Practice Test Question – DDoS

Practice Test Question – DDoS

Practice Test Question – DDoS

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Vivian is investigating a website outage that brought down her company’s ecommerce platform for several hours.  During her investigation, she noticed that the logs are full of millions of connection attempts from systems around the world, but those attempts were never completed.  What type of attack likely took place?

A. DoS
B. Cross-site request forgery
C. Cross-site scripting
D. DDoS

Correct Answer: D

This is a clear example of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The half-open connections indicate the use of a denial of service attack. The fact that the requests came from all over the world makes it clear that it is more than a standard denial of service attack. There is no indication that there was a web application flaw, such as cross-site request forgery or cross-site scripting.

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