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EC0-350 · Question #830
SYN Flood is a DOS attack in which an attacker deliberately violates the three-way handshake and opens a large number of half-open TCP connections. The signature of attack for SYN Flood contains:
The correct answer is B. A large number of SYN packets appearing on a network without the corresponding reply packets. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
SYN Flood is a DOS attack in which an attacker deliberately violates the three-way handshake and opens a large number of half-open TCP connections. The signature of attack for SYN Flood contains:
Options
- AThe source and destination address having the same value
- BA large number of SYN packets appearing on a network without the corresponding reply packets
- CThe source and destination port numbers having the same value
- DA large number of SYN packets appearing on a network with the corresponding reply packets
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A5% (2)
- B82% (31)
- C11% (4)
- D3% (1)
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