CompTIA Network+ · N10-009
Objective 4.2: Compare and contrast common types of attacks
Practice questions for Network+ objective 4.2, “Compare and contrast common types of attacks.” Every question is original, written to the N10-009 exam objectives, and comes with a full explanation — answer them below to see instant grading.
This objective sits in Domain 4.0: Network Security, which is about 19% of the exam — so mastering it moves your readiness score meaningfully.
1.An employee with authorized access to customer data downloads and sells it to a competitor. Which threat category does this represent?
2.An attacker sets up an unauthorized DHCP server on the network and responds to client DHCP requests faster than the legitimate server, providing clients with a malicious default gateway IP. Which attack is this?
3.An attacker sends a massive volume of SYN packets to a web server without completing the TCP three-way handshake, exhausting the server's connection table. Which attack is this?
4.A company's internet connection becomes saturated with traffic after multiple compromised servers worldwide simultaneously send large volumes of UDP data to the company's IP address. Which type of attack is this?
5.An attacker uses a large botnet to send enough legitimate-looking HTTP GET requests to a website to exhaust its server resources, making it unavailable to real users. What type of attack is this?
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