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ECCouncil EC0-479 EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) Exam Practice Test

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EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) Questions and Answers

Question 1

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?

Options:

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

Question 2

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

Options:

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

Question 3

What information do you need to recover when searching a victims computer for a crime committed with specific e-mail message?

Options:

A.

Internet service provider information

B.

E-mail header

C.

Username and password

D.

Firewall log

Question 4

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?

Options:

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

Question 5

To preserve digital evidence, an investigator should ____________________

Options:

A.

Make tow copies of each evidence item using a single imaging tool

B.

Make a single copy of each evidence item using an approved imaging tool

C.

Make two copies of each evidence item using different imaging tools

D.

Only store the original evidence item

Question 6

During the course of a corporate investigation, you find that an Employee is committing a crime. Can the Employer file a criminal complain with Police?

Options:

A.

Yes, and all evidence can be turned over to the police

B.

Yes, but only if you turn the evidence over to a federal law enforcement agency

C.

No, because the investigation was conducted without following standard police procedures

D.

No, because the investigation was conducted without warrant

Question 7

Printing under a Windows Computer normally requires which one of the following files types to be created?

Options:

A.

EME

B.

MEM

C.

EMF

D.

CME

Question 8

To make sure the evidence you recover and analyze with computer forensics software can be admitted in court, you must test and validate the software. What group is actively providing tools and creating procedures for testing and validating computer forensics software ?

Options:

A.

Computer Forensics Tools and Validation Committee (CFTVC)

B.

Association of Computer Forensics Software Manufactures (ACFSM)

C.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

D.

Society for Valid Forensics Tools and Testing (SVFTT)

Question 9

Which of the following should a computer forensics lab used for investigations have?

Options:

A.

isolation

B.

restricted access

C.

open access

D.

an entry log

Question 10

Why should you note all cable connections for a computer you want to seize as evidence?

Options:

A.

to know what outside connections existed

B.

in case other devices were connected

C.

to know what peripheral devices exist

D.

to know what hardware existed

Question 11

Area density refers to:

Options:

A.

the amount of data per disk

B.

the amount of data per partition

C.

the amount of data per square inch

D.

the amount of data per platter

Question 12

You are conducting an investigation of fraudulent claims in an insurance company that involves complex text searches through large numbers of documents. Which of the following tools would allow you to quickly and efficiently search for a string within a file on the bitmap image of the target computer?

Options:

A.

Stringsearch

B.

grep

C.

dir

D.

vim

Question 13

You are assisting in the investigation of a possible Web Server Hack. The company who called you stated that customers reported to them that whenever they entered the web address of the company in their browser, what they received was a porno graphic web site. The company checked the web server and nothing appears wrong. When you type in the IP address of the web site in your browser everything appears normal. What is the name of the attack that affects the DNS cache of the name resolution servers, resulting in those servers directing users to the wrong web site?

Options:

A.

ARP Poisoning

B.

DNS Poisoning

C.

HTTP redirect attack

D.

IP Spoofing

Question 14

Bob has been trying to penetrate a remote production system for the past tow weeks. This time however, he is able to get into the system. He was able to use the System for a period of three weeks. However law enforcement agencies were recoding his every activity and this was later presented as evidence. The organization had used a Virtual Environment to trap BoB. What is a Virtual Environment?

Options:

A.

A Honeypot that traps hackers

B.

A system Using Trojaned commands

C.

An environment set up after the user logs in

D.

An environment set up before an user logs in

Question 15

Jonathan is a network administrator who is currently testing the internal security of his network. He is attempting to hijack a session, using Ettercap, of a user connected to his Web server. Why will Jonathan not succeed?

Options:

A.

Only an HTTPS session can be hijacked

B.

Only DNS traffic can be hijacked

C.

Only FTP traffic can be hijacked

D.

HTTP protocol does not maintain session

Question 16

After attending a CEH security seminar, you make a list of changes you would like to perform on your network to increase its security. One of the first things you change is to switch the RestrictAnonymous setting from 0 to 1 on your servers. This, as you were told, would prevent anonymous users from establishing a null session on the server. Using Userinfo tool mentioned at the seminar, you succeed in establishing a null session with one of the servers. Why is that?

Options:

A.

RestrictAnonymous must be set to "2" for complete security

B.

RestrictAnonymous must be set to "3" for complete security

C.

There is no way to always prevent an anonymous null session from establishing

D.

RestrictAnonymous must be set to "10" for complete security

Question 17

You work as an IT security auditor hired by a law firm in Boston to test whether you can gain access to sensitive information about the company clients. You have rummaged through their trash and found very little information. You do not want to set off any alarms on their network, so you plan on performing passive footprinting against their Web servers. What tool should you use?

Options:

A.

Nmap

B.

Netcraft

C.

Ping sweep

D.

Dig

Question 18

You are a security analyst performing reconnaissance on a company you will be carrying out a penetration test for. You conduct a search for IT jobs on Dice.com and find the following information for an open position:

7+ years experience in Windows Server environment

5+ years experience in Exchange 2000/2003 environment

Experience with Cisco Pix Firewall, Linksys 1376 router, Oracle 11i and MYOB v3.4 Accounting software are required MCSA desired,

MCSE, CEH preferred

No Unix/Linux Experience needed

What is this information posted on the job website considered?

Options:

A.

Information vulnerability

B.

Social engineering exploit

C.

Trade secret

D.

Competitive exploit

Question 19

John and Hillary works at the same department in the company. John wants to find out Hillary's network password so he can take a look at her documents on the file server. He enables Lophtcrack program to sniffing mode. John sends Hillary an email with a link to Error! Reference source not found. What information will he be able to gather from this?

Options:

A.

The SID of Hillary's network account

B.

The network shares that Hillary has permissions

C.

The SAM file from Hillary's computer

D.

Hillary's network username and password hash

Question 20

If an attacker's computer sends an IPID of 31400 to a zombie computer on an open port in IDLE scanning, what will be the response?

Options:

A.

31401

B.

The zombie will not send a response

C.

31402

D.

31399

Question 21

An "idle" system is also referred to as what?

Options:

A.

Zombie

B.

PC not being used

C.

Bot

D.

PC not connected to the Internet

Question 22

Kyle is performing the final testing of an application he developed for the accounting department. His last round of testing is to ensure that the program is as secure as possible. Kyle runs the following command. What is he testing at this point?

#include

#include

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

char buffer[10];

if (argc < 2)

{

fprintf(stderr, "USAGE: %s string\n", argv[0]);

return 1;

}

strcpy(buffer, argv[1]);

return 0;

}

Options:

A.

Buffer overflow

B.

Format string bug

C.

Kernal injection

D.

SQL injection

Question 23

You just passed your ECSA exam and are about to start your first consulting job running security audits for a financial institution in Los Angeles. The IT manager of the company you will be working for tries to see if you remember your ECSA class. He asks about the methodology you will be using to test the company's network. How would you answer?

Options:

A.

IBM Methodology

B.

LPT Methodology

C.

Google Methodology

D.

Microsoft Methodology

Question 24

You setup SNMP in multiple offices of your company. Your SNMP software manager is not receiving data from other offices like it is for your main office. You suspect that firewall changes are to blame. What ports should you open for SNMP to work through Firewalls (Select 2)

Options:

A.

162

B.

160

C.

163

D.

161

Question 25

Meyer Electronics Systems just recently had a number of laptops stolen out of their office. On these laptops contained sensitive corporate information regarding patents and company strategies. A month after the laptops were stolen, a competing company was found to have just developed products that almost exactly duplicated products that Meyer produces. What could have prevented this information from being stolen from the laptops?

Options:

A.

SDW Encryption

B.

EFS Encryption

C.

DFS Encryption

D.

IPS Encryption

Question 26

George is the network administrator of a large Internet company on the west coast. Per corporate policy, none of the employees in the company are allowed to use FTP or SFTP programs without obtaining approval from the IT department. Few managers are using SFTP program on their computers. Before talking to his boss, George wants to have some proof of their activity.

George wants to use Ethereal to monitor network traffic, but only SFTP traffic to and from his network. What filter should George use in Ethereal?

Options:

A.

src port 22 and dst port 22

B.

src port 23 and dst port 23

C.

net port 22

D.

udp port 22 and host 172.16.28.1/24

Question 27

As a security analyst you setup a false survey website that will require users to create a username and a strong password. You send the link to all the employees of the company. What information will you be able to gather?

Options:

A.

The employees network usernames and passwords

B.

The MAC address of the employees?computers

C.

The IP address of the employees computers

D.

Bank account numbers and the corresponding routing numbers

Question 28

John and Hillary works at the same department in the company. John wants to find out Hillary's network password so he can take a look at her documents on the file server. He enables Lophtcrack program to sniffing mode. John sends Hillary an email with a link to Error! Reference source not found.

What information will he be able to gather from this?

Options:

A.

The SAM file from Hillary computer

B.

Hillary network username and password hash

C.

The SID of Hillary network account

D.

The network shares that Hillary has permissions

Question 29

When you carve an image, recovering the image depends on which of the following skills?

Options:

A.

Recognizing the pattern of the header content

B.

Recovering the image from a tape backup

C.

Recognizing the pattern of a corrupt file

D.

Recovering the image from the tape backup

Question 30

The MD5 program is used to:

Options:

A.

wipe magnetic media before recycling it

B.

make directories on a evidence disk

C.

view graphics files on an evidence drive

D.

verify that a disk is not altered when you examine it

Question 31

What happens when a file is deleted by a Microsoft operating system using the FAT file system?

Options:

A.

only the reference to the file is removed from the FAT

B.

the file is erased and cannot be recovered

C.

a copy of the file is stored and the original file is erased

D.

the file is erased but can be recovered

Question 32

A honey pot deployed with the IP 172.16.1.108 was compromised by an attacker . Given below is an excerpt from a Snort binary capture of the attack. Decipher the activity carried out by the attacker by studying the log. Please note that you are required to infer only what is explicit in the excerpt. (Note: The student is being tested on concepts learnt during passive OS fingerprinting, basic TCP/IP connection concepts and the ability to read packet signatures from a sniff dump.) 03/15-20:21:24.107053 211.185.125.124:3500 -> 172.16.1.108:111 TCP TTL:43 TOS:0×0 ID:29726 IpLen:20 DgmLen:52 DF ***A**** Seq: 0x9B6338C5 Ack: 0x5820ADD0 Win: 0x7D78 TcpLen: 32 TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS: 23678634 2878772 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=

03/15-20:21:24.452051 211.185.125.124:789 -> 172.16.1.103:111 UDP TTL:43 TOS:0×0 ID:29733 IpLen:20 DgmLen:84 Len: 64

01 0A 8A 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 01 86 A0 ……………. 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 86 B8 00 00 00 01 …………….

00 00 00 11 00 00 00 00 ……..

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=

03/15-20:21:24.730436 211.185.125.124:790 -> 172.16.1.103:32773 UDP TTL:43 TOS:0×0 ID:29781 IpLen:20 DgmLen:1104 Len: 1084 47 F7 9F 63 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 01 86 B8

Options:

A.

The attacker has conducted a network sweep on port 111

B.

The attacker has scanned and exploited the system using Buffer Overflow

C.

The attacker has used a Trojan on port 32773

D.

The attacker has installed a backdoor

Question 33

With the standard Linux second extended file system (Ext2fs), a file is deleted when the inode internal link count reaches ________.

Options:

A.

0

B.

10

C.

100

D.

1

Question 34

The offset in a hexadecimal code is:

Options:

A.

The last byte after the colon

B.

The 0x at the beginning of the code

C.

The 0x at the end of the code

D.

The first byte after the colon

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