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CompTIA SECURITY+ CH. 1 & 2: Comprehensive Exam Preparation with Verified Questions, Accurate Solutions, and a Thoroughly Updated 2026 Edition! This resource is meticulously crafted to ensure your success, boasting an A+ grade and a demonstrably high pass rate, making it the ultimate study tool for mastering the core concepts of CompTIA Security+ chapters 1 and 2. We've included only the most relevant and current information to help you ace your exam.

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Which network device transmits data between different networks by examining the
destination network address in a packet?

A. Load balancer

B. Layer 2 switch

C. Router

D. NIC - ANSWER C



You have been asked to implement a solution that separates a large busy network into many
smaller collision domains. Which device should you implement?

A. Load balancer

B. Layer 2 switch

C. Router

D. NIC - ANSWER B



A busy web site has not been responding well because of the large volumes of HTTP
connections to the web server. Which solution would increase web server performance?

A. Add more RAM to the web server.

B. Install two web servers hosting the same content. Configure a load balancer to distribute
incoming HTTP connections between the two web servers.

C. Place a router between the web server and the Internet to throttle incoming HTTP
connections.

D. Enable SSL on the web server. - ANSWER B




1

,Your network consists of customers who connect to the Internet using their Wi-Fi mobile
devices as well as employees who use their wired desktops for company business. You must
ensure customer traffic and corporate network traffic are kept isolated. What should you
do?

A. Install and configure a load balancer.

B. Use a separate network switch for customers.

C. Upgrade the desktop NICs to 10Gbps.

D. Place the wireless access point on a separate VLAN. - ANSWER D



Your company's networks and devices were recently migrated to IPv6, although there are
still a small number of IPv4 hosts online. You are asked to verify that a server named hq-
01.acme.us is reachable on the network via IPv6. Write the command(s) you would use to
verify this: ____________________ - ANSWER ping -6 hq-01.acme.us



Your network consists of routers and switches, as well as a variety of other network devices.
You are configuring a wireless router, as shown in Figure 1-1, and need to allow network
management traffic through. Which protocol should be removed from the blocked list?

A. SMTP

B. SNMP

C. IKE

D. None - ANSWER B



Which protocol suite uses 128-bit IP addresses?

A. IPv4

B. IPv5

C. IPv6

D. Network interface cards - ANSWER C



Your newly configured SMTP mail server is not receiving mail from the Internet. You realize
you did not configure any DNS records for SMTP mail transfer. Which type of DNS resource
record must you create?

2

,A. CNAME

B. MX

C. PTR

D. A - ANSWER B



While troubleshooting connectivity to your remote file server, you realize that a firewall is
preventing you from pinging the server. Which type of firewall rule should you create to
allow ping traffic?

A. UDP

B. IGMP

C. TCP

D. ICMP - ANSWER D



199.126.19.71 is an example of which type of address?

A. IPv4

B. Port

C. IPv6

D. MAC - ANSWER A



Your Linux virtual file server is running out of disk space. It has been decided that a network
storage appliance on a dedicated TCP/IP network will provide disk space to your file server.
Which type of SAN disk access protocol will be used by the file server?

A. Fibre Channel SAN

B. SMB

C. iSCSI

D. TCP/IP - ANSWER C



Your SAN solution uses optical technology designed solely for high-speed connectivity from
servers to disk storage. Which type of SAN is this?


3

, A. Fibre Channel SAN

B. SMB

C. iSCSI

D. TCP/IP - ANSWER A



How do FCoE and iSCSI differ?

A. FCoE uses TCP; iSCSI uses UDP.

B. iSCSi uses TCP; FCoE uses UDP.

C. FCoE uses TCP/IP; iSCSI does not.

D. iSCSI uses TCP/IP; FCoE does not. - ANSWER D



Which TCP/IP protocol uses TCP ports 20 and 21?

A. SNMP

B. DNS

C. HTTP

D. FTP - ANSWER D



Which TCP/IP protocol does not have authentication configuration options?

A. TFTP

B. FTP

C. SNMP

D. SMTP - ANSWER A

Trivial Trial Transport Protocol



Which of the following is Telnet used for?

A. Verifying routers in a transmission path

B. Performing encrypted remote command-line management



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