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Rothwell Complete Test Bank Footprinting Chapter 30

Linux Essentials for Cybersecurity (Rothwell/Kinsey)

Chapter 30 Footprinting

1) Footprinting, the process of discovering information about a network or system with the intent to use this information to compromise security measures, is also known as __________.

A) port scanning

B) reconnaissance

C) exploration

D) package sniffing

2) Which of the following commands is used to probe a remote system to determine which network ports are reachable from the local system?

A) netstat

B) lsof

C) nmap

D) nc

3) Which of the following options of the nmap command can be used to scan UDP ports?

A) -O

B) -sU

C) -p

D) -sV

4) Which of the following options of the nmap command displays service version information?

A) -O

B) -sU

C) -p

D) -sV

5) Which of the following commands can be used to view activity of local network information, as opposed to scanning remote network ports?

A) netstat

B) lsof

C) nmap

D) nc

6) Which of the following options of the netstat command displays a summary of network packet information broken down by protocol?

A) -r

B) -i

C) -s

D) -c

7) Which of the following options of the netstat command displays the routing table (similar to the route command)?

A) -r

B) -i

C) -s

D) -c

8) Which columns in the output of the netstat -i command include received and transmitted packets that were not receivable by this interface?

A) RX-DRP and TX-DRP

B) RX-OVR and TX-OVR

C) RX-ERR and TX-ERR

D) RX-OK and TX-OK

9) Which option for the netstat command provides numeric values instead of names?

A) -e

B) -l

C) -p

D) -n

10) Which of the following commands is designed to list open files?

A) nc

B) netstat

C) lsof

D) tcpdump

11) Which of the following options for the lsof command lists open network sockets?

A) -P

B) -i

C) -n

D) -N

12) Which of the following commands is used for just about anything involving TCP or UDP?

A) nc

B) netstat

C) lsof

D) tcpdump

13) Which of the following options for the nc command is used on the client side to close a connection automatically after a timeout value is reached?

A) -k

B) -w

C) -u

D) -6

14) Which of the following commands is a “packet sniffer” that allows you to view local network traffic?

A) nc

B) netstat

C) lsof

D) tcpdump

15) Which of the following options for the tcpdump command can be used to limit the output to a specific number of network packets?

A) -r

B) -w

C) -c

D) -i

16) Which of the following commands provides information about domain registration?

A) whois

B) traceroute

C) nslookup

D) ping

17) Which of the following is a Kali Linux tool that uses the nmap command to probe systems and generate reports?

A) recon-ng

B) SPARTA

C) netdiscover

D) ZENMAP

18) The DNS Analysis tools in Kali Linux are primarily used to gather DNS information, similar to the __________ command.

A) whois

B) traceroute

C) netstat

D) nslookup

19) In Kali Linux, the OSINT tools primarily use OSINT techniques to gather intelligence about a target, similar to the __________ command.

A) whois

B) traceroute

C) netstat

D) nslookup

20) The Route Analysis tools in Kali Linux are designed to determine the route that is taken to get to a specific host or network, similar to the __________ command.

A) whois

B) traceroute

C) netstat

D) nslookup

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Chapter Number:
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Created Date:
Aug 21, 2025
Chapter Name:
Chapter 30 Footprinting
Author:
William Rothwell

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