CEH v12 Practice Test Latest 6

CEH v12 Practice Test (Latest 2025/ 202 6 Update) Qs & As | Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified Answers) How is the public is key distributed in an orderly, controlled fashion so that the users can be sure of the sender's identity?

• Hash value
• Digital signature
• Private key
• Digital certificate - ANSWER D. Digital certificate

What do Trinoo, TFN2k, WinTrinoo, T-Sight, and Stracheldraht have in common?

• All are tools that can be used not only by hackers, but also security personnel
• All are hacking tools developed by the legion of doom
• All are tools that are only effective against Windows D. All are tools that are

only effective against Linux

• All are DDOS tools - ANSWER E. All are DDOS tools

A zone file consists of which of the following Resource Records (RRs)?

• DNS, NS, PTR, and MX records
• SOA, NS, A, and MX records
• DNS, NS, AXFR, and MX records
• SOA, NS, AXFR, and MX records - ANSWER B. SOA, NS, A, and

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Which of the following is the primary objective of a rootkit?

• It creates a buffer overflow
• It provides an undocumented opening in a program
• It replaces legitimate programs
• It opens a port to provide an unauthorized service - ANSWER C. It

replaces legitimate programs CompanyXYZ has asked you to assess the security of their perimeter email gateway. From your office in New York, you craft a specially formatted email message and send it across the Internet to an employee of CompanyXYZ. The employee of CompanyXYZ is aware of your test.

Your email message looks like this:

From: jim_miller@companyxyz.com

To: michelle_saunders@companyxyz.com Subject: Test message Date: 4/3/2017 14:37 The employee of CompanyXYZ receives your email message. This proves that CompanyXYZ's email gateway doesn't prevent what?

• Email Harvesting
• Email Masquerading
• Email Phishing
• Email Spoofing - ANSWER D. Email Spoofing

When discussing passwords, what is considered a brute force attack?

• You wait until the password expires
• You create hashes of a large number of words and compare it with the

encrypted passwords

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