CompTIA PT1-002 Exam Practice Questions (P. 2)

A penetration tester has obtained a low-privilege shell on a Windows server with a default configuration and now wants to explore the ability to exploit misconfigured service permissions. Which of the following commands would help the tester START this process?

HOTSPOT -
You are a security analyst tasked with hardening a web server.
You have been given a list of HTTP payloads that were flagged as malicious.

INSTRUCTIONS -
Given the following attack signatures, determine the attack type, and then identify the associated remediation to prevent the attack in the future.
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Hot Area:

Which of the following protocols or technologies would provide in-transit confidentiality protection for emailing the final security assessment report?

A penetration tester recently completed a review of the security of a core network device within a corporate environment. The key findings are as follows:
* The following request was intercepted going to the network device:

GET /login HTTP/1.1 -

Host: 10.50.100.16 -
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0

Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 -

Connection: keep-alive -
Authorization: Basic WU9VUilOQU1FOnNlY3JldHBhc3N3b3jk
* Network management interfaces are available on the production network.
* An Nmap scan returned the following:

Which of the following would be BEST to add to the recommendations section of the final report? (Choose two.)

A penetration tester ran a ping `"A command during an unknown environment test, and it returned a 128 TTL packet. Which of the following OSs would MOST likely return a packet of this type?