SY0-301 · Question #126
Methods to test the responses of software and web applications to unusual or unexpected inputs is known as:
The correct answer is D. Fuzzing. Fuzzing (or fuzz testing) is a dynamic software testing technique that involves feeding applications random, malformed, or unexpected input data to discover vulnerabilities such as crashes, memory leaks, buffer overflows, or unhandled exceptions. It is widely used to find…
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Methods to test the responses of software and web applications to unusual or unexpected inputs is known as:
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- ABrute force.
- BHTML encoding.
- CWeb crawling.
- DFuzzing.
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(27 responses)- A4% (1)
- C7% (2)
- D89% (24)
Explanation
Fuzzing (or fuzz testing) is a dynamic software testing technique that involves feeding applications random, malformed, or unexpected input data to discover vulnerabilities such as crashes, memory leaks, buffer overflows, or unhandled exceptions. It is widely used to find security flaws in parsers, APIs, and web applications. Brute force (A) refers to exhaustively trying all possible values (e.g., passwords) rather than testing application input handling. HTML encoding (B) is a technique for escaping special characters to prevent XSS - it is a defensive measure, not a testing method. Web crawling (C) is the automated browsing of websites to discover and index links, not to test input validation.
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