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Question #: 46
Topic #: 1
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A company determines a need for additional protection from rogue devices plugging into physical ports around the building.
Which of the following provides the highest degree of protection from unauthorized wired network access?

  • A. Intrusion Prevention Systems
  • B. MAC filtering
  • C. Flood guards
  • D. 802.1x
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️
IEEE 802.1x is an IEEE Standard for Port-based Network Access Control (PNAC). It is part of the IEEE 802.1 group of networking protocols and provides an authentication mechanism to wireless devices connecting to a LAN or WLAN.

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Dlomo
1 year, 8 months ago
Why not B, isn't D a wireless standard? What does D have to do with physical ports?
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