Free GIAC Python Coder Exam GPYC Exam Practice Test

Using the Python "sockets" module, which of the following functions looks up the IP address of www.giac.org?

• socket.gethostbyaddr(" www.giac.org")
• socket.nslookup.www.giac.org
• socket.get( www.giac.org)
• socket. gethostbynameC'www.giac.org")

A user enters unexpected data into a program. Which functionality can the programmer use to present an understandable error message to the user?

• Casting
• Exception handling
• Dictionaries
• Regular expressions

Third-party Python modules like Scapy and Beautiful Soup are used for what purpose?

• Generating a compiled executable
• Parsing and interacting with network traffic
• Debugging Python programs
• Obfuscating code

Which of the following would produce this list? [65, 66, 67, 68]

• range(l,4) + 64
• for x(4)+64
• map(ord, "ABCD")
• range(4)+ 65

What does executing the following code in Python 3 result in? '\x0066'

• f
• 102
• \x0066
• 01100110

A programmer includes the following line in his program. What does this enable him to do? from scapy. all import *

• Run brute-force password attempts against a local service
• Encrypt Python code using a private key
• Read and manipulate network packets
• Check imported code for malicious behavior

A .gif file has the following attributes:Extension: .gifMagic value for start of file: \x47\x49\x46 Magic value for end of file: \x3bA small data file called "raw_data" contains one gif. Which of the following statements is most likely to successfully extract the file?

• reiindall(r\-\gif,raw_data)[0]
• re.match(r'('.gif )"',raw_data).group(1)
• re.search('\x47\x49\x46(')\x3b',raw_data)
• re.findall(r'\x47\x49\x46.-\x3b,,raw_data,re.DOTALL)[0]

What is the output of the Is(TCP) function?

• It lists all of the TCP port numbers in a TCP stream
• It lists all of the packets that have a TCP layer
• It lists the contents of the TCP layer
• It lists all of the fields associated with the TCP layer

Given that mylist = [1,3,2,1,4,5,3] how do you remove all occurrences of the number 1 from the list in Python?

• mylist=[x for x in mylist if x! = 1]
• mylist.remove(l, mylist.count(1))
• mylist.replace(1,"")
• mylist. remove(1)

Which of the following modules allows a programmer to specify and spawn new processes, connect to their input and output pipes, and retrieve returned data?

• pip
• urllib2
• subprocess
• prochandle