Q: 3
[Introduction to Incident Handling and Response]
ZYX company experienced a DoS/DDoS attack on their network. Upon investigating the incident, they
concluded that the attack is an application-layer attack. Which of the following attacks did the
attacker use?
Options
Discussion
A all the way. Only Slowloris targets the app layer, the rest are more about network or transport layer floods. Pretty sure on this but open to correction if I'm missing something.
That’s A. The only one out of those that goes after the application layer is Slowloris, the rest are lower level stuff.
Option A. The others, especially B and C, are network-layer attacks so pretty sure they're trap options here.
Probably A since Slowloris specifically hits the application layer. If the question had said it’s a network-layer or bandwidth-based DoS, I’d reconsider and maybe lean towards B or C. The official guide and practice tests both highlight Slowloris as classic app-layer stuff.
A , had something like this in a mock. Only Slowloris fits for app-layer DoS, rest hit lower layers. Pretty sure that’s what they’re asking but not 100%.
Guessing A . The others target lower layers, so I don't think B or C fit the "application-layer" clue here.
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