Eccouncil 312-50 Exam - Topic 17 Question 118 Discussion

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Question #: 118
Topic #: 17

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What would be the purpose of running "wget 192.168.0.15 -q -S" against a web server?

APerforming content enumeration on the web server to discover hidden folders

BUsing wget to perform banner grabbing on the webserver

CFlooding the web server with requests to perform a DoS attack

DDownloading all the contents of the web page locally for further examination

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Suggested Answer: B

-q, --quiet quiet (no output)

-S, --server-response print server response

by Bettina at Mar 30, 2026, 04:05 PM

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Karan

20 days ago

Definitely B! Super useful for info gathering.

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Vernice

26 days ago

It's for banner grabbing, right?

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Maile

2 months ago

Flooding a server sounds like a DoS attack, but I don't think wget is used that way, so I would lean towards option D for downloading content.

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Elliott

2 months ago

I feel like I've seen a question like this before, and it was about enumeration. So, could it be A? But I'm not completely confident.

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Samuel

2 months ago

I remember practicing with wget, and I think it was more about downloading content, so maybe option D is correct?

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Vicente

2 months ago

I think option B makes sense since "wget" can be used for banner grabbing, but I'm not entirely sure if the "-S" flag is specifically for that purpose.

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