CREST CPSA EXAM 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
LATEST 2024-2025 update.
What port does squid proxy use?-Ans:-3128
What are the benefits of a penetration test?-Ans:--
Enhancement of the management system
- Avoid fines
- Protection from financial damage
- Customer protection
What is the structure of a penetration test?
-ANS:-Planning and PreparationReconnaissance
Discovery
Analyzing information and risksActive intrusion
attempts
Final analysis Report
Preparation
What is another structure of a penetration test?
-ANS:-ReconnaissanceVulnerability
Scanning Investigation
Exploitation
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What is does infrastructure testing include?
-ANS:-Includes all internal computer systems, associatedexternal devices, internet
networking, cloud and virtualization testing.
What are the types of infrastructure testing?-Ans:--
External Infrastructure Penetration Testing
- Internal Infrastructure Penetration Testing
- Cloud and Virtualization Penetration Testing
- Wireless Security Penetration Testing
What does External Infrastructure Testing include?
-ANS:-Mapping flaws in the external infrastructure
What are the benefits of External Infrastructure Testing ?
-ANS:-- Identifies flaws within the firewall configuration thatcould be misused.
- Finds how information could be leaked out from the system
- Suggests how these issues could be fixed
- Prepares a comprehensive report highlighting the security risk ofthe networks and
suggests solutions
- Ensures overall efficiency and productivity of your business
What are the benefits of Internal Infrastructure testing?
-ANS:--Identifies how an internal attacker could takeadvantage of even a minor
security flaw
- Identifies the potential business risk and damage that an internalattacker can inflict
- Improves security systems of internal infrastructure
- Prepares a comprehensive report giving details of the security exposures of internal
networks along with the detailed action planon how to deal with it
What are the benefits of cloud and virtualization penetrationtesting? -ANS:--
Discover the real risks within the
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virtual environment and suggests the methods and costs to fix thethreats and flaws
- Provides guidelines and an action plan how to resolve the issues
- Improves the overall protection systems
- Prepares a comprehensive security system report of the cloud computing and
virtualization, outline the security flaws, causesand possible solutions
What are the benefits of wireless security penetration testing ? - --
- -ANS:-- To find the potential risk caused by your wirelessdevice
- To provide guidelines and an action plan on how to protect fromthe external threats
- For preparing a comprehensive security system report of thewireless networking, to
outline the security flaw, causes, and possible solutions
What is Black Box Testing? -ANS:-Black-box testing is a method in which the tester is
provided no information about theapplication being tested.
What are the advantages of Black Box Testing?
-ANS:-- Test is generally conducted with the perspective ofa user, not the designer
- Verifies contradictions in the actual system and thespecifications
What are the disadvantages of black box penetration testing?
-ANS:-- Particularly, these kinds of test cases are difficultto design
- Possibly, it is not worth, in-case designer has already conducteda test case
- It does not conduct everything
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What is white box penetration testing ? -ANS:-A tester is provided a whole range of
information about the systems and/ornetwork such as schema, source code, os details, ip
address, etc.
What are the advantages of white box penetration testing?
-ANS:-- It ensures that all independent paths of a modulehave been exercised
- It ensures that all logical decisions have been verified along withtheir true and false value.
- It discovers the typographical errors and does syntax checking
- It finds the design errors that may have occurred because of thedifference between
logical flow of the program and the actual execution.
What are the important highlights of the computer misuse act1990? -ANS:-Section
1: Unauthorized access to computer material
Section 2: Unauthorized access with intent to commit or facilitatecommission of further
offenses
Section 3: Unauthorized acts with intent to impair, or withrecklessness as to
impairing the operation of a computer
Unauthorized modification of computer material
What are the important highlights of the human rights act 1998? -
--- -ANS:-- The right to life
- The right to respect for private and family life
- The right to freedom of religion and belief
- Your right not to be mistreated or wrongly punished by the state
when capturing the scope of a penetration test, what information requires consent to meet
the UK laws?-Ans:--Name &
Position of the individual who is providing consent
-Authorized testing period - both the date range and hours thattesting is permitted
LATEST 2024-2025 update.
What port does squid proxy use?-Ans:-3128
What are the benefits of a penetration test?-Ans:--
Enhancement of the management system
- Avoid fines
- Protection from financial damage
- Customer protection
What is the structure of a penetration test?
-ANS:-Planning and PreparationReconnaissance
Discovery
Analyzing information and risksActive intrusion
attempts
Final analysis Report
Preparation
What is another structure of a penetration test?
-ANS:-ReconnaissanceVulnerability
Scanning Investigation
Exploitation
, 3
What is does infrastructure testing include?
-ANS:-Includes all internal computer systems, associatedexternal devices, internet
networking, cloud and virtualization testing.
What are the types of infrastructure testing?-Ans:--
External Infrastructure Penetration Testing
- Internal Infrastructure Penetration Testing
- Cloud and Virtualization Penetration Testing
- Wireless Security Penetration Testing
What does External Infrastructure Testing include?
-ANS:-Mapping flaws in the external infrastructure
What are the benefits of External Infrastructure Testing ?
-ANS:-- Identifies flaws within the firewall configuration thatcould be misused.
- Finds how information could be leaked out from the system
- Suggests how these issues could be fixed
- Prepares a comprehensive report highlighting the security risk ofthe networks and
suggests solutions
- Ensures overall efficiency and productivity of your business
What are the benefits of Internal Infrastructure testing?
-ANS:--Identifies how an internal attacker could takeadvantage of even a minor
security flaw
- Identifies the potential business risk and damage that an internalattacker can inflict
- Improves security systems of internal infrastructure
- Prepares a comprehensive report giving details of the security exposures of internal
networks along with the detailed action planon how to deal with it
What are the benefits of cloud and virtualization penetrationtesting? -ANS:--
Discover the real risks within the
, 4
virtual environment and suggests the methods and costs to fix thethreats and flaws
- Provides guidelines and an action plan how to resolve the issues
- Improves the overall protection systems
- Prepares a comprehensive security system report of the cloud computing and
virtualization, outline the security flaws, causesand possible solutions
What are the benefits of wireless security penetration testing ? - --
- -ANS:-- To find the potential risk caused by your wirelessdevice
- To provide guidelines and an action plan on how to protect fromthe external threats
- For preparing a comprehensive security system report of thewireless networking, to
outline the security flaw, causes, and possible solutions
What is Black Box Testing? -ANS:-Black-box testing is a method in which the tester is
provided no information about theapplication being tested.
What are the advantages of Black Box Testing?
-ANS:-- Test is generally conducted with the perspective ofa user, not the designer
- Verifies contradictions in the actual system and thespecifications
What are the disadvantages of black box penetration testing?
-ANS:-- Particularly, these kinds of test cases are difficultto design
- Possibly, it is not worth, in-case designer has already conducteda test case
- It does not conduct everything
, 5
What is white box penetration testing ? -ANS:-A tester is provided a whole range of
information about the systems and/ornetwork such as schema, source code, os details, ip
address, etc.
What are the advantages of white box penetration testing?
-ANS:-- It ensures that all independent paths of a modulehave been exercised
- It ensures that all logical decisions have been verified along withtheir true and false value.
- It discovers the typographical errors and does syntax checking
- It finds the design errors that may have occurred because of thedifference between
logical flow of the program and the actual execution.
What are the important highlights of the computer misuse act1990? -ANS:-Section
1: Unauthorized access to computer material
Section 2: Unauthorized access with intent to commit or facilitatecommission of further
offenses
Section 3: Unauthorized acts with intent to impair, or withrecklessness as to
impairing the operation of a computer
Unauthorized modification of computer material
What are the important highlights of the human rights act 1998? -
--- -ANS:-- The right to life
- The right to respect for private and family life
- The right to freedom of religion and belief
- Your right not to be mistreated or wrongly punished by the state
when capturing the scope of a penetration test, what information requires consent to meet
the UK laws?-Ans:--Name &
Position of the individual who is providing consent
-Authorized testing period - both the date range and hours thattesting is permitted
