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Practice question 179 of 440 · medium

Global auth-timeout is 10 minutes with hard-timeout. The user continuously transfers traffic beyond 10 minutes. What should be expected of the authentication timer?

Choose the single best answer.

  1. A.Traffic always resets the hard timer
  2. B.The user group automatically becomes FSSO
  3. C.The configured duration still expires regardless of activity
  4. D.Only DNS activity can expire it
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✓ Correct answer

  • The configured duration still expires regardless of activity

Hard timeout is duration-based despite activity. Idle timeout is the activity-dependent alternative; it does not automatically change identity method or depend solely on DNS.

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