DoS Attack Quiz

DoS is abbreviated as

• Denial of Service

• Distribution of Service

• Distribution of Server

• Denial of Server

DDoS stands for

• Direct Distribution of Server

• Distribution Denial of Service

• Direct Distribution of Service

• Distributed Denial of Service

Typical target for DDoS attack is

• School library site

• Online casino

• Online learning

• Online tuition

One of the form of DDoS attack is overloading port

• True

• False

Pishing is a popular method used for DoS attack

• True

• False

Which of the following is the type of DoS attack?

• Surface Attack

• Ping Attack

• Network Layer Attack

• Volume Based Attack

This attack attempts to crash, destabilize, or freeze the targeted service. This statement refer to

• Smurf Attack

• Phishing

• Ping of Death

• Mailbomb

This attack causes fragmented packets to overlap one another on the host receipt and the host attempts to reconstruct them during the process but fails. This statement refers to

• Phishing

• Smurf Attack

• Teardrop Attack

• Zombie Attack

Extortionist, exfiltrators, hacktivist and competitors are the person behind the DoS attack. Which of the following defined hacktivist?

• They menace to inactive the web service and then ask for the ransom money to put a stop to an attack

• They use Dos attack to distract interest from the actual aim, stealing money in a form of intellectual property or credit card numbers

• They only look for a political announcements or stand out a focus on a cause

• They crash their opponents site to gain advantage or might screen scratch information on opponents site to get and beat your pricing

What is DDoS migitation?

• A process of successfully protecting a target from a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

• An attack that is conducted by targeting TCP/IP fragmentation reassembly codes

• A process where the attacker sends Internet Control Message Protocol broadcast packets to a number of hosts with a spoofed source Internet Protocol (IP) address that belongs to the target machine

• A process that causes stability for the target network