412-79 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Larry is an IT consultant who works for corporations and government agencies. Larry plans on shutting down the city's network using BGP devices and ombies? What type of Penetration Testing is Larry planning to carry out?

A. Internal Penetration Testing

B. Firewall Penetration Testing

C. DoS Penetration Testing

D. Router Penetration Testing

John and Hillary works at the same department in the company. John wants to find out Hillary's network password so he can take a look at her documents on the file server. He enables Lophtcrack program to sniffing mode. John sends Hillary an email with a link to Error! Reference source not found. What information will he be able to gather from this?

A. The SID of Hillary's network account

B. The network shares that Hillary has permissions

C. The SAM file from Hillary's computer

D. Hillary's network username and password hash

Terri works for a security consulting firm that is currently performing a penetration test on First National Bank in Tokyo. Terri's duties include bypassing firewalls and switches to gain access to the network. Terri sends an IP packet to one of the company's switches with ACK bit and the source address of her machine set. What is Terri trying to accomplish by sending this IP packet?

A. Poison the switch's MAC address table by flooding it with ACK bits

B. Enable tunneling feature on the switch

C. Trick the switch into thinking it already has a session with Terri's computer

D. Crash the switch with a DoS attack since switches cannot send ACK bits

Simon is a former employee of Trinitron XML Inc. He feels he was wrongly terminated and wants to hack into his former company's network. Since Simon remembers some of the server names, he attempts to run the axfr and ixfr commands using DIG. What is Simon trying to accomplish here?

A. Perform a zone transfer

B. Perform DNS poisoning

C. Send DOS commands to crash the DNS servers

D. Enumerate all the users in the domain

In the context of file deletion process, which of the following statement holds true?

A. When files are deleted, the data is overwritten and the cluster marked as available

B. The longer a disk is inuse, the less likely it is that deleted files will be overwritten

C. While booting, the machine may create temporary files that can delete evidence

D. Secure delete programs work by completely overwriting the file in one go

Windows identifies which application to open a file with by examining which of the following?

A. The File extension

B. The file attributes

C. The file Signature at the end of the file

D. The file signature at the beginning of the file

When performing a forensics analysis, what device is used to prevent the system from recording data on an evidence disk?

A. a write-blocker

B. a protocol analyzer

C. a firewall

D. a disk editor

The efforts to obtain information before a trail by demanding documents, depositions, questioned and answers written under oath, written requests for admissions of fact and examination of the scene is a description of what legal term?

A. Detection

B. Hearsay

C. Spoliation

D. Discovery

The police believe that Mevin Mattew has been obtaining unauthorized access to computers belonging to numerous computer software and computer operating systems manufacturers, cellular telephone manufacturers, Internet Service Providers and Educational Institutions. They also suspect that he has been stealing, copying and misappropriating proprietary computer software belonging to the several victim companies. What is preventing the police from breaking down the suspects door and searching his home and seizing all of his computer equipment if they have not yet obtained a warrant?

A. The Fourth Amendment

B. The USA patriot Act

C. The Good Samaritan Laws

D. The Federal Rules of Evidence

The use of warning banners helps a company avoid litigation by overcoming an employees assumed ____________ When connecting to the company s intranet, network or Virtual Private Network(VPN) and will allow the company s investigators to monitor, search and retrieve information stored within the network.

A. Right to work

B. Right of free speech

C. Right to Internet Access

D. Right of Privacy