EC-COUNCIL Certified Ethical Hacker 412-79 Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  Diskcopy is:

  A. a utility byAccessData

  B. a standard MS-DOS command

  C. Digital Intelligence utility

  D. dd copying tool

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 2:

  You are working as Computer Forensics investigator and are called by the owner of an accounting firm to investigate possible computer abuse by one of the firms employees. You meet with the owner of the firm and discover that the company has never published a policy stating that they reserve the right to inspect their computing assets at will.

  What do you do?

  A. Inform the owner that conducting an investigation without a policy is not a problem because the company is privately owned

  B. Inform the owner that conducting an investigation without a policy is a violation of the 4th amendment

  C. Inform the owner that conducting an investigation without a policy is a violation of the employees expectation of privacy

  D. Inform the owner that conducting an investigation without a policy is not a problem because a policy is only necessary for government agencies

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 3:

  Volatile Memory is one of the leading problems for forensics. Worms such as code Red are memory resident and do write themselves to the hard drive, if you turn the system off they disappear. In a lab environment, which of the following options would you suggest as the most appropriate to overcome the problem of capturing volatile memory?

  A. Use Vmware to be able to capture the data in memory and examine it

  B. Give the Operating System a minimal amount of memory, forcing it to use a swap file

  C. Create a Separate partition of several hundred megabytes and place the swap file there

  D. Use intrusion forensic techniques to study memory resident infections

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 4:

  You are working in the security Department of law firm. One of the attorneys asks you about the topic of sending fake email because he has a client who has been charged with doing just that. His client alleges that he is innocent and that there is no way for a fake email to actually be sent. You inform the attorney that his client is mistaken and that fake email is possibility and that you can prove it. You return to your desk and craft a fake email to the attorney that appears to come from his boss. What port do you send the email to on the company SMTP server?

  A. 10

  B. 25

  C. 110

  D. 135

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 5:

  What should you do when approached by a reporter about a case that you are working on or have worked on?

  A. Refer the reporter to the attorney that retained you

  B. Say, "no comment"

  C. Answer all the reporters questions as completely as possible

  D. Answer only the questions that help your case

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 6:

  This is original file structure database that Microsoft originally designed for floppy disks. It is written to the outermost track of a disk and contains information about each file stored on the drive.

  A. Master Boot Record (MBR)

  B. Master File Table (MFT)

  C. File Allocation Table (FAT)

  D. Disk Operating System (DOS)

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 7:

  Which of the following refers to the data that might still exist in a cluster even though the original file has been overwritten by another file?

  A. Sector

  B. Metadata

  C. MFT

  D. Slack Space

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 8:

  When investigating a Windows System, it is important to view the contents of the page or swap file because:

  A. Windows stores all of the systems configuration information in this file

  B. This is file that windows use to communicate directly with Registry

  C. A Large volume of data can exist within the swap file of which the computer user has no knowledge

  D. This is the file that windows use to store the history of the last 100 commands that were run from the command line

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 9:

  A state department site was recently attacked and all the servers had their disks eraseD. The incident response team sealed the area and commenced investigation. During evidence collection they came across a zip disks that did not have

  the standard labeling on it. The incident team ran the disk on an isolated system and found that the system disk was accidentally eraseD. They decided to call in the FBI for further investigation. Meanwhile, they short listed possible suspects

  including three summer interns.

  Where did the incident team go wrong?

  A. They examined the actual evidence on an unrelated system

  B. They attempted to implicate personnel without proof

  C. They tampered with evidence by using it

  D. They called in the FBI without correlating with the fingerprint data

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 10:

  Chris has been called upon to investigate a hacking incident reported by one of his clients. The company suspects the involvement of an insider accomplice in the attack. Upon reaching the incident scene, Chris secures the physical area, records the scene using visual mediA. He shuts the system down by pulling the power plug so that he does not disturb the system in any way. He labels all cables and connectors prior to disconnecting any. What do you think would be the next sequence of events?

  A. Connect the target media; prepare the system for acquisition; Secure the evidence; Copy the media

  B. Prepare the system for acquisition; Connect the target media; copy the media; Secure the evidence

  C. Connect the target media; Prepare the system for acquisition; Secure the evidence; Copy the media

  D. Secure the evidence; prepare the system for acquisition; Connect the target media; copy the media

  Correct Answer: B