EC-COUNCIL EC-COUNCIL Certifications 312-50V11 Questions & Answers

• Question 481:

  You are attempting to run an Nmap port scan on a web server. Which of the following commands would result in a scan of common ports with the least amount of noise in order to evade IDS?

  A. nmap -A - Pn

  B. nmap -sP -p-65535 -T5

  C. nmap -sT -O -T0

  D. nmap -A --host-timeout 99 -T1

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 482:

  What does a firewall check to prevent particular ports and applications from getting packets into an organization?

  A. Transport layer port numbers and application layer headers

  B. Presentation layer headers and the session layer port numbers

  C. Network layer headers and the session layer port numbers

  D. Application layer port numbers and the transport layer headers

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 483:

  You just set up a security system in your network. In what kind of system would you find the following string of characters used as a rule within its configuration? alert tcp any any -> 192.168.100.0/24 21 (msg: ""FTP on the network!"";)

  A. A firewall IPTable

  B. FTP Server rule

  C. A Router IPTable

  D. An Intrusion Detection System

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 484:

  What information security law or standard aims at protecting stakeholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent activities within organizations?

  A. PCI-DSS

  B. FISMA

  C. SOX

  D. ISO/I EC 27001:2013

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 485:

  Which of the following tools is used to detect wireless LANs using the 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN standards on a linux platform?

  A. Kismet

  B. Abel

  C. Netstumbler

  D. Nessus

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 486:

  Which of the following commands checks for valid users on an SMTP server?

  A. RCPT

  B. CHK

  C. VRFY

  D. EXPN

  Correct Answer: C

  The VRFY commands enables SMTP clients to send an invitation to an SMTP server to verify that mail for

  a selected user name resides on the server. The VRFY command is defined in RFC 821.The server sends

  a response indicating whether the user is local or not, whether mail are going to be forwarded, and so on.

  A response of 250 indicates that the user name is local; a response of 251 indicates that the user name

  isn't local, but the server can forward the message.

  The server response includes the mailbox name.

• Question 487:

  Hackers often raise the trust level of a phishing message by modeling the email to look similar to the internal email used by the target company. This includes using logos, formatting, and names of the target company. The phishing message will often use the name of the company CEO, President, or Managers. The time a hacker spends performing research to locate this information about a company is known as?

  A. Exploration

  B. Investigation

  C. Reconnaissance

  D. Enumeration

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 488:

  How can rainbow tables be defeated?

  A. Use of non-dictionary words

  B. All uppercase character passwords

  C. Password salting

  D. Lockout accounts under brute force password cracking attempts

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 489:

  Henry is a penetration tester who works for XYZ organization. While performing enumeration on a client organization, he queries the DNS server for a specific cached DNS record. Further, by using this cached record, he determines the sites recently visited by the organization's user. What is the enumeration technique used by Henry on the organization?

  A. DNS zone walking

  B. DNS cache snooping

  C. DNS SEC zone walking

  D. DNS cache poisoning

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 490:

  Jim's company regularly performs backups of their critical servers. But the company cannot afford to send backup tapes to an off-site vendor for long-term storage and archiving. Instead, Jim's company keeps the backup tapes in a safe in the office. Jim's company is audited each year, and the results from this year's audit show a risk because backup tapes are not stored off-site. The Manager of Information Technology has a plan to take the backup tapes home with him and wants to know what two things he can do to secure the backup tapes while in transit?

  A. Encrypt the backup tapes and transport them in a lock box.

  B. Degauss the backup tapes and transport them in a lock box.

  C. Hash the backup tapes and transport them in a lock box.

  D. Encrypt the backup tapes and use a courier to transport them.

  Correct Answer: A