When engaging with a penetration-testing company to test the application, which of the following should the company avoid?

A company uses a cloud provider with shared network bandwidth to host a web application on dedicated servers. The company’s contact with the cloud provider prevents any activities that would interfere with the cloud provider’s other customers.

When engaging with a penetration-testing company to test the application, which of the following should the company avoid?
A . Crawling the web application’s URLs looking for vulnerabilities
B. Fingerprinting all the IP addresses of the application’s servers
C. Brute forcing the application’s passwords
D. Sending many web requests per second to test DDoS protection

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Answer: D