A compliance-based penetration test is primarily concerned with:
A. obtaining Pll from the protected network.
B. bypassing protection on edge devices.
C. determining the efficacy of a specific set of security standards.
D. obtaining specific information from the protected network.
Which of the following is most important to include in the final report of a static application- security test that was written with a team of application developers as the intended audience?
A. Executive summary of the penetration-testing methods used
B. Bill of materials including supplies, subcontracts, and costs incurred during assessment
C. Quantitative impact assessments given a successful software compromise
D. Code context for instances of unsafe typecasting operations
A security firm has been hired to perform an external penetration test against a company. The only information the firm received was the company name. Which of the following passive reconnaissance approaches would be MOST likely to yield positive initial results?
A. Specially craft and deploy phishing emails to key company leaders.
B. Run a vulnerability scan against the company's external website.
C. Runtime the company's vendor/supply chain.
D. Scrape web presences and social-networking sites.
A Chief Information Security Officer wants a penetration tester to evaluate whether a recently installed firewall is protecting a subnetwork on which many decades- old legacy systems are connected. The penetration tester decides to run an OS discovery and a full port scan to identify all the systems and any potential vulnerability. Which of the following should the penetration tester consider BEFORE running a scan?
A. The timing of the scan
B. The bandwidth limitations
C. The inventory of assets and versions
D. The type of scan
A penetration tester is explaining the MITRE ATTandCK framework to a company's chief legal counsel. Which of the following would the tester MOST likely describe as a benefit of the framework?
A. Understanding the tactics of a security intrusion can help disrupt them.
B. Scripts that are part of the framework can be imported directly into SIEM tools.
C. The methodology can be used to estimate the cost of an incident better.
D. The framework is static and ensures stability of a security program overtime.
A penetration tester learned that when users request password resets, help desk analysts change users' passwords to 123change. The penetration tester decides to brute force an internet-facing webmail to check which users are still using the temporary password. The tester configures the brute-force tool to test usernames found on a text file and the... Which of the following techniques is the penetration tester using?
A. Password brute force attack
B. SQL injection
C. Password spraying
D. Kerberoasting
A company hired a penetration-testing team to review the cyber-physical systems in a manufacturing plant. The team immediately discovered the supervisory systems and PLCs are both connected to the company intranet. Which of the following assumptions, if made by the penetration-testing team, is MOST likely to be valid?
A. PLCs will not act upon commands injected over the network.
B. Supervisors and controllers are on a separate virtual network by default.
C. Controllers will not validate the origin of commands.
D. Supervisory systems will detect a malicious injection of code/commands.
Given the following script:
while True:
print ("Hello World")
Which of the following describes True?
A. A while loop
B. A conditional
C. A Boolean operator
D. An arithmetic operator
A penetration tester has been contracted to review wireless security. The tester has deployed a malicious wireless AP that mimics the configuration of the target enterprise WiFi. The penetration tester now wants to try to force nearby wireless stations to connect to the malicious AP. Which of the following steps should the tester take NEXT?
A. Send deauthentication frames to the stations.
B. Perform jamming on all 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels.
C. Set the malicious AP to broadcast within dynamic frequency selection channels.
D. Modify the malicious AP configuration to not use a pre-shared key.
A penetration tester runs the following command:
nmap -p- -A 10.0.1.10
Given the execution of this command, which of the following quantities of ports will Nmap scan?
A. 1,000
B. 1,024
C. 10,000
D. 65,535