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You work as a Network Administrator for Net World International. The company has a Windows Active Directory-based single domain single forest network. The functional level of the forest is Windows…
The correct answer is D. Enable WEP. Shared Key authentication is a WEP-based 802.11 mechanism that only appears as a configuration option once WEP is enabled on the wireless network adapter.
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You work as a Network Administrator for Net World International. The company has a Windows Active Directory-based single domain single forest network. The functional level of the forest is Windows Server 2003. There are ten Sales Managers in the company. The company has recently provided laptops to all its Sales Managers. All the laptops run Windows XP Professional. These laptops will be connected to the company's network through wireless connections. The company's management wants to implement Shared Key authentication for these laptops. When you try to configure the network interface card of one of the laptops for Shared Key authentication, you find no such option. What will you do to enable Shared Key authentication?
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- AInstall EAP-TLS
- BInstall PEAP-MS-CHAP v2
- CInstall Service Pack 1
- DEnable WEP
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(36 responses)- A3% (1)
- B6% (2)
- D92% (33)
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Shared Key authentication is a WEP-based 802.11 mechanism that only appears as a configuration option once WEP is enabled on the wireless network adapter.
EAP-TLS is a certificate-based protocol used in 802.1X and WPA Enterprise environments and has no role in enabling WEP-based Shared Key authentication.
PEAP-MS-CHAPv2 is a tunneled EAP method designed for 802.1X authentication frameworks and is unrelated to the WEP Shared Key mechanism.
Service Pack 1 for Windows XP delivers security patches and general feature updates but does not add the Shared Key authentication option to the wireless NIC configuration.
Shared Key authentication is defined within the WEP 802.11 standard and requires WEP encryption to be active on the NIC before the operating system exposes it as a selectable authentication method. Without WEP enabled, the Shared Key option simply does not appear in the wireless adapter configuration. Enabling WEP on the laptop's NIC will make Shared Key authentication available in the interface.
Concept tested: WEP prerequisite for Shared Key wireless authentication
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-xp/bb490960(v=technet.10)
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