A technician is setting up a new laptop for an employee in the finance department. Company policy mandates that the laptop's storage drive must be protected with full-disk encryption. Which of the following motherboard components is specifically designed to store and protect the cryptographic keys required for this task?
TPM
UEFI
CPU
Memory
A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a secure cryptoprocessor chip on a motherboard specifically designed to carry out cryptographic operations, which includes securely generating and storing encryption keys. For full-disk encryption like BitLocker, the TPM stores the keys, protecting them from being tampered with or accessed by unauthorized software. While the CPU performs the encryption calculations and UEFI contains settings to enable the TPM, the TPM itself is the hardware component dedicated to securing the keys. Memory (RAM) holds data temporarily but is not designed for secure key storage.
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