GCIA Exam Questions

Which of the following is a reason to implement security logging on a DNS server?

Which of the following is the process of categorizing attack alerts produced from an IDS in order to distinguish false positives from actual attacks?

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...

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the description of the tool is as follows: Which of the following tools is John using to cr...

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 utilities produces the output shown in the image below?

An attacker changes the address of a sub-routine in such a manner that it begins to point to the address of the malicious code. As a result, when the function has been exited, the...

When no anomaly is present in an Intrusion Detection, but an alarm is generated, the response is known as __________.

Victor works as a professional Ethical Hacker for SecureEnet Inc. He wants to scan the wireless network of the company. He uses a tool that is a free open-source utility for networ...

Web applications are accessed by communicating over TCP ports via an IP address. Choose the two most common Web Application TCP ports and their respective protocol names. Each corr...

Which of the following statements about Secure Shell (SSH) are true? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose three.

Which of the following utilities provides an efficient way to give specific users permission to use specific system commands at the root level of a Linux operating system?

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...

Which of the following protocols is used by voice over IP (VoIP) applications?

Which of the following tools can be used for passive OS fingerprinting?

Which of the following utilities is used to display the current TCP/IP configuration of a Windows NT computer?

Which of the following would allow you to automatically close connections or restart a server or service when a DoS attack is detected?

Which of the following is an asymmetric encryption algorithm?

Adam works as a professional Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator. He has been assigned with a project to investigate a computer in the network of SecureEnet Inc. The compromised...

Sandra, an expert computer user, hears five beeps while booting her computer that has AMI BIOS; and after that her computer stops responding. Sandra knows that during booting proce...

You work as a Network Administrator for McNeil Inc. The company has a TCP/IP-based network. You are configuring an Internet connection for your company. Your Internet service provi...

Which of the following tools works by using standard set of MS-DOS commands and can create an MD5 hash of an entire drive, partition, or selected files?

Which of the following firewalls operates at three layers- Layer3, Layer4, and Layer5?

You work as a Network Administrator in a company. The NIDS is implemented on the network. You want to monitor network traffic. Which of the following modes will you configure on th...

Which of the following programs is used to add words to spam e-mails so that the e-mail is not considered spam and therefore is delivered as if it were a normal message?

Which of the following is a valid IPv6 address?

Adam works as a professional Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator. A project has been assigned to him to investigate computer of an unfaithful employee of SecureEnet Inc. Suspect...

You are responsible for security at a company that specializes in e-commerce. You realize that given the high volume of Web traffic, there is a significant chance of someone being...

Which of the following Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks employ IP fragmentation mechanism? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

What are the advantages of stateless autoconfigration in IPv6? Each correct answer represents a part of the solution. Choose three.

What are the advantages of an application layer firewall? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Victor works as a professional Ethical Hacker for SecureNet Inc. He wants to use Steganographic file system method to encrypt and hide some secret information. Which of the followi...

Adam works as a professional Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator. A project has been assigned to him to investigate the main server of SecureEnet Inc. The server runs on Debian...

You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. The company has a TCP/IP-based network. A branch office is connected to the headquarters through a T1 line. Users at the b...

Andrew works as an Administrator for a Windows 2000 based network. The network has a primary external DNS server, and a secondary DNS server located on the ISP's UNIX server, in or...

Adam works on a Linux system. He is using Sendmail as the primary application to transmit e- mails. Linux uses Syslog to maintain logs of what has occurred on the system. Which of...

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

Ben works as a Network Administrator in Business Software Solutions Ltd. The company uses a Windowsbased operating system throughout its network. Ben finds the following mail excha...

Which of the following IPv4 to IPv6 transition methods uses encapsulation of IPv6 packets to traverse IPv4 networks?

An IDS is a group of processes working together in a network. These processes work on different computers and devices across the network. Which of the following processes does an I...

Which of the following tools is used to detect round-robin-load-balancing?

Which of the following technologies is used to detect unauthorized attempts to access and manipulate computer systems locally or through the Internet or an intranet?

Which of the following is the default port for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?

Which of the following is an example of penetration testing?

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker for SecureEnet Inc. The company has a Windowsbased network. All client computers run on Windows XP. A project has been assigned to John...

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...

Which of the following configuration schemes in IPv6 allows a client to automatically configure its own IP address with or without IPv6 routers?

John works as a Security Administrator for NetPerfect Inc. The company uses Windows-based systems. A project has been assigned to John to track malicious hackers and to strengthen...

Adam, a malicious hacker is running a scan. Statistics of the scan is as follows: Which of the following types of port scan is Adam running?

Which of the following commands will you use with the tcpdump command to capture the traffic from a filter stored in a file?