SANS : SEC504 Questions & Answers
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SANS SEC504 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Post-Exploitation and Evasion Techniques | 15% | - Privilege escalation - Maintaining persistence - Network pivoting and lateral movement - Covert communication and evasion |
| Defense and Threat Intelligence | 15% | - Threat intelligence and MITRE ATT&CK - Containment and remediation - Attack detection and monitoring - Defensive tooling and automation |
| Incident Response and Cyber Investigations | 20% | - Legal and compliance considerations - Incident handling frameworks (DAIR, PICERL) - Live system examination - Network and log analysis - Memory and malware investigation |
| Reconnaissance, Scanning and Enumeration | 18% | - DNS and WHOIS interrogation - Open-source intelligence (OSINT) - SMB, FTP and service enumeration - Cloud environment reconnaissance - Network scanning and mapping |
| Web Application and Public-Facing Attacks | 15% | - Injection attacks (SQL, command) - SSRF and cloud metadata attacks - XSS, IDOR and forced browsing - Drive-by and client-side exploits |
| Password Attacks and Exploit Frameworks | 17% | - Password spraying and brute force - Exploit frameworks (Metasploit) - Defending against password attacks - Password hashing and cracking |
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The SANS Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling (exam code SEC504) is the exam you pass to earn the GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) certification, a credential at the Professional level. It is also connected with related credentials such as GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC), GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA). If you are mapping out a certification path with SANS, this exam is a milestone worth planning around.
The SEC504 exam includes 106 questions, and you have 240 minutes to complete them. With that many questions on the clock, pacing is part of the challenge: divide your time into rough blocks as you go, and flag the items that stall you so you can circle back at the end instead of burning minutes on a single question. A week or two before your exam date, sit at least one full timed session in the ActualTorrent test engine under the same time limit, so the pace feels familiar rather than frantic on the day.
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No mandatory prerequisites; basic knowledge of TCP/IP, Windows/Linux administration, and security concepts recommended
Eligibility rules can be adjusted by SANS over time, so before you register, confirm the current requirements on the official exam page: view the official SEC504 exam information.
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The official SANS Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling outline divides the exam content into 6 main domains. The first three are:
- Post-Exploitation and Evasion Techniques — 15%
- Web Application and Public-Facing Attacks — 15%
- Password Attacks and Exploit Frameworks — 17%
That is only the headline view — scroll back up to the Exam Topics section on this page for the complete domain-by-domain breakdown before you plan your study schedule.
SANS Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling Sample Questions:
Which of the following statements about buffer overflow is true?
- A. It manages security credentials and public keys for message encryption.
- B. It is a false warning about a virus.
- C. It is a collection of files used by Microsoft for software updates released between major service pack releases.
- D. It is a condition in which an application receives more data than it is configured to accept.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
Which of the following types of rootkits replaces regular application binaries with Trojan fakes and modifies the behavior of existing applications using hooks, patches, or injected code?
- A. Hypervisor rootkit
- B. Kernel level rootkit
- C. Application level rootkit
- D. Boot loader rootkit
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
Which of the following types of attacks slows down or stops a server by overloading it with requests?
- A. Impersonation attack
- B. Network attack
- C. Vulnerability attack
- D. DoS attack
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
Which of the following Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks employ IP fragmentation mechanism?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
- A. Land attack
- B. Teardrop attack
- C. Ping of Death attack
- D. SYN flood attack
Correct Answer: B,C 🗳️
Which of the following netcat parameters makes netcat a listener that automatically restarts itself when a connection is dropped?
- A. -l
- B. -L
- C. -p
- D. -u
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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