CAS-005: CompTIA SecurityX
The CompTIA SecurityX (CAS-005) exam is designed for advanced security professionals aiming to validate their expertise in enterprise security architecture, risk management, and security operations. Practicing with real exam questions shared by those who have passed the exam can significantly boost your chances of success. In this guide, we provide CAS-005 practice test questions and answers contributed by certified professionals.
Exam Details:
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Exam Number: CAS-005
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Certification: CompTIA SecurityX
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Exam Format: Multiple-choice and performance-based questions
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Test Duration: 165 minutes
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Number of Questions: Up to 90
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Passing Score: Pass/Fail (No scaled score)
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Recommended Experience: Minimum of 10 years in IT, including 5 years of hands-on security experience
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Exam Topics Covered:
- Governance, Risk, and Compliance: Developing security policies, procedures, and standards.
- Security Architecture: Designing enterprise-wide security architectures, including zero-trust frameworks.
- Security Engineering: Implementing complex security engineering principles for resilient systems.
- Security Operations: Managing security operations, incident response, and vulnerability management.
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Related questions
A global company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) receives a phone call from someone claiming to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The caller claims to be stranded and in desperate need of money. The CFO is suspicious, but the caller's voice sounds similar to the CEO's. Which of the following best describes this type of attack?
A security engineer must ensure that sensitive corporate information is not exposed if a company laptop is stolen. Which of the following actions best addresses this requirement?
Which of the following best describes the challenges associated with widespread adoption of homomorphic encryption techniques?
Which of the following best describes the reason PQC preparation is important?
A company is preparing to move a new version of a web application to production. No issues were reported during security scanning or quality assurance in the CI/CD pipeline. Which of the following actions should the company take next?
A cloud engineer wants to configure mail security protocols to support email authenticity and enable the flow of email security information to a third-party platform for further analysis. Which of the following must be configured to achieve these requirements? (Select two).
An external threat actor attacks public infrastructure providers. In response to the attack and during follow-up activities, various providers share information obtained during response efforts. After the attack, energy sector companies share their status and response data:
Company SIEM UEBA DLP ISAC Member TIP Integration Time to Detect Time to Respond
1 Yes No Yes Yes Yes 10 minutes 20 minutes
2 Yes Yes Yes Yes No 20 minutes 40 minutes
3 Yes Yes No No Yes 12 minutes 24 minutes
Which of the following is the most important issue to address to defend against future attacks?
An organization is prioritizing efforts to remediate or mitigate risks identified during the latest assessment. For one of the risks, a full remediation was not possible, but the organization was able to successfully apply mitigations to reduce the likelihood of the impact. Which of the following should the organization perform next?
An auditor is reviewing the logs from a web application to determine the source of an incident. The web application architecture includes an internet-accessible application load balancer, a number of web servers in a private subnet, application servers, and one database server in a tiered configuration. The application load balancer cannot store the logs. The following are sample log snippets:
Web server logs:
192.168.1.10 - - [24/Oct/2020 11:24:34 +05:00] 'GET /bin/bash' HTTP/1.1' 200 453 Safari/536.36
192.168.1.10 - - [24/Oct/2020 11:24:35 +05:00] 'GET / HTTP/1.1' 200 453 Safari/536.36
Application server logs:
24/Oct/2020 11:24:34 +05:00 - 192.168.2.11 - request does not match a known local user. Querying DB
24/Oct/2020 11:24:35 +05:00 - 192.168.2.12 - root path. Begin processing
Database server logs:
24/Oct/2020 11:24:34 +05:00 [Warning] 'option read_buffer_size1 unassigned value 0 adjusted to 2048
24/Oct/2020 11:24:35 +05:00 [Warning] CA certificate ca.pem is self-signed.
Which of the following should the auditor recommend to ensure future incidents can be traced back to the sources?
Which of the following are risks associated with vendor lock-in? (Select two).
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