EC-Council CPENT (Certified Penetration Testing Professional) Exam Guide

The **CPENT** is an advanced hands-on certification that teaches you how to perform penetration tests on complex enterprise networks (IoT, OT, Cloud, etc.). It goes well beyond the CEH.

What is the technique of capturing and analyzing network traffic called?

Answer : Sniffing (e.g., using Wireshark).

Allows testers to view cleartext packets on the network, such as unencrypted passwords.

What is a Brute Force attack?

Answer : Systematically trying every possible character combination to discover a password.

Exhaustive but eventually effective for short or predictable passwords.

In penetration testing, what does OSINT stand for?

Answer : Open Source Intelligence.

The collection of information from publicly available sources like social media and forums.

Which attack redirects users to malicious sites by corrupting DNS server cache?

Answer : DNS Cache Poisoning.

Facilitates large-scale Man-in-the-Middle attacks by subverting standard name resolution.

Which tool is commonly used to scan for vulnerabilities in web applications?

Answer : Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP.

Intercepts and modifies HTTP/HTTPS requests to test for flaws like SQLi and XSS.

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