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Security Architecture Questions

Practice questions for Security Architecture topic in CompTIA Security+. 18 questions covering this domain.

18 questions2 easy10 medium6 hard
Q1
easy

Which cloud service model provides customers with virtualized computing resources — such as virtual machines, storage, and networking — over the inter...

Q2
medium

An organization implements a backup strategy where data is backed up daily to a local disk, weekly to a secondary on-site device, and monthly to an of...

Q3
medium

An organization is deploying a new application and wants to ensure that all communications between clients and the application server are encrypted in...

Q4
medium

A company wants to ensure that even if an attacker penetrates one system, they cannot easily move to other critical systems. Which network security de...

Q5
medium

A security architect is designing a solution for a manufacturing plant that uses industrial control systems (ICS). Which security architecture princip...

Q6
medium

An organization wants to protect sensitive data at rest on employee laptops in case they are stolen. Which data protection method is MOST appropriate?

Q7
hard

A security engineer is evaluating a hybrid cloud architecture. The organization stores sensitive data in its on-premises data center and uses public c...

Q8
hard

An organization is designing a disaster recovery strategy. They want the ability to resume operations within minutes of a failure, with all systems an...

Q9
hard

A security architect is evaluating the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud deployments. What is the PRIMARY security benefit of IaC compared...

Q10
hard

An organization wants to deploy a serverless application in the cloud where code executes only in response to events. Which cloud deployment model doe...

Q11
medium

A security engineer implements microsegmentation in a data center, applying security policies at the individual workload level rather than at the netw...

Q12
medium

An organization uses a proxy server that intercepts all employee web traffic, decrypts TLS sessions, inspects the content for malware, and re-encrypts...

Q13
hard

An organization is deploying a containerized application environment. Which security consideration is MOST important when containers share the same ho...

Q14
medium

A security architect designs a network where internet-facing servers (web servers) are placed in a separate network zone between the internet and the ...

Q15
easy

Which network device operates at Layer 3 of the OSI model, routes traffic between different networks, and can be used to implement access control list...

Q16
hard

An organization's recovery time objective (RTO) is 4 hours and recovery point objective (RPO) is 1 hour for a critical application. Which backup strat...

Q17
medium

A company uses a cloud-based application with user data stored in a public cloud. The security team is concerned about data sovereignty — ensuring tha...

Q18
medium

An organization wants to ensure that sensitive database records containing personally identifiable information (PII) are stored in a format that preve...

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