13.1.15 Practice Questions

Which of the following types of wireless antenna is shown in the image?

Parabolic

Which of the following types of wireless antenna is shown?

Yagi

You are a cybersecurity consultant. The company hiring you suspects that employees are connecting to a rogue access point (AP). You need to find the name of the hidden rogue AP so it can be deauthorized. Which of the following commands would help you locate the rouge access point from the wlp1s0 interface and produce the results shown?

airodump-ng wlp1s0mon

You are configuring several wireless access points for your network. Knowing that each access point will have a service set identifier (SSID), you want to ensure that it is configured correctly. Which of the following SSID statements are true?

The SSID is a unique name, separate from the access point name.

You have just discovered that a hacker is trying to penetrate your network using MAC spoofing. Which of the following best describes MAC spoofing?

Changing a hacker's network card to match a legitimate address being used on a network.

You are the cybersecurity specialist for your company and have been hired to perform a penetration test. You have been using Wireshark to capture and analyze packets. Knowing that HTTP POST data can sometimes be easy prey for hackers, you have used the http.request.method==POST Wireshark filter. The results of that filter are shown in the image. After analyzing the captured information, which of the following would be your biggest concern?

Clear text passwords are shown.

From your Kali Linux computer, you have used a terminal and the airodump-ng command to scan for wireless access points. From the results shown, which of the following is most likely a rogue access point?

CoffeeShop

You are a cybersecurity specialist. ACME, Inc. has hired you to install and configure their wireless network. As part of your installation, you have decided to use Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) security on all of your wireless access points. You want to ensure that the highest level of security is used. Which of the following encryption protocols should you use to provide the highest level of security?

CCMP

Which of the following best describes a rogue access point attack?

A hacker installing an unauthorized access point within a company.

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the wireless attack type known as wardriving?

To find information that will help breach a victim's wireless network.

You are configuring a wireless access point and are presented with the image shown below. Which of the following is the most correct statement regarding the access point's configuration?

The Host Name is what the users see in the list of available networks when they connect to the access point.

Which of the following best describes a wireless access point?

A networking hardware device that allows other Wi-Fi devices to connect to a wired network.

Which of the following best describes a wireless hotspot?

A physical location where people may obtain free internet access using Wi-Fi.

You work for a very small company that has 12 employees. You have been asked to configure wireless access for them. Knowing that you have a very limited budget to work with, which of the following technologies should you use?

A software-based access point.

The ACME company has decided to implement wireless technology to help improve the productivity of their employees. As the cybersecurity specialist for this company, you have the responsibility of seeing that the wireless network is as secure as possible. Which of the following best describes one of the first countermeasures that should be used to ensure wireless security?

Use a Wi-Fi predictive planning tool to determine where to place your access points.