EC-CouncilCertified Encryption Specialist
Domain 4Objective 3
VPN Protocols (PPTP, L2TP, IPSec, SSL/TLS) and Disk Encryption ECES Practice Questions (Page 4)
Part of the Applications of Cryptography domain, which makes up ~25% of our current practice bank. EC-Council does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~13–20 in this domain), expect 3–5 from this objective — we provide 51 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 16–20
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A network administrator is configuring a VPN for remote users. They need a protocol that provides tunneling but does not include native encryption, so they plan to combine it with IPsec for security. Which protocol are they describing?
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Which of the following is a common use case for L2TP/IPsec VPNs?
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A company issues MacBook Pro laptops to employees. The IT department wants to ensure that if a laptop is lost or stolen, the data on the internal SSD is unreadable without the user's login credentials. They also want the encryption to be transparent to the user during normal login. Which solution should they implement?
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A hospital's IT department is evaluating encryption options for a shared workstation used by multiple nurses. The workstation runs Windows 11 and has a TPM 2.0 chip. The requirement is that the system must boot automatically without user interaction, but the data on the disk must be protected if the workstation is stolen. Which BitLocker configuration should the administrator choose?
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A company deploys BitLocker on all employee laptops. A user forgets their PIN and cannot boot into Windows. The IT helpdesk needs to recover the data on the laptop. What is the most efficient recovery method if the laptop is domain-joined and BitLocker was configured with default settings?
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