Question 71
A company uses a cloud provider with shared network bandwidth to host a web application on dedicated servers. The company's contact with the cloud provider prevents any activities that would interfere with the cloud provider's other customers. When engaging with a penetration-testing company to test the application, which of the following should the company avoid?
A. Crawling the web application's URLs looking for vulnerabilities
B. Fingerprinting all the IP addresses of the application's servers
C. Brute forcing the application's passwords
D. Sending many web requests per second to test DDoS protection
Question 72
A penetration tester is cleaning up and covering tracks at the conclusion of a penetration test. Which of the following should the tester be sure to remove from the system? (Choose two.)
A. Spawned shells
B. Created user accounts
C. Server logs
D. Administrator accounts
E. Reboot system
F. ARP cache
Question 73
A software company has hired a security consultant to assess the security of the company's software development practices. The consultant opts to begin reconnaissance by performing fuzzing on a software binary. Which of the following vulnerabilities is the security consultant MOST likely to identify?
A. Weak authentication schemes
B. Credentials stored in strings
C. Buffer overflows
D. Non-optimized resource management
Question 74
A penetration tester has prepared the following phishing email for an upcoming penetration test:
Which of the following is the penetration tester using MOST to influence phishing targets to click on the link?
A. Familiarity and likeness
B. Authority and urgency
C. Scarcity and fear
D. Social proof and greed
Question 75
During a penetration test, a tester is able to change values in the URL from example.com/login.php?id=5 to example.com/login.php?id=10 and gain access to a web application. Which of the following vulnerabilities has the penetration tester exploited?
A. Command injection
B. Broken authentication
C. Direct object reference
D. Cross-site scripting
Question 76
Which of the following situations would MOST likely warrant revalidation of a previous security assessment?
A. After detection of a breach
B. After a merger or an acquisition
C. When an organization updates its network firewall configurations
D. When most of the vulnerabilities have been remediated
Question 77
A penetration tester gains access to a system and is able to migrate to a user process:
Given the output above, which of the following actions is the penetration tester performing? (Choose two.)
A. Redirecting output from a file to a remote system
B. Building a scheduled task for execution
C. Mapping a share to a remote system
D. Executing a file on the remote system
E. Creating a new process on all domain systems
F. Setting up a reverse shell from a remote system
G. Adding an additional IP address on the compromised system
Question 78
After gaining access to a previous system, a penetration tester runs an Nmap scan against a network with the following results:
A. The tester input the incorrect IP address.
B. The command requires the ""port 135 option.
C. An account for RDP does not exist on the server.
D. PowerShell requires administrative privilege.
Question 79
Which of the following assessment methods is MOST likely to cause harm to an ICS environment?
A. Active scanning
B. Ping sweep
C. Protocol reversing
D. Packet analysis
Question 80
During a penetration test, a tester is in close proximity to a corporate mobile device belonging to a network administrator that is broadcasting Bluetooth frames.
Which of the following is an example of a Bluesnarfing attack that the penetration tester can perform?
A. Sniff and then crack the WPS PIN on an associated WiFi device.
B. Dump the user address book on the device.
C. Break a connection between two Bluetooth devices.
D. Transmit text messages to the device.
