Which technique enables better load management by balancing loads across multiple servers to mitigate DDoS and maintain performance?

Which technique enables better load management by balancing loads across multiple servers to mitigate DDoS and maintain performance?

• A. Throttling
• B. Packet Traceback
• C. Load Balancing
• D. Traffic Pattern Analysis

Answer: (C)

Distributing workload across multiple servers to prevent any single host from becoming overwhelmed. A load balancer sits in front of a group of servers and routes incoming requests to one of them using a chosen strategy (like round-robin, least connections, or the fastest response time). It also checks which servers are healthy and reroutes traffic away from any that are down. This keeps performance stable by avoiding bottlenecks on any one machine and provides resilience if a server fails. In the context of load management and DDoS, spreading traffic across several servers makes it harder for an attacker to exhaust capacity on a single target and helps maintain service availability and responsiveness. Throttling limits how fast requests can be sent but doesn’t distribute traffic among servers. Packet traceback helps identify where traffic comes from, not how to balance it. Traffic pattern analysis detects unusual activity for defense, but it isn’t the mechanism that evenly shares loads across a server pool.

Distributing workload across multiple servers to prevent any single host from becoming overwhelmed.

A load balancer sits in front of a group of servers and routes incoming requests to one of them using a chosen strategy (like round-robin, least connections, or the fastest response time). It also checks which servers are healthy and reroutes traffic away from any that are down. This keeps performance stable by avoiding bottlenecks on any one machine and provides resilience if a server fails. In the context of load management and DDoS, spreading traffic across several servers makes it harder for an attacker to exhaust capacity on a single target and helps maintain service availability and responsiveness. Throttling limits how fast requests can be sent but doesn’t distribute traffic among servers. Packet traceback helps identify where traffic comes from, not how to balance it. Traffic pattern analysis detects unusual activity for defense, but it isn’t the mechanism that evenly shares loads across a server pool.