CompTIA Security+ Question I-76

Account lockout is a mitigation strategy used by Jane, the administrator, to combat which of the following attacks? (Select TWO).

A. Spoofing
B. Man-in-the-middle
C. Dictionary
D. Brute force
E. Privilege escalation

Answer: C,D

Explanation:
Account lockout is a useful method for slowing down online password-guessing attacks. A dictionary attack performs password guessing by making use of a pre-existing list of likely passwords. A brute-force attack is intended to try every possible valid combination of characters to create possible passwords in the attempt to discover the specific passwords used by user accounts.