Chapter 7 - Programming for Security Professionals

Which of the following takes you from one area of a program (a function) to another area?

Branching

In the Perl programming language, variables begin with which of the following characters?

$

Which of the following special characters is used with the printf() function in the C programming language to indicate a new line?

\n

If you want to know what the Perl print command does, you can use which of the following commands?

perldoc -f print

In the Perl programming language, which of the following keywords is used in front of function names?

sub

In the C programming language, which of the following show where a block of code begins and ends?

Braces

Carelessly reviewing your program's code might result in having which of the following in your program code?

Bug

You can use the syntax /* and */ to accomplish what function when working with large portions of text?

Comment

Which of the following is a markup language rather than a programming language?

HTML

In the Perl programming language, comment lines begin with the which of the following character(s)?

#

Which of the following statements in the C programming language is used to load libraries that hold the commands and functions used in your program?

#include

Which of the following logical operators in the C programming language is evaluated as true if both sides of the operator are true?

&&

Which of the following logical operators in the C programming language is used to compare the equality of two variables?

= =

The print command for Perl is almost identical to the print command used in which of the following programming languages?

C

In the C programming language, which variable type holds the value of a single letter?

Char

In HTML, each tag has a matching closing tag that is written with which of the following characters?

Forward slash (/)

Which of the following is a mini-program within a main program that carries out a task?

Function

In object-oriented programming, a function contained in a class is called which of the following?

Member function

In a Perl program, to go from one function to another, you simply call the function by entering which of the following in your source code?

Name

In the C programming language, which statement tells the compiler to keep doing what is in the brackets over and over and over?

for(;;)

UNIX was first written in assembly language. However, it was soon rewritten in what programming language?

C

Which of the following is the act of performing a task over and over?

Looping

Which of the following is a backdoor initiated from inside the target's network that makes it possible to take control of the target even when it's behind a firewall?

Reverse Shell

Which of the following mathematical operators in the C programming language increments the unary value by 1?

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