LO2:Types of attacks Quiz

What is a SYN flood attack?

• An attack where a hacker sends oversized ICMP packets to crash the system

• An attack where an overwhelming number of SYN requests make the ports busy and unable to serve legitimate requests

• An attack that involves sniffing data packets to read them in transit

• An attack where an unauthorized user impersonates a device in the network

What is the function of ICMP in a network?

• It encrypts data packets for secure transmission

• It reports transmission errors and checks the status of devices

• It filters incoming and outgoing data packets in a network

• It prevents unauthorized users from accessing a network

What happens during an ICMP flood attack?

• The attacker sends oversized ICMP packets to crash the server

• The attacker sends a large number of ICMP requests to exhaust server bandwidth, causing a crash

• The attacker impersonates an authorized user to steal data

• The attacker encrypts data to prevent access

What is a "Ping of Death" attack?

• Sending oversized ICMP packets that exceed the allowed size, crashing the system

• Continuously sending ping requests to the server until it crashes

• Sniffing packets from an active session to steal data

• Redirecting data packets to an unauthorized device

What is passive packet sniffing?

• The process of reading and analyzing data packets without altering them

• Changing data packets in transit to redirect them to a different destination

• Flooding a network with large numbers of packets to overwhelm the server

• Sniffing packets to impersonate an authorized device on the network

What is the key characteristic of an on-path (man-in-the-middle) attack?

• A hacker floods a network with fake requests

• An attacker positions themselves between two communicating devices to intercept or alter data

• The attacker uses a forward proxy to redirect traffic to an external server

• The attacker sends oversized packets to crash the server

What is the goal of a replay attack?

• Overloading a server with a flood of requests

• Delaying or repeating a captured data packet to impersonate an authorized user

• Redirecting data packets to a malicious device

• Sniffing network traffic for sensitive information

What is a smurf attack?

• A DDoS attack combined with IP spoofing to overwhelm a target with data packets

• A passive packet sniffing attack to read data in transit

• An attack that involves sending oversized ICMP packets to crash a server

• An attack that manipulates DNS servers to redirect traffic