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200-201 · Question #563
Which two attacks are denial-of-service attacks? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. UDP flooding D. ping of death. UDP flooding overwhelms a target with large volumes of UDP packets to exhaust bandwidth or processing resources and disrupt availability. Ping of death sends malformed or oversized ICMP packets that can crash or destabilize systems, causing service disruption.
Submitted by haruto_sh· Mar 6, 2026Security Concepts
Question
Which two attacks are denial-of-service attacks? (Choose two.)
Options
- AUDP flooding
- Bcode-red
- Cman-in-the-middle
- Dping of death
- ETCP connections
How the community answered
(44 responses)- A91% (40)
- B5% (2)
- C2% (1)
- E2% (1)
Explanation
UDP flooding overwhelms a target with large volumes of UDP packets to exhaust bandwidth or processing resources and disrupt availability. Ping of death sends malformed or oversized ICMP packets that can crash or destabilize systems, causing service disruption.
Topics
#DoS attacks#UDP flooding#Ping of Death#network attacks
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