Cisco 300-710 Certification Sample Questions and Answers

Cisco 300-710 sample questions for Cisco Certified Specialist Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls preparationThe Cisco 300-710 Certification Sample Questions on this page help you become familiar with the question style and knowledge areas of the Cisco Certified Specialist Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls (SNCF) exam. Each question is written to reflect the syllabus topics and the level of understanding the certification expects, so you can see how theoretical concepts are tested in practice. Working through them lets you check your understanding, identify topics that need further study, and get comfortable interpreting certification-style questions before you sit the official exam.

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Cisco 300-710 (SNCF) Sample Questions:

01. You have just installed a new management center, but no intelligence-based objects are available for selection.
What could be the root cause of the issue?
a) The management center is not registered with a threat defense.
b) The database is corrupt.
c) The management center is disconnected from the Internet.
d) The management center is running an older software version.
 
02. Which two tasks are typically required to manage FTD devices from FMC successfully?
(Choose two.)
a) Configure spanning tree settings
b) Register the device to FMC
c) Deploy policy changes to the device
d) Configure wireless SSIDs
 
03. Which Secure FirewallThreat Defense firewall mode is typically used when the device must route between IP networks?
a) Transparent
b) Passive
c) Inline tap
d) Routed
 
04. Which management item is most relevant when confirming that dashboards will show meaningful health and event data?
a) Licensing and deployment setup
b) VLAN trunk negotiation
c) Spanning tree priority
d) BGP route reflection
 
05. Which feature allows traffic to keep passing through a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) device during a hardware failure or power outage?
a) Clustering
b) Multi-instance
c) Hardware bypass
d) High availability
 
06. When you enable the Threat Intelligence Director (TID), a threat defense device acts as which of the following?
a) Indicator
b) Director
c) Observable
d) Element
 
07. What is the difference between a prefilter rule and an access control rule?
a) All of these answers are correct.
b) A prefilter rule supports limited constraints to create a rule, whereas an access control rule offers many granular options.
c) A prefilter rule matches for traffic prior to an access control rule.
d) A prefilter rule analyzes traffic based on the outermost header of a packet, whereas an access control rule analyzes the innermost header.
 
08. When blocking custom IP addresses using Security Intelligence, which of the following statements is true?
a) A blocked connection to or from a custom address is marked as the 'non-default' category on the Connection Events page.
b) You can create a text file of custom IP addresses in bulk and import it into the management center.
c) You must input one custom IP address at a time and then choose an action for each address.
d) Security Intelligence can block traffic only using a Cisco-provided feed; custom addresses are not supported.
 
09. To ensure accurate discovery of the latest applications and operating systems, which database must an administrator keep up to date?
a) Discovery event database
b) Snort rule database
c) URL filtering database
d) Vulnerability database
 
10. For accurate discovery of the latest applications, which of the following should you consider?
a) Keep the Vulnerability Database (VDB) version up to date.
b) Use the network addresses instead of network objects.
c) Generate Rule Recommendations in an intrusion policy.
d) Ensure that the network discovery policy is set to monitor the load-balancer devices.

Solutions:

Question: 01

Answer: c

Question: 02

Answer: b, c

Question: 03

Answer: d

Question: 04

Answer: a

Question: 05

Answer: c

Question: 06

Answer: d

Question: 07

Answer: a

Question: 08

Answer: b

Question: 09

Answer: d

Question: 10

Answer: a

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