Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls
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A network administrator is configuring a site-to-site IPsec VPN to a router sitting behind a Cisco FTD. The administrator has configured an access policy to allow traffic to this device on UDP 500, 4500, and ESP VPN traffic is not working. Which action resolves this issue?
An engineer is troubleshooting HTTP traffic to a web server using the packet capture tool on Cisco FMC. When reviewing the captures, the engineer notices that there are a lot of packets that are not sourced from or destined to the web server being captured. How can the engineer reduce the strain of capturing packets for irrelevant traffic on the Cisco FTD device?
An engineer is configuring Cisco FMC and wants to limit the time allowed for processing packets through the interface However if the time is exceeded the configuration must allow packets to bypass detection What must be configured on the Cisco FMC to accomplish this task?
Which CLI command is used to generate firewall debug messages on a Cisco Firepower?
A network engineer sets up a secondary CiscoFMC that is integrated with Cisco Security Packet Analyzer What occurs when the secondary CiscoFMC synchronizes with the primary Cisco FMC?
In a Cisco AMP for Networks deployment, which disposition is returned if the cloud cannot be reached?
A security engineer manages a firewall console and an endpoint console and finds it challenging and the consuming to review events and modify blocking of specific files in both consoles. Which action must the engineer take to streamline this process?
What is the maximum SHA level of filtering that Threat Intelligence Director supports?
A software development company hosts the website http:dev.company.com for contractors to share code for projects they are working on with internal developers. The web server is on premises and is protected by a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense appliance. The network administrator is worried about someone trying to transmit infected files to internal users via this site. Which type of policy must be able associated with an access control policy to enable Cisco Secure Firewall Malware Defense to detect and block malware?
Which command is typed at the CLI on the primary Cisco FTD unit to temporarily stop running high- availability?
An organization has a Cisco IPS running in inline mode and is inspecting traffic for malicious activity. When traffic is received by the Cisco IRS, if it is not dropped, how does the traffic get to its destination?
An engineer is configuring two new Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense appliances as a high-availability pair. The high-availability pair must detect a failure on the failover link and trigger failover more quickly. Which two settings must the engineer decrease? (Choose two.)
An engineer installs a Cisco FTD device and wants to inspect traffic within the same subnet passing through a firewall and inspect traffic destined to the internet.
Which configuration will meet this requirement?
With Cisco FTD integrated routing and bridging, which interface does the bridge group use to communicate with a routed interface?
Users report that Cisco Duo 2FA fails when they attempt to connect to the VPN on a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) device IT staff have VPN profiles that do not require multifactor authentication and they can connect to the VPN without any issues When viewing the VPN troubleshooting log in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Centre (FMC), the network administrator sees an error in the Cisco Duo AAA server has been marked as tailed. What is the root cause of the Issue?
An engineer has been tasked with using Cisco FMC to determine if files being sent through the network are malware. Which two configuration takes must be performed to achieve this file lookup? (Choose two.)
A security engineer must deploy a Cisco FTD appliance as a bump in the wire to detect intrusion events without disrupting the flow of network traffic. Which two features must be configured to accomplish the task? (Choose two.)

A security engineer must improve security in an organization and is producing a risk mitigation strategy to present to management for approval. Which action must the security engineer take based on this Attacks Risk Report?
An engainermust add DNS-specific rules to me Cisco FTD intrusion policy. The engineer wants to use the rules currently in the Cisco FTD Snort database that are not already enabled but does not want to enable more than are needed. Which action meets these requirements?
A network administrator notices that inspection has been interrupted on all non-managed interfaces of a device. What is the cause of this?

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer analyzes a Network Risk Report from Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. What should the engineer recommend implementing to mitigate the risk?
Which command is entered in the Cisco FMC CLI to generate a troubleshooting file?
After using Firepower for some time and learning about how it interacts with the network, an administrator is trying to correlate malicious activity with a user Which widget should be configured to provide this visibility on the Cisco Firepower dashboards?
An engineer wants to convert a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device that is currently managed by Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center from routed mode to transparent mode. Which CLI command must the engineer execute first to perform this conversion?
An engineer is attempting to add a new FTD device to their FMC behind a NAT device with a NAT ID of ACME001 and a password of Cisco388267669. Which command set must be used in order to accomplish this?
With a recent summer time change, system logs are showing activity that occurred to be an hour behind real time Which action should be taken to resolve this issue?
With Cisco FTD software, which interface mode must be configured to passively receive traffic that passes through the appliance?
A network administrator manages a network with multiple firewalls in a datacenter using Cisco Secure Firepower Management Center. The administrator must change a next-generation firewall from routed to transparent mode. Which action must the administrator take next to meet the requirement?
An engineer is building a new access control policy using Cisco FMC. The policy must inspect a unique IPS policy as well as log rule matching. Which action must be taken to meet these requirements?
What is a method used by Cisco Rapid Threat Containment to contain the threat in the network?
Which feature within the Cisco FMC web interface allows for detecting, analyzing and blocking malware in network traffic?
A network engineer detects a connectivity issue between Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense. Initial troubleshooting indicates that heartbeats and events are not being received. The engineer re-establishes the secure channels between both peers. Which two commands must the engineer run to resolve the issue? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer must import three network objects into the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center by using a CSV file. Which header must be configured in the CSV file to accomplish the task?
An engineer must implement static route tracking on a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense appliance. Static route and IP SLA operation has already been configured. Static route must be removed from the routing table if the tracked object is unreachable. Which action must the engineer take next to meet the requirement?
A Cisco FTD device is running in transparent firewall mode with a VTEP bridge group member ingress interface What must be considered by an engineer tasked with specifying a destination MAC address for a packet trace?
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An organization has an access control rule with the intention of sending all social media traffic for inspection After using the rule for some time, the administrator notices that the traffic is not being inspected, but is being automatically allowed What must be done to address this issue?
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An engineer generates troubleshooting files in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC). A successfully completed task Is removed before the files are downloaded. Which two actions must be taken to determine the filename and obtain the generated troubleshooting files without regenerating them? (Choose two.)
A network administrator notices that SI events are not being updated The Cisco FTD device is unable to load all of the SI event entries and traffic is not being blocked as expected. What must be done to correct this issue?
An engineer is tasked with deploying an internal perimeter firewall that will support multiple DMZs Each DMZ has a unique private IP subnet range. How is this requirement satisfied?
Which protocol is needed to exchange threat details in rapid threat containment on Cisco FMC?
An engineer must deny ICMP traffic to the networks of separate departments that use Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. The engineer must use the same object on the relevant device for each network. What must be configured in Secure Firewall Management Center?
A security engineer wants to add the Interface Traffic widget to the Summary Dashboard in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. The engineer clicks Add Widgets and enters edit mode. Which set of actions must the security engineer take to complete the configuration?
What is the result of specifying of QoS rule that has a rate limit that is greater than the maximum throughput of an interface?
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And engineer is analyzing the Attacks Risk Report and finds that there are over 300 instances of new operating systems being seen on the network How is the Firepower configuration updated to protect these new operating systems?
An engineer must configure high availability for the Cisco Firepower devices. The current network topology does not allow for two devices to pass traffic concurrently. How must the devices be implemented in this environment?
A network engineer is receiving reports of users randomly getting disconnected from their corporate applications which traverses the data center FTD appliance Network monitoring tools show that the FTD appliance utilization is peaking above 90% of total capacity. What must be done in order to further analyze this issue?


Refer to the exhibit. A client that has IP address 192.168.67.102 reports issues when connecting to a remote server. Based on the topology and output of packet tracer tool, which action resolves the connectivity issue?
A security engineer needs to configure a network discovery policy on a Cisco FMC appliance and prevent excessive network discovery events from overloading the FMC database? Which action must be taken to accomplish this task?
Which two solutions are used to access and view aggregated log data from the firewalls using Cisco Security Analytics and Logging? (Choose two.)
Drag and drop the configuration steps from the left into the sequence on the right to enable external authentication on Cisco FMC to a RADIUS server.

How should a high-availability pair of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual appliances be deployed to Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center?
A network administrator is reviewing a monthly advanced malware risk report and notices a host that Is listed as CnC Connected. Where must the administrator look within Cisco FMC to further determine if this host is infected with malware?
A network administrator has converted a Cisco FTD from using LDAP to LDAPS for VPN authentication. The Cisco FMC can connect to the LDAPS server, but the Cisco FTD is not connecting. Which configuration must be enabled on the Cisco FTD?
An engineer must deploy a Cisco FTD device. Management wants to examine traffic without requiring network changes that will disrupt end users. Corporate security policy requires the separation of management traffic from data traffic and the use of SSH over Telnet for remote administration. How must the device be deployed to meet these requirements?
An engineer is deploying failover capabilities for a pair of Cisco Secure Firewall devices. The core switch keeps the MAC address of the previously active unit in the ARP table. Which action must the engineer take to minimize downtime and ensure that network users keep access to the internet after a Cisco Secure Firewall failover?
An engineer is deploying a Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center appliance. The company must send data to Cisco Secure Network Analytics appliances. Which two actions must the engineer take? (Choose two.)
What is the disadvantage of setting up a site-to-site VPN in a clustered-units environment?
An administrator is attempting to add a new FTD device to their FMC behind a NAT device with a NAT ID of NAT001 and a password of Cisco0420l06525. The private IP address of the FMC server is 192.168.45.45. which is being translated to the public IP address of 209.165.200.225/27. Which command set must be used in order to accomplish this task?

Refer to the exhibit. Users attempt to connect to numerous external resources on various TCP ports. If the users mistype the port, their connection closes immediately, and it takes more than one minute before the connection is torn down. An engineer manages to capture both types of connections as shown in the exhibit. What must the engineer configure to lower the timeout values for the second group of connections and resolve the user issues?
A security engineer is configuring an Access Control Policy for multiple branch locations. These locations share a common rule set and utilize a network object called INSIDE_NET which contains the locally significant internal network subnets at each location. Which technique will retain the policy consistency at each location but allow only the locally significant network subnet within the applicable rules?
Which component is needed to perform rapid threat containment with Cisco FMC?
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An engineer must create a QoS policy in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center to limit HTTP and HTTPS traffic originating from users in the HR department. The download and upload limits for HTTP and HTTPS traffic must both be set to 5 Mb/s. Drag and drop the values onto the corresponding QoS rule settings.

An engineer is configuring two new Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense devices to replace the existing firewalls. Network traffic must be analyzed for intrusion events without impacting the traffic. What must the engineer implement next to accomplish the goal?
An engineer is configuring a cisco FTD appliance in IPS-only mode and needs to utilize fail-to-wire interfaces. Which interface mode should be used to meet these requirements?
A network administrator cannot select the link to be used for failover when configuring an active/passive HA Cisco FTD pair.
Which configuration must be changed before setting up the high availability pair?
An administrator configures a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device in transparent mode. To configure the BVI (Bridge Virtual Interface), the administrator must:
Add a bridge-group interface
Configure a bridge-group ID
Configure the bridge-group interface description
Add bridge-group member interfaces
How must the engineer perform these actions?
An engineer must deploy URL filtering in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Version 7.0. The engineer is configuring a URL condition for an access control rule to filter websites that display bad behavior or are malicious or undesirable. Which reputation level must be configured?
In which two ways do access control policies operate on a Cisco Firepower system? (Choose two.)
A company is deploying intrusion protection on multiple Cisco FTD appliances managed by Cisco FMC. Which system-provided policy must be selected if speed and detection are priorities?
A network engineer is extending a user segment through an FTD device for traffic inspection without creating another IP subnet How is this accomplished on an FTD device in routed mode?
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A client with IP address 10.254.51.117 connects through a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device toward a website at 10.10.1.1. The packet capture shows repeated TCP SYN packets from the client without completion of the three-way handshake. Which action must the engineer take to resolve the issue?
A Cisco FTD device is running in transparent firewall mode with a VTEP bridge group member ingress interface. What must be considered by an engineer tasked with specifying a destination MAC address for a packet trace?
A network administrator must create an EtherChannel Interface on a new Cisco Firepower 9300 appliance registered with an FMC tor high availability. Where must the administrator create the EtherChannel interface?
Which connector is used to integrate Cisco ISE with Cisco FMC for Rapid Threat Containment?
Network traffic coining from an organization ' s CEO must never be denied. Which access control policy configuration option should be used if the deployment engineer is not permitted to create a rule to allow all traffic?
An organization wants to secure traffic from their branch office to the headquarter building using Cisco Firepower devices, They want to ensure that their Cisco Firepower devices are not wasting resources on inspecting the VPN traffic. What must be done to meet these requirements?
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A company is deploying a pair of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat defence devices named FTD1 and FTD2. FTD1 and FTD2 have been configured as an active/standby pair with a failover link but without a stateful link. What must be implemented next to ensure that users on the internal network still communicate with outside devices if FTD1 fails?
Which type of certificate must be exported from Cisco ISE to integrate Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center with pxGrid?
An engineermustconfigure a Cisco FMC dashboard in a multidomain deployment Which action must the engineer take to edit a report template from an ancestor domain?
Which Cisco Firepower feature is used to reduce the number of events received in a period of time?
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An engineer must configure a static route on the Cisco Catalyst switch to reach 192.168.10.0/24 through the 192.168.20.1 next hop. The route must use an administrative distance of 2. Which command meets the requirements?
A network administrator is configuring Snort inspection policies and is seeing failed deployment messages in Cisco FMC. What information should the administrator generate for Cisco TAC to help troubleshoot?
An administrator is adding a new URL-based category feed to the Cisco FMC for use within the policies. The intelligence source does not use STIX. but instead uses a .txt file format. Which action ensures that regular updates are provided?
A security engineer is configuring a remote Cisco FTD that has limited resources and internet bandwidth. Which malware action and protection option should be configured to reduce the requirement for cloud lookups?
Which command should be used on the Cisco FTD CLI to capture all the packets that hit an interface?
The event dashboard within the Cisco FMC has been inundated with low priority intrusion drop events, which are overshadowing high priority events. An engineer has been tasked with reviewing the policies and reducing the low priority events. Which action should be configured to accomplish this task?
An engineer configures a network discovery policy on Cisco FMC. Upon configuration, it is noticed that excessive and misleading events filing the database and overloading the Cisco FMC. A monitored NAT device is executing multiple updates of its operating system in a short period of time. What configurationchange must be made to alleviate this issue?
An engineer is restoring a Cisco FTD configuration from a remote backup using the command restore remote-manager-backup location 1.1.1.1 admin /volume/home/admin BACKUP_Cisc394602314.zip on a Cisco FMG. After connecting to the repository, an error occurred that prevents the FTD device from accepting the backup file. What is the problem?
An engineer must integrate a third-party security intelligence feed with Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. Secure Firewall Management Center is running Version 6.2.3 and has 8
GB of memory. Which two actions must be taken to implement Threat Intelligence Director? (Choose two.)
A security engineer must add a new policy to block UDP traffic to one server. The engineer adds a new object. Which action must the engineer take next to identify all the UDP ports?
An organization has a Cisco FTD that uses bridge groups to pass traffic from the inside interfaces to the outside interfaces. They are unable to gather information about neighbouring Cisco devices or use multicast in their environment. What must be done to resolve this issue?
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A systems administrator conducts a connectivity test to their SCCM server from a host machine and gets no response from the server. Which action ensures that the ping packets reach the destination and that the host receives replies?

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer is deploying a new instance of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense. Which action must the engineer take next so that Client_A and Client_B receive an IP address via DHCP from Server_A?
A network engineer is logged into the Cisco AMP for Endpoints console and sees a malicious verdict for an identified SHA-256 hash. Which configuration is needed to mitigate this threat?
A network engineer is tasked with minimising traffic interruption during peak traffic limes. When the SNORT inspection engine is overwhelmed, what must be configured to alleviate this issue?
A network engineer is configuring URL Filtering on Firepower Threat Defense. Which two port requirements on the Firepower Management Center must be validated to allow communication with the cloud service? (Choose two.)
When deploying a Cisco ASA Firepower module, an organization wants to evaluate the contents of the traffic without affecting the network. It is currently configured to have more than one instance of the same device on the physical appliance Which deployment mode meets the needs of the organization?
A network administrator is trying to configure a previously created file policy on a new access policy. Which action must the administrator take before applying the file policy?
An engineer is configuring Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense managed by a Secure Firewall Management Center appliance. The company wants remote access VPN users to be reachable from the inside network. What must the engineer configure to meet the requirements?
While configuring FTD, a network engineer wants to ensure that traffic passing through the appliance does not require routing or Vlan rewriting. Which interface mode should the engineer implement to accomplish this task?
A network administrator is configuring an instance of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense, which is registered to Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, to prevent internal users from downloading executable files from the internet. What must be created and configured by the administrator to meet the requirement?
An organization is implementing Cisco FTD using transparent mode in the network. Which rule in the default Access Control Policy ensures that this deployment does not create a loop in the network?
An engineer is configuring a custom application detector for HTTP traffic and wants to import a file that was provided by a third party. Which type of flies are advanced application detectors creates and uploaded as?
An administrator must use Cisco FMC to install a backup route within the Cisco FTD to route traffic in case of a routing failure with the primary route. Which action accomplishes this task?
The administrator notices that there is malware present with an .exe extension and needs to verify if any of the systems on the network are running the executable file. What must be configured within Cisco AMP for Endpoints to show this data?
An engineer is configuring a new dashboard within Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and is having trouble implementing a custom widget. When a custom analysis widget is configured which option is mandatory for the system to display the information?
Which limitation applies to Cisco Firepower Management Center dashboards in a multidomain environment?
An engineer is troubleshooting a file that is being blocked by a Cisco FTD device on the network.
The user is reporting that the file is not malicious.
Which action does the engineer take to identify the file and validate whether or not it is malicious?
Which two remediation options are available when Cisco FMC is integrated with Cisco ISE? (Choose two.)
A VPN administrator converted an instance of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense, which is managed by Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, from using LDAP to LDAPS for
remote access VPN authentication. Which certificate must be added to allow for remote users to authenticate over the VPN?
A network administrator is trying to configure Active Directory authentication for VPN authentication to a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defence instance that is registered with Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. Which system settings must be configured first in Secure Firewall Management Center to accomplish the goal?
An administrator is working on a migration from Cisco ASA to the Cisco FTD appliance and needs to test the rules without disrupting the traffic. Which policy type should be used to configure the ASA rules during this phase of the migration?
Which CLI command is used to control special handling of clientHello messages?
What must be implemented on Cisco Firepower to allow multiple logical devices on a single physical device to have access to external hosts?
An engineer is configuring URL filtering tor a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Centre. Use ' s must receive a warning when they access
..wwww badaduitsito com with the option of continuing to the website if they choose to No other websites should he blocked. Which two actions must the engineer take to moot these requirements?
A security engineer must create a malware and file policy on a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device. The solution must ensure that PDF. DOCX, and XLSX files are not sent lo Cisco Secure Malware analytics. What must do configured to meet the requirements ' '
A network engineer detects a connectivity issue between Cisco Secure Firewall Management Centre and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Initial troubleshooting indicates that heartbeats and events not being received. The engineer re-establishes the secure channels between both peers Which two commands must the engineer run to resolve the issue? (Choose two.)
An engineer has been tasked with providing disaster recovery for an organization ' s primary Cisco FMC. What must be done on the primary and secondary Cisco FMCs to ensure that a copy of the original corporate policy is available if the primary Cisco FMC fails?
An administrator needs to configure Cisco FMC to send a notification email when a data transfer larger than 10 MB is initiated from an internal host outside of standard business hours. Which Cisco FMC feature must be configured to accomplish this task?
An engineer wants to connect a single IP subnet through a Cisco FTD firewall and enforce policy. There is a requirement to present the internal IP subnet to the outside as a different IP address. What must be configured to meet these requirements?
An engineer must change the mode of a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) firewall in the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) inventory. The engineer must take these actions:
• Register Secure FTD with Secure FMC.
• Change the firewall mode.
• Deregister the Secure FTD device from Secure FMC.
How must the engineer take FTD take the actions?
An organization is migrating their Cisco ASA devices running in multicontext mode to Cisco FTD devices. Which action must be taken to ensure that each context on the Cisco ASA is logically separated in the Cisco FTD devices?