SY0-701 Practice Questions
CompTIA Security+ Exam 2026
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A security engineer is working to address the growing risks that shadow IT services are introducing to the organization. The organization has taken a cloud-first approach end does not have an on-premises IT infrastructure. Which of the following would best secure the organization?
A company requires hard drives to be securely wiped before sending decommissioned systems to recycling. Which of the following best describes this policy?
A customer of a large company receives a phone call from someone claiming to work for the company and asking for the customer ' s credit card information. The customer sees the caller ID is the same as the company ' s main phone number. Which of the following attacks is the customer most likely a target of?
Which of the following teams combines both offensive and defensive testing techniques to protect an organization ' s critical systems?
Which of the following is a benefit of an RTO when conducting a business impact analysis?
Which of the following has been implemented when a host-based firewall on a legacy Linux system allows connections from only specific internal IP addresses?
Which of the following explains how to determine the global regulations that data is subject to regardless of the country where the data is stored?
An organization wants to donate its aging network hardware. Which of the following should the organization perform to prevent any network details from leaking?
A company relies on open-source software libraries to build the software used by its customers. Which of the following vulnerability types would be the most difficult to remediate due to the company ' s reliance on open-source libraries?
A security technician determines that no additional patches can be applied to an application and the risks of operating as such must be accepted. Additionally, only a limited number of network services should utilize the application. Which of the following best describes this type of mitigation?
During an investigation, a security analyst discovers traffic going out to a command-and-control server. The analyst must find out if any data exfiltration has occurred. Which of the following would best help the analyst determine this?
While investigating a possible incident, a security analyst discovers the following log entries:
67.118.34.157 ----- [28/Jul/2022:10:26:59 -0300] " GET /query.php?q-wireless%20headphones / HTTP/1.0 " 200 12737
132.18.222.103 ----[28/Jul/2022:10:27:10 -0300] " GET /query.php?q=123 INSERT INTO users VALUES( ' temp ' , ' pass123 ' )# / HTTP/1.0 " 200 935
12.45.101.121 ----- [28/Jul/2022:10:27:22 -0300] " GET /query.php?q=mp3%20players I HTTP/1.0 " 200 14650
Which of the following should the analyst do first?
A security report shows that during a two-week test period. 80% of employees unwittingly disclosed their SSO credentials when accessing an external website. The organization purposelycreated the website to simulate a cost-free password complexity test. Which of the following would best help reduce the number of visits to similar websites in the future?
Which of the following is the most appropriate reason for a server technician to disable unused ports and services on an externally facing DNS server?
Which of the following is an example of implementing Zero Trust architecture?
Which of the following explains why an attacker cannot easily decrypt passwords using a rainbow table attack?
A systems administrator receives the following alert from a file integrity monitoring tool:
The hash of the cmd.exe file has changed.
The systems administrator checks the OS logs and notices that no patches were applied in the last two months. Which of the following most likely occurred?
