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CCSP Exam - Question 170


Which of the following can be useful for protecting cloud customers from a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against another customer hosted in the same cloud?

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Correct Answer: C

Limits are useful for protecting cloud customers from a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against another customer hosted in the same cloud because they can cap the maximum amount of resources any single customer can consume. By enforcing these limits, the cloud provider ensures that other customers will still have access to their necessary resources, preventing a DoS scenario from impacting their services.

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ichnos
Sep 28, 2020

Correct Answer: A A reservation will typically guarantee to a cloud customer that they will have the minimum required resources necessary to power on and operate their services within the environment. Reservations also offer insurance against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or other customers using such large amounts of resources that the cloud customer cannot operate their services.

gayan237
Jun 29, 2023

how would the cloud platform guarantee the "reservation" when DoS attack running wild in that environment ? instead, if you "limit" each tenant to upper threshold level, it will make sure, cloud platform will have enough available resources to allocate to other tenants.

guest999
Jun 17, 2020

Limit is the appropriate answer, if the DoS here is referring to the over usage resources by one customer, and there by denying resource to another. If this referring to real DoS then again Reservation cannot stop it. So either way Reservation is incorrect.

CL888
Sep 6, 2020

I dont think so because, a Limit would will be the total amount of resources to be exhausted by the DoS, but, what guarantees that another customer will have the resources needed to run?, the reservation, so the reservation is what protects the other customers.

eliotn183
Dec 14, 2020

Nope, Reservations will protect against DDOS.

GeneralGM
Apr 2, 2023

You and I are reading the question the same... if the attack is coming from one source (current cloud customer or not), a limit will eventually block that DOS attack. The question is poorly worded and should say: Which of the following can be useful for protecting cloud customers from a denial-of-service (DoS) attack WHEN another customer IS hosted in the same cloud? - Answer: Reservations

GeneralGM
Apr 2, 2023

You and I are reading the question the same... if the attack is coming from one source (current cloud customer or not), a limit will eventually block that DOS attack. The question is poorly worded and should say: Which of the following can be useful for protecting cloud customers WHEN another customer faces a denial-of-service (DoS) attack hosted in the same cloud? - Answer: Reservations

gjjw
May 18, 2020

Limits seem to be better...

Guest4768
May 19, 2020

Limits should be on the attacked customer. This question asks for the way to protect another customer. In general, you cannot limit other customers to protect a certain customer.

certifiedgeek
May 13, 2022

If a costumer has "limits" beyond the available "shares", they can consume resources intended to other costumers which can cause resource exhaustion. "Reservations" should prevent such exhaustion for other costumers though their resource requirements can no longer expand until this issue is fixed.

Pika26Option: C
May 20, 2023

C: Limits

serget12
Oct 13, 2022

The concept of shares is used to arbitrate the issues associated with compute resource contention situations. Resource contention implies the existence of too many requests for resources based on the actual available resources currently in the system. If resource contention takes place, share values are used to prioritize compute resource access for all guests assigned a certain number of shares.

ikamalbhattOption: C
May 2, 2023

C Limits is the correct answer, Limits are put in order to throttle the services , hence preventing DOS attacks.

ezpzls
Aug 17, 2023

Limits all the way

Kneebee
Sep 8, 2024

Correct Answer : C In Cloud computing limits pertain to the constraints on resource usage for individual customers. By setting limits on the amount of resources (such as CPU, memory, bandwidth, etc.) each customer can consume, cloud providers can prevent any single customer from dominating resources and potentially affecting the performance of other customers.

MaciekMTOption: C
Feb 20, 2025

Setting limits on resource usage can help prevent one cloud customer from monopolizing resources, which might inadvertently lead to a denial-of-service situation for other tenants sharing the same infrastructure. Limits cap the maximum amount of CPU, memory, or bandwidth any single customer can use, providing a safeguard against runaway resource consumption—whether from a misbehaving application or a targeted DoS attack.