GPPA GIAC Certified Perimeter Protection Analyst Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your GIAC GPPA GIAC Certified Perimeter Protection Analyst 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.
You work as a Network Administrator for a bank. For securing the bank's network, you configure a firewall and an IDS. In spite of these security measures, intruders are able to attack the network. After a close investigation, you find that your IDS is not configured properly and hence is unable to generate alarms when needed.
What type of response is the IDS giving?
You work as a Network Administrator for NetTech Inc. You want to prevent your network from Ping flood attacks.
Which of the following protocols will you block to accomplish this task?
Which of the following has a set of system-independent functions for packet capture and network analysis?
Session splicing is an IDS evasion technique in which an attacker delivers data in multiple small-sized packets to the target computer. Hence, it becomes very difficult for an IDS to detect the attack signatures of such attacks.
Which of the following tools can be used to perform session splicing attacks?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. (Choose all that apply.)
Which of the following hexadecimal values in the boot field in the configuration register loads the first IOS file found in Flash memory?
Which of the following methods will allow data to be sent on the Internet in a secure format?
Jain works as a Security Manager for ABC Inc. The company has a Windows-based network.
Jain has been assigned a project to detect the services used by an attack to access the network. For this purpose, he is required to use the predefined service objects of the rulebase. This predefined service object defines the services used in the attack to access the network.
Which of the following objects will he create when he finds that the attack is not defined in the predefined service objects?
Which of the following actions can be taken as the countermeasures against the ARP spoofing attack?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. (Choose all that apply.)
Passive OS fingerprinting (POSFP) is configured in an organization's network in order to improve the alert output by reporting some information.
Which of the following information does it include?
Each correct answer represents a part of the solution. (Choose all that apply.)
Your customer is concerned about security. He wants to make certain no one in the outside world can see the IP addresses inside his network.
What feature of a router would accomplish this?
Adam works as a professional Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator, a project has been assigned to him to investigate and examine files present on suspect's computer. Adam uses a tool with the help of which he can examine recovered deleted files, fragmented files, and other corrupted data. He can also examine the data, which was captured from the network, and access the physical RAM, and any processes running in virtual memory with the help of this tool.
Which of the following tools is Adam using?
An IDS is a group of processes working together in a network. These processes work on different computers and devices across the network.
Which of the following processes does an IDS perform?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. (Choose all that apply.)
You work as a Network Security Administrator for NetPerfect Inc. The company has a Windowsbased network. You are in charge of the data and network security of the company. While performing a threat log analysis, you observe that one of the database administrators is pilfering confidential data.
What type of threat is this?
You work as a Network Administrator for ABC Inc. The company has a Windows Server 2008- based network. You have created a test domain for testing IPv6 addressing.
Which of the following types of addresses are supported by IPv6?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. (Choose all that apply.)
You work as a Network Administrator for ABC Inc. The office network is configured as an IPv6 network. You have to configure a computer with the IPv6 address, which is equivalent to an IPv4 publicly routable address.
Which of the following types of addresses will you choose?
Which of the following proxy servers is also referred to as transparent proxies or forced proxies?
Which of the following is a Cisco IOS management term described in the statement below?
"It is the fourth digit in the configuration register and contains a hexadecimal value. The bootstrap program uses its value to choose which operating system to load into RAM".
Which of the following tools allows an attacker to intentionally craft the packets to gain unauthorized access?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. (Choose two.)
Which of the following information must the fragments carry for the destination host to reassemble them back to the original unfragmented state?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. (Choose all that apply.)
Which of the following tools can be used as a Linux vulnerability scanner that is capable of identifying operating systems and network services?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. (Choose all that apply.)
