GCIA Exam Questions

Which of the following tools is described below? It is a set of tools that are used for sniffing passwords, e-mail, and HTTP traffic. Some of its tools include arpredirect, macof,...

Which of the following algorithms is used as a default algorithm for ESP extension header in IPv6?

Adam, a malicious hacker performs an exploit, which is given below: ################################################################# $port = 53; # Spawn cmd.exe on port X $your =...

Which of the following methods is used by forensic investigators to acquire an image over the network in a secure manner?

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...

Ryan, a malicious hacker submits Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) exploit code to the Website of Internet forum for online discussion. When a user visits the infected Web page, code gets...

A firewall is a combination of hardware and software, used to provide security to a network. It is used to protect an internal network or intranet against unauthorized access from...

You work as a Network Administrator for Infonet Inc. The company has a Windows Server 2008 domainbased network. The network has three Windows Server 2008 member servers and 150 Win...

Which of the following tools allows an attacker to intentionally craft the packets to gain unauthorized access? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

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...

Which of the following wireless security features provides the best wireless security mechanism?

John, a novice web user, makes a new E-mail account and keeps his password as "apple", his favorite fruit. John's password is vulnerable to which of the following password cracking...

You work as a Network Administrator for McRobert Inc. You want to know the NetBIOS name of your computer. Which of the following commands will you use?

Which of the following NETSH commands for interface Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) is used to add a DNS server to a list of DNS servers for a specified interface?

Which of the following IP packet elements is responsible for authentication while using IPSec?

The Intrusion Detection System (IDS) instructs the firewall to reject any request from a particular IP address if the network is repeatedly attacked from this address. What is this...

Which of the following ICMP types refers to the message "Time Exceeded"?

Which of the following can be monitored by using the host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS)?

Which of the following malicious programs changes its signature continuously to be invisible to IDS?

Which of the following is an example of a firewall?

Which of the following attacks is based on the concept that IDSs cannot recognize Unicode encoded malicious data?

Which of the following is true for XSS, SQL injection, and RFI?

Which of the following ports is used by e-mail clients to send request to connect to the server?

Which of the following software is used for Steganography?

Which of the following fields of the IPv6 header is similar to the TTL field of IPv4?

Which of the following commands is used to refresh the Master Boot Record (MBR) in MS-DOS?

Which of the following interfaces is NOT used for connecting a hard disk?

Which of the following is not a function of the Snort utility?

Which of the following tools is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system that operates as a network sniffer?

Which of the following is used to provide a protective shield for the data passing over the Internet?

Which of the following snort keywords is used to match a defined payload value?

Which of the following monitors program activities and modifies malicious activities on a system?

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...

Ryan, a malicious hacker submits Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) exploit code to the Website of Internet forum for online discussion. When a user visits the infected Web page, code gets...

Which of the following tools is used to locate lost files and partitions to restore data from a formatted, damaged, or lost partition in Windows and Apple Macintosh computers?

You work as a Network Administrator for Infonet Inc. The company has a Windows Server 2008 domain-based network. The network has three Windows Server 2008 member servers and 150 Wi...

Which of the following commands is used to verify the hash value in Netcat?

Which of the following is used to hash the information in Netcat?

Which of the following is used for remote file access by UNIX/Linux systems?

Which of the following partitions contains the system files that are used to start the operating system?

Which of the following is a checksum algorithm?

In which of the following attacks does a hacker imitate a DNS server and obtain the entire DNS database?

Which of the following groups provides tools and creates procedures for testing and validating computer forensic software?

Which of the following image file formats uses a lossy data compression technique?

Which of the following is computed from an arbitrary block of digital data for the purpose of detecting accidental errors?

Which of the following IP packet elements is responsible for authentication while using IPSec?

Which of the following ports can be used for IP spoofing?

Which of the following protocols is used to translate IP addresses to Ethernet addresses?

Which of the following attacks is also known as the bucket-brigade attack?

Which of the following DoS attacks is a multi-tier attack?