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Question #: 6
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A company wants to protect against Denial of Service attacks and has launched a new project. They want to block the attacks that go above a certain threshold and for some others they are just trying to get a baseline of activity for those types of attacks so they are letting the traffic pass through without action. Given the following:
- The interface to the Internet is on WAN1.
- There is no requirement to specify which addresses are being protected or protected from.
- The protection is to extend to all services.
- The tcp_syn_flood attacks are to be recorded and blocked.
- The udp_flood attacks are to be recorded but not blocked.
- The tcp_syn_flood attacks threshold is to be changed from the default to 1000.
The exhibit shows the current DoS-policy.

Which policy will implement the project requirements?
A)


B)

C)

D)

  • A. Option A
  • B. Option B
  • C. Option C
  • D. Option D
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Suggested Answer: BD 🗳️
B&D both have same policy which fulfills the above criteria.
http://help.fortinet.com/fos50hlp/52data/Content/FortiOS/fortigate-firewall-52/Examples/Example-%20DoS%20Policy.htm

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Frgaa
2 years, 6 months ago
"They want to block the attacks..." so log is not needed. B is OK too.
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atseif
3 years, 3 months ago
It should be B only, on D option tcp_sync_flood log not enabled, hence D option not meet requirement
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