CompTIA SecurityX CAS‑005 Practice Test

An incident response team needs to automate malware detection across endpoints. Which tool integrates with Azure for this purpose?

A virtualization platform hosts critical workloads. Which security practice mitigates VM escape attacks?

A new regulation requires data residency in the EU. Which Azure feature ensures compliance during resource deployment?

A mobile app requires secure key storage. Which Azure service should you integrate to manage cryptographic keys?

A breach occurs, and logs show unusual activity from a privileged account. Which command retrieves detailed session info on a Linux server?

An enterprise deploys a cloud-based CRM. Which control ensures data integrity across hybrid endpoints?

A company must comply with GDPR and assess third-party vendor risks. Which document should you request to evaluate their data handling?

A server’s TLS configuration uses deprecated SHA-1 hashing. Which command verifies the current cipher suite?

A SOC detects a persistent threat bypassing signature-based IDS. Which tool should you use to analyze behavioral anomalies in network traffic?

A company is designing a hybrid network with on-premises servers and Azure resources. Which security control should you implement to enforce a zero-trust architecture?

Which protocol is often used to automate vulnerability scanning alerts and share threat indicators?

During a forensic investigation, which artifact is essential to preserve volatile memory before shutdown?

Which control helps ensure secure configuration drift prevention across infrastructure?

What is the role of a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in enterprise security?

Which cryptographic principle supports forward secrecy for secure communications?

What is a primary advantage of containerizing applications in terms of security architecture?

In a hybrid cloud-on-premises deployment, which model defines security responsibility boundaries between provider and customer?

Which approach is most effective for detecting insider threats or compromised privileged accounts?

What baseline security control should be implemented on endpoints to mitigate zero-day threats and unknown malware?

When deploying encryption for data at rest in storage arrays, which key-management practice is safest?

Which vulnerability-scoring standard helps prioritize remediation efforts across multiple systems?

Which automation tool type is appropriate for orchestrating patch deployment, security scans, and configuration compliance at scale?

Which security boundary concept helps minimize lateral movement risk within an enterprise network?

What is a critical benefit of using a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) in a multi-cloud environment?

Which cryptographic technique ensures that a stored file can’t be read if encryption keys are lost or revoked?

In an IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) pipeline using Terraform, what practice helps prevent misconfiguration vulnerabilities before deployment?

Which cloud architecture control helps enforce separation of duties and least privilege across services?

When assessing a third-party vendor, what risk aspect must be evaluated under GRC principles?

Which framework is widely used to structure enterprise risk-management and governance practices in accordance with CAS-005 requirements?

In designing a corporate security program, what document type sets the high-level goals and roles before technical controls are applied?

A CISO wants to express cyber risk in monetary terms to help the board compare a proposed security investment against its expected reduction in financial exposure. Which risk analysis methodology is most appropriate?

An organization is evaluating a new critical vendor and wants to ensure the vendor's security posture is continuously monitored throughout the relationship, not just assessed once at onboarding. Which practice best supports this?

An organization is deploying a generative AI tool that processes sensitive customer data as part of its workflow. Which governance consideration is most critical to address before deployment?

Which threat modeling methodology categorizes threats into six categories, including Spoofing, Tampering, and Elevation of Privilege, commonly used during the design phase of secure software development?

Which compliance framework specifically applies to organizations handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) as part of contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense?

Which governance practice involves encoding compliance and security policy requirements directly into automated pipelines, such as validating that infrastructure code meets security baselines before deployment?

A security architect is calculating the Annualized Loss Expectancy for a specific risk scenario where the Single Loss Expectancy is $50,000 and the Annualized Rate of Occurrence is 0.4. What is the resulting Annualized Loss Expectancy?

An organization operating in both the EU and California must comply with overlapping but distinct data privacy regulations. Which approach best addresses this multi-jurisdictional compliance challenge?

Which risk treatment strategy involves an organization purchasing a cyber insurance policy specifically to offset the potential financial impact of a data breach?

An organization wants to formally document a risk it has decided not to remediate immediately, along with executive approval and a defined review date. Which artifact should be used?

Which governance concept describes the practice of ensuring that no single individual has end-to-end control over a critical, sensitive process, such as both initiating and approving a financial transaction?

A security leader wants to benchmark the organization's security program maturity against an internationally recognized standard for establishing, implementing, and continually improving an information security management system. Which framework is most appropriate?

An architect is designing a Zero Trust architecture and needs to define the component responsible for evaluating access requests against policy and issuing the actual allow/deny decision. Which NIST Zero Trust component does this describe?

Which PKI architecture design keeps the root Certificate Authority offline and disconnected from the network except during scheduled signing ceremonies, using online intermediate CAs to issue day-to-day certificates?

An organization needs visibility and policy enforcement over sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud application usage across the enterprise, including detecting shadow IT. Which technology best addresses this?

Which security concern is specifically relevant when architecting a serverless (Function as a Service) application, given the ephemeral, short-lived nature of individual function executions?

Which container security architecture concern involves ensuring that a compromised container cannot access resources or namespaces belonging to other containers or the underlying host?

An organization wants to allow users to authenticate once with their corporate identity provider and seamlessly access multiple third-party SaaS applications without separate logins. Which architecture pattern enables this?

Which cloud-delivered architecture converges SD-WAN networking with cloud-based security services, such as ZTNA and secure web gateway, into a single unified service model, reducing reliance on traditional hardware-based perimeter security?

An architect is designing resilience for a critical application and wants to ensure the application can continue operating, potentially with reduced functionality, even if a dependent microservice fails. Which design pattern supports this?

Which architecture principle ensures that infrastructure is deployed as immutable, version-controlled artifacts, where changes are made by deploying an entirely new instance rather than modifying an existing running system?

An organization operating a hybrid environment needs to ensure consistent identity governance across both on-premises Active Directory and multiple cloud identity providers. Which architectural approach best addresses this?

Which enterprise network segmentation architecture uses a central hub network hosting shared security services, connected to multiple isolated spoke networks, commonly implemented to centralize policy enforcement across a multi-VPC cloud environment?

An architect is designing network segmentation for an OT (Operational Technology) environment that must remain isolated from the corporate IT network while still allowing limited, monitored data flow for reporting purposes. Which architecture is most appropriate?

Which secure architecture principle for a multi-tenant SaaS platform ensures that one tenant's data cannot be accessed by another tenant, even in the event of an application-layer vulnerability?

Which architecture consideration is critical when designing a disaster recovery strategy involving data replication across multiple geographic regions with differing data sovereignty regulations?

An architect is evaluating whether to adopt a service mesh for a microservices environment. Which security capability does a service mesh most directly provide?

Which architecture approach is specifically designed to address the resilience challenge of a single cloud region experiencing a full outage, ensuring a critical application remains available?

An organization is preparing for the long-term threat that sufficiently powerful quantum computers could break current asymmetric encryption algorithms. Which strategy directly addresses this concern?

Which cryptographic construction combines encryption with a built-in integrity/authenticity check in a single operation, such as AES-GCM, preventing an attacker from tampering with ciphertext undetected?

Which advanced cryptographic technique allows computations to be performed directly on encrypted data, producing an encrypted result that, when decrypted, matches the result of performing the same operation on the plaintext?

Which hardware-based security component provides a secure, tamper-resistant environment for generating, storing, and managing cryptographic keys used to protect encryption operations across an enterprise, often used to meet strict compliance requirements?

Which device-level security component provides hardware-based, tamper-resistant storage for cryptographic keys and supports capabilities like secure boot measurement, typically embedded on an individual endpoint's motherboard?

An organization needs to establish a strategy for periodically rotating cryptographic algorithms and keys as vulnerabilities are discovered or standards evolve, minimizing disruption when a migration is eventually required. Which concept describes this capability?

An enterprise identity team is troubleshooting a federated single sign-on failure between an on-premises identity provider and a cloud service provider using SAML. Which artifact should be examined first to diagnose a signature validation failure?

Which identity and access management practice grants a user elevated permissions only for a limited, defined time window when genuinely needed for a specific task, automatically revoking that access afterward?

Which application security practice involves analyzing an application's source code for security flaws without executing the application, typically integrated early into the CI/CD pipeline?

Which security engineering practice for embedded and IoT devices addresses the challenge of securely updating firmware on devices deployed in the field, preventing an attacker from installing malicious firmware?

Which mobile device security architecture allows an organization to manage and secure only the specific corporate applications and data on an employee's personal device, without controlling the entire device?

Which advanced endpoint security architecture continuously monitors and analyzes endpoint behavior across the enterprise, correlating signals from multiple endpoints to detect sophisticated, multi-stage attacks that a single endpoint's EDR might miss in isolation?

Which secure software development practice involves defining infrastructure configuration in code, then scanning that code for security misconfigurations before it is ever provisioned?

Which security engineering technique specifically defends against a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability by restricting an application's ability to make outbound requests to arbitrary internal or external destinations?

Which cryptographic property ensures that even if a long-term private key is later compromised, previously captured encrypted communications cannot be retroactively decrypted?

An organization wants to enforce that database queries constructed with user input are never vulnerable to SQL injection, regardless of how the input is formatted. Which secure coding practice most directly achieves this?

Which application security testing technique automatically generates a large volume of random, malformed, or unexpected inputs to an application to discover crashes or unexpected behavior indicating potential vulnerabilities?

Which engineering practice specifically addresses supply chain security by verifying that a software artifact has not been tampered with between the build process and deployment?

Which engineering control specifically hardens a Kubernetes cluster by restricting which container images are permitted to run, based on criteria such as verified signatures or approved registries?

A threat hunter forms a hypothesis that an APT group may already be present in the environment using a specific set of TTPs documented in MITRE ATT&CK, then actively searches telemetry for supporting evidence. Which activity does this describe?

Which security operations practice involves writing and continuously refining custom detection logic tailored to an organization's specific environment and threat model, going beyond relying solely on vendor-supplied default detection rules?

Which security operations approach establishes a behavioral baseline of normal user and entity activity, then flags statistically significant deviations that could indicate compromised credentials or insider threat, using machine learning techniques?

Which security operations technology automates repetitive, well-defined incident response actions, such as automatically isolating a host and opening a ticket, based on predefined playbooks triggered by SIEM alerts?

During an active, sophisticated incident involving a suspected nation-state actor, the incident response team decides to allow the attacker limited continued access within an isolated segment to gather additional intelligence on their tactics, rather than immediately evicting them. Which strategy does this describe?

Which incident response metric measures the average time it takes a security operations team to detect a security incident after it has actually begun, a key performance indicator for measuring detection capability?

Which digital forensics activity should be performed first when investigating a live, potentially compromised system, given the order of volatility principle?

Which practice ensures that backups remain protected from being altered or deleted, even by an attacker who has gained administrative access to the backup system itself, such as through ransomware targeting backup infrastructure?

Which security operations concept describes proactively identifying and closing security gaps based on the specific tactics, techniques, and procedures a particular adversary group is known to use, rather than generic hardening?

Which security operations practice involves regularly and safely simulating specific adversary techniques within the production environment to validate that detection and response capabilities actually work as expected?

Which incident response consideration is uniquely critical when investigating a security incident involving a containerized, ephemeral workload that may be terminated and replaced automatically within minutes?

Which type of security operations report specifically tracks and communicates whether an organization's detection and response capabilities are improving over time, using metrics like MTTD and MTTR trended across multiple reporting periods?

An organization's SIEM is generating an overwhelming volume of low-fidelity alerts, causing analyst fatigue and missed genuine incidents. Which combination of actions most directly addresses this specific operational problem?