An employee at a branch office needs to access confidential pricing from Head Office. What type of network would they access?

• A. Intranet
• B. Internet
• C. Extranet
• D. Local Area Network

Answer: (A)

Accessing confidential pricing from Head Office relies on a private, organization-owned network that only employees can use. This is the intranet—an internal network that connects multiple offices and provides access to internal applications and data, such as pricing, with appropriate authentication and security. It isn’t the public Internet, which is open to anyone and not suitable for handling sensitive information. An extranet, by contrast, extends some internal resources to selected external partners, which isn’t the scenario here. A local area network describes the network within a single site, while an intranet typically spans multiple sites via a wider-area network or VPN. So, the branch employee would access Head Office resources through the intranet.