giac gslc practice test

Exam Title: GIAC Security Leadership

Last update: Nov 27 ,2025
Question 1

The promiscuous mode is a configuration of a network card that makes the card pass all traffic it
receives to the central processing unit rather than just packets addressed to it. Which of the
following tools works by placing the host system network card into the promiscuous mode?

  • A. Sniffer
  • B. THC-Scan
  • C. NetStumbler
  • D. Snort
Answer:

A

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Question 2

Janet is the project manager of the NHQ Project for her company. Janet is nearly done leading the
project and there have been no cost or schedule overruns in the development of the new software
for her company. The project team has been completing their work on time and there is still $75,000
left in the project budget. Janet decides to have the project team implement some extra features to
the project scope to use all of the $75,000 in the budget even though the customer didn't specifically
ask for the added features. This scenario is an example of which one of the following?

  • A. Scope creep
  • B. Gold plating
  • C. Change management
  • D. Value added change
Answer:

B

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Question 3

You are responsible for security at a company that uses a lot of Web applications. You are most
concerned about flaws in those applications allowing some attacker to get into your network. What
method would be best for finding such flaws?

  • A. Automated penetration testing
  • B. Code review
  • C. Manual penetration testing
  • D. Vulnerability scanning
Answer:

D

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Question 4

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
A_______ is a computer system on the Internet that is expressly set up to attract and trap people
who attempt to penetrate other people's computer systems.

Answer:

honeypot

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Question 5

Which of the following protocols is used as a transport protocol for Internet dial-up connections?

  • A. SMTP
  • B. SNMP
  • C. DHCP
  • D. PPP
Answer:

D

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Question 6

You work as a Network Administrator for Tech Perfect Inc. The company has a Windows Server 2008
Active Directory-based single domain single forest network. The functional level of the forest is
Windows Server 2008. The company's headquarters is located at Los Angeles. A branch office of the
company is located at Denver. You are about to send a message to Rick who is a Network
Administrator at Denver. You want to ensure that the message cannot be read by anyone but the
recipient. Which of the following keys will you use to encrypt the message?

  • A. Your public key
  • B. The recipient's private key
  • C. The recipient's public key
  • D. Your private key
Answer:

C

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Question 7

Which of the following programs can collect various types of personal information, such as Internet
surfing habits, and Web sites that the user has visited?

  • A. Spyware
  • B. Honeypot
  • C. Worm
  • D. Malware
Answer:

A

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Question 8

Which of the following applications would be considered a data warehousing application?

  • A. Golf score tracking
  • B. Badge reader
  • C. Fraud detection
  • D. eCommerce site
Answer:

C

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Question 9

Which of the following options is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users?

  • A. MIC
  • B. MAC
  • C. RBAC
  • D. DAC
Answer:

C

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Question 10

Mark works as a Network Administrator for Infonet Inc. The company has a Windows 2000 Active
Directory domain-based network. The domain contains one hundred Windows XP Professional client
computers. Mark is deploying an 802.11 wireless LAN on the network. The wireless LAN will use
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) for all the connections. According to the company's security policy,
the client computers must be able to automatically connect to the wireless LAN. However, the
unauthorized computers must not be allowed to connect to the wireless LAN and view the wireless
network. Mark wants to configure all the wireless access points and client computers to act in
accordance with the company's security policy. What will he do to accomplish this?
Each correct answer represents a part of the solution. Choose three.

  • A. Configure the authentication type for the wireless LAN to Open system.
  • B. Install a firewall software on each wireless access point.
  • C. Configure the authentication type for the wireless LAN to Shared Key.
  • D. Disable SSID Broadcast and enable MAC address filtering on all wireless access points.
  • E. Broadcast SSID to connect to the access point (AP).
  • F. On each client computer, add the SSID for the wireless LAN as the preferred network.
Answer:

C, D. F

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