CEH v11, 2nd Edition

AppendixAnswers to Practice Tests

Chapter 1: Practice Test 1

1. A. Searching through the local paper is considered passive because it does not directly impact, alert, or establish any type of connection between the victim and the adversary. All the other answers involve directly connecting with the company or its network.

2. D. The Rijndael cipher was selected and then named the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). 3DES was a stopgap to make it harder to decrypt DES messages while AES was being developed. Twofish and RC4 were not selected for AES, though they are encryption algorithms.

3. C. Storage as a Service offers the ability to store documents or other unstructured data, which could then be shared with others. Software as a Service keeps the ...