ECSS Exam Questions

Peter, a malicious hacker, obtains e-mail addresses by harvesting them from postings, blogs, DNS listings, and Web pages. He then sends large number of unsolicited commercial e-mai...

You work as a Desktop Technician for Umbrella Inc. The company has a Windows-based network. You receive an e-mail from the network administrator's e-mail ID asking you to provide y...

You work as a Network Security Administrator for NetPerfect Inc. The company has a Windowsbased network. You are incharge of the data and network security of the company. While per...

You work as a professional Ethical Hacker. You are assigned a project to perform blackbox testing of information about the Webserver being used by we-are-secure. Which of the follo...

You work as the Network Administrator for McNeil Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. You are working as a root user on Red Hat operating system. You are currently running a...

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the security testing the security of the server: - Footprinting - Scanning Now he wants to...

You work as a Network Administrator for Infonet Inc. The company's network is connected to the Internet. The network has a Web server that is accessible to Internet users. For secu...

Which of the following tools is used to catch someone installing a rootkit or running a packet sniffer?

You work as a Network Administrator for Maverick Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. You are working on a Linux computer. You want to see the environment variables that are...

Which of the following statements are true about Public-key cryptography? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

On March 6, 2003, The SCO Group asserted that there are legal uncertainties regarding the use of the Linux operating system due to alleged violations of IBM's Unix licenses in the...

Which of the following refers to a computer that must be secure because it is accessible from the Internet and is vulnerable to attacks?

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned a project to test the security of The output of the scanning test is as follows: C.\whisker.pl -h target_IP_addres...

Mark has been assigned a project to configure a wireless network for a company. The network should contain a Windows 2003 server and 30 Windows XP client computers. Mark has a sing...

Which of the following are the types of DOS commands? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Adam, a novice Web user is getting large amount of unsolicited commercial emails on his email address. He suspects that the emails he is receiving are the Spam. Which of the follow...

You work as a computer operator for BlueWells Inc. The company has a Windows-based network. You find out that someone has manipulated your email account, as some of your mails have...

You have been assigned the job of configuring wireless networks for a large company. The security of these networks is of great importance. One of the tools that you can use for ap...

You work as a system administrator for BlueSkwer.com. You have just finished installing and configuring a new laptop for the CEO. The laptop has Windows 7 operating system. You hav...

An attacker wants to launch an attack on a wired Ethernet. He wants to accomplish the following tasks: - Sniff data frames on a local area network. - Modify the network traffic. -...

Which of the following tools is used to detect wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g WLAN standards on the Windows platform?

Which of the following tools can be used for steganography? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Which of the following statements are true about firewalking? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

You are using the dsniff tool to intercept communications between two entities and establish credentials with both sides of the connections. These entities do not notice that you w...

Which of the following tools will you use to prevent from session hijacking? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Which of the following statutes is enacted in the U.S., which prohibits creditors from collecting data from applicants, such as national origin, caste, religion etc?

Net Spy Pro is the latest network monitoring software. This program helps a user to know what the others are doing on their computers. What are the features of this program? Each c...

Which of the following commands is used to make traceroute wait 5 seconds for a response to a packet?

Which of the following is a form of cheating or copying someone else's work or idea without acknowledging the source?

By gaining full control of router, hackers often acquire full control of the network. Which of the following methods are commonly used to attack Routers? Each correct answer repres...

You work as a Network Administrator for Infonet Inc. The company's office has a wireless network. Wireless access point on the network works as a router and DHCP server. You want t...

You work as a Network Administrator for DataSoft Inc. The company needs a secure network. You have been assigned the task to track the network attacks that have occurred within the...

Which of the following is a valid IP address for class B Networks?

Maria works as a Security Administrator for NetPerfect Inc. The company has a Windows-based network. Maria wants to ensure that the Sales executives of the company are able to surf...

Sam, a bank employee, develops a program and uploads it to the bank's server. He deducts $1 a month from the account of every customer using the program. Probably no account holder...

According to the Sophos Security Threat Report 2009, which amongst the following countries is on the top, in hosting malware on the web?

You have made a program secure.c to display which ports are open and what types of services are running on these ports. You want to write the program's output to standard output an...

Which of the following are the ways of sending secure e-mail messages over the Internet? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

You are the Administrator for a corporate network. You are concerned about denial of service attacks. Which of the following measures would be most helpful in defending against a D...

Which method would provide the highest level of protection for all data transmitted on the internal network only? (Click the Exhibit button on the toolbar to see the case study.)

Fill in the blank with the appropriate name of the attack. ____________ takes best advantage of an existing authenticated connection

Which of the following U.S. Federal laws addresses computer crime activities in communication lines, stations, or systems?

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned a project to test the security of of DoS attack and he makes the following suggestions to the security authority t...

Mark works as a Network Security Administrator for BlueWells Inc. The company has a Windowsbased network. Mark is giving a presentation on Network security threats to the newly rec...

Victor is a novice Ethical Hacker. He is learning the hacking process, i.e., the steps taken by malicious hackers to perform hacking. Which of the following steps is NOT included i...

You are a professional Computer Hacking forensic investigator. You have been called to collect the evidences of Buffer Overflows or Cookie snooping attack. Which of the following l...

Rick, the Network Administrator of the Fimbry Hardware Inc., wants to design the initial test model for Internet Access. He wants to fulfill the following goals: -No external traff...

Mark works as a Network Security Administrator for Umbrella Inc. The company has a Windows domain-based network. To provide security to the network, Mark plans to configure IDS. He...

Which two security components should you implement on the sales personnel portable computers to increase security? (Click the Exhibit button on the toolbar to see the case study.)...

Mark works as a Network Administrator for Infonet Inc. The company has a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain-based network. The domain contains one hundred Windows XP Professional...