A penetration tester needs to upload the results of a port scan to a centralized security tool. Which of the following commands would allow the tester to save the results in an interchangeable format?

Question

Options

• Anmap -iL results 192.168.0.10-100
• Bnmap 192.168.0.10-100 -O > results
• Cnmap -A 192.168.0.10-100 -oX results
• Dnmap 192.168.0.10-100 | grep "results"

• A
  16% (9)
• B
  9% (5)
• C
  3% (2)
• D
  72% (42)

Explanation

NOTE: The listed answer (D) appears to be a key error. The technically correct answer is C. The '-oX' flag in nmap saves scan results in XML format, which is a widely accepted interchangeable format supported by security tools like Metasploit, Nessus, and vulnerability management platforms. Option A uses '-iL' which reads targets from a file (input, not output). Option B uses '-O' for OS detection and '>' for plain-text redirection, which is not an interchangeable format. Option D pipes output through grep filtering for the word 'results' - this neither saves nor formats output for tool ingestion. XML via '-oX' is the standard answer for interchangeable/machine-readable nmap output.

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