A company wants to provide secure remote access to its internal network for employees who travel frequently. The employees use a variety of devices, including company laptops and personal smartphones. The company wants to ensure that only authorized devices can connect and that the connection is encrypted. Which solution should the company implement?

A firewall with port forwarding to internal servers.

VPN with certificate-based authentication and device compliance checks.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) over the internet.

A wireless access point with WPA2 encryption.

A network administrator is troubleshooting a DNS resolution issue. Users report that they cannot access a website by its domain name, but they can access it by its IP address. The administrator runs nslookup and receives a 'Non-existent domain' response. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

The user's workstation has a misconfigured hosts file.

The user's workstation has a firewall blocking DNS traffic.

The DNS server is not configured with the correct record for the domain.

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26foundation · easy
Which remote access technology creates an encrypted tunnel over the internet to securely connect a remote user to a private network?
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27application · medium
A company wants to provide secure remote access to its internal network for employees who travel frequently. The employees use a variety of devices, including company laptops and personal smartphones. The company wants to ensure that only authorized devices can connect and that the connection is encrypted. Which solution should the company implement?
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28application · easy
A security analyst is reviewing firewall logs and sees a large number of connection attempts to TCP port 3389 from an external IP address. Which service is being targeted?
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29foundation · easy
Which physical segmentation approach involves using completely separate physical switches, routers, and cabling for different security domains?
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30application · medium
A network administrator is troubleshooting a DNS resolution issue. Users report that they cannot access a website by its domain name, but they can access it by its IP address. The administrator runs nslookup and receives a 'Non-existent domain' response. Which of the following is the most likely cause?
Select an answer first

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Questions 26–30

Which remote access technology creates an encrypted tunnel over the internet to securely connect a remote user to a private network?

A security analyst is reviewing firewall logs and sees a large number of connection attempts to TCP port 3389 from an external IP address. Which service is being targeted?

Which physical segmentation approach involves using completely separate physical switches, routers, and cabling for different security domains?

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