D482 ACTUAL EXAM SCRIPT 2026
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◍ A security administrator has configured a small keysize to protect
the VPN.
Which security objective does this affect? Answer: Confidentiality
◍ A laptop has been stolen, and the data has been seen for sale on the
darknet.
Which process could have protected the confidentiality of the data?
Answer: Hard Drive encryption
◍ When browsing to a financial website, a user receives an error on
the browser that points to the certificate
on the website. The user reviews the certificate and maps it to a
known certificate authority.
Why did the user need to perform these actions? Answer: To establish
a trust relationship
◍ A team of scientists is working on a secure project. The network
administrator needs to configure a
network for the team that is not routable from the Internet. A firewall
is protecting the scientists' network
,and is using network address translation (NAT) to translate the
internal IP addresses to public IP
addresses.
Which IP address should the network administrator configure on the
inside interface of the firewall? Answer: 10.14.15.16
◍ An ad hoc network design team has just finished a presentation on
the latest updates to the organization's
network infrastructure. The team ensured that plenty of redundancy
has been built in and bottlenecks
have been eliminated.
Which security objective has the team bolstered through these
improvements? Answer: Availability
◍ A company has recently implemented a new email encryption
system that uses public key infrastructure
(PKI). The company is now requiring all employees to sign and
encrypt internal communication. An
employee wants to send a digitally signed message to the IT director.
What does the IT director use to decode the employee's signature
under the new system? Answer: The employee's public key
◍ An administrator at a small office is tasked with supporting a new
time clock that has been installed on the
network. The outsourced company managing the time clock states that
the connection protocol it uses
, with the clock is encrypted, but it needs to allow incoming
connections from the Internet.
Which action should allow the outsourced company to securely
manage the time clock with a minimal
amount of configuration effort? Answer: Setting up a port forward on
the firewall from the outsourced company to the
time clock
◍ A small nonprofit company has received several legacy wireless
access points (APs) as a donation. The
security administrator discovers that the encryption protocol the
devices use is not very secure. The encryption key can be discovered
by a malicious hacker in only a few minutes. After discussions with
other
security professionals, the administrator learns the APs can implement
a key protocol that can change the
encryption key every few seconds and provide a per-packet
verification at each side of the
communication.
Which security measure is the key protocol implemented to protect?
Answer: Integrity of the key
◍ A recently terminated employee from accounting used several
widely available programs in an amateur
attempt to exploit a company's database.
Which term describes the terminated employee? Answer: Script
kiddies
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◍ A security administrator has configured a small keysize to protect
the VPN.
Which security objective does this affect? Answer: Confidentiality
◍ A laptop has been stolen, and the data has been seen for sale on the
darknet.
Which process could have protected the confidentiality of the data?
Answer: Hard Drive encryption
◍ When browsing to a financial website, a user receives an error on
the browser that points to the certificate
on the website. The user reviews the certificate and maps it to a
known certificate authority.
Why did the user need to perform these actions? Answer: To establish
a trust relationship
◍ A team of scientists is working on a secure project. The network
administrator needs to configure a
network for the team that is not routable from the Internet. A firewall
is protecting the scientists' network
,and is using network address translation (NAT) to translate the
internal IP addresses to public IP
addresses.
Which IP address should the network administrator configure on the
inside interface of the firewall? Answer: 10.14.15.16
◍ An ad hoc network design team has just finished a presentation on
the latest updates to the organization's
network infrastructure. The team ensured that plenty of redundancy
has been built in and bottlenecks
have been eliminated.
Which security objective has the team bolstered through these
improvements? Answer: Availability
◍ A company has recently implemented a new email encryption
system that uses public key infrastructure
(PKI). The company is now requiring all employees to sign and
encrypt internal communication. An
employee wants to send a digitally signed message to the IT director.
What does the IT director use to decode the employee's signature
under the new system? Answer: The employee's public key
◍ An administrator at a small office is tasked with supporting a new
time clock that has been installed on the
network. The outsourced company managing the time clock states that
the connection protocol it uses
, with the clock is encrypted, but it needs to allow incoming
connections from the Internet.
Which action should allow the outsourced company to securely
manage the time clock with a minimal
amount of configuration effort? Answer: Setting up a port forward on
the firewall from the outsourced company to the
time clock
◍ A small nonprofit company has received several legacy wireless
access points (APs) as a donation. The
security administrator discovers that the encryption protocol the
devices use is not very secure. The encryption key can be discovered
by a malicious hacker in only a few minutes. After discussions with
other
security professionals, the administrator learns the APs can implement
a key protocol that can change the
encryption key every few seconds and provide a per-packet
verification at each side of the
communication.
Which security measure is the key protocol implemented to protect?
Answer: Integrity of the key
◍ A recently terminated employee from accounting used several
widely available programs in an amateur
attempt to exploit a company's database.
Which term describes the terminated employee? Answer: Script
kiddies
