Penetration Tester Interview Questions

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Describe the values of a hash that is presented to you. How many times have you had success from an external Pen test? can you explain what nbns poisoning is and how it can be leveraged on beneficial test? so how does TCP work? What port does ICMP use? how does a ping work? How does traceroute work? what happens when they acknowledge is not responded to you by the server? Describe the pen testing process. What is arp spoofing? why do you use it? How do you change you DNS settings in Windows/Linux? How does DNS work? What is recursive DNS? How does Pass the Hash work? What is LM Hash? What is NTLM Hash? Why do we use it? What is Net-NTLM Hash? What is silver ticketing What is Kerberoasting How do you bypass firewall rules with nmap by specifying the port? How does Token impersonation work? Why do we send a NULL byte in Web app pentesting? What is the difference between Encoding, Hashing, and Encryption? What is a salt why do we use it? what is the difference between MTLS and TLS? Is TLS symmetric or Asymmetric?
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Senior Network Penetration Tester

Interviewed at Spirent Communications

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Mar 17, 2023

Describe the values of a hash that is presented to you. How many times have you had success from an external Pen test? can you explain what nbns poisoning is and how it can be leveraged on beneficial test? so how does TCP work? What port does ICMP use? how does a ping work? How does traceroute work? what happens when they acknowledge is not responded to you by the server? Describe the pen testing process. What is arp spoofing? why do you use it? How do you change you DNS settings in Windows/Linux? How does DNS work? What is recursive DNS? How does Pass the Hash work? What is LM Hash? What is NTLM Hash? Why do we use it? What is Net-NTLM Hash? What is silver ticketing What is Kerberoasting How do you bypass firewall rules with nmap by specifying the port? How does Token impersonation work? Why do we send a NULL byte in Web app pentesting? What is the difference between Encoding, Hashing, and Encryption? What is a salt why do we use it? what is the difference between MTLS and TLS? Is TLS symmetric or Asymmetric?

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