General Exam Questions

Question 1

Alarm system to notify police, fire etc when triggered

Answer 1

Auxiliary alarm

Question 2

Drawback to using VPN when firewall present

Answer 2

Can’t filter on encrypted traffic

Question 3

Well known ports

Answer 3

0 to 1023

Question 4

Govt agency providing daily updates on wildfires in the USA

Answer 4

NIFC

NATIONAL INTERAGENCY FIRE CENTRE

Question 5

Prudent man rule

Answer 5

Federal sentencing guidelines

Question 6

Which source of interference generated by electrical appliances

Answer 6

RFI - Radio frequency interference

Question 7

Digital certificate that supports strong cryptography

Answer 7

TLS - replaced SSL as best one

Question 8

Streaming cipher of CBC - DES Mode

Answer 8

CFB

Question 9

Chip storing firmware used by printers etc

Answer 9

EEPROM - usually the BIOS FIRMWARE

Question 10

What application vulnerability most directly allows an attacker to modify contents of system memory?

1 rootkit
2 backdoor
3 buffer overflow

Answer 10

Answer is buffer overflow

Question 11

To prevent dictionary attack UNIX

Answer 11

etc/shadow