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CompTIA Security+ exam (SY0-701) - CompTIA Exam Questions

Last updated on June 20, 2026

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A company is using a legacy FTP server to transfer financial data to a third party. The legacy system does not support SFTP, so a compensating control is needed to protect the sensitive, financial data in transit. Which of the following would be the most appropriate for the company to use?
Options
A Full disk encryption
B Telnet connection
C Patch installation
D SSH tunneling
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Which of the following solutions would most likely be used in the financial industry to mask sensitive data?
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A Steganography
B Tokenization
C Salting
D Hashing
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While a user reviews their email, a host gets infected by malware from an external hard drive
plugged into the host. The malware steals all the user's credentials stored in the browser. Which of the following training topics should the user review to prevent this situation from reoccurring?
Options
A Social engineering
B Operational security
C Password management
D Removable media and cables
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An administrator is reviewing a single server's security logs and discovers the following;

Which of the following best describes the action captured in this log file?
Options
A Forgotten password by the user
B Brute-force attack
C Failed password audit
D Privilege escalation
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Which of the following explains why an attacker cannot easily decrypt passwords using a rainbow table attack?
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A Perfect forward secrecy
B Digital signatures
C Hashing
D Salting
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