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Q141. You want to know whether a packet filter is in front of 192.168.1.10. Pings to 192.168.1.10 don't get answered. A basic nmap scan of 192.168.1.10 seems to hang without returning any information. What should you do next? 

A. Use NetScan Tools Pro to conduct the scan 

B. Run nmap XMAS scan against 192.168.1.10 

C. Run NULL TCP hping2 against 192.168.1.10 

D. The firewall is blocking all the scans to 192.168.1.10 

Answer: C


Q142. Which of the following is a patch management utility that scans one or more computers on your network and alerts you if you important Microsoft Security patches are missing. It then provides links that enable those missing patches to be downloaded and installed. 

A. MBSA 

B. BSSA 

C. ASNB 

D. PMUS 

Answer: A

Explanation: The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) is a tool put out by Microsoft to help analyze security problems in Microsoft Windows. It does this by scanning the system for security problems in Windows, Windows components such as the IIS web server application, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Office. One example of an issue might be that permissions for one of the directories in the wwwroot folder of IIS could be set at too low a level, allowing unwanted modification of files from outsiders. 


Q143. Who is an Ethical Hacker? 

A. A person who hacks for ethical reasons 

B. A person who hacks for an ethical cause 

C. A person who hacks for defensive purposes 

D. A person who hacks for offensive purposes 

Answer: C

Explanation: The Ethical hacker is a security professional who applies his hacking skills for defensive purposes. 


Q144. When working with Windows systems, what is the RID of the true administrator account? 

A. 500 

B. 501 

C. 1000 

D. 1001 

E. 1024 

F. 512 

Answer: A

Explanation: Because of the way in which Windows functions, the true administrator account always has a RID of 500. 


Q145. A Trojan horse is a destructive program that masquerades as a benign application. The software initially appears to perform a desirable function for the user prior to installation and/or execution, but in addition to the expected function steals information or harms the system. 

The challenge for an attacker is to send a convincing file attachment to the victim, which gets easily executed on the victim machine without raising any suspicion. Today's end users are quite knowledgeable about malwares and viruses. Instead of sending games and fun executables, Hackers today are quite successful in spreading the Trojans using Rogue security software. 

What is Rogue security software? 

A. A flash file extension to Firefox that gets automatically installed when a victim visits rogue software disabling websites 

B. A Fake AV program that claims to rid a computer of malware, but instead installs spyware or other malware onto the computer. This kind of software is known as rogue security software. 

C. A Fake AV program that claims to rid a computer of malware, but instead installs spyware or other malware onto the computer. This kind of software is known as rogue security software. 

D. A Fake AV program that claims to rid a computer of malware, but instead installs spyware or other malware onto the computer. This kind of software is known as rogue security software. 

E. Rogue security software is based on social engineering technique in which the attackers lures victim to visit spear phishing websites 

F. This software disables firewalls and establishes reverse connecting tunnel between the victim's machine and that of the attacker 

Answer: BCD


Q146. When referring to the Domain Name Service, what is denoted by a ‘zone’? 

A. It is the first domain that belongs to a company. 

B. It is a collection of resource records. 

C. It is the first resource record type in the SOA. 

D. It is a collection of domains. 

Answer: B

Explanation: A reasonable definition of a zone would be a portion of the DNS namespace where responsibility has been delegated. 


Q147. Steven, a security analyst for XYZ associates, is analyzing packets captured by Ethereal on a Linux Server inside his network when the server starts to slow down tremendously. Steven examines the following Ethereal captures: 

A. Smurf Attack 

B. ARP Spoofing 

C. Ping of Death 

D. SYN Flood 

Answer: A

Explanation: A perpetrator is sending a large amount of ICMP echo (ping) traffic to IP broadcast addresses, all of it having a spoofed source address of the intended victim. If the routing device delivering traffic to those broadcast addresses performs the IP broadcast to layer 2 broadcast function, most hosts on that IP network will take the ICMP echo request and reply to it with an echo reply, multiplying the traffic by the number of hosts responding. 

Topic 9, Social Engineering 

303. Your boss at ABC.com asks you what are the three stages of Reverse Social Engineering. 

A. Sabotage, advertising, Assisting 

B. Sabotage, Advertising, Covering 

C. Sabotage, Assisting, Billing D. Sabotage, Advertising, Covering 

Answer: A

Explanation: Typical social interaction dictates that if someone gives us something then it is only right for us to return the favour. This is known as reverse social engineering, when an attacker sets up a situation where the victim encounters a problem, they ask the attacker for help and once the problem is solved the victim then feels obliged to give the information requested by the attacker. 


Q148. Ron has configured his network to provide strong perimeter security. As part of his network architecture, he has included a host that is fully exposed to attack. The system is on the public side of the demilitarized zone, unprotected by a firewall or filtering router. What would you call such a host? 

A. Honeypot 

B. DMZ host 

C. DWZ host 

D. Bastion Host 

Answer: D

Explanation: A bastion host is a gateway between an inside network and an outside network. Used as a security measure, the bastion host is designed to defend against attacks aimed at the inside network. Depending on a network's complexity and configuration, a single bastion host may stand guard by itself, or be part of a larger security system with different layers of protection. 


Q149. The programmers on your team are analyzing the free, open source software being used to run FTP services on a server in your organization. They notice that there is excessive number of functions in the source code that might lead to buffer overflow. These C++ functions do not check bounds. Identify the line the source code that might lead to buffer overflow. 

A. Line number 31. 

B. Line number 15 

C. Line number 8 

D. Line number 14 

Answer: B


Q150. What tool can crack Windows SMB passwords simply by listening to network traffic? 

Select the best answer. 

A. This is not possible 

B. Netbus 

C. NTFSDOS 

D. L0phtcrack 

Answer: D 

Explanations: 

This is possible with a SMB packet capture module for L0phtcrack and a known weaknesses in the LM hash algorithm.