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2024 CompTIA SY0-601 Exam Prep: Practice Tests & Study Materials, CompTIA Security+ (Plus) Certification | SPOTO

Preparing for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601) exam is crucial for anyone looking to excel in IT security. This globally recognized certification validates essential skills needed for core security functions and opens doors to a rewarding career in cybersecurity. The SY0-601 exam content is tailored to address the latest trends and techniques in cybersecurity, covering key areas such as risk assessment, incident response, forensics, enterprise networks, hybrid/cloud operations, and security controls. By practicing the latest exam questions and studying the comprehensive materials provided, you'll be well-equipped to tackle the exam with confidence and demonstrate your proficiency in these critical security domains. Start your journey towards CompTIA Security+ certification success with SPOTO's practice tests and study resources today.
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Question #1
An organization has hired a security analyst to perform a penetration test. The analyst captures 1Gb worth of inbound network traffic to the server and transfers the pcap back to the machine for analysis. Which of the following tools should the analyst use to further review the pcap?
A. Nmap
B. cURL
C. Netcat
D. Wireshark
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Correct Answer: D

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Question #2
A user enters a password to log in to a workstation and is then prompted to enter an authentication code. Which of the following MFA factors or attributes are being utilized in the authentication process? (Choose two.)
A. Something you know
B. Something you have
C. Somewhere you are
D. Someone you know
E. Something you are
F. Something you can do
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Correct Answer: A
Question #3
Which of the following would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hotspots?
A. Footprinting
B. White-box testing
C. A drone/UAV
D. Pivoting
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Correct Answer: C
Question #4
A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the severity levels of the organization’s vulnerabilities. Which of the following would BEST meet this need?
A. CVE
B. SIEM
C. SOAR
D. CVSS
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Correct Answer: EF
Question #5
The Chief Security Officer (CSO) at a major hospital wants to implement SSO to help improve security in the environment and protect patient data, particularly at shared terminals. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned that training and guidance have not been provided to frontline staff, and a risk analysis has not been performed. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the CRO’s concerns?
A. SSO would simplify username and password management, making it easier for hackers to guess accounts
B. SSO would reduce password fatigue, but staff would still need to remember more complex passwords
C. SSO would reduce the password complexity for frontline staff
D. SSO would reduce the resilience and availability of systems if the identity provider goes offline
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Correct Answer: BE
Question #6
A security analyst is configuring a large number of new company-issued laptops. The analyst received the following requirements: The devices will be used internationally by staff who travel extensively. Occasional personal use is acceptable due to the travel requirements. Users must be able to install and configure sanctioned programs and productivity suites. The devices must be encrypted. The devices must be capable of operating in low-bandwidth environments. Which of the following would provide the GREATE
A. Configuring an always-on VPN
B. Implementing application whitelisting
C. Requiring web traffic to pass through the on-premises content filter
D. Setting the antivirus DAT update schedule to weekly
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Correct Answer: A
Question #7
An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software. Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?
A. hping3 –S comptia
B. nc –l –v comptia
C. nmap comptia
D. nslookup –port=80 comptia
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Correct Answer: D
Question #8
An organization suffered an outage, and a critical system took 90 minutes to come back online. Though there was no data loss during the outage, the expectation was that the critical system would be available again within 60 minutes. Which of the following is the 60-minute expectation an example of?
A. MTBF
B. RPO
C. MTTR
D. RTO
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Correct Answer: E
Question #9
An organization just experienced a major cyberattack incident. The attack was well coordinated, sophisticated, and highly skilled. Which of the following targeted the organization?
A. Shadow IT
B. An insider threat
C. A hacktivist
D. An advanced persistent threat
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Correct Answer: D
Question #10
A vulnerability assessment report will include the CVSS score of the discovered vulnerabilities because the score allows the organization to better:
A. validate the vulnerability exists in the organization’s network through penetration testing
B. research the appropriate mitigation techniques in a vulnerability database
C. find the software patches that are required to mitigate a vulnerability
D. prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities based on the possible impact
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Correct Answer: B
Question #11
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to create a policy set that meets international standards for data privacy and sharing. Which of the following should the CISO read and understand before writing the policies?
A. PCI DSS
B. GDPR
C. NIST
D. ISO 31000
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Correct Answer: D
Question #12
A website developer is working on a new e-commerce website and has asked an information security expert for the most appropriate way to store credit card numbers to create an easy reordering process. Which of the following methods would BEST accomplish this goal?
A. Salting the magnetic strip information
B. Encrypting the credit card information in transit
C. Hashing the credit card numbers upon entry
D. Tokenizing the credit cards in the database
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Correct Answer: A
Question #13
A public relations team will be taking a group of guests on a tour through the facility of a large e-commerce company. The day before the tour, the company sends out an email to employees to ensure all whiteboards are cleaned and all desks are cleared. The company is MOST likely trying to protect against:
A. loss of proprietary information
B. damage to the company’s reputation
C. social engineering
D. credential exposure
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Correct Answer: C
Question #14
A company has limited storage space available and an online presence that cannot be down for more than four hours. Which of the following backup methodologies should the company implement to allow for the FASTEST database restore time in the event of a failure, while being mindful of the limited available storage space?
A. Implement full tape backups every Sunday at 8:00 p
B. Implement differential backups every Sunday at 8:00 p
C. Implement nightly full backups every Sunday at 8:00 p
D. Implement full backups every Sunday at 8:00 p
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Correct Answer: B
Question #15
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about the organization’s ability to continue business operations in the event of a prolonged DDoS attack on its local datacenter that consumes database resources. Which of the following will the CISO MOST likely recommend to mitigate this risk?
A. Upgrade the bandwidth available into the datacenter
B. Implement a hot-site failover location
C. Switch to a complete SaaS offering to customers
D. Implement a challenge response test on all end-user queries
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Correct Answer: CD
Question #16
Which of the following is a team of people dedicated to testing the effectiveness of organizational security programs by emulating the techniques of potential attackers?
A. Red team
B. White team
C. Blue team
D. Purple team
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Correct Answer: C
Question #17
A retail executive recently accepted a job with a major competitor. The following week, a security analyst reviews the security logs and identifies successful logon attempts to access the departed executive’s accounts. Which of the following security practices would have addressed the issue?
A. A non-disclosure agreement
B. Least privilege
C. An acceptable use policy
D. Offboarding
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Correct Answer: C
Question #18
Which of the following will MOST likely cause machine learning and AI-enabled systems to operate with unintended consequences?
A. Stored procedures
B. Buffer overflows
C. Data bias
D. Code reuse
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Correct Answer: B
Question #19
An enterprise has hired an outside security firm to conduct penetration testing on its network and applications. The firm has been given all the developer’s documentation about the internal architecture. Which of the following BEST represents the type of testing that will occur?
A. Bug bounty
B. White-box
C. Black-box
D. Gray-box
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Correct Answer: D
Question #20
A company uses wireless for all laptops and keeps a very detailed record of its assets, along with a comprehensive list of devices that are authorized to be on the wireless network. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is concerned about a script kiddie potentially using an unauthorized device to brute force the wireless PSK and obtain access to the internal network. Which of the following should the company implement to BEST prevent this from occurring?
A. A BPDU guard
B. WPA-EAP
C. IP filtering
D. A WIDS
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Correct Answer: D
Question #21
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an organization would like staff members to have the flexibility to work from home anytime during business hours, including during a pandemic or crisis. However, the CEO is concerned that some staff members may take advantage of the flexibility and work from high-risk countries while on holiday or outsource work to a third-party organization in another country. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) believes the company can implement some basic controls to mitigate the majo
A. Geolocation
B. Time-of-day restrictions
C. Certificates
D. Tokens
E. Geotagging
F. Role-based access controls
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Correct Answer: D
Question #22
Users have been issued smart cards that provide physical access to a building. The cards also contain tokens that can be used to access information systems. Users can log in to any thin client located throughout the building and see the same desktop each time. Which of the following technologies are being utilized to provide these capabilities? (Choose two.)
A. COPE
B. VDI
C. GPS
D. TOTP
E. RFID
F. BYOD
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Correct Answer: C
Question #23
A large industrial system’s smart generator monitors the system status and sends alerts to third-party maintenance personnel when critical failures occur. While reviewing the network logs, the company’s security manager notices the generator’s IP is sending packets to an internal file server’s IP. Which of the following mitigations would be BEST for the security manager to implement while maintaining alerting capabilities?
A. Segmentation
B. Firewall whitelisting
C. Containment
D. Isolation
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Correct Answer: D
Question #24
Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe’s identity before sending him the prize. Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?
A. Spear phishing
B. Whaling
C. Phishing
D. Vishing
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Correct Answer: A
Question #25
An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organization already uses a smart card and password. Which of the following would meet the organization’s needs for a third factor?
A. Date of birth
B. Fingerprints
C. PIN
D. TPM
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Correct Answer: B
Question #26
A network administrator is setting up wireless access points in all the conference rooms and wants to authenticate devices using PKI. Which of the following should the administrator configure?
A. A captive portal
B. PSK
C. 802
D. WPS
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Correct Answer: A
Question #27
A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce staffing at others. Which of the following would be BEST to help the organization’s executives determine their next course of action?
A. An incident response plan
B. A communications plan
C. A disaster recovery plan
D. A business continuity plan
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Correct Answer: C
Question #28
A network administrator would like to configure a site-to-site VPN utilizing IPsec. The administrator wants the tunnel to be established with data integrity, encryption, authentication, and anti-replay functions. Which of the following should the administrator use when configuring the VPN?
A. AH
B. EDR
C. ESP
D. DNSSEC
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Correct Answer: D
Question #29
A company’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) is meeting with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to plan some activities to enhance the skill levels of the company’s developers. Which of the following would be MOST suitable for training the developers?
A. A capture-the-flag competition
B. A phishing simulation
C. Physical security training
D. Basic awareness training
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Correct Answer: A
Question #30
A company processes highly sensitive data and senior management wants to protect the sensitive data by utilizing classification labels. Which of the following access control schemes would be BEST for the company to implement?
A. Discretionary
B. Rule-based
C. Role-based
D. Mandatory
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Correct Answer: A
Question #31
A systems administrator needs to implement an access control scheme that will allow an object’s access policy to be determined by its owner. Which of the following access control schemes BEST fits the requirements?
A. Role-based access control
B. Discretionary access control
C. Mandatory access control
D. Attribute-based access control
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Correct Answer: A
Question #32
A recent audit uncovered a key finding regarding the use of a specific encryption standard in a web application that is used to communicate with business customers. Due to the technical limitations of its customers, the company is unable to upgrade the encryption standard. Which of the following types of controls should be used to reduce the risk created by this scenario?
A. Physical
B. Detective
C. Preventive
D. Compensating
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Correct Answer: AC
Question #33
A security analyst needs to be proactive in understanding the types of attacks that could potentially target the company’s executives. Which of the following intelligence sources should the security analyst review?
A. Vulnerability feeds
B. Trusted automated exchange of indicator information
C. Structured threat information expression
D. Industry information-sharing and collaboration groups
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Correct Answer: A
Question #34
A security engineer is reviewing log files after a third party discovered usernames and passwords for the organization’s accounts. The engineer sees there was a change in the IP address for a vendor website one week earlier. This change lasted eight hours. Which of the following attacks was MOST likely used?
A. Man-in-the-middle
B. Spear phishingC
D. DNS poisoning
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Correct Answer: D
Question #35
When selecting a technical solution for identity management, an architect chooses to go from an in-house solution to a third-party SaaS provider. Which of the following risk management strategies is this an example of?
A. Transference
B. Avoidance
C. Acceptance
D. Mitigation
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Correct Answer: AB
Question #36
Which of the following are the MOST likely vectors for the unauthorized or unintentional inclusion of vulnerable code in a software company’s final software releases? (Choose two.)
A. Unsecure protocols
B. Use of penetration-testing utilities
C. Weak passwords
D. Included third-party libraries
E. Vendors/supply chain
F. Outdated anti-malware software
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Correct Answer: C
Question #37
A security analyst is investigating an incident that was first reported as an issue connecting to network shares and the Internet. While reviewing logs and tool output, the analyst sees the following: Which of the following attacks has occurred?
A. IP conflict
B. Pass-the-hash
C. MAC flooding
D. Directory traversal
E. ARP poisoning
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Correct Answer: D
Question #38
The SOC is reviewing processes and procedures after a recent incident. The review indicates it took more than 30 minutes to determine that quarantining an infected host was the best course of action. This allowed the malware to spread to additional hosts before it was contained. Which of the following would be BEST to improve the incident response process?
A. Updating the playbooks with better decision points
B. Dividing the network into trusted and untrusted zones
C. Providing additional end-user training on acceptable use
D. Implementing manual quarantining of infected hosts
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Correct Answer: AB
Question #39
An organization has a growing workforce that is mostly driven by additions to the sales department. Each newly hired salesperson relies on a mobile device to conduct business. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is wondering if the organization may need to scale down just as quickly as it scaled up. The CIO is also concerned about the organization’s security and customer privacy. Which of the following would be BEST to address the CIO’s concerns?
A. Disallow new hires from using mobile devices for six months
B. Select four devices for the sales department to use in a CYOD model
C. Implement BYOD for the sales department while leveraging the MDM
D. Deploy mobile devices using the COPE methodology
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Correct Answer: B
Question #40
The manager who is responsible for a data set has asked a security engineer to apply encryption to the data on a hard disk. The security engineer is an example of a:
A. data controller
B. data owner
C. data custodian
D. data processor
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Correct Answer: A
Question #41
A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public area. Which of the following would MOST likely have prevented this breach?
A. A firewall
B. A device pin
C. A USB data blocker
D. Biometrics
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Correct Answer: C
Question #42
Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside a guest OS?
A. Fog computing
B. VM escape
C. Software-defined networking
D. Image forgery
E. Container breakout
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Correct Answer: D
Question #43
A security engineer has enabled two-factor authentication on all workstations. Which of the following approaches are the MOST secure? (Choose two.)
A. Password and security question
B. Password and CAPTCHA
C. Password and smart card
D. Password and fingerprint
E. Password and one-time token
F. Password and voice
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Correct Answer: B
Question #44
Which of the following will provide the BEST physical security countermeasures to stop intruders? (Choose two.)
A. Alarms
B. Signage
C. Lighting
D. Mantraps
E. Fencing
F. Sensors
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Correct Answer: A
Question #45
A security analyst is performing a forensic investigation involving compromised account credentials. Using the Event Viewer, the analyst was able to detect the following message: “Special privileges assigned to new logon.” Several of these messages did not have a valid logon associated with the user before these privileges were assigned. Which of the following attacks is MOST likely being detected?
A. Pass-the-hash
B. Buffer overflow
C. Cross-site scripting
D. Session replay
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Correct Answer: D
Question #46
A network engineer is troubleshooting wireless network connectivity issues that were reported by users. The issues are occurring only in the section of the building that is closest to the parking lot. Users are intermittently experiencing slow speeds when accessing websites and are unable to connect to network drives. The issues appear to increase when laptop users return to their desks after using their devices in other areas of the building. There have also been reports of users being required to enter th
A. An external access point is engaging in an evil-twin attack
B. The signal on the WAP needs to be increased in that section of the building
C. The certificates have expired on the devices and need to be reinstalled
D. The users in that section of the building are on a VLAN that is being blocked by the firewall
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Correct Answer: D
Question #47
A document that appears to be malicious has been discovered in an email that was sent to a company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Which of the following would be BEST to allow a security analyst to gather information and confirm it is a malicious document without executing any code it may contain?
A. Open the document on an air-gapped network
B. View the document’s metadata for origin clues
C. Search for matching file hashes on malware websites
D. Detonate the document in an analysis sandbox
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Correct Answer: C
Question #48
A commercial cyber-threat intelligence organization observes IoCs across a variety of unrelated customers. Prior to releasing specific threat intelligence to other paid subscribers, the organization is MOST likely obligated by contracts to:
A. perform attribution to specific APTs and nation-state actors
B. anonymize any PII that is observed within the IoC data
C. add metadata to track the utilization of threat intelligence reports
D. assist companies with impact assessments based on the observed data
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Correct Answer: B
Question #49
Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company’s IT/security operations?
A. Least privilege
B. Awareness training
C. Separation of duties
D. Mandatory vacation
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Correct Answer: D

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