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SY0-701 · Question #1071

SY0-701 Question #1071: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is B: On-path attack. The slow traceroute shows an extra first hop (10.20.10.10) with very high latency that does not appear when tracing from a known-good device on the same port. This indicates the affected device’s traffic is being redirected through an additional intermediary on the path, consiste

Submitted by ahmad_uae· Mar 6, 2026Security Operations

Question

While troubleshooting an internal resource's poor performance for an end user, a network engineer performs a traceroute on the end device and receives the following output: The engineer performs a traceroute from a device that is not experiencing poor performance but is connected to the same port. The engineer receives the following output: Which of the following is most likely occurring?

Options

  • AARP cache poisoning
  • BOn-path attack
  • CResource exhaustion
  • DDNS spoofing

Explanation

The slow traceroute shows an extra first hop (10.20.10.10) with very high latency that does not appear when tracing from a known-good device on the same port. This indicates the affected device’s traffic is being redirected through an additional intermediary on the path, consistent with an on-path (man-in-the-middle) attack.

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