EJPT Study Guide 2026

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📋 EJPT Exam Format at a Glance

Questions

2880 min

Time Limit

70%

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📚 EJPT Topics to Study (53)

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✍️ Sample EJPT Questions & Answers

1. Which port is associated with the HTTPS service during a web server audit?

✓ 443

TCP port 443 is the standard port for HTTPS (HTTP over TLS/SSL) encrypted web traffic.

2. What is the purpose of the CVSS score in penetration testing reports?

✓ To standardize the severity rating of vulnerabilities on a numeric scale

CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) provides a standardized 0–10 numeric score reflecting the severity of a vulnerability.

3. Which Nmap script category is most useful for detecting known vulnerabilities during a vulnerability assessment?

✓ vuln

The 'vuln' script category contains NSE scripts specifically designed to check for known vulnerabilities in services.

4. Which post-exploitation Meterpreter command is used to attempt privilege escalation on a Windows target?

✓ getsystem

'getsystem' attempts multiple techniques to elevate Meterpreter's privileges to SYSTEM level on a Windows host.

5. What is a 'hidden SSID' and how is it most reliably uncovered during a wireless penetration test?

✓ An SSID omitted from beacon frames; uncovered by capturing probe responses when clients reconnect

Hidden SSIDs suppress the network name in beacon frames, but the SSID is revealed in probe request/response frames when clients attempt to reconnect.

6. Which Hashcat attack mode uses a wordlist combined with rules to generate password candidates?

✓ Wordlist mode with rules (-a 0 -r)

Hashcat's straight/wordlist mode (-a 0) paired with a rules file (-r) applies transformations like capitalization and substitutions to each word in the list.

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