Question

In the context of security in networking, the letters AAA in the term "AAA servers" stand for _____.

A. allowing access automatically
B. accessing all appliances
C. access, applications, and accounting
D. authentication, authorization, and accounting

Answer 1

D. authentication, authorization, and accounting

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

D) AAA refers to Authentication, Authorization and Accounting.

Step-by-step explanation:

Authentication

• Answer the question of who are you?.
• The two most popular options for external user authentication are RADIUS and TACACS

Authorization

• Authorization services determine what resources the user can access and what operations are enabled to perform.
• An authorization type question is how much can you spend?

Accounting

• Accounting records what the user does, keeps track of how network resources are used.
• Example question in what do I spend it?