A coffee shop wants to offer free Wi-Fi to customers but must ensure that customer traffic is isolated from the shop's POS system and that each customer's traffic is encrypted. Which configuration should the network administrator implement?

A guest SSID with no encryption but a captive portal

A single SSID using WEP with MAC filtering

A guest SSID on a separate VLAN with client isolation and WPA2-Enterprise

A single open SSID with WPA2-PSK and a shared password

A remote employee needs to securely access internal corporate resources over the internet. Which technology creates an encrypted tunnel between the employee's device and the corporate network?

Intrusion prevention system (IPS)

A hospital allows physicians to connect to the internal EHR system from home. The security team requires that all remote traffic be encrypted and that only authenticated users with valid domain credentials can establish the connection. Which solution should the team implement?

Configure a site-to-site VPN between the hospital and each physician's home router

Deploy a remote-access VPN gateway that uses IPsec with certificate-based authentication

Enable port forwarding on the hospital firewall for TCP port 3389 to the EHR server

Implement a RADIUS server and require physicians to use PAP for authentication

What is the primary security challenge of wireless networks compared to wired networks?

Wireless networks require more cabling

Wireless networks are harder to configure

Wireless networks are slower than wired networks

Wireless signals can be intercepted by anyone within range

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Security Features and Defense N10-009 Practice Questions (Page 3)

Part of the Network security domain, which makes up ~28% of our current practice bank. CompTIA does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~10–17 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 38 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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11application · medium
A coffee shop wants to offer free Wi-Fi to customers but must ensure that customer traffic is isolated from the shop's POS system and that each customer's traffic is encrypted. Which configuration should the network administrator implement?
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12foundation · easy
A remote employee needs to securely access internal corporate resources over the internet. Which technology creates an encrypted tunnel between the employee's device and the corporate network?
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13foundation · easy
Which encryption technique uses a pair of keys: a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption?
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14application · medium
A hospital allows physicians to connect to the internal EHR system from home. The security team requires that all remote traffic be encrypted and that only authenticated users with valid domain credentials can establish the connection. Which solution should the team implement?
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15foundation · easy
What is the primary security challenge of wireless networks compared to wired networks?
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