Ethical Hacking Test 2

Question 1

What is the name of the technique for hiding text within an image?

Accepted Answer

Steganography

Answer

Encryption

Answer

Keystroke logging

Answer

Spyware

Question 2

Which of the following is a buffer overflow countermeasure?

Accepted Answer

Bounds checking

Answer

Not using single quotes

Answer

Securing all login pages with SSL

Answer

User validation

Question 3

Which of the following methods of preventing social engineering attacks is the most cost-effective?

Accepted Answer

Implement user awareness training

Answer

Monitor and control all email activity

Answer

Ensure that all patches are up-to-date

Answer

Install HIDS

Question 4

Which command displays the IP packet's path from a Cisco router to a host?

Accepted Answer

traceroute

Answer

Tracert

Answer

Ping

Answer

Ifconfig

Question 5

The implementation is known as _______  if DNS servers are located in the DMZ and on the intranet.

Accepted Answer

Split dns

Answer

auto dns

Answer

Dynamic dns

Answer

Dnssec

Question 6

Which TCP and UDP ports would you block at the firewall to prevent a hacker from hijacking an SMB session?

Accepted Answer

139 and 445

Answer

167 and 137

Answer

1277 and 1270

Answer

80 and 23

Question 7

Consider the following scenario: You are an attacker who has successfully compromised your victim by exploiting a service that was supposed to be deactivated. You were able to easily exploit flaws in the service. What could be the problem in this situation?

Accepted Answer

You are dealing with a honeypot

Answer

The web server was improperly configured

Answer

The firewall was not configured correctly

Answer

The administrator did not apply the correct patches

Question 8

It's critical to conduct a slow network scan of your target.

Accepted Answer

To avoid alerting the IDS

Answer

To evade the firewall

Answer

Services may not have started, so starting slowly ensures that you capture services that started late

Answer

It is not necessary to scan the network slowly

Question 9

Under _______ scan the ports that have been scanned the most.

Accepted Answer

SYN stealth

Answer

DUP

Answer

SYN

Answer

Ping