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CISSP-ISSAP · Question #171
CISSP-ISSAP Question #171: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation
The correct answer is A: Denial-of-Service attack. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
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
Topics
#DoS attack#Network attacks#Availability#Cyberattack types
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