CIS 65 Network + Ch. 9-11

What penetration testing tool combines known scanning and exploit techniques to explore potentially new attack routes?

Which of the following statements correctly describes the malware characteristic of polymorphism?

A virus that remains dormant until a specific condition is met, such as the changing of a file or a match of the current date is known as what type of malware?

Which of the following statements describes a worm?

If multiple honeypots are connected to form a larger network, what term is used to describe the network?

An attack that relies on redirected and captured secure transmissions as they occur is known as what type of attack?

Which of the following scenarios represents a phishing attempt?

In a red team-blue team exercise, what is the purpose of the blue team?

Which of the following utilities performs sophisticated vulnerability scans, and can identify unencrypted data such as credit card numbers?

`If someone is offered a free gift or service in exchange for private information or access to a computer system, what type of social engineering is taking place?

A person posing as an employee strikes up a conversation with a legitimate employee as they walk into a secured area, in an attempt to gain access. What kind of social engineering is this?

In the typical social engineering attack cycle, what occurs at Phase 3?

The concept of giving employees and contractors only enough access and privileges to do their jobs is known by what term?

What statement regarding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks is accurate?

Utilized by China's so-called "Great Firewall", what type of attack can prevent user access to web pages, or even redirect them to illegitimate web pages?

What is the Nmap utility used for?

How is a posture assessment performed on an organization?

What type of door access control is a physical or electronic lock that requires a code in order to open the door?

An RFID label on a box is an example of what type of physical security detection method?

What statement regarding the different versions of the SHA hashing algorithm is accurate?

On a Linux based system, what command can you use to create a hash of a file using SHA-256?

Which command can be used on a Windows system to create a hash of a file?

VMware's AirWatch and Cisco's Meraki Systems Manager are both examples of what type of software?

A variant of BYOD, what does CYOD allow employees or students to do?

Where would restrictions regarding what users can and cannot do while accessing a network's resources be found?

What document addresses the specific concerns related to special access given to administrators and certain support staff?

Which of the following scenarios would necessitate the use of a non-disclosure agreement?

How often should you require users to change their passwords?

What type of an attack forces clients off a wireless network, creating a form of Wi-Fi DoS?

Which type of DoS attack involves an attack that is bounced off uninfected computers before being directed at the target?

Which of the following is an example of proxy server software?

What is NOT a variable that an network access control list can filter traffic with?

In ACL statements, using the "any" keyword is equivalent to using a wildcard mask of what value?

What kind of firewall can block designated types of traffic based on application data contained within packets?

On a Linux system, which command allows you to modify settings used by the built-in packet filtering firewall?

What is a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system utilized for?

When using Spanning Tree Protocol, what is the first step in selecting paths through a network?

In order to prevent ports that are serving network hosts from being considered as best paths, what should be enabled to block BPDUs?

Which protocol designed to replace STP operates at Layer 3 of the OSI model?

You have been tasked with the configuration of a Juniper switch, and have been told to restrict the number of MAC addresses allowed in the MAC address table. What command should you use?

Enforcing a virtual security perimeter using a client's geographic location is known by what term?

When using Kerberos, what is the purpose of a ticket?

Which legacy authentication protocol requires mutual authentication?

By far the most popular AAA service, what open-source service runs in the Application layer and can use UDP or TCP in the Transport layer?

Which adaptation of EAP utilizes EAP-MSCHAPv2 inside of an encrypted TLS tunnel?

What IEEE standard includes an encryption key generation and management scheme known as TKIP?

What descendant of the Spanning Tree Protocol is defined by the IEEE 802.1W standard, and can detect as well as correct for link failures in milliseconds?

You have been asked by your superior to configure all Cisco network switches to allow only acceptable MAC addresses through switch access ports. How is this accomplished?

What aspect of AAA is responsible for determining what a user can and cannot do with network resources?

What statement regarding role-based access control is accurate?

Which encryption standard was originally utilized with WPA's TKIP?

The Wired Equivalent Privacy standard had what significant disadvantage?

In Open System Authentication, how does authentication occur?

The Group Policy utility can be opened by typing what name into a Run box?

When using Spanning Tree Protocol, which port on non-root bridges can forward traffic toward the root bridge?

Which of the following terms is used to describe the configuration of a port to copy all traffic passing through the switch to the device at the other end of the port?

In regards to the use of local authentication, what statement is accurate?

What scenario might be ideal for the use of root guard in configuring a switch?

When using a host-based intrusion detection system, what additional feature might be available to alert the system of any changes made to files that shouldn't change?

What statement correctly describes a stateless firewall?

When using SNMP with TLS, what port do agents receive requests on?

At what point is a packet considered to be a giant?

Packets that are smaller than a medium's minimum packet size are known by what term below?

When a device handles electrical signals improperly, usually resulting from a bad NIC, it is referred to by what term below?

When using DiffServ, what type of forwarding utilizes a minimum departure rate from a given node, which is then assigned to each data stream?

What 3-bit field in a 802.1Q tag is modified to set a frame's Class of Service (CoS)?

A highly available server is available what percentage of the time?

What happens when an NMS uses the SNMP walk command?

When Comcast was found to be interfering with BitTorrent traffic, what method was being used?

What term is used to describe the average amount of time that will pass for a device before a failure is expected to occur?

The Link Aggregation Control Protocol was initially defined by what IEEE standard?

Which of the following statements describes a RAID 0 configuration?

What Storage Area Network (SAN) protocol runs on top of TCP, and can be used on an existing twisted-pair Ethernet network, while maintaining low cost?

A differential backup covers what data on a system?

Which type of uninterruptible power supply uses AC power to continuously charge its battery, while also providing power to devices through the battery?

In planning for disaster recovery, what is the ultimate goal?

How does a line conditioning UPS protect network equipment?

You are attempting to determine how available your Linux systems are, and need to find the current system uptime. What command should you use?

What makes up the first 6 bits of the 8-bit DiffServ field?

A network TAP serves what purpose on a network?

When viewing a syslog message, what does a level of 0 indicate?

Each managed object on a managed device using SNMP is assigned which of the following?

Once a device has failed, what metric measures the average amount of time to repair?

What does the Common Address Redundancy Protocol do?

The grouping of multiple servers so that they appear as a single device to the rest of the network is known as which term?

Which type of backup scheme only covers data that has changed since the last backup?

What is distributed switching?

If you wish to maintain a "4 nines" availability rating, what is the maximum amount of down time you can have per day?

A snapshot is most similar to which type of backup scheme?

What statement regarding the use of a network attached storage device is accurate?