GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst
Domain 1Objective 2
IP Headers GCIA Practice Questions (Page 8)
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 36–40
- 36
A security analyst is investigating a potential denial-of-service attack. The analyst sees a large number of IPv4 packets with the same identification value but different fragment offsets. What does this indicate?
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In IPv6, what field replaces the IPv4 TTL field and serves the same purpose?
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In an IPv6 header, what is the total combined length of the Source and Destination Address fields?
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A network engineer is explaining to a junior analyst why IPv6 does not have a header checksum field. Which statement accurately describes the rationale?
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An analyst is examining an IPv4 packet with an IHL value of 7. How many bytes of options are present in the header?
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