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SY0-701 · Question #543

An organization issued new laptops to all employees and wants to provide web filtering both in and out of the office without configuring additional access to the network. Which of the following…

The correct answer is A. Agent-based. Agent-based filtering installs a software client directly on each laptop, so the filtering policy travels with the device regardless of network location - in the office, at home, or on public Wi-Fi - with no extra network configuration required. A centralized proxy (B) fails…

Submitted by devops_kid· Mar 6, 2026Security architecture

Question

An organization issued new laptops to all employees and wants to provide web filtering both in and out of the office without configuring additional access to the network. Which of the following types of web filtering should a systems administrator configure?

Options

  • AAgent-based
  • BCentralized proxy
  • CURL scanning
  • DContent categorization

How the community answered

(40 responses)
  • A
    80% (32)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    13% (5)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

Agent-based filtering installs a software client directly on each laptop, so the filtering policy travels with the device regardless of network location - in the office, at home, or on public Wi-Fi - with no extra network configuration required. A centralized proxy (B) fails the requirement because remote users would need VPN or additional network access to route traffic through the corporate proxy, which is exactly what the question rules out. URL scanning (C) and content categorization (D) are filtering techniques (how content is evaluated), not deployment architectures - they describe what a filter checks, not where the filter lives, so neither addresses the location-independence problem.

Memory tip: Think "the agent goes where the employee goes." If the filter needs to follow the laptop out of the office with zero extra network setup, it must live on the laptop itself - that's the agent.

Topics

#Web filtering#Endpoint security#Agent-based security#Remote access security

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