GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst
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IP Headers GCIA Practice Questions (Page 4)
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 16–20
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A security analyst is examining an IPv6 packet that has a destination options header. According to RFC 8200, where should this header appear if it is intended to be processed only by the final destination?
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In IPv4 fragmentation, what is the purpose of the Identification field?
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Which field is new in the IPv6 header and does not have a direct counterpart in the IPv4 header?
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In an IPv6 packet, what does the Next Header field identify?
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An analyst is reassembling a fragmented IPv4 packet. The first fragment has a fragment offset of 0 and the More Fragments flag set. The second fragment has a fragment offset of 185 and the More Fragments flag clear. The first fragment's total length is 1500 bytes and IHL is 5. What is the total length of the original unfragmented packet?
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