GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst
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IP Headers GCIA Practice Questions (Page 5)
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 21–25
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A network analyst is investigating why a router is discarding IPv4 packets. The packets have the DF flag set and are larger than the MTU of the next-hop link. The router is configured to send ICMP fragmentation needed messages. Which field in the IPv4 header is most directly responsible for the packet being discarded?
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What is the purpose of padding in an IPv4 header when options are present?
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If the IHL field in an IPv4 header has a value of 6, what is the total length of the IPv4 header in bytes?
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Which protocol number in the IPv4 Protocol field corresponds to ICMP?
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An analyst is comparing IPv4 and IPv6 headers in a capture. Which statement correctly describes the source and destination address fields?
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