Which category of attacks aims to exhaust the target's bandwidth, causing traffic blockage?

Which category of attacks aims to exhaust the target's bandwidth, causing traffic blockage?

• A. Protocol Attacks
• B. Application Layer Attacks
• C. DoS attack
• D. Volumetric Attacks

Answer: (D)

Volumetric attacks focus on saturating the target’s bandwidth by flooding the network with an enormous amount of traffic. The goal is to fill the available capacity so legitimate requests can’t get through, effectively blocking traffic. This is a bandwidth-oriented form of DoS, differing from protocol attacks that try to exhaust device resources by abusing protocol mechanics, and from application-layer attacks that exhaust server resources via crafted requests. Because the key aim here is to exhaust the network path itself rather than crash a specific service or overwhelm a particular application, volumetric attacks are the most fitting category. Examples include UDP floods, ICMP floods, and large-scale amplification attacks that maximize traffic volume.

Volumetric attacks focus on saturating the target’s bandwidth by flooding the network with an enormous amount of traffic. The goal is to fill the available capacity so legitimate requests can’t get through, effectively blocking traffic. This is a bandwidth-oriented form of DoS, differing from protocol attacks that try to exhaust device resources by abusing protocol mechanics, and from application-layer attacks that exhaust server resources via crafted requests. Because the key aim here is to exhaust the network path itself rather than crash a specific service or overwhelm a particular application, volumetric attacks are the most fitting category. Examples include UDP floods, ICMP floods, and large-scale amplification attacks that maximize traffic volume.