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CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide

By : Mike Chapple, David Seidl
Book Image

CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide

By: Mike Chapple, David Seidl

Overview of this book

The CompTIA PenTest+ Study Guide: Exam PT0-001 offers comprehensive preparation for the newest intermediate cybersecurity certification exam. With expert coverage of Exam PT0-001 objectives, this book is your ideal companion throughout all stages of study; whether you’re just embarking on your certification journey or finalizing preparations for the big day, this invaluable resource helps you solidify your understanding of essential skills and concepts. The book shows how to perform security assessments on desktops, mobile devices, cloud, IoT, as well as industrial and embedded systems. You'll learn how to identify security weaknesses and manage system vulnerabilities. As you progress, you'll learn methods to ensure that existing cybersecurity practices, configurations, and policies conform with current best practices. You'll assess your knowledge by simulating cyber attacks to pinpoint security weaknesses in operating systems, networks, and applications. By the end of the book, you'll have all the resources you need to prepare for the exam - identify what you already know, learn what you don’t know, and face the exam with full confidence.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Acknowledgments
2
About the Authors
3
Introduction
4
Assessment Test
5
Answers to Assessment Test
18
Index
19
Advert
20
End User License Agreement

Chapter 11: Script for Penetration Testing

  1. D. PowerShell interpreters are available on all major platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, and many popular Linux variants.
  2. D. As you prepare for the exam, you should be able to identify the programming language used in code snippets. The print command is used to generate output in Python.
  3. B. As you prepare for the exam, you should be able to identify the programming language used in code snippets. The Write-Host command is used to generate output in PowerShell.
  4. D. Ruby is a general-purpose programming language. It is an interpreted language that uses scripts rather than a compiled language that uses source code to generate executable files.
  5. D. You must set the user (owner) bit to execute (x) to allow the execution of a Bash script. The chmod u+x command performs this task.
  6. C. The RemoteSigned policy allows the execution of any PowerShell script that you write on the local machine but requires that scripts downloaded from the Internet are...