Exam SY0-501 topic 1 question 976 discussion

Actual exam question from CompTIA's SY0-501

Question #: 976
Topic #: 1

A company is deploying a wireless network. It is a requirement that client devices must use X.509 certifications to mutually authenticate before connecting to the wireless network. Which of the following protocols would be required to accomplish this?

A. EAP-TTLS
B. EAP-MD5
C. LEAP
D. EAP-TLS
E. EAP-TOTP

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by Mento at Dec. 2, 2020, 7:57 p.m.

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Mento

Highly Voted 4 years, 6 months ago

EAP-TLS (Transport Layer Security) provides for certificate-based and mutual authentication of the client and the network. It relies on client-side and server-side certificate

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mlonz

Most Recent 3 years, 10 months ago

• EAP-TLS. This is one of the most secure EAP standards and is widely implemented. The primary difference between PEAP and EAP-TLS is that it requires certificates on the 802.1x server and on each of the wireless clients.

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Mohawk

4 years, 1 month ago

Mutual authentication = EAP-TLS. Just remember that!!

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Joker20

4 years, 4 months ago

mutually authenticate

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exiledwl

4 years, 5 months ago

Just in case it hasn't been hammered into us enough...EAP-TLS requires client side and server side cert

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Mento

4 years, 6 months ago

EAP_TTLS as well, wonder what is truly right. Stupid question, says nothing if server needs a cert. :/

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DisasterRec

4 years, 6 months ago

key words wireless network

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eldaulo

4 years, 5 months ago

they both are for wireless networks, both are for authentication with certificates (x.509). TTLS requires digital certificate on the server but not on the client. The client uses password for authentication. EAP TTLS uses a server-side digital certificate and a client side password for authentication.

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