CERTIFIED-IN-CYBERSECURITY Question #258: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

What type of attack is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

Options

• AAn attack involving numerous unsuspecting secondary victim systems
• BAn attack that attempts to misdirect legitimate users to malicious websites through the abuse of
• CAn attack that seeks to deny service to legitimate HTTP requests
• DAn attack that attempts to gain access to a target system through the use of a falsified identity

Explanation

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attack that involves numerous unsuspecting secondary victim systems, which are used to flood the target system with requests, thus denying service to legitimate requests (see ISC2 Study Guide, Module 2, under Types of Threats). This type of attack is different from an attack that seeks to deny service to legitimate HTTP requests, an attack that attempts to gain access to a target system through the use of a falsified identity, and an attack that attempts to misdirect legitimate users to malicious websites through the abuse of URLs or hyperlinks in emails.

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