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1D0-520 · Question #47

You receive complaints from customers that your Web site is inaccessible. You check the Web server and notice that it is behaving sluggishly. You cannot explain the sluggishness because the server…

The correct answer is B. Denial of service. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

You receive complaints from customers that your Web site is inaccessible. You check the Web server and notice that it is behaving sluggishly. You cannot explain the sluggishness because the server logs show that few Web server connections exist. However, a security worker notices that thousands of ICMP packets are being sent to the server every second, making the server drop connections. What type of attack is being waged against your site?

Options

  • ABrute force
  • BDenial of service
  • CSocial engineering
  • DPassword guessing

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  • A
    14% (6)
  • B
    74% (32)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    7% (3)

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