Cisco CCNA Security 640-554 Exam
Cisco CCNA Security 640-554 Exam
Cisco CCNA Security 640-554 Exam
Vendor: Cisco
QUESTION 1
Which two features are supported by Cisco IronPort Security Gateway? (Choose two.)
A. spam protection
B. outbreak intelligence
C. HTTP and HTTPS scanning
D. email encryption
E. DDoS protection
Correct Answer: AD
QUESTION 2
Which option is a feature of Cisco ScanSafe technology?
A. spam protection
B. consistent cloud-based policy
C. DDoS protection
D. RSA Email DLP
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 3
Which two characteristics represent a blended threat? (Choose two.)
A. man-in-the-middle attack
B. trojan horse attack
C. pharming attack
D. denial of service attack
E. day zero attack
Correct Answer: BE
QUESTION 4
Under which higher-level policy is a VPN security policy categorized?
A. application policy
B. DLP policy
C. remote access policy
D. compliance policy
E. corporate WAN policy
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 5
Refer to the exhibit. What does the option secret 5 in the username global configuration mode
command indicate about the user password?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 6
What does level 5 in this enable secret global configuration mode command indicate?
Correct Answer: E
QUESTION 7
Which Cisco management tool provides the ability to centrally provision all aspects of device
configuration across the Cisco family of security products?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 8
Which option is the correct representation of the IPv6 address
2001:0000:150C:0000:0000:41B1:45A3:041D?
A. 2001::150c::41b1:45a3:041d
B. 2001:0:150c:0::41b1:45a3:04d1
C. 2001:150c::41b1:45a3::41d
D. 2001:0:150c::41b1:45a3:41d
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 9
Which three options are common examples of AAA implementation on Cisco routers?
(Choose three.)
A. authenticating remote users who are accessing the corporate LAN through IPsec VPN
connections
B. authenticating administrator access to the router console port, auxiliary port, and vty ports
C. implementing PKI to authenticate and authorize IPsec VPN peers using digital certificates
D. tracking Cisco NetFlow accounting statistics
E. securing the router by locking down all unused services
F. performing router commands authorization using TACACS+
QUESTION 10
When AAA login authentication is configured on Cisco routers, which two authentication
methods should be used as the final method to ensure that the administrator can still log in to
the router in case the external AAA server fails? (Choose two.)
A. group RADIUS
B. group TACACS+
C. local
D. krb5
E. enable
F. if-authenticated
Correct Answer: CE
QUESTION 11
Which two characteristics of the TACACS+ protocol are true? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: BC
QUESTION 12
Refer to the exhibit. Which statement about this output is true?
A. The user logged into the router with the incorrect username and password.
B. The login failed because there was no default enable password.
C. The login failed because the password entered was incorrect.
D. The user logged in and was given privilege level 15.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 13
A. TCP traffic sourced from any host in the 172.26.26.8/29 subnet on any port to host
192.168.1.2 port 80 or 443
B. TCP traffic sourced from host 172.26.26.21 on port 80 or 443 to host 192.168.1.2 on any port
C. any TCP traffic sourced from host 172.26.26.30 destined to host 192.168.1.1
D. any TCP traffic sourced from host 172.26.26.20 to host 192.168.1.2
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 14
Refer to the exhibit. Which statement about this partial CLI configuration of an access control list
is true?
Correct Answer: E
QUESTION 15
Which type of Cisco ASA access list entry can be configured to match multiple entries in a single
statement?
A. nested object-class
B. class-map
C. extended wildcard matching
D. object groups
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 16
Which statement about an access control list that is applied to a router interface is true?
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 17
You have been tasked by your manager to implement syslog in your network. Which option is an
important factor to consider in your implementation?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 18
Which protocol secures router management session traffic?
A. SSTP
B. POP
C. Telnet
D. SSH
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 19
Which two considerations about secure network management are important? (Choose two.)
A. log tampering
B. encryption algorithm strength
C. accurate time stamping
D. off-site storage
E. Use RADIUS for router commands authorization.
F. Do not use a loopback interface for device management access.
Correct Answer: AC
QUESTION 20
Which command enables Cisco IOS image resilience?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 21
Which router management feature provides for the ability to configure multiple administrative
views?
A. role-based CLI
B. virtual routing and forwarding
C. secure config privilege {level}
D. parser view view name
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 22
You suspect that an attacker in your network has configured a rogue Layer 2 device to intercept
traffic from multiple VLANs, which allows the attacker to capture potentially sensitive data.
Which two methods will help to mitigate this type of activity? (Choose two.)
A. Turn off all trunk ports and manually configure each VLAN as required on each port.
B. Place unused active ports in an unused VLAN.
Correct Answer: DE
QUESTION 23
Which statement describes a best practice when configuring trunking on a switch port?
Correct Answer: E
QUESTION 24
Which type of Layer 2 attack causes a switch to flood all incoming traffic to all ports?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 25
What is the best way to prevent a VLAN hopping attack?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 26
Which statement about PVLAN Edge is true?
A. PVLAN Edge can be configured to restrict the number of MAC addresses that appear on a
single port.
B. The switch does not forward any traffic from one protected port to any other protected port.
C. By default, when a port policy error occurs, the switchport shuts down.
D. The switch only forwards traffic to ports within the same VLAN Edge.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 27
If you are implementing VLAN trunking, which additional configuration parameter should be
added to the trunking configuration?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 28
When Cisco IOS zone-based policy firewall is configured, which three actions can be applied to a
traffic class? (Choose three.)
A. pass
B. police
C. inspect
D. drop
E. queue
F. shape
QUESTION 29
With Cisco IOS zone-based policy firewall, by default, which three types of traffic are permitted
by the router when some of the router interfaces are assigned to a zone? (Choose three.)
A. traffic flowing between a zone member interface and any interface that is not a zone
member
B. traffic flowing to and from the router interfaces (the self zone)
C. traffic flowing among the interfaces that are members of the same zone
D. traffic flowing among the interfaces that are not assigned to any zone
E. traffic flowing between a zone member interface and another interface that belongs in a
different zone
F. traffic flowing to the zone member interface that is returned traffic
QUESTION 30
Which option is a key difference between Cisco IOS interface ACL configurations and Cisco ASA
appliance interface ACL configurations?
A. The Cisco IOS interface ACL has an implicit permit-all rule at the end of each interface ACL.
B. Cisco IOS supports interface ACL and also global ACL. Global ACL is applied to all interfaces.
C. The Cisco ASA appliance interface ACL configurations use netmasks instead of wildcard
masks.
D. The Cisco ASA appliance interface ACL also applies to traffic directed to the IP addresses of
the Cisco ASA appliance interfaces.
E. The Cisco ASA appliance does not support standard ACL. The Cisco ASA appliance only
support extended ACL.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 31
Which two options are advantages of an application layer firewall? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: BE
QUESTION 32
Refer to the exhibit. Using a stateful packet firewall and given an inside ACL entry of permit ip
192.16.1.0 0.0.0.255 any, what would be the resulting dynamically configured ACL for the return
traffic on the outside ACL?
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 33
Which option is the resulting action in a zone-based policy firewall configuration with these
conditions?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 34
A Cisco ASA appliance has three interfaces configured. The first interface is the inside interface
with a security level of 100. The second interface is the DMZ interface with a security level of 50.
The third interface is the outside interface with a security level of 0. By default, without any
access list configured, which five types of traffic are permitted? (Choose five.)
QUESTION 35
Which two protocols enable Cisco Configuration Professional to pull IPS alerts from a Cisco ISR
router? (Choose two.)
A. syslog
B. SDEE
C. FTP
D. TFTP
E. SSH
F. HTTPS
Correct Answer: BF
QUESTION 36
Which two functions are required for IPsec operation? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: CE
QUESTION 37
On Cisco ISR routers, for what purpose is the realm-cisco.pub public encryption key used?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 38
Which four tasks are required when you configure Cisco IOS IPS using the Cisco Configuration
Professional IPS wizard? (Choose four.)
QUESTION 39
Which statement is a benefit of using Cisco IOS IPS?
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 40
You are the security administrator for a large enterprise network with many remote locations.
You have been given the assignment to deploy a Cisco IPS solution. Where in the network would
be the best place to deploy Cisco IOS IPS?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 41
Which IPS technique commonly is used to improve accuracy and context awareness, aiming to
detect and respond to relevant incidents only and therefore, reduce noise?
A. attack relevancy
B. target asset value
C. signature accuracy
D. risk rating
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 42
Which two statements about SSL-based VPNs are true? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: AD
QUESTION 43
Which option describes the purpose of Diffie-Hellman?
A. used between the initiator and the responder to establish a basic security policy
B. used to verify the identity of the peer
C. used for asymmetric public key encryption
D. used to establish a symmetric shared key via a public key exchange process
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 44
Which three statements about the IPsec ESP modes of operation are true? (Choose three.)
QUESTION 45
When configuring SSL VPN on the Cisco ASA appliance, which configuration step is required only
for Cisco AnyConnect full tunnel SSL VPN access and not required for clientless SSL VPN?
A. user authentication
B. group policy
C. IP address pool
D. SSL VPN interface
E. connection profile
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 46
For what purpose is the Cisco ASA appliance web launch SSL VPN feature used?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 47
Which statement describes how VPN traffic is encrypted to provide confidentiality when using
asymmetric encryption?
A. The sender encrypts the data using the sender's private key, and the receiver decrypts the
Correct Answer: E
QUESTION 48
Which four types of VPN are supported using Cisco ISRs and Cisco ASA appliances? (Choose four.)
QUESTION 49
Which description of the Diffie-Hellman protocol is true?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 50
Which IPsec transform set provides the strongest protection?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 51
Which two options are characteristics of the Cisco Configuration Professional Security Audit
wizard? (Choose two.)
A. displays a screen with fix-it check boxes to let you choose which potential security-related
configuration changes to implement
B. has two modes of operation: interactive and non-interactive
C. automatically enables Cisco IOS firewall and Cisco IOS IPS to secure the router
D. uses interactive dialogs and prompts to implement role-based CLI
E. requires users to first identify which router interfaces connect to the inside network and
which connect to the outside network
Correct Answer: AE
QUESTION 52
Which statement describes a result of securing the Cisco IOS image using the Cisco IOS image
resilience feature?
A. The show version command does not show the Cisco IOS image file location.
B. The Cisco IOS image file is not visible in the output from the show flash command.
C. When the router boots up, the Cisco IOS image is loaded from a secured FTP location.
D. The running Cisco IOS image is encrypted and then automatically backed up to the NVRAM.
E. The running Cisco IOS image is encrypted and then automatically backed up to a TFTP server.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 53
Which aaa accounting command is used to enable logging of the start and stop records for user
terminal sessions on the router?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 54
Which access list permits HTTP traffic sourced from host 10.1.129.100 port 3030 destined to host
192.168.1.10?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 55
Which location is recommended for extended or extended named ACLs?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 56
A. They use the same key for encryption and decryption of data.
B. They use the same key for decryption but different keys for encryption of data.
C. They use different keys for encryption and decryption of data.
D. They use different keys for decryption but the same key for encryption of data.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 57
Which option can be used to authenticate the IPsec peers during IKE Phase 1?
A. Diffie-Hellman Nonce
B. pre-shared key
C. XAUTH
D. integrity check value
E. ACS
F. AH
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 58
Which single Cisco IOS ACL entry permits IP addresses from 172.16.80.0 to 172.16.87.255?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 59
You want to use the Cisco Configuration Professional site-to-site VPN wizard to implement a
site-to-site IPsec VPN using pre-shared key. Which four configurations are required (with no
defaults)? (Choose four.)
QUESTION 60
Which two options represent a threat to the physical installation of an enterprise network?
(Choose two.)
A. surveillance camera
B. security guards
C. electrical power
D. computer room access
E. change control
Correct Answer: CD
QUESTION 61
Which option represents a step that should be taken when a security policy is developed?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 62
Which type of network masking is used when Cisco IOS access control lists are configured?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 63
How are Cisco IOS access control lists processed?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 64
Which type of management reporting is defined by separating management traffic from
production traffic?
A. IPsec encrypted
B. in-band
C. out-of-band
D. SSH
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 65
Which syslog level is associated with LOG_WARNING?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
F. 6
G. 7
H. 0
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 66
In which type of Layer 2 attack does an attacker broadcast BDPUs with a lower switch priority?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 67
Which security measure must you take for native VLANs on a trunk port?
A. Native VLANs for trunk ports should never be used anywhere else on the switch.
B. The native VLAN for trunk ports should be VLAN 1.
C. Native VLANs for trunk ports should match access VLANs to ensure that cross-VLAN traffic
from multiple switches can be delivered to physically disparate switches.
D. Native VLANs for trunk ports should be tagged with 802.1Q.
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 68
Refer to the exhibit. Which switch is designated as the root bridge in this topology?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 69
Which type of firewall technology is considered the versatile and commonly used firewall
technology?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 70
Which type of NAT is used where you translate multiple internal IP addresses to a single global,
routable IP address?
A. policy NAT
B. dynamic PAT
C. static NAT
D. dynamic NAT
E. policy PAT
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 71
Which Cisco IPS product offers an inline, deep-packet inspection feature that is available in
integrated services routers?
A. Cisco iSDM
B. Cisco AIM
C. Cisco IOS IPS
D. Cisco AIP-SSM
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 72
Which three modes of access can be delivered by SSL VPN? (Choose three.)
QUESTION 73
During role-based CLI configuration, what must be enabled before any user views can be created?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 74
Which three statements about applying access control lists to a Cisco router are true?
(Choose three.)
QUESTION 75
When port security is enabled on a Cisco Catalyst switch, what is the default action when the
configured maximum number of allowed MAC addresses value is exceeded?
A. The port remains enabled, but bandwidth is throttled until old MAC addresses are aged out.
B. The port is shut down.
C. The MAC address table is cleared and the new MAC address is entered into the table.
D. The violation mode of the port is set to restrict.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 76
Which three statements about the Cisco ASA appliance are true? (Choose three.)
A. The DMZ interface(s) on the Cisco ASA appliance most typically use a security level between
1 and 99.
B. The Cisco ASA appliance supports Active/Active or Active/Standby failover.
C. The Cisco ASA appliance has no default MPF configurations.
D. The Cisco ASA appliance uses security contexts to virtually partition the ASA into multiple
virtual firewalls.
E. The Cisco ASA appliance supports user-based access control using 802.1x.
F. An SSM is required on the Cisco ASA appliance to support Botnet Traffic Filtering.
QUESTION 77
Refer to the exhibit. This Cisco IOS access list has been configured on the FA0/0 interface in the
inbound direction. Which four TCP packets sourced from 10.1.1.1 port 1030 and routed to the
FA0/0 interface are permitted? (Choose four.)
QUESTION 78
You use Cisco Configuration Professional to enable Cisco IOS IPS. Which state must a signature be
in before any actions can be taken when an attack matches that signature?
A. enabled
B. unretired
C. successfully complied
D. successfully complied and unretired
E. successfully complied and enabled
F. unretired and enabled
G. enabled, unretired, and successfully complied
Correct Answer: G
QUESTION 79
Refer to the exhibit. Which three statements about these three show outputs are true?
(Choose three.)
QUESTION 80
Which statement describes how the sender of the message is verified when asymmetric
encryption is used?
A. The sender encrypts the message using the sender's public key, and the receiver decrypts the
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 81
Which type of security control is defense in depth?
A. threat mitigation
B. risk analysis
C. botnet mitigation
D. overt and covert channels
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 82
Which two options are two of the built-in features of IPv6? (Choose two.)
A. VLSM
B. native IPsec
C. controlled broadcasts
D. mobile IP
E. NAT
Correct Answer: BD
QUESTION 83
Which option is a characteristic of the RADIUS protocol?
A. uses TCP
B. offers multiprotocol support
C. combines authentication and authorization in one process
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 84
Refer to the below. Which statement about this debug output is true?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 85
Which type of Cisco IOS access control list is identified by 100 to 199 and 2000 to 2699?
A. standard
B. extended
C. named
D. IPv4 for 100 to 199 and IPv6 for 2000 to 2699
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 86
Which priority is most important when you plan out access control lists?
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 87
Which step is important to take when implementing secure network management?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 88
Which statement best represents the characteristics of a VLAN?
A. Ports in a VLAN will not share broadcasts amongst physically separate switches.
B. A VLAN can only connect across a LAN within the same building.
C. A VLAN is a logical broadcast domain that can span multiple physical LAN segments.
D. A VLAN provides individual port security.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 89
Which Layer 2 protocol provides loop resolution by managing the physical paths to given network
segments?
A. root guard
B. port fast
C. HSRP
D. STP
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 90
When STP mitigation features are configured, where should the root guard feature be deployed?
A. toward ports that connect to switches that should not be the root bridge
B. on all switch ports
C. toward user-facing ports
D. Root guard should be configured globally on the switch.
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 91
Which option is a characteristic of a stateful firewall?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 92
Which type of NAT would you configure if a host on the external network required access to an
internal host?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 93
Which statement about disabled signatures when using Cisco IOS IPS is true?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 94
Which type of intrusion prevention technology is the primary type used by the Cisco IPS security
appliances?
A. profile-based
B. rule-based
C. protocol analysis-based
D. signature-based
E. NetFlow anomaly-based
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 95
Which two services are provided by IPsec? (Choose two.)
A. Confidentiality
B. Encapsulating Security Payload
C. Data Integrity
D. Authentication Header
E. Internet Key Exchange
Correct Answer: AC
QUESTION 96
DRAG DROP
Drag from Left to Right in Correct Area.
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DRAG DROP
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DRAG DROP
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QUESTION 99
DRAG DROP
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QUESTION 100
DRAG DROP
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QUESTION 101
DRAG DROP
Refer to the exhibit. Drag the port(s) from the left and drop them on the correct STP roles on the
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DRAG DROP
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DRAG DROP
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DRAG DROP
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DRAG DROP
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QUESTION 106
Correct Answer:
Switch1>enable
Switch1#config t
Switch1(config)#interface fa0/12
Switch1(config-if)#switchport mode access
Switch1(config-if)#switchport port-security maximum 2
Switch1(config-if)#switchport port-security violation shutdown
Switch1(config-if)#no shut
Switch1(config-if)#end
Switch1#copy run start
QUESTION 107
Scenario: You are the security admin for a small company. This morning your manager has
supplied you with a list of Cisco ISR and CCP configuration questions. Using CCP, your job is to
navigate the pre-configured CCP in order to find answers to your business question. Which four
properties are included in the inspection Cisco Map OUT_SERVICE? (Choose four)
A. FTP
B. HTTP
C. HTTPS
D. SMTP
E. P2P
F. ICMP
QUESTION 108
Scenario: You are the security admin for a small company. This morning your manager has
supplied you with a list of Cisco ISR and CCP configuration questions. Using CCP, your job is to
navigate the pre-configured CCP in order to find answers to your business question. What NAT
A. 192.168.1.0/25
B. GlobalEthernet0/0 interface address.
C. 172.25.223.0/24
D. 10.0.10.0/24
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 109
Scenario: You are the security admin for a small company. This morning your manager has
supplied you with a list of Cisco ISR and CCP configuration questions. Using CCP, your job is to
navigate the pre-configured CCP in order to find answers to your business question. Which Class
Map is used by the INBOUND Rule?
A. SERVICE_IN
B. Class-map-ccp-cls-2
C. Ccp-cts-2
D. Class-map SERVICE_IN
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 110
Scenario: You are the security admin for a small company. This morning your manager has
supplied you with a list of Cisco ISR and CCP configuration questions. Using CCP, your job is to
navigate the pre-configured CCP in order to find answers to your business question. Which policy
is assigned to Zone Pair sdm-zip-OUT-IN?
A. Sdm-cls-http
B. OUT_SERVICE
C. Ccp-policy-ccp-cls-1
D. Ccp-policy-ccp-cls-2
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 111
Scenario: You are the security admin for a small company. This morning your manager has
supplied you with a list of Cisco ISR and CCP configuration questions. Using CCP, your job is to
navigate the pre-configured CCP in order to find answers to your business question. What is
included in the Network Object Group INSIDE? (Choose two)
A. Network 192.168.1.0/24
B. Network 175.25.133.0/24
C. Network 10.0.10.0/24
D. Network 10.0.0.0/8
E. Network 192.168.1.0/8
Correct Answer: BC
QUESTION 112
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For the NTP portion:
Click on Router - Time - NTP and SNTP on left hand pane.
Then click the Add button. Enter the Server IP address and source interface and key information
as specified. Also be sure to click the Prefer button.
Then click add button again. Leave the source as any and click the destination box as A network
and type in 10.0.2.0 and select the wildcard mask as 0.0.0.255. Click on the TCP protocol button
and select www Hit OK.
Finally, click on edit for this rule and click on the Associate button. Select the outside interface
and select the inbound direction.
QUESTION 113
HOTSPOT
A. 192.168.1.0/25
B. GigabitEthernet0/0 interface address
C. 172.25.223.0/24
D. 10.0.10.0/24
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 114
HOTSPOT
Which four protocols are included in the Inspection Class Map OUT_SERVICE? (Choose four)
A. FTP
B. HTTP
C. HTTPS
D. SMTP
E. P2P
F. ICMP
QUESTION 115
HOTSPOT
A. SERVICE_IN
B. Class-map ccp-cls-2
C. Ccp-cls-2
D. Class-map SERVICE_IN
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 116
HOTSPOT
A. Network 192.168.1.0/24
B. Network 172.25.133.0/24
C. Network 10.0.10.0/24
D. Network 10.0.0.0/8
E. Network 192.168.1.0/8
Correct Answer: BC
QUESTION 117
HOTSPOT
A. sdm-cls-http
B. OUT_SERVICE
C. ccp-policy-ccp-cls-1
D. ccp-policy-ccp-cls-2
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 118
DRAG DROP
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QUESTION 126
Which statement is true when you have generated RSA keys on your Cisco router to prepare for
secure device management?
A. You must then zeroize the keys to reset secure shell before configuring other parameters.
B. The SSH protocol is automatically enabled.
C. You must then specify the general-purpose key size used for authentication with the crypto
key generate rsa general-keys modulus command.
D. All vty ports are automatically enabled for SSH to provide secure management.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 127
Which of these correctly matches the CLI command(s) to the equivalent SDM wizard that
performs similar configuration functions?
A. Cisco Common Classification Policy Language configuration commands and the SDM
Site-to-Site VPN wizard
B. auto secure exec command and the SDM One-Step Lockdown wizard
C. setup exec command and the SDM Security Audit wizard
D. class-maps, policy-maps, and service-policy configuration commands and the SDM IPS wizard
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 128
What is the key difference between host-based and network-based intrusion prevention?
A. Network-based IPS is better suited for inspection of SSL and TLS encrypted data flows.
B. Network-based IPS provides better protection against OS kernel-level attacks against hosts
and servers.
C. Network-based IPS can provide protection to desktops and servers without the need of
installing specialized software on the end hosts and servers.
D. Host-based IPS can work in promiscuous mode or inline mode.
E. Host-based IPS is more scalable then network-based IPS.
F. Host-based IPS deployment requires less planning than network-based IPS.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 129
Refer to the exhibit. You are a network manager for your organization. You are looking at your
Syslog server reports. Based on the Syslog message shown, which two statements are true?
(Choose two.)
Correct Answer: AD
QUESTION 130
What is a result of securing the Cisco IOS image using the Cisco IOS image resilience feature?
A. The show version command will not show the Cisco IOS image file location.
B. The Cisco IOS image file will not be visible in the output from the show flash command.
C. When the router boots up, the Cisco IOS image will be loaded from a secured FTP location.
D. The running Cisco IOS image will be encrypted and then automatically backed up to the
NVRAM.
E. The running Cisco IOS image will be encrypted and then automatically backed up to a TFTP
server.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 131
Refer to the exhibit. Which statement is correct based on the show login command output
shown?
A. When the router goes into quiet mode, any host is permitted to access the router via Telnet,
SSH, and HTTP, since the quiet-mode access list has not been configured.
B. The login block-for command is configured to block login hosts for 93 seconds.
C. All logins from any sources are blocked for another 193 seconds.
D. Three or more login requests have failed within the last 100 seconds.
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 132
Which two statements about configuring the Cisco ACS server to perform router command
authorization are true? (Choose two.)
A. When adding the router as an AAA client on the Cisco ACS server, choose the TACACS+ (Cisco
IOS) protocol.
B. Configure the Cisco ACS server to forward authentication of users to an external user
databases, like Windows Database.
C. In the ACS User Group setup screen, use the Shell Command Authorization Set options to
configure which commands and command arguments to permit or deny.
D. From the ACS Interface Configuration screen, select RADIUS (Cisco IOS/PIX 6.0), and then
enable the Shell (exec) option on the RADIUS Services screen.
Correct Answer: AC
QUESTION 133
Which four methods are used by hackers? (Choose four.)
QUESTION 134
Which characteristic is the foundation of Cisco Self-Defending Network technology?
A. secure connectivity
B. threat control and containment
C. policy management
D. secure network platform
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 135
Which kind of table do most firewalls use today to keep track of the connections through the
firewall?
A. dynamic ACL
B. reflexive ACL
C. netflow
D. queuing
E. state
F. express forwarding
Correct Answer: E
QUESTION 136
Which Cisco IOS command is used to verify that either the Cisco IOS image, the configuration files,
or both have been properly backed up and secured?
A. show archive
B. show secure bootset
C. show flash
D. show file systems
E. dir
F. dir archive
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 137
What does the secure boot-config global configuration accomplish?
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 138
Which statement about Cisco IOS Zone-Based Policy Firewall is true?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 139
Refer to the exhibit. Based on the show policy-map type inspect zone-pair session command
output shown, what can be determined about this Cisco IOS zone based firewall policy?
A. All packets will be dropped since the class-default traffic class is matching all traffic.
B. This is an inbound policy (applied to traffic sourced from the less secured zone destined to
the more secured zone).
C. This is an outbound policy (applied to traffic sourced from the more secured zone destined to
the less secured zone).
D. Stateful packet inspection will be applied only to HTTP packets that also match ACL 110.
E. All non-HTTP traffic will be permitted to pass as long as it matches ACL 110.
F. All non-HTTP traffic will be inspected.
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 140
When using a stateful firewall, which information is stored in the stateful session flow table?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 141
With Cisco IOS Zone-Based Policy Firewall, where is the inspection policy applied?
A. to the zone
B. to the zone-pair
C. to the interface
D. to the global service policy
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 142
Which statement is true about configuring access control lists to control Telnet traffic destined to
the router itself?
A. The ACL is applied to the Telnet port with the ip access-group command.
B. The ACL should be applied to all vty lines in the in direction to prevent an unwanted user
from connecting to an unsecured port.
C. The ACL applied to the vty lines has no in or out option like ACL being applied to an interface.
D. The ACL must be applied to each vty line individually.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 143
When configuring role-based CLI on a Cisco router, which step is performed first?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 144
Refer to the exhibit. Which statement about the aaa configurations is true?
A. The authentication method list used by the console port is named test.
B. The authentication method list used by the vty port is named test.
C. If the TACACS+ AAA server is not available, no users will be able to establish a Telnet session
with the router.
D. If the TACACS+ AAA server is not available, console access to the router can be authenticated
using the local database.
E. The local database is checked first when authenticating console and vty access to the router.
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 145
Which characteristic is a potential security weakness of a traditional stateful firewall?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 146
Which statement about Cisco IOS IPS on Cisco IOS Release 12.4(11)T and later is true?
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 147
Refer to the exhibit and partial configuration. Which statement is true?
A. All traffic destined for network 172.16.150.0 will be denied due to the implicit deny all.
B. All traffic from network 10.0.0.0 will be permitted.
C. Access-list 101 will prevent address spoofing from interface E0.
D. This is a misconfigured ACL resulting in traffic not being allowed into the router in interface
S0.
E. This ACL will prevent any host on the Internet from spoofing the inside network address as
the source address for packets coming into the router from the Internet.
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 148
What will be disabled as a result of the no service password-recovery command?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 149
What does the MD5 algorithm do?
A. takes a message less than 2^64 bits as input and produces a 160-bit message digest
B. takes a variable-length message and produces a 168-bit message digest
C. takes a variable-length message and produces a 128-bit message digest
D. takes a fixed-length message and produces a 128-bit message digest
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION 150
You have configured a standard access control list on a router and applied it to interface Serial 0
in an outbound direction. No ACL is applied to Interface Serial 1 on the same router. What
happens when traffic being filtered by the access list does not match the configured ACL
statements for Serial 0?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 151
In a brute-force attack, what percentage of the keyspace must an attacker generally search
through until he or she finds the key that decrypts the data?
A. Roughly 50 percent
B. Roughly 66 percent
C. Roughly 75 percent
D. Roughly 10 percent
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 152
Which three items are Cisco best-practice recommendations for securing a network?
(Choose three.)
QUESTION 153
What Cisco Security Agent Interceptor is in charge of intercepting all read/write requests to the rc
files in UNIX?
A. Configuration interceptor
B. Network interceptor
C. File system interceptor
D. Execution space interceptor
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 154
Information about a managed devices resources and activity is defined by a series of objects.
What defines the structure of these management objects?
A. MIB
B. FIB
C. LDAP
D. CEF
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 155
Which statement is true about vishing?
A. Influencing users to forward a call to a toll number (for example, a long distance or
international number)
B. Influencing users to provide personal information over a web page
C. Using an inside facilitator to intentionally forward a call to a toll number (for example, a long
distance or international number)
D. Influencing users to provide personal information over the phone
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 156
Which item is the great majority of software vulnerabilities that have been discovered?
A. Stack vulnerabilities
B. Heap overflows
C. Software overflows
D. Buffer overflows
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 157
Which one of the following items may be added to a password stored in MD5 to make it more
secure?
A. Ciphertext
B. Salt
C. Cryptotext
D. Rainbow table
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 158
In which two modes can Cisco Configuration Professional Security Audit operate? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: AC
QUESTION 159
What are three of the security conditions that Cisco Configuration Professional One-Step
Lockdown can automatically detect and correct on a Cisco router? (Choose three.)
QUESTION 160
Which statement about Control Plane Policing is true?
A. Control Plane Policing allows QoS filtering to protect the control plane against DoS attacks.
B. Control Plane Policing classifies traffic into three categories to intercept malicious traffic.
C. Control Plane Policing allows ACL-based filtering to protect the control plane against DoS
attacks.
D. Control Plane Policing intercepts and classifies all traffic.
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 161
Which three applications comprise Cisco Security Manager? (Choose three.)
A. Configuration Manager
B. Packet Tracer
C. Device Manager
D. Event Viewer
E. Report Manager
F. Syslog Monitor
QUESTION 162
When a network transitions from IPv4 to IPv6, how many bits does the address expand to?
A. 64 bits
B. 128 bits
C. 96 bits
D. 156 bits
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 163
On which Cisco Configuration Professional screen do you enable AAA?
A. AAA Summary
B. AAA Servers and Groups
C. Authentication Policies
D. Authorization Policies
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION 164
Under which option do you create a AAA authentication policy in Cisco Configuration
Professional?
A. Authentication Policies
B. Authentication Policies - Login
C. AAA Servers and Groups
D. AAA Summary
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 165
Which three statements about TACACS+ are true? (Choose three.)
QUESTION 166
Which three statements about RADIUS are true? (Choose three.)
QUESTION 167
Which network security framework is used to set up access control on Cisco Appliances?
A. RADIUS
B. AAA
C. TACACS+
D. NAS
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 168
Which two protocols are used in a server-based AAA deployment? (Choose two.)
A. RADIUS
B. TACACS+
C. HTTPS
D. WCCP
E. HTTP
Correct Answer: AB
QUESTION 169
Which Cisco IOS command will verify authentication between a router and a AAA server?
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION 170
Which AAA feature can automate record keeping within a network?
A. TACACS+
B. authentication
C. authorization
D. accounting
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 171
Which two statements about IPv6 access lists are true? (Choose two).
Correct Answer: DE
QUESTION 172
Which command enables subnet 192.168.8.4/30 to communicate with subnet 192.168.8.32/27
on IP protocol 50?
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION 173
Which two types of access lists can be used for sequencing? (Choose two.)
A. reflexive
B. standard
C. dynamic
D. extended
Correct Answer: BD