Cisco 300-745 Certification Sample Questions and Answers

Cisco 300-745 sample questions for Cisco Certified Specialist - Designing Cisco Security Infrastructure preparationThe Cisco 300-745 Certification Sample Questions on this page help you become familiar with the question style and knowledge areas of the Cisco Certified Specialist - Designing Cisco Security Infrastructure (SDSI) 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 300-745 (SDSI) Sample Questions:

01. What is the primary benefit of conducting a root cause analysis after a security incident?
a) Validate OSI model compliance
b) Enable compliance with NTP standards
c) Drive design improvements to prevent recurrence
d) Improve FTP throughput
 
02. Which Cisco product provides automated incident response workflows integrated with SIEM and SOAR platforms?
a) Cisco SecureX
b) Cisco AnyConnect
c) Cisco DNA Center
d) Cisco Catalyst
 
03. Which two approaches support secure communication in containerized microservices architectures?
(Choose two.)
a) Mutual TLS between services
b) Shared service account credentials
c) Service Mesh with policy enforcement
d) Static NAT entries
 
04. Which two controls help detect drift in IaC-managed infrastructure?
(Choose two.)
a) Continuous configuration monitoring
b) Manual change log entries
c) DHCP snooping
d) Immutable infrastructure patterns
 
05. Which two solutions help ensure consistent policy enforcement across multi-cloud workloads?
(Choose two.)
a) Cisco Secure Workload (Tetration)
b) SNMP traps
c) Cloud-delivered Firewall (CDFW)
d) Static IP routing
 
06. How does AI improve the performance of intrusion prevention systems (IPS)?
a) Decreases SNMP load
b) Enables real-time dynamic rule creation
c) Disables logging overhead
d) Bypasses signature-based detection
 
07. When designing security for applications distributed across multiple cloud providers, what is a key consideration?
a) Consistent identity and access policies
b) High-performance DHCP services
c) MPLS cloud backbone routing
d) Local proxy deployment
 
08. Which function does a DLP system perform when protecting application data?
a) Inspects routing tables
b) Enforces policy compliance by inspecting data in transit
c) Redirects packets to edge firewalls
d) Provides segmentation using VLANs
 
09. Which two best practices align with incident response and compliance objectives?
(Choose two.)
a) Maintain immutable logs
b) Implement real-time monitoring
c) Use shared admin credentials
d) Disable auditing to improve performance
 
10. Which two metrics are important for evaluating the performance of automated security response workflows?
(Choose two.)
a) Mean Time to Detect (MTTD)
b) CPU temperature
c) VLAN propagation speed
d) Mean Time to Respond (MTTR)

Answers:

Question: 01

Answer: c

Question: 02

Answer: a

Question: 03

Answer: a, c

Question: 04

Answer: a, d

Question: 05

Answer: a, c

Question: 06

Answer: b

Question: 07

Answer: a

Question: 08

Answer: b

Question: 09

Answer: a, b

Question: 10

Answer: a, d

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