Question 1
At the Alderbridge retail company, a public customer portal fails during a flood of inbound connection attempts while its database remains healthy. Which implementation choice best addresses the situation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The primary failure mode is that volumetric traffic exhaustion occurs before ordinary application authentication. The proposed action directly fixes it by requiring the team to apply an edge DDoS mitigation service with rate controls and capacity planning; afterward, verify that an authorized load simulation is absorbed upstream without making the portal unavailable.
Incorrect Answers
This alternative would be suitable where an adversary on an untrusted network path can read or modify plaintext session material. It does not by itself resolve the need to apply an edge DDoS mitigation service with rate controls and capacity planning. For the Alderbridge retail company, the direct corrective action is to apply an edge DDoS mitigation service with rate controls and capacity planning.
Require established identity verification and privileged reset approval regardless of urgency addresses a different kind of problem: social authority cues cannot substitute for verified identity. Here the reported weakness is that volumetric traffic exhaustion occurs before ordinary application authentication. For the Alderbridge retail company, the direct corrective action is to apply an edge DDoS mitigation service with rate controls and capacity planning.
The option addresses the separate situation where mixed criticality zones permit compromise of public services to spread toward identity infrastructure. For this case, the more appropriate response is to apply an edge DDoS mitigation service with rate controls and capacity planning. For the Alderbridge retail company, the direct corrective action is to apply an edge DDoS mitigation service with rate controls and capacity planning.