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Actual exam question from CompTIA's PT0-001
Question #: 175
Topic #: 1
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At the information gathering stage, a penetration tester is trying to passively identify the technology running on a client's website. Which of the following approached should the penetration tester take?

  • A. Run a spider scan in Burp Suite.
  • B. Use web aggregators such as BuiltWith and Netcraft
  • C. Run a web scraper and pull the website's content.
  • D. Use Nmap to fingerprint the website's technology.
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
Reference:
https://relevant.software/blog/penetration-testing-for-web-applications/

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kloug
2 years, 2 months ago
bbbbbbbbbb
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miabe
2 years, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: B
looks good to me
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rose_y
3 years, 6 months ago
This question was on the exam, I put B as the answer
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carletten
3 years, 8 months ago
Who the hell is preparing this dumps.... B is the correct one as in the others there is an interaction with the target.
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CapCrunch
3 years, 9 months ago
B Key wording "Passively" so OSINT
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skipcrab
3 years, 10 months ago
I agree the answer to this question would be B, but BuiltWith and Netcraft are not on the list of tools in the rubric for PT0-001. I would hope CompTIA wouldn't throw random tools not mentioned in the actual test.
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boooliyooo
3 years, 10 months ago
agree its B
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r0bin_h00d
3 years, 11 months ago
B: BuiltWith shows which technology is used by the site.
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