CompTIA Network+ Network Security Practice Questions
CompTIA Network+ (N10-009) · Domain 4 of 5 · 14% of the exam
90 questions in 90 minutes, performance-based questions included, drawn in the official share for each N10-009 domain, with a score for every domain and a note on every answer.
Free Network Security drillAn attacker floods a switch with frames from thousands of fake MAC addresses until the switch forwards traffic out every port. What is this?
Network Security on the Network+ exam
Network Security is 14% of Network+ (N10-009), about 12 of 90 questions, the smallest Network+ domain.
- Share of the exam
- 14% of N10-009, about 12 of 90 questions
- Our drill
- 10 questions from 28 Network Security questions, untimed, a note on every option; one free attempt, unlimited with a pass
What Network Security questions test
- Encryption in transit and at rest, PKI and self-signed certificates, MFA, SSO, RADIUS, LDAP, SAML, TACACS+, least privilege, RBAC and geofencing
- Cameras, locks, honeypots and honeynets; risk, vulnerability, exploit, threat and the CIA triad
- Data locality, PCI DSS and GDPR; segmentation for IoT, IIoT, SCADA, ICS, OT, guest and BYOD
- DoS and DDoS, VLAN hopping, MAC flooding, ARP and DNS poisoning and spoofing, rogue DHCP and APs, evil twins, on-path attacks, social engineering and malware
- Device hardening, NAC (port security, 802.1X, MAC filtering), key management, ACLs, URL and content filtering, trusted and untrusted zones and screened subnets
Sit the full exam under the real clock
90 questions in 90 minutes, performance-based questions included, drawn in the official share for each N10-009 domain, with a score for every domain and a note on every answer.
Free Network Security drillHow to study it
- Pair each Layer 2 attack with its switch defense
- Know why MAC filtering alone is weak
- TACACS+ is for device administration; RADIUS is for network access
Common questions
How many security questions are on Network+?
About 12 of 90 (14%).
Should I take Security+ after Network+?
Many candidates do. Network+ security is the network slice; Security+ covers the whole field in more depth.
90 questions in 90 minutes, performance-based questions included, drawn in the official share for each N10-009 domain, with a score for every domain and a note on every answer.
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