nerdexam
EC-Council

EC0-350 · Question #53

Bob was frustrated with his competitor, Brownies Inc., and decided to launch an attack that would result in serious financial losses. He planned the attack carefully and carried out the attack at…

The correct answer is C. DoS attacks which involves crashing a network or system. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

Bob was frustrated with his competitor, Brownies Inc., and decided to launch an attack that would result in serious financial losses. He planned the attack carefully and carried out the attack at the appropriate moment. Meanwhile, Trent, an administrator at Brownies Inc., realized that their main financial transaction server had been attacked. As a result of the attack, the server crashed and Trent needed to reboot the system, as no one was able to access the resources of the company. This process involves human interaction to fix it. What kind of Denial of Service attack was best illustrated in the scenario above?

Options

  • ASimple DDoS attack
  • BDoS attacks which involves flooding a network or system
  • CDoS attacks which involves crashing a network or system
  • DDoS attacks which is done accidentally or deliberately

How the community answered

(20 responses)
  • A
    10% (2)
  • B
    5% (1)
  • C
    80% (16)
  • D
    5% (1)

Community Discussion

No community discussion yet for this question.

Full EC0-350 Practice