EC-COUNCIL EC-COUNCIL Certifications 312-50V8 Questions & Answers

• Question 301:

  A security analyst is performing an audit on the network to determine if there are any deviations from the security policies in place. The analyst discovers that a user from the IT department had a dial-out modem installed.

  Which security policy must the security analyst check to see if dial-out modems are allowed?

  A. Firewall-management policy

  B. Acceptable-use policy

  C. Remote-access policy

  D. Permissive policy

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 302:

  Which tool is used to automate SQL injections and exploit a database by forcing a given web application to connect to another database controlled by a hacker?

  A. DataThief

  B. NetCat

  C. Cain and Abel

  D. SQLInjector

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 303:

  During a wireless penetration test, a tester detects an access point using WPA2 encryption. Which of the following attacks should be used to obtain the key?

  A. The tester must capture the WPA2 authentication handshake and then crack it.

  B. The tester must use the tool inSSIDer to crack it using the ESSID of the network.

  C. The tester cannot crack WPA2 because it is in full compliance with the IEEE 802.11i standard.

  D. The tester must change the MAC address of the wireless network card and then use the AirTraf tool to obtain the key.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 304:

  Which of the following conditions must be given to allow a tester to exploit a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerable web application?

  A. The victim user must open the malicious link with an Internet Explorer prior to version 8.

  B. The session cookies generated by the application do not have the HttpOnly flag set.

  C. The victim user must open the malicious link with a Firefox prior to version 3.

  D. The web application should not use random tokens.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 305:

  A hacker, who posed as a heating and air conditioning specialist, was able to install a sniffer program in a switched environment network.

  Which attack could the hacker use to sniff all of the packets in the network?

  A. Fraggle

  B. MAC Flood

  C. Smurf

  D. Tear Drop

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 306:

  A computer science student needs to fill some information into a secured Adobe PDF job application that was received from a prospective employer. Instead of requesting a new document that allowed the forms to be completed, the student decides to write a script that pulls passwords from a list of commonly used passwords to try against the secured PDF until the correct password is found or the list is exhausted.

  Which cryptography attack is the student attempting?

  A. Man-in-the-middle attack

  B. Brute-force attack

  C. Dictionary attack

  D. Session hijacking

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 307:

  Which of the following items of a computer system will an anti-virus program scan for viruses?

  A. Boot Sector

  B. Deleted Files

  C. Windows Process List

  D. Password Protected Files

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 308:

  Which of the following can take an arbitrary length of input and produce a message digest output of 160 bit?

  A. SHA-1

  B. MD5

  C. HAVAL

  D. MD4

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 309:

  In the software security development life cyle process, threat modeling occurs in which phase?

  A. Design

  B. Requirements

  C. Verification

  D. Implementation

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 310:

  In order to show improvement of security over time, what must be developed?

  A. Reports

  B. Testing tools

  C. Metrics

  D. Taxonomy of vulnerabilities

  Correct Answer: C