GSEC Practice Test

GSEC Practice Test practice questions, page 9 of 11, with answer review and explanations.

Question 41

Users at the Marketing department are receiving their new Windows XP Professional workstations. They will need to maintain local work files in the first logical volume, and will use a second volume for the information shared between the area group. Which is the best file system design for these workstations?

  1. Both volumes should be converted to NTFS at install time.
  2. First volume should be FAT32 and second volume should be NTFS.
  3. First volume should be EFS and second volume should be FAT32.
  4. Both volumes should be converted to FAT32 with NTFS DACLs.

Question 42

Which of the following is a new Windows Server 2008 feature for the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)?

  1. The ability to allow the administrator to choose a port other than the default RDP port (TCP 3389)
  2. The ability to support connections from mobile devices like smart phones
  3. The ability to allow clients to authenticate over TLS
  4. The ability to allow clients to execute individual applications rather than using a terminal desktop

Question 43

What is TRUE about Workgroups and Domain Controllers?

  1. By default all computers running Windows 2008 can only form Domain Controllers not Workgroups
  2. Workgroups are characterized by higher costs while Domain Controllers by lower costs
  3. You cannot have stand-alone computers in the midst of other machines that are members of a domain
  4. Workgroup computers cannot share resources, only computers running on the same domain can
  5. You can have stand-alone computers in the midst of other machines that are members of a domain.

Question 44

What file instructs programs like Web spiders NOT to search certain areas of a site?

  1. Robots.txt
  2. Restricted.txt
  3. Spider.txt
  4. Search.txt

Question 45

Which of the following is a benefit of using John the Ripper for auditing passwords?

  1. John's Blowfish cracking routine uses a complex central computing loop that increases the cost of each hash computation.
  2. John the Ripper is much slower for auditing passwords encrypted with MD5 and Blowfish.
  3. John's MD5 cracking routine uses a simplified central computing loop that decreases the cost of each hash computation.
  4. John cannot use the DES bit-slicing technique, so it is much slower than other tools, especially when used against DES-encrypted passwords.