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Which two categories of DDoS attacks are there? (Choose two.)

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50% (3)
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33% (2)
C
17% (1)
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A, B 5
Selected Answer: AB Reflected DDoS Attacks: In this kind of attack, the attacker spoofs the victim's IP address and sends requests to multiple servers that have vulnerable open ports. These servers then respond to the victim's IP address with a large volume of traffic, overwhelming the victim's network and causing it to go offline. Direct DDoS Attacks: In this kind of attack, the attacker directly targets the victim's network with a flood of traffic from a botnet, which is a group of compromised devices. This flood of traffic overwhelms the victim's network and causes it to go offline.
A, C 1
Selected Answer: AC The correct answers are A. direct and B. reflected. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are mainly categorized by how the malicious traffic reaches the target