WGU D482 PERFOMANCE ASSESSMENT (Secure
Network Design - D482) ||ALREADY GRADED A+||
LATEST UPDATE 2025/26
A laptop has been stolen, and the data has been seen for sale on the darknet. Which
process could have protected the confidentiality of the data? -CORRECT ANSWER
Hard Drive Encryption
Classify each attack method in relation to its direct impact on the CIA triad. -CORRECT
ANSWER Key Logger: Confidentiality
DNS Poisoning: Integrity
Covert Channels: Confidentiality
DDoS: Availability
A security administrator has configured a small keysize to protect the VPN.
Which security objective does this affect? -CORRECT ANSWER Confidentiality
A laptop has been stolen, and the data has been seen for sale on the darknet.
Which process could have protected the confidentiality of the data? -CORRECT
ANSWER Hard Drive encryption
When browsing to a financial website, a user receives an error on the browser that
points to the certificate
,on the website. The user reviews the certificate and maps it to a known certificate
authority.
Why did the user need to perform these actions? -CORRECT ANSWER To establish a
trust relationship
A team of scientists is working on a secure project. The network administrator needs to
configure a
network for the team that is not routable from the Internet. A firewall is protecting the
scientists' network
and is using network address translation (NAT) to translate the internal IP addresses to
public IP
addresses.
Which IP address should the network administrator configure on the inside interface of
the firewall? -CORRECT ANSWER 10.14.15.16
An ad hoc network design team has just finished a presentation on the latest updates to
the organization's
network infrastructure. The team ensured that plenty of redundancy has been built in
and bottlenecks
have been eliminated.
Which security objective has the team bolstered through these improvements? -
CORRECT ANSWER Availability
, A company has recently implemented a new email encryption system that uses public
key infrastructure
(PKI). The company is now requiring all employees to sign and encrypt internal
communication. An
employee wants to send a digitally signed message to the IT director.
What does the IT director use to decode the employee's signature under the new
system? -CORRECT ANSWER The employee's public key
An administrator at a small office is tasked with supporting a new time clock that has
been installed on the
network. The outsourced company managing the time clock states that the connection
protocol it uses
with the clock is encrypted, but it needs to allow incoming connections from the Internet.
Which action should allow the outsourced company to securely manage the time clock
with a minimal
amount of configuration effort? -CORRECT ANSWER Setting up a port forward on the
firewall from the outsourced company to the
time clock
A small nonprofit company has received several legacy wireless access points (APs) as
a donation. The
Network Design - D482) ||ALREADY GRADED A+||
LATEST UPDATE 2025/26
A laptop has been stolen, and the data has been seen for sale on the darknet. Which
process could have protected the confidentiality of the data? -CORRECT ANSWER
Hard Drive Encryption
Classify each attack method in relation to its direct impact on the CIA triad. -CORRECT
ANSWER Key Logger: Confidentiality
DNS Poisoning: Integrity
Covert Channels: Confidentiality
DDoS: Availability
A security administrator has configured a small keysize to protect the VPN.
Which security objective does this affect? -CORRECT ANSWER Confidentiality
A laptop has been stolen, and the data has been seen for sale on the darknet.
Which process could have protected the confidentiality of the data? -CORRECT
ANSWER Hard Drive encryption
When browsing to a financial website, a user receives an error on the browser that
points to the certificate
,on the website. The user reviews the certificate and maps it to a known certificate
authority.
Why did the user need to perform these actions? -CORRECT ANSWER To establish a
trust relationship
A team of scientists is working on a secure project. The network administrator needs to
configure a
network for the team that is not routable from the Internet. A firewall is protecting the
scientists' network
and is using network address translation (NAT) to translate the internal IP addresses to
public IP
addresses.
Which IP address should the network administrator configure on the inside interface of
the firewall? -CORRECT ANSWER 10.14.15.16
An ad hoc network design team has just finished a presentation on the latest updates to
the organization's
network infrastructure. The team ensured that plenty of redundancy has been built in
and bottlenecks
have been eliminated.
Which security objective has the team bolstered through these improvements? -
CORRECT ANSWER Availability
, A company has recently implemented a new email encryption system that uses public
key infrastructure
(PKI). The company is now requiring all employees to sign and encrypt internal
communication. An
employee wants to send a digitally signed message to the IT director.
What does the IT director use to decode the employee's signature under the new
system? -CORRECT ANSWER The employee's public key
An administrator at a small office is tasked with supporting a new time clock that has
been installed on the
network. The outsourced company managing the time clock states that the connection
protocol it uses
with the clock is encrypted, but it needs to allow incoming connections from the Internet.
Which action should allow the outsourced company to securely manage the time clock
with a minimal
amount of configuration effort? -CORRECT ANSWER Setting up a port forward on the
firewall from the outsourced company to the
time clock
A small nonprofit company has received several legacy wireless access points (APs) as
a donation. The
