CERTIFIED-IN-CYBERSECURITY Question #779: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is C: Denial of Service. A denial of service attack (DoS) compromises the availability of a system or service through a malicious overload of requests, thereby activating safety mechanisms that delay or limit the availability of that system or service. As a result, systems or services become temporarily

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Question

Which type of attack PRIMARILY aims to consume all the available resources, thereby making an organization's service inaccessible to its intended users?

Options

APhishing
BCross-Site Scripting
CDenial of Service
DTrojans

Explanation

A denial of service attack (DoS) compromises the availability of a system or service through a malicious overload of requests, thereby activating safety mechanisms that delay or limit the availability of that system or service. As a result, systems or services become temporarily inaccessible to their intended users (see ISC2 Study Guide, chapter 4, module 2). Trojans, phishing and cross-site scripting attacks try to gain access to the system or data covertly, and therefore do not primarily aim at compromising the system's availability.

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#Denial of Service (DoS)#Cybersecurity attacks#Attack types#Availability

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