Which of the following can Pete, a security administrator, use to distribute the processing effort when generating hashes for a password cracking program?

The correct answer is B. Clustering. Clustering links multiple computers together so they function as a single, more powerful computational unit. In password cracking, the hash generation workload can be divided among clustered nodes, dramatically increasing the speed of the operation. RAID (A) distributes data acro

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ARAID
BClustering
CRedundancy
DVirtualization

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A
7% (2)
B
89% (24)
C
4% (1)

Explanation

Clustering links multiple computers together so they function as a single, more powerful computational unit. In password cracking, the hash generation workload can be divided among clustered nodes, dramatically increasing the speed of the operation. RAID (A) distributes data across multiple storage drives for redundancy or I/O performance - it does not distribute CPU/computation. Redundancy (C) refers to backup systems for fault tolerance, not processing distribution. Virtualization (D) runs multiple virtual machines on one physical host, which does not inherently distribute work across multiple physical devices.

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