In 2026, the CPEH-001 exam still has a reputation for tricky wording and broad coverage, and the GAQM Certified Professional Ethical Hacker (CPEH) syllabus is no exception. Working through 876 practice questions at Fast2test helps you spot weak areas early instead of discovering them in the testing center.

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GAQM Certified Professional Ethical Hacker (CPEH) Sample Questions:

Question 1

What results will the following command yielD. 'NMAP -sS -O -p 123-153 192.168.100.3'?

A. A stealth scan, determine operating system, and scanning ports 123 to 153
B. A stealth scan, checking all open ports excluding ports 123 to 153
C. A stealth scan, checking open ports 123 to 153
D. A stealth scan, opening port 123 and 153

Question 2

What techniques would you use to evade IDS during a Port Scan? (Select 4 answers)

A. Connect to proxy servers or compromised Trojaned machines to launch attacks
B. Use fragmented IP packets
C. Spoof your IP address when launching attacks and sniff responses from the server
D. Use source routing (if possible)
E. Overload the IDS with Junk traffic to mask your scan

Question 3

Joseph was the Web site administrator for the Mason Insurance in New York, who's main Web site was located at www.masonins.com. Joseph uses his laptop computer regularly to administer the Web site. One night, Joseph received an urgent phone call from his friend, Smith. According to Smith, the main Mason Insurance web site had been vandalized! All of its normal content was removed and replaced with an attacker's message ''Hacker Message: You are dead! Freaks!
From his office, which was directly connected to Mason Insurance's internal network, Joseph surfed to the Web site using his laptop. In his browser, the Web site looked completely intact. No changes were apparent. Joseph called a friend of his at his home to help troubleshoot the problem. The Web site appeared defaced when his friend visited using his DSL connection. So, while Smith and his friend could see the defaced page, Joseph saw the intact Mason Insurance web site. To help make sense of this problem, Joseph decided to access the Web site using his dial-up ISP. He disconnected his laptop from the corporate internal network and used his modem to dial up the same ISP used by Smith. After his modem connected, he quickly typed www.masonins.com in his browser to reveal the following web page:
H@cker Mess@ge:
Y0u @re De@d! Fre@ks!
After seeing the defaced Web site, he disconnected his dial-up line, reconnected to the internal network, and used Secure Shell (SSH) to log in directly to the Web server. He ran Tripwire against the entire Web site, and determined that every system file and all the Web content on the server were intact. How did the attacker accomplish this hack?

A. Routing table injection
B. DNS poisoning
C. SQL injection
D. ARP spoofing

Question 4

You went to great lengths to install all the necessary technologies to prevent hacking attacks, such as expensive firewalls, antivirus software, anti-spam systems and intrusion detection/prevention tools in your company's network. You have configured the most secure policies and tightened every device on your network. You are confident that hackers will never be able to gain access to your network with complex security system in place. Your peer, Peter Smith who works at the same department disagrees with you. He says even the best network security technologies cannot prevent hackers gaining access to the network because of presence of "weakest link" in the security chain. What is Peter Smith talking about?

A. Continuous Spam e-mails cannot be blocked by your security system since spammers use different techniques to bypass the filters in your gateway
B. "zero-day" exploits are the weakest link in the security chain since the IDS will not be able to detect these attacks
C. "Polymorphic viruses" are the weakest link in the security chain since the Anti-Virus scanners will not be able to detect these attacks
D. Untrained staff or ignorant computer users who inadvertently become the weakest link in your security chain

Question 5

You have initiated an active operating system fingerprinting attempt with nmap against a target system:

What operating system is the target host running based on the open ports shown above?

A. Windows XP
B. Windows 98 SE
C. Windows NT4 Server
D. Windows 2000 Server

Solutions: