EC-COUNCIL EC-COUNCIL Certifications 312-50V9 Questions & Answers

• Question 501:

  Susan has attached to her company's network. She has managed to synchronize her boss's sessions with that of the file server. She then intercepted his traffic destined for the server, changed it the way she wanted to and then placed it on the server in his home directory.

  What kind of attack is Susan carrying on?

  A. A sniffing attack

  B. A spoofing attack

  C. A man in the middle attack

  D. A denial of service attack

  Correct Answer: C Section: (none)

• Question 502:

  Eric has discovered a fantastic package of tools named Dsniff on the Internet. He has learnt to use these tools in his lab and is now ready for real world exploitation. He was able to effectively intercept communications between the two entities and establish credentials with both sides of the connections. The two remote ends of the communication never notice that Eric is relaying the information between the two. What would you call this attack?

  A. Interceptor

  B. Man-in-the-middle

  C. ARP Proxy

  D. Poisoning Attack

  Correct Answer: B Section: (none)

• Question 503:

  Which of the following tools are used for enumeration? (Choose three.)

  A. SolarWinds

  B. USER2SID

  C. Cheops

  D. SID2USER

  E. DumpSec

  Correct Answer: BDE Section: (none)

• Question 504:

  Which DNS resource record can indicate how long any "DNS poisoning" could last?

  A. MX

  B. SOA

  C. NS

  D. TIMEOUT

  Correct Answer: B Section: (none)

• Question 505:

  Joseph was the Web site administrator for the Mason Insurance in New York, who's main Web site was located at www.masonins.com. Joseph uses his laptop computer regularly to administer the Web site. One night, Joseph received an urgent phone call from his friend, Smith. According to Smith, the main Mason Insurance web site had been vandalized! All of its normal content was removed and replaced with an attacker's message ''Hacker Message: You are dead! Freaks!" From his office, which was directly connected to Mason Insurance's internal network, Joseph surfed to the Web site using his laptop. In his browser, the Web site looked completely intact. No changes were apparent. Joseph called a friend of his at his home to help troubleshoot the problem. The Web site appeared defaced when his friend visited using his DSL connection. So, while Smith and his friend could see the defaced page, Joseph saw the intact Mason Insurance web site. To help make sense of this problem, Joseph decided to access the Web site using hisdial-up ISP. He disconnected his laptop from the corporate internal network and used his modem to dial up the same ISP used by Smith. After his modem connected, he quickly typed www.masonins.com in his browser to reveal the following web page:

  

  After seeing the defaced Web site, he disconnected his dial-up line, reconnected to the internal network,

  and used Secure Shell (SSH) to log in directly to the Web server. He ran Tripwire against the entire Web

  site, and determined that every system file and all the Web content on the server were intact. How did the

  attacker accomplish this hack?

  A. ARP spoofing

  B. SQL injection

  C. DNS poisoning

  D. Routing table injection

  Correct Answer: C Section: (none)

• Question 506:

  You have the SOA presented below in your Zone.

  Your secondary servers have not been able to contact your primary server to synchronize information.

  How long will the secondary servers attempt to contact the primary server before it considers that zone is

  dead and stops responding to queries?

  collegae.edu.SOA, cikkye.edu ipad.college.edu. (200302028 3600 3600 604800 3600)

  A. One day

  B. One hour

  C. One week

  D. One month

  Correct Answer: C Section: (none)

• Question 507:

  Tess King is using the nslookup command to craft queries to list all DNS information (such as Name Servers, host names, MX records, CNAME records, glue records (delegation for child Domains), zone serial number, TimeToLive (TTL) records, etc) for a Domain.

  What do you think Tess King is trying to accomplish? Select the best answer.

  A. A zone harvesting

  B. A zone transfer

  C. A zone update

  D. A zone estimate

  Correct Answer: B Section: (none)

• Question 508:

  A zone file consists of which of the following Resource Records (RRs)?

  A. DNS, NS, AXFR, and MX records

  B. DNS, NS, PTR, and MX records

  C. SOA, NS, AXFR, and MX records

  D. SOA, NS, A, and MX records

  Correct Answer: D Section: (none)

• Question 509:

  Let's imagine three companies (A, B and C), all competing in a challenging global environment. Company A and B are working together in developing a product that will generate a major competitive advantage for them. Company A has a secure DNS server while company B has a DNS server vulnerable to spoofing. With a spoofing attack on the DNS server of company B, company C gains access to outgoing e-mails from company B. How do you prevent DNS spoofing?

  A. Install DNS logger and track vulnerable packets

  B. Disable DNS timeouts

  C. Install DNS Anti-spoofing

  D. Disable DNS Zone Transfer

  Correct Answer: C Section: (none)

• Question 510:

  Bob is acknowledged as a hacker of repute and is popular among visitors of "underground" sites. Bob is willing to share his knowledge with those who are willing to learn, and many have expressed their interest in learning from him. However, this knowledge has a risk associated with it, as it can be used for malevolent attacks as well. In this context, what would be the most effective method to bridge the knowledge gap between the "black" hats or crackers and the "white" hats or computer security professionals? (Choose the test answer.)

  A. Educate everyone with books, articles and training on risk analysis, vulnerabilities and safeguards.

  B. Hire more computer security monitoring personnel to monitor computer systems and networks.

  C. Make obtaining either a computer security certification or accreditation easier to achieve so more individuals feel that they are a part of something larger than life.

  D. Train more National Guard and reservist in the art of computer security to help out in times of emergency or crises.

  Correct Answer: A Section: (none)