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A manufacturer needs to grant a partner company access to a procurement portal. Partner users should authenticate with their own identity provider, and the manufacturer does not want to create local passwords for each partner employee. Which design best supports this?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Good practice is not just finding the correct option. The wrong answers often show the exact trap the exam wants you to fall into.
A
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Create local accounts for every partner user and reset passwords manually when staff changes occur.
Local accounts increase administrative overhead and do not let the partner keep its own identity lifecycle.
B
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Share one VPN credential with the partner organization and let them manage access internally.
Shared credentials provide weak accountability and do not support individual authentication well.
C
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Use NTLM pass-through authentication to avoid setting up trust relationships.
NTLM pass-through is not the right architecture for modern partner federation and SSO use cases.
D
Best answer
Establish federation with SAML or OIDC and support just-in-time provisioning for partner users.
Federation lets partner users authenticate through their own identity provider while the portal trusts that assertion and creates accounts as needed.
Common exam trap
Common exam trap: NAT rules depend on direction and matching traffic
NAT is not only about the public address. The inside/outside interface roles and the ACL or rule that matches traffic are just as important.
Technical deep dive
How to think about this question
NAT questions usually test address translation, overload/PAT behaviour, static mappings and whether the right traffic is being translated. Read the interface direction and address terms carefully.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.
- PAT allows many inside hosts to share one public address using ports.
- Inside local and inside global describe the private and translated addresses.
- NAT ACLs identify traffic for translation, not always security filtering.
TExam Day Tips
- Identify inside and outside interfaces first.
- Check whether the scenario needs static NAT, dynamic NAT or PAT.
- Do not confuse NAT matching ACLs with normal packet-filtering intent.
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FAQ
Questions learners often ask
What does this SY0-701 question test?
Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Establish federation with SAML or OIDC and support just-in-time provisioning for partner users. — Federation is the best design because it allows the partner organization to authenticate its own users while the manufacturer trusts the resulting identity assertion. Using SAML or OIDC avoids local password creation, reduces account sprawl, and supports cleaner offboarding through just-in-time provisioning or related lifecycle controls. This is the right approach when two organizations need controlled access without duplicating identities. Why others are wrong: Local accounts force the manufacturer to manage passwords and onboarding for external users. A shared VPN credential is hard to audit and does not provide per-user accountability. NTLM pass-through is not an appropriate modern federation pattern for partner SSO and does not solve the identity-management problem. The key requirement is trusted external authentication with minimal local account overhead.
What should I do if I get this SY0-701 question wrong?
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