CompTIA Security+ Quiz

Which of the following devices best illustrates the concept of edge computing?

• Router

• Smartwatch

• Server

• UPS

A cloud deployment model consisting of two or more interlinked cloud infrastructures (private, community, or public) is referred to as a hybrid cloud.

• True

• False

Which of the following terms refers to a third-party vendor offering IT security management services?

• MSP

• MAN

• MSSP

• MaaS

The term "Fog computing" refers to a local network infrastructure between IoT devices and the cloud designed to speed up data transmission and processing.

• True

• False

Which of the following terms refers to the concept of virtualization on an application level?

• Hypervisor

• System on Chip

• Infrastructure as Code

• Containerization

In software engineering, the term "Microservice" describes independent and self-contained code components that can be put together to form an application.

• True

• False

A sales manager at your company is complaining about slow performance on his computer. When you thoroughly investigate the issue, you find spyware on his computer. He insists that the only thing he has downloaded recently was a freeware stock trading application. What would best explain this situation?

• Logic bomb

• Rootkit

• Trojan horse

• Macro virus

Code obfuscation techniques rely on encryption to protect the source code against unauthorized access.

• True

• False

In cloud computing, users on an on-premises network take advantage of a transit gateway to connect to:

• VPC

• SAN

• NAS

• VLAN

The term "VM escape" refers to the process of breaking out of the boundaries of a guest operating system installation to access the primary hypervisor controlling all the virtual machines on the host machine.

• True

• False