CompTIA SY0-701 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: SY0-701
- Exam Name: CompTIA Security+
- Certification Provider: CompTIA
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
In which of the following scenarios is tokenization the best privacy technique 10 use?
- A . Providing pseudo-anonymization tor social media user accounts
- B . Serving as a second factor for authentication requests
- C . Enabling established customers to safely store credit card Information
- D . Masking personal information inside databases by segmenting data
An administrator discovers that some files on a database server were recently encrypted. The administrator sees from the security logs that the data was last accessed by a domain user.
Which of the following best describes the type of attack that occurred?
- A . Insider threat
- B . Social engineering
- C . Watering-hole
- D . Unauthorized attacker
A company has begun labeling all laptops with asset inventory stickers and associating them with employee IDs.
Which of the following security benefits do these actions provide? (Choose two.)
- A . If a security incident occurs on the device, the correct employee can be notified.
- B . The security team will be able to send user awareness training to the appropriate device.
- C . Users can be mapped to their devices when configuring software MFA tokens.
- D . User-based firewall policies can be correctly targeted to the appropriate laptops.
- E . When conducting penetration testing, the security team will be able to target the desired laptops.
- F . Company data can be accounted for when the employee leaves the organization.
Which of the following can best protect against an employee inadvertently installing malware on a company system?
- A . Host-based firewall
- B . System isolation
- C . Least privilege
- D . Application allow list
Which of the following control types is AUP an example of?
- A . Physical
- B . Managerial
- C . Technical
- D . Operational
Which of the following agreement types defines the time frame in which a vendor needs to respond?
- A . SOW
- B . SLA
- C . MOA
- D . MOU
A newly appointed board member with cybersecurity knowledge wants the board of directors to receive a quarterly report detailing the number of incidents that impacted the organization. The systems administrator is creating a way to present the data to the board of directors.
Which of the following should the systems administrator use?
- A . Packet captures
- B . Vulnerability scans
- C . Metadata
- D . Dashboard
While conducting a business continuity tabletop exercise, the security team becomes concerned by potential impacts if a generator fails during failover.
Which of the following is the team most likely to consider in regard to risk management activities?
- A . RPO
- B . ARO
- C . BIA
- D . MTTR