Which of the following information security elements guarantees that the sender of a
message cannot later deny having sent the message and the recipient cannot deny
having received the message?
A Confidentiality
B Non-repudiation
C Availability
D IntegrityCorrect answer - B
A phase of the cy...
Which of the following information security elements guarantees that the sender of a
message cannot later deny having sent the message and the recipient cannot deny
having received the message?
A Confidentiality
B Non-repudiation
C Availability
D IntegrityCorrect answer - B
A phase of the cyber kill chain methodology triggers the adversary's malicious code,
which utilizes a vulnerability in the operating system, application, or server on a target
system. At this stage, the organization may face threats such as authentication and
authorization attacks, arbitrary code execution, physical security threats, and security
misconfiguration.
Which is this phase of the cyber kill chain methodology?
A Reconnaissance
B Weaponization
C Exploitation
D InstallationCorrect answer - C
Which of the following is a category of hackers who are also known as crackers, use
their extraordinary computing skills for illegal or malicious purposes, and are often
involved in criminal activities?
A Black hats
B White hats
C Suicide hackers
D Script kiddiesCorrect answer - A
John, a professional hacker, has launched an attack on a target organization to extract
sensitive information. He was successful in launching the attack and gathering the
required information. He is now attempting to hide the malicious acts by overwriting the
server, system, and application logs to avoid suspicion.
Which of the following phases of hacking is John currently in?
A Maintaining access
,B Scanning
C Clearing tracks
D Gaining accessCorrect answer - C
Which of the following risk management phases involves selecting and implementing
appropriate controls for the identified risks to modify them?
A Risk tracking and review
B Risk identification
C Risk treatment
D Risk assessmentCorrect answer - C
In which of the following incident handling and response phases are the identified
security incidents analyzed, validated, categorized, and prioritized?
A Incident recording and assignment
B Incident triage
C Containment
D EradicationCorrect answer - B
Which of the following phases of risk management is an ongoing iterative process that
assigns priorities for risk mitigation and implementation plans to help determine the
quantitative and qualitative value of risk?
A Risk identification
B Risk treatment
C Risk tracking and review
D Risk assessmentCorrect answer - D
Jack, a security professional, was instructed to introduce a security standard to handle
cardholder information for major debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and POS cards. In
the process, Jack has employed a standard that offers robust and comprehensive
standards as well as supporting materials to enhance payment-card data security.
What is the security standard that Jack has employed?
A HIPAA
B SOX
C DMCA
D PCI DSSCorrect answer - D
Morris, an attacker, has targeted an organization's network. To know the structure of the
target network, he combined footprinting techniques with a network utility that helped
him create diagrammatic representations of the target network.
What is the network utility employed by Morris in the above scenario?
,A Netcraft
B Tracert
C Shodan
D BuzzSumoCorrect answer - B
Which of the following Google advanced search operators displays similar websites to
the specified URL?
A [site:]
B [info:]
C [inurl:]
D [related:]Correct answer - D
Which of the following techniques is used by an attacker to perform automated
searches on the target website and collect specified information, such as employee
names and email addresses?
A Web spidering
B Website mirroring
C Monitoring of web updates
D Website link extractionCorrect answer - A
Jude, an attacker, has targeted an organization's communication network. While
conducting initial footprinting, he used a Google dork to find the VoIP login portals of the
organization.
What is the Google dork that helped Jude find the VoIP login portals?
A inurl:8080 intitle:"login" intext:"UserLogin" "English"
B inurl:/voice/advanced/ intitle:Linksys SPA configuration
C inurl:/remote/login?lang=en
D !Host=*.* intext:enc_UserPassword=* ext:pcfCorrect answer - A
Stokes, an attacker, decided to find vulnerable IoT devices installed in the target
organization. In this process, he used an online tool that helped him gather information
such as a device's manufacturer details, its IP address, and the location where it is
installed.
What is the online tool that Stokes used in the above scenario?
A DuckDuckGo
B Baidu
C Shodan
D BingCorrect answer - C
, CenSys Solutions hired Clark, a security professional, to enhance the Internet security
of the organization. To achieve the goal, Clark employed a tool that provides various
Internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application
testing, and PCI scanning.
What is the tool used by Clark to perform the above activities?
A Blisqy
B OmniPeek
C Netcraft
D BTCrawlerCorrect answer - C
Clark is a professional hacker. He targeted an organization for financial benefit and
used various footprinting techniques to gather information about the target network. In
this process, he employed a protocol used for querying databases that store the
registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP
address block, or an autonomous system.
What is the protocol employed by Clark in the above scenario?
A SMB
B Whois
C SNMP
D FTPCorrect answer - B
Which of the following tools in OSRFramework is used by attackers to check for a user
profile on up to 290 different platforms?
A usufy.py
B phonefy.py
C entify.py
D searchfy.pyCorrect answer - A
What is the feature in FOCA that checks each domain to ascertain the host names
configured in NS, MX, and SPF servers to discover the new host and domain names?
A Common names
B DNS search
C Web search
D Bing IPCorrect answer - B
Which of the following countermeasures should be followed to safeguard the privacy,
data, and reputation of an organization and to prevent information disclosure?
A Keeping the domain name profile public
B Enabling directory listings in the web servers
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