Ethical Hacking CA Test

Question 1

Which of the following statements best describes a white-hat hacker?

Security professional
Former black hat
Former grey hat
Malicious hacker

Question 2

A security audit performed on the internal network of an organization by the network administration is also known as?

Grey-box testing
Black-box testing
White-box testing
Active testing
Passive testing

Question 3

What is the first phase of hacking?

Attack
Maintaining access
Gaining access
Reconnaissance
Scanning

Question 4

Which type of hacker represents the highest risk to your network?

Disgruntled employees
Black-hat hackersGrey-hat hackers
Script kiddies

Question 5

Hacking for a cause is called?

Active hacking
Hacktivism
ActivismBlack-hat hacking

Question 6

When a hacker attempts to attack a host via the Internet it is known as what type of attack?

Remote attack
Physical access
Local access
Internal attack

Question 7

Which phase of hacking performs actual attack on a network or system?

Reconnaissance
Maintaining Access
Scanning
Gaining Access

Question 8

What is the best statement for taking advantage of a weakness in the security of an IT system?

Threat
Attack
Exploit
Vulnerability

Question 9

What is the next step to be performed after footprinting?

Scanning
Enumeration
System hackingActive information gathering

Question 10

Which of the following command is used to create file in Linux?

touch
cat
echo
All of the above

Question 11

Which command is/are used to remove directory in Linux?

rmdir
Rm -r
All of the above

Question 12

Which command(s) is/are used to get help about a command in Linux?

info
Man
None of these
Option (A) and (B)

Question 13

Which of the following OS is not based on Linux?

Ubuntu
Redhat
CentOs
BSD

Question 14

What command is used to list contents of directories?

tar
Dir
lp
ls
None of the above

Question 15

Hidden files can be seen using?

ls -a
ls -l
ls -h
Is – k

Question 16

Which of the following directories contains configuration files in linux?

/dev/
/etc/
/bin/
/root/

Question 17

mv command can be used for?

Renaming a file
Move the file to different directory
Option (A) and (B)
None

Question 18

Why would hackers want to cover their tracks?

To prevent another person from using the programs they have installed on a target system
To prevent detection or discovery
To prevent hacking attempts
To keep other hackers from using their tools.

Question 19

Which of the following is a system designed to attract and identify hackers?

Honeypot
Firewall
Honeytrap
IDS

Question 20

A system that performs attack recognition and alerting for a network is what?

HIDS
NIDS
Anomaly detection HIDS
Signature-based NIDS

Certificate in Ethical Hacking (B23)

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