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How are you supposed to fine 7 vulernabilities in an hour anyways? No way they expect the applicant to actually find vulernabilities right? So you need to memorize a bunch and see if they are present, which doesn't achieve anything other than testing your memorization abilities
Using Kali? Easy if you have training. The capstone for our security course a decade ago was too find and exploit 5 remote machines (4 on the same network, 1 was on a second network only one of the machines had access to) in an hour with Kali. I found all 5 but could only exploit 3 of them. If I didn't have to exploit any of them 7 would be reasonably easy to find.
Kali basically has a library of known exploits and you just run the scanner on a target.
This isn't novel exploit discovery. This is "which of these 10 windows machines hasn't been updated in 3 years?"
Just saying that running automated tools and identifying those vulnerabilities is just the first step to learning hacking, but nothing more. To gain a proper understanding you must be able to find vulnerabilities manually or at least understand a certain exploit such as ETERNALBLUE which you won't really look for manually.
Sure. But for an entry level interview as a pen tester... Scanning with Kali should be an easy task.