An administrator discovers a vulnerability in the network. On analysis of the vulnerability the administrator decides the cost of managing the risk outweighs the cost of the risk itself. The…
Match the threat actors with the descriptions. (Not all options are used.) Explanation & Hint: Hacktivists: They are threat actors that publicly protest against organizations or governments by posting articles,…
What scenario describes a vulnerability broker? a teenager running existing scripts, tools, and exploits, to cause harm, but typically not for profit a threat actor attempting to discover exploits and…
Which type of attack is carried out by threat actors against a network to determine which IP addresses, protocols, and ports are allowed by ACLs? phishing reconnaissance denial of service…
A network administrator is checking the system logs and notices unusual connectivity tests to multiple well-known ports on a server. What kind of potential network attack could this indicate? access…
Which devices should be secured to mitigate against MAC address spoofing attacks? Layer 7 devices Layer 4 devices Layer 2 devices Layer 3 devices Answers Explanation & Hints: Layer 2…
Why would an attacker want to spoof a MAC address? so that a switch on the LAN will start forwarding frames to the attacker instead of to the legitimate host…
Which two types of attacks are examples of reconnaissance attacks? (Choose two.) port scan SYN flood ping sweep brute force man-in-the-middle Answers Explanation & Hints: Reconnaissance attacks attempt to gather…
Which two characteristics describe a virus? (Choose two.) A self-replicating attack that is independently launched. Malicious code that can remain dormant before executing an unwanted action. Program code specifically designed…
What are the three major components of a worm attack? (Choose three.) an enabling vulnerability an infecting vulnerability a payload a penetration mechanism a probing mechanism a propagation mechanism Answers…
Which protocol is exploited by cybercriminals who create malicious iFrames? DNS DHCP HTTP ARP Answers Explanation & Hints: An HTML element known as an inline frame or iFrame allows the…
What is the result of a passive ARP poisoning attack? Confidential information is stolen. Data is modified in transit or malicious data is inserted in transit. Multiple subdomains are created.…
What are two methods used by cybercriminals to mask DNS attacks? (Choose two.) reflection tunneling fast flux domain generation algorithms shadowing Answers Explanation & Hints: Fast flux, double IP flux,…
What technique is a security attack that depletes the pool of IP addresses available for legitimate hosts? reconnaissance attack DHCP spoofing DHCP snooping DHCP starvation Answers Explanation & Hints: DHCP…
A technician is configuring email on a mobile device. The user wants to be able to keep the original email on the server, organize it into folders, and synchronize the…
Refer to the exhibit. This PC is unable to communicate with the host at 172.16.0.100. What information can be gathered from the displayed output? The target host is turned off.…
Which field in an IPv4 packet header will typically stay the same during its transmission? Flag Time-to-Live Packet Length Destination Address Answers Explanation & Hints: The value in the Destination…
Which PDU is processed when a host computer is de-encapsulating a message at the transport layer of the TCP/IP model? bits frame packet segment Answers Explanation & Hints: At the…
What are two benefits of using an ext4 partition instead of ext3? (Choose two.) compatibility with CDFS compatibility with NTFS decreased load time improved performance an increase in the number…
What is the outcome when a Linux administrator enters the man man command? The man man command configures the network interface with a manual address The man man command provides…