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It is important to be prepared for a DoS attack, as these attacks are becoming more common.

Which of the following BEST describes the response you should take for a service degradation?

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Set services to throttle or shut down.


Add extra services, such as load balancing and excess bandwidth.


Include a checklist of all threat assessment tools.


Have more than one upstream connection to use as a failover.

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Set services to throttle or shut down.

Reason: during service degradation you should implement graceful degradation and prioritization (rate-limit or disable nonessential services) to preserve critical functionality. Adding bandwidth/load balancing or extra upstream links are useful mitigations/controls but may not be available or sufficient during an active event; a checklist alone doesn't address the immediate need to protect core services.