H12-311_V3.0 · Question #143
The wireless network card that only supports TKIP can be upgraded through the driver to support AES encryption.
The correct answer is B. False. Option B (False) is correct because AES encryption (used in WPA2 via CCMP) requires dedicated hardware support at the chipset level, not just software. A driver update is purely a software change and cannot add hardware capabilities that were never built into the physical…
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The wireless network card that only supports TKIP can be upgraded through the driver to support AES encryption.
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- ATrue
- BFalse
How the community answered
(36 responses)- A25% (9)
- B75% (27)
Explanation
Option B (False) is correct because AES encryption (used in WPA2 via CCMP) requires dedicated hardware support at the chipset level, not just software. A driver update is purely a software change and cannot add hardware capabilities that were never built into the physical wireless card. If a card was manufactured to support only TKIP, its underlying chip lacks the necessary circuitry to perform AES operations.
Option A is wrong because it conflates software updates with hardware capability. TKIP was specifically designed as a software-implementable upgrade to run on older WEP-era hardware, but AES demands hardware-level cryptographic processing that must be present in the chip itself.
Memory tip: Drivers talk to hardware; they cannot create hardware. If AES support is missing from the chip, no software can manufacture it.
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