2.3 Compare and contrast wireless security protocols and authentication methods.
Objective 2.3 sits in Security, which carries 28% of the A+ Core 2 exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the CompTIA page it rests on.
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A worked example
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A small office access point must also serve several older laptops that cannot do WPA3, and the administrator wants the newest protocol used wherever a client supports it. Which security setting fits?
Correct.
Concept
An access point advertises one security setting per band, and every client has to negotiate it. When a fleet spans several hardware generations, the choice is between forcing one standard on everyone and letting each radio use the best it can handle.
Why A
The mixed setting hands WPA3 Personal to devices that support it and lets the rest fall back to WPA2 Personal with AES, so the older laptops still join without pinning the whole network to the older protocol.
Now you: objective 2.3 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A branch office keeps unknown devices off its WLAN with an allowed list of client hardware addresses. What is the main weakness of that control?
Sample question 2 of 3
An administrator must run the wireless network in WPA3-Enterprise 192-bit mode. Which EAP method may client supplicants use?
Sample question 3 of 3
Wireless clients must authenticate with a username and password, and no client certificates are available. Windows will not run the password method on a wireless link by itself. What must carry it?
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