H12-711_V4.0 Exam Dumps - Huawei HCIA-Security Questions and Answers

Security zones are used to classify interfaces by trust level and simplify policy control. Traffic control decisions are usually applied between zones (interzone), and many firewall products (including Huawei) treat intrazone traffic differently from interzone traffic. Typically, communications between hosts within the same zone are not the primary target of security policy control, and mutual access within a zone does not have to be explicitly permitted by security policies in the same way as traffic between different zones. Therefore, statement A is correct in the context of zone-based policy control.

Firewall policies are created with a source zone and destination zone (and other match conditions), and they can be written to allow traffic in a specific direction (for example, Trust → Untrust) while denying the reverse direction (Untrust → Trust). That makes statement B correct: policies can be directional.

Statement C is incorrect because Huawei firewalls also include a default Local zone in addition to Trust, Untrust, and DMZ. Statement D is incorrect because an interface (or sub-interface) is assigned to one security zone; assigning the same interface to multiple zones would break the trust-boundary model and policy evaluation.

Explanation From HCIA-Security documents:

Portal authentication is an identity-based access control method where a user is redirected to an authentication portal and, after successful login, is permitted to access network resources based on the configured policy. The key point is that the authentication page is not limited to the firewall’s built-in page only. In Huawei Portal solutions, the authentication page can be provided by the device itself or by an external Portal server, and the user completes authentication on the presented Portal page after redirection. Therefore, saying users can be authenticated only on the firewall authentication page is incorrect.

The other statements describe the two common triggering modes correctly. In session authentication, the user accesses an HTTP service first, is redirected or challenged, and service access is permitted only after identity authentication succeeds. In user-initiated authentication, the user proactively opens the authentication page and logs in first, then gains access to network resources. These are recognized built-in triggering modes for Portal authentication.

Use SSL VPN to access the firewall to trigger authentication → Access user

Use HTTP to access the intranet web server to trigger authentication → Internet access user

Log in to the firewall through Telnet, SSH, or web to trigger authentication → Administrator

These authentication modes correspond to different user roles on a Huawei firewall. An Access user is typically a user who connects to enterprise resources through technologies such as SSL VPN . In this case, the user accesses the firewall as a secure access gateway, and authentication is triggered when the SSL VPN session is initiated.

An Internet access user usually refers to a common end user whose identity must be verified before being allowed to access network resources through the firewall. A common way to trigger this authentication is by using HTTP to access an intranet or web resource , which leads to Portal-based identity verification and access control.

An Administrator is different from ordinary service users because this role is responsible for managing and configuring the firewall itself. Therefore, authentication for an administrator is triggered when the person logs in directly to the firewall through Telnet, SSH, or the web management interface .

So the correct matches are: SSL VPN → Access user , HTTP intranet access → Internet access user , and Telnet/SSH/web login → Administrator .

This statement is TRUE . HTTPS is essentially HTTP running over TLS . While HTTP by itself transmits data in plaintext, HTTPS adds the TLS security layer to protect communication between the client and the server. By introducing TLS, HTTPS provides three important security functions during transmission.

First, it provides identity authentication . The server proves its identity to the client through a digital certificate , helping the client confirm that it is communicating with the legitimate server rather than an attacker. Second, HTTPS provides encryption . After the TLS negotiation process is completed, the transmitted HTTP data is encrypted, preventing attackers from easily reading sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and session data. Third, HTTPS ensures data integrity . TLS includes mechanisms to detect whether transmitted data has been modified during communication.

Because of these features, HTTPS is widely used for secure web access, online transactions, authentication pages, and confidential information exchange. Therefore, the statement that HTTPS introduces the TLS layer based on HTTP to provide authentication, encryption, and integrity protection is correct.

Intrusion Prevention (IPS) detects and blocks attacks primarily by analyzing traffic patterns and payload characteristics against known signatures, protocol anomalies, and behavioral rules. Many common application-layer exploits have recognizable request structures that IPS engines can match.

An injection attack (such as SQL injection or command injection) typically contains suspicious characters, keywords, and abnormal parameter patterns within application requests. IPS signatures can detect these malicious payload characteristics and either block the session or generate alarms. Directory traversal attacks also have distinct patterns, such as attempts to access unauthorized paths using sequences like ../ (or encoded variants). These are classic web-attack signatures commonly covered by IPS rule sets. Buffer overflow attacks often exploit protocol or application parsing weaknesses by sending overly long fields, malformed headers, or abnormal protocol sequences; IPS can detect these through signature matching and protocol anomaly detection.

A Trojan horse , however, is malware residing on an endpoint (often delivered via files, email attachments, downloads, or user execution). While some network security features (like antivirus/URL filtering/sandboxing) may detect Trojan delivery or command-and-control traffic, “Trojan horse” itself is not typically classified as an IPS-detected attack type in this context. Therefore, A, B, and D are correct.

Certificate application

Certificate issuing

Certificate storage

Certificate verification

Certificate usage

Certificate update

Certificate revocation

The PKI lifecycle describes the complete process a digital certificate goes through from creation to termination. The first stage is certificate application , where a user or device generates a key pair and submits a certificate request to the certification authority or registration authority.

After the request is approved, the CA performs certificate issuing , which involves creating and signing the certificate using the CA’s private key. Once issued, the certificate must be securely saved on the device, which is the certificate storage phase. Proper storage ensures that the certificate and the associated private key can be safely used when authentication or encryption is required.

Before using a certificate in communication, systems perform certificate verification . This step checks the certificate chain, validity period, and CA signature to confirm that the certificate is trustworthy. After successful verification, the certificate enters the certificate usage phase, where it is used for encryption, authentication, digital signatures, or secure communications such as HTTPS or IPsec.

During its lifetime, a certificate may require certificate update (renewal) when it approaches expiration. Finally, if the certificate becomes invalid or compromised, certificate revocation is performed to terminate its trust before its expiration date.