WGU Master's Course C701, Ethical Hacking - C701 Study Questions and Answers 2023

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 Integrity 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 Installation 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 kiddies 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 access 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 assessment 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 Eradication 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 assessment 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 DSS 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 BuzzSumo B