ETHICAL HACKING AND
COUNTERMEASURES FINAL PAPER
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QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● Which of the following terms refers to gaining access to one network
and/or computer and then using the same to gain access to multiple
networks and computers that contain desirable information?
(A) Daisy Chaining
(B) Social Engineering
(C) Kill Chain
(D) Doxing
Answer: A
●● James has published personal information about all senior executives
of Essential Securities Bank on his blog website. He has collected all
this information from multiple social media websites and publicly
accessible databases. What is this known as?
(A) Doxing
(B) Phishing
(C) Impersonation
,(D) Social Engineering
Answer: A
●● Which of the following terms refers to the existence of a weakness,
design flaw, or implementation error that can lead to an unexpected
event compromising the security of the system?
(A) Exploit
(B) Hacking
(C) Zero-Day Attack
(D) Vulnerability
Answer: D
●● Jonathan, a solutions architect with a start-up, was asked to redesign
the company's web infrastructure to meet the growing customer
demands. He proposed the following architecture to the management:
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(A) Ensuring high availability
(B) Ensuring integrity of the application servers
(C) Ensuring confidentiality of the data
(D) Proper user authentication
,Answer: B
●● Highlander, Incorporated, is a medical insurance company with
several regional company offices in North America. Employees, when in
the office, utilize desktop computers that have Windows 10, Microsoft
Office, anti-malware/virus software, and an insurance application
developed by a contractor. All the software updates and patches are
managed by the IT department of Highlander, Incorporated. Group
policies are used to lock down the desktop computers, including the use
of Applocker to restrict the installation of any third-party applications.
There are one hundred employees who work from their home offices.
Employees who work from home use their own computers, laptops, and
personal smartphones. They authenticate to a cloud-based domain
service, which is synchronized with the corporate internal domain
service. The computers are updated and patched through the cloud-based
domain service. Applocker is not used to restrict
Answer: A
●● Highlander, is a medical insurance company with several regional
company offices in North America. Employees, when in the office,
utilize desktop computers that have Windows 10, Microsoft Office, anti-
malware/virus software, and an insurance application developed by a
contractor. All the software updates and patches are managed by the IT
department of Highlander, Incorporated. Group policies are used to lock
down the desktop computers, including the use of Applocker to restrict
the installation of any third-party applications.There are one hundred
employees who work from their home offices. Employees who work
from home use their own computers, laptops, and personal smartphones.
, They authenticate to a cloud-based domain service, which is
synchronized with the corporate internal domain service. The computers
are updated and patched through the cloud-based domain service.
Applocker is not used to restrict the installati
Answer: B
●● Which fundamental element of information security refers to an
assurance that the information is accessible only to those authorized to
have access?
(A) Availability
(B) Integrity
(C) Authenticity
(D) Confidentiality
Answer: D
●● Ransomware encrypts the files and locks systems, thereby leaving
the system in an unusable state. The compromised user has to pay
ransom to the attacker to unlock the system and get the files decrypted.
Petya delivers malicious code can that even destroy the data with no
scope of recovery. What is this malicious code called?
(A) Bot
(B) Vulnerability
COUNTERMEASURES FINAL PAPER
PREMIUM TEST BANK DETAILED
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● Which of the following terms refers to gaining access to one network
and/or computer and then using the same to gain access to multiple
networks and computers that contain desirable information?
(A) Daisy Chaining
(B) Social Engineering
(C) Kill Chain
(D) Doxing
Answer: A
●● James has published personal information about all senior executives
of Essential Securities Bank on his blog website. He has collected all
this information from multiple social media websites and publicly
accessible databases. What is this known as?
(A) Doxing
(B) Phishing
(C) Impersonation
,(D) Social Engineering
Answer: A
●● Which of the following terms refers to the existence of a weakness,
design flaw, or implementation error that can lead to an unexpected
event compromising the security of the system?
(A) Exploit
(B) Hacking
(C) Zero-Day Attack
(D) Vulnerability
Answer: D
●● Jonathan, a solutions architect with a start-up, was asked to redesign
the company's web infrastructure to meet the growing customer
demands. He proposed the following architecture to the management:
CLICK THIS LINK:
(A) Ensuring high availability
(B) Ensuring integrity of the application servers
(C) Ensuring confidentiality of the data
(D) Proper user authentication
,Answer: B
●● Highlander, Incorporated, is a medical insurance company with
several regional company offices in North America. Employees, when in
the office, utilize desktop computers that have Windows 10, Microsoft
Office, anti-malware/virus software, and an insurance application
developed by a contractor. All the software updates and patches are
managed by the IT department of Highlander, Incorporated. Group
policies are used to lock down the desktop computers, including the use
of Applocker to restrict the installation of any third-party applications.
There are one hundred employees who work from their home offices.
Employees who work from home use their own computers, laptops, and
personal smartphones. They authenticate to a cloud-based domain
service, which is synchronized with the corporate internal domain
service. The computers are updated and patched through the cloud-based
domain service. Applocker is not used to restrict
Answer: A
●● Highlander, is a medical insurance company with several regional
company offices in North America. Employees, when in the office,
utilize desktop computers that have Windows 10, Microsoft Office, anti-
malware/virus software, and an insurance application developed by a
contractor. All the software updates and patches are managed by the IT
department of Highlander, Incorporated. Group policies are used to lock
down the desktop computers, including the use of Applocker to restrict
the installation of any third-party applications.There are one hundred
employees who work from their home offices. Employees who work
from home use their own computers, laptops, and personal smartphones.
, They authenticate to a cloud-based domain service, which is
synchronized with the corporate internal domain service. The computers
are updated and patched through the cloud-based domain service.
Applocker is not used to restrict the installati
Answer: B
●● Which fundamental element of information security refers to an
assurance that the information is accessible only to those authorized to
have access?
(A) Availability
(B) Integrity
(C) Authenticity
(D) Confidentiality
Answer: D
●● Ransomware encrypts the files and locks systems, thereby leaving
the system in an unusable state. The compromised user has to pay
ransom to the attacker to unlock the system and get the files decrypted.
Petya delivers malicious code can that even destroy the data with no
scope of recovery. What is this malicious code called?
(A) Bot
(B) Vulnerability
