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

• Question 531:

  An IT security engineer notices that the company's web server is currently being hacked. What should the engineer do next?

  A. Unplug the network connection on the company's web server.

  B. Determine the origin of the attack and launch a counterattack.

  C. Record as much information as possible from the attack.

  D. Perform a system restart on the company's web server.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 532:

  Which United States legislation mandates that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) must sign statements verifying the completeness and accuracy of financial reports?

  A. Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

  B. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)

  C. Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA)

  D. Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 533:

  Which of the following is a component of a risk assessment?

  A. Physical security

  B. Administrative safeguards

  C. DMZ

  D. Logical interface

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 534:

  What information should an IT system analysis provide to the risk assessor?

  A. Management buy-in

  B. Threat statement

  C. Security architecture

  D. Impact analysis

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 535:

  Which of the following descriptions is true about a static NAT?

  A. A static NAT uses a many-to-many mapping.

  B. A static NAT uses a one-to-many mapping.

  C. A static NAT uses a many-to-one mapping.

  D. A static NAT uses a one-to-one mapping.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 536:

  Which of the following does proper basic configuration of snort as a network intrusion detection system require?

  A. Limit the packets captured to the snort configuration file.

  B. Capture every packet on the network segment.

  C. Limit the packets captured to a single segment.

  D. Limit the packets captured to the /var/log/snort directory.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 537:

  When analyzing the IDS logs, the system administrator notices connections from outside of the LAN have

  been sending packets where the Source IP address and Destination IP address are the same. There have

  been no alerts sent via email or logged in the IDS.

  Which type of an alert is this?

  A. False positive

  B. False negative

  C. True positive

  D. True negative

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 538:

  Which of the following techniques will identify if computer files have been changed?

  A. Network sniffing

  B. Permission sets

  C. Integrity checking hashes

  D. Firewall alerts

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 539:

  An organization hires a tester to do a wireless penetration test. Previous reports indicate that the last test did not contain management or control packets in the submitted traces.

  Which of the following is the most likely reason for lack of management or control packets?

  A. The wireless card was not turned on.

  B. The wrong network card drivers were in use by Wireshark.

  C. On Linux and Mac OS X,only 802.11 headers are received in promiscuous mode.

  D. Certain operating systems and adapters do not collect the management or control packets.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 540:

  Which statement is TRUE regarding network firewalls preventing Web Application attacks?

  A. Network firewalls can prevent attacks because they can detect malicious HTTP traffic.

  B. Network firewalls cannot prevent attacks because ports 80 and 443 must be opened.

  C. Network firewalls can prevent attacks if they are properly configured.

  D. Network firewalls cannot prevent attacks because they are too complex to configure.

  Correct Answer: B