GCIA Practice Test

Review 507 GCIA practice questions with answer explanations and community insights.

Question 1

Andrew works as a System Administrator for NetPerfect Inc. All client computers on the network run on Mac OS X. The Sales Manager of the company complains that his MacBook is not able to boot. Andrew wants to check the booting process. He suspects that an error persists in the bootloader of Mac OS X. Which of the following is the default bootloader on Mac OS X that he should use to resolve the issue?

  1. LILO
  2. BootX
  3. NT Loader
  4. GRUB

Question 2

Sasha wants to add an entry to your DNS database for your mail server. Which of the following types of resource records will she use to accomplish this?

  1. ANAME
  2. SOA
  3. MX
  4. CNAME

Question 3

John, a novice web user, makes a new E-mail account and keeps his password as "apple", his favorite fruit. John's password is vulnerable to which of the following password cracking attacks? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

  1. Dictionary attack
  2. Hybrid attack
  3. Brute Force attack
  4. Rule based attack

Question 4

Which of the following proxy servers is also referred to as transparent proxies or forced proxies?

  1. Tunneling proxy server
  2. Reverse proxy server
  3. Anonymous proxy server
  4. Intercepting proxy server

Question 5

are true? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

  1. It can detect events scattered over the network.
  2. It can handle encrypted and unencrypted traffic equally.
  3. It cannot detect events scattered over the network.
  4. It is a technique that allows multiple computers to share one or more IP addresses.