EC-COUNCIL 312-50V10 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

EC-COUNCIL 312-50V10 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 141:

  MX record priority increases as the number increases. (True/False.)

  A. True
  B. False
  B. False

• Question 142:

  Which cipher encrypts the plain text digit (bit or byte) one by one?

  A. Classical cipher
  B. Block cipher
  C. Modern cipher
  D. Stream cipher
  D. Stream cipher

• Question 143:

  You just set up a security system in your network. In what kind of system would you find the following string of characters used as a rule within its configuration? alert tcp any any -> 192.168.100.0/24 21 (msg: "FTP on the network!";)

  A. An Intrusion Detection System
  B. A firewall IPTable
  C. A Router IPTable
  D. FTP Server rule
  A. An Intrusion Detection System

• Question 144:

  Which of the following is a form of penetration testing that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures?

  A. Social Engineering
  B. Piggybacking
  C. Tailgating
  D. Eavesdropping
  A. Social Engineering

• Question 145:

  What did the following commands determine?

  

  A. That the Joe account has a SID of 500
  B. These commands demonstrate that the guest account has NOT been disabled
  C. These commands demonstrate that the guest account has been disabled
  D. That the true administrator is Joe
  E. Issued alone, these commands prove nothing
  D. That the true administrator is Joe

• Question 146:

  Which of the following statements regarding ethical hacking is incorrect?

  A. Ethical hackers should never use tools or methods that have the potential of exploiting vulnerabilities in an organization's systems.
  B. Testing should be remotely performed offsite.
  C. An organization should use ethical hackers who do not sell vendor hardware/software or other consulting services.
  D. Ethical hacking should not involve writing to or modifying the target systems.
  A. Ethical hackers should never use tools or methods that have the potential of exploiting vulnerabilities in an organization's systems.

• Question 147:

  The fundamental difference between symmetric and asymmetric key cryptographic systems is that symmetric key cryptography uses which of the following?

  A. Multiple keys for non-repudiation of bulk data
  B. Different keys on both ends of the transport medium
  C. Bulk encryption for data transmission over fiber
  D. The same key on each end of the transmission medium
  D. The same key on each end of the transmission medium

• Question 148:

  A common cryptographical tool is the use of XOR. XOR the following binary values: 10110001 00111010

  A. 10001011
  B. 11011000
  C. 10011101
  D. 10111100
  A. 10001011

• Question 149:

  A company has hired a security administrator to maintain and administer Linux and Windows-based systems. Written in the nightly report file is the following:

  Firewall log files are at the expected value of 4 MB. The current time is 12am. Exactly two hours later the size has decreased considerably. Another hour goes by and the log files have shrunk in size again.

  Which of the following actions should the security administrator take?

  A. Log the event as suspicious activity and report this behavior to the incident response team immediately.
  B. Log the event as suspicious activity, call a manager, and report this as soon as possible.
  C. Run an anti-virus scan because it is likely the system is infected by malware.
  D. Log the event as suspicious activity, continue to investigate, and act according to the site's security policy.
  D. Log the event as suspicious activity, continue to investigate, and act according to the site's security policy.

• Question 150:

  When you are testing a web application, it is very useful to employ a proxy tool to save every request and response. You can manually test every request and analyze the response to find vulnerabilities. You can test parameter and headers manually to get more precise results than if using web vulnerability scanners.

  What proxy tool will help you find web vulnerabilities?

  A. Burpsuite
  B. Maskgen
  C. Dimitry
  D. Proxychains
  A. Burpsuite