An organization must transmit sensitive financial reports between two branch offices over the internet. Which practice ensures the data remains confidential during transmission?

Using a digital signature on the files

Hashing the files with SHA-256 before sending

Encrypting the data in transit using TLS

Compressing the files into a ZIP archive

A company is designing a data lifecycle management strategy. The goal is to minimize the risk of data breaches while ensuring that data is available when needed. Which practice should the administrator implement?

Classify data at creation and apply appropriate security controls throughout its lifecycle

Encrypt all data at rest but not in transit

Store all data in a central repository without classification

Delete all data after one year regardless of its value

A company is implementing a data lifecycle management program. The goal is to ensure that data is protected from creation to deletion, with appropriate controls at each stage. Which sequence of stages should the administrator define?

Store, create, use, archive, share, delete

Create, store, use, share, archive, delete

Create, store, delete, use, archive, share

Create, share, delete, archive, store, use

A server administrator is configuring a new database server that will store customer payment information. Which security control directly protects the confidentiality of this data if the physical drives are stolen?

Implementing a firewall rule that restricts access to the database port

Setting strong passwords for all database user accounts

Enabling full-disk encryption on the server's storage volumes

Installing an intrusion detection system on the network segment

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Data Security SK0-005 Practice Questions (Page 5)

Part of the Security and disaster recovery domain, which accounts for 24% of the SK0-005 exam. CompTIA does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~8–14 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 31 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Questions 21–25

21foundation · easy
Which stage in the data lifecycle involves defining how data is stored, protected, and accessed?
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22foundation · easy
An organization must transmit sensitive financial reports between two branch offices over the internet. Which practice ensures the data remains confidential during transmission?
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23application · medium
A company is designing a data lifecycle management strategy. The goal is to minimize the risk of data breaches while ensuring that data is available when needed. Which practice should the administrator implement?
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24application · easy
A company is implementing a data lifecycle management program. The goal is to ensure that data is protected from creation to deletion, with appropriate controls at each stage. Which sequence of stages should the administrator define?
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25foundation · easy
A server administrator is configuring a new database server that will store customer payment information. Which security control directly protects the confidentiality of this data if the physical drives are stolen?
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