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CompTIA Security+ Questions 481–485 (page: 98)

Updated On: 26-Aug-2026

Which of the following is a social engineering attack in which a bad actor impersonates a web URL?

  1. Pretexting
  2. Misinformation
  3. Typosquatting
  4. Watering-hole

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Typosquatting involves registering a look-alike domain (e.g., examplе.com instead of example.com) to trick users who mistype URLs into visiting a malicious site.



A company is in the process of cutting jobs to manage costs. The Chief Information Security Officer is concerned about the increased risk of an insider threat.
Which of the following would most likely help the security awareness team address this potential threat?

  1. Immediately disable the accounts of staff who are likely to be terminated.
  2. Train supervisors to identify and manage disgruntled employees.
  3. Configure DLP to monitor staff who will be terminated.
  4. Raise awareness for business leaders on social engineering techniques.

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Equipping supervisors to recognize signs of dissatisfaction and potential insider threats enables early intervention, addressing the human factors that awareness programs are designed to influence.



A security analyst is prioritizing vulnerability scan results using a risk-based approach.
Which of the following is the most efficient resource for the analyst to use?

  1. Business impact analysis
  2. Common Vulnerability Scoring System
  3. Risk register
  4. Exposure factor

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

CVSS provides a standardized, numerical severity rating for each vulnerability, enabling an analyst to efficiently rank and prioritize scan findings based on objective risk metrics.



A penetration tester visits a client's website and downloads the site's content.
Which of the following actions is the penetration tester performing?

  1. Unknown environment testing
  2. Vulnerability scan
  3. Due diligence
  4. Passive reconnaissance

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

Downloading publicly available website content without exploiting vulnerabilities or interacting with private systems is passive reconnaissance - collecting information from external sources without direct intrusion.



Which of the following actions must an organization take to comply with a person's request for the right to be forgotten?

  1. Purge all personally identifiable attributes.
  2. Encrypt ail of the person's data.
  3. Remove all of the person's data.
  4. Obfuscate all of the person's data.

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The “right to be forgotten” (right of erasure) requires that organizations delete or permanently remove all personal data related to the individual from their systems and backups, not merely obfuscate or encrypt it.



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