A customer wants to be able to work from home but does not want to be responsible for bringing company equipment back and forth. Which of the…

To remotely access and use a Windows PC at the office, a user typically needs two components. First, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is required to establish a secure, encrypted connection (a "tunnel") from the user's home network to the company's private network. Once connected to the network via the VPN, the user can then use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), a proprietary Microsoft protocol, to view and interact with the graphical user interface of their office Windows PC as if they were physically present.

A. SPICE: While a remote-display protocol, it is more commonly associated with virtualized environments and is not the native solution for standard Windows remote access.

B. SSH: Secure Shell is primarily used for secure command-line access and file transfers, not for controlling a full graphical desktop environment.

E. RMM: Remote Monitoring and Management tools are used by IT administrators to manage multiple systems, not for end-user remote desktop access.

F. WinRM: Windows Remote Management is a protocol for managing systems via command-line interfaces like PowerShell, not for graphical access.

1. Microsoft Corporation. (2023). Remote Desktop clients. Microsoft Learn Documentation. This document describes how to use RDP to "connect to and control a remote PC."

2. Stanford University IT. (n.d.). How to Connect to the Stanford VPN with Cisco Secure Client. This university guide explains that a VPN is required to "access services on the Stanford network from a remote location." It is a prerequisite for accessing internal resources like a desktop computer.

3. Kurose, J. F., & Ross, K. W. (2021). Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (8th ed.). Pearson. Chapter 8.3, "Securing TCP Connections: SSL," provides the foundational concepts for VPNs, explaining how they create a secure channel over an insecure network.