Free Practice Questions for the Cisco CCNP Security 300-710 Exam (2026 Updated)
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A network administrator wants to configure a new Secure Firewall Threat Defense instance, which is managed by Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, to load balance internet-bound traffic across multiple zones. Secure Firewall is connected to upstream ISP devices in multiple Zones. Which action must be taken to meet the requirement?
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What must be done to fix access to this website while preventing the same communication to all other websites?
A network administrator notices that inspection has been interrupted on all non-managed interfaces of a device. What is the cause of this?
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 network administrator configured a NAT policy that translates a public IP address to an internal web server IP address. An access policy has also been created that allows any source to reach the public IP address on port 80. The web server is still not reachable from the Internet on port 80. Which configuration change is needed?
A hospital network needs to upgrade their Cisco FMC managed devices and needs to ensure that a disaster recovery process is in place. What must be done in order to minimize downtime on the network?
What is the result of specifying of QoS rule that has a rate limit that is greater than the maximum throughput of an interface?
An engineer must build redundancy into the network and traffic must continuously flow if a redundant switch in front of the firewall goes down. What must be configured to accomplish this task?
What is the disadvantage of setting up a site-to-site VPN in a clustered-units environment?
A network administrator is reviewing a weekly scheduled attacks risk report and notices a host that is flagged for an impact 2 attack. Where should the administrator look within Cisco FMC to find out more relevant information about this host and attack?
Refer to the exhibit. A security engineer views the health alerts in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center by using the Health Monitor in the web interface. One of the alerts shows an appliance as critical because the Time Synchronization module status is out of sync. To troubleshoot the issue, the engineer runs the ntpq command in Secure Firewall Management Center. The output is shown in the exhibit. Which action must the security engineer take next to resolve the issue?
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An engineer analyzes a Cisco Firepower Management Center dashboard. Which action must the engineer take to decrease the application usage risk?
Which Cisco FMC report gives the analyst information about the ports and protocols that are related to the configured sensitive network for analysis?
An administrator is adding a QoS policy to a Cisco FTD deployment. When a new rule is added to the policy and QoS is applied on ' Interfaces in Destination Interface Objects " , no interface objects are available What is the problem?
An engineer is configuring a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defence device managed by Cisco Secure Firewall Management Centre. The device must have SSH enabled and the accessible from the inside interface for remote administration. Which type of policy must the engineer configure to accomplish this?
Which two statements about bridge-group interfaces in Cisco FTD are true? (Choose two.)
A network engineer must configure an existing firewall to have a NAT configuration. The now configuration must support more than two interlaces per context. The firewall has previously boon operating transparent mode. The Cisco Secure Firewall Throat Defense (FTD) device has been deregistered from Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC). Which set of configuration actions must the network engineer take next to meet the requirements?
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer is configuring a high-availability solution that has the hardware devices and software versions:
two Cisco Secure Firewall 9300 Security Appliances with FXOS SW 2.0(1.23)
software Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense 6.0.1.1 (build 1023) on both appliances
one Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center with SW 6.0.1.1 (build 1023)
Which condition must be met to complete the high-availability configuration?
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 administrator is seeing an unknown verdict for a file detected by Cisco FTD. Which malware policy configuration option must be selected in order to further analyse the file in the Talos cloud?
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?
What is an advantage of adding multiple inline interface pairs to the same inline interface set when deploying an asynchronous routing configuration?
An administrator is configuring the interface of a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device in a passive IPS deployment. The device and interface have been identified. Which set of configuration steps of the administrator take next to complete the implementation?
After deploying a network-monitoring tool to manage and monitor networking devices in your organization, you realize that you need to manually upload an MIB for the Cisco FMC. In which folder should you upload the MIB file?
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?
Which Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense interface mode must be deployed when implementing an IPS that must receive and retransmit all traffic unless the traffic is explicitly dropped?
Which two types of objects are reusable and supported by Cisco FMC? (Choose two.)
Which two OSPF routing features are configured in Cisco FMC and propagated to Cisco FTD? (Choosetwo.)
Which type of certificate must be exported from Cisco ISE to integrate Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center with pxGrid?
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?
A consultant Is working on a project where the customer is upgrading from a single Cisco Firepower 2130 managed by FDM to a pair of Cisco Firepower 2130s managed oy FMC tor nigh availability. The customer wants the configures of the existing device being managed by FDM to be carried over to FMC and then replicated to the additional: device being added to create the high availability pair. Which action must the consultant take to meet this requirement?
A network administrator notices that remote access VPN users are not reachable from inside the network. It is determined that routing is configured correctly, however return traffic is entering the firewall but not leaving it What is the reason for this issue?
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?
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.)
Which command-line mode is supported from the Cisco Firepower Management Center CLI?
A network administrator is troubleshooting access to a website hosted behind a Cisco FTD device External clients cannot access the web server via HTTPS The IP address configured on the web server is 192 168 7.46 The administrator is running the command capture CAP interface outside match ip any 192.168.7.46 255.255.255.255 but cannot see any traffic in the capture Why is this occurring?
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?
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 engineer is implementing Cisco FTD in the network and is determining which Firepower mode to use. The organization needs to have multiple virtual Firepower devices working separately inside of the FTD appliance to provide traffic segmentation Which deployment mode should be configured in the Cisco Firepower Management Console to support these requirements?
A security engineer is adding three Cisco FTD devices to a Cisco FMC. Two of the devices have successfully registered to the Cisco FMC. The device that is unable to register is located behind a router that translates all outbound traffic to the router ' s WAN IP address. Which two steps are required for this device to register to the Cisco FMC? (Choose two.)
An organization is installing a new Cisco FTD appliance in the network. An engineer is tasked with configuring access between two network segments within the same IP subnet. Which step is needed to accomplish this task?
A mid-sized company is experiencing higher network bandwidth utilization due to a recent acquisition The network operations team is asked to scale up their one Cisco FTD appliance deployment to higher capacities due to the increased network bandwidth. Which design option should be used to accomplish this goal?
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?
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 company is in the process of deploying intrusion prevention with Cisco FTDs managed by a Cisco FMC. An engineer must configure policies to detect potential intrusions but not block the suspicious traffic. Which action accomplishes this task?
Which two considerations must be made when deleting and re-adding devices while managing them via Cisco FMC (Choose two).
An organization is using a Cisco FTD and Cisco ISE to perform identity-based access controls. A network administrator is analyzing the Cisco FTD events and notices that unknown user traffic is being allowed through the firewall. How should this be addressed to block the traffic while allowing legitimate user traffic?
An engineer is integrating Cisco Secure Endpoint with Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center in high availability mode. Malware events detected by Secure Endpoint must also be
received by Secure Firewall Management Center and public cloud services are used. Which two configurations must be selected on both high availability peers independently? (Choose two.)
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer must configure a connection on a Cisco ASA Firewall with a Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module to ensure that the secondary interface takes over all the functions of the primary interface if the primary interface fails. Drag and drop the code snippets from the bottom onto the boxes in the CLI commands to configure the failover. Not all options are used.
A screenshot of a computer AI-generated content may be incorrect.A network administrator needs to create a policy on Cisco Firepower to fast-path traffic to avoid Layer 7 inspection. The rate at which traffic is inspected must be optimized. What must be done to achieve this goal?
With Cisco FTD software, which interface mode must be configured to passively receive traffic that passes through the appliance?
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?
An engineer Is configuring a Cisco FTD device to place on the Finance VLAN to provide additional protection tor company financial data. The device must be deployed without requiring any changes on the end user workstations, which currently use DHCP lo obtain an IP address. How must the engineer deploy the device to meet this requirement?
A network engineer is planning on replacing an Active/Standby pair of physical Cisco Secure Firewall ASAs with a pair of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual appliances. Which two virtual environments support the current High Availability configuration? (Choose two.)
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A user on a computer named Client1 is performing a traceroute to IP address 209.165.202.2. Drag and drop the appropriate values onto the fields in the Capture w/Trace configuration and captured-packet output. Not all options are used.
An engineer must investigate a connectivity issue and decides to use the packet capture feature on Cisco FTD. The goal is to see the real packet going through the Cisco FTD device and see the Snort detection actions as a part of the output. After the capture-traffic command is issued, only the packets are displayed. Which action resolves this issue?
An engineer must export a packet capture from Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center to assist in troubleshooting an issue an a Secure Firewall Threat Defense device. When the engineer navigates to URL for Secure Firewall Management Center at:
.. < FMC IP > /capture/CAP/pcap/sample.pcap
An engineer receives a 403: Forbidden error instead of being provided with the PCAP file. Which action resolves the issue?
An engineer configures an access control rule that deploys file policy configurations to security zones or tunnel zones, and it causes the device to restart. What is the reason for the restart?
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?
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?
A network administrator must send a daily email report to management detailing changes made during the previous 24 hours in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. Which system setting must be enabled to meet this requirement?
An engineer is analyzing a risk report generated by Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. The report contains the following fields:
Total Attacks
Events Requiring Attention
Hosts Targeted
Hosts Connected to CnC Servers
Which type of risk report is the engineer analyzing?
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?
An organization created a custom application that is being flagged by Cisco Secure Endpoint. The application must be exempt from being flagged. What is the process to meet the requirement?
Which group within Cisco does the Threat Response team use for threat analysis and research?
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?
An organization has implemented Cisco Firepower without IPS capabilities and now wants to enable inspection for their traffic. They need to be able to detect protocol anomalies and utilize the Snort rule sets to detect malicious behaviour. How is this accomplished?
Which command is run at the CLI when logged in to an FTD unit, to determine whether the unit is managed locally or by a remote FMC server?
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?
On the advanced tab under inline set properties, which allows interfaces to emulate a passive interface?
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 implementing an active/passive high availability Cisco FTD pair.
When adding the high availability pair, the administrator cannot select the secondary peer.
What is the cause?
An engineer is creating an URL object on Cisco FMC How must it be configured so that the object will match for HTTPS traffic in an access control policy?
A financial services firm is configuring split-tunnel remote access VPN on a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defence managed by Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. Only traffic to 10.0 0.0/8 and 172 16 0 0/12 must traverse the VPN tunnel Internet traffic must exit locally on the client. Internal DNS queries must traverse the VPN tunnel to the corporate DNS server at 10.1.1.53 for the domain corp.finserv.local. Cisco Secure Client is deployed on all endpoints. Which configuration must be done to accomplish the task?
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?
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 is configuring a multidomain instance of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. The instance must be integrated with Cisco Secure Endpoint. What must the engineer configure to allow multiple domains to have hosts with the same IP-MAC address pairs?
An engineer is configuring a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device and warns to create a new intrusion rule based on the detection of a specific pattern in the data payload for a new zero-day exploit. Which keyword type must be used to add a Line that identifies the author of the rule and the date it was created?
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An administrator is looking at some of the reporting capabilities for Cisco Firepower and noticed this section of the Network Risk report showing a lot of SSL activity that cloud be used for evasion. Which action will mitigate this risk?
After a network security breach, an engineer must strengthen the security of the corporate network. Upper management must be regularly updated with a high-level overview of any
occurring network threats. Which access must the engineer provide upper management to view the required data from Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center?
An administrator must fix a network problem whereby traffic from the inside network to a webserver is not getting through an instance of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense. Which command must the administrator use to capture packets to the webserver that are dropped by Secure Firewall Throat Defense and resold the issue?
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 observes an attempted attack from a specific IP address in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. Which Cisco security tool can be used directly from the Secure Firewall Management Center web interface to obtain additional information about the IP address?
A network security engineer must export packet captures from the Cisco FMC web browser while troubleshooting an issue. When navigating to the address https:// < FMC IP > /capture/CAPI/pcap/test.pcap. an error 403: Forbidden is given instead of the PCAP file. Which action must the engineer take to resolve this issue?
Which license type is required on Cisco ISE to integrate with Cisco FMC pxGrid?
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What is the effect of the existing Cisco FMC configuration?
An engineer is investigating connectivity problems on Cisco Firepower for a specific SGT. Which command allows the engineer to capture real packets that pass through the firewall using an SGT of 64?
An engineer attempts to pull the configuration for a Cisco FTD sensor to review with Cisco TAC but does not have direct access to the CU for the device. The CLl for the device is managed by Cisco FMC to which the engineer has access. Which action in Cisco FMC grants access to the CLl for the device?
Refer to the exhibit. 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?
A network administrator is deploying a new Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) firewall After Cisco Secure FTD is deployed, inside clients nave intermittent connectivity to each other. When … the packet capture on the Secure FTD firewall, the administrator sees that Secure FID is responding to all the AW requests on the inside network. Which action must the network administrator e to resolve the issue ' '
When do you need the file-size command option during troubleshooting with packet capture?
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At a manufacturing facility, a historian server 10.10.5.20 in the OT DMZ is intermittently unable to reach a remote PLC at 172.20.1.100 on TCP 502 Modbus. A security engineer runs packet-tracer on Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defence and captures the output. The access policy is verified as correct. Which action must be performed to resolve the issue?
An administrator Is setting up a Cisco PMC and must provide expert mode access for a security engineer. The engineer Is permitted to use only a secured out-of-band network workstation with a static IP address to access the Cisco FMC. What must be configured to enable this access?
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 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 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.)
What is an attribute of the risk reporting capability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center?
An administrator is creating interface objects to better segment their network but is having trouble adding interfaces to the objects. What is the reason for this failure?
An engineer must implement Cisco Secure Firewall transparent mode due to a new server recently being added that must communicate with an existing server that is currently separated by the firewall. Which implementation action must be taken next by the engineer to accomplish the goal?
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?
A network administrator is trying to convert from LDAP to LDAPS for VPN user authentication on a Cisco FTD. Which action must be taken on the Cisco FTD objects to accomplish this task?
What is the maximum SHA level of filtering that Threat Intelligence Director supports?
There is an increased amount of traffic on the network and for compliance reasons, management needs visibility into the encrypted traffic What is a result of enabling TLS ' SSL decryption to allow this visibility?
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?
Which protocol establishes network redundancy in a switched Firepower device deployment?
Which two remediation options are available when Cisco FMC is integrated with Cisco ISE? (Choose two.)
What is a limitation to consider when running a dynamic routing protocol on a Cisco FTD device in IRB mode?
A connectivity issue is occurring between a client and a server which are communicating through a Cisco Firepower device While troubleshooting, a network administrator sees that traffic is reaching the server, but the client is not getting a response Which step must be taken to resolve this issue without initiating traffic from the client?
An engineer is deploying a Cisco ASA Secure Firewall module. The engineer must be able to examine traffic without impacting the network, and the ASA has been deployed with a single context. Which ASA Secure Firewall module deployment mode must be implemented to meet the requirements?
When packet capture is used on a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device and the packet flow is wailing on the malware query, which Snort verdict appears?
Which CLI command is used to generate firewall debug messages on a Cisco Firepower?
Refer to the exhibit. Authenticated VPN users at a financial institution can reach trading servers in the 10.200.0.0/16 range, but one user, vpn-useM is not able to access the trading application at 10.200.5.50 on TCP 8443. An engineer enables system support trace on the Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense. Which action must be performed to resolve the issue?
An engineer is configuring two new Cisco FTD devices to replace the existing high availability firewall pair in a highly secure environment. The information exchanged between the FTD devices over the failover link must be encrypted. Which protocol supports this on the Cisco FTD?
An engineer is setting up a remote access VPN on a Cisco FTD device and wants to define which traffic gets sent over the VPN tunnel. Which named object type in Cisco FMC must be used to accomplish this task?
An engineer runs the command restore remote-manager-backup location 2.2.2.2 admin /Volume/home/admin FTD408566513.zip on a Cisco FMC. After connecting to the repository, the Cisco FTD device is unable to accept the backup file. What is the reason for this failure?
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 network engineer is implementing high availability between two Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense devices. The engineer already checked the model, version, and number of interfaces Which two configurations must the engineer match next to meet the requirement? (Choose two.)
An engineer must deploy a high-availability pair that includes two Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense devices. The deployment must provide a mechanism that protects synchronization traffic between the members. Which action must the engineer take?
What is the advantage of having Cisco Firepower devices send events to Cisco Threat response via the security services exchange portal directly as opposed to using syslog?
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