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CPEH-001 GAQM Certified Professional Ethical Hacker (CPEH) Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

Prepare effectively for your GAQM CPEH-001 Certified Professional Ethical Hacker (CPEH) 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.

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Which of the following is a primary service of the U.S. Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)?

A.

CSIRT provides an incident response service to enable a reliable and trusted single point of contact for reporting computer security incidents worldwide.

B.

CSIRT provides a computer security surveillance service to supply a government with important intelligence information on individuals travelling abroad.

C.

CSIRT provides a penetration testing service to support exception reporting on incidents worldwide by individuals and multi-national corporations.

D.

CSIRT provides a vulnerability assessment service to assist law enforcement agencies with profiling an individual's property or company's asset.

For messages sent through an insecure channel, a properly implemented digital signature gives the receiver reason to believe the message was sent by the claimed sender. While using a digital signature, the message digest is encrypted with which key?

A.

Sender's public key

B.

Receiver's private key

C.

Receiver's public key

D.

Sender's private key

Some passwords are stored using specialized encryption algorithms known as hashes. Why is this an appropriate method?

A.

It is impossible to crack hashed user passwords unless the key used to encrypt them is obtained.

B.

If a user forgets the password, it can be easily retrieved using the hash key stored by administrators.

C.

Hashing is faster compared to more traditional encryption algorithms.

D.

Passwords stored using hashes are non-reversible, making finding the password much more difficult.

Which of the following describes a component of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) where a copy of a private key is stored to provide third-party access and to facilitate recovery operations?

A.

Key registry

B.

Recovery agent

C.

Directory

D.

Key escrow

Which type of security document is written with specific step-by-step details?

A.

Process

B.

Procedure

C.

Policy

D.

Paradigm

What is the primary drawback to using advanced encryption standard (AES) algorithm with a 256 bit key to share sensitive data?

A.

Due to the key size, the time it will take to encrypt and decrypt the message hinders efficient communication.

B.

To get messaging programs to function with this algorithm requires complex configurations.

C.

It has been proven to be a weak cipher; therefore, should not be trusted to protect sensitive data.

D.

It is a symmetric key algorithm, meaning each recipient must receive the key through a different channel than the message.

An attacker has captured a target file that is encrypted with public key cryptography. Which of the attacks below is likely to be used to crack the target file?

A.

Timing attack

B.

Replay attack

C.

Memory trade-off attack

D.

Chosen plain-text attack

Which of the following can take an arbitrary length of input and produce a message digest output of 160 bit?

A.

SHA-1

B.

MD5

C.

HAVAL

D.

MD4

Which of the following defines the role of a root Certificate Authority (CA) in a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)?

A.

The root CA is the recovery agent used to encrypt data when a user's certificate is lost.

B.

The root CA stores the user's hash value for safekeeping.

C.

The CA is the trusted root that issues certificates.

D.

The root CA is used to encrypt email messages to prevent unintended disclosure of data.

Which of the following items is unique to the N-tier architecture method of designing software applications?

A.

Application layers can be separated, allowing each layer to be upgraded independently from other layers.

B.

It is compatible with various databases including Access, Oracle, and SQL.

C.

Data security is tied into each layer and must be updated for all layers when any upgrade is performed.

D.

Application layers can be written in C, ASP.NET, or Delphi without any performance loss.

A security engineer is attempting to map a company’s internal network. The engineer enters in the following NMAP command:

NMAP –n –sS –P0 –p 80 ***.***.**.**

What type of scan is this?

A.

Quick scan

B.

Intense scan

C.

Stealth scan

D.

Comprehensive scan

Which type of access control is used on a router or firewall to limit network activity?

A.

Mandatory

B.

Discretionary

C.

Rule-based

D.

Role-based

A network administrator received an administrative alert at 3:00 a.m. from the intrusion detection system. The alert was generated because a large number of packets were coming into the network over ports 20 and 21. During analysis, there were no signs of attack on the FTP servers. How should the administrator classify this situation?

A.

True negatives

B.

False negatives

C.

True positives

D.

False positives

A company has publicly hosted web applications and an internal Intranet protected by a firewall. Which technique will help protect against enumeration?

A.

Reject all invalid email received via SMTP.

B.

Allow full DNS zone transfers.

C.

Remove A records for internal hosts.

D.

Enable null session pipes.

The network administrator for a company is setting up a website with e-commerce capabilities. Packet sniffing is a concern because credit card information will be sent electronically over the Internet. Customers visiting the site will need to encrypt the data with HTTPS. Which type of certificate is used to encrypt and decrypt the data?

A.

Asymmetric

B.

Confidential

C.

Symmetric

D.

Non-confidential

Passive reconnaissance involves collecting information through which of the following?

A.

Social engineering

B.

Network traffic sniffing

C.

Man in the middle attacks

D.

Publicly accessible sources

Which of the following scanning tools is specifically designed to find potential exploits in Microsoft Windows products?

A.

Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer

B.

Retina

C.

Core Impact

D.

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

A covert channel is a channel that

A.

transfers information over, within a computer system, or network that is outside of the security policy.

B.

transfers information over, within a computer system, or network that is within the security policy.

C.

transfers information via a communication path within a computer system, or network for transfer of data.

D.

transfers information over, within a computer system, or network that is encrypted.

A security policy will be more accepted by employees if it is consistent and has the support of

A.

coworkers.

B.

executive management.

C.

the security officer.

D.

a supervisor.

A hacker, who posed as a heating and air conditioning specialist, was able to install a sniffer program in a switched environment network. Which attack could the hacker use to sniff all of the packets in the network?

A.

Fraggle

B.

MAC Flood

C.

Smurf

D.

Tear Drop

Which system consists of a publicly available set of databases that contain domain name registration contact information?

A.

WHOIS

B.

IANA

C.

CAPTCHA

D.

IETF

If the final set of security controls does not eliminate all risk in a system, what could be done next?

A.

Continue to apply controls until there is zero risk.

B.

Ignore any remaining risk.

C.

If the residual risk is low enough, it can be accepted.

D.

Remove current controls since they are not completely effective.

How is sniffing broadly categorized?

A.

Active and passive

B.

Broadcast and unicast

C.

Unmanaged and managed

D.

Filtered and unfiltered

Pentest results indicate that voice over IP traffic is traversing a network. Which of the following tools will decode a packet capture and extract the voice conversations?

A.

Cain

B.

John the Ripper

C.

Nikto

D.

Hping

A penetration tester is hired to do a risk assessment of a company's DMZ. The rules of engagement states that the penetration test be done from an external IP address with no prior knowledge of the internal IT systems. What kind of test is being performed?

A.

white box

B.

grey box

C.

red box

D.

black box

Which of the following settings enables Nessus to detect when it is sending too many packets and the network pipe is approaching capacity?

A.

Netstat WMI Scan

B.

Silent Dependencies

C.

Consider unscanned ports as closed

D.

Reduce parallel connections on congestion

A consultant is hired to do physical penetration testing at a large financial company. In the first day of his assessment, the consultant goes to the company`s building dressed like an electrician and waits in the lobby for an employee to pass through the main access gate, then the consultant follows the employee behind to get into the restricted area. Which type of attack did the consultant perform?

A.

Man trap

B.

Tailgating

C.

Shoulder surfing

D.

Social engineering

When creating a security program, which approach would be used if senior management is supporting and enforcing the security policy?

A.

A bottom-up approach

B.

A top-down approach

C.

A senior creation approach

D.

An IT assurance approach

A person approaches a network administrator and wants advice on how to send encrypted email from home. The end user does not want to have to pay for any license fees or manage server services. Which of the following is the most secure encryption protocol that the network administrator should recommend?

A.

IP Security (IPSEC)

B.

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

C.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

D.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol with Secure Socket Layer (HTTPS)

Which of the following resources does NMAP need to be used as a basic vulnerability scanner covering several vectors like SMB, HTTP and FTP?

A.

Metasploit scripting engine

B.

Nessus scripting engine

C.

NMAP scripting engine

D.

SAINT scripting engine

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