PT0-002 Practice Exam Questions and Answers

A red-team tester has been contracted to emulate the threat posed by a malicious insider on a company’s network, with the constrained objective of gaining access to sensitive personnel files. During the assessment, the red-team tester identifies an artifact indicating possible prior compromise within the target environment.

Which of the following actions should the tester take?

A security firm has been hired to perform an external penetration test against a company. The only information the firm received was the company name. Which of the following passive reconnaissance approaches would be MOST likely to yield positive initial results?

A penetration tester is looking for a vulnerability that enables attackers to open doors via a specialized TCP service that is used for a physical access control system. The service exists on more than 100 different hosts, so the tester would like to automate the assessment. Identification requires the penetration tester to:

• Have a full TCP connection
• Send a “hello” payload
• Walt for a response
• Send a string of characters longer than 16 bytes

Which of the following approaches would BEST support the objective?

A penetration tester was able to compromise a web server and move laterally into a Linux web server. The tester now wants to determine the identity of the last user who signed in to the web server. Which of the following log files will show this activity?

Which of the following is the MOST effective person to validate results from a penetration test?

Given the following code:

Which of the following data structures is systems?

During a penetration test, the domain names, IP ranges, hosts, and applications are defined in the:

Penetration tester has discovered an unknown Linux 64-bit executable binary. Which of the following tools would be BEST to use to analyze this issue?

During an assessment, a penetration tester obtains a list of 30 email addresses by crawling the target company's website and then creates a list of possible usernames based on the email address format. Which of the following types of attacks would MOST likely be used to avoid account lockout?

Given the following output:

User-agent:*

Disallow: /author/

Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

Disallow: /wp-admin

Disallow: /page/

During which of the following activities was this output MOST likely obtained?

A penetration tester needs to perform a test on a finance system that is PCI DSS v3.2.1 compliant. Which of the following is the MINIMUM frequency to complete the scan of the system?

A company provided the following network scope for a penetration test:

169.137.1.0/24

221.10.1.0/24

149.14.1.0/24

A penetration tester discovered a remote command injection on IP address 149.14.1.24 and exploited the system. Later, the tester learned that this particular IP address belongs to a third party. Which of the following stakeholders is responsible for this mistake?

A security analyst needs to perform a scan for SMB port 445 over a/16 network. Which of the following commands would be the BEST option when stealth is not a concern and the task is time sensitive?

Which of the following provides an exploitation suite with payload modules that cover the broadest range of target system types?

Which of the following would MOST likely be included in the final report of a static application-security test that was written with a team of application developers as the intended audience?

A penetration tester needs to access a building that is guarded by locked gates, a security team, and cameras. Which of the following is a technique the tester can use to gain access to the IT framework without being detected?

A penetration tester wants to perform reconnaissance without being detected. Which of the following activities have a MINIMAL chance of detection? (Choose two.)

Which of the following is the MOST important information to have on a penetration testing report that is written for the developers?

A penetration tester runs the following command on a system:

find / -user root –perm -4000 –print 2>/dev/null

Which of the following is the tester trying to accomplish?

A penetration tester is attempting to discover live hosts on a subnet quickly.

Which of the following commands will perform a ping scan?

A penetration tester wants to identify CVEs that can be leveraged to gain execution on a Linux server that has an SSHD running. Which of the following would BEST support this task?

A penetration tester has obtained a low-privilege shell on a Windows server with a default configuration and now wants to explore the ability to exploit misconfigured service permissions. Which of the following commands would help the tester START this process?

A penetration tester writes the following script:

Which of the following is the tester performing?

A consulting company is completing the ROE during scoping.

Which of the following should be included in the ROE?

The results of an Nmap scan are as follows:

Which of the following would be the BEST conclusion about this device?

A penetration tester is reviewing the following SOW prior to engaging with a client:

“Network diagrams, logical and physical asset inventory, and employees’ names are to be treated as client confidential. Upon completion of the engagement, the penetration tester will submit findings to the client’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) via encrypted protocols and subsequently dispose of all findings by erasing them in a secure manner.”

Based on the information in the SOW, which of the following behaviors would be considered unethical? (Choose two.)

A penetration tester received a 16-bit network block that was scoped for an assessment. During the assessment, the tester realized no hosts were active in the provided block of IPs and reported this to the company. The company then provided an updated block of IPs to the tester. Which of the following would be the most appropriate NEXT step?

A red team gained access to the internal network of a client during an engagement and used the Responder tool to capture important data. Which of the following was captured by the testing team?

A penetration tester is testing a web application that is hosted by a public cloud provider. The tester is able to query the provider’s metadata and get the credentials used by the instance to authenticate itself. Which of the following vulnerabilities has the tester exploited?

A penetration tester runs the unshadow command on a machine. Which of the following tools will the tester most likely use NEXT?

A penetration tester has gained access to a network device that has a previously unknown IP range on an interface. Further research determines this is an always-on VPN tunnel to a third-party supplier.

Which of the following is the BEST action for the penetration tester to take?

A penetration-testing team is conducting a physical penetration test to gain entry to a building. Which of the following is the reason why the penetration testers should carry copies of the engagement documents with them?

Which of the following BEST explains why a penetration tester cannot scan a server that was previously scanned successfully?

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 mail service company has hired a penetration tester to conduct an enumeration of all user accounts on an SMTP server to identify whether previous staff member accounts are still active. Which of the following commands should be used to accomplish the goal?

A penetration tester is starting an assessment but only has publicly available information about the target company. The client is aware of this exercise and is preparing for the test.

Which of the following describes the scope of the assessment?

An assessor wants to run an Nmap scan as quietly as possible. Which of the following commands will give the LEAST chance of detection?

A penetration tester found the following valid URL while doing a manual assessment of a web application: http://www.example.com/product.php?id=123987.

Which of the following automated tools would be best to use NEXT to try to identify a vulnerability in this URL?

Which of the following web-application security risks are part of the OWASP Top 10 v2017? (Choose two.)

Which of the following should a penetration tester attack to gain control of the state in the HTTP protocol after the user is logged in?

A consultant just performed a SYN scan of all the open ports on a remote host and now needs to remotely identify the type of services that are running on the host. Which of the following is an active reconnaissance tool that would be BEST to use to accomplish this task?