Free Practice Questions for GIAC GSNA Exam

The Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) is a set of best practices (framework) for information technology (IT) management, which provides managers, auditors, and IT users with a set of generally accepted measures, indicators, processes and best practices to assist them in maximizing the benefits derived through the use of information technology and developing appropriate IT governance and control in a company. It has the following 11 processes: Developing a strategic plan. Articulating the information architecture. Finding an optimal stage between the IT and the organization's strategy. Designing the IT function to match the organization's needs. Maximizing the return of the IT investment. Communicating IT policies to the user's community. Managing the IT workforce. Obeying external regulations, laws, and contracts. Conducting IT risk assessments. Maintaining a high-quality systems-development process. Incorporating sound project-management techniques. Answer: B is incorrect. Correcting all risk issues does not come under auditing processes.

The rdev commad is used to query/set an image root device, RAM disk size, or video mode. If a user executes the rdev commands with no arguments, it outputs a /etc/mtab line for the current root file system. The command syntax of the rdev command is as follows: rdev [ -Rrvh ] [ -o offset ] [ image [ value [ offset ] ] ] Answer: B is incorrect. In Unix, the rdump command is used to back up an ext2 filesystem. Answer: D is incorrect. In Unix, the mount command is used to mount a filesystem. Answer: C is incorrect. In Unix, the setfdprm command sets floppy drive parameters.

A dual-homed host is one of the firewall architectures for implementing preventive security. It provides the first-line defense and protection technology for keeping untrusted bodies from compromising information security by violating trusted network space as shown in the image below: A dual-homed host (or bastion host) is a system fortified with two network interfaces (NICs) that sits between an un-trusted network (like the Internet) and trusted network (such as a corporate network) to provide secure access. Dual-homed, or bastion, is a general term for proxies, gateways, firewalls, or any server that provides secured applications or services directly to an untrusted network.

A dual-homed host also has some disadvantages, which are as follows:

1. It can provide services by proxying them.

2. User accounts may unexpectedly enable services a user may not consider secure.

3. It provides services when users log on to the dual-homed host directly.

Answer: B is incorrect. Dual-Homed Host Firewall Architecture can provide a very high level of control.

The HttpSessionActivationListener interface notifies an attribute that the session is about to be activated or passivated. Methods of this interface are as follows: public void sessionDidActivate(HttpSessionEvent session): It notifies the attribute that the session has just been moved to a different JVM. public void sessionWillPassivate(HttpSessionEvent se): It notifies the attribute that the session is about to move to a different JVM. Answer: B, C are incorrect. These functions are performed by the HttpSessionBindingListener interface. The HttpSessionBindingListener interface causes an object of the implementing class to be notified when it is added to or removed from a session. The HttpSessionBindingListener interface has the following methods: public void valueBound(event): This method takes an object of type HttpSessionBindingEvent as an argument. It notifies the object when it is bound to a session. public void valueUnbound(HttpSessionBindingEvent event): This method takes an object of type HttpSessionBindingEvent as an argument. It notifies the object when it is unbound from a session.

The Trojan Man is a Trojan wrapper that not only combines two programs, but also encrypts the resulting package in an attempt to foil antivirus programs.

CCMP (Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol) is an IEEE 802.11i encryption protocol created to replace both TKIP, the mandatory protocol in WPA, and WEP, the earlier, insecure protocol. CCMP is a mandatory part of the WPA2 standard, an optional part of the WPA standard, and a required option for Robust Security Network (RSN) Compliant networks. CCMP is also used in the ITU-T home and business networking standard. CCMP, part of the 802.11i standard, uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. Unlike in TKIP, key management and message integrity is handled by a single component built around AES using a 128-bit key, a 128-bit block, and 10 rounds of encoding per the FIPS 197 standard. Answer: C is incorrect. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a security protocol for wireless local area networks (WLANs). It has two components, authentication and encryption. It provides security, which is equivalent to wired networks, for wireless networks. WEP encrypts data on a wireless network by using a fixed secret key. WEP incorporates a checksum in each frame to provide protection against the attacks that attempt to reveal the key stream. Answer: D is incorrect. TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) is an encryption protocol defined in the IEEE 802.11i standard for wireless LANs (WLANs). It is designed to provide more secure encryption than the disreputably weak Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). TKIP is the encryption method used in Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), which replaced WEP in WLAN products. TKIP is a suite of algorithms to replace WEP without requiring the replacement of legacy WLAN equipment. TKIP uses the original WEP programming but wraps additional code at the beginning and end to encapsulate and modify it. Like WEP, TKIP uses the RC4 stream encryption algorithm as its basis. Answer: B is incorrect. Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a network maintenance protocol of the TCP/IP protocol suite. It is responsible for the resolution of IP addresses to media access control (MAC) addresses of a network interface card (NIC). The ARP cache is used to maintain a correlation between a MAC address and its corresponding IP address. ARP provides the protocol rules for making this correlation and providing address conversion in both directions. ARP is limited to physical network systems that support broadcast packets.

In the evil twin attack, a rogue wireless access point is set up that has the same MAC address as one of your legitimate access points. That rogue WAP will often then initiate a denial of service attack on your legitimate access point making it unable to respond to users, so they are redirected to the 'evil twin'. Answer: A is incorrect. Blue snarfing is the process of taking over a PDA. Answer: D is incorrect. A DOS may be used as part of establishing an evil twin, but this attack is not specifically for denial of service. Answer: C is incorrect. While you must clone a WAP MAC address, the attack is not called WAP cloning.

The element is a sub-element of the element and specifies the resources that will be constrained. Each element should have one or more sub-elements. The syntax of the element is as follows: ResourceName GET PatternName The sub-elements of the element are as follows: : This mandatory sub-element is the name of the Web resource collection. : This is an optional sub-element that specifies a text description of the current security constraint. : This optional sub-element specifies HTTP methods that are constrained. : This sub-element specifies the URL to which the security constraint applies. There should be atleast one url-pattern element; otherwise, the will be ignored. Answer: C is incorrect. The element can have any number of sub-elements. Answer: B is incorrect. If there is no sub-element, no HTTP methods will be allowed.

A cold backup site takes the longest recovery time. It is the most inexpensive type of backup site for an organization to operate. It does not include backed up copies of data and information from the original location of the organization, nor does it include hardware already set up. The lack of hardware contributes to the minimal startup costs of the cold site, but requires additional time following the disaster to have the operation running at a capacity close to that prior to the disaster. Answer: D is incorrect. A hot site is a duplicate of the original site of the organization, with full computer systems as well as near- complete backups of user data. Real time synchronization between the two sites may be used to completely mirror the data environment of the original site using wide area network links and specialized software. Ideally, a hot site will be up and running within a matter of hours or even less. Answer: A is incorrect. Although a mobile backup site provides rapid recovery, it does not provide full recovery in time. Hence, a hot site takes the shortest recovery time. Answer: B is incorrect. A warm site is, quite logically, a compromise between hot and cold. These sites will have hardware and connectivity already established, though on a smaller scale than the original production site or even a hot site. Warm sites will have backups on hand, but they may not be complete and may be between several days and a week old. An example would be backup tapes sent to the warm site by courier.

The following methods can be helpful to eliminate social engineering threat: Password policies Vulnerability assessments Data classification Password policy should specify that how the password can be shared. Company should implement periodic penetration and vulnerability assessments. These assessments usually consist of using known hacker tools and common hacker techniques to breach a network security. Social engineering should also be used for an accurate assessment. Since social engineers use the knowledge of others to attain information, it is essential to have a data classification model in place that all employees know and follow. Data classification assigns level of sensitivity of company information. Each classification level specifies that who can view and edit data, and how it can be shared.