Define DDoS Attack Concepts NSE6-FORTIDDOS-ADMINISTRATOR Practice Questions (Page 6)

Questions 26–26

1. 26application · medium

   A network administrator is troubleshooting a service outage. The firewall logs show a massive number of TCP SYN packets with random source IPs and no corresponding ACK packets. The firewall's connection table is full, and legitimate connections are being dropped. Which attack is this, and what is the primary resource being exhausted?

   • AAn application-layer attack exhausting CPU.
   • BA volumetric attack exhausting bandwidth.
   • CA protocol attack exhausting the connection table.
   • DA reflection attack exhausting bandwidth.
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