SANS GCIH (SEC504) EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS
Who should make the decision of when to put a system back into production?
A) Systems administrators
B) Business team
C) Security team
D) Data owner - ✔✔B) Business team
Which command will display ASCII and Unicode strings within a malware sample?
A) cat
B) Get-Strings
C) strings
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,D) findstr - ✔✔C) strings
Which type of system is most commonly used to investigate malware?
A) Virtual machine
B) Day-to-day host
C) Thick client
D) Production system - ✔✔A) Virtual machine
If you believe your system has been the victim of a rootkit attack, what is the most cost-
effective form of eradication?
A) Restore the OS from the most recent backup.
B) Reformat, reinstall, and patch the system from the original media.
C) Patch and reboot the compromised system.
D) Install applications from a different vendor. - ✔✔B) Reformat, reinstall, and patch
the system from the original media.
What tool is used to record the state of the registry before and after malware is executed
on an analysis system?
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,A) Regshot
B) Ollydbg
C) Wireshark
D) Regripper - ✔✔A) Regshot
What method could be used to ensure that an asset under investigation is not put back
into production without approval before the investigation is complete?
A) Move the asset to a different cloud data center.
B) Terminate the asset.
C) Shut off all administrative access to the cloud environment so no admins can make
changes.
D) Add an "under investigation" tag to the asset. - ✔✔D) Add an "under investigation"
tag to the asset.
During the remediation phase of incident response, you remove a file from your
infected web server. What is the most important additional thing to do to prevent being
compromised again?
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, A) Determine the root cause of the attack.
B) Review your host-based firewall rules.
C) Restore the host data from backups.
D) Apply patches and harden the system. - ✔✔A) Determine the root cause of the
attack.
Why is performing memory analysis on RAM images a staple of investigations?
A) Valuable information may exist in RAM, which might not be found on disk.
B) Speed - Evidence from a RAM image will match disk content.
C) RAM provides more consistent images than disk.
D) It's easier to look for historical information in RAM than on disk. - ✔✔A) Valuable
information may exist in RAM, which might not be found on disk.
An investigator identifies the following POST request. Which log recorded the activity?
1583050850.951 185 192.168.40.123 TCP_MISS/200 1856 POST
https://update.googleapis.com/service/update2? -ORIGINAL_DST/172.219.10.153
text/xml
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS
Who should make the decision of when to put a system back into production?
A) Systems administrators
B) Business team
C) Security team
D) Data owner - ✔✔B) Business team
Which command will display ASCII and Unicode strings within a malware sample?
A) cat
B) Get-Strings
C) strings
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,D) findstr - ✔✔C) strings
Which type of system is most commonly used to investigate malware?
A) Virtual machine
B) Day-to-day host
C) Thick client
D) Production system - ✔✔A) Virtual machine
If you believe your system has been the victim of a rootkit attack, what is the most cost-
effective form of eradication?
A) Restore the OS from the most recent backup.
B) Reformat, reinstall, and patch the system from the original media.
C) Patch and reboot the compromised system.
D) Install applications from a different vendor. - ✔✔B) Reformat, reinstall, and patch
the system from the original media.
What tool is used to record the state of the registry before and after malware is executed
on an analysis system?
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,A) Regshot
B) Ollydbg
C) Wireshark
D) Regripper - ✔✔A) Regshot
What method could be used to ensure that an asset under investigation is not put back
into production without approval before the investigation is complete?
A) Move the asset to a different cloud data center.
B) Terminate the asset.
C) Shut off all administrative access to the cloud environment so no admins can make
changes.
D) Add an "under investigation" tag to the asset. - ✔✔D) Add an "under investigation"
tag to the asset.
During the remediation phase of incident response, you remove a file from your
infected web server. What is the most important additional thing to do to prevent being
compromised again?
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, A) Determine the root cause of the attack.
B) Review your host-based firewall rules.
C) Restore the host data from backups.
D) Apply patches and harden the system. - ✔✔A) Determine the root cause of the
attack.
Why is performing memory analysis on RAM images a staple of investigations?
A) Valuable information may exist in RAM, which might not be found on disk.
B) Speed - Evidence from a RAM image will match disk content.
C) RAM provides more consistent images than disk.
D) It's easier to look for historical information in RAM than on disk. - ✔✔A) Valuable
information may exist in RAM, which might not be found on disk.
An investigator identifies the following POST request. Which log recorded the activity?
1583050850.951 185 192.168.40.123 TCP_MISS/200 1856 POST
https://update.googleapis.com/service/update2? -ORIGINAL_DST/172.219.10.153
text/xml
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