SSCP Access Controls Practice Question
An organization is planning to implement a Single Sign-On (SSO) solution. Which THREE of the following are commonly associated with SSO technologies?
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Kerberos
Kerberos uses tickets for SSO, SAML provides federated SSO with XML assertions, and OAuth 2.0 is an authorization framework often used for SSO. Biometrics and PKI are not SSO technologies themselves.
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Kerberos
Why this is correct
Kerberos is a ticket-based SSO protocol.
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Biometrics
Why it's wrong here
Biometrics is an authentication method, not an SSO technology.
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Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Why it's wrong here
PKI supports encryption and digital signatures, but is not an SSO technology.
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OAuth 2.0
Why this is correct
OAuth 2.0 is an authorization framework used in SSO scenarios.
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SAML
Why this is correct
SAML is a federated SSO standard.
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