What Floods a Web Site with So Many Requests for Service

question 137

Multiple Choice

What floods a Web site with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes the site?

• A) Computer virus
• B) Worm
• C) Denial-of-service attack
• D) None of the above

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

Sampling Distribution is the probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, used to make inferences about a population.

Sample Proportion

The ratio of members in a sample exhibiting a certain trait to the total number of members in the sample.

Central Limit Theorem

A principle stating that the distribution of sample means approaches a normal distribution as the sample size becomes larger, regardless of the population's distribution.

Standard Errors

A statistical term that describes the estimated standard deviation of a sampling distribution of a statistic, often used in hypothesis testing.