Exam SY0-401 topic 5 question 24 discussion

Actual exam question from CompTIA's SY0-401

Question #: 24
Topic #: 5

Which of the following was based on a previous X.500 specification and allows either unencrypted authentication or encrypted authentication through the use of
TLS?

A. Kerberos
B. TACACS+
C. RADIUS
D. LDAP

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Directory services play an important role in developing intranet and Internet applications by allowing the sharing of information about users, systems, networks, services, and applications throughout the network. As examples, directory services may provide any organized set of records, often with a hierarchical structure, such as a corporate email directory. Similarly, a telephone directory is a list of subscribers with an address and a phone number.
A common usage of LDAP is to provide a "single sign on" where one password for a user is shared between many services, such as applying a company login code to web pages (so that staff log in only once to company computers, and then are automatically logged into the company intranet).
LDAP is based on a simpler subset of the standards contained within the X.500 standard. Because of this relationship, LDAP is sometimes called X.500-lite.
A client starts an LDAP session by connecting to an LDAP server, called a Directory System Agent (DSA), by default on TCP and UDP port 389, or on port 636 for
LDAPS. Global Catalog is available by default on ports 3268, and 3269 for LDAPS. The client then sends an operation request to the server, and the server sends responses in return.
The client may request the following operations:
StartTLS use the LDAPv3 Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension for a secure connection

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