CompTIA Security Plus practice 9-17

Rick performs a backup that captures the changes since the last full backup. What type of backup has he performed?

A differential backup

Naomi wants to deploy a tool that can allow her to scale horizontally while also allowing her to patch systems without interfering with traffic to her web servers. What type of technology should she deploy? Correct!

A load balancer

Cynthia wants to clone a virtual machine. What should she do to capture a live machine, including the machine state?

A snapshot

What type of recovery site has some or most systems in place but does not have the data needed to take over operations?

A warm site

How does technology diversity help ensure cybersecurity resilience?

All of the above.

Florian wants to ensure that systems on a protected network cannot be attacked via the organization's network. What design technique should he use to ensure this?

An air gap

What type of physical security control is shown here?

An air gap

Which one of the following statements about cloud computing is incorrect?

Cloud computing customers provision resources through the service provider's sales team.

What factor is a major reason organizations do not use security guards?

Cost

Amanda wants to securely destroy data held on DVDs. Which of the following options is not a suitable solution for this?

Degaussing

Gurvinder identifies a third-party datacenter provider over 90 miles away to run his redundant datacenter operations. Why has he placed the datacenter that far away?

Geographic dispersal

Brian would like to limit the ability of users inside his organization to provision expensive cloud server instances without permission. What type of control would best help him achieve this goal?

Resource policy

Helen designed a new payroll system that she offers to her customers. She hosts the payroll system in AWS and her customers access it through the web. What tier of cloud computing best describes Helen's service?

SaaS

Mike wants to stop vehicles from traveling toward the entrance of his building. What physical security control should he implement?

A bollard

Brian is selecting a CASB for his organization and he would like to use an approach that interacts with the cloud provider directly. Which CASB approach is most appropriate for his needs?

API-based CASB

Howard is assessing the legal risks to his organization based upon its handling of PII. The organization is based in the United States, handles the data of customers located in Europe, and stores information in Japanese datacenters. What law would be most important to Howard during his assessment?

All should have equal weight

Michelle wants to ensure that attackers who breach her network security perimeter cannot gain control of the systems that run the industrial processes her organization uses as part of their business. What type of solution is best suited to this?

An air gap

Kira would like to implement a security control that can implement access restrictions across all of the SaaS solutions used by her organization. What control would best meet her needs?

CASB

Which one of the following would not commonly be available as an IaaS service offering?

CRM

Greg would like to find a reference document that describes how to map cloud security controls to different regulatory standards. What document would best assist with this task?

CSA CCM

Wanda is responsible for a series of seismic sensors placed at remote locations. These sensors have low-bandwidth connections and she would like to place computing power on the sensors to allow them to preprocess data before it is sent back to the cloud. What term best describes this approach?

Edge computing

Which cloud computing deployment model requires the use of a unifying technology platform to tie together components from different providers?

Hybrid cloud

What component of a virtualization platform is primarily responsible for preventing VM escape attacks?

Hypervisor

In which of the following cloud categories are customers typically charged based on the number of virtual server instances dedicated to their use?

IaaS and PaaS

Brenda's company provides a managed incident response service to its customers. What term best describes this type of service offering?

MSSP

Madhuri wants to implement a camera system but is concerned about the amount of storage space that the video recordings will require. What technology can help with this?

Motion detection

Scott send his backups to a company that keeps them in a secure vault. What type of backup solution has he implemented?

Offline

Tony purchases virtual machines from Microsoft Azure and uses them exclusively for use by his organization. What model of cloud computing is this?

Public cloud

Gabby wants to implement a mirrored drive solution. What RAID level does this describe?

RAID 1

Ben wants to implement a RAID array that combines both read and write performance while retaining data integrity if a drive fails. Cost is not a concern compared to speed and resilience. What RAID type should he use?

RAID 10

Kathleen wants to discourage potential attackers from entering the facility she is responsible for. Which of the following is not a common control used for this type of preventive defense?

Robotic sentries

In what cloud security model does the cloud service provider bear the most responsibility for implementing security controls?

SaaS

Fran's organization uses a Type I hypervisor to implement an IaaS offering that it sells to customers. Which one of the following security controls is least applicable to this environment?

The provider must maintain security patches on the host operating system.

Sally is working to restore her organization's operations after a disaster took her datacenter offline. What critical document should she refer to as she restarts systems?

The restoration order documentation

Ryan is selecting a new security control to meet his organization's objectives. He would like to use it in their multicloud environment and would like to minimize the administrative work required from his fellow technologists. What approach would best meet his needs?

Third-party control

Why are Faraday cages deployed?

To prevent EMI

Ursula would like to link the networks in her on-premises datacenter with cloud VPCs in a secure manner. What technology would help her best achieve this goal?

Transit gateway

Which of the following controls helps prevent insider threats? Correct!

Two-person control

Which one of the following is not an example of infrastructure as code?

Using a cloud provider's web interface to provision resources

Kevin discovered that his web server was being overwhelmed by traffic, causing a CPU bottleneck. Using the interface offered by his cloud service provider, he added another CPU to the server. What term best describes Kevin's action?

Vertical scaling