GCIH · Question #244
Which of the following types of attacks is only intended to make a computer resource unavailable to its users?
The correct answer is A. Denial of Service attack. A Denial of Service attack is specifically designed to make a resource unavailable to legitimate users rather than to steal data or gain access.
Question
Which of the following types of attacks is only intended to make a computer resource unavailable to its users?
Options
- ADenial of Service attack
- BReplay attack
- CTeardrop attack
- DLand attack
How the community answered
(28 responses)- A89% (25)
- B4% (1)
- C7% (2)
Why each option
A Denial of Service attack is specifically designed to make a resource unavailable to legitimate users rather than to steal data or gain access.
A Denial of Service attack works by overwhelming a target system, network, or service with traffic or malformed requests so that legitimate users cannot access it. The sole intent of a DoS attack is availability disruption, not data theft or unauthorized access, which makes it the defining example of an attack targeting availability in the CIA triad.
A replay attack involves capturing and retransmitting valid data transmissions to gain unauthorized access, targeting authentication rather than availability.
A teardrop attack is a specific type of DoS that sends fragmented packets to crash a system, making it a subset of DoS rather than the general category that answers the question.
A land attack is another specific DoS variant that sends a packet with identical source and destination IPs, again a subset and not the correct general answer.
Concept tested: Denial of Service attack definition and availability impact
Source: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/understanding-denial-service-attacks
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