GIAC Security Essentials
Domain 2Objective 3
Networking & Protocols GSEC Practice Questions (Page 6)
Part of the Network Security domain, which makes up ~17% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 240-minute exam (~95–160 total, ~16–27 in this domain), expect 4–7 from this objective — we provide 64 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 26–30
- 26
Which service uses TCP port 22 by default?
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Which wireless standard operates in the 5 GHz band and offers higher data rates than 802.11g?
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A network engineer is planning the rollout of IPv6 in an enterprise network. The company currently uses IPv4 with private addressing and NAT. Which benefit of IPv6 is most directly relevant to simplifying the network's addressing architecture?
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A network technician is troubleshooting connectivity between two computers on the same Ethernet switch. The computers can ping each other's IP addresses, but the technician wants to verify the actual data-link layer communication. Which command or tool should the technician use to see the MAC address table entry for the destination computer?
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Which network device is primarily used to connect different networks and make forwarding decisions based on IP addresses?
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