Security + Exam Quizzes & Trivia

CompTIA has developed a revolutionary way for training future Information Technology workers. They offer certifications for both beginners and experienced professionals, including, Security+ Certification. With the rise in computer hacking issues and foreign infiltration, computer security is one of the fastest growing careers today.

The Security+ test is 75 multiple choice questions, and it is recommended that candidates have two years of security-related work experience. Do you think you’re ready to take our Security+ quizzes? Can you answer this: What is the most efficient for preventing hacking attempts on employee passwords? Our Security+ quizzes are the perfect way to help you study and freshen up on your computer security knowledge – take one now!

This quiz has been made to see whether you are completely prepared for the real exam. This practice test will help you pass by familiarizing you with the material and the ensuring that you know the structure of the CompTIA...

Questions: 100 | Attempts: 59863 | Last updated: Jan 10, 2019

Sample Question
You are the system administrator for your organization. You are responsible for access privilege for which of the following control systems?

Mandatory Access Control

Discretionary Access Control

Role Based Access Control

Any of the above

Comptia Security+ Practice Exam- 2

Full length Comptia Security+ Practice Exam. This is the second free mock exam at Proprofs. We suggest you do this exam after completing the free Security+ practice question available on the site. Take this exam like the real...

Questions: 81 | Attempts: 14020 | Last updated: Sep 19, 2017

Sample Question
You have created a folder on your server that will be holding confidential data. You wish to assign privilege access to the same. You will be choosing which of the following control systems?

Mandatory Access Control

Discretionary Access Control

Role Based Access Control

Any of the above

Sec+ Practice Test

Testing your knowledge.

Questions: 14 | Attempts: 1366 | Last updated: Jan 28, 2013

Sample Question
By default, the 802.11 standard defines which of the following authentication models?

Password Authentication

Open Authentication

Biometrics

Shared-key Authentication

Set 1 Comptia Security+ Practice Questions

Comptia Security+ Practice Questions covering the exam objective: Concepts of Security. You can take these for practice or take it as a topic wise practice exam. Feedback and comments are welcome!

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 10899 | Last updated: Sep 19, 2017

Sample Question
Who is responsible for access control in the MAC model?

Mandatory Access Control

Discretionary Access Control

Role Based Access Control

Any of the above

Set3 Comptia Security+ Sample Questions: Cryptography

This is Set 3 of 4 of practice questions for CompTIA Security+ exam. This set covers the exam objective Cryptography. You can take these Security+ sample questions for practice or take it as a topic wise practice exam. Read the...

Questions: 23 | Attempts: 6335 | Last updated: Feb 8, 2019

Sample Question
Which of the following is the latest version of SHA?

SHA-1

SHA-4.1

SHA-4

None of the above

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Security Plus Questions & Answers

Who is responsible for access control in the MAC model?

Mandatory Access Control System administrator is responsible for access control in the MAC model. The owner will be responsible for DAC. The RBAC is dependent on the role played by the user in the organization.

Which of the following provides the strongest form of authentication?

Biometrics is the technical term for body estimations and figurings. It alludes to measurements identified with human qualities. Biometrics authentication is utilized as a part of computer science as a type of distinguishing proof and access control.

Which of the following is more of an irritation than a security threat?

Adware is listed twice and only one is correct. What a mess.

What can a Covert channel be used for?

1. violating the security -covert channels: indirect ways for transmitting information with no explicit reading of confidential information. in other words, the communication is out in plain view, but invisible to those who dont know how to look for

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CompTIA Security+ Practice Exam (2)

Comptia Security+ Practice Exam (2)Full length Comptia Security+ Practice Exam. Take this exam like the real exam to see if you are completely prepared for the real exam. Time yourself to 90 minutes to get a feel of...

Questions: 97 | Attempts: 7871 | Last updated: Dec 31, 2012

Sample Question
Which port is used by Kerberos by default?

Kerberos makes use of port 139

Kerberos makes use of port 443

Kerberos makes use of port 23

Kerberos makes use of port 88

None of the Above

CompTIA Security+ Practice Exam (1)

Comptia Security+ Practice Exam- 1Full length Comptia Security+ Practice Exam. Take this exam like the real exam to see if you are completely prepared for the real exam. Time yourself to 90 minutes to get a feel of...

Questions: 89 | Attempts: 7618 | Last updated: Dec 31, 2012

Sample Question
Covert channel is a communication channel that can be used for:

Violating the security

Strengthening the security policy

Hardening the system

Protecting the DMZ

CompTIA Security+ (Sy0-301) Practice Exam

When you have a computer on which you use sensitive information like bank details and passwords, you’re probably content in the knowledge that it’s being protected so long as you have decent internet security...

Questions: 94 | Attempts: 5283 | Last updated: Mar 2, 2019

Sample Question
What feature of a network switch allows the network administrator to capture network traffic when monitoring or troubleshooting the network?

Port security

VLAN

Collision domain

Port Mirroring

Security + Practice Test Questions

Practice Review Questions for CompTIA Security + Exam SY0-201

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 5241 | Last updated: Feb 19, 2013

Sample Question
All of the following provide confidentiality protection as part of the underlying protocol EXCEPT:

SSL.

SSH.

L2TP.

IPSec

Set4 CompTIA Security+ Certification: Organizational Security

This is Set 4 of 4 of 23 practice questions for Comptia Security+ Certification exam. This set covers the exam objective Organizational Security. You can take these for practice or take it as a topic wise practice exam. Read the...

Questions: 23 | Attempts: 4345 | Last updated: Feb 11, 2019

Sample Question
Why do you need to classify data?

To decide which of it can be discarded

To decide upon the security level required by the classified data

To secure only the critical data and leave the rest unsecured

None of the above

Set 2 CompTIA Security+ Exam Practice: Securing Communication & Infrastructure

This is Set 2 of 4 of practice questions for Comptia Security+ exam. This set covers the exam objective Securing Communication & other Infrastructure. You can take these for practice or take it as a topic wise practice exam....

Questions: 22 | Attempts: 2708 | Last updated: Feb 11, 2019

Sample Question
Which of the following accepts authentication requests from remote clients?

Authenticating server

RADIUS Server

HTTP Server

File Server

Security +

Exam questions for security +

Questions: 8 | Attempts: 2426 | Last updated: Jan 16, 2013

Sample Question
A biometric fingerprint scanner is an example of which of the following?

Two-factor authentication

SSO

Three-factor authentication

Single-factor authentication

Security+ (Syo-201) Domain #1: Systems Security

Covers the Systems Security Domain of the SYO-201 Security+ exam by CompTIA.

Questions: 9 | Attempts: 2140 | Last updated: Jan 3, 2013

Sample Question
Which software program runs in a sandbox?

JavaScript

Java

ActiveX

BASIC

Security+ (Syo-201) Domain #2: Network Infrastructure

Covers Domain 2 of the SYO-201 exam for Security+.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 1461 | Last updated: Jan 3, 2013

Sample Question
In this configuration, users can upload files to an FTP server, but they cannot view or download the contents.

Blind FTP

Secret FTP

Secured FTP

TFTP

CompTIA Security+ Practice Exam (3)

Comptia Security+ Practice Exam (3) Full length Comptia Security+ Practice Exam. Take this exam like the real exam to see if you are completely prepared for the real exam. Time yourself to 90 minutes to get a feel of...

Questions: 100 | Attempts: 1059 | Last updated: Dec 31, 2012

Sample Question
What does the security administrator wants to prevent by ensuring that the users' password cannot be seen by passersby?

The security administrator wants to stop a man-in-the-middle attack.

The security administrator wants to stop shoulder surfing.

The security administrator wants to stop dumpster diving.

The security administrator wants to stop phishing.

Security+ Sy0-201

CompTIA Security+ practice questions

Questions: 9 | Attempts: 980 | Last updated: Jan 7, 2013

Sample Question
Who is responsible for establishing access permissions to network resources in the DAC access control model?

The system administrator

The owner of the resource

The system administrator and the owner of the resource

The user requiring access to the resource

Security + 2009 _ Quiz - 1

The CompTIA Security+ certification designates knowledgeable professionals in the field of security, one of the fastest-growing fields in IT. Security threats are increasing in number and severity, and the gap between the need...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 930 | Last updated: Jul 30, 2011

Sample Question
All of the following provide confidentiality protection as part of the underlying protocol EXCEPT

SSL.

SSH.

L2TP.

IPSeC.

Security + Practice Exam 3

This will assist you in port identification, IDS systems, Disaster Recovery, Encryption methods and much more. Good Luck!

Questions: 26 | Attempts: 794 | Last updated: Dec 14, 2012

Sample Question
Describe the most two common methods of email encryption

PGP

ECC

RC5

Blowfish

S/MIME

Practice Test For CompTIA Security +

Practice test for CompTIA Security +

Questions: 59 | Attempts: 639 | Last updated: Jun 2, 2017

Sample Question
Which of the following definitions would be correct regarding Eavesdropping?

Placing a computer system between the sender and receiver to capture information.

Someone looking through your files.

Listening or overhearing parts of a conversation

Involve someone who routinely monitors network traffic.

Security+

Test preparation for Security+. This practice is for SYO-201. (ATest/7s)

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 561 | Last updated: Jan 16, 2013

Sample Question
7An administrator has implemented a new SMTP service on a server. A public IP addresstranslates to the internal SMTP server. The administrator notices many sessions to the server, and gets notification that the servers public IP address is now reported in a spam real-time blocklist.Which of the following is wrong with the server?

SMTP open relaying is enabled.

It does not have a spam filter.

The amount of sessions needs to be limited.

The public IP address is incorrect.

Security Plus Sy0-201

Here are the questions from the SY0-201 test bank. I noticed many of these questions are not industry standards, but its what Comptia wants.

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 481 | Last updated: Jan 7, 2013

Sample Question
Why do security researchers often use virtual machines?

To offer an environment where new network applications can be tested

To offer a secure virtual environment to conduct online deployments

To offer a virtual collaboration environment to discuss security research

To offer an environment where malware can be executed with minimal risk to equipment and software

CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Security+ Quiz

Questions: 24 | Attempts: 461 | Last updated: Jan 7, 2013

Sample Question
What does a security zone include?

DMZ, Firewalls, Routers, Extranets, Intranets

Remote access, Ldap, ISA

Chap, Rbac, DoS

Ports, TCP, UDP

CompTIA Security+ (Sy0-201)

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-201) Practice ExamKeep coming back as more questions are added daily. Goal is a test with over 700 randomly selected questions so each attempt has a different set of 50 questions per attempt.177 of 730...

Questions: 184 | Attempts: 458 | Last updated: Jul 30, 2011

Sample Question
All of the following provide confidentiality protection as part of the underlying protocol EXCEPT:

SSL

SSH

L2TP

IPSec

CompTIA Security+ Part 1

COMPTIA Security+ Exam

Questions: 100 | Attempts: 414 | Last updated: Jan 15, 2013

Sample Question
All of the following provide confidentiality as part of the underlying protocol EXCEPT:

SSL

SSH

L2TP

IPSec

Security Plus

Security + Certification

Questions: 3 | Attempts: 378 | Last updated: Jul 30, 2011

Sample Question
All of the following provide confidentiality protection as part of the underlying protocol EXCEPT:

A. SSL.

B. SSH.

C. L2TP.

D. IPSeC

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Quiz On CompTIA Security+ Certification! Trivia Questions

Are you looking for a quiz to help you in preparation for the CompTIA Security+ Certification? If so, the questionnaire below is precisely what you may need to refresh your understanding before the significant exam is upon us....

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CompTIA Security+ (Sy0-301) Practice Exam

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Set 2 CompTIA Security+ Exam Practice: Securing Communication & Infrastructure

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Set4 CompTIA Security+ Certification: Organizational Security

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With high use of technology, data and online security is becoming one of the most important things to both people and corporates. What measures do you think you should apply to ensure maximum security? Find out this and more...

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Do You Know About Sec+ Study Guide G Quiz

To the entire tech crazy people out there who want to see how much they really know about sec+, take this quiz. It is specifically designed to help you find out your knowledge that is based on Sec+ study guide.

Question: | Attempts: 21 | Last updated: Oct 10, 2017

How Well You Know Sec+ Study Guide D Quiz

A majority of people spends most of their time on the internet either doing research or just checking on their online presence. If you are a Sec+ student take this quiz to find how much you know about the subject and more.

Question: | Attempts: 52 | Last updated: Oct 9, 2017

Security+ Quiz

Are you a network administrator or networking student? Do you know anything about remote access and networking in the work place? If yes take this quiz to find out how much you know.

Question: | Attempts: 85 | Last updated: Oct 4, 2017

Security + 5 (401-500) Trivia Quiz

If you like answering specifically designed questions that touch on security and well being in general then try out this quiz. It is quite simple and therefore it will be easy to answer. All the best.

Question: | Attempts: 10 | Last updated: Oct 4, 2017

Security+ Acronym Test

Security is most important to everyone to ensure that peace and tranquility is achieved. Do you work in the security sector? If you are prepared to test your knowledge on the subject this quiz out.

Question: | Attempts: 101 | Last updated: Oct 4, 2017

Security + Network Infrastructure

In this day and age, it’s important to know about the ins and outs of security and network infrastructure when it comes to computers, due to the dangers involved with using them. Do you know as much as you should?

Question: | Attempts: 48 | Last updated: Oct 4, 2017

Security + Systems Security

Never take security for granted – the right software, hardware or physical protection can be pivotal in keeping you, your personal information and your belongings from the wrong hands. What do you know about the topic of...

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Practice Test For CompTIA Security +

Practice test for CompTIA Security +

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Security + 10 (801-900)

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CompTIA Security+ Practice Exam

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CompTIA Security Plus Practice Exam

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