ECSS ECCouncil EC-Council Certified Security Specialist (ECSSv10)Exam Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
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Bob, a forensic investigator, is investigating a live Windows system found at a crime scene. In this process, Bob extracted subkeys containing information such as SAM. Security, and software using an automated tool called FTK Imager.
Which of the following Windows Registry hives' subkeys provide the above information to Bob?
John, a professional penetration tester, was hired by an organization for conducting a penetration test on their IT infrastructure. He was assigned the task of identifying risks, rather than finding vulnerabilities. In this process, he defined the goal before initiating the penetration test and performed multiple parallel processes to achieve the goal.
Identify the type of penetration assessment performed by John in the above scenario.
Finch, a security professional, was instructed to strengthen the security at the entrance. At the doorway, he implemented a security mechanism that allows employees to register their retina scan and a unique six-digit code, using which they can enter the office at any time.
Which of the following combinations of authentication mechanisms is implemented in the above scenario?
Below are the elements included in the order of volatility for a typical computing system as per the RFC 3227 guidelines for evidence collection and archiving.
l.Archival media
2.Remote logging and monitoring data related to the target system
3.Routing table, process table, kernel statistics, and memory
4.Registers and processor cache
5-Physical configuration and network topology
6.Disk or other storage media
7.Temporary system files
Identify the correct sequence of order of volatility from the most to least volatile for a typical system.
A type of malware allows an attacker to trick the target entity into performing a predefined action, and upon its activation, it grants the attacker unrestricted access to all the data stored on the compromised system.
Which of the following is this type of malware?
Which of the following MAC forensic data components saves file information and related events using a token with a binary structure?
Paola, a professional hacker, configured her wireless router in an organization's premises and advertised it with a spoofed SSID. She lured victims to connect to the router by sending the fake SSID. She started sniffing all the traffic from the victims that is passing through his wireless router.
Which of the following types of attacks is Paola performing in the above scenario?
Which of the following standards and criteria version of SWCDE mandates that any action with the potential to alter, damage, or destroy any aspect of original evidence must be performed by qualified persons in a forensically sound manner?
Jay, a network administrator, was monitoring traffic flowing through an IDS. Unexpectedly, he received an event triggered as an alarm, although there is no active attack in progress.
Identify the type of IDS alert Jay has received in the above scenario.
Melissa, an ex-employee of an organization, was fired because of misuse of resources and security violations. She sought revenge against the company and targeted its network, as she is already aware of its network topology.
Which of the following categories of insiders does Melissa belong to?
An investigator wants to extract information about the status of the network interface cards (NICs) in an organization's Windows-based systems. Identify the command-line utility that can help the investigator detect the network status.
Jack, a forensic investigator, was appointed to investigate a Windows-based security incident. In this process, he employed an Autopsy tool to recover the deleted files from unallocated space, which helps in gathering potential evidence.
Which of the following functions of Autopsy helped Jack recover the deleted files?
Which of the following cloud computing threats arises from authentication vulnerabilities, user-provisioning and de-provisioning vulnerabilities, hypervisor vulnerabilities, unclear roles and responsibilities, and misconfigurations?
Jacob, an attacker, targeted container technology to destroy the reputation of an organization. To achieve this, he initially compromised a single container exploiting weak network defaults, overloaded the rest of the containers in the local domain, and restricted them from providing services to legitimate users.
Identify the type of attack initiated by Jacob in the above scenario.
John, a forensic officer, was working on a criminal case. He employed imaging software to create a copy of data from the suspect device on a storage medium for further investigation. For developing an image of the original data, John used a software application that does not allow an unauthorized user to alter the image content on storage media, thereby retaining an unaltered image copy.
Identify the data acquisition step performed by John in the above scenario.
Stephen, an attacker, decided to gain access to an organization’s server. He identified a user with access to the remote server. He used sniffing programs to gain the user's credentials and captured the authentication tokens transmitted by the user. Then, he transmitted the captured tokens back tothe server to gain unauthorized access.
Identify the technique used by Stephen to gain unauthorized access to the target server.
Below are the various steps involved in an email crime investigation.
1.Acquiring the email data
2.Analyzing email headers
3.Examining email messages
4.Recovering deleted email messages
5.Seizing the computer and email accounts
6.Retrieving email headers
What is the correct sequence of steps involved in the investigation of an email crime?
Kalley, a network administrator of an organization, has installed a traffic monitoring system to capture and report suspicious traffic signatures. In this process, she detects traffic containing password cracking, sniffing, and brute-forcing attempts.
Which of the following categories of suspicious traffic signature were identified by Kalley through the installed monitoring system?
Which of the following layers of the loT architecture is responsible for delivering services to respective users from different sectors such as building, industrial, manufacturing, automobile, security, and healthcare?
Sam is working as a loan agent for a financial institution. He frequently receives a number of emails from clients providing their personal details for loan approval. As these emails contain sensitive data. Sam had set up a feature that directly downloads the emails on his device without storing a copy on the mail server.
Which of the following protocols provides the above-discussed email features?
