GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) — Question 85

Which of the following types of attacks is only intended to make a computer resource unavailable to its users?

Answer options

• A. Denial of Service attack
• B. Replay attack
• C. Teardrop attack
• D. Land attack

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct choice, A, refers to a Denial of Service attack, which disrupts the normal functioning of a targeted server or service, making it unavailable to users. The other options, while they describe different types of attacks, do not specifically focus on the unavailability of resources as their primary goal.