 30 minutes of transaction data. Which objective captures this?

  17. Why are forensic copies and evidence transfers documented?

  18. A vendor needs temporary production access for a support task. Which option is best?

  19. An assessor calculates annualized loss expectancy from a single-loss estimate of $20,000 and a frequency of 0.2 per year. What is the result?

  20. A company accepts a documented low-impact risk because mitigation costs exceed the benefit. Which response is this?

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