USMLE Step2 STEP2 Exam Questions in PDF

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Select the ONE best lettered option that is most closely associated with it. Each lettered option may be selected once, more than once, or not at all.

A 70-year-old female with headaches and fevers notices visual changes. Her erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is 125. Most likely she is the victim of

  1. rheumatoid arthritis
  2. SLE
  3. Wegener's granulomatosus
  4. polyarteritis nodosa
  5. Goodpasture syndrome
  6. fibromyalgia
  7. osteoarthritis (OA)
  8. giant cell arteritis
  9. sarcoidosis

Answer(s): H

Explanation:

Giant cell arteritis (aka temporal arteritis) occurs almost exclusively in patients over 55 years of age. The classic clinical findings are fever, anemia, high ESR, and headache. Other anifestations may include malaise, fatigue, anorexia, weight loss, sweat, and arthralgias. Headache may be associated with a tender, thickened, or nodular temporal artery. Diagnosis often is made clinically and can be confirmed by a temporal artery biopsy. Patients respond well to glucocorticoid therapy.



Select the ONE best lettered option that is most closely associated with the question below. A40-year- old male with purulent, bloody sinus drainage, hemoptysis, and rising creatinine

  1. rheumatoid arthritis
  2. SLE
  3. Wegener's granulomatosus
  4. polyarteritis nodosa
  5. Goodpasture syndrome
  6. fibromyalgia
  7. osteoarthritis (OA)
  8. giant cell arteritis
  9. sarcoidosis

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Wegener granulomatosis affects males and females equally, can occur at any age, and is extremely rare in African Americans. Patients typically present with severe upper respiratory tract symptoms. Nasal perforation and saddle nose deformity may occur. Pulmonary involvement (cough, hemoptysis, or dyspnea are common presenting symptoms/signs) is present in 8590% of patients, renal disease in 7080% of patients, eye involvement in 5055%, and skin lesions in 4050%. Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (C- ANCA) is positive in 90% of patients. ESR typically is high.



Select the ONE best lettered option that is most closely associated with the question below. A 32-year-old White female with anemia, arthralgia, alopecia, and RBC casts on urinalysis.

  1. rheumatoid arthritis
  2. SLE
  3. Wegener's granulomatosus
  4. polyarteritis nodosa
  5. Goodpasture syndrome
  6. fibromyalgia
  7. osteoarthritis (OA)
  8. giant cell arteritis
  9. sarcoidosis

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

SLE is characterized by tissue and cell damage from pathogenic autoantibodies and immune complexes.
Ninety percent of patients are women in childbearing years and the disease is more common in African Americans. Multiple organ system manifestations can occur, including musculoskeletal (arthralgias, myalgias), cutaneous (malar rash, photosensitivity, hair loss), renal (nephritis, nephritic syndrome), nervous (seizures, headaches), cardiopulmonary (pericarditis, pleuritis), hematologic (anemia, leukopenia)



Select the ONE best lettered option that is most closely associated with the question below. A 38-year-old African American female with shortness of breath and bilateral hilar adenopathy on CXR.

  1. rheumatoid arthritis
  2. SLE
  3. Wegener's granulomatosus
  4. polyarteritis nodosa
  5. Goodpasture syndrome
  6. fibromyalgia
  7. osteoarthritis (OA)
  8. giant cell arteritis
  9. sarcoidosis

Answer(s): I

Explanation:

Sarcoidosis is a relatively common disease. In the United States, most patients are African American (ratio ranges from 10:1 to 17:1). The disease is systemic, and the lung is almost always affected (primarily an ILD). Seventyfive to ninety percent of patients have enlarged intrathoracic lymph nodes, usually the hilar nodes



Select the ONE best lettered option that is most closely associated with the question below.

A 45-year-old female with pain and visible swelling in her metacarpal-phalangeal joints bilaterally. Her distal interphalangeal joints (DIPs) appear normal.

  1. rheumatoid arthritis
  2. SLE
  3. Wegener's granulomatosus
  4. polyarteritis nodosa
  5. Goodpasture syndrome
  6. fibromyalgia
  7. osteoarthritis (OA)
  8. giant cell arteritis
  9. sarcoidosis

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Rheumatoid arthritis affects approximately 0.8% of the population. Women are affected three times more often than men. Synovial inflammation causes tenderness, swelling, and limitation of motion. Most often the arthritis is symmetric and characteristically involves joints such as the wrist and the proximal interphalangeal and metacarpophalangeal joints.



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Community Helper
4/25/2026 2:03:10 AM

Q23: Fabric Admin is correct. Because Domain admin cannot create domains. Only Fabric Admin can among the given options. Q51: Wrapping @pipeline.parameter.param1 inside {} will return a string. But question requires the expression to return Int, so correct answer should be @pipeline.parameter.param1 (no {})

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AI Tutor Explanation
4/23/2026 3:07:03 PM

Question 62:

  • Correct answer: D (per the page)

  • Note: The explanation text on the page describes option B (use ZDX score and Analyze Score to trigger the Y Engine analysis), indicating a mismatch between the stated answer and the rationale.

  • Key concept: For fast root-cause analysis, leverage telemetry and auto-correlated insights:
- Use the user’s ZDX score for AWS and run Analyze Score to activate the Y Engine, which correlates metrics across network, client, and application to pinpoint the issue quickly.
  • Why the other options are less effective:
- A: Only checks for outages; doesn’t provide actionable root-cause analysis. - C: Deep Trace helps visibility but is manual and time-consuming. - D: Packet capture is invasive and slow; not the quickest path to root cause.

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AI Tutor Explanation
4/23/2026 12:26:21 PM

Question 32:

  • Answer: A (2.4GHz)

  • Why: Lower-frequency signals have longer wavelengths and experience less attenuation when passing through walls and obstacles. Higher frequencies (5GHz, 6GHz) are more easily blocked by walls. NFC operates over very short distances and is not meant to penetrate walls. So 2.4 GHz best penetrates physical objects like walls.

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AI Tutor Explanation
4/21/2026 8:48:36 AM

Question 3:

  • False is the correct answer (Option B).

Why:
  • In Snowflake, a database is a metadata object that exists within a single Snowflake account. Accounts are isolated—there isn’t one database that lives in multiple accounts.
  • You can access data across accounts via data sharing or database replication, but these create separate database objects in the other accounts (e.g., a database in the consumer account created from a share), not a single shared database across accounts.

So a single database cannot exist in more than one Snowflake account.

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Anonymous User
4/16/2026 10:54:18 AM

Question 1:

  • Correct answer: Edate = sys.argv[1]
  • Why this is correct:
- When a Databricks Job passes parameters to a notebook, those parameters are supplied to the notebook's Python process as command-line arguments. The first argument after the script name is sys.argv[1], so date = sys.argv[1] captures the passed date value directly.
  • How it compares to other options:
- date = spark.conf.get("date") reads from Spark config, not from job parameters. - input() waits for user input at runtime, which isn’t how job parameters are provided. - date = dbutils.notebooks.getParam("date") would work if the notebook were invoked via dbutils.notebook.run with parameters, not

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Anonymous User
4/15/2026 4:42:07 AM

Question 528:

  • Correct answer: NSG flow logs for NSG1 (Option B)

  • Why:
- Traffic Analytics uses NSG flow logs to analyze traffic patterns. You must have NSG flow logs enabled for the NSGs you want to monitor. - An Azure Log Analytics workspace is also required to store and query the traffic data. - Network Watcher must be available in the subscription for traffic analytics to function.
  • What to configure (brief steps):
- Ensure Network Watcher is enabled in the East US region (for the subscription/region). - Enable NSG flow logs on NSG1. - Ensure a Log Analytics workspace exists and is accessible (read/write) so Traffic Analytics can store and query logs.
  • Why other options aren’t correct:
- “Diagnostic settings for VM1” or “Diagnostic settings for NSG1” alone don’t guarantee flow logs are captured and sent to Log Analytics, which Traffic Analytics relies on. - “Insights for VM1” is not how Traffic Analytics collects traffic data.

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Anonymous User
4/15/2026 2:43:53 AM

Question 23:
The correct answer is Domain admin (option B), not Fabric admin.

  • Domain admin provides domain-level management: create domains/subdomains and assign workspaces within those domains, which matches the tasks while following least privilege.
  • Fabric admin is global-level access and is more privileges than needed for this scenario (it would grant broader control across the Fabric environment).

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Anonymous User
4/14/2026 12:31:34 PM

Question 2:
For question 2, the key concept is the Longest Prefix Match. Routers pick the route whose subnet mask is the most specific (largest prefix length) that still matches the destination IP.
From the options:

  • A) 10.10.10.0/28 ? 10.10.10.0–10.10.10.15
  • B) 10.10.13.0/25 ? 10.10.13.0–10.10.13.127
  • C) 10.10.13.144/28 ? 10.10.13.144–10.10.13.159
  • D) 10.10.13.208/29 ? 10.10.13.208–10.10.13.215

The destination Host A’s IP must fall within 10.10.13.208–10.10.13.215 for the /29 to be the best match. Since /29 is the longest prefix among the matching options, Router1 will use 10.10.13.208/29.
Thus, the correct answer is D.

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srameh
4/14/2026 10:09:29 AM

Question 3:

  • Correct answer: Phase 4, Post Accreditation

  • Explanation:
- In DITSCAP, the four phases are: - Phase 1: Definition (concept and requirements) - Phase 2: Verification (design and testing) - Phase 3: Validation (fielding and evaluation) - Phase 4: Post Accreditation (ongoing operations and lifecycle management) - The description—continuing operation of an accredited IT system and addressing changing threats throughout its life cycle—fits the Post Accreditation phase, which covers operations, maintenance, monitoring, and reauthorization as threats and environment evolve.

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onibokun10
4/13/2026 7:50:14 PM

Question 129:
Correct answer: CNAME

  • A CNAME record creates an alias for a domain, so newapplication.comptia.org will resolve to whatever IP address www.comptia.org resolves to. This ensures both names point to the same resource without duplicating the IP.
  • Why not the others:
- SOA defines authoritative information for a zone. - MX specifies mail exchange servers. - NS designates name servers for a zone.
  • Notes: The alias name (newapplication.comptia.org) should not have other records if you use a CNAME for it, and CNAMEs aren’t used for the zone apex (root) domain. This scenario uses a subdomain, so a CNAME is appropriate.

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Anonymous User
4/13/2026 6:29:58 PM

Question 1:

  • Correct answer: C

  • Why this is best:
- Uses OS Login with IAM, so SSH access is granted via Google accounts rather than distributing per-user SSH keys. - Granting the compute.osAdminLogin role to a Google group gives admin access to all team members in a centralized, auditable way. - Access is auditable: Cloud Audit Logs show who accessed which VM, satisfying the security requirement to determine who accessed a given instance.
  • How it works:
- Enable OS Login on the project/instances (enable-oslogin metadata). - Add the team’s

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Anonymous User
4/13/2026 1:00:51 PM

Question 2:

  • Answer: D. Azure Advisor

  • Why: To view security-related recommendations for resources in the Compute and Apps area (including App Service Web Apps and Functions), you use Azure Advisor. Advisor surfaces personalized best-practice recommendations across resources, including security, and shows which resources are affected and the severity.

  • Why not the others:
- Azure Log Analytics is for ad-hoc querying of telemetry, not for viewing security recommendations. - Azure Event Hubs is for streaming telemetry data, not for security recommendations.
  • Quick tip: In the portal, navigate to Azure Advisor and check the Security recommendations for App Services to see actionable items and affe

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