Latest CompTIA PT0-003 Practice Test Questions, CompTIA PenTest+ Exam Exam Dumps [Q28-Q43]

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Latest CompTIA PT0-003 Practice Test Questions, CompTIA PenTest+ Exam Exam Dumps

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CompTIA PT0-003 Exam Syllabus Topics:

Topic	Details
Topic 1	Engagement Management: In this topic, cybersecurity analysts learn about pre-engagement activities, collaboration, and communication in a penetration testing environment. The topic covers testing frameworks, methodologies, and penetration test reports. It also explains how to analyze findings and recommend remediation effectively within reports, crucial for real-world testing scenarios.
Topic 2	Reconnaissance and Enumeration: This topic focuses on applying information gathering and enumeration techniques. Cybersecurity analysts will learn how to modify scripts for reconnaissance and enumeration purposes. They will also understand which tools to use for these stages, essential for gathering crucial information before performing deeper penetration tests.
Topic 3	Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis: In this section, cybersecurity analysts will learn various techniques to discover vulnerabilities. Analysts will also analyze data from reconnaissance, scanning, and enumeration phases to identify threats. Additionally, it covers physical security concepts, enabling analysts to understand security gaps beyond just the digital landscape.
Topic 4	Post-exploitation and Lateral Movement: Cybersecurity analysts will gain skills in establishing and maintaining persistence within a system. This topic also covers lateral movement within an environment and introduces concepts of staging and exfiltration. Lastly, it highlights cleanup and restoration activities, ensuring analysts understand the post-exploitation phase’s responsibilities.
Topic 5	Attacks and Exploits: This extensive topic trains cybersecurity analysts to analyze data and prioritize attacks. Analysts will learn how to conduct network, authentication, host-based, web application, cloud, wireless, and social engineering attacks using appropriate tools. Understanding specialized systems and automating attacks with scripting will also be emphasized.

NEW QUESTION 28
A penetration tester attempts to obtain the preshared key for a client’s wireless network. Which of the following actions will most likely aid the tester?

Deploying an evil twin with a WiFi Pineapple

Performing a password spraying attack with Hydra

Setting up a captive portal using SET

Deauthenticating clients using aireplay-ng

NEW QUESTION 29
A penetration tester wants to verify whether passwords from a leaked password list can be used to access an SSH server as a legitimate user.
Which of the following is the most appropriate tool for this task?

BloodHound

Responder

Burp Suite

Hydra

NEW QUESTION 30
After a recent penetration test was conducted by the company’s penetration testing team, a systems administrator notices the following in the logs:
2/10/2023 05:50AM C:usersmgraniteschtasks /query
2/10/2023 05:53AM C:usersmgraniteschtasks /CREATE /SC DAILY
Which of the following best explains the team’s objective?

To enumerate current users

To determine the users’ permissions

To view scheduled processes

To create persistence in the network

NEW QUESTION 31
Given the following code:

Which of the following data structures is systems?

A tuple

A tree

An array

A dictionary

NEW QUESTION 32
A penetration tester was hired to perform a physical security assessment of an organization’s office. After monitoring the environment for a few hours, the penetration tester notices that some employees go to lunch in a restaurant nearby and leave their belongings unattended on the table while getting food. Which of the following techniques would MOST likely be used to get legitimate access into the organization’s building without raising too many alerts?

Tailgating

Dumpster diving

Shoulder surfing

Badge cloning

NEW QUESTION 33
During an internal penetration test, a tester compromises a Windows OS-based endpoint and bypasses the defensive mechanisms. The tester also discovers that the endpoint is part of an Active Directory (AD) local domain.
The tester’s main goal is to leverage credentials to authenticate into other systems within the Active Directory environment.
Which of the following steps should the tester take to complete the goal?

Use Mimikatz to collect information about the accounts and try to authenticate in other systems

Use Hashcat to crack a password for the local user on the compromised endpoint

Use Evil-WinRM to access other systems in the network within the endpoint credentials

Use Metasploit to create and execute a payload and try to upload the payload into other systems

NEW QUESTION 34
A penetration tester wants to use multiple TTPs to assess the reactions (alerted, blocked, and others) by the client’s current security tools. The threat-modeling team indicates the TTPs in the list might affect their internal systems and servers. Which of the following actions would the tester most likely take?

Use a BAS tool to test multiple TTPs based on the input from the threat-modeling team.

Perform an internal vulnerability assessment with credentials to review the internal attack surface.

Use a generic vulnerability scanner to test the TTPs and review the results with the threat-modeling team.

Perform a full internal penetration test to review all the possible exploits that could affect the systems.

BAS (Breach and Attack Simulation) tools are specifically designed to emulate multiple TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) used by adversaries. These tools can simulate various attack vectors in a controlled manner to test the effectiveness of an organization’s security defenses and response mechanisms. Here’s why option A is the best choice:
Controlled Testing Environment: BAS tools provide a controlled environment where multiple TTPs can be tested without causing unintended damage to the internal systems and servers. This is critical when the threat-modeling team indicates potential impacts on internal systems.
Comprehensive Coverage: BAS tools are designed to cover a wide range of TTPs, allowing the penetration tester to simulate various attack scenarios. This helps in assessing the reactions (alerted, blocked, and others) by the client’s security tools comprehensively.
Feedback and Reporting: These tools provide detailed feedback and reporting on the effectiveness of the security measures in place, including which TTPs were detected, blocked, or went unnoticed. This information is invaluable for the threat-modeling team to understand the current security posture and areas for improvement.
Reference from Pentest:
Anubis HTB: This write-up highlights the importance of using controlled tools and methods for testing security mechanisms. BAS tools align with this approach by providing a controlled and systematic way to assess security defenses.
Forge HTB: Emphasizes the use of various testing tools and techniques to simulate real-world attacks and measure the effectiveness of security controls. BAS tools are mentioned as a method to ensure comprehensive coverage and minimal risk to internal systems.
Conclusion:
Using a BAS tool to test multiple TTPs allows for a thorough and controlled assessment of the client’s security tools’ effectiveness. This approach ensures that the testing is systematic, comprehensive, and minimally disruptive, making it the best choice.

NEW QUESTION 35
Which of the following OT protocols sends information in cleartext?

TTEthernet

DNP3

Modbus

PROFINET

NEW QUESTION 36
An executive needs to use Wi-Fi to connect to the company’s server while traveling. While looking for available Wi-Fi connections, the executive notices an available access point to a hotel chain that is not available where the executive is staying. Which of the following attacks is the executive most likely experiencing?

Data modification

Amplification

Captive portal

Evil twin

NEW QUESTION 37
During a vulnerability scan a penetration tester enters the following Nmap command against all of the non-Windows clients:
nmap -sX -T4 -p 21-25, 67, 80, 139, 8080 192.168.11.191
The penetration tester reviews the packet capture in Wireshark and notices that the target responds with an RST packet flag set for all of the targeted ports. Which of the following does this information most likely indicate?

All of the ports in the target range are closed.

Nmap needs more time to scan the ports in the target range.

The ports in the target range cannot be scanned because they are common UDP ports.

All of the ports in the target range are open

NEW QUESTION 38
A penetration tester is conducting a wireless security assessment for a client with 2.4GHz and
5GHz access points. The tester places a wireless USB dongle in the laptop to start capturing WPA2 handshakes. Which of the following steps should the tester take next?

Enable monitoring mode using Aircrack-ng.

Use Kismet to automatically place the wireless dongle in monitor mode and collect handshakes.

Run KARMA to break the password.

Research WiGLE.net for potential nearby client access points.

NEW QUESTION 39
A penetration tester identifies the following vulnerability during a scan of the company’s network:
Severity: HIGH
Vulnerability: ABC Load Balancer: Alpha OS httpd TLS vulnerability
An Nmap scan of the affected device produces the following results:
Host is up (0.0000040s latency).
Not shown: 98 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
443/tcp closed https
Which of the following best describes this scenario?

True negative

True positive

False negative

False positive

NEW QUESTION 40
A penetration tester gains access to a domain server and wants to enumerate the systems within the domain.
Which of the following tools would provide the best oversight of domains?

Netcat

Wireshark

Nmap

Responder

NEW QUESTION 41
A penetration tester currently conducts phishing reconnaissance using various tools and accounts for multiple intelligence-gathering platforms. The tester wants to consolidate some of the tools and accounts into one solution to analyze the output from the intelligence-gathering tools. Which of the following is the best tool for the penetration tester to use?

Caldera

SpiderFoot

Maltego

WIGLE.net

NEW QUESTION 42
A penetration tester is conducting an IoT assessment and dumps the device firmware to a Linux machine.
Which of the following Bash scripts would locate secrets in a custom binary executable downloaded from the device?

cat initializedevice | strings | grep -i “password|shadow|token”

cat initializedevice | dos2unix | grep -i “password|shadow|token”

cat initializedevice | base64 -d | grep -i “password|shadow|token”

cat initializedevice | grep -i “password|shadow|token”

NEW QUESTION 43
A penetration tester is researching a path to escalate privileges. While enumerating current user privileges, the tester observes the following:
SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege Disabled
SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege Disabled
SeChangeNotifyPrivilege Enabled
SeManageVolumePrivilege Enabled
SeImpersonatePrivilege Enabled
SeCreateGlobalPrivilege Enabled
SeIncreaseWorkingSetPrivilege Disabled
Which of the following privileges should the tester use to achieve the goal?

SeImpersonatePrivilege

SeCreateGlobalPrivilege

SeChangeNotifyPrivilege

SeManageVolumePrivilege