GIAC Certified Perimeter Protection Analyst - GPPA Exam Practice Test

Which of the following Linux file systems is a journaled file system?

Adam, a malicious hacker purposely sends fragmented ICMP packets to a remote target. The total size of this ICMP packet once reconstructed is over 65,536 bytes.
On the basis of above information, which of the following types of attack is Adam attempting to perform?

Fill in the blank with appropriate address translation type.
A ______ performs translation of one IP address to a different one automatically. It requires manually defining two sets of addresses on the address translation device (probably a router). One set defines which inside addresses are allowed to be translated, and the other defines what these addresses are to be translated to.

Sandra, a novice computer user, works on Windows environment. She experiences some problem regarding bad sectors formed in a hard disk of her computer. She wants to run CHKDSK command to check the hard disk for bad sectors and to fix the errors, if any, occurred.
Which of the following switches will she use with CHKDSK command to accomplish the task?

Which of the following commands can change the IOS to be loaded in a router?

You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. You are required to verify security policies configured in the company's networks.
Which of the following applications will you use to accomplish the task?

Which of the following types of Intrusion Detection Systems consists of an agent on a host that identifies intrusions by analyzing system calls, application logs, file-system modifications (binaries, password files, capability/acl databases) and other host activities and state?

Which of the following address translation types only translates one (and only one) IP address to another without using ports?

Which of the following proxy servers is placed anonymously between the client and remote server and handles all of the traffic from the client?

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He is assigned a project to test the security of www.abc.com. You have searched all open ports of the ABC server. Now, you want to perform the next information-gathering step, i.e., passive OS fingerprinting.
Which of the following tools can you use to accomplish the task?

Which of the following intrusion detection systems (IDS) produces the false alarm because of the abnormal behavior of users and network?

Which of the following devices works as a transparent bridge between the wireless clients and the wired network?

Adam works on a Linux system. He is using Sendmail as the primary application to transmit emails. Linux uses Syslog to maintain logs of what has occurred on the system.
Which of the following log files contains e-mail information such as source and destination IP addresses, date and time stamps etc?