300-710 Exam Dumps - Cisco CCNP Security Questions and Answers

Secure Firewall Management Center evaluates access control entries sequentially from the lowest sequence number to the highest and stops processing after the first match. Because host 10.236.131.1 is contained within network 10.236.131.0/24, the specific host exception must appear before the broader subnet block. Sequence 1 must therefore allow 10.236.131.1, and sequence 2 must block 10.236.131.0/24. If the subnet block were placed first, traffic to 10.236.131.1 would match that entry and never reach the subsequent host allow entry. Cisco recommends placing more specific entries above general entries for exactly this reason. In an access list object, Allow identifies traffic to which the associated service applies, while Block excludes it from that service; it does not necessarily mean the firewall drops the packet. Cisco access-list object documentation

The intended control node should be assigned a numerically lower priority value than the other cluster nodes. Cisco Secure Firewall cluster priority values operate inversely: the lowest numerical value represents the highest election priority. For example, a node configured with priority 1 takes precedence over nodes configured with priorities 10 or 20. If the current control node fails, the available node with the highest priority—meaning the lowest configured number—is elected as the replacement. Values 0 and 255 are outside the documented 1–100 range for this Management Center clustering implementation. Therefore, the node with greater processing resources should receive a lower numerical value. The supplied answer of C in List B is incorrect and has been corrected to B based on Cisco documentation. Cisco Secure Firewall clustering documentation

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A local SPAN configuration requires a numbered monitoring session with a source interface and a different destination interface. Gi0/1 is the switch interface whose traffic must be copied, while Gi0/3 is connected to the passive Cisco Secure IPS sensor and must therefore be the SPAN destination. Option C correctly associates both commands with session 1 and maps the monitored traffic from Gi0/1 to Gi0/3. Option B incorrectly makes Gi0/3 both the source and destination, which cannot provide the required monitoring path. Options A and D omit the mandatory session 1 portion of the Catalyst SPAN syntax. Because the IPS operates passively, it receives copies of packets on its monitoring interface without becoming an inline forwarding device and without being able to disrupt the production traffic.

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To enable Cisco Secure Firewall Malware Defense to detect and block malware, the network administrator must associate a File policy with an access control policy. File policies allow administrators to configure malware detection and file analysis capabilities on the Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense appliance.

Steps to configure File policy:

Navigate toPolicies > Access Control > File Policiesin the FMC.

Create a new file policy or edit an existing one to include malware detection and blocking settings.

Associate the file policy with the relevant access control policy.

Ensure that the access control policy is deployed to the FTD appliance.

By associating a file policy, the firewall will inspect files being transmitted through the web server for malware and take appropriate actions (block, allow, or alert) based on the configured rules.