Question 58 (practice exam 12) (additional)

Q: What type of attack is indicated by excessive bandwidth utilization from thousands of different IP addresses? A: DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)

Q: What is the primary characteristic of a DDoS attack? A: Service failure caused by many remote devices.

Q: Why is wireless jamming an unlikely cause in this scenario? A: No wireless network was mentioned.

Q: How does MAC cloning differ from the described issue? A: MAC cloning involves spoofing a single MAC address, not multiple IP addresses.

Q: What is a rogue access point, and why is it an unlikely cause? A: An unauthorized wireless access point, but the issue does not involve a wireless network.

Q: What is the primary impact of a DDoS attack, as described in the scenario? A: Causing slowness and disconnections to the targeted web server.

Q: What resource is being exhausted in the described DDoS attack? A: Internet bandwidth.