Q. What vulnerabilities were exploited in the QNAP NAS devices zero-day attack in April 2021?

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Q. How can data storage attacks be conducted remotely?

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Q. What is a potential method for penetration testers to gain access to cloud environments?

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Q. What is one of the most commonly leveraged weaknesses in cloud environments?

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Q. Which of the following is a cloud-specific tool that can be leveraged by penetration testers for multicloud auditing?

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Q. Why may direct-to-origin attacks be considered by penetration testers in cloud environments?

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Q. What is a consideration for penetration testers when dealing with embedded systems in penetration tests?

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Q. In mobile device security assessments, what is a potential vulnerability that penetration testers may target?

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Q. What is a common goal of penetration testers when attempting to compromise a system or service that is virtualized or containerized?

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Q. What role do proxies play in the context of penetration testing?

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Q. Which tool is commonly used by penetration testers to crack passwords?

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Q. What is a technique commonly employed by penetration testers during pentests regarding privileges?

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Q. What is the purpose of tools like Mimikatz, Medusa, and John the Ripper in penetration testing?

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Q. Which of the following is a side-channel attack?

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Q. What is an example of a cloud-specific tool that penetration testers can use for AWS exploitation?

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Q. Scott wants to crawl his penetration testing target’s website and then build a word list using the data he recovers to help with his password cracking efforts. Which of the following tools should he use?

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Q. Michelle wants to attack the underlying hypervisor for a virtual machine. What type of attack is most likely to be successful?

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Q. Jeff identifies the IP address contained in content delivery network (CDN) configuration for his target organization. He knows that that server’s content is replicated by the CDN, and that if he is able to conduct a denial-of-service attack on the host he will be able to take down his target’s web presence. What type of attack is Jeff preparing to conduct?

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Q. Claire knows that her target organization leverages a significant number of IoT devices and that she is likely to need to use one or more of them as pivot points for her penetration test. Which of the following is not a common concern when conducting a penetration test involving IoT devices?

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Q. Susan wants to use a web application vulnerability scanner to help map an organization’s web presence and to identify existing vulnerabilities. Which of the following tools is best suited to her needs?

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