QUESTION 1
Which of the following countermeasure can specifically protect against both the MAC Flood and MAC
Spoofing attacks?
A. Configure Port Security on the switch
B. Configure Port Recon on the switch
C. Configure Switch Mapping
D. Configure Multiple Recognition on the switch
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 2
Jimmy, an attacker, knows that he can take advantage of poorly designed input validation routines to create
or alter SQL commands to gain access to private data or execute commands in the database. What
technique does Jimmy use to compromise a database?
A. Jimmy can submit user input that executes an operating system command to compromise a target
system
B. Jimmy can gain control of system to flood the target system with requests, preventing legitimate users
from gaining access
C. Jimmy can utilize an incorrect configuration that leads to access with higher-than expected privilege of
the database
D. Jimmy can utilize this particular database threat that is an SQL injection technique to penetrate a target
system
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 3
This IDS defeating technique works by splitting a datagram (or packet) into multiple fragments and the IDS
will not spot the true nature of the fully assembled datagram. The datagram is not reassembled until it
reaches its final destination. It would be a processor-intensive task for IDS to reassemble all fragments
itself, and on a busy system the packet will slip through the IDS onto the network. What is this technique
called?
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A. IP Routing or Packet Dropping
B. IDS Spoofing or Session Assembly
C. IP Fragmentation or Session Splicing
D. IP Splicing or Packet Reassembly
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 4
If a competitor wants to cause damage to your organization, steal critical secrets, or put you out of
business, they just have to find a job opening, prepare someone to pass the interview, have that person
hired, and they will be in the organization.
How would you prevent such type of attacks?
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A. It is impossible to block these attacks
B. Hire the people through third-party job agencies who will vet them for you
C. Conduct thorough background checks before you engage them
D. Investigate their social networking profiles
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 5
This type of Port Scanning technique splits TCP header into several packets so that the packet filters are
not able to detect what the packets intends to do.
A. UDP Scanning
B. IP Fragment Scanning
C. Inverse TCP flag scanning
D. ACK flag scanning
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 6
Joel and her team have been going through tons of garbage, recycled paper, and other rubbish in order to
find some information about the target they are attempting to penetrate. How would you call this type of
activity?
A. Dumpster Diving
B. Scanning
C. CI Gathering
D. Garbage Scooping
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 7
Anonymizer sites access the Internet on your behalf, protecting your personal information from disclosure.
An anonymizer protects all of your computer's identifying information while it surfs for
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you, enabling you to remain at least one step removed from the sites you visit.
You can visit Web sites without allowing anyone to gather information on sites visited by you. Services that
provide anonymity disable pop-up windows and cookies, and conceal visitor's IP address.
These services typically use a proxy server to process each HTTP request. When the user requests a Web
page by clicking a hyperlink or typing a URL into their browser, the service retrieves and displays the
information using its own server. The remote server (where the requested Web page resides) receives
information on the anonymous Web surfing service in place of your information.
In which situations would you want to use anonymizer? (Select 3 answers)
A. Increase your Web browsing bandwidth speed by using Anonymizer
B. To protect your privacy and Identity on the Internet
C. To bypass blocking applications that would prevent access to Web sites or parts of sites that you want
to visit.
D. Post negative entries in blogs without revealing your IP identity
Correct Answer: BCD
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QUESTION 8
What type of attack is shown in the following diagram?
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A. Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) Attack
B. Session Hijacking Attack
C. SSL Spoofing Attack
D. Identity Stealing Attack
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 9
Jack Hacker wants to break into Brown Co.'s computers and obtain their secret double fudge cookie recipe.
Jack calls Jane, an accountant at Brown Co., pretending to be an administrator from Brown Co. Jack tells
Jane that there has been a problem with some accounts and asks her to verify her password with him ''just
to double check our records.'' Jane does not suspect anything amiss, and parts with her password. Jack
can now access Brown Co.'s computers with a valid user name and password, to steal the cookie recipe.
What kind of attack is being illustrated here?
A. Reverse Psychology
B. Reverse Engineering
C. Social Engineering
D. Spoofing Identity
E. Faking Identity
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 10
How do you defend against ARP Spoofing? Select three.
A. Use ARPWALL system and block ARP spoofing attacks
B. Tune IDS Sensors to look for large amount of ARP traffic on local subnets
C. Use private VLANS
D. Place static ARP entries on servers, workstation and routers
Correct Answer: ACD
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ARPwall is used in protecting against ARP spoofing.
Incorrect answer:
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IDS option may works fine in case of monitoring the traffic from outside the network but not from internal
hosts.
QUESTION 11
TCP SYN Flood attack uses the three-way handshake mechanism.
1. An attacker at system A sends a SYN packet to victim at system B.
2. System B sends a SYN/ACK packet to victim A.
3. As a normal three-way handshake mechanism system A should send an ACK packet to system B,
however, system A does not send an ACK packet to system B. In this case client B is waiting for an ACK
packet from client A.
This status of client B is called _________________
A. "half-closed"
B. "half open"
C. "full-open"
D. "xmas-open"
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 12
Lori is a Certified Ethical Hacker as well as a Certified Hacking Forensics Investigator working as an IT
security consultant. Lori has been hired on by Kiley Innovators, a large marketing firm that recently
underwent a string of thefts and corporate espionage incidents. Lori is told that a rival marketing company
came out with an exact duplicate product right before Kiley Innovators was about to release it. The
executive team believes that an employee is leaking information to the rival company. Lori questions all
employees, reviews server logs, and firewall logs; after which she finds nothing. Lori is then given
permission to search through the corporate email system. She searches by email being sent to and sent
from the rival marketing company.
She finds one employee that appears to be sending very large email to this other marketing company, even
though they should have no reason to be communicating with them. Lori tracks
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down the actual emails sent and upon opening them, only finds picture files attached to them. These files
seem perfectly harmless, usually containing some kind of joke. Lori decides to use some special software
to further examine the pictures and finds that each one had hidden text that was stored in each picture.
What technique was used by the Kiley Innovators employee to send information to the rival marketing
company?
A. The Kiley Innovators employee used cryptography to hide the information in the emails sent
B. The method used by the employee to hide the information was logical watermarking
C. The employee used steganography to hide information in the picture attachments
D. By using the pictures to hide information, the employee utilized picture fuzzing
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 13
You run nmap port Scan on 10.0.0.5 and attempt to gain banner/server information from services running
on ports 21, 110 and 123.
Here is the output of your scan results:
Which of the following nmap command did you run?
A. nmap -A -sV -p21,110,123 10.0.0.5
B. nmap -F -sV -p21,110,123 10.0.0.5
C. nmap -O -sV -p21,110,123 10.0.0.5
D. nmap -T -sV -p21,110,123 10.0.0.5
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Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 14
How do you defend against Privilege Escalation?
A. Use encryption to protect sensitive data
B. Restrict the interactive logon privileges
C. Run services as unprivileged accounts
D. Allow security settings of IE to zero or Low
E. Run users and applications on the least privileges
Correct Answer: ABCE
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QUESTION 15
What does ICMP (type 11, code 0) denote?
A. Source Quench
B. Destination Unreachable
C. Time Exceeded
D. Unknown Type
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 16
You are the security administrator of Jaco Banking Systems located in Boston. You are setting up ebanking
website (http://www.ejacobank.com) authentication system. Instead of issuing banking customer
with a single password, you give them a printed list of 100 unique passwords. Each time the customer
needs to log into the e-banking system website, the customer enters the next password on the list. If
someone sees them type the password using shoulder surfing, MiTM or keyloggers, then no damage is
done because the password will not be accepted a second time. Once the list of 100 passwords is almost
finished, the system automatically sends out a new password list by encrypted e-mail to the customer.
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You are confident that this security implementation will protect the customer from password abuse.
Two months later, a group of hackers called "HackJihad" found a way to access the one-time password list
issued to customers of Jaco Banking Systems. The hackers set up a fake website (http://www.e-jacobank.
com) and used phishing attacks to direct ignorant customers to it. The fake website asked users for their ebanking
username and password, and the next unused entry from their one-time password sheet. The
hackers collected 200 customer's username/passwords this way. They transferred money from the
customer's bank account to various offshore accounts.
Your decision of password policy implementation has cost the bank with USD 925,000 to hackers. You
immediately shut down the e-banking website while figuring out the next best security solution
What effective security solution will you recommend in this case?
A. Implement Biometrics based password authentication system. Record the customers face image to the
authentication database
B. Configure your firewall to block logon attempts of more than three wrong tries
C. Enable a complex password policy of 20 characters and ask the user to change the password
immediately after they logon and do not store password histories
D. Implement RSA SecureID based authentication system
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 17
More sophisticated IDSs look for common shellcode signatures. But even these systems can be bypassed,
by using polymorphic shellcode. This is a technique common among virus writers ?it basically hides the true
nature of the shellcode in different disguises.
How does a polymorphic shellcode work?
A. They encrypt the shellcode by XORing values over the shellcode, using loader code to decrypt the
shellcode, and then executing the decrypted shellcode
B. They convert the shellcode into Unicode, using loader to convert back to machine code then executing
them
C. They reverse the working instructions into opposite order by masking the IDS signatures
D. They compress shellcode into normal instructions, uncompress the shellcode using loader code and
then executing the shellcode
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 18
SYN Flood is a DOS attack in which an attacker deliberately violates the three-way handshake and opens a
large number of half-open TCP connections. The signature of attack for SYN Flood contains:
A. The source and destination address having the same value
B. A large number of SYN packets appearing on a network without the corresponding reply packets
C. The source and destination port numbers having the same value
D. A large number of SYN packets appearing on a network with the corresponding reply packets
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 19
Which of the following type of scanning utilizes automated process of proactively identifying vulnerabilities
of the computing systems present on a network?
A. Port Scanning
B. Single Scanning
C. External Scanning
D. Vulnerability Scanning
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 20
The following script shows a simple SQL injection. The script builds an SQL query by concatenating hardcoded
strings together with a string entered by the user:
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The user is prompted to enter the name of a city on a Web form. If she enters Chicago, the query
assembled by the script looks similar to the following:
SELECT * FROM OrdersTable WHERE ShipCity = 'Chicago'
How will you delete the OrdersTable from the database using SQL Injection?
A. Chicago'; drop table OrdersTable --
B. Delete table'blah'; OrdersTable --
C. EXEC; SELECT * OrdersTable > DROP --
D. cmdshell'; 'del c:\sql\mydb\OrdersTable' //
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 21
What are the limitations of Vulnerability scanners? (Select 2 answers)
A. There are often better at detecting well-known vulnerabilities than more esoteric ones
B. The scanning speed of their scanners are extremely high
C. It is impossible for any, one scanning product to incorporate all known vulnerabilities in a timely manner
D. The more vulnerabilities detected, the more tests required
E. They are highly expensive and require per host scan license
Correct Answer: AC
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QUESTION 22
Stephanie works as senior security analyst for a manufacturing company in Detroit. Stephanie manages
network security throughout the organization. Her colleague Jason told her in confidence that he was able
to see confidential corporate information posted on the external website http://www.jeansclothesman.com.
He tries random URLs on the company's website and finds confidential information leaked over the web.
Jason says this happened about a month ago. Stephanie visits the said URLs, but she finds nothing. She is
very concerned about this, since someone should be held accountable if there was sensitive information
posted on the website.
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Where can Stephanie go to see past versions and pages of a website?
A. She should go to the web page Samspade.org to see web pages that might no longer be on the website
B. If Stephanie navigates to Search.com; she will see old versions of the company website
C. Stephanie can go to Archive.org to see past versions of the company website
D. AddressPast.com would have any web pages that are no longer hosted on the company's website
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 23
Dan is conducting penetration testing and has found a vulnerability in a Web Application which gave him the
sessionID token via a cross site scripting vulnerability. Dan wants to replay this token. However, the session
ID manager (on the server) checks the originating IP address as well. Dan decides to spoof his IP address
in order to replay the sessionID. Why do you think Dan might not be able to get an interactive session?
A. Dan cannot spoof his IP address over TCP network
B. The scenario is incorrect as Dan can spoof his IP and get responses
C. The server will send replies back to the spoofed IP address
D. Dan can establish an interactive session only if he uses a NAT
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 24
Jason works in the sales and marketing department for a very large advertising agency located in Atlanta.
Jason is working on a very important marketing campaign for his company's largest client. Before the
project could be completed and implemented, a competing advertising company comes out with the exact
same marketing materials and advertising, thus rendering all the work done for Jason's client unusable.
Jason is questioned about this and says he has no idea how all the material ended up in the hands of a
competitor.
Without any proof, Jason's company cannot do anything except move on. After working on another high
profile client for about a month, all the marketing and sales material again ends up in the hands of another
competitor and is released to the public before Jason's company can finish
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the project. Once again, Jason says that he had nothing to do with it and does not know how this could
have happened. Jason is given leave with pay until they can figure out what is going on.
Jason's supervisor decides to go through his email and finds a number of emails that were sent to the
competitors that ended up with the marketing material. The only items in the emails were attached jpg files,
but nothing else. Jason's supervisor opens the picture files, but cannot find anything out of the ordinary with
them.
What technique has Jason most likely used?
A. Stealth Rootkit Technique
B. ADS Streams Technique
C. Snow Hiding Technique
D. Image Steganography Technique
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 25
What type of Virus is shown here?
A. Cavity Virus
B. Macro Virus
C. Boot Sector Virus
D. Metamorphic Virus
E. Sparse Infector Virus
Correct Answer: E
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QUESTION 26
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An attacker finds a web page for a target organization that supplies contact information for the company.
Using available details to make the message seem authentic, the attacker drafts e-mail to an employee on
the contact page that appears to come from an individual who might reasonably request confidential
information, such as a network administrator.
The email asks the employee to log into a bogus page that requests the employee's user name and
password or click on a link that will download spyware or other malicious programming.
Google's Gmail was hacked using this technique and attackers stole source code and sensitive data from
Google servers. This is highly sophisticated attack using zero-day exploit vectors, social engineering and
malware websites that focused on targeted individuals working for the company.
What is this deadly attack called?
A. Spear phishing attack
B. Trojan server attack
C. Javelin attack
D. Social networking attack
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 27
Vulnerability scanners are automated tools that are used to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations of
hosts. They also provide information regarding mitigating discovered vulnerabilities.
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Which of the following statements is incorrect?
A. Vulnerability scanners attempt to identify vulnerabilities in the hosts scanned.
B. Vulnerability scanners can help identify out-of-date software versions, missing patches, or system
upgrades
C. They can validate compliance with or deviations from the organization's security policy
D. Vulnerability scanners can identify weakness and automatically fix and patch the vulnerabilities without
user intervention
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 28
How does traceroute map the route a packet travels from point A to point B?
A. Uses a TCP timestamp packet that will elicit a time exceeded in transit message
B. Manipulates the value of the time to live (TTL) within packet to elicit a time exceeded in transit message
C. Uses a protocol that will be rejected by gateways on its way to the destination
D. Manipulates the flags within packets to force gateways into generating error messages "Pass Any
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Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 29
How do you defend against DHCP Starvation attack?
A. Enable ARP-Block on the switch
B. Enable DHCP snooping on the switch
C. Configure DHCP-BLOCK to 1 on the switch
D. Install DHCP filters on the switch to block this attack
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 30
What type of session hijacking attack is shown in the exhibit?
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A. Cross-site scripting Attack
B. SQL Injection Attack
C. Token sniffing Attack
D. Session Fixation Attack
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 31
The SYN flood attack sends TCP connections requests faster than a machine can process them.
- Attacker creates a random source address for each packet
- SYN flag set in each packet is a request to open a new connection to the server from the spoofed IP
address
- Victim responds to spoofed IP address, then waits for confirmation that never arrives (timeout wait is
about 3 minutes)
- Victim's connection table fills up waiting for replies and ignores new connections
- Legitimate users are ignored and will not be able to access the server
How do you protect your network against SYN Flood attacks?
A. SYN cookies. Instead of allocating a record, send a SYN-ACK with a carefully constructed sequence
number generated as a hash of the clients IP address, port number, and other information. When the
client responds with a normal ACK, that special sequence number will be included, which the server
then verifies. Thus, the server first allocates memory on the third packet of the handshake, not the first.
B. RST cookies - The server sends a wrong SYN/ACK back to the client. The client should then generate a
RST packet telling the server that something is wrong. At this point, the server knows the client is valid
and will now accept incoming connections from that client normally "Pass Any Exam. Any Time." - www.
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C. Check the incoming packet's IP address with the SPAM database on the Internet and enable the filter
using ACLs at the Firewall
D. Stack Tweaking. TCP stacks can be tweaked in order to reduce the effect of SYN floods.
Reduce the timeout before a stack frees up the memory allocated for a connection
E. Micro Blocks. Instead of allocating a complete connection, simply allocate a micro record of 16- bytes
for the incoming SYN object
Correct Answer: ABDE
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QUESTION 32
What type of port scan is shown below?
A. Idle Scan
B. FIN Scan
C. XMAS Scan
D. Windows Scan
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 33
Stephanie works as a records clerk in a large office building in downtown Chicago. On Monday, she went to
a mandatory security awareness class (Security5) put on by her company's IT department. During the
class, the IT department informed all employees that everyone's Internet activity was thenceforth going to
be monitored.
Stephanie is worried that her Internet activity might give her supervisor reason to write her up, or
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worse get her fired. Stephanie's daily work duties only consume about four hours of her time, so she usually
spends the rest of the day surfing the web. Stephanie really enjoys surfing the Internet but definitely does
not want to get fired for it.
What should Stephanie use so that she does not get in trouble for surfing the Internet?
A. Stealth IE
B. Stealth Anonymizer
C. Stealth Firefox
D. Cookie Disabler
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 34
Neil is a network administrator working in Istanbul. Neil wants to setup a protocol analyzer on his network
that will receive a copy of every packet that passes through the main office switch. What type of port will
Neil need to setup in order to accomplish this?
A. Neil will have to configure a Bridged port that will copy all packets to the protocol analyzer.
B. Neil will need to setup SPAN port that will copy all network traffic to the protocol analyzer.
C. He will have to setup an Ether channel port to get a copy of all network traffic to the analyzer.
D. He should setup a MODS port which will copy all network traffic.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 35
In TCP communications there are 8 flags; FIN, SYN, RST, PSH, ACK, URG, ECE, CWR. These flags have
decimal numbers assigned to them:
FIN = 1
SYN = 2
RST = 4
PSH = 8
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ACK = 16
URG = 32
ECE = 64
CWR = 128
Jason is the security administrator of ASPEN Communications. He analyzes some traffic using Wireshark
and has enabled the following filters.
What is Jason trying to accomplish here?
A. SYN, FIN, URG and PSH
B. SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK
C. RST, PSH/URG, FIN
D. ACK, ACK, SYN, URG
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 36
Jayden is a network administrator for her company. Jayden wants to prevent MAC spoofing on all the Cisco
switches in the network. How can she accomplish this?
A. Jayden can use the commanD. ip binding set.
B. Jayden can use the commanD. no ip spoofing.
C. She should use the commanD. no dhcp spoofing.
D. She can use the commanD. ip dhcp snooping binding.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 37
Peter extracts the SID list from Windows 2008 Server machine using the hacking tool "SIDExtracter". Here
is the output of the SIDs:
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From the above list identify the user account with System Administrator privileges?
A. John
B. Rebecca
C. Sheela
D. Shawn
E. Somia
F. Chang
G. Micah
Correct Answer: F
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QUESTION 38
What is the problem with this ASP script (login.asp)?
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A. The ASP script is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting attack
B. The ASP script is vulnerable to Session Splice attack
C. The ASP script is vulnerable to XSS attack
D. The ASP script is vulnerable to SQL Injection attack
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 39
Google uses a unique cookie for each browser used by an individual user on a computer. This cookie
contains information that allows Google to identify records about that user on its database. This cookie is
submitted every time a user launches a Google search, visits a site using AdSense etc. The information
stored in Google's database, identified by the cookie, includes
- Everything you search for using Google
- Every web page you visit that has Google Adsense ads
How would you prevent Google from storing your search keywords?
A. Block Google Cookie by applying Privacy and Security settings in your web browser "Pass Any Exam.
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B. Disable the Google cookie using Google Advanced Search settings on Google Search page
C. Do not use Google but use another search engine Bing which will not collect and store your search
keywords
D. Use MAC OS X instead of Windows 7. Mac OS has higher level of privacy controls by default.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 40
How many bits encryption does SHA-1 use?
A. 64 bits
B. 128 bits
C. 256 bits
D. 160 bits
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 41
In Trojan terminology, what is required to create the executable file chess.exe as shown below?
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A. Mixer
B. Converter
C. Wrapper
D. Zipper
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 42
Syslog is a standard for logging program messages. It allows separation of the software that generates
messages from the system that stores them and the software that reports and analyzes them. It also
provides devices, which would otherwise be unable to communicate a means to
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notify administrators of problems or performance.
What default port Syslog daemon listens on?
A. 242
B. 312
C. 416
D. 514
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 43
This attack uses social engineering techniques to trick users into accessing a fake Web site and divulging
personal information. Attackers send a legitimate-looking e-mail asking users to update their information on
the company's Web site, but the URLs in the e-mail actually point to a false Web site.
A. Wiresharp attack
B. Switch and bait attack
C. Phishing attack
D. Man-in-the-Middle attack
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 44
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Which of the following statements would NOT be a proper definition for a Trojan Horse?
A. An authorized program that has been designed to capture keyboard keystroke while the user is unaware
of such activity being performed
B. An unauthorized program contained within a legitimate program. This unauthorized program performs
functions unknown (and probably unwanted) by the user
C. A legitimate program that has been altered by the placement of unauthorized code within it; this code
performs functions unknown (and probably unwanted) by the user
D. Any program that appears to perform a desirable and necessary function but that (because of
unauthorized code within it that is unknown to the user) performs functions unknown (and definitely
unwanted) by the user
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 45
What is the correct command to run Netcat on a server using port 56 that spawns command shell when
connected?
A. nc -port 56 -s cmd.exe
B. nc -p 56 -p -e shell.exe
C. nc -r 56 -c cmd.exe
D. nc -L 56 -t -e cmd.exe
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 46
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SNMP is a connectionless protocol that uses UDP instead of TCP packets (True or False)
A. true
B. false
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 47
TCP/IP Session Hijacking is carried out in which OSI layer?
A. Datalink layer
B. Transport layer
C. Network layer
D. Physical layer
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 48
In which part of OSI layer, ARP Poisoning occurs?
A. Transport Layer
B. Datalink Layer
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C. Physical Layer
D. Application layer
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 49
You want to hide a secret.txt document inside c:\windows\system32\tcpip.dll kernel library using ADS
streams. How will you accomplish this?
A. copy secret.txt c:\windows\system32\tcpip.dll kernel>secret.txt
B. copy secret.txt c:\windows\system32\tcpip.dll:secret.txt
C. copy secret.txt c:\windows\system32\tcpip.dll |secret.txt
D. copy secret.txt >
c:\winnt\system32\calc.exe:anyfile.exe
A. HFS
B. Backdoor access
C. XFS
D. ADS
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 61
You are the Security Administrator of Xtrinity, Inc. You write security policies and conduct assessments to
protect the company's network. During one of your periodic checks to see how well policy is being observed
by the employees, you discover an employee has attached cell phone 3G modem to his telephone line and
workstation. He has used this cell phone 3G modem to dial in to his workstation, thereby bypassing your
firewall. A security breach has occurred as a direct result of this activity. The employee explains that he
used the modem because he had to download software for a department project. How would you resolve
this situation?
A. Reconfigure the firewall
B. Enforce the corporate security policy
C. Install a network-based IDS
D. Conduct a needs analysis
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 62
In what stage of Virus life does a stealth virus gets activated with the user performing certain actions such
as running an infected program?
A. Design
B. Elimination
C. Incorporation
D. Replication
E. Launch
F. Detection
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Correct Answer: E
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QUESTION 63
What is a sniffing performed on a switched network called?
A. Spoofed sniffing
B. Passive sniffing
C. Direct sniffing
D. Active sniffing
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 64
A rootkit is a collection of tools (programs) that enable administrator-level access to a computer. This
program hides itself deep into an operating system for malicious activity and is extremely difficult to detect.
The malicious software operates in a stealth fashion by hiding its files, processes and registry keys and
may be used to create a hidden directory or folder designed to keep out of view from a user's operating
system and security software.
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What privilege level does a rootkit require to infect successfully on a Victim's machine?
A. User level privileges
B. Ring 3 Privileges
C. System level privileges
D. Kernel level privileges
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 65
Which Steganography technique uses Whitespace to hide secret messages?
A. snow
B. beetle
C. magnet
D. cat
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 66
Cyber Criminals have long employed the tactic of masking their true identity. In IP spoofing, an attacker
gains unauthorized access to a computer or a network by making it appear that a malicious message has
come from a trusted machine, by "spoofing" the IP address of that machine.
How would you detect IP spoofing?
A. Check the IPID of the spoofed packet and compare it with TLC checksum. If the numbers match then it
is spoofed packet
B. Probe a SYN Scan on the claimed host and look for a response SYN/FIN packet, if the connection
completes then it is a spoofed packet
C. Turn on 'Enable Spoofed IP Detection' in Wireshark, you will see a flag tick if the packet is spoofed
D. Sending a packet to the claimed host will result in a reply. If the TTL in the reply is not the same as the
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Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 67
David is a security administrator working in Boston. David has been asked by the office's manager to block
all POP3 traffic at the firewall because he believes employees are spending too much time reading
personal email. How can David block POP3 at the firewall?
A. David can block port 125 at the firewall.
B. David can block all EHLO requests that originate from inside the office.
C. David can stop POP3 traffic by blocking all HELO requests that originate from inside the office.
D. David can block port 110 to block all POP3 traffic.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 68
You want to capture Facebook website traffic in Wireshark. What display filter should you use that shows all
TCP packets that contain the word 'facebook'?
A. display==facebook
B. traffic.content==facebook
C. tcp contains facebook
D. list.display.facebook
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 69
XSS attacks occur on Web pages that do not perform appropriate bounds checking on data entered by
users. Characters like
that mark the beginning/end of a tag should be converted into HTML entities.
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What is the correct code when converted to html entities?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 70
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Most cases of insider abuse can be traced to individuals who are introverted, incapable of dealing with
stress or conflict, and frustrated with their job, office politics, and lack of respect or promotion. Disgruntled
employees may pass company secrets and intellectual property to competitors for monitory benefits.
Here are some of the symptoms of a disgruntled employee:
A. Frequently leaves work early, arrive late or call in sick
B. Spends time surfing the Internet or on the phone
C. Responds in a confrontational, angry, or overly aggressive way to simple requests or comments
D. Always negative; finds fault with everything
These disgruntled employees are the biggest threat to enterprise security. How do you deal with these
threats? (Select 2 answers)
E. Limit access to the applications they can run on their desktop computers and enforce strict work hour
rules
F. By implementing Virtualization technology from the desktop to the data centre, organizations can isolate
different environments with varying levels of access and security to various employees
G. Organizations must ensure that their corporate data is centrally managed and delivered to users just
and when needed
H. Limit Internet access, e-mail communications, access to social networking sites and job hunting portals
Correct Answer: BC
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QUESTION 71
Fake Anti-Virus, is one of the most frequently encountered and persistent threats on the web. This malware
uses social engineering to lure users into infected websites with a technique called Search Engine
Optimization.
Once the Fake AV is downloaded into the user's computer, the software will scare them into believing their
system is infected with threats that do not really exist, and then push users to purchase services to clean up
the non-existent threats.
The Fake AntiVirus will continue to send these annoying and intrusive alerts until a payment is made.
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What is the risk of installing Fake AntiVirus?
A. Victim's Operating System versions, services running and applications installed will be published on
Blogs and Forums
B. Victim's personally identifiable information such as billing address and credit card details, may be
extracted and exploited by the attacker
C. Once infected, the computer will be unable to boot and the Trojan will attempt to format the hard disk
D. Denial of Service attack will be launched against the infected computer crashing other machines on the
connected network
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 72
How would you describe an attack where an attacker attempts to deliver the payload over multiple packets
over long periods of time with the purpose of defeating simple pattern matching in IDS systems without
session reconstruction? A characteristic of this attack would be a continuous stream of small packets.
A. Session Hijacking
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B. Session Stealing
C. Session Splicing
D. Session Fragmentation
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 73
Jake works as a system administrator at Acme Corp. Jason, an accountant of the firm befriends him at the
canteen and tags along with him on the pretext of appraising him about potential tax benefits. Jason waits
for Jake to swipe his access card and follows him through the open door into the secure systems area. How
would you describe Jason's behavior within a security context?
A. Smooth Talking
B. Swipe Gating
C. Tailgating
D. Trailing
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 74
While performing a ping sweep of a local subnet you receive an ICMP reply of Code 3/Type 13 for all the
pings you have sent out. What is the most likely cause of this?
A. The firewall is dropping the packets
B. An in-line IDS is dropping the packets
C. A router is blocking ICMP
D. The host does not respond to ICMP packets
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 75
Consider the following code:
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URL:http://www.certified.com/search.pl?
text=
If an attacker can trick a victim user to click a link like this, and the Web application does not validate input,
then the victim's browser will pop up an alert showing the users current set of cookies. An attacker can do
much more damage, including stealing passwords, resetting your home page, or redirecting the user to
another Web site.
What is the countermeasure against XSS scripting?
A. Create an IP access list and restrict connections based on port number
B. Replace "
" characters with "& l t;" and "& g t;" using server scripts
C. Disable Javascript in IE and Firefox browsers
D. Connect to the server using HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 76
Samuel is the network administrator of DataX Communications, Inc. He is trying to configure his firewall to
block password brute force attempts on his network. He enables blocking the intruder's IP address for a
period of 24 hours' time after more than three unsuccessful attempts. He is confident that this rule will
secure his network from hackers on the Internet.
But he still receives hundreds of thousands brute-force attempts generated from various IP addresses
around the world. After some investigation he realizes that the intruders are using a proxy somewhere else
on the Internet which has been scripted to enable the random usage of various proxies on each request so
as not to get caught by the firewall rule.
Later he adds another rule to his firewall and enables small sleep on the password attempt so that if the
password is incorrect, it would take 45 seconds to return to the user to begin another attempt. Since an
intruder may use multiple machines to brute force the password, he also throttles the number of
connections that will be prepared to accept from a particular IP address.
This action will slow the intruder's attempts.
Samuel wants to completely block hackers brute force attempts on his network.
What are the alternatives to defending against possible brute-force password attacks on his site?
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A. Enforce a password policy and use account lockouts after three wrong logon attempts even though this
might lock out legit users
B. Enable the IDS to monitor the intrusion attempts and alert you by e-mail about the IP address of the
intruder so that you can block them at the
Firewall manually
C. Enforce complex password policy on your network so that passwords are more difficult to brute force
D. You cannot completely block the intruders attempt if they constantly switch proxies
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 77
What type of Trojan is this?
A. RAT Trojan
B. E-Mail Trojan
C. Defacement Trojan
D. Destructing Trojan
E. Denial of Service Trojan
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 78
Maintaining a secure Web server requires constant effort, resources, and vigilance from an organization.
Securely administering a Web server on a daily basis is an essential aspect of Web server security.
Maintaining the security of a Web server will usually involve the following steps:
1. Configuring, protecting, and analyzing log files
2. Backing up critical information frequently
3. Maintaining a protected authoritative copy of the organization's Web content
4. Establishing and following procedures for recovering from compromise
5. Testing and applying patches in a timely manner
6. Testing security periodically.
In which step would you engage a forensic investigator?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
F. 6
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 79
In Buffer Overflow exploit, which of the following registers gets overwritten with return address of the exploit
code?
A. EEP
B. ESP
C. EAP
D. EIP
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Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 80
Web servers often contain directories that do not need to be indexed. You create a text file with search
engine indexing restrictions and place it on the root directory of the Web Server.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /banners/
Disallow: /Forms/
Disallow: /Dictionary/
Disallow: /_borders/
Disallow: /_fpclass/
Disallow: /_overlay/
Disallow: /_private/
Disallow: /_themes/
What is the name of this file?
A. robots.txt
B. search.txt
C. blocklist.txt
D. spf.txt
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 81
An attacker has successfully compromised a remote computer. Which of the following comes as one of the
last steps that should be taken to ensure that the compromise cannot be traced back to
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the source of the problem?
A. Install patches
B. Setup a backdoor
C. Install a zombie for DDOS
D. Cover your tracks
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 82
Attackers target HINFO record types stored on a DNS server to enumerate information. These are
information records and potential source for reconnaissance. A network administrator has the option of
entering host information specifically the CPU type and operating system when creating a new DNS record.
An attacker can extract this type of information easily from a DNS server.
Which of the following commands extracts the HINFO record?
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A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 83
Bret is a web application administrator and has just read that there are a number of surprisingly common
web application vulnerabilities that can be exploited by unsophisticated attackers with easily available tools
on the Internet. He has also read that when an organization deploys a web application, they invite the world
to send HTTP requests. Attacks buried in these requests sail past firewalls, filters, platform hardening, SSL,
and IDS without notice because they are inside legal HTTP requests. Bret is determined to weed out
vulnerabilities.
What are some of the common vulnerabilities in web applications that he should be concerned about?
A. Non-validated parameters, broken access control, broken account and session management, cross-site
scripting and buffer overflows are just a few common vulnerabilities
B. Visible clear text passwords, anonymous user account set as default, missing latest security patch, no
firewall filters set and no SSL configured are just a few common vulnerabilities
C. No SSL configured, anonymous user account set as default, missing latest security patch, no firewall
filters set and an inattentive system administrator are just a few common vulnerabilities
D. No IDS configured, anonymous user account set as default, missing latest security patch, no firewall
filters set and visible clear text passwords are just a few common vulnerabilities
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 84
What is War Dialing?
A. War dialing involves the use of a program in conjunction with a modem to penetrate the modem/PBXbased
systems
B. War dialing is a vulnerability scanning technique that penetrates Firewalls
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D. Involves IDS Scanning Fragments to bypass Internet filters and stateful Firewalls
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 85
Steven the hacker realizes the network administrator of Acme Corporation is using syskey in Windows
2008 Server to protect his resources in the organization. Syskey independently encrypts the hashes so that
physical access to the server, tapes, or ERDs is only first step to cracking the passwords. Steven must
break through the encryption used by syskey before he can attempt to use brute force dictionary attacks on
the hashes. Steven runs a program called "SysCracker" targeting the Windows 2008 Server machine in
attempting to crack the hash used by Syskey. He needs to configure the encryption level before he can
launch the attack. How many bits does Syskey use for encryption?
A. 40-bit encryption
B. 128-bit encryption
C. 256-bit encryption
D. 64-bit encryption
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 86
Bob waits near a secured door, holding a box. He waits until an employee walks up to the secured door and
uses the special card in order to access the restricted area of the target company. Just as the employee
opens the door, Bob walks up to the employee (still holding the box) and asks the employee to hold the
door open so that he can enter. What is the best way to undermine the social engineering activity of
tailgating?
A. Issue special cards to access secure doors at the company and provide a one-time only brief
description of use of the special card
B. Educate and enforce physical security policies of the company to all the employees on a regular basis
C. Setup a mock video camera next to the special card reader adjacent to the secure door
D. Post a sign that states, "no tailgating" next to the special card reader adjacent to the secure door
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 87
Ursula is a college student at a University in Amsterdam. Ursula originally went to college to study
engineering but later changed to marine biology after spending a month at sea with her friends. These
friends frequently go out to sea to follow and harass fishing fleets that illegally fish in foreign waters. Ursula
eventually wants to put companies practicing illegal fishing out of business. Ursula decides to hack into the
parent company's computers and destroy critical data knowing fully well that, if caught, she probably would
be sent to jail for a very long time. What would Ursula be considered?
A. Ursula would be considered a gray hat since she is performing an act against illegal activities.
B. She would be considered a suicide hacker.
C. She would be called a cracker.
D. Ursula would be considered a black hat.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 88
Attacking well-known system defaults is one of the most common hacker attacks. Most software is shipped
with a default configuration that makes it easy to install and setup the application. You should change the
default settings to secure the system.
Which of the following is NOT an example of default installation?
A. Many systems come with default user accounts with well-known passwords that administrators forget to
change
B. Often, the default location of installation files can be exploited which allows a hacker to retrieve a file
from the system
C. Many software packages come with "samples" that can be exploited, such as the sample programs on
IIS web services
D. Enabling firewall and anti-virus software on the local system
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 89
This tool is widely used for ARP Poisoning attack. Name the tool.
A. Cain and Able
B. Beat Infector
C. Poison Ivy
D. Webarp Infector
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 90
BankerFox is a Trojan that is designed to steal users' banking data related to certain banking entities.
When they access any website of the affected banks through the vulnerable Firefox 3.5 browser, the Trojan
is activated and logs the information entered by the user. All the information entered in that website will be
logged by the Trojan and transmitted to the attacker's machine using covert channel.
BankerFox does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in
order to reach the affected computer.
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What is the most efficient way an attacker located in remote location to infect this banking Trojan on a
victim's machine?
A. Physical access - the attacker can simply copy a Trojan horse to a victim's hard disk infecting the
machine via Firefox add-on extensions
B. Custom packaging - the attacker can create a custom Trojan horse that mimics the appearance of a
program that is unique to that particular computer
C. Custom packaging - the attacker can create a custom Trojan horse that mimics the appearance of a
program that is unique to that particular computer
D. Custom packaging - the attacker can create a custom Trojan horse that mimics the appearance of a
program that is unique to that particular computer
E. Downloading software from a website? An attacker can offer free software, such as shareware
programs and pirated mp3 files
Correct Answer: E
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QUESTION 91
In the context of password security: a simple dictionary attack involves loading a dictionary file (a text file full
of dictionary words) into a cracking application such as L0phtCrack or John the Ripper, and running it
against user accounts located by the application. The larger the word and word fragment selection, the
more effective the dictionary attack is. The brute force method is the most inclusive - though slow. Usually,
it tries every possible letter and number combination in its automated exploration. If you would use both
brute force and dictionary combined together to have variations of words, what would you call such an
attack?
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A. Full Blown Attack
B. Thorough Attack
C. Hybrid Attack
D. BruteDict Attack
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 92
You receive an e-mail with the following text message.
"Microsoft and HP today warned all customers that a new, highly dangerous virus has been discovered
which will erase all your files at midnight. If there's a file called hidserv.exe on your computer, you have
been infected and your computer is now running a hidden server that allows hackers to access your
computer. Delete the file immediately. Please also pass this message to all your friends and colleagues as
soon as possible."
You launch your antivirus software and scan the suspicious looking file hidserv.exe located in
c:\windows directory and the AV comes out clean meaning the file is not infected. You view the file
signature and confirm that it is a legitimate Windows system file "Human Interface Device Service".
What category of virus is this?
A. Virus hoax
B. Spooky Virus
C. Stealth Virus
D. Polymorphic Virus
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 93
Choose one of the following pseudo codes to describe this statement:
"If we have written 200 characters to the buffer variable, the stack should stop because it cannot hold any
more data."
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A. If (I > 200) then exit (1)
B. If (I
= 200) then exit (1)
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 94
One of the effective DoS/DDoS countermeasures is 'Throttling'. Which statement correctly defines this
term?
A. Set up routers that access a server with logic to adjust incoming traffic to levels that will be safe for the
server to process
B. Providers can increase the bandwidth on critical connections to prevent them from going down in the
event of an attack
C. Replicating servers that can provide additional failsafe protection
D. Load balance each server in a multiple-server architecture
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 95
Attackers footprint target Websites using Google Hacking techniques. Google hacking is a term that refers
to the art of creating complex search engine queries. It detects websites that are vulnerable to numerous
exploits and vulnerabilities. Google operators are used to locate specific strings of text within the search
results.
The configuration file contains both a username and a password for an SQL database. Most sites with
forums run a PHP message base. This file gives you the keys to that forum, including FULL ADMIN access
to the database. WordPress uses config.php that stores the database Username and Password.
Which of the below Google search string brings up sites with "config.php" files?
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A. Search:index config/php
B. Wordpress:index config.php
C. intitle:index.of config.php
D. Config.php:index list
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 96
Which of the following tool would be considered as Signature Integrity Verifier (SIV)?
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A. Nmap
B. SNORT
C. VirusSCAN
D. Tripwire
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 97
Bob has set up three web servers on Windows Server 2008 IIS 7.0. Bob has followed all the
recommendations for securing the operating system and IIS. These servers are going to run numerous ecommerce
websites that are projected to bring in thousands of dollars a day. Bob is still concerned about
the security of these servers because of the potential for financial loss. Bob has asked his company's
firewall administrator to set the firewall to inspect all incoming traffic on ports 80 and 443 to ensure that no
malicious data is getting into the network.
Why will this not be possible?
A. Firewalls cannot inspect traffic coming through port 443
B. Firewalls can only inspect outbound traffic
C. Firewalls cannot inspect traffic at all, they can only block or allow certain ports
D. Firewalls cannot inspect traffic coming through port 80
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 98
Which of the following statement correctly defines ICMP Flood Attack? (Select 2 answers)
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A. Bogus ECHO reply packets are flooded on the network spoofing the IP and MAC address
B. The ICMP packets signal the victim system to reply and the combination of traffic saturates the
bandwidth of the victim's network
C. ECHO packets are flooded on the network saturating the bandwidth of the subnet causing denial of
service
D. A DDoS ICMP flood attack occurs when the zombies send large volumes of ICMP_ECHO_REPLY
packets to the victim system.
Correct Answer: BD
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QUESTION 99
Which type of scan does NOT open a full TCP connection?
A. Stealth Scan
B. XMAS Scan
C. Null Scan
D. FIN Scan
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Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 100
Lori was performing an audit of her company's internal Sharepoint pages when she came across the
following codE. What is the purpose of this code?
A. This JavaScript code will use a Web Bug to send information back to another server.
B. This code snippet will send a message to a server at 192.154.124.55 whenever the "escape"