350-701 SCOR
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A security engineer must select a hashing algorithm to verify file integrity for a compliance audit, ensuring the algorithm has no known practical collision vulnerabilities. Which algorithm should be used?
SHA-256 is part of the SHA-2 family and has no known practical collision attacks, making it the current best practice for integrity verification.
A company must insert a Cisco Secure Firewall NGFW between two existing core switches that are already on the same IP subnet. The firewall must inspect and filter traffic without requiring any change to existing IP addressing or routing. Which deployment mode should be configured?
Transparent mode makes the firewall act as a Layer 2 bridge between the two switches, allowing it to inspect and enforce policy on traffic without any IP renumbering or routing changes, since it does not participate as a routed hop.
A company migrates its application servers to virtual machines running on a public IaaS platform such as AWS EC2 or Azure VMs. Under the shared responsibility model, which security task is the CUSTOMER responsible for?
In IaaS, the provider secures the physical infrastructure, hypervisor, and host, but the customer owns everything running inside the VM — OS, middleware, patching, and application security.
A company wants to transparently redirect all HTTP/HTTPS traffic to a cluster of Cisco Secure Web Appliances without configuring proxy settings on each client device. The network already uses Cisco routers and switches that support Cisco's redirection protocol. Which method BEST meets these requirements?
Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) is a Cisco protocol that enables routers and switches to transparently redirect designated traffic (e.g., ports 80/443) to one or more WSAs, supporting load balancing and failover, with zero client-side configuration required.
A file was downloaded to an endpoint and initially convicted as clean by Cisco Secure Endpoint (AMP for Endpoints). Three days later, Talos updates the file's disposition to malicious based on new threat intelligence. Which Secure Endpoint capability alerts the SOC and shows the file's full trajectory across all endpoints where it was seen, without requiring a new endpoint scan?
Secure Endpoint continuously re-analyzes file dispositions in the cloud. When Talos changes a verdict from clean to malicious, Retrospective Security automatically raises an alert and uses Device Trajectory/File Trajectory to show every endpoint that executed the file, even though the original scan found it clean.
A network administrator is deploying 802.1X on access switches. Several older network printers do not support an 802.1X supplicant. Which feature should be configured on the switch ports to allow these printers to authenticate onto the network without requiring an 802.1X supplicant?
MAB allows the switch to authenticate a device based on its MAC address when no 802.1X supplicant is present. ISE checks the MAC address against an endpoint identity group or profiling policy and applies the appropriate authorization result, making it the standard fallback for non-supplicant devices like printers, IP phones, and IoT sensors.
A site-to-site IPsec VPN must encrypt high-volume bulk traffic between two data centers while minimizing CPU overhead on the VPN gateways. Which type of cryptographic algorithm should be used to encrypt the actual data payload inside the tunnel?
Symmetric algorithms like AES are computationally efficient for encrypting large volumes of bulk data, which is why IPsec uses AES for the data plane after key exchange.
On a Cisco ASA/FTD IKEv2 site-to-site VPN configuration, what is the default IKEv2 security association (SA) lifetime, in seconds, before the SA must be renegotiated?
The default IKEv2 SA lifetime on Cisco ASA/FTD is 86400 seconds (24 hours), matching the traditional IKEv1 Phase 1 default, and this exact value is commonly tested on the exam.
Which Cisco solution provides Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) functionality to discover shadow IT, enforce data loss prevention, and detect anomalous user behavior across SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace?
Cisco Cloudlock is Cisco's API-based CASB, providing SaaS visibility, DLP, shadow IT discovery, and user/entity behavior analytics for cloud applications.
An organization needs to block access to malicious domains for laptop users at coffee shops and home networks, where users are off the corporate network and not connected via VPN. The solution must work at the DNS layer using a lightweight client agent. Which Cisco solution should be deployed?
Cisco Umbrella provides DNS-layer security and secure web gateway functionality as a cloud service, and includes a lightweight roaming client that enforces protection for off-network users without requiring VPN backhaul.
A security team needs an endpoint solution that continuously monitors process, file, and network telemetry, correlates activity across the environment, supports threat hunting, and can retrospectively alert when a previously allowed file is later found malicious. Which category of solution provides these capabilities, as implemented by Cisco Secure Endpoint?
EDR focuses on continuous monitoring, telemetry collection, correlation, threat hunting, and retrospective detection/response after an initial verdict — all core capabilities of Cisco Secure Endpoint's EDR functionality.
A security engineer needs to implement command-level authorization on Cisco network devices so that different administrators can only execute specific sets of CLI commands based on their role. Which AAA protocol should be used with Cisco ISE to support this requirement?
TACACS+ separates authentication, authorization, and accounting and encrypts the entire packet body, allowing granular per-command authorization (command sets) on Cisco IOS devices. This makes it the standard protocol for device administration AAA where CLI privilege control is required.
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It covers 6 domains: Security Concepts (25%), Network Security (20%), Securing the Cloud (15%), Content Security (10%), Endpoint Protection and Detection (10%), Secure Network Access, Visibility, and Enforcement (20%). The full course has a dedicated chapter, lab and practice-test coverage for each.
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