PT0-002 Question #365: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

A security engineer is trying to bypass a network IPS that isolates the source when the scan exceeds 100 packets per minute. The scope of the san is to identify web servers in the 10.0.0.0/16 subnet. Which of the following commands should the engineer use to achieve the objective in the least amount of time?

Options

• Anmap -T3 -p 80 10.0.0.0/16 --max-hostgroup 100
• Bnmap -T0 -p 80 10.0.0.0/16
• Cnmap -T4 -p 80 10.0.0.0/16 --max-rate 60
• Dnmap -T5 -p 80 10.0.0.0/16 --min-rate 80

Explanation

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