Test 3 TACN-QTANM

Any computer system, web server, or network can only handle a ........ load

• finicky

• unlimite

• finited

• finite

If you exceed any of computer limits, the ........load will stop the system from responding

• excess

• excessive

• excessively

• excessiveness

....... the target machine with so many packets that it can no longer respond to legitimate requests. It is important to be aware that this is just an illustration.

• In order to make

• Simply flood

• Easy to make

• When

Likewise, ......DoS attacks use much more sophisticated methods.

• actualy

• nowadays

• factual

• actual

With modern servers, and many servers actually being hosted in clusters or server ......., this exact illustration would not work against a modern target.

• webs

• services

• machines

• farms

Running an Apache web server on a simple laptop running Windows 7 Home Edition, it can take about 15 machines each running about 10 different command windows ........pinging to cause a web server to stop responding to legitimate requests.

• coeval

• thus

• contemporary

• simultaneously

In order to see this denial happen with as few machines involved as possible, you ....... use a very low-capacity PC as your web server.

• might

• may

• could

• can

After a certain ........(certain number of machines pinging the server), it will stop responding to requests, and you will no longer be able to see the web page.

• threshold

• beginning

• initiation

• inception

Of course, just one machine in your classroom or lab that is simply pinging on your web server is not going to ......... affect the web server

• adversed

• adversing

• adversely

• adversity

Ask several people to open their browsers and key the IP address of that machine in the address........... They should then be viewing the default website for that web server.

• bar

•  server

• tab

• key