Question 260
At Northpoint Health, the remote-clinic systems team is preparing a rural site commissioning project. The operational constraint is remote support and access restrictions. The owner reports that the correction is complete for this issue: A shared administrator account has full rights from every network and no centralized audit trace. Which result BEST demonstrates that this specific issue was resolved?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Access logs identify individual authorized operators and restricted users cannot change protected settings. This is the relevant acceptance observation for the reported issue: A shared administrator account has full rights from every network and no centralized audit trace. The intended corrective choice is: Use authenticated role-based administration with AAA and appropriate management-plane restrictions. At Northpoint Health, this outcome verifies actual operation under remote support and access restrictions, rather than only a ticket marked complete.
Incorrect Answers
Approved supplicants receive authorized access and unknown clients remain in the intended restricted state. Such an observation would verify a separate issue: Managed employee laptops should authenticate to wired access but ports are configured for unrestricted admission. It would follow the distinct action: Configure policy-based 802.1X with a supported RADIUS backend and defined failure behavior. Here the reported failure is A shared administrator account has full rights from every network and no centralized audit trace. The decisive result for Northpoint Health must instead be: Access logs identify individual authorized operators and restricted users cannot change protected settings.
Packet tests show needed DNS exchanges work and prohibited flows are denied at the intended interface. Such an observation would verify a separate issue: An interface ACL blocks legitimate DNS replies because its direction and permit order were not reviewed. It would follow the distinct action: Place ordered ACL entries on the appropriate ingress or egress path with explicit required traffic permits. Here the reported failure is A shared administrator account has full rights from every network and no centralized audit trace. The decisive result for Northpoint Health must instead be: Access logs identify individual authorized operators and restricted users cannot change protected settings.
Rogue DHCP offers from edge ports are rejected and the legitimate server lease exchange succeeds. Such an observation would verify a separate issue: An attacker on an access port sends forged DHCP replies claiming to be the default gateway server. It would follow the distinct action: Use DHCP snooping with trusted uplinks and untrusted edge ports, validating the trust boundary. Here the reported failure is A shared administrator account has full rights from every network and no centralized audit trace. The decisive result for Northpoint Health must instead be: Access logs identify individual authorized operators and restricted users cannot change protected settings.