FREE GIAC Incident Handler Questions and Answers

Question 1

Which of the following attack strategies involves the attacker disseminating a false IP address?

Accepted Answer

DNS poisoning

Answer

Mac flooding

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Man-in-the-middle

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IP spoofing

Question 2

Your Windows XP professional PC has a virtualized Internet browser set up. Which of the following can you shield your operating system from using the virtualized Internet browser?

Accepted Answer

Malware installation from unknown Web sites

Answer

Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack

Answer

Brute force attack

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Mail bombing

Question 3

Which of the following programs generates cryptographic hashes of all important system files that need to be checked for changes automatically?

Accepted Answer

Tripwire

Answer

Inzider

Answer

PrcView

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TCPView

Question 4

The database of a Web server can be accessed by an attacker using which of the following attacks?

Accepted Answer

SQL injection attack

Answer

PHP injection attack

Answer

Server data attack

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Database retrieval attack

Question 5

Which of the following attack types is only meant to prevent users from using a computer resource?

Accepted Answer

Denial of Service attack

Answer

Replay attack

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Land attack

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Teardrop attack

Question 6

Which of the following attacks involves information gathering by the attacker in preparation for an access attack?

Accepted Answer

Reconnaissance attack

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DoS attack

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Land attack

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Vulnerability attack

Question 7

In order to overload a network's resources and break up connections so that services cannot communicate with one another, a user sends a lot of protocol packets to it. Which attack type is this?

Accepted Answer

Denial-of-Service attack

Answer

Vulnerability attack

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Impersonation attack

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Social Engineering attack