GSEC Practice Test

GSEC Practice Test practice questions, page 6 of 11, with answer review and explanations.

Question 26

How many bytes does it take to represent the hexadecimal value OxFEDCBA?

  1. 12
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 6

Question 27

Which of the following choices accurately describes how PGP works when encrypting email?

  1. PGP encrypts the message with the recipients public key, then encrypts this key with a random asymmetric key.
  2. PGP creates a random asymmetric key that it uses to encrypt the message, then encrypts this key with the recipient's public key
  3. PGP creates a random symmetric key that it uses to encrypt the message, then encrypts this key with the recipient's public key
  4. PGP encrypts the message with the recipients public key, then encrypts this key with a random symmetric key.

Question 28

When designing wireless networks, one strategy to consider is implementing security mechanisms at all layers of the OSI model. Which of the following protection mechanisms would protect layer 1?

  1. Hardening applications
  2. Limit RF coverage
  3. Employing firewalls
  4. Enabling strong encryption

Question 29

While building multiple virtual machines on a single host operating system, you have determined that each virtual machine needs to work on the network as a separate entity with its own unique IP address on the same logical subnet. You also need to limit each guest operating system to how much system resources it has access to. Which of the following correctly identifies steps that must be taken towards setting up these virtual environments?

  1. The virtual machine software must define a separate virtual network Interface to each virtual machine and then define which unique logical hard drive partition should be available to the guest operating system.
  2. The virtual machine software must define a separate virtual network interface since each system needs to have an IP address on the same logical subnet requiring they use the same physical interface on the host operating system.
  3. The virtual machine software must define a separate virtual network interface to each virtual machine as well as how much RAM should be available to each virtual machine.
  4. The virtual machine software establishes the existence of the guest operating systems and the physical system resources to be used by that system will be configured from within the guest operating system.
  5. The virtual machine software must define a separate physical network interface to each virtual machine so that the guest operating systems can have unique

Question 30

Which Windows event log would you look in if you wanted information about whether or not a specific diver was running at start up?

  1. Application
  2. System
  3. Startup
  4. Security