Deck 3: Scanning Tools

Question 1

Scanners were originally developed to aid security professionals and system administrators in examining networks for security vulnerabilities.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In the early 1980s, the majority of servers ran on Windows platforms.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A user needs root privileges to perform TCP connect scanning.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Nessus is a remote security scanner designed to be run on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other versions of UNIX.

Question 5

SARA was designed to complement and interface with other security tools, such as Nmap.

Question 6

____, the precursor to the Internet, appeared in ____.

A)UNIX, 1975
B)ARPANET, 1969
C)TCP, 1986
D)UDP, 1993

Question 7

A ____ is a script that tells the modem to dial a range of phone numbers defined by the user, and then identifies those numbers that connect to remote computers.

A)modem
B)firewall
C)router
D)war dialer

Question 8

In ____, the target host transmits connection-succeeded messages for active ports and host-unreachable messages for inactive ports.

A)UDP scanning
B)ping scanning
C)TCP connect scanning
D)IP protocol scanning

Question 9

A(n) ____ scan demonstrates whether a remote host is active by sending ICMP echo request packets to that host.

A)IP protocol
B)ping
C)UDP
D)TCP connect

Question 10

____ is a third-generation network security analysis tool developed by Advanced Research Corporation

A)Cheops
B)Strobe
C)SAINT
D)SARA

Question 11

____________________ is a software tool that examines and reports about vulnerabilities on local and remote hosts.

Question 12

____________________ examines and reports upon the condition (open or closed) of a port as well as the application listening on that port, if possible.

Question 13

____________________ scanning is TCP connection scanning, but it does not complete the connections.

Question 14

NmapFE is an nmap graphic interface for the ____________________ Linux Desktop.

Question 15

____________________ was developed by Alexandre Sagala and is a GUI for Nmap, to be used with the KDE desktop environment.

Question 16

How do scanners work?

Question 17

What are the most important types of scanning?

Question 18

How does IP protocol scanning work?