Eccouncil 212-89 Exam Questions
Questions for the 212-89 were updated on : Jan 11 ,2025
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Question 1
Which of the following terms may be defined as a measure of possible inability to achieve a goal,
objective, or target within a defined security, cost plan and technical limitations that adversely
affects the organizations operation and revenues?
- A. Risk
- B. Vulnerability
- C. Threat
- D. Incident Response
Answer:
A
Question 2
A distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a more common type of DoS Attack, where a single
system is targeted by a large number of infected machines over the Internet. In a DDoS attack,
attackers first infect multiple systems which are known as:
- A. Trojans
- B. Zombies
- C. Spyware
- D. Worms
Answer:
B
Question 3
The goal of incident response is to handle the incident in a way that minimizes damage and reduces
recovery time and cost. Which of the following does NOT constitute a goal of incident response?
- A. Dealing with human resources department and various employee conflict behaviors.
- B. Using information gathered during incident handling to prepare for handling future incidents in a better way and to provide stronger protection for systems and data.
- C. Helping personal to recover quickly and efficiently from security incidents, minimizing loss or theft and disruption of services.
- D. Dealing properly with legal issues that may arise during incidents.
Answer:
A
Question 4
An organization faced an information security incident where a disgruntled employee passed
sensitive access control information to a competitor. The organizations incident response manager,
upon investigation, found that the incident must be handled within a few hours on the same day to
maintain business continuity and market competitiveness. How would you categorize such
information security incident?
- A. High level incident
- B. Middle level incident
- C. Ultra-High level incident
- D. Low level incident
Answer:
A
Question 5
Business continuity is defined as the ability of an organization to continue to function even after a
disastrous event, accomplished through the deployment of redundant hardware and software, the
use of fault tolerant systems, as well as a solid backup and recovery strategy. Identify the plan which
is mandatory part of a business continuity plan?
- A. Forensics Procedure Plan
- B. Business Recovery Plan
- C. Sales and Marketing plan
- D. New business strategy plan
Answer:
B
Question 6
The flow chart gives a view of different roles played by the different personnel of CSIRT. Identify the
incident response personnel denoted by A, B, C, D, E, F and G.
- A. A-Incident Analyst, B- Incident Coordinator, C- Public Relations, D-Administrator, E- Human Resource, F-Constituency, G-Incident Manager
- B. A- Incident Coordinator, B-Incident Analyst, C- Public Relations, D-Administrator, E- Human Resource, F-Constituency, G-Incident Manager
- C. A- Incident Coordinator, B- Constituency, C-Administrator, D-Incident Manager, E- Human Resource, F-Incident Analyst, G-Public relations
- D. A- Incident Manager, B-Incident Analyst, C- Public Relations, D-Administrator, E- Human Resource, F-Constituency, G-Incident Coordinator
Answer:
C
Question 7
Which of the following is an appropriate flow of the incident recovery steps?
- A. System Operation-System Restoration-System Validation-System Monitoring
- B. System Validation-System Operation-System Restoration-System Monitoring
- C. System Restoration-System Monitoring-System Validation-System Operations
- D. System Restoration-System Validation-System Operations-System Monitoring
Answer:
D
Question 8
A computer Risk Policy is a set of ideas to be implemented to overcome the risk associated with
computer security incidents. Identify the procedure that is NOT part of the computer risk policy?
- A. Procedure to identify security funds to hedge risk
- B. Procedure to monitor the efficiency of security controls
- C. Procedure for the ongoing training of employees authorized to access the system
- D. Provisions for continuing support if there is an interruption in the system or if the system crashes
Answer:
C
Question 9
Identify the network security incident where intended authorized users are prevented from using
system, network, or applications by flooding the network with high volume of traffic that consumes
all existing network resources.
- A. URL Manipulation
- B. XSS Attack
- C. SQL Injection
- D. Denial of Service Attack
Answer:
D
Question 10
Incident handling and response steps help you to detect, identify, respond and manage an incident.
Which of the following steps focus on limiting the scope and extent of an incident?
- A. Eradication
- B. Containment
- C. Identification
- D. Data collection
Answer:
B
Question 11
Identify the malicious program that is masked as a genuine harmless program and gives the attacker
unrestricted access to the users information and system. These programs may unleash dangerous
programs that may erase the unsuspecting users disk and send the victims credit card numbers and
passwords to a stranger.
- A. Cookie tracker
- B. Worm
- C. Trojan
- D. Virus
Answer:
C
Question 12
Quantitative risk is the numerical determination of the probability of an adverse event and the
extent of the losses due to the event. Quantitative risk is calculated as:
- A. (Probability of Loss) X (Loss)
- B. (Loss) / (Probability of Loss)
- C. (Probability of Loss) / (Loss)
- D. Significant Risks X Probability of Loss X Loss
Answer:
A
Question 13
An incident recovery plan is a statement of actions that should be taken before, during or after an
incident. Identify which of the following is NOT an objective of the incident recovery plan?
- A. Creating new business processes to maintain profitability after incident
- B. Providing a standard for testing the recovery plan
- C. Avoiding the legal liabilities arising due to incident
- D. Providing assurance that systems are reliable
Answer:
A
Question 14
Risk is defined as the probability of the occurrence of an incident. Risk formulation generally begins
with the likeliness of an events occurrence, the harm it may cause and is usually denoted as Risk =
(events)X(Probability of occurrence)X?
- A. Magnitude
- B. Probability
- C. Consequences
- D. Significance
Answer:
A
Question 15
An audit trail policy collects all audit trails such as series of records of computer events, about an
operating system, application or user activities. Which of the following statements is NOT true for an
audit trail policy:
- A. It helps calculating intangible losses to the organization due to incident
- B. It helps tracking individual actions and allows users to be personally accountable for their actions
- C. It helps in compliance to various regulatory laws, rules,and guidelines
- D. It helps in reconstructing the events after a problem has occurred
Answer:
A