312-39V2: Certified SOC Analyst v2

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Ray is a SOC analyst at a company called Queens Tech. One day, Queens Tech is affected by a DoS/DDoS attack. To contain this incident, Ray and his team are providing additional bandwidth to the network devices and increasing server capacity. What are Ray and his team doing?

Explanation

Absorbing a DoS/DDoS attack means scaling available network and compute capacity so the targeted services can continue handling traffic despite the attack volume. Providing extra bandwidth and increasing server capacity are resource-absorption measures.

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