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Attempt 3
Question 1: Correct

A pen tester calling an employee and explains how they are the CEO’s executive assistant and they need to do what they are told is:
  • Intimidation.
  • Familiarity.
  • Scarcity.
  • Authority.
    (Correct)

Explanation

Social engineering uses people skills to bypass security controls. Authority (someone you trust or are afraid of) – Look and sound like an authority figure, be in charge, this can be in a uniform or a suit. Most effective with impersonation, whaling, and vishing attacks.
Question 2: Correct

Which is the safest, but should be the last resort in a data center fire?
  • FM-200.
  • Halon.
  • Water.
    (Correct)
  • Powder.

Explanation

Water: Removes the “heat” leg of the fire triangle by lowering the temperature. Is the safest suppression agent, but for Data Centers: Water + hardware = dead hardware. Should always be a last resort and electricity could always be cut before water is used.
Question 3: Skipped

Which type of networking circuits can the traffic use different paths?
  • Packet switching.
    (Correct)
  • Full traffic switching.
  • Weighted routing tables.
  • Circuit switching.

Explanation

Packet switching – Cheap, but no capacity guarantee, very widely used today. Data is sent in packets, but take multiple different paths to the destination. The packets are reassembled at the destination.
Question 4: Correct

Implementing secure cables in our building what would be our cheapest option?
  • Fiber Ethernet.
    (Correct)
  • Coax copper.
  • Copper Ethernet.
  • Wireless.

Explanation

The most secure cable is fiber cables, it is slightly more expensive than copper, since we need both we would use fiber cables. Wireless is .. well not a cable.
Question 5: Skipped

Patents are protected how?
  • Protected for 70 years after the creators death or 95 years for corporations.
  • Protected for 20 years after filing.
    (Correct)
  • You tell no one, if discovered you are not protected.
  • Protected 10 years at a time, can be renewed indefinitely.

Explanation

Patents: Protects inventions for 20 years (normally) – Cryptography algorithms can be patented. Inventions must be:Novel (New idea no one has had before). Useful (It is actually possible to use and it is useful to someone). Nonobvious (Inventive work involved).
Question 6: Correct

When we apply standards and framework we can use tailoring to do what?
  • To see if the standard is a good fit for our organization.
  • To implement the full standard or framework, but implement different standards in some areas.
    (Correct)
  • To pick and chose which parts of the standard or framework we want to implement.
  • Find out how much the implementation will cost us.

Explanation

Tailoring is customizing a standard to your organization. This could be we will apply this standard, but we use a stronger encryption (AES 256bit).
Question 7: Correct

When a penetration tester is doing a gray box testing they have which knowledge?
  • No knowledge other than what is publically available.
  • Full knowledge and privileges access to systems.
  • Partial knowledge, user or vendor access level.
    (Correct)
  • All of these.

Explanation

Gray (Grey) box (Partial Knowledge) Pen testing: The attacker has limited knowledge, a normal user, vendor or someone with limited environment knowledge.