Download CompTIA SecurityX Certification.CAS-005.ExamTopics.2026-07-12.343q.vcex

Vendor: CompTIA
Exam Code: CAS-005
Exam Name: CompTIA SecurityX Certification
Date: Jul 12, 2026
File Size: 8 MB

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Question 1
A security officer is requiring all personnel working on a special project to obtain a security clearance requisite with the level of all information being accessed. Data on this network must be protected at the same level of each clearance holder. The need to know must be verified by the data owner. Which of the following should the security officer do to meet these requirements?
  1. Create a rule to authorize personnel only from certain IPs to access the files.
  2. Assign labels to the files and require formal access authorization.
  3. Assign attributes to each file and allow authorized users to share the files.
  4. Assign roles to users and authorize access to files based on the roles.
Correct answer: B
Question 2
A company hired a third-party consultant to run a cybersecurity incident simulation in order to identify security gaps and prepare stakeholders for a potential incident. Which of the following best describes this activity?
  1. Tabletop exercise
  2. Walk-through review
  3. Lessons learned
  4. Business impact analysis
Correct answer: A
Question 3
A security architect wants to ensure a remote host's identity and decides that pinning the X.509 certificate to the device is the most effective solution. Which of the following must happen first?
  1. Use Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) for the certificate.
  2. Extract the private key from the certificate.
  3. Use an out-of-band method to obtain the certificate.
  4. Compare the retrieved certificate with the embedded certificate.
Correct answer: C
Question 4
A security analyst identified a vulnerable and deprecated runtime engine that Is supporting a public-facing banking application. The developers anticipate the transition to modern development environments will take at least a month. Which of the following controls would best mitigate the risk without interrupting the service during the transition?
  1. Shutting down the systems until the code is ready
  2. Uninstalling the impacted runtime engine
  3. Selectively blocking traffic on the affected port
  4. Configuring IPS and WAF with signatures
Correct answer: D
Question 5
Which of the following is the reason why security engineers often cannot upgrade the security of embedded facility automation systems?
  1. They are constrained by available compute.
  2. They lack x86-64 processors.
  3. They lack EEPROM.
  4. They are not logic-bearing devices.
Correct answer: A
Question 6
A web application server is running a legacy operating system with an unpatched RCE vulnerability. The server cannot be upgraded until the corresponding application code is changed. Which of the following compensating controls would best prevent successful exploitation?
  1. Segmentation
  2. CASB
  3. HIPS
  4. UEBA
Correct answer: A
Question 7
Which of the following items should be included when crafting a disaster recovery plan?
  1. Redundancy
  2. Testing exercises
  3. Autoscaling
  4. Competitor locations
Correct answer: B
Question 8
A company is rewriting a vulnerable application and adding the mprotect() system call in multiple parts of the application's code that was being leveraged by a recent exploitation tool. Which of the following should be enabled to ensure the application can leverage the new system call against similar attacks in the future?
  1. TPM
  2. Secure boot
  3. NX bit
  4. HSM
Correct answer: C
Question 9
An organization's board of directors has asked the Chief Information Security Officer to build a third-party management program. Which of the following best explains a reason for this request?
  1. Risk transference
  2. Supply chain visibility
  3. Support availability
  4. Vulnerability management
Correct answer: B
Question 10
An organization has deployed a cloud-based application that provides virtual event services globally to clients. During a typical event, thousands of users access various entry pages within a short period of time. The entry pages include sponsor-related content that is relatively static and is pulled from a database. When the first major event occurs, users report poor response time on the entry pages. Which of the following features is the most appropriate for the company to implement?
  1. Horizontal scalability
  2. Vertical scalability
  3. Containerization
  4. Static code analysis
  5. Caching
Correct answer: E
Question 11
An analyst needs to evaluate all images and documents that are publicly shared on a website. Which of the following would be the best tool to evaluate the metadata of these files?
  1. OllyDbg
  2. ExifTool
  3. Volatility
  4. Ghidra
Correct answer: B
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