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Question 1
Multiple choice

A penetration tester is conducting an authorized, physical penetration test to attempt to enter a client's
building during non-business hours.

Which of the following are MOST important for the penetration tester to have during the test? (Choose two.)

A.

A handheld RF spectrum analyzer

B.

A mask and personal protective equipment

C.

Caution tape for marking off insecure areas

D.

A dedicated point of contact at the client

E.

The paperwork documenting the engagement

F.

Knowledge of the building's normal business hours

Question 2
Single choice

A penetration tester who is conducting a web-application test discovers a clickjacking vulnerability associated with a login page to financial data.

Which of the following should the tester do with this information to make this a successful exploit?

A.

Perform XSS.

B.

Conduct a watering-hole attack.

C.

Use BeEF.

D.

Use browser autopwn.

Question 3
Single choice

Which of the following tools would BEST allow a penetration tester to capture wireless handshakes to reveal a Wi-Fi password from a Windows machine?

A.

Wireshark

B.

EAPHammer

C.

Kismet

D.

Aircrack-ng

Question 4
Single choice

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.

Question 5
Single choice

A penetration tester is evaluating a company's network perimeter. The tester has received limited information about defensive controls or countermeasures, and limited internal knowledge of the testing exists.

Which of the following should be the FIRST step to plan the reconnaissance activities?

A.

Launch an external scan of netblocks.

B.

Check WHOIS and netblock records for the company.

C.

Use DNS lookups and dig to determine the external hosts.

D.

Conduct a ping sweep of the company's netblocks.

Question 6
Single choice

A penetration tester captured the following traffic during a web-application test:

Which of the following methods should the tester use to visualize the authorization information being transmitted?

A.

Decode the authorization header using UTF-8.

B.

Decrypt the authorization header using bcrypt.

C.

Decode the authorization header using Base64.

D.

Decrypt the authorization header using AES.

Question 7
Single choice

A penetration tester is scanning a corporate lab network for potentially vulnerable services.

Which of the following Nmap commands will return vulnerable ports that might be interesting to a potential attacker?

A.

nmap 192.168.1.1-5 -PU22-25,80

B.

nmap 192.168.1.1-5 -PA22-25,80

C.

nmap 192.168.1.1-5 -PS22-25,80

D.

nmap 192.168.1.1-5 -Ss22-25,80

Question 8
Single choice

A penetration tester received a 16-bit network block that was scoped for an assessment. During the assessment, the tester realized no hosts were active in the provided block of IPs and reported this to the company. The company then provided an updated block of IPs to the tester.

Which of the following would be the most appropriate NEXT step?

A.

Terminate the contract.

B.

Update the ROE with new signatures. Most Voted

C.

Scan the 8-bit block to map additional missed hosts.

D.

Continue the assessment.

Question 9
Single choice

Within a Python script, a line that states print (var) outputs the following:

[{'1' : 'CentOS', '2' : 'Ubuntu'), {'1' : 'Windows 10', '2' : 'Windows Server 2016'}]

Which of the following objects or data structures is var ?

A.

An array

B.

A class

C.

A dictionary

D.

A list

Question 10
Single choice

A penetration tester is assessing a wireless network. Although monitoring the correct channel and SSID, the tester is unable to capture a handshake between the clients and the AP.

Which of the following attacks is the MOST effective to allow the penetration tester to capture a handshake?

A.

Key reinstallation

B.

Deauthentication

C.

Evil twin

D.

Replay

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