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CAS-005 Actual Exam Questions

Last updated on June 13, 2025.

Vendor:CompTIA

Exam Code:CAS-005

Exam Name:CompTIA SecurityX

Exam Questions:324

Topic 1 - Exam A

Question #1 Topic 1

A security engineer is reviewing event logs because an employee successfully connected a personal Windows laptop to the corporate network, which is against company policy. Company policy allows all Windows 10 and 11 laptops to connect to the system as long as the MDM agent installed by IT is running. Only compliant devices can connect, and the logic in the system to evaluate compliant laptops is as follows:
Which of the following most likely occurred when the employee connected a personally owned Windows laptop and was allowed on the network?

A. The agent was not running on the laptop, which triggered a false positive.
B. The OS was a valid version, but the MDM agent was not installed, triggering a true positive.
C. The OS was running a Windows version below 10 and triggered a false negative.
D. The OS version was higher than 11, and the MDM agent was running, triggering a true negative.

Reveal Solution Discussion 5

Correct Answer: C 🗳️

Question #2 Topic 1

An organization is working to secure its development process to ensure developers cannot deploy artifacts directly into the production environment. Which of the following security practice recommendations would be the best to accomplish this objective?

A. Implement least privilege access to all systems.
B. Roll out security awareness training for all users.
C. Set up policies and systems with separation of duties.
D. Enforce job rotations for all developers and administrators.
E. Utilize mandatory vacations for all developers.
F. Review all access to production systems on a quarterly basis.

Reveal Solution Discussion 2

Correct Answer: C 🗳️

Question #3 Topic 1

A security architect discovers the following while reviewing code for a company's website: selection = "SELECT Item FROM Catalog WHERE ItemID = " & Request("ItemID")
Which of the following should the security architect recommend?

A. Client-side processing
B. Query parameterization
C. Data normalization
D. Escape character blocking
E. URL encoding

Reveal Solution Discussion 2

Correct Answer: B 🗳️

Question #4 Topic 1

A security architect needs to enable a container orchestrator for DevSecOps and SOAR initiatives. The engineer has discovered that several Ansible YAML files used for the automation of configuration management have the following content:

Which of the following should the engineer do to correct the security issues presented within this content?

A. Update the kubernetes.core.k8s module to kubernetes.core.k8s_service in the main.yml file.
B. Update the COMPTIA001 hostname to localhost using the hostnamectl command.
C. Update the state: present module to state: absent in the main.yml file.
D. Update or remove the ansible.cfg file.
E. Update the insecure-bind-address from localhost to the COMPTIA001 in the manifests file.

Reveal Solution Discussion 3

Correct Answer: E 🗳️

Question #5 Topic 1

A CRM company leverages a CSP PaaS service to host and publish Its SaaS product. Recently, a large customer requested that all infrastructure components must meet strict regulatory requirements, including configuration management, patch management, and life-cycle management. Which of the following organizations is responsible for ensuring those regulatory requirements are met?

A. The CRM company
B. The CRM company's customer
C. The CSP
D. The regulatory body

Reveal Solution Discussion 1

Correct Answer: A 🗳️

Question #6 Topic 1

Company A is merging with Company B. Company A is a small, local company. Company B has a large, global presence. The two companies have a lot of duplication in their IT systems, processes, and procedures. On the new Chief Information Officer's (CIO's) first day, a fire breaks out at Company B's main data center. Which of the following actions should the CIO take first?

A. Determine whether the incident response plan has been tested at both companies, and use it to respond.
B. Review the incident response plans, and engage the disaster recovery plan while relying on the IT leaders from both companies.
C. Ensure hot, warm, and mobile disaster recovery sites are available, and give an update to the companies' leadership teams.
D. Initiate Company A's IT systems processes and procedures, assess the damage, and perform a BIA.

Reveal Solution Discussion 1

Correct Answer: B 🗳️

Question #7 Topic 1

The results of an internal audit indicate several employees reused passwords that were previously included in a published list of compromised passwords.
The company has the following employee password policy:

Which of the following should be implemented to best address the password reuse issue? (Choose two.)

A. Increase the minimum age to two days.
B. Increase the history to 20.
C. Increase the character length to 12.
D. Add case-sensitive requirements to character class.
E. Decrease the maximum age to 30 days.
F. Remove the complexity requirements.
G. Increase the maximum age to 120 days.

Reveal Solution Discussion

Correct Answer: AB 🗳️

Question #8 Topic 1

A mobile administrator is reviewing the following mobile device DHCP logs to ensure the proper mobile settings are applied to managed devices:

Which of the following mobile configuration settings is the mobile administrator verifying?

A. Service set identifier authentication
B. Wireless network auto joining
C. 802.1X with mutual authentication
D. Association MAC address randomization

Reveal Solution Discussion

Correct Answer: D 🗳️

Question #9 Topic 1

A security analyst is investigating a possible insider threat incident that involves the use of an unauthorized USB from a shared account to exfiltrate data. The event did not create an alert. The analyst has confirmed the USB hardware ID is not on the device allow list, but has not yet confirmed the owner of the USB device. Which of the following actions should the analyst take next?

A. Classify the incident as a false positive.
B. Classify the incident as a false negative.
C. Classify the incident as a true positive.
D. Classify the incident as a true negative.

Reveal Solution Discussion 1

Correct Answer: B 🗳️

Question #10 Topic 1

Which of the following security features do email signatures provide?

A. Non-repudiation
B. Body encryption
C. Code signing
D. Sender authentication
E. Chain of custody

Reveal Solution Discussion 1

Correct Answer: A 🗳️

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