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300-430 · Question #3
300-430 Question #3: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation
The correct answer is A: disruption of WLAN services. RF jamming attacks operate at the physical layer by flooding the spectrum with interference, causing service disruption and potentially physical hardware damage from high-power signals.
Question
Which two events are outcomes of a successful RF jamming attack? (Choose two.)
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Options
- Adisruption of WLAN services
- Bunauthentication association
- Cdeauthentication broadcast
- Ddeauthentication multicast
- Ephysical damage to AP hardware
Explanation
RF jamming attacks operate at the physical layer by flooding the spectrum with interference, causing service disruption and potentially physical hardware damage from high-power signals.
Common mistakes.
- B. Unauthentication association is not a recognized IEEE 802.11 event or outcome of RF jamming - jamming acts at the physical layer and does not interact with 802.11 association state machines.
- C. Deauthentication broadcasts result from management frame spoofing attacks where an adversary sends forged 802.11 deauth frames, not from RF jamming which has no awareness of upper-layer 802.11 management frames.
- D. Deauthentication multicasts are a characteristic of management frame injection attacks, not of RF jamming which disrupts physical-layer signal propagation rather than crafting 802.11 frames.
Concept tested. RF jamming attack outcomes on wireless infrastructure
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