Certified Ethical Hacker Ethical Hacker Security 5

Question 1

Which tool is a widely used framework for developing and executing exploit code?

Accepted Answer

Metasploit

Answer

Wireshark

Answer

Nmap

Answer

Snort

Question 2

What is the purpose of privilege escalation after gaining initial access?

Accepted Answer

Gain higher-level permissions

Answer

Erase logs

Answer

Scan for open ports

Answer

Encrypt traffic

Question 3

Which password attack tries every possible character combination until success?

Accepted Answer

Brute-force attack

Answer

Dictionary attack

Answer

Rainbow table attack

Answer

Credential stuffing

Question 4

What does a rainbow table use to speed up password cracking?

Accepted Answer

Precomputed hash values

Answer

Live network sniffing

Answer

Phishing emails

Answer

Port scanning results

Question 5

Which technique adds random data to a password before hashing to defeat rainbow tables?

Accepted Answer

Salting

Answer

Encoding

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Tokenizing

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Compression

Question 6

What is the main goal of a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack?

Accepted Answer

Make a service unavailable

Answer

Steal credentials

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Escalate privileges

Answer

Install a rootkit

Question 7

Which malware hides its presence and maintains privileged access at a deep system level?

Accepted Answer

Rootkit

Answer

Adware

Answer

Spyware

Answer

Worm