CAS-002 Question #465: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is C: DDoS attacks. Because the cloud is a distributed network, with distributed servers, it is more resilient against distributed denial of service attacks. It takes a great more resources to successfully launch a denial of service attack against a cloud. Answer option B is incorrect There is no di

Question

Denish is the administrator for a cloud computing vendor. He is evaluating the security benefits and threats of cloud computing. Cloud computing has a number of challenges, which of the following is a cloud less susceptible to, than a traditionally hosted server?

Options

AInternal Data Theft
BPrivilege Escalation
CDDoS attacks
DHard drive failure

Explanation

Because the cloud is a distributed network, with distributed servers, it is more resilient against distributed denial of service attacks. It takes a great more resources to successfully launch a denial of service attack against a cloud. Answer option B is incorrect There is no difference in privilege escalation between a cloud and a traditionally hosted server. Answer option A is incorrect. There is no difference in internal data threat between a cloud and a traditionally hosted server. Answer option D is incorrect. Actually a hard drive failure is no more or less likely in a cloud than a traditionally hosted server. However, if the server holds multiple virtualized systems, the impact could actually be greater in the cloud.

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