Unit 23- Understand security threats

A ______________ tries to formulate a web resource occupied or busy its users by flooding the URL of the victim with unlimited requests than the server can handle.

• a) Phishing attack

• b) DoS attack

• c) Website attack

• d) MiTM attack

2. During a DoS attack, the regular traffic on the target _____________ will be either dawdling down or entirely interrupted.

• a) network

• b) system

• c) website

• d) router

3. The intent of a ______________ is to overkill the targeted server’s bandwidth and other resources of the target website.

• a) Phishing attack

• b) DoS attack

• c) Website attack

• d) MiTM attack

4. DoS is abbreviated as _____________________

• a) Denial of Service

• b) Distribution of Server

• c) Distribution of Service

• d) Denial of Server

5. A DoS attack coming from a large number of IP addresses, making it hard to manually filter or crash the traffic from such sources is known as a _____________

• a) GoS attack

• b) PDoS attack

• c) DoS attack

• d) DDoS attack

6. DDoS stands for _________________

• a) Direct Distribution of Server

• b) Distributed Denial of Service

• c) Direct Distribution of Service

• d) Distributed Denial of Server

7. Instead of implementing single computer & its internet bandwidth, a ____________ utilizes various systems & their connections for flooding the targeted website.

• a) GoS attack

• b) PoS attack

• c) DDoS attack

• d) DoS attack

8. There are ______ types of DoS attack.

• a) 2

• b) 3

• c) 4

• d) 5

9. Application layer DoS attack is also known as _______________

• a) Layer4 DoS attack

• b) Layer5 DoS attack

• c) Layer6 DoS attack

• d) Layer7 DoS attack

10. ___________ is a type of DoS threats to overload a server as it sends a large number of requests requiring resources for handling & processing.

• a) Network Layer DoS

• b) Physical Layer DoS

• c) Transport Layer DoS

• d) Application Layer DoS