HealthOne, Inc. provides wireless connectivity in its clinic facilities for staff access to internal network resources. The wireless security policy specifies that the staff must perform user-based authentication with a special back-end authentication server before they are allowed to access the WLAN. Which technology should be chosen in the WLAN implementation to meet this requirement?

IT Exam Items RepositoryCategory: CCNPHealthOne, Inc. provides wireless connectivity in its clinic facilities for staff access to internal network resources. The wireless security policy specifies that the staff must perform user-based authentication with a special back-end authentication server before they are allowed to access the WLAN. Which technology should be chosen in the WLAN implementation to meet this requirement?

HealthOne, Inc. provides wireless connectivity in its clinic facilities for staff access to internal network resources. The wireless security policy specifies that the staff must perform user-based authentication with a special back-end authentication server before they are allowed to access the WLAN. Which technology should be chosen in the WLAN implementation to meet this requirement?

  • EAP
  • PSK
  • WEP
  • WPA

Explanation: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an authentication framework that supports multiple authentication mechanisms without having to pre-negotiate a particular one. EAP authentication is initiated by the server (authenticator), whereas many other authentication protocols are initiated by the client (peer).

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