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CompTIA CySA+ Cybersecurity Analyst · CompTIA
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B. The scanner is running in active mode, because active scanning can aggressively probe services (high request rates, malformed packets, intrusive checks) and overwhelm fragile or business-critical systems, causing crashes.
Correct. Active scans could affect network speed, performance, uptime, and operations. They may also send incompatible queries that could cause endpoints to malfunction.
B. The scanner is running in active mode.