CCSE 156-315.81 Book

 Session Rate Acceleration is a SecureXL feature that accelerates the establishment of new connections by bypassing the inspection of the first packet of each session. Session Rate Acceleration ignores the source port information of the packet, as well as the destination port ranges, protocol type, and VPN information. The other packet info is used by Packet Acceleration, which is another SecureXL feature that accelerates the forwarding of subsequent packets of an established connection. References: SecureXL Mechanism

 Sticky Decision Function (SDF) is required to prevent asymmetric routing in an Active-Active cluster. Asymmetric routing occurs when packets from a source to a destination follow a different path than packets from the destination to the source. This can cause problems with stateful inspection and NAT. SDF ensures that packets from the same connection are handled by the same cluster member1. References: Check Point R81 ClusterXL Administration Guide

The fw ctl affinity -l -a -r -v command is the most accurate CLI command to get info about assignment (FW, SND) of all CPUs in your SGW. This command displays the affinity settings of all interfaces and processes in a verbose mode, including the Firewall (FW) and Secure Network Distributor (SND) instances. References: CoreXL Administration Guide

The correct command to show actual allowed connections in the state table is option B: fw tab –t connections. This command displays the contents of the "connections" table, which contains information about the active connections being tracked by the firewall.

Option A (fw tab –t StateTable) is incorrect as there is no "StateTable" table; it should be "connections."

Option C (fw tab –t connection) is also incorrect, as it should be "connections."

Option D (fw tab connections) is not the correct syntax for the command.

References: Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE) R81 documentation and learning resources.