350-701 Security Concepts Practice Question
An attacker sends a flood of SYN packets with spoofed IP addresses to a server, causing it to allocate resources for half-open connections until it can no longer accept legitimate traffic. This is which type of DDoS attack?
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Protocol DDoS
SYN flood is a protocol-based DDoS attack that exploits the TCP handshake.
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Protocol DDoS
Why this is correct
SYN flood targets protocol weaknesses (TCP handshake).
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Application layer DDoS
Why it's wrong here
Application layer attacks target specific applications, not TCP SYN.
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Volumetric DDoS
Why it's wrong here
Volumetric attacks consume bandwidth with large traffic volumes, not specifically SYN packets.
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Amplification DDoS
Why it's wrong here
Amplification uses small queries to generate large responses (e.g., DNS amplification).
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