Section 6.3

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Which of the following is the main difference between a DoS attack and a DDoS attack?
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The DDoS attack uses zombie computers.
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An attacker sets up 100 drone computers that flood a DNS server with invalid requests. This is an example of which kind of attack?
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DDoS
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You suspect that an Xmas tree attack is occurring on a system. Which of the following could result if you do not stop the attack? (Select two.)
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The system will unavailable to respond to legitimate requests. The threat agent will obtain information about open ports on the system.
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You need to enumerate the devices on your network and display the configuration details of the network. Which of the following utilities should you use?
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nmap
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An attacker is conducting passive reconnaissance on a targeted company. Which of the following could he be doing?
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Browsing the organization's Website
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Which type of active scan turns off all flags in a TCP header?
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Null
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Which of the following Denial of Service (DoS) attacks uses ICMP packets and will only be successful if the victim has less bandwidth than the attacker?
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Ping flood
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In which of the following Denial of Service (DoS) attacks does the victim's system rebuild invalid UDP packets, causing the system to crash or reboot?
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Teardrop
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A SYN packet is received by a server. The SYN packet has the exact same address for both the sender and receiver addresses, which is the address of the server. This is an example of what type of attack?
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Land attack
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Which of the following is a form of denial of service attack that subverts the TCP threeway handshake process by attempting to open numerous sessions on a victim server but intentionally failing to complete the session by not sending the final required packet?
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SYN flood
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Which of the following is a form of denial of service attack that uses spoofed ICMP packets to flood a victim with echo requests using a bounce/amplification network?
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Smurf
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A SYN attack or a SYN flood exploits or alters which element of the TCP threeway handshake?
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ACK
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When a SYN flood is altered so that the SYN packets are spoofed in order to define the source and destination address as a single victim IP address, the attack is now called what?
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Land attack
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A Smurf attack requires all but which of the following elements to be implemented?
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Padded cell
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Which of the following best describes the ping of death?
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An ICMP packet that is larger than 65,536 bytes