GCIA Exam Questions

You are the Network Administrator for a large corporate network. You want to monitor all network traffic on your local network for suspicious activities and receive a notification...

Adam works as a professional Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator. He wants to investigate a suspicious email that is sent using a Microsoft Exchange server. Which of the followi...

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...

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 t...

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...

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 si...

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....

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 t...

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 (connecti...

Which of the following is the default port for POP3?

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...

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?

The following output is generated by running the show ip route command: RouterA#show ip route < - - Output Omitted for brevity - -> Which next hop address will RouterA use in forwa...

Which of the following types of firewall ensures that the packets are part of the established session?

Which of the following terms describes an attempt to transfer DNS zone data?

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...

What are the limitations of the POP3 protocol? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose three.

What is the order of the extension headers that is followed by IPv6?

Which of the following statements about FTP is true?

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 su...

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the that one packet fragment overlaps data from a previous fragment so that he can perform...

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 signat...

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 repor...

You work as a network administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. Rick, your assistant, requires information regarding his computer's IP address lease start date and expiry date. Which of...

You work as a Network Administrator for Net Perfect Inc. The company has a Windows Server 2008- based network. You have created a test domain for testing IPv6 addressing. Which of...

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned a project for testing the performing attacks on the server is made easy and he can observe the flaws in the We-are...

Which of the following is the correct order of loading system files into the main memory of the system, when the computer is running on Microsoft's Windows XP operating system?

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...

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

Trinity wants to send an email to her friend. She uses the MD5 generator to calculate cryptographic hash of her email to ensure the security and integrity of the email. MD5 generat...

Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) is a hash sharing method of spam email detection. Which of the following protocols does the DCC use?

Which of the following proxy servers is placed anonymously between the client and remote server and handles all of the traffic from the client?

You work as a Network Administrator for SmartCert Inc. The company's network contains five Windows 2003 servers and ninety Windows XP Professional client computers. You want to vie...

Adam, a malicious hacker purposely sends fragmented ICMP packets to a remote target. The total size of this ICMP packet once reconstructed is over 65,536 bytes. On the basis of abo...

You work as a Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator for SecureNet Inc. You want to investigate Cross-Site Scripting attack on your company's Website. Which of the following method...

You work as a professional Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator. A project has been assigned to you to investigate Plagiarism occurred in the source code files of C#. Which of th...

Which of the following IPv6 transition technologies is used by the DirectAccess if a user is in a remote location and a public IPv4 address, instead of public IPv6 address, has bee...

Maria works as the Chief Security Officer for passguide Inc. She wants to send secret messages to the CEO of the company. To secure these messages, she uses a technique of hiding a...

Which of the following is allowed by a company to be addressed directly from the public network and is hardened to screen the rest of its network from security exposure?

You work as a technician for Tech Perfect Inc. You are troubleshooting an Internet name resolution issue. You ping your ISP's DNS server address and find that the server is down. Y...

In a complex network, Router transfers data packets by observing some form of parameters or metrics provided in the routing table. Which of the following metrics is NOT included in...

What is the easiest way to verify that name resolution is functioning properly on a TCP/IP network?

Which of the following tools is an open source protocol analyzer that can capture traffic in real time?

Which of the following types of firewall functions by creating two different communications, one between the client and the firewall, and the other between the firewall and the end...

Adam, an expert computer user, doubts that virus named love.exe has attacked his computer. This virus acquires hidden and read-only attributes, so it is difficult to delete it. Ada...

Which of the following is the primary TCP/IP protocol used to transfer text and binary files over the Internet?

Adam works as a professional Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator. A project has been assigned to him to investigate and examine drive image of a compromised system, which is sus...

You are planning DNS configuration for your company. You decide to configure an Active Directory integrated DNS. Which of the following are the benefits of Active Directory integra...

Adam works as a Network Administrator for passguide Inc. He wants to prevent the network from DOS attacks. Which of the following is most useful against DOS attacks?

You work as a Network Administrator of a TCP/IP network. You are having DNS resolution problem. Which of the following utilities will you use to diagnose the problem?