3306? correct answers MySQL (structured Query Language) Database management system for
web database, data warehousing, e-commerce, and logging applications
What port does squid proxy use? correct answers 3128
What are the benefits of a penetration test? correct answers - Enhancement of the management
system
- Avoid fines
- Protection from financial damage
- Customer protection
What is the structure of a penetration test? correct answers Planning and Preparation
Reconnaissance
Discovery
Analyzing information and risks
Active intrusion attempts
Final analysis
Report Preparation
What is another structure of a penetration test? correct answers Reconnaissance
Vulnerability Scanning
Investigation
Exploitation
What is does infrastructure testing include? correct answers Includes all internal computer
systems, associated external devices, internet networking, cloud and virtualization testing.
,What are the types of infrastructure testing? correct answers - External Infrastructure Penetration
Testing
- Internal Infrastructure Penetration Testing
- Cloud and Virtualization Penetration Testing
- Wireless Security Penetration Testing
What does External Infrastructure Testing include? correct answers Mapping flaws in the
external infrastructure
What are the benefits of External Infrastructure Testing ? correct answers - Identifies flaws
within the firewall configuration that could 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 of the networks and suggests
solutions
- Ensures overall efficiency and productivity of your business
What are the benefits of Internal Infrastructure testing? correct answers -Identifies how an
internal attacker could take advantage of even a minor security flaw
- Identifies the potential business risk and damage that an internal attacker 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 plan on how to deal with it
What are the benefits of cloud and virtualization penetration testing? correct answers - Discover
the real risks within the virtual environment and suggests the methods and costs to fix the threats
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, causes and possible solutions
What are the benefits of wireless security penetration testing ? correct answers - To find the
potential risk caused by your wireless device
- To provide guidelines and an action plan on how to protect from the external threats
- For preparing a comprehensive security system report of the wireless networking, to outline the
security flaw, causes, and possible solutions
What is Black Box Testing? correct answers Black-box testing is a method in which the tester is
provided no information about the application being tested.
What are the advantages of Black Box Testing? correct answers - Test is generally conducted
with the perspective of a user, not the designer
- Verifies contradictions in the actual system and the specifications
What are the disadvantages of black box penetration testing? correct answers - Particularly, these
kinds of test cases are difficult to design
- Possibly, it is not worth, in-case designer has already conducted a test case
- It does not conduct everything
What is white box penetration testing ? correct answers A tester is provided a whole range of
information about the systems and/or network such as schema, source code, os details, ip
address, etc.
What are the advantages of white box penetration testing? correct answers - It ensures that all
independent paths of a module have been exercised
- It ensures that all logical decisions have been verified along with their true and false value.
- It discovers the typographical errors and does syntax checking
, - It finds the design errors that may have occurred because of the difference between logical flow
of the program and the actual execution.
What are the important highlights of the computer misuse act 1990? correct answers Section 1:
Unauthorized access to computer material
Section 2: Unauthorized access with intent to commit or facilitate commission of further offenses
Section 3: Unauthorized acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing the
operation of a computer
Unauthorized modification of computer material
What are the important highlights of the human rights act 1998? correct answers - 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? correct answers -Name & Position of the individual who is providing consent
-Authorized testing period - both the date range and hours that testing is permitted
- Contact information for members of technical staff, who may provide assistance during the test
- IP addresses or URL that are in scope of testing
- Exclusions to certain hosts, services or areas within application testing
Credentials that may be required as part of authenticated application testing
What are the important highlights of the data protection act 1998? correct answers - Personal
data must be processed fairly and lawfully
- be obtained only for lawful purposes and not processed in any manner incompatible with those
purposes