Tenable Vulnerability Management Specialist Practice Test

What effect does 'Perform thorough tests' have on scanning?

It reduces the scan's impact on network traffic.

It scans only the first directory level of SMB file shares.

It selectively disables plugins to speed up the scan.

It causes deeper scanning and may increase network traffic.

Performing thorough tests expands the scan by going deeper into targets, running more checks, and probing more services and paths. Because the scanner does more work, it tends to generate more network traffic as it communicates with more ports, shares, and hosts, and it takes longer to complete. This broader, deeper approach helps uncover vulnerabilities that shallow scans could miss, even though it means higher traffic and longer scan times. The alternative ideas would contradict the notion of scanning more extensively: it wouldn’t reduce traffic, it wouldn’t limit itself to the first directory level, and it wouldn’t disable plugins to speed things up.