CompTIA CNX-001 Exam Dumps - Actual Questions Answers

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B. Single Sign-On (SSO) — SSO enables users to authenticate once using a unified set of credentials and gain access to multiple applications. It improves user experience and simplifies identity management.

E. Conditional Access Policy — This supports dynamic enforcement of access policies based on user location, device, risk level, and session characteristics. It allows administrators to define rules such as only allowing access from authorized geographic regions and automatically enforcing session timeouts or requiring reauthentication.

Relevant Extract from CompTIA CloudNetX CNX-001 Study Guide — under “Identity and Access Management (IAM)”:

“SSO provides seamless authentication across services while reducing password fatigue and attack surfaces.”

“Conditional Access enforces access controls based on real-time conditions such as location, device compliance, and session context, supporting dynamic security postures.”

Other options:

A. Role-based access defines permissions but does not handle location or session control.

C. Static IP allocation does not offer user-based access controls.

D. MFA enhances security but is not directly aligned with all the listed requirements.

F. Risk-based authentication evaluates threat levels but does not handle session timeout or location enforcement directly.

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A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is primarily used for inspecting HTTP/HTTPS requests and filtering out malicious traffic, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. However, WAFs do not restrict access based on geographical location by default.

To control access to the cloud-hosted application based on geographical location, the correct measure is to implement geo-restriction (geo-blocking). This technique limits access to cloud-based resources by using the source IP’s geographical origin. Geo-restriction is typically enforced at the cloud firewall or load balancer level.

Relevant Extract from CompTIA CloudNetX CNX-001 Official Objectives:

“Cloud access control policies can enforce geo-restriction settings, ensuring applications and services are only accessible from authorized geographic regions.”

Also found under “Security Controls in Cloud Deployments” section:

“Geo-restriction uses IP geolocation data to restrict access to services based on geographic criteria, supporting compliance and security requirements.”

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A 403 Forbidden error indicates that the request was understood by the server but is refusing to fulfill it due to insufficient authorization. The developer is attempting to call a protected API that requires valid credentials such as an access key and signature (often used in HMAC-based APIs), but the values appear as Postman variables (e.g., {{rapyd_access_key}}), which suggests they were not replaced with actual credentials.

This typically means that the request lacks proper authentication or authorization headers, or the keys/signature are incorrect or missing. The presence of access_key, signature, salt, and timestamp in the request implies the API requires authentication, but the variables were not resolved or valid.

Relevant Extract from CompTIA CloudNetX CNX-001 Study Guide — under “API Security and Authentication”:

“A 403 error typically results from failed authentication or lack of proper authorization. Developers must ensure that tokens or signatures are valid, not missing, and properly injected.”

Other options:

A. 404 is the code for a missing resource, not 403.

C. A firewall rule would block the request entirely (e.g., no response or a 0 status), not result in a 403 from the server.

D. HTTP redirection issues typically result in 3xx codes, not 403.