GCIA – GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst Practice Test
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Question # 1
Peter works as a professional Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator for eLaw-Suit law firm. He
is working on a case of a cyber crime. Peter knows that the good investigative report should not
only communicate the relevant facts, but also present expert opinion. This report should not
include the cases in which the expert acted as a lay witness. Which of the following type of
witnesses is a lay witness?
A. One who can give a firsthand account of something seen, heard, or experienced. B. One with special knowledge of the subject about which he or she is testifying. C. One who observes an event. D. One who is not qualified as an expert witness.
Answer: D
Question # 2
In which of the following IDS evasion techniques does an attacker deliver data in multiple small
sized packets, which makes it very difficult for an IDS to detect the attack signatures of such
attacks?
A. Insertion B. Session splicing C. Fragmentation overlap D. Fragmentation overwrite
Answer: B
Question # 3
John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the
security of www.we-are-secure.com. He wants to send malicious data packets in such a manner
that one packet fragment overlaps data from a previous fragment so that he can perform IDS
evasion on the We-are-secure server and execute malicious data. Which of the following tools can
he use to accomplish the task?
A. Hunt B. Alchemy Remote Executor C. Mendax D. Ettercap
Answer: C
Question # 4
Rick works as a Computer Forensic Investigator for BlueWells Inc. He has been informed that
some confidential information is being leaked out by an employee of the company. Rick suspects
that someone is sending the information through email. He checks the emails sent by some
employees to other networks. Rick finds out that Sam, an employee of the Sales department, is
continuously sending text files that contain special symbols, graphics, and signs. Rick suspects
that Sam is using the Steganography technique to send data in a disguised form. Which of the
following techniques is Sam using?
Each correct answer represents a part of the solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Text Semagrams B. Linguistic steganography C. Technical steganography D. Perceptual masking
Answer: A,B
Question # 5
Which of the following statements about FTP is true?
A. It holds files transmitted through POP3 mail. B. It manages network devices. C. It connects file servers on the World Wide Web. D. It transfers files between computers. E. It allows password free file transfers.
Answer: D
Question # 6
What is the order of the extension headers that is followed by IPv6?
A. Destination Options (first), Routing, IPv6 header, Hop-by-Hop, Fragment, Authentication, Encrypted Security Payload, Destination Options (second), followed by an Upper-layer header, indicating payload. B. Routing, Hop-by-Hop, Destination Options (first), Fragment, Authentication, Encrypted Security Payload, Destination Options (second), followed by an Upper-layer header, indicating payload. C. Fragment, Routing, Hop-by-Hop, Destination Options (first), Authentication, Encrypted Security Payload, Destination Options (second), followed by an Upper-layer header, indicating payload. D. IPv6 header, Hop-by-Hop, Destination Options (first), Routing, Fragment, Authentication, Encrypted Security Payload, Destination Options (second), followed by an Upper-layer header, indicating payload.
Answer: D
Question # 7
What are the limitations of the POP3 protocol?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose three.
A. E-mails can be retrieved only from the Inbox folder of a mailbox. E-mails stored in any other folder are not accessible. B. It is only a retrieval protocol. It is designed to work with other applications that provide the ability to send e-mails. C. It does not support retrieval of encrypted e-mails. D. It uses less memory space.
Answer: A,B,C
Question # 8
You work as a Network Administrator for McRobert Inc. Your company has a TCP/IP-based
network. You want to get the protocol statistics and the active TCP/IP network connections of your
computer. Which of the following will you use?
A. IPSTAT B. SNMP C. ARP D. NBTSTAT E. NETSTAT
Answer: E
Question # 9
Which of the following terms describes an attempt to transfer DNS zone data?
A. Reconnaissance B. Encapsulation C. Dumpster diving D. Spam
Answer: A
Question # 10
Which of the following types of firewall ensures that the packets are part of the established
session?
A. Switch-level firewall B. Application-level firewall C. Stateful inspection firewall D. Circuit-level firewall
Answer: C
Question # 11
Which of the following units of data does the data-link layer send from the network layer to the
physical layer of the OSI model?
A. Protocols B. Raw bits C. Data packets D. Data frames E. Data segments
Answer: D
Question # 12
You work as a network administrator for BlueWell Inc. You have to convert your 48-bit host
address (MAC address) to an IPv6 54-bit address. Using the IEEE-EUI-64 conversion process,
how do you convert the 48-bit host address (MAC address) to an IPv6 54-bit address?
A. Add EF. FE between the third and fourth bytes. B. Add FE. EE between the third and fourth bytes. C. Add FF. EE between the third and fourth bytes. D. Add FF. FE between the third and fourth bytes
Answer: D
Question # 13
Which of the following is the default port for POP3?
A. 21 B. 110 C. 80 D. 25
Answer: B
Question # 14
You are implementing a host based intrusion detection system on your web server. You feel that
the best way to monitor the web server is to find your baseline of activity (connections, traffic, etc.)
and to monitor for conditions above that baseline. This type of IDS is called __________.
A. Anomaly Based B. Reactive IDS C. Passive IDS D. Signature Based
Answer: A
Question # 15
John works as a Network Security Administrator for NetPerfect Inc. The manager of the company
has told John that the company's phone bill has increased drastically. John suspects that the
company's phone system has been cracked by a malicious hacker. Which attack is used by
malicious hackers to crack the phone system?
A. War dialing B. Sequence++ attack C. Phreaking D. Man-in-the-middle attack
Answer: C
Question # 16
John, a malicious hacker, forces a router to stop forwarding packets by flooding it with many open
connections simultaneously so that all hosts behind it are effectively disabled. Which of the
following attacks is John performing?
A. Rainbow attack B. DoS attack C. ARP spoofing D. Replay attack
Answer: B
Question # 17
You work as a Network Administrator for Net Perfect Inc. The company has a Windows
Server2008 network environment. The network is configured as a Windows Active Directory-based
single forest single domain network. The network is configured on IP version 6 protocol. All the
computers on the network are connected to a switch device. One day, users complain that they
are unable to connect to a file server. You try to ping the client computers from the server, but the
pinging fails. You try to ping the server's own loopback address, but it fails to ping. You restart the
server, but the problem persists.
What is the most likely cause?
A. The switch device is not working. B. The cable that connects the server to the switch is broken. C. Automatic IP addressing is not working. D. The server's NIC is not working. E. The server is configured with unspecified IP address.
Answer: D
Question # 18
You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. The company has a TCP/IP-based
network. You want to know the current TCP/IP network configuration settings, DHCP server IP
address, and DHCP lease expiration date of your network.
Which of the following utilities will you use?
A. PING B. TELNET C. TRACERT D. IPCONFIG
Answer: D
Question # 19
Session splicing is an IDS evasion technique in which an attacker delivers data in multiple
smallsized packets to the target computer. Hence, it becomes very difficult for an IDS to detect the
attack signatures of such attacks. Which of the following tools can be used to perform session
splicing attacks?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Nessus B. Y.A.T. C. Whisker D. Fragroute
Answer: A,C
Question # 20
Victor wants to send an encrypted message to his friend. He is using certain steganography
technique to accomplish this task. He takes a cover object and changes it accordingly to hide
information. This secret information is recovered only when the algorithm compares the changed
cover with the original cover. Which of the following Steganography methods is Victor using to
accomplish the task?
A. The distortion technique B. The spread spectrum technique C. The cover generation technique D. The substitution technique
Answer: A
Question # 21
Which of the following is used as a default port by the TELNET utility?
A. 21 B. 80 C. 23 D. 20
Answer: C
Question # 22
Which of the following is a hardware/software platform that is designed to analyze, detect, and
report on security related events. NIPS is designed to inspect traffic and based on its configuration
or security policy, it can drop the malicious traffic?
A. NIPS B. HIPS C. NIDS D. HIDS
Answer: A
Question # 23
Which of the following are the types of intrusion detection systems?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Server-based intrusion detection system (SIDS) B. Network intrusion detection system (NIDS) C. Client-based intrusion detection system (CIDS) D. Host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS)
Answer: B,D
Question # 24
You are concerned about outside attackers penetrating your network via your company Web
server. You wish to place your Web server between two firewalls. One firewall between the Web
server and the outside world. The other between the Web server and your network. What is this
called?
A. DMZ B. SPI firewall C. IDS D. Application Gateway firewall
Answer: A
Question # 25
You work as a System Administrator for McNeil Inc. The company has a Linux-based network.
You are a root user on the Red Hat operating system. Your network is configured for IPv6 IP
addressing. Which of the following commands will you use to test TCP/IP connectivity?
A. ping6 B. ifconfig C. traceroute D. ping
Answer: A
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