GSEC Practice Test

GSEC Practice Test practice questions, page 11 of 11, with answer review and explanations.

Question 51

Your software developer comes to you with an application that controls a user device. The application monitors its own behavior and that of the device and creates log files. The log files are expected to grow steadily and rapidly. Your developer currently has the log files stored in the /bin folder with the application binary. Where would you suggest that the developer store the log files?

  1. /var/log
  2. /etc/log
  3. /usr/log
  4. /tmp/log
  5. /dev/log

Question 52

Which of the following is an advantage of private circuits versus VPNs?

  1. Flexibility
  2. Performance guarantees
  3. Cost
  4. Time required to implement

Question 53

What would the following IP tables command do? IP tables -I INPUT -s 99.23.45.1/32 -j DROP

  1. Drop all packets from the source address
  2. Input all packers to the source address
  3. Log all packets to or from the specified address
  4. Drop all packets to the specified address

Question 54

What would the file permission example "rwsr-sr-x" translate to in absolute mode?

  1. 1755
  2. 6755
  3. 6645
  4. 1644

Question 55

Which of the following Unix syslog message priorities is the MOST severe?

  1. err
  2. emerg
  3. crit
  4. alert