Mock Exam 1 Assessment

1. Answer: c

   Concept: A self-signed certificate is the cheapest certificate for internally facing servers.

2. Answer: c

   Concept: Closed/proprietary threat intelligence is funded by the company producing the report. More money would have been spent on creating the report and it will provide more accurate information as this information will be sold on to other companies.

3. Answer: c

   Concept: The logger command allows you to insert comments into a log file.

4. Answer: b

   Concept: The harvester is written in Python and allows you to search and collate the email addresses of a company on search engines such as Google.

5. Answers: a, b, c, d

   Concept: Telnet, curl, Dimitri, nmap, and nc can all be used for banner grabbing.

6. Answer: d

   Concept: When a new security update has been released, threat hunting is the process of searching current and historical logs for the symptoms of an attack.

7. Answer: b

   Concept: If it is end-of-life, the vendor will not produce any...