Questions

As we conclude, here is a list of questions for you to test your knowledge regarding this chapter's material. You will find the answers in the Assessments section of the Appendix:

1. To find a vulnerability, an attacker sends probes and fabricated requests to a target. What type of scanning is this?
   1. Passive scanning
   2. Active scanning
   3. Flooding
   4. Man-in-the-middle
2. To identify hosts and vulnerabilities, which type of assessment is used?
   1. Distributed
   2. Passive
   3. Active
   4. Automated
3. Which vulnerability assessment solution is said to be placed in private or corporate resources?
   1. Service-based
   2. Inference-based
   3. Product-based
   4. Tree-based
4. What kind of scanner is used when the location and data from a scan are stored on a single system?
   1. Cluster-based
   2. Proxy-based
   3. Network-based
   4. Agent-based