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QUESTION 1
What is the essential difference between an 'Ethical Hacker' and a 'Cracker'?
A. The ethical hacker does not use the same techniques or skills as a cracker.
B. The ethical hacker does it strictly for financial motives unlike a c - Answer: C
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QUESTION 2
What does the term "Ethical Hacking" mean?
A. Someone who is hacking for ethical reasons.
B. Someone who is using his/her skills for ethical reasons.
C. Someone who is using his/her skills for defensive purposes.< - Answer: C
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QUESTION 3
Who is an Ethical Hacker?
A. A person who hacks for ethical reasons
B. A person who hacks for an ethical cause
C. A person who hacks for defensive purposes
D. A person who hacks for offensive purposes -
Answer: C
He is a security professional who applies his hacking skills for defensive purposes. -
QUESTION 4
What is "Hacktivism"?
A. Hacking for a cause
B. Hacking ruthlessly
C. An association which groups activists
D. None of the above - Answer: A
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QUESTION 5
Where should a security tester be looking for information that could be used by an attacker against an
organization? (Select all that apply)
A. CHAT rooms
B. WHOIS database
C. News groups
D. Web sites
E. Sear - Answer: A, B, C, D, E, F
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QUESTION 6
What are the two basic types of attacks?(Choose two.
A. DoS
B. Passive
C. Sniffing
D. Active
E. Cracking -
Answer: B, D
Explanation: Passive and active attacks are the two basic types of attacks. -
QUESTION 7
You are footprinting Acme.com to gather competitive intelligence. You visit the acme.com websire for
contact information and telephone number numbers but do not find it listed there. You know that they
had the entire staff direc - Answer: B
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QUESTION 8
User which Federal Statutes does FBI investigate for computer crimes involving e-mail scams and mail
fraud?
A. 18 U.S.C 1029 Possession of Access Devices
B. 18 U.S.C 1030 Fraud and related activity in connection with comput - Answer: B
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QUESTION 9
Which of the following activities will NOT be considered as passive footprinting?
A. Go through the rubbish to find out any information that might have been discarded.
B. Search on financial site such as Yahoo Financial to ident - Answer: C
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QUESTION 10
Which one of the following is defined as the process of distributing incorrect Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses/names with the intent of diverting traffic?
A. Network aliasing
B. Domain Name Server (DNS) poisoning
C. -
Answer: B
This reference is close to the one listed DNS poisoning is the correct answer.
This is how DNS DOS attack can occur. If the actual DNS records are unattainable to the attacker for him to
alter in this fashion, which they should be, the attacker can insert this data into the cache of there server instead
of replacing the actual records, which is referred to as cache poisoning -
QUESTION 11
You are footprinting an organization to gather competitive intelligence. You visit the company's website
for contact information and telephone numbers but do not find it listed there. You know that they had
the entire staff dir -
Answer: B
Explanation: Archive.org mirrors websites and categorizes them by date and month depending on the crawl
time. Archive.org dates back to 1996, Google is incorrect because the cache is only as recent as the latest crawl,
the cache is over-written on each subsequent crawl. Download the website is incorrect because that's the same
as what you see online. Visiting customer partners websites is just bogus. The answer is then Firmly, C,
archive.org -
QUESTION 12
A Pass security System Administrator is reviewing the network system log files. He notes the
following:
- Network log files are at 5 MB at 12:00 noon.
- At 14:00 hours, the log files at 3 MB.
What should he assume has -
Answer: B
You should never assume a host has been compromised without verification. Typically, disconnecting a server
is an extreme measure and should only be done when it is confirmed there is a compromise or the server
contains such sensitive data that the loss of service outweighs the risk. Never assume that any administrator or
automatic process is making changes to a system. Always investigate the root cause of the change on the system
and follow your organizations security policy. -
QUESTION 13
To what does "message repudiation" refer to what concept in the realm of email security?
A. Message repudiation means a user can validate which mail server or servers a message was passed
through.
B. Message repu -
Answer: E
A quality that prevents a third party from being able to prove that a communication between two other parties
ever took place. This is a desirable quality if you do not want your communications to be traceable.
Non-repudiation is the opposite quality-a third party can prove that a communication between two other
parties took place. Non-repudiation is desirable if you want to be able to trace your communications and prove
that they occurred. Repudiation - Denial of message submission or delivery. -
QUESTION 14
How does Traceroute map the route that a packet travels from point A to point B?
A. It uses a TCP Timestamp packet that will elicit a time exceed in transit message.
B. It uses a protocol that will be rejected at the gateways o -
D. It manipulated flags within packets to force gateways into generating error messages.
Answer: C -
QUESTION 15
Snort has been used to capture packets on the network. On studying the packets, the penetration tester
finds it to be abnormal. If you were the penetration tester, why would you find this abnormal?
(Note: The student is being t - Answer: B
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QUESTION 16
Your Pass trainee Sandra asks you which are the four existing Regional Internet Registry (RIR's)?
A. APNIC, PICNIC, ARIN, LACNIC
B. RIPE NCC, LACNIC, ARIN, APNIC
C. RIPE NCC, NANIC, ARIN, APNIC
D. RIPE NCC, ARIN, APNI -
Answer: B
All other answers include non existing organizations (PICNIC, NANIC, LATNIC). See
http://www.arin.net/library/internet_info/ripe.html -
QUESTION 17
A very useful resource for passively gathering information about a target company is:
A. Host scanning
B. Whois search
C. Traceroute
D. Ping sweep -
Answer: B
Note" A, C & D are "Active" scans, the question says: "Passively" -
QUESTION 18
You receive an email with the following message:
Hello Steve,
We are having technical difficulty in restoring user database record after the recent blackout. Your account data
is corrupted. Please logon to the SuperEmailSe - Answer: A
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Which of the following tools are used for footprinting?(Choose four.
A. Sam Spade
B. NSLookup
C. Traceroute
D. Neotrace
E. Cheops -
Answer: A, B, C, D
Explanation: All of the tools listed are used for footprinting except Cheops. -
QUESTION 20
According to the CEH methodology, what is the next step to be performed after footprinting?
A. Enumeration
B. Scanning
C. System Hacking
D. Social Engineering
E. Expanding Influence -
Answer: B
Explanation: Once footprinting has been completed, scanning should be attempted next. Scanning should take
place on two distinct levels: network and host. -
QUESTION 21
NSLookup is a good tool to use to gain additional information about a target network. What does the
following command accomplish?
nslookup
> server <ipaddress>
> set type =any
> ls -d <target.co -
Answer: D
Explanation: If DNS has not been properly secured, the command sequence displayed above will perform a
zone transfer. -
QUESTION 22
While footprinting a network, what port/service should you look for to attempt a zone transfer?
A. 53 UDP
B. 53 TCP
C. 25 UDP
D. 25 TCP
E. 161 UDP
F. 22 TCP
G. 60 TCP -
Answer: B
Explanation: IF TCP port 53 is detected, the opportunity to attempt a zone transfer is there. -
QUESTION 23
Your lab partner is trying to find out more information about a competitors web site. The site has a .com
extension. She has decided to use some online whois tools and look in one of the regional Internet
registrys. Which one w - Answer: A, B, C, D
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QUESTION 25
Exhibit
Joe Hacker runs the hping2 hacking tool to predict the target host's sequence numbers in one of the
hacking session.
What does the first and second column mean? Select two. -
A. The first column reports the sequence number
B. The second column reports the difference between the current and last sequence number
C. The second column reports the next sequence number
D. The first column reports the difference between current and last sequence number
Answer: A, B -
QUESTION 26
While performing a ping sweep of a subnet you receive an ICMP reply of Code 3/Type 13 for all the pings
sent out.
What is the most likely cause behind this response?
A. The firewall is dropping the packets.
B. An in-l - Answer: C
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QUESTION 27
The following excerpt is taken from a honeyput log. The log captures activities across three days. There
are several intrusion attempts; however, a few are successful. Study the log given below and answer the
following question - Answer: A
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QUESTION 28
Bob has been hired to perform a penetration test on Pass .com. He begins by looking at IP address
ranges owned by the company and details of domain name registration. He then goes to News Groups
and financial web sites to see i - Answer: A
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QUESTION 29
Which of the following would be the best reason for sending a single SMTP message to an address that
does not exist within the target company?
A. To create a denial of service attack.
B. To verify information about the mai - Answer: C
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QUESTION 31
Ann would like to perform a reliable scan against a remote target. She is not concerned about being
stealth at this point.
Which of the following type of scans would be the most accurate and reliable option?
A. A half-scan - Answer: C
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QUESTION 32
What type of port scan is shown below?
A. Idle Scan
B. Windows Scan
C. XMAS Scan
D. SYN Stealth Scan - Answer: C
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QUESTION 33
War dialing is a very old attack and depicted in movies that were made years ago.
Why would a modem security tester consider using such an old technique?
A. It is cool, and if it works in the movies it must work in real life. - Answer: B
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QUESTION 34
An attacker is attempting to telnet into a corporation's system in the DMZ. The attacker doesn't want to
get caught and is spoofing his IP address. After numerous tries he remains unsuccessful in connecting to
the system. The a - Answer: B
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QUESTION 35
You are scanning into the target network for the first time. You find very few conventional ports open.
When you attempt to perform traditional service identification by connecting to the open ports, it yields
either unreliable - Answer: D
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QUESTION 36
What are twp types of ICMP code used when using the ping command?
A. It uses types 0 and 8.
B. It uses types 13 and 14.
C. It uses types 15 and 17.
D. The ping command does not use ICMP but uses UDP. - Answer: A
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QUESTION 37
You are having problems while retrieving results after performing port scanning during internal testing.
You verify that there are no security devices between you and the target system. When both stealth and
connect scanning do - Answer: D
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QUESTION 38
John has scanned the web server with NMAP. However, he could not gather enough information to help
him identify the operating system running on the remote host accurately.
What would you suggest to John to help identify the OS - Answer: D