CIS-171 Midterm Ch 1-6 || WITH ANSWERS 100% PASSED!!
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Acme Widgets recently experienced an attack in which the attacker broke into a file server and modified protected data. Which of the following is a goal of information security that was violated? correct answers Integrity
In an organization protecting its IT infrastructure from risks, which cont...
CIS-171 Midterm Ch 1-6 || WITH ANSWERS 100%
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Acme Widgets recently experienced an attack in which the attacker broke into a file server
and modified protected data. Which of the following is a goal of information security that
was violated? correct answers Integrity
In an organization protecting its IT infrastructure from risks, which control includes firewalls,
intrusion prevention systems (IPSs), and biometric authentication? correct answers Technical
Of the following, which description best describes the scanning step of hacking? correct
answers An attacker conducting a ping sweep of all of the victim's known Internet Protocol
(IP) addresses
Planning, discovery, attack, and reporting are considered: correct answers penetration testing
steps.
Reconnaissance, scanning, infiltration and escalation, exfiltration, access extension, assault,
and obfuscation are considered: correct answers hacking steps.
Which hacking methodology is defined as an attacker wanting to cover their tracks by erasing
any traces of their presence in the target system? correct answers Obfuscation
Which of the following statements is true regarding ethical hackers? correct answers Ethical
hackers engage in their activities only with the permission of the asset owner.
Which type of penetration test includes anything that targets equipment and facilities with
actions such as theft, breaking and entering, or similar actions? It can also include actions
against people, such as social engineering-related threats. correct answers Physical attack
Which type of penetration test is designed to find loopholes or shortcomings in how tasks and
operational processes are performed? correct answers Administrative attack
__________ are specialists in finding software bugs. correct answers Bug bounty hunters
A shell is a command-prompt environment used to issue commands and execute shell scripts.
In Linux, which is the most popular shell? correct answers bash
Kaiden would like to find the list of physical disk drives that are connected to a Linux
system. Which directory contains a subdirectory for each drive? correct answers /dev
Ron is building a system that he will use in a penetration test. He would like to choose a
Linux distribution well suited to that purpose. Which of the following Linux distributions
would be his best choice? correct answers Kali Linux
The __________ is the core component of the Linux operating system, which has control
over all low-level system functions such as resource management, input and output
operations, and central processing unit (CPU). correct answers kernel
, Using Linux Kali as a _____________allows a forensic technician to examine a running
computer, pause it, restart it, and then save the current state of the tool. correct answers
virtual machine
What does the ls -al Linux command return? correct answers Displays files and
subdirectories in the current directory including hidden files but uses different output formats
than the ls -a command
Which Linux directory contains executables used by the operating system and administrators
that are not typically used by ordinary users? correct answers /sbin
Which command displays the current location of the user within the Linux directory
structure? correct answers pwd
Which of the following is a paid Linux distribution that includes support? correct answers
Red Hat Enterprise
Which of the following specifies filenames or other targets that fine-tune the action of a
Linux command? correct answers Argument
Alice installed a new firewall that faces the Internet and protects her company's internal
network. After she made that change, company users started complaining that they could not
access websites or send or receive emails. What firewall issue is the most likely cause?
correct answers Firewalls are initially set with default ports and services disabled.
Beth wants to establish a connection from her computer to a remote server. Which of the
following will allow her to do so and not have the exchange conducted in the clear? correct
answers Secure Shell (SSH)
Carrie is examining a piece of malware. She determines that it was gathering information
about the user of a system, but she has no other information. Which of the following terms
should she use to describe this malware? correct answers Spyware
Dhruv is a network engineer. He is investigating a series of denial of service (DoS) attacks
against his company's servers. He has an intern shadowing him who asks at what layer on the
OSI model such attacks take place. What does he tell her? correct answers Transport
The TCP/IP and OSI Reference Models both illustrate the location of network services as
layers. The OSI model has seven layers whereas the TCP/IP model has four, yet they map to
each other. To which layer of the TCP/IP model does the OSI Session Layer map? correct
answers Application
Which layer of the OSI model specifies whether messages are sent by digital or analog, base
or broadband, and synchronous or asynchronous transmission? correct answers Physical
Which of the following is not true of routers? correct answers They direct traffic using
physical addresses as opposed to logical addresses.
Which of the following is true of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)? correct answers IPv6
addresses are 128-bit numbers.
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