EC-Council 312-50 Exam Questions
Ethical Hacker Certified (Page 4 )

Updated On: 17-Feb-2026

ABC.com is legally liable for the content of email that is sent from its systems, regardless of whether the message was sent for private or business-related purpose. This could lead to prosecution for the sender and for the company’s directors if, for example, outgoing email was found to contain material that was pornographic, racist or likely to incite someone to commit an act of terrorism.
You can always defend yourself by “ignorance of the law” clause.

  1. True
  2. False

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Ignorantia juris non excusat or Ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law does not excuse" or "ignorance of the law excuses no one") is a public policy holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because he or she was unaware of its content; that is, persons have presumed knowledge of the law. Presumed knowledge of the law is the principle in jurisprudence that one is bound by a law even if one does not know of it. It has also been defined as the "prohibition of ignorance of the law".



You are footprinting Acme.com to gather competitive intelligence. You visit the acme.com websire for contact information and telephone number numbers but do not find it listed there. You know that they had the entire staff directory listed on their website 12 months ago but now it is not there. How would it be possible for you to retrieve information from the website that is outdated?

  1. Visit google search engine and view the cached copy.
  2. Visit Archive.org site to retrieve the Internet archive of the acme website
  3. Crawl the entire website and store them into your computer.
  4. Visit the company’s partners and customers website for this information.

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an archive of Web and multimedia resources. Located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, this archive includes "snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio recordings (including recordings of live concerts from bands that allow it). This site is found at www.archive.org.



User which Federal Statutes does FBI investigate for computer crimes involving e-mail scams and mail fraud?

  1. 18 U.S.C 1029 Possession of Access Devices
  2. 18 U.S.C 1030 Fraud and related activity in connection with computers
  3. 18 U.S.C 1343 Fraud by wire, radio or television
  4. 18 U.S.C 1361 Injury to Government Property
  5. 18 U.S.C 1362 Government communication systems
  6. 18 U.S.C 1831 Economic Espionage Act
  7. 18 U.S.C 1832 Trade Secrets Act

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001030000-.html



Which of the following activities will NOT be considered as passive footprinting?

  1. Go through the rubbish to find out any information that might have been discarded.
  2. Search on financial site such as Yahoo Financial to identify assets.
  3. Scan the range of IP address found in the target DNS database.
  4. Perform multiples queries using a search engine.

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Passive footprinting is a method in which the attacker never makes contact with the target systems. Scanning the range of IP addresses found in the target DNS is considered making contact to the systems behind the IP addresses that is targeted by the scan.



Which one of the following is defined as the process of distributing incorrect Internet Protocol (IP) addresses/names with the intent of diverting traffic?

  1. Network aliasing
  2. Domain Name Server (DNS) poisoning
  3. Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
  4. Port scanning

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

This reference is close to the one listed DNS poisoning is the correct answer.
This is how DNS DOS attack can occur. If the actual DNS records are unattainable to the attacker for him to alter in this fashion, which they should be, the attacker can insert this data into the cache of there server instead of replacing the actual records, which is referred to as cache poisoning.






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