ECSS ECCouncil EC-Council Certified Security Specialist (ECSSv10)Exam Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your ECCouncil ECSS EC-Council Certified Security Specialist (ECSSv10)Exam certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
Sam is a hacker who decided to damage the reputation of an organization. He started collecting information about the organization using social engineering techniques. Sam aims to gather critical information such as admin passwords and OS versions to plan for an attack.
Identify the target employee in the organization from whom Sam can gather the required information.
Roxanne is a professional hacker hired by an agency to disrupt the business services of their rival company. Roxanne employed a special type of malware that consumes a server's memory and network bandwidth when triggered. Consequently, the target server is overloaded and stops responding.
Identify the type of malware Roxanne has used in the above scenario.
John is working as a network administrator in an MNC company. He was instructed to connect all the remote offices with the corporate office but at the same time deny communication between the remote offices. In this process, he configured a central hub at the corporate head office, through which all branch offices can communicate.
Identify the type of VPN topology implemented by John in the above scenario.
Martin, a hacker, aimed to crash a target system. For this purpose, he spoofed the source IP address with the target's IP address and sent many ICMP ECHO request packets to an IP broadcast network, causing all the hosts to respond to the received ICMP ECHO requests and ultimately crashing the target machine.
Identify the type of attack performed by Martin in the above scenario.
Michael is an attacker who aims to hack Bob's system. He started collecting data without any active interaction with Bob’s system. Using this technique. Michael can extract sensitive information from unencrypted data.
Identify the class of attack Michael has launched in the above scenario.
Clark, a digital forensic expert, was assigned to investigate a malicious activity performed on an organization's network. The organization provided Clark with all the information related to the incident. In this process, he assessed the impact of the incident on the organization, reasons for and source of the incident, steps required to tackle the incident, investigating team required to handle the case, investigative procedures, and possible outcome of the forensic process.
Identify the type of analysis performed by Clark in the above scenario.
Wesley, a professional hacker, deleted a confidential file in a compromised system using the "/bin/rm/ command to deny access to forensic specialists.
Identify the operating system on which Don has performed the file carving activity.
Christian is working as a software developer in a reputed MNC. He received a message from XIM bank that claims to be urgent and requests to call a phone number mentioned in the message. Worried by this, he called the number to check on his account, believing it to be an authentic XIM Bank customer service phone number. A recorded message asks him to provide his credit or debit card number, as well as his password.
Identify the type of social engineering attack being performed on Christian in the above scenario.
Bob, a network administrator in a company, manages network connectivity to 200 employees in six different rooms. Every employee has their own laptop to connect to the Internet through a wireless network, but the company has only one broadband connection.
Which of the following types of wireless networks allows Bob to provide Internet access to every laptop and bring all the devices to a single network?
A major fire broke out in the storeroom of CyberSol Inc. It first gutted the equipment in the storeroom and then started spreading to other areas in the company. The officials of the company informed the fire department. The fire rescue team reached the premises and used a distribution piping system to suppress the fire, thereby preventing any human or asset loss.
Identify the type of fire-fighting system used by the rescue team in the above scenario.
