GFACT Certification Exam Questions and Answers (Success!!)
(B2, Pg122) What does it mean when a computer program is "multi-threaded"?
A) It calls multiple external libraries
B) It has multiple serial number for different users
C) It can run multiple chunks of code concurrently
D) It has multiple functions defined in the program - ✔️✔️It can run multiple chunks of code
concurrently
(B3, Pg162) Which of the following is a common result of a reflected cross-site scripting attack?
A)Tricking a user into making an authenticated transaction
B)Sending a website user's session cookie to an attacker
C) Embedding the attacker's malware in web application source code
D) Stealing password hashes from a website's back end database
*HINT* It may be under the session guessing section, but if you read further into it, you will see
where it mentions XSS attack. - ✔️✔️Sending a website user's session cookie to an attacker
(B3, Pg90) What tool can be used to fingerprint the operating system of a host?
A)netstat
B)dig
C)nslookup
D)nmap - ✔️✔️Nmap
(B3, Pg151) What type of vulnerability is illustrated where there is code in the web page?
A)File Inclusion
B) Clickjacking
C)Cross-Site Scripting
*HINT* While it doesn't exactly say "code in the web page", it mentions how you can sometimes
view a page that looks like PHP code and how that code can gain you access to the access logs of
the server. - ✔️✔️File Inclusion
(B3, Pg88-89) An alert indicates that a compromised host was used by an attacker to run the
command below. What was the attacker attempting to do?
$ nmap -sS 192.168.10.0/24
A)Map a network drive to a remote host
B)Identify services running on network hosts
C)Execute a script on a remote host
D)Send Spoofed packets to network hosts - ✔️✔️Identify services running on network hosts
What type of artifact can a blue team member use to identify the name that is associated to the
file?
A)Metadata
B)Windows security logs
C)Prefetch
D)File Ownership - ✔️✔️Metadata
(B3, Pg307-308) What is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run considered to
be?
A)Domain Name
B)Log File Path
C) Registry Key
D) Yo Mama's Number - ✔️✔️A Registry Key
(B1, Pg236) If a user agent is used, where would it be found in the HTTP Protocol?
A)In the response header
B)In the response body
C)Delimited by an h1 tag
D) In a GET Request - ✔️✔️In a GET Request
What benefit does moving from local logging to using a log server provide organizations?
A) Enables the use of network intrusion detection systems (NIDS)
B) Harder for attackers to overwrite logs
C) Attackers will have to pivot through an extra server to infiltrate the network
D)Less complex logging infrastructure - ✔️✔️Harder for attackers to overwrite logs
(B3, Pg187) What is the only way to mitigate an integer overflow/underflow?
A) Takin the absolute value of negative results prior to running the equation
B) Checking that the result of any change to a signed integer falls within an allowed range
C) Randomizing salt values prior to hashing user content
D) Sanitizing user input to block special characters from being entered - ✔️✔️Checking that the
result of any change to a signed integer falls within an allowed range
(B2, Pg17) Which Variable name will cause Python to produce an error?
*HINT* You can start a variable name with a letter or an underscore, but NOT WITH A
NUMBER! - ✔️✔️2nd_phone_number
What is the following command attempting to accomplish in Kali Linux?
B) Check for users based on the wordlist provided
C)Run checks on the applications based on the wordlist provided
D)Call yo mama - ✔️✔️Search for subdomains based upon the wordlist provided
(B3, Pg121) How do you remove data from a Solid State Drive?
A) Destroy it
B) Place Magnets upon it
C) Snap it
D) Yo mama sit on it - ✔️✔️Destroy it
(B3, Pg56) Where are the wordlists located in Kali?
A)/var/opt/wordlists
B)/etc/default/wordlists
C)/etc/security/wordlists
D)/var/adm/wordlists
E)/usr/share/wordlists - ✔️✔️/usr/share/wordlists
(B1, Pg174) What is the outcome of the command below?
ps aux | grep -i sshd | grep root
A) Enabling logging for all root logins for the ssh service
B)Terminating the secure shell service
C)List of secure shell processes running under the root user
D)Starting up the ssh service as the root user - ✔️✔️List of secure shell processes running under
the root user
When would a security analyst create a "TCP Socket" in a Python Program?
A) When scanning the host computer for malicious software
B) When creating a script to run against a network service
C) When collecting information about the host computer's hardware
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