GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst
Domain 1Objective 2
IP Headers GCIA Practice Questions (Page 2)
Part of the Network Fundamentals domain, which makes up ~35% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 240-minute exam (~95–160 total, ~33–56 in this domain), expect 7–11 from this objective — we provide 42 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 6–10
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What is the length of the source and destination address fields in an IPv4 header?
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A security analyst is inspecting an IPv6 packet that includes a fragment header. Which field in the fragment header indicates the position of this fragment relative to the original packet?
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A packet capture shows an IPv4 header with the IHL field set to 6. The packet contains a single IP option. How many bytes of padding are present in the options field?
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A packet capture shows an IPv4 header with the IHL field set to 6 and a total length of 100 bytes. How many bytes of options are present in this header?
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An analyst is reviewing a packet capture and sees an IPv4 packet with the protocol field set to 17. What is the upper-layer payload?
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