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CISSP-ISSAP · Question #171
A user is sending a large number of protocol packets to a network in order to saturate its resources and to disrupt connections to prevent communications between services. Which type of attack is this
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Infrastructure Security
Question
A user is sending a large number of protocol packets to a network in order to saturate its resources and to disrupt connections to prevent communications between services. Which type of attack is this?
Options
- ADenial-of-Service attack
- BVulnerability attack
- CSocial Engineering attack
- DImpersonation attack
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Topics
#Denial-of-Service#Network attacks#Protocol flooding#Service disruption