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Practice Exam with verified solutions


Some Remote Access Trojans (RATs) install a web server to allow access to the infected
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machine. Others use a custom application that is run on the remote machine, such as ProRAT. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Once infected with this custom application, which other types of infections are possible with
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this tool installed? (Select two.)
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Answer

Rootkit

Network enumeration ||||||




DDoS attack ||||||




Ransomware

SYN attack - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Rootkit
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Ransomware



Which of the following BEST describes a phishing attack? |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Answer

This attack is used to intercept communications between an authorized user and the web
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server.

A user is tricked into believing that a legitimate website is requesting their login information.
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An attacker alters the XSS to run a Trojan horse with the victim's web browser.
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In this attack, attackers use various weaknesses to hack into seemingly secure passwords. -
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...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔A user is tricked into believing that a legitimate website is |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




requesting their login information. |||||| |||||| ||||||

,Tom, a security analyst, is notified by Karen, an employee, that her work iPad has some setting
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changes and a new app that she didn't download. What is the first step Tom should take? |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Answer

Look through the event log for suspicious events.
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Ask Karen to turn off the device.
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Search online for any new known malware threats that match the indicators of compromise
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(IOCs).

Run an antivirus software scan on Karen's device and scan the entire network. -
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...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Run an antivirus software scan on Karen's device and scan |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




the entire network.
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Which of the following tools can be used to create botnets? |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Answer

Shark, PlugBot, and Poison Ivy |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Poison Ivy, Targa, and LOIC |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Trin00, Targa, and Jolt2 |||||| |||||| ||||||




Jolt2, PlugBot, and Shark - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Shark, PlugBot, and Poison Ivy
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You have configured your pfsense firewall to block URLs using DNS. You have selected the
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block lists that work best for your company's needs. You have tested on your machine and
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traffic to those sites in the list are blocked as expected. As you walk through your office several
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months later, you notice that a user is on a site that is supposed to be blocked. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




What might explain this? |||||| |||||| ||||||




Answer

The DNS cache on the user's local machine contains the information for that site.
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The service has stopped and is no longer functioning.
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Your firewall allows DNS requests to outside DNS servers.
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, The user has hacked your firewall to allow their traffic through. - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER
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**✔✔Your firewall allows DNS requests to outside DNS servers. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Which of the following is the process of obfuscating data by changing it into random
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characters?

Answer

Data privacy ||||||




Data masking ||||||




Encryption

Tokenization - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Data masking |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Which type of breach happens when an attacker removes or transfers data from your system to
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another?
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Answer

Insider data breach |||||| ||||||




Data integrity and availability
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Data exfiltration ||||||




Accidental data breach - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Data exfiltration |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




You have been asked to perform a penetration test for a company to see if any sensitive
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information can be captured by a potential hacker. You have used Wireshark to capture a |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




series of packets. Using the tcp contains Invoice filter, you have found one packet. Using the
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captured information shown, which of the following is the name of the company requesting
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payment?

Answer

Lowes

Wood Specialist ||||||




ACME, Inc. ||||||

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