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

• Question 941:

  Which of the following is a command line packet analyzer similar to GUI-based Wireshark?

  A. Jack the ripper

  B. nessus

  C. tcpdump

  D. ethereal

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 942:

  Initiating an attack against targeted businesses and organizations, threat actors compromise a carefully selected website byinserting an exploit resulting in malware infection. The attackers run exploits on well-known and trusted sites likely to be visited by their targeted victims. Aside from carefully choosing sites to compromise, these attacks are known toincorporate zero-day exploits that target unpatched vulnerabilities. Thus, the targeted entities are left with little or no defense against these exploits.

  What type of attack is outlined in the scenario?

  A. Watering Hole Attack

  B. Spear Phising Attack

  C. Heartbleed Attack

  D. Shellshock Attack

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 943:

  This international organizationregulates billions of transactions daily and provides security guidelines to protect personally identifiable information (PII). These security controls provide a baseline and prevent low-level hackers sometimes known as script kiddies from causing a data breach.

  Which of the following organizations is being described?

  A. Payment Card Industry (PCI)

  B. International Security Industry Organization (ISIO)

  C. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

  D. Center for Disease Control (CDC)

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 944:

  A common cryptographically tool is the use of XOR. XOR the following binary value: 10110001 00111010

  A. 10001011

  B. 10011101

  C. 11011000

  D. 10111100

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 945:

  Which of the following is component of a risk assessment?

  A. Logical interface

  B. DMZ

  C. Administrative safeguards

  D. Physical security

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 946:

  A hacker has successfully infected an internet-facing server, which he will then use to send junk mail, take part incoordinated attacks, or host junk email content.

  Which sort of trojan infects this server?

  A. Botnet Trojan

  B. Banking Trojans

  C. Ransomware Trojans

  D. Turtle Trojans

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 947:

  The network administrator contacts you and tells you that she noticed the temperature on the internal wireless router increases by more than 20% during weekend hours when the office was closed. She asks you to investigate the issue because she is busy dealing with a big conference and she doesn't have time to perform the task.

  What tool can you use to view the network traffic being sent and received by the wireless router?

  A. Netcat

  B. Wireshark

  C. Nessus

  D. Netstat

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 948:

  Which of the following security operations is used for determining the attack surface of an organization?

  A. Reviewing the need for a security clearance for each employee

  B. Running a network scan to detect network services in the corporate DMZ

  C. Training employees on the security policy regarding social engineering

  D. Using configuration management to determine when and where to apply security patches

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 949:

  Which of the following is not a Bluetooth attack?

  A. Bluejacking

  B. Bluedriving

  C. Bluesnarfing

  D. Bluesmaking

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 950:

  Which of the following is a design pattern based on distinct pieces ofsoftware providing application functionality as services to other applications?

  A. Lean Coding

  B. Service Oriented Architecture

  C. Object Oriented Architecture

  D. Agile Process

  Correct Answer: B