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CPEH-001 · Question #695
How does a denial-of-service attack work?
The correct answer is A. A hacker prevents a legitimate user (or group of users) from accessing a service. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
How does a denial-of-service attack work?
Options
- AA hacker prevents a legitimate user (or group of users) from accessing a service
- BA hacker uses every character, word, or letter he or she can think of to defeat authentication
- CA hacker tries to decipher a password by using a system, which subsequently crashes the
- DA hacker attempts to imitate a legitimate user by confusing a computer or even another person
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- B6% (1)
- C6% (1)
- D19% (3)
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