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Actual exam question from CompTIA's SY0-401
Question #: 98
Topic #: 5
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Account lockout is a mitigation strategy used by Jane, the administrator, to combat the following attacks: (Choose two.)

  • A. Spoofing
  • B. Man-in-the-middle
  • C. Dictionary
  • D. Brute force
  • E. Privilege escalation
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Suggested Answer: CD 🗳️
Account lockout is a useful method for slowing down online password-guessing attacks. A dictionary attack performs password guessing by making use of a pre- existing list of likely passwords. A brute-force attack is intended to try every possible valid combination of characters to create possible passwords in the attempt to discover the specific passwords used by user accounts.
by [deleted] at March 9, 2025, 5:38 a.m.

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