WGU Master's Course C701 - Ethical
Hacking (Practice Exam 124q
1. Which of the following information security elements guarantees that the sender
of a message cannot later deny having sent the message and the recipient
cannot deny having received the message?
A Confidentiality
B Non-repudiation
C Availability
D Integrity Correct answer- B
2. A phase of the cyber kill chain methodology triggers the adversary's malicious
code, which utilizes a vulnerability in the operating system, application, or server
on a target system. At this stage, the organization may face threats such as
authentication and authorization attacks, arbitrary code execution, physical
security threats, and security misconfiguration.
Which is this phase of the cyber kill chain methodology?
A Reconnaissance
B Weaponization
C Exploitation
D Installation Correct answer- C
3. Which of the following is a category of hackers who are also known as crackers,
use their extraordinary computing skills for illegal or malicious purposes, and are
often involved in criminal activities?
A Black hats
B White hats
C Suicide hackers
D Script kiddies Correct answer- A
4. John, a professional hacker, has launched an attack on a target organization to
extract sensitive information. He was successful in launching the attack and
gathering the required information. He is now attempting to hide the malicious
acts by overwriting the server, system, and application logs to avoid suspicion.
Which of the following phases of hacking is John currently in?
A Maintaining access
, B Scanning
C Clearing tracks
D Gaining access Correct answer- C
5. Which of the following risk management phases involves selecting and
implementing appropriate controls for the identified risks to modify them?
A Risk tracking and review
B Risk identification
C Risk treatment
D Risk assessment Correct answer- C
6. In which of the following incident handling and response phases are the identified
security incidents analyzed, validated, categorized, and prioritized?
A Incident recording and assignment
B Incident triage
C Containment
D Eradication Correct answer- B
7. Which of the following phases of risk management is an ongoing iterative
process that assigns priorities for risk mitigation and implementation plans to help
determine the quantitative and qualitative value of risk?
A Risk identification
B Risk treatment
C Risk tracking and review
D Risk assessment Correct answer- D
8. Jack, a security professional, was instructed to introduce a security standard to
handle cardholder information for major debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and
POS cards. In the process, Jack has employed a standard that offers robust and
comprehensive standards as well as supporting materials to enhance payment-
card data security.
What is the security standard that Jack has employed?
A HIPAA
B SOX
C DMCA
D PCI DSS Correct answer- D
9. Morris, an attacker, has targeted an organization's network. To know the
structure of the target network, he combined footprinting techniques with a
network utility that helped him create diagrammatic representations of the target
network.
, What is the network utility employed by Morris in the above scenario?
A Netcraft
B Tracert
C Shodan
D BuzzSumo Correct answer- B
10. Which of the following Google advanced search operators displays similar
websites to the specified URL?
A [site:]
B [info:]
C [inurl:]
D [related:] Correct answer- D
11. Which of the following techniques is used by an attacker to perform automated
searches on the target website and collect specified information, such as
employee names and email addresses?
A Web spidering
B Website mirroring
C Monitoring of web updates
D Website link extraction Correct answer- A
12. Jude, an attacker, has targeted an organization's communication network. While
conducting initial footprinting, he used a Google dork to find the VoIP login
portals of the organization.
What is the Google dork that helped Jude find the VoIP login portals?
A inurl:8080 intitle:"login" intext:"UserLogin" "English"
B inurl:/voice/advanced/ intitle:Linksys SPA configuration
C inurl:/remote/login?lang=en
D !Host=*.* intext:enc_UserPassword=* ext:pcf Correct answer- A
13. Stokes, an attacker, decided to find vulnerable IoT devices installed in the target
organization. In this process, he used an online tool that helped him gather
information such as a device's manufacturer details, its IP address, and the
location where it is installed.
What is the online tool that Stokes used in the above scenario?
A DuckDuckGo
B Baidu
C Shodan
Hacking (Practice Exam 124q
1. Which of the following information security elements guarantees that the sender
of a message cannot later deny having sent the message and the recipient
cannot deny having received the message?
A Confidentiality
B Non-repudiation
C Availability
D Integrity Correct answer- B
2. A phase of the cyber kill chain methodology triggers the adversary's malicious
code, which utilizes a vulnerability in the operating system, application, or server
on a target system. At this stage, the organization may face threats such as
authentication and authorization attacks, arbitrary code execution, physical
security threats, and security misconfiguration.
Which is this phase of the cyber kill chain methodology?
A Reconnaissance
B Weaponization
C Exploitation
D Installation Correct answer- C
3. Which of the following is a category of hackers who are also known as crackers,
use their extraordinary computing skills for illegal or malicious purposes, and are
often involved in criminal activities?
A Black hats
B White hats
C Suicide hackers
D Script kiddies Correct answer- A
4. John, a professional hacker, has launched an attack on a target organization to
extract sensitive information. He was successful in launching the attack and
gathering the required information. He is now attempting to hide the malicious
acts by overwriting the server, system, and application logs to avoid suspicion.
Which of the following phases of hacking is John currently in?
A Maintaining access
, B Scanning
C Clearing tracks
D Gaining access Correct answer- C
5. Which of the following risk management phases involves selecting and
implementing appropriate controls for the identified risks to modify them?
A Risk tracking and review
B Risk identification
C Risk treatment
D Risk assessment Correct answer- C
6. In which of the following incident handling and response phases are the identified
security incidents analyzed, validated, categorized, and prioritized?
A Incident recording and assignment
B Incident triage
C Containment
D Eradication Correct answer- B
7. Which of the following phases of risk management is an ongoing iterative
process that assigns priorities for risk mitigation and implementation plans to help
determine the quantitative and qualitative value of risk?
A Risk identification
B Risk treatment
C Risk tracking and review
D Risk assessment Correct answer- D
8. Jack, a security professional, was instructed to introduce a security standard to
handle cardholder information for major debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and
POS cards. In the process, Jack has employed a standard that offers robust and
comprehensive standards as well as supporting materials to enhance payment-
card data security.
What is the security standard that Jack has employed?
A HIPAA
B SOX
C DMCA
D PCI DSS Correct answer- D
9. Morris, an attacker, has targeted an organization's network. To know the
structure of the target network, he combined footprinting techniques with a
network utility that helped him create diagrammatic representations of the target
network.
, What is the network utility employed by Morris in the above scenario?
A Netcraft
B Tracert
C Shodan
D BuzzSumo Correct answer- B
10. Which of the following Google advanced search operators displays similar
websites to the specified URL?
A [site:]
B [info:]
C [inurl:]
D [related:] Correct answer- D
11. Which of the following techniques is used by an attacker to perform automated
searches on the target website and collect specified information, such as
employee names and email addresses?
A Web spidering
B Website mirroring
C Monitoring of web updates
D Website link extraction Correct answer- A
12. Jude, an attacker, has targeted an organization's communication network. While
conducting initial footprinting, he used a Google dork to find the VoIP login
portals of the organization.
What is the Google dork that helped Jude find the VoIP login portals?
A inurl:8080 intitle:"login" intext:"UserLogin" "English"
B inurl:/voice/advanced/ intitle:Linksys SPA configuration
C inurl:/remote/login?lang=en
D !Host=*.* intext:enc_UserPassword=* ext:pcf Correct answer- A
13. Stokes, an attacker, decided to find vulnerable IoT devices installed in the target
organization. In this process, he used an online tool that helped him gather
information such as a device's manufacturer details, its IP address, and the
location where it is installed.
What is the online tool that Stokes used in the above scenario?
A DuckDuckGo
B Baidu
C Shodan
