Winsomesoft

Ethical Hacker Interview Questions And Answers

Our experts providing  Ethical Hacker interview questions & Answers/Faqs can develop your carrier & knowledge to find the right job in a good MNC’s, doesn’t matter what kind of company you’re hired.

1)Explain what is Ethical Hacking?

Ethical Hacking is when a person is allowed to hacks the system with the permission of the product owner to find weakness in a system and later fix them.

2)List out some of the common tools used by Ethical hackers?

Meta Sploit
Wire Shark
NMAP
John The Ripper
Maltego

3)What are the types of ethical hackers?

The types of ethical hackers are

Grey Box hackers or Cyberwarrior
Black Box penetration Testers
White Box penetration Testers
Certified Ethical hacker

4)What is Enumeration ?

Enumeration is defined as the process of extracting user names, machine names, network resources, shares, and services from a system. Enumeration techniques are conducted in an Intranet Environment.

5)What is LDAP ( Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ) ?

The Lightweight Directory Access protocol is a protocol used to access the directory listings within Active Directory or from the other directory services.

6) Explain what is Brute Force Hack?

Brute force hack is a technique for hacking password and get access to system and network resources, it takes much time, it needs a hacker to learn about JavaScripts. For this purpose, one can use tool name “Hydra”.

7) Explain what is Network Sniffing?

A network sniffer monitors data flowing over computer network links. By allowing you to capture and view the packet level data on your network, sniffer tool can help you to locate network problems. Sniffers can be used for both stealing information off a network and also for legitimate network management.

8)What are the types of hacking stages ?

a. Gain access

b. Getting privilages

c. Executing applications

d. Hiding the files

e. Covering the tracks

9)Types of password cracking techniques?

a. Dictionary attacks

b. Brute Forcing Attacks

c. Hybrid Attack

d. Syllable Attack

e. Rule – based Attack

10)What is MIB ( Management Information Base )?

It is a database (virtual) that contains information about all the network objects that are their in the SNMP. This data base in hierarchic and all the objects contained in it are addressed by object identifier.

11)What is NTP ?

This is protocol whose main function is to synchronize the clocks in the networked or connected computers.

12)Explain what is Pharming and Defacement?

Pharming: In this technique the attacker compromises the DNS ( Domain Name System) servers or on the user computer so that traffic is directed to a malicious site
Defacement: In this technique the attacker replaces the organization website with a different page. It contains the hackers name, images and may even include messages and background music

13)Explain what is Keylogger Trojan?

Keylogger Trojan is malicious software that can monitor your keystroke, logging them to a file and sending them off to remote attackers. When the desired behaviour is observed, it will record the keystroke and captures your login username and password.

14)Definition and types of scanning?

Scanning refers to a set of procedures for identifying hosts, ports, and services in a network. Scanning is one of the components of intelligence gathering for an attacker to create a profile of the target organization.Scanning types :Port ScanningVulnerability ScanningNetwork Scanning………… For more  Click Here

For Course Content Click Here