Exam PT0-002 topic 1 question 71 discussion

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Question #: 71
Topic #: 1

A company uses a cloud provider with shared network bandwidth to host a web application on dedicated servers. The company's contact with the cloud provider prevents any activities that would interfere with the cloud provider's other customers. When engaging with a penetration-testing company to test the application, which of the following should the company avoid?

A. Crawling the web application's URLs looking for vulnerabilities
B. Fingerprinting all the IP addresses of the application's servers
C. Brute forcing the application's passwords
D. Sending many web requests per second to test DDoS protection

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by kenechi at Feb. 10, 2023, 4:07 p.m.

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kenechi

Highly Voted 9 months ago

Selected Answer: D

Since its a shared network bandwidth on a dedicated server, the other clients are been hosted on the same server. sending to many web request could overwhelm the server which will cause denial of service for the other clients.

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cy_analyst

Most Recent 7 months ago

Selected Answer: D

This is because the cloud provider has shared network bandwidth, and such an activity could interfere with the cloud provider's other customers, potentially causing a denial-of-service attack for them.

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