Question 510
At Newbridge Charity, a team reports that it corrected the following problem affecting donation applications and volunteer accounts: Remote clients lose access to internal services after certificate expiration at the VPN headend. Which observation BEST verifies that the correction actually worked?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Authorized clients connect without certificate warnings and an invalid certificate is rejected. This is the decisive evidence for the original problem: Remote clients lose access to internal services after certificate expiration at the VPN headend. It verifies that the intended corrective control—Renew and deploy a valid headend certificate chain and test client trust—works in the relevant environment; a completed change ticket alone would not prove the outcome at Newbridge Charity.
Incorrect Answers
The client reaches its approved application subnet but cannot connect to restricted networks. This would be relevant evidence for a different failure: A remote employee's Cisco Secure Client connects but can access networks outside their assigned group, usually addressed by Apply group policy and authorization with least-privilege split or full-tunnel routing as intended. It does not demonstrate that the current problem at Newbridge Charity was resolved. The specific required evidence is: Authorized clients connect without certificate warnings and an invalid certificate is rejected.
Both peers authenticate with the current key and obsolete credentials fail. This would be relevant evidence for a different failure: A branch site tunnel is configured with an old shared secret after key rotation, usually addressed by Synchronize peer authentication settings using secure credential distribution. It does not demonstrate that the current problem at Newbridge Charity was resolved. The specific required evidence is: Authorized clients connect without certificate warnings and an invalid certificate is rejected.
A valid password without the required second factor cannot open an administrative session. This would be relevant evidence for a different failure: A user VPN uses password-only authentication for a sensitive administrative application, usually addressed by Integrate supported multifactor authentication and policy assessment into the remote-access workflow. It does not demonstrate that the current problem at Newbridge Charity was resolved. The specific required evidence is: Authorized clients connect without certificate warnings and an invalid certificate is rejected.