EC-COUNCIL EC-Council Certified Security Analyst(ECSA) (EC0-479) Free Practice Test
Question 1
Before you are called to testify as an expert, what must an attorney do first?
Correct Answer: C
Question 2
You have compromised a lower-level administrator account on an Active Directory network of a small company in Dallas, Texas. You discover Domain Controllers through enumeration. You connect to one of the Domain Controllers on port 389 using ldp.exe. What are you trying to accomplish here?
Correct Answer: D
Question 3
What does the acronym POST mean as it relates to a PC?
Correct Answer: C
Question 4
What is the following command trying to accomplish?


Correct Answer: B
Question 5
John and Hillary works at the same department in the company. John wants to find out Hillary's network password so he can take a look at her documents on the file server. He enables Lophtcrack program to sniffing mode. John sends Hillary an email with a link to Error! Reference source not found. What information will he be able to gather from this?
Correct Answer: D
Question 6
What will the following command produce on a website login page?What will the following command produce on a website? login page?
SELECT email, passwd, login_id, full_name
FROM members
WHERE email = '[email protected]'; DROP TABLE members; --'
SELECT email, passwd, login_id, full_name
FROM members
WHERE email = '[email protected]'; DROP TABLE members; --'
Correct Answer: A
Question 7
Under which Federal Statutes does FBI investigate for computer crimes involving e-mail scams and mail fraud?
Correct Answer: C
Question 8
When using Windows acquisitions tools to acquire digital evidence, it is important to use a well- tested hardware write-blocking device to:
Correct Answer: A
Question 9
You have used a newly released forensic investigation tool, which doesnt meet the Daubert T
est, during a case. The case has ended-up in court. What argument could the defense make to weaken your case?
est, during a case. The case has ended-up in court. What argument could the defense make to weaken your case?
Correct Answer: C
Question 10
Paula works as the primary help desk contact for her company.Paula has just received a call from a user reporting that his computer just displayed a Blue Screen of Death screen and he can no longer work.Paula
walks over to the users computer and sees the Blue Screen of Death screen.The users computer is running
Windows XP, but the Blue Screen looks like a familiar one that Paula had seen on Windows 2000 computers periodically. The user said he stepped away from his computer for only 15 minutes and when he got back, the Blue Screen was there.Paula also noticed that the hard drive activity light was flashing, meaning that the computer was processing something.Paula knew this should not be the case since the computer should be completely frozen during a Blue Screen. She checks the network IDS live log entries and notices numerous nmap scan alerts.
What is Paula seeing happen on this computer?
walks over to the users computer and sees the Blue Screen of Death screen.The users computer is running
Windows XP, but the Blue Screen looks like a familiar one that Paula had seen on Windows 2000 computers periodically. The user said he stepped away from his computer for only 15 minutes and when he got back, the Blue Screen was there.Paula also noticed that the hard drive activity light was flashing, meaning that the computer was processing something.Paula knew this should not be the case since the computer should be completely frozen during a Blue Screen. She checks the network IDS live log entries and notices numerous nmap scan alerts.
What is Paula seeing happen on this computer?
Correct Answer: B
Question 11
When you carve an image, recovering the image depends on which of the following skills?
Correct Answer: B
Question 12
Bob has been trying to penetrate a remote production system for the past tow weeks. This time however, he is able to get into the system. He was able to use the System for a period of three weeks. However law enforcement agencies were recoding his every activity and this was later presented as evidence. The organization had used a Virtual Environment to trap BoB. What is a Virtual Environment?
Correct Answer: C
Question 13
Harold is a security analyst who has just run the rdisk /s command to grab the backup SAM file on a computer. Where should Harold navigate on the computer to find the file?
Correct Answer: C
Question 14
George is the network administrator of a large Internet company on the west coast. Per corporate policy, none of the employees in the company are allowed to use FTP or SFTP programs without obtaining approval from the IT department. Few managers are using SFTP program on their computers. Before talking to his boss, George wants to have some proof of their activity.
George wants to use Ethereal to monitor network traffic, but only SFTP traffic to and from his network. What filter should George use in Ethereal?
George wants to use Ethereal to monitor network traffic, but only SFTP traffic to and from his network. What filter should George use in Ethereal?
Correct Answer: D
Question 15
Jim performed a vulnerability analysis on his network and found no potential problems. He runs another utility that executes exploits against his system to verify the results of the vulnerability test. The second utility executes five known exploits against his network in which the vulnerability analysis said were not exploitable. What kind of results did Jim receive from his vulnerability analysis?
Correct Answer: C