016_Obfuscation - CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 - 1.4

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What is the primary purpose of obfuscation?

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To make information more difficult to understand

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What does the term 'steganography' mean?

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Hidden writing

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Which of the following is NOT a method of steganography? Audio & Video Steganography, Network Traffic Steganography, Image Steganography

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Data Masking

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What is tokenization primarily used for? Options: Compressing data, Deleting data, Replacing sensitive data with a token, Encrypting data

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Replacing sensitive data with a token

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In data masking, which of the following is a common technique? Encrypting the entire data, Deleting the data, Using asterisks to replace parts of the number, Compressing the data

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Using asterisks to replace parts of the number

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What is a security advantage of tokenization?

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Tokens cannot be reused if intercepted.

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Which of the following statements is true about data masking? It conceals portions of sensitive information, It compresses data for storage, It encrypts the entire data, It deletes sensitive data

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It conceals portions of sensitive information

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What is a Steganography?

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A way of concealing text.

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A technical is assigned to harden a laptop for a medical practice. Which of the following should be used to protect PII in the event of hardware theft? Hard drive encryption, Disable bluetooth, password expiration, Host based firewall

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Hard drive encryption

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Which method is used to replace all or part of a data field with a randomly generated number used to reference the original value stored in another vault or database? Options: Tokenization, Anonymization, Data masking, Data minimization

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Tokenization