CERTIFIED ETHICAL HACKER v11 MASTER SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

CERTIFIED ETHICAL HACKER v11 MASTER SET 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 IntegrityCorrect answer - B 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 InstallationCorrect answer - C 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 kiddiesCorrect answer - A 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 accessCorrect answer - C 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 assessmentCorrect answer - C 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 EradicationCorrect answer - B 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 assessmentCorrect answer - D 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 DSSCorrect answer - D 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 BuzzSumoCorrect answer - B 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 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 extractionCorrect answer - A 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:pcfCorrect answer - A 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 D BingCorrect answer - C CenSys Solutions hired Clark, a security professional, to enhance the Internet security of the organization. To achieve the goal, Clark employed a tool that provides various Internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, and PCI scanning. What is the tool used by Clark to perform the above activities? A Blisqy B OmniPeek C Netcraft D BTCrawlerCorrect answer - C Clark is a professional hacker. He targeted an organization for financial benefit and used various footprinting techniques to gather information about the target network. In this process, he employed a protocol used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system. What is the protocol employed by Clark in the above scenario? A SMB B Whois C SNMP D FTPCorrect answer - B Which of the following tools in OSRFramework is used by attackers to check for a user profile on up to 290 different platforms? A B C D Correct answer - A What is the feature in FOCA that checks each domain to ascertain the host names configured in NS, MX, and SPF servers to discover the new host and domain names? A Common names B DNS search C Web search D Bing IPCorrect answer - B Which of the following countermeasures should be followed to safeguard the privacy, data, and reputation of an organization and to prevent information disclosure? A Keeping the domain name profile public B Enabling directory listings in the web servers C Avoiding domain-level cross-linking for critical assets D Turning on geolocation access on all mobile devicesCorrect answer - C Which of the following TCP communication flags notifies the transmission of a new sequence number and represents the establishment of a connection between two hosts? A FIN flag B SYN flag C PSH flag D RST flagCorrect answer - B Which of the following hping commands is used by an attacker to scan the entire subnet to detect live hosts in a target network? A hping3 -8 50-60 -S 10.0.0.25 -V B hping3 -F -P -U 10.0.0.25 -p 80 C hping3 -1 10.0.1.x --rand-dest -I eth0 D hping3 -9 HTTP -I eth0Correct answer - C Which of the following commands is used by an attacker to perform an ICMP ECHO ping sweep that can determine the live hosts from a range of IP addresses by sending ICMP ECHO requests to multiple hosts? A nmap -sn -PR 10.10.10.10 B nmap -sn -PU 10.10.10.10 C nmap -sn -PE 10.10.10.10 D nmap -sn -PE 10.10.10.5-15Correct answer - D Which of the following scanning techniques is used by an attacker to send a TCP frame to a remote device with the FIN, URG, and PUSH flags set? A Xmas scan B TCP Maimon scan C ACK flag probe scan D IDLE/IPID header scanCorrect answer - A A certain scanning technique has no three-way handshake, and the system does not respond when the port is open; when the port is closed, the system responds with an ICMP port unreachable message. Which of the following is this scanning technique? A List scanning B SCTP COOKIE ECHO scanning C IPv6 scanning