{"id":3723,"date":"2023-12-03T18:56:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T18:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/comptia-security-sy0-601-question497\/"},"modified":"2023-12-03T18:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T18:56:59","slug":"comptia-security-sy0-601-question497","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/comptia-security-sy0-601-question497\/","title":{"rendered":"CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 &#8211; Question497"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">A security analyst notices an unusual amount of traffic hitting the edge of the network. Upon examining the<br \/>\nlogs, the analyst identifies a source IP address and blocks that address from communicating with the network.<br \/>\nEven though the analyst is blocking this address, the attack is still ongoing and coming from a large number of<br \/>\ndifferent source IP addresses. Which of the following describes this type of attack?<br \/>\n<br \/><strong><br \/>A.<\/strong> DDoS<br \/><strong>B.<\/strong> Privilege escalation<br \/><strong>C.<\/strong> DNS poisoning<br \/><strong>D.<\/strong> Buffer overflow<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<style> .hidden-div{ display:none } <\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'block'\"> Show Answer <\/button> <button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'none'\">Hide Answer<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-div\" id=\"hidden-div\"><span style=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">Correct Answer: <strong>A<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security analyst notices an unusual amount of traffic hitting the edge of the network. Upon examining the logs, the analyst identifies a source IP address and blocks that address from communicating with the network. Even though the analyst is blocking this address, the attack is still ongoing and coming from a large number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,500],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comptia-security-sy0-601","tag-comptia-security-sy0-601","tag-question-497"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/c\/SY0-601\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}