CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701)

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General Security Concepts: Examine Security Controls Category
What are security controls,
What are the security control groups,
What is in the technical control ...
5  cards
General Security Concepts: Examine Security Control Types
What are the 7 security control t...,
What is the function of a prevent...,
What is the function of a prevent...
14  cards
General Security Concepts: Examine the Principle of Security
What is the security triangle,
What is the goal of confidentiality,
What is the goal of integrity
12  cards
General Security Concepts: Examine Authentication Factors
What is the authentication factor,
What are the characteristics of s...,
What are the characteristics of s...
6  cards
General Security Concepts: Examine Authorization and Access control modules
What is authorization,
What is the common access control...,
What is the common access control...
5  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
What does radius do,
What is radius commonly used for,
What is the port used for radius
8  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining The Principle of Zero Trust
What is the zero trust model,
What are the two types of data flow,
What is the control plane
6  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining Physical Security
What is physical security in it,
Why is bollards used,
Why do we use access control vest...
10  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining deception and disruption technology
What are deception and disruption...,
What is a honeypot,
What is honeynet
5  cards
General Security Concepts: Business Processes and Security Operations
Sometimes an organization s busin...,
What are the stake holders,
How can stake holders affect the ...
10  cards
General Security Concepts: Change Management Implications & Documentations
Why is change management so impor...,
What are the positive and negativ...,
What are the positive and negativ...
9  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining Encryption Solutions
What is encrytion,
What are different types of encry...,
What are the different levelsof e...
14  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining Public Key Infrastructure
What is a pki,
What component is the root offlin...,
What component is the subordinate...
11  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining Digital certificates
What are digital certificates,
What are digital signatures,
What are x509 certificates
12  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining Asymmetric Encryption
What is asymmetric encryption,
Asymmetric encryption type rsa,
Asymmetric encryption type dsa
9  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining Symmetric Encryption
What is symmetric encryption,
What,
What examples of symmetric encryp...
12  cards
General Security Concepts: Examining Hashing and Obfuscation
What is hashing and how does it a...,
What are the variety of hashing a...,
What does md5 do
19  cards
General Security Concepts: Quiz Revision
Which of the following are accomp...,
What are the authorization models,
Which technique can tip off an in...
97  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Threat Actors
What are unskilled attackers,
What are the types of malicious a...,
What are nation states attackers
14  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Social Engineer
What is phishing,
What is smishing,
What is im
8  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Business Email Compromise
What is a bec attack,
What is the common bec attack tha...,
How can you exploit a company ceo...
7  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Digital System Threats
What are the three methods you ne...,
What are the vulnerability consid...,
What happens to a system when you...
4  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Network Based Threats
What are the common network based...,
What threats are involved in wire...,
What threats are involved wireles...
5  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Removable Media Threats
What is one of the vulnerabilitie...,
What are the threats of unauthori...,
What are the threats of rubber du...
5  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Supply Chain Attack
What is a supply chain attack
1  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Application Vulnerabilities
What are some of the flaws and we...,
What is memory injection,
How are dll used in a memory inje...
5  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Operating System Vulnerabilities
What are some of the operating sy...,
Apart from the main os used are o...,
What are some of the notable expl...
5  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Web-Based Vulnerabilities
What site can we check to see the...,
What other web application threat...,
What is
6  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Hardware Vulnerabilities
What are the common console and d...,
What is jtag used for,
What is uart used for
10  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Cloud Vulnerabilities
What are the cloud storage threats,
What are the other issues
2  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Virtualization Vulnerabilities
What s a vm escape,
What must the attacker must first...,
What are the alternative ways to ...
4  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Cryptographic Vulnerabilities
What are the three cryptographic ...,
What is a downgrade attack,
What is collision
4  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Mobile Device Vulnerabilities
What threats do mobile devices face,
What are the weaknesses,
W
7  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Zero Day Vulnerabilities
What is zero day vulnerabilities
1  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Indicators of Malware Attacks
What are malware attacks,
What signs do you need to look ou...,
What are some indicators of poor ...
10  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Indicators of Physical Attacks
What are some of the unkown peopl...,
What are some,
What are the devices and peripher...
4  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Indicators of Network Attacks
What are some signs of ddos attacks,
What are signs of dns attacks,
What are signs of wireless attacks
8  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Indicators of Application attack
Injection attack,
Buffer overflow attacks,
Replay attacks
5  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Indicators of Cryptographic Attacks
What are the signs of a downgrade...,
What are the signs of collision a...,
Indicators of compromise attack
3  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Indicators of Password Attacks
What are indications of password ...,
What is a dictionary attack,
What is a brute force attack
5  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Cybersecurity Mitigation Techniques
0  cards
Threat, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations: Quiz Revision
Which of the following network at...,
What is a reflected attack,
What is a on path attack
177  cards
Security Architecture: Cloud-Related Concepts
What is the responsibility matrix,
What are the cloud service models,
What are the shared responsibilities
12  cards
Security Architecture: Network Infrastructure concepts
Why do we have to consider beign ...,
What is air gapped,
What is logical segmentations
6  cards
Security Architecture: Virtualization Concept
What is virtualization,
What are containers,
How can you manage containers
5  cards
Security Architecture: IoT and SCADA
What are iot architectures securi...,
How can we apply security measure...,
What is ics and scada architecture
6  cards
Security Architecture: Architectural Model Considerations
What key strucutre we need to loo...,
What key strucutre we need to loo...,
What key components we need to lo...
12  cards
Security Architecture: Security Infrastructure Considerations
What are the key factors when des...,
What do you need to consider in a...,
What do you need to consider in a...
6  cards
Security Architecture: Network Appliances
List all the network appliances t...,
What is a jump server,
What is a proxy server
6  cards
Security Architecture: Port Security
Why do we need port security,
What are the two elements when it...,
What is ieee 8021x
4  cards
Security Architecture: Firewalls
What are firewalls,
What is l4 l7,
What are wafs
5  cards
Security Architecture: Secure Communication and Access
Whare the 5 key elements of secur...,
What s vpn,
What s tls
6  cards
Security Architecture: Selecting Effective Controls
What are the three key elements o...,
What are administrative controls,
What are technical controls
4  cards
Security Architecture: Data Types
What are the 6 key elements of da...,
What is regular data type,
What is trade secret data type
7  cards
Security Architecture: Data Classification
What are the potential data class...,
What are the deemed as the us gov...,
What is public
8  cards
Security Architecture: Data Considerations
What are the three types of data ...,
What is data sovereignty,
What is geolocation
6  cards
Security Architecture: Methods of Securing Data
What is geographical restrictions,
Encryption,
Hashing
8  cards
Security Architecture: HA and Site Considerations
How can you ensure high availability,
What are the key factors in load ...,
What are the key factors of clust...
7  cards
Security Architecture: Platform Diversity and Multi-Cloud Systems
What is platform diversity,
Why is it beneficial for platform...,
What are the advantages if multi ...
6  cards
Security Architecture: Continuity of Operations and Capacity Planning
What is business continuity,
What could go wrong,
What are the main considerations
9  cards
Security Architecture: Testing
What are some technique used for ...,
What are some table top excercises,
What are some of the consideratio...
5  cards
Security Architecture: Backups
Onsite and offsite,
Frequency,
Encryption
8  cards
Security Architecture: Power
What are two thing you can consid...,
What are the key factors of using...,
Ups system key factors
3  cards
Security Architecture: Quiz Revision
Order the six phases of the softw...,
In security architecture testing ...,
What is vulnerability testing
144  cards
Security Operations: Examining Baselines
What are the common methods for u...,
How are baseline set,
What are some categories we need ...
13  cards
Security Operations: Examining security for mobile devices
What involves in managing mobile ...,
What are some of the deployment m...,
List the basic security technique...
9  cards
Security Operations: Examining Wireless Security
Common wireless security settings,
What are the three important wire...,
What are the cryptographic protoc...
6  cards
Security Operations: Examining Application Security
What is input validation,
What are the two types of input v...,
What are the application security...
7  cards
Security Operations: Examining Asset Management
What are the benefits of asset ma...,
What are the processes of obtaini...,
What are two key factors of asset...
11  cards
Security Operations: Identifying Vulnerabilities
What are the three main methods f...,
What is sast,
What is dast
12  cards
Security Operations: Examining Vulnerability Analysis
What are false positives and nega...,
What is cve,
What is cvss
4  cards
Security Operations: Vulnerability response, Remediation and Reporting
Why is response so important,
What are some of the strategies y...,
Why is validation important
6  cards
Security Operations: Examining Security monitoring and alerting
What are the three categories tha...,
What options can you used for mon...,
Why do we use performance metrics
17  cards
Security Operations: Examining Firewalls and intrusion detection devices
Why are firewalls so important,
Firewall rules are stored in,
What is the concept of the firewa...
5  cards
Security Operations Examining Web Filtering
What is web filtering,
What types of web filtering is th...,
What is a centralized proxy
9  cards
Security Operations: Examine Email Security
What are the types of email secur...,
What is s mime,
What is digital signature
6  cards
Security Operations: Examining Endpoint Detection
What are considered as endpoint,
What is edr,
What activities can edr detect
4  cards
Security Operations: Examining Secure network protection
How does the tcp 3 way handshake ...,
How does the tls handshake work,
Secure file server protocols
4  cards
Security Operations: Examining Operating Systems
What is os security,
What techniques should you implem...,
What is centralized administration
7  cards
Security Operations: Examining Password Security
How can you edit password complex...,
What is the best way to avoid pas...,
How can you keep up to daye
6  cards
Security Operations: Examining Single Sign-On
What is sso,
Benefits of sso,
What is identity federation
10  cards
Security Operations: Examining user onboarding and Offboarding
What is onboarding and offboarding,
What is provisioning and deprovis...,
What is the process of onboarding...
5  cards
Security Operations: Examining Identity and Access management
What is the identity part of iam,
What is the access part of iam,
Can identity and access work toge...
4  cards
Security Operations: Examining Privileged Identity Management
0  cards
Security Operations: Examining automation and scripting uses
What is automation,
What cases you would use automation,
How are automation continuous int...
6  cards
Security Operations: Examining the incident response process and activities
What is the incident response pro...,
What involves in preperation,
What involves detections
9  cards
Security Operations: Examine Digital-forensics Activities
What are the components of the di...,
What is legal hold,
What is chain of custody
7  cards
Security Operations: Examining investigations data sources and log data
What are the data sources that su...,
How do logs support investigations,
What are involved in dashboards
13  cards
Security Operations - Quiz Revision
Which of the following data sourc...,
What are automated reports,
Ips ids logs
164  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Guide Line and Policies
What are guideline and policies,
What are aup s,
What are isp s
7  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Standard and Procedures
What are standards,
What are procedures
2  cards
Security Programs and Oversight: External Considerations and Revisions
What should you do to keep up wit...,
How should you maintain these con...
2  cards
Security Programs Management and Oversight: Governance Strucutres
Why are board memebers so importa...,
What are committees,
What are government entities
4  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Roles and Responsibilities
What is the role of the owner,
What is the role of the owner,
What is the role of a processor
5  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Risk Identification and Risk Assessment
What is the process of risk ident...,
What is risk assessment criteria
2  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Risk Analysis
What type of analysis you can use...,
What is sle,
What is ale
8  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Risk Register, Tolerance and Appetite
What is a risk register,
What is involved in risk tolerance,
What is risk appetite
6  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Risk Management Strategies
There are several common methods ...
1  cards
Security Management Program and Oversight: Risk Reporting and BIA
What is risk reporting and bia,
What is rto,
What is rpo
5  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Vendor Assessment and selection
What is third party assessment,
What is pen testing,
What is right to audit clause
7  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Agreement Types
Sla,
Moa,
Mou
8  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Additional Vendor Considerations
How can we ensure we have a good ...,
Why are questionnaires so crucial...,
We do we need to establish a rule...
3  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Compliance
What is internal compliance,
What is external compliance,
Consequences of noncompliance fines
7  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Compliance Monitoring
What is due diligence,
What is attestation and acknowled...,
What is internal and external
4  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Privacy Consideration
Legal compliance,
Data subject compliance,
Control vs processes
6  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Attestation
What is attestation,
What are the key points of attest...,
What are the key points of attest...
10  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Audits
Internal audits,
External audits
2  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Pen Testing
What is penetration testing,
Physical,
Offensive
6  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Phishing
What is phising,
Organizational phishing campaigns,
Phishing signs
3  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Anomalous Behaviour Recognition
What is anomalous behaviour recog...,
What is the primary goal of anoma...,
Anomalous behaviour recognition i...
3  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: User Guidance and Training
Why are policy and hand books imp...,
What do you need to consider when...,
Insider threats are important to ...
8  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Reporting and Monitoring
What is reporting and monitoring,
What can monitoring and reporting...
2  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight: Development and Execution
What task should you implement wh...
1  cards
Security Management Programs and Oversight Quiz
A huge customer data breach occur...,
In a security awareness training ...,
What is defined in an acceptable ...
107  cards
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Practice Exam 1 Revision
Revise Incorrect question
31  cards
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Exam 2 Revision
When deploying a new nids in an e...,
What is the most effective measur...,
A company needs to ensure that on...
18  cards
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Exam 3 Revision
A user notices an advertisement f...,
For hardening a company s mobile ...,
What is a significant security co...
21  cards
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Exam 4
To ensure ongoing compliance with...,
For a company focused on minimizi...,
A security administrator notices ...
19  cards
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Exam 5 Revision
During an online purchase a user ...,
To manage changes in security pro...,
An organization notices an increa...
21  cards
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) Exam 6
A company is reviewing their clou...,
A company s proprietary software ...,
A company conducts regular securi...
25  cards
Professor Messer - Security+ SY0-701: Exam A
Revision of wrong questions
22  cards
Professor Messer - Security+ SY0-701: Exam B
What is the first step of the inc...,
What is the second step of the in...,
What is the third step of the inc...
71  cards

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