Eccouncil 312-39 practice test

Question 1

Which of the following attack can be eradicated by converting all non-alphanumeric characters to
HTML character entities before displaying the user input in search engines and forums?

• A. Broken Access Control Attacks
• B. Web Services Attacks
• C. XSS Attacks
• D. Session Management Attacks

Answer:

C

Reference:
https://ktflash.gitbooks.io/ceh_v9/content/125_countermeasures.html

Question 2

Which attack works like a dictionary attack, but adds some numbers and symbols to the words from
the dictionary and tries to crack the password?

• A. Hybrid Attack
• B. Bruteforce Attack
• C. Rainbow Table Attack
• D. Birthday Attack

Answer:

B

Reference:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/brute-force-and-dictionary-attacks-a-cheat-sheet/

Question 3

Jony , a security analyst, while monitoring IIS logs, identified events shown in the figure below.

What does this event log indicate?

• A. Parameter Tampering Attack
• B. XSS Attack
• C. Directory Traversal Attack
• D. SQL Injection Attack

Answer:

A

Question 4

Identify the HTTP status codes that represents the server error.

• A. 2XX
• B. 4XX
• C. 1XX
• D. 5XX

Answer:

D

Reference:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/http/http_status_codes.htm

Question 5

Emmanuel is working as a SOC analyst in a company named Tobey Tech. The manager of Tobey Tech
recently recruited an Incident Response Team (IRT) for his company. In the process of collaboration
with the IRT, Emmanuel just escalated an incident to the IRT.
What is the first step that the IRT will do to the incident escalated by Emmanuel?

• A. Incident Analysis and Validation
• B. Incident Recording
• C. Incident Classification
• D. Incident Prioritization

Answer:

C

Question 6

David is a SOC analyst in Karen Tech. One day an attack is initiated by the intruders but David was not
able to find any suspicious events.
This type of incident is categorized into ?

• A. True Positive Incidents
• B. False positive Incidents
• C. True Negative Incidents
• D. False Negative Incidents

Answer:

C

Question 7

Which of the following service provides phishing protection and content filtering to manage the
Internet experience on and off your network with the acceptable use or compliance policies?

• A. Apility.io
• B. Malstrom
• C. OpenDNS
• D. I-Blocklist

Answer:

C

Reference:
https://www.spamtitan.com/web-filtering/category/cybersecurity-advice/

Question 8

InfoSystem LLC, a US-based company, is establishing an in-house SOC. John has been given the
responsibility to finalize strategy, policies, and procedures for the SOC.
Identify the job role of John.

• A. Security Analyst – L1
• B. Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
• C. Security Engineer
• D. Security Analyst – L2

Answer:

B

Reference:
https://www.exabeam.com/security-operations-center/security-operations-center-roles-
and- responsibilities/

Question 9

If the SIEM generates the following four alerts at the same time:
I. Firewall blocking traffic from getting into the network alerts
II. SQL injection attempt alerts
III. Data deletion attempt alerts
IV. Brute-force attempt alerts
Which alert should be given least priority as per effective alert triaging?

• A. III
• B. IV
• C. II
• D. I

Answer:

D

Question 10

Which of the following threat intelligence helps cyber security professionals such as security
operations managers, network operations center and incident responders to understand how the
adversaries are expected to perform the attack on the organization, and the technical capabilities
and goals of the attackers along with the attack vectors?

• A. Analytical Threat Intelligence
• B. Operational Threat Intelligence
• C. Strategic Threat Intelligence
• D. Tactical Threat Intelligence

Answer:

D

Reference:
https://info-savvy.com/types-of-threat-intelligence/