Q. Why might penetration testing be conducted to meet regulatory requirements?

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Q. What is an advantage of internal penetration testing teams?

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Q. In which phase of the penetration testing process do testers share their findings with the target organization?

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Q. Tom is running a penetration test in a web application and discovers a flaw that allows him to shut down the web server remotely. What goal of penetration testing has Tom most directly achieved?

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Q. Brian ran a penetration test against a school’s grading system and discovered a flaw that would allow students to alter their grades by exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability. What type of control should he recommend to the school’s cybersecurity team to prevent students from engaging in this type of activity?

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Q. Edward Snowden gathered a massive quantity of sensitive information from the National Security Agency and released it to the media without permission. What type of attack did he wage?

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Q. Assuming no significant changes in an organization’s cardholder data environment, how often does PCI DSS require that a merchant accepting credit cards conduct penetration testing?

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Q. Which one of the following is not a benefit of using an internal penetration testing team?

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Q. Which one of the following is not a reason to conduct periodic penetration tests of systems and applications?

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Q. Rich recently got into trouble with a client for using an attack tool during a penetration test that caused a system outage. During what stage of the penetration testing process should Rich and his clients have agreed on the tools and techniques that he would use during the test?

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Q. Which one of the following steps of the Cyber Kill Chain does not map to the Attacking and Exploiting stage of the penetration testing process?

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Q. Beth recently conducted a phishing attack against a penetration testing target in an attempt to gather credentials that she might use in later attacks. What stage of the penetration testing process is Beth in?

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Q. Which one of the following security assessment tools is not commonly used during the Information Gathering and Vulnerability Scanning phase of a penetration test?

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Q. During what phase of the Cyber Kill Chain does an attacker steal information, use computing resources, or alter information without permission?

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Q. Grace is investigating a security incident where the attackers left USB drives containing infected files in the parking lot of an office building. What stage in the Cyber Kill Chain describes this action?

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Q. Which one of the following is not an open-source intelligence gathering tool?

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Q. Which one of the following tools is an exploitation framework commonly used by penetration testers?

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Q. Which one of the following tools is not a password-cracking utility?

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Q. Which one of the following vulnerability scanners is specifically designed to test the security of web applications against a wide variety of attacks?

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Q. Which one of the following debugging tools does not support Windows systems?

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