External Reconnaissance — CompTIA PenTest+ (PT0-002) Practice Questions

External reconnaissance is the passive and active process of gathering information about a target organization from publicly available sources before any direct interaction with the target's systems occurs. PT0-002 covers techniques such as DNS enumeration, WHOIS lookups, certificate transparency log analysis, and open-source intelligence gathering to build a profile of the target. This phase is foundational because the quality of information gathered directly determines which attack vectors are pursued in later phases.

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