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WireShark – Packet Analyzer

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Overview

Wireshark is an open-source network protocol analyzer widely used for network troubleshooting, analysis, and packet capturing. It allows network administrators, security professionals, and developers to examine network traffic in real-time and inspect individual packets to identify issues, vulnerabilities, or malicious activity.

With Wireshark, users can capture and analyze network packets across various protocols, including Ethernet, Wi-Fi, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, and many more.

Take this assessment to check how well you know Wireshark.

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Question 1 of 30

1. Question
Which of the following is the correct capture filter for HTTP traffic?
- http
- tcp.port == 80
- udp.port ==80
- tcp port http
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Question 2 of 30

2. Question
Where can you find ‘Expert Information’ function in Wireshark?
- Analyze
- Tools
- Statistics
- Capture
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Question 3 of 30

3. Question
What is the name of CLI-based Wireshark?
- CLI-shark
- Terminalshark
- CShark
- Tshark
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Question 4 of 30

4. Question
How many handshakes are completed when a TCP connection is established?
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 6
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Question 5 of 30

5. Question
Which function in Wireshark is responsible for displaying the summary of IPv4 and IPv6 packets?
- Analyze
- Show
- Telephony
- Statistics
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Question 6 of 30

6. Question
What kind of traffic can be expected when you connect Wireshark directly to a switch without configuring port spanning or port mirroring?
- Broadcast traffic
- Noise and Interference
- DHCP Queries
- DNS Queries
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Question 7 of 30

7. Question
Which protocol provides synchronization between media streams?
- RTP
- RTCP
- IGMP
- VoIP
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Question 8 of 30

8. Question
There is an attack where a large volume of SYNC segments are sent to a server, each of those SYNC segments are coming from different clients by spoofing the source IP address. What kind of attack does this indicate?
- Active
- Passive
- SYNC flooding
- XMAS Scan
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Question 9 of 30

9. Question
Which of the following is the possible result due to congestion in a network?
- Data Packet Loss
- Blocking of new sessions
- Degradation of network service quality
- All of the above
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Question 10 of 30

10. Question
Which of the following is not a valid capture interface in Wireshark?
- Bluetooth
- Ethernet
- Wifi
- HDMI
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Question 11 of 30

11. Question
Which of the following is not a correct step in DHCP process?
- Proposal
- Discover
- Acknowledgement
- Offer
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Question 12 of 30

12. Question
Wireshark can be setup on a Cisco Router and Switches.
- True
- False
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Question 13 of 30

13. Question
Which of the following parameter is valid for TraceRoute?
- DSCP
- TTL
- Flags
- None of the above
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Question 14 of 30

14. Question
Which protocol can be used by a host to dynamically join a multicast group?
- Multicast DNS (mDNS)
- PIM-DM
- Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
- Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
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Question 15 of 30

15. Question
Which of the following is not an application layer protocol?
- TCP
- SMTP
- HTTP
- HTTPS
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Question 16 of 30

16. Question
Which of the following is a valid feature about IPv6 Protocol?
- Complicated header
- Checksums
- No broadcasts
- No multicasts
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Question 17 of 30

17. Question
Why do we use Display Filters in Wireshark?
- To capture desired packets defined by display filter only
- To show desired packets defined by display filter only
- To view packet capture without color scheme
- Both A & B
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Question 18 of 30

18. Question
IP address 127.0.0.1, belongs to which category of addresses in IPv4?
- Public IP address
- Private IP address
- Loopback address
- Multicast IP address
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Question 19 of 30

19. Question
Which of the following filters can be used as a capture and display filter both in Wireshark?
- http
- udp
- dhcp
- ftp
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Question 20 of 30

20. Question
Which of the following is true about DoS (Denial of Service) attack?
- Bandwidth flooding
- Connection flooding
- Vulnerability flooding
- All of the above
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Question 21 of 30

21. Question
In Wireshark, from which section you can get the details of unusual protocols and applications?
- I/O Graph
- Resolved Addresses
- Capture Filters
- Protocol Hierarchy
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Question 22 of 30

22. Question
What is the correct function of HTTP GET method?
- To send data to a server to create a resource on server
- To request data from a specific resource
- To collect data from managed devices on IP networks
- Used to send e-mail to server
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Question 23 of 30

23. Question
In Wireshark, a custom column can be added to and rearranged in the Packet List pane.
- True
- False
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Question 24 of 30

24. Question
Which of the following is correct syntax for filtering and displaying a TCP packet having word “icici”?
- Packet contains icici
- tcp contains icici
- tcp equals icici
- tcp packet equals icici
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Question 25 of 30

25. Question
How many types of sniffing are possible in packet capturing tools?
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 5
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Question 26 of 30

26. Question
Which of the following represents the correct range of Class C private addresses?
- 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255
- 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255
- 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255
- 127.0.0.1 -127.255.255.255
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Question 27 of 30

27. Question
We can perform automatic packet capture to one or more files in Wireshark.
- True
- False
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Question 28 of 30

28. Question
Which of the following statement, about capture filters feature in Wireshark, is true?
- Capture filters are used for coloring rules in Wireshark
- Wireshark includes a default set of capture filters
- Capture filters can be applied only after the capture process starts
- Capture filters can be applied while you are opening a trace file
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Question 29 of 30

29. Question
We can modify packets using Wireshark.
- True
- False
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Question 30 of 30

30. Question
You are capturing traffic from your network using Wireshark and you need to find and verify only HTTP traffic. What command in Wireshark will help you to search for this kind of traffic?
- request http 80
- tcp.port eq 80
- http port
- tcp.contains port 80
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