1. A DoS attack that sends a flood of synchronization (SYN) requests and never sends the final acknowledgement (ACK) is typically known as which of the following?

A) Smurf
B) Ping Flood
C) Fraggle
D) SYN flood



2. Which of the following can be termed as the Denial of Service Attack? Choose the best answer.

A) A computer on your network has crashed
B) Your router is unable to find a destination outside of your network
C) Your Web server has gone into a loop trying to service a client request
D) You keyboard is no longer responding



3. In an IP (Internet Protocol) spoofing attack, what field of an IP (Internet Protocol) packet does the attacker manipulate?

A) The version field
B) The source address field
C) The source port field
D) The destination address field



4. Which of these options contains the three basic target categories for a DoS or a DDoS?

A) Resources, printers and storage devices
B) Networks, systems and applications
C) Systems, memory, network access card
D) Network access card, applications, peripheral devices



5. You are planning on hosting an eCommerce Web server. You are intent on making the server secure against all external attacks possible. Which of the following would be the best way to test your server for its weaknesses? Choose the best answer.

A) Ping to the server
B) Simulate a DDoS attack on that server
C) Simulate a DoS attack on the server
D) Check if all the patches and required antivirus software has been loaded o the server