GCFA Practice Test

Review 318 GCFA practice questions with answer explanations and community insights.

Question 1

Adam, a malicious hacker has successfully gained unauthorized access to the Linux system of Umbrella Inc. Web server of the company runs on Apache. He has downloaded sensitive documents and database files from the computer. After performing these malicious tasks, Adam finally runs the following command on the Linux command box before disconnecting. for (( i = 0;i<11;i++ )); do dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda && dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda done Which of the following actions does Adam want to perform by the above command?

  1. Making a bit stream copy of the entire hard disk for later download.
  2. Deleting all log files present on the system.
  3. Wiping the contents of the hard disk with zeros.
  4. Infecting the hard disk with polymorphic virus strings.

Question 2

Adam works as a Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator for a garment company in the United States. A project has been assigned to him to investigate a case of a disloyal employee who is suspected of stealing design of the garments, which belongs to the company and selling those garments of the same design under different brand name. Adam investigated that the company does not have any policy related to the copy of design of the garments. He also investigated that the trademark under which the employee is selling the garments is almost identical to the original trademark of the company. On the grounds of which of the following laws can the employee be prosecuted?

  1. Trademark law
  2. Cyber law
  3. Copyright law
  4. Espionage law

Question 3

You work as a Network Administrator for Perfect Solutions Inc. You install Windows 98 on a computer. By default, which of the following folders does Windows 98 setup use to keep the registry tools?

  1. $SYSTEMROOT$REGISTRY
  2. $SYSTEMROOT$WINDOWS
  3. $SYSTEMROOT$WINDOWSREGISTRY
  4. $SYSTEMROOT$WINDOWSSYSTEM32

Question 4

Which of the following tools can be used to perform tasks such as Windows password cracking, Windows enumeration, and VoIP session sniffing?

  1. John the Ripper
  2. L0phtcrack
  3. Obiwan
  4. Cain

Question 5

Which of the following type of file systems is not supported by Linux kernel?

  1. vFAT
  2. NTFS
  3. HFS
  4. FAT32