220-1101 Question 379
Single answerIngress/egressA small business has installed a door access system that records every badge swipe at the building entrance and every scan used when employees leave through the rear gate. A technician is asked to export only the records that show who entered the building during a specific time window for a security review. Which type of records should the technician filter for?
- A
Ingress records
- B
Egress records
- C
Loopback records
- D
Failover records
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
This question tests practical understanding of ingress versus egress in a real workplace scenario. On A+ Core 1, these terms commonly appear in networking and physical/security contexts. Ingress means coming in; egress means going out. In a badge access system, ingress logs track entries and egress logs track exits. A technician reviewing access control data must correctly distinguish the two to export the right records. This aligns with standard security and networking terminology used across vendor documentation and CompTIA objective language, where ingress and egress describe the direction of movement into or out of a controlled space or network.
- A. Correct.
Correct. Ingress refers to traffic, movement, or access coming into a location or system. In a physical security context, ingress records document entry events, such as badge swipes used to enter a building or secured area. Since the request is specifically to identify who entered the building, filtering for ingress records is the right action.
- B. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Egress refers to movement going out of a location or system. In this scenario, egress records would show who exited through the rear gate, not who entered during the requested time period. A candidate might choose this if they confuse entry and exit terminology.
- C. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Loopback is a networking term associated with internal testing or self-referential network communication, such as 127.0.0.1 in IPv4. It is not used to classify physical access logs for building entry or exit. This distractor targets candidates who mix networking vocabulary with security logging terms.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Failover refers to switching to a backup system or path when the primary one fails. Although failover can be relevant in networking or system resilience, it has nothing to do with filtering physical access records for entry events. Someone might select this if they associate security incidents with system continuity rather than access direction.