200-201 Question #177: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

Which attack represents the evasion technique of resource exhaustion?

Options

• ASQL injection
• Bman-in-the-middle
• Cbluesnarfing
• Ddenial-of-service

Explanation

A denial-of-service attack directly represents the evasion technique of resource exhaustion by overwhelming a system with requests, making services unavailable to legitimate users.

Common mistakes.

• A. SQL injection focuses on exploiting vulnerabilities in database input fields to gain unauthorized access to or manipulate data, not primarily to exhaust system resources.
• B. A man-in-the-middle attack involves an attacker secretly relaying and possibly altering communication between two parties who believe they are directly communicating with each other, rather than exhausting resources.
• C. Bluesnarfing is a Bluetooth attack that allows an attacker to access information on a device, such as calendars, contacts, and emails, without the owner's knowledge or permission, and is not a resource exhaustion technique.

Concept tested. Denial-of-service and resource exhaustion

Reference. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/ddos-attack-best-practices

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