Question 340
A post-incident design review discusses the following: A remote campus must wake powered-down PCs using Wake-on-LAN packets delivered from another IP subnet. Which preventive design control MOST DIRECTLY addresses this specific risk?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Document secure WoL relay permissions and disable unrestricted directed broadcasts. This control targets the underlying design risk. Ordinary local broadcast frames do not propagate across a Layer 3 boundary without an explicit WoL relay design. The follow-up acceptance check remains: Authorized wake packets reach sleeping clients on the intended VLAN and unapproved broadcast exposure stays blocked.
Incorrect Answers
Loop Guard helps protect against unidirectional BPDU loss causing unexpected spanning-tree forwarding. The repeat risk here is different: Ordinary local broadcast frames do not propagate across a Layer 3 boundary without an explicit WoL relay design. A directly relevant preventive control is: Document secure WoL relay permissions and disable unrestricted directed broadcasts.
DHCP snooping separates trusted DHCP sources from untrusted access ports and can block rogue server messages. The repeat risk here is different: Ordinary local broadcast frames do not propagate across a Layer 3 boundary without an explicit WoL relay design. A directly relevant preventive control is: Document secure WoL relay permissions and disable unrestricted directed broadcasts.
UDLD can detect certain unidirectional Layer 2 link conditions that simple physical carrier status misses. The repeat risk here is different: Ordinary local broadcast frames do not propagate across a Layer 3 boundary without an explicit WoL relay design. A directly relevant preventive control is: Document secure WoL relay permissions and disable unrestricted directed broadcasts.