ECCouncil 212-89 Exam Questions and Answers, EC-Council Certified Incident Handler

Question #1

Which of the following terms may be defined as "a measure of possible inability to achieve a goal, objective, or target within a defined security, cost plan and technical limitations that adversely affects the organization's operation and revenues?

A. Risk

B. Vulnerability

C. Threat

D. Incident Response

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Correct Answer: A

Question #2

The goal of incident response is to handle the incident in a way that minimizes damage and reduces recovery time and cost. Which of the following does NOT constitute a goal of incident response?

A. Dealing with human resources department and various employee conflict behaviors

B. Using information gathered during incident handling to prepare for handling future incidents in a better way and to provide stronger protection for systems and data

C. Helping personal to recover quickly and efficiently from security incidents, minimizing loss or theft and disruption of services

D. Dealing properly with legal issues that may arise during incidents

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Correct Answer: A

Question #3

Clark, a professional hacker, exploited the web application of a target organization by tampering the form and parameter values. He successfully exploited the web application and gained access to the information assets of the organization. Identify the vulnerability in the web application exploited by the attacker.

A. Broken access control

B. Security misconfiguration

C. SQL injection

D. Sensitive data exposure

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Correct Answer: C

Question #4

Which of the following is an appropriate flow of the incident recovery steps?

A. System Operation-System Restoration-System Validation-System Monitoring

B. System Validation-System Operation-System Restoration-System Monitoring

C. System Restoration-System Monitoring-System Validation-System Operations

D. System Restoration-System Validation-System Operations-System Monitoring

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Correct Answer: D

Question #5

Which of the following terms may be defined as "a measure of possible inability to achieve a goal, objective, or target within a defined security, cost plan and technical limitations that adversely affects the organization's operation and revenues?

A. Risk

B. Vulnerability

C. Threat

D. Incident Response

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Correct Answer: A

Question #6

Identify the network security incident where intended authorized users are prevented from using system, network, or applications by flooding the network with high volume of traffic that consumes all existing network resources.

A. URL Manipulation

B. XSS Attack

C. SQL Injection

D. Denial of Service Attack

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Correct Answer: D

Question #7

The flow chart gives a view of different roles played by the different personnel of CSIRT. Identify the incident response personnel denoted by A, B, C, D, E, F and G.

A. A-Incident Analyst, B- Incident Coordinator, C- Public Relations, D-Administrator, E- Human Resource, F-Constituency, G-Incident Manager

B. A- Incident Coordinator, B-Incident Analyst, C- Public Relations, D-Administrator, E- Human Resource, F-Constituency, G-Incident Manager

C. A- Incident Coordinator, B- Constituency, C-Administrator, D-Incident Manager, E- Human Resource, F-Incident Analyst, G-Public relations

D. A- Incident Manager, B-Incident Analyst, C- Public Relations, D-Administrator, E- Human Resource, F-Constituency, G-Incident Coordinator

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Correct Answer: C

Question #8

A distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a more common type of DoS Attack, where a single system is targeted by a large number of infected machines over the Internet. In a DDoS attack, attackers first infect multiple systems which are known as:

A. Trojans

B. Zombies

C. Spyware

D. Worms

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Correct Answer: B

Question #9

The goal of incident response is to handle the incident in a way that minimizes damage and reduces recovery time and cost. Which of the following does NOT constitute a goal of incident response?

A. Dealing with human resources department and various employee conflict behaviors

B. Using information gathered during incident handling to prepare for handling future incidents in a better way and to provide stronger protection for systems and data

C. Helping personal to recover quickly and efficiently from security incidents, minimizing loss or theft and disruption of services

D. Dealing properly with legal issues that may arise during incidents

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Correct Answer: A

Question #10

A distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a more common type of DoS Attack, where a single system is targeted by a large number of infected machines over the Internet. In a DDoS attack, attackers first infect multiple systems which are known as:

A. Trojans

B. Zombies

C. Spyware

D. Worms

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Correct Answer: B

Question #11

Business continuity is defined as the ability of an organization to continue to function even after a disastrous event, accomplished through the deployment of redundant hardware and software, the use of fault tolerant systems, as well as a solid backup and recovery strategy. Identify the plan which is mandatory part of a business continuity plan?

A. Forensics Procedure Plan

B. Business Recovery Plan

C. Sales and Marketing plan

D. New business strategy plan

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Correct Answer: B

Question #12

In which of the following stages of the incident handling and response (IH&R) process do the incident handlers try to find the root cause of the incident along with the threat actors behind the incidents, threat vectors, etc.?

A. Post-incident activities

B. Incident recording and assignment

C. Incident triage

D. Evidence gathering and forensics analysis

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Correct Answer: D

Question #13

An organization faced an information security incident where a disgruntled employee passed sensitive access control information to a competitor. The organization's incident response manager, upon investigation, found that the incident must be handled within a few hours on the same day to maintain business continuity and market competitiveness. How would you categorize such information security incident?

A. High level incident

B. Middle level incident

C. Ultra-High level incident

D. Low level incident

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Correct Answer: B

Question #14

An organization faced an information security incident where a disgruntled employee passed sensitive access control information to a competitor. The organization's incident response manager, upon investigation, found that the incident must be handled within a few hours on the same day to maintain business continuity and market competitiveness. How would you categorize such information security incident?

A. High level incident

B. Middle level incident

C. Ultra-High level incident

D. Low level incident

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Correct Answer: B

Question #15

Which of the following has been used to evade IDS and IPS?

A. Fragmentation

B. TNP

C. HTTP

D. SNMP

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Correct Answer: A

Question #16

James is a professional hacker and is employed by an organization to exploit their cloud services. In order to achieve this, James created anonymous access to the cloud services to carry out various attacks such as password and key cracking, hosting malicious data, and DDoS attacks. Which of the following threats is he posing to the cloud platform?

A. Insecure interface and APIs

B. Data breach/loss

C. Insufficient duo diligence

D. Abuse end nefarious use of cloud services

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Correct Answer: D

Question #17

Your company sells SaaS, and your company itself is hosted in the cloud (using it as a PaaS). In case of a malware incident in your customer's database, who is responsible for eradicating the malicious software?

A. Your company

B. Building management

C. The PaaS provider

D. The customer

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Correct Answer: A

Question #18

Incident handling and response steps help you to detect, identify, respond and manage an incident. Which of the following steps focus on limiting the scope and extent of an incident?

A. Eradication

B. Containment

C. Identification

D. Data collection

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Correct Answer: B

Question #19

A computer Risk Policy is a set of ideas to be implemented to overcome the risk associated with computer security incidents. Identify the procedure that is NOT part of the computer risk policy?

A. Procedure to identify security funds to hedge risk

B. Procedure to monitor the efficiency of security controls

C. Procedure for the ongoing training of employees authorized to access the system

D. Provisions for continuing support if there is an interruption in the system or if the system crashes

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Correct Answer: A

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