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ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

During a site survey of a legacy manufacturing floor, you discover that every workstation is attached to the same 50-ohm coaxial trunk via BNC T-connectors, with terminators installed at both ends. Users report frequent frame collisions, and a single break in the cable disables the entire segment. From a security and availability standpoint, which statement accurately describes this network design?

  • It is a mesh topology that provides redundant paths, so the reported outages indicate a mis-configured switch rather than a cabling issue.

  • It is a star topology using passive coax; replacing the trunk with twisted-pair cables but keeping the same physical layout will keep the topology unchanged while eliminating collisions.

  • It is a bus topology; the shared backbone is a single point of failure and all devices contend for the same medium, leading to collisions and complete outage if the cable is damaged.

  • It is a ring topology that passes a token, so a cable fault should only affect the two adjacent stations and collisions should be impossible.

ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Network and Communication Security
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