EC-COUNCIL EC-COUNCIL Certifications 312-49 Questions & Answers

• Question 381:

  Bill is the accounting manager for Grummon and Sons LLC in Chicago. On a regular basis, he needs to

  send PDF documents containing sensitive information through E-mail to his customers.

  Bill protects the PDF documents with a password and sends them to their intended recipients.

  Why PDF passwords do not offer maximum protection?

  A. PDF passwords can easily be cracked by software brute force tools

  B. PDF passwords are converted to clear text when sent through E-mail

  C. PDF passwords are not considered safe by Sarbanes-Oxley

  D. When sent through E-mail, PDF passwords are stripped from the document completely

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 382:

  You are the network administrator for a small bank in Dallas, Texas. To ensure network security, you enact a security policy that requires all users to have 14 character passwords. After giving your users 2 weeks notice, you change the Group Policy to force 14 character passwords. A week later you dump the SAM database from the standalone server and run a password-cracking tool against it. Over 99% of the passwords are broken within an hour. Why were these passwords cracked so Quickly?

  A. Passwords of 14 characters or less are broken up into two 7-character hashes

  B. A password Group Policy change takes at least 3 weeks to completely replicate throughout a network

  C. Networks using Active Directory never use SAM databases so the SAM database pulled was empty

  D. The passwords that were cracked are local accounts on the Domain Controller

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 383:

  An "idle" system is also referred to as what?

  A. PC not connected to the Internet

  B. Zombie

  C. PC not being used

  D. Bot

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 384:

  Larry is an IT consultant who works for corporations and government agencies. Larry plans on shutting down the city's network using BGP devices and zombies? What type of Penetration Testing is Larry planning to carry out?

  A. Router Penetration Testing

  B. DoS Penetration Testing

  C. Firewall Penetration Testing

  D. Internal Penetration Testing

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 385:

  John and Hillary works at the same department in the company. John wants to find out Hillary's network password so he can take a look at her documents on the file server. He enables Lophtcrack program to sniffing mode. John sends Hillary an email with a link to Error! Reference source not found. What information will he be able to gather from this?

  A. Hillary network username and password hash

  B. The SID of Hillary network account

  C. The SAM file from Hillary computer

  D. The network shares that Hillary has permissions

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 386:

  What is the following command trying to accomplish?

  A. Verify that UDP port 445 is open for the 192.168.0.0 network

  B. Verify that TCP port 445 is open for the 192.168.0.0 network

  C. Verify that NETBIOS is running for the 192.168.0.0 network

  D. Verify that UDP port 445 is closed for the 192.168.0.0 network

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 387:

  You are a security analyst performing a penetration tests for a company in the Midwest. After some initial reconnaissance, you discover the IP addresses of some Cisco routers used by the company. You type in the following URL that includes the IP address of one of the routers: http://172.168.4.131/level/99/exec/show/config

  After typing in this URL, you are presented with the entire configuration file for that router. What have you discovered?

  A. HTTP Configuration Arbitrary Administrative Access Vulnerability

  B. HTML Configuration Arbitrary Administrative Access Vulnerability

  C. Cisco IOS Arbitrary Administrative Access Online Vulnerability

  D. URL Obfuscation Arbitrary Administrative Access Vulnerability

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 388:

  Jessica works as systems administrator for a large electronics firm. She wants to scan her network quickly to detect live hosts by using ICMP ECHO Requests. What type of scan is Jessica going to perform?

  A. Tracert

  B. Smurf scan

  C. Ping trace

  D. ICMP ping sweep

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 389:

  You work as an IT security auditor hired by a law firm in Boston to test whether you can gain access to sensitive information about the company clients. You have rummaged through their trash and found very little information. You do not want to set off any alarms on their network, so you plan on performing passive foot printing against their Web servers. What tool should you use?

  A. Ping sweep

  B. Nmap

  C. Netcraft

  D. Dig

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 390:

  You are assisting a Department of Defense contract company to become compliant with the stringent security policies set by the DoD. One such strict rule is that firewalls must only allow incoming connections that were first initiated by internal computers. What type of firewall must you implement to abide by this policy?

  A. Packet filtering firewall

  B. Circuit-level proxy firewall

  C. Application-level proxy firewall

  D. Stateful firewall

  Correct Answer: D