QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025-2026
What are 8 steps of an Buffer Overflow? - ANS-Spiking, Fuzzing, Finding the Offset,
Overwriting the EIP, Finding Bad Characters, Finding the write Module, Generating Shell
Code, Root.
general purpose of EAX? - ANS-Accumulator - Holds Return Value
general purpose of EBX? - ANS-Accumulator - Base
general purpose of ECX? - ANS-Count + Accumulator
general purpose of EDX? - ANS-Data or IO address Pointer
general purpose of ESI? - ANS-Source Indexing
general purpose of EDI? - ANS-Destination Indexing
general purpose of EIP? - ANS-Instruction Pointer
general purpose of ESP? - ANS-Stack Pointer