Cyber Security

Q1. What is the preferred communications method used with systems on a bot­net?

  1. IRC
  2. E­mail
  3. ICMP
  4. TFTP
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Ans: 1.IRC

 

Q2. What will an open port return from an ACK scan?

  1. RST
  2. SYN/ACK
  3. FIN
  4. Nothing
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Ans: 1.RST

 

Q3. Your target system is behind a firewall. Using hping2, you craft SYN packets to send with a hop count capable of reaching the host. You then send these packets out with port numbers from 1 to 1024. What action are you performing?

  1. Firewalling
  2. Firewalking
  3. Passive footprinting
  4. XMAS scan
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Ans: 2.Firewalking

 

Q4. Which of the following is true regarding WEP cracking?

  1. Initialization vectors are small, get reused frequently, and are sent in cleartext.
  2. Initialization vectors are small, get reused frequently, but are encrypted during transmission.
  3. Initialization vectors are large, get reused frequently, and are sent in cleartext.
  4. Initialization vectors are large, get reused frequently, but are encrypted during transmission.
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Ans: 1.Initialization vectors are small, get reused frequently, and are sent in cleartext.

 

Q5. Which of the following best describes a distributed denial­of­service attack?

  1. A DoS against an entire subnet, affecting multiple systems
  2. A DoS against multiple systems across an enterprise network
  3. A DoS against similar systems in different target networks
  4. A DoS carried out by multiple systems
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Ans: 4.A DoS carried out by multiple systems

 

Q6. Which of the following is a passive wireless discovery tool?

  1. NetStumbler
  2. Aircrack
  3. Kismet
  4. Netsniff
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Ans: 3.Kismet

 

Q7. What does the program EliteWrap do?

  1. Provides secure, encrypted tunneling between hosts
  2. Provides proxy services to obfuscate source IPs
  3. Ports code easily between different operating systems
  4. Binds Trojans to legitimate files for exploitation later
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Ans: 4.Binds Trojans to legitimate files for exploitation later

 

Q8. Scanning is performed in which phase of a pen test?

  1. Pre­attack
  2. Attack
  3. Post­attack
  4. Reconnaissance
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Ans: 1.Preattack

 

Q9. What is TKIP and how does it make WPA­2 a better security choice for your wireless network?

  1. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. It forces a key change every 10,000 packets or so.
  2. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. It forces a key change every time a bit is sent.
  3. Temporary Key Integration Protocol. It forces a key change every 10,000 packets or so.
  4. Temporary Key Integration Protocol. It forces a key change every time a bit is sent.
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Ans: 1.Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. It forces a key change every 10,000 packets or so.

 

Q10. What is the attack called “evil twin”?

  1. MAC spoofing
  2. ARP poisoning
  3. Rogue access point
  4. Session hijacking
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Ans: 3.Rogue access point

 

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