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Which of the following is NOT a type of hacker?
The correct answer is C. Green Hat. Exam Questions, Study Guides, Practice Tests. Lead the way to help you pass any IT Certification exams, 100% Pass Guaranteed or Full Refund. Especially Cisco, Microsoft, CompTIA, Citrix, EMC, HP, Oracle, VMware, Juniper, Check Point, LPI, Nortel, EXIN and so on. Our Slogan…
Question
Which of the following is NOT a type of hacker?
Options
- ABlack Hat
- BGrey Hat
- CGreen Hat
- DWhite Hat
How the community answered
(24 responses)- A4% (1)
- B17% (4)
- C75% (18)
- D4% (1)
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Grace U.Jun 26, 2026Green Hat is not a standard hacker classification, and that is what makes C the correct answer here. The three you will see consistently in study materials and real security conversations are Black Hat (malicious, unauthorized), White Hat (ethical, authorized), and Grey Hat (somewhere in between, often unauthorized but not malicious). Some newer materials throw in Blue Hat or Red Hat in specific contexts, but Green Hat simply does not appear as a recognized category in the core taxonomy you need for this exam. When a question lists something that sounds plausible but has no established definition behind it, that is usually your signal that it is the odd one out.
Brenda K.Jun 24, 2026Green Hat is not real, flag this and bank the 10 seconds.
Ola B.Jun 26, 2026Green Hat absolutely is real, it shows up in EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk deployment configs, so spin up a free-tier Beanstalk environment and you will see it listed right alongside Blue/Green in the deployment policy options.
Ola B.Jun 26, 2026Green Hat is actually a term some people use informally but it is not one of the three recognized hacker classifications you need to know cold for this exam, so if you saw it on a practice question and second-guessed yourself, that is exactly the trap being set. Are you clear on what distinguishes a Grey Hat from the other two, because that one tends to trip people up more than people expect?
Brenda K.Jun 29, 2026Grey Hat is the one that bites people because the line between "unauthorized but well-meaning" and full Black Hat behavior is blurry enough that exam writers can hide the correct answer in the phrasing, so read those distractors word for word and don't let "no malicious intent" automatically steer you to Grey when the question says access was unauthorized and unreported.
Hiroshi T.Jun 26, 2026I initially flagged D as suspicious because White Hat can feel like a colloquial term, not a formal one, but the EC-Council CEH courseware and the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 objectives both name White Hat, Black Hat, and Grey Hat explicitly as recognized actor classifications. Green Hat does not appear in those official study materials or in any vendor blueprint I have seen for this exam domain. Some sites recycle it as slang for a novice attacker, but slang is not a classification and it will not show up in the authoritative source documents the exam writers draw from. Once I went back to the official objectives instead of relying on forum summaries, C was the only answer that had no backing in the vendor documentation.