CompTIA RC0-501 - Questions & Answers

A new intern in the purchasing department requires read access to shared documents. Permissions are normally controlled through a group called "Purchasing", however, the purchasing group permissions allow write access.

Which of the following would be the BEST course of action?

A business has recently deployed laptops to all sales employees. The laptops will be used primarily from home offices and while traveling, and a high amount of wireless mobile use is expected.
To protect the laptops while connected to untrusted wireless networks, which of the following would be the BEST method for reducing the risk of having the laptops compromised?

Which of the fallowing security controls does an iris scanner provide?

During a data breach cleanup, it is discovered that not all of the sites involved have the necessary data wiping tools.
The necessary tools are quickly distributed to the required technicians, but when should this problem BEST be revisited?

Joe, a technician, is working remotely with his company provided laptop at the coffee shop near his home.
Joe is concerned that another patron of the coffee shop may be trying to access his laptop.

Which of the following is an appropriate control to use to prevent the other patron from accessing Joe's laptop directly?

An attacker uses a network sniffer to capture the packets of a transaction that adds $20 to a gift card. The attacker then user a function of the sniffer to push those packets back onto the network again, adding another $20 to the gift card. This can be done many times.

Which of the following describes this type of attack?

An organization is moving its human resources system to a cloud services provider. The company plans to continue using internal usernames and passwords with the service provider, but the security manager does not want the service provider to have a company of the passwords.

Which of the following options meets all of these requirements?

The data backup window has expanded into the morning hours and has begun to affect production users.
The main bottleneck in the process is the time it takes to replicate the backups to separate severs at the offsite data center.

Which of the following uses of deduplication could be implemented to reduce the backup window?

A penetration testing is preparing for a client engagement in which the tester must provide data that proves and validates the scanning tools' results.

Which of the following is the best method for collecting this information?

Which of the following best describes the initial processing phase used in mobile device forensics?