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Cybersecurity Practice Test: Information Gathering Phase & Techniques
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Information gathering is a crucial step in identifying and mitigating potential threats to an organization's network and assets. It is also an important phase of penetration testing.

The information gathering process typically has four phases:

  1. Identification: Identify the information to be gathered and categorize the data sources
  2. Collection: Gather information through various methods
  3. Analysis: Analyze the information
  4. Reporting: Report the information
Cybersecurity Practice Test: Information Gathering Phase & Techniques
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1. Which of them is not a proper step in competitive intelligence data processing?
2. Which one of the following is a proper step in competitive intelligence data processing?
3. Collecting freely available information over the internet is an example of ____________ type of information gathering.
4. ____________ is the term used for gathering information about your competitors from online resources, researches, and newsgroups.
5. There are __________ types of cognitive hacking and information gathering which is based on the source type, from where data is fetched.
6. Which of the following is not an example of a firm that provides info regarding competitive intelligence gathering?
7. Footprinting is used to collect information such as namespace, employee info, phone number and emails, job details.
8. How many types of footprinting are there?
9. ______________ is important to grab a quick understanding and analyzing about your competitors or target user’s need.
10. Using spyware is an example of _________ type of information gathering.
11. ________________ is a component of the reconnaissance stage that is used to gather possible information for a target computer system or network.
12. Information about people is available people search sites. Which of them is an example of people data searching site?
13. https://archive.org is a popular site where one can enter a domain name in its search box for finding out how the site was looking at a given date.
14. The ______________ intelligence gathering is non-interfering & subtle in nature.
15. https://www.bidigital.com/ci/ is a website which is used for _________________
16. Using _____________ for doing competitive information gathering is a crime.
17. ARIN is abbreviated as _____________
18. Which of them is not a reason for competitive information gathering?
19. Which of them is not an information source over the internet for target attackers?
20. Which of the following is not a spot from where attackers seek information?
21. Spywares can be used to steal _______________ from the attacker’s browser.
22. In the world of data, where data is considered the oil and fuel of modern technology _____________ is both a product and a process.
23. ________________ is one of the 3 pre-attacking phase.
24. Competitive information gathering if done in the form of active attack using malware or by other illicit means can put your hired hacker or your company at stake.
25. You can attain a series of IP addresses allotted to a particular company using __________ site.

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