350-701 Practice Test 6 — 10 Questions

Question 1

A security engineer is configuring Duo for VPN authentication with AnyConnect. Which authentication factor does Duo provide in addition to the user's primary credentials?

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Second-factor authentication (push, TOTP, etc.). Duo provides second-factor authentication, typically via push notification, TOTP, or hardware token, which is used after the user enters their primary credentials (e.g., LDAP password).

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RADIUS accounting

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SAML assertion

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Machine certificate validation

Question 2

A network administrator is configuring 802.1X on a Cisco switch for corporate Windows laptops. The organization uses certificates for authentication. Which EAP method should be configured on the supplicant and ISE to provide certificate-based mutual authentication?

Accepted Answer

EAP-TLS. EAP-TLS (Transport Layer Security) is the correct choice because it provides certificate-based mutual authentication, where both the supplicant (Windows laptop) and the authentication server (ISE) present X.509 certificates to verify each other's identity. This meets the requirement for certificate-based authentication and is the only EAP method listed that inherently requires certificates on both sides for mutual authentication.

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PEAP-MSCHAPv2

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EAP-MD5

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EAP-FAST

Question 3

A DevSecOps team is implementing secrets management for a cloud-native application. They want to avoid storing secrets in environment variables or code. Which solution should they use?

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Use HashiCorp Vault to dynamically generate and manage secrets. A dedicated secrets management tool like HashiCorp Vault securely stores and provides access to secrets (API keys, passwords) without embedding them in code or environment variables. Azure Key Vault and AWS Secrets Manager are also valid, but Vault is a common cross-platform solution. The other options are insecure.

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Embed secrets in the container image

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Pass secrets via command-line arguments

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Store secrets in a configuration file in the repository

Question 4

A company wants to implement network access control for IoT devices that do not support 802.1X. Which Cisco ISE feature can be used to grant these devices network access based on their MAC address?

Accepted Answer

MAB. MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) is the correct Cisco ISE feature because it allows network access for devices that cannot perform 802.1X, such as IoT devices. MAB works by using the device’s MAC address as the authentication credential; ISE checks the MAC address against an allowed list (e.g., endpoint identity store) and grants or denies access accordingly. This is the standard fallback mechanism for non-802.1X-capable endpoints in a wired or wireless network.

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Guest access

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Profiling

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Posture assessment

Question 5

A DevOps team is deploying containers in Kubernetes and needs to enforce network security policies between pods. Which Cisco solution is designed for this?

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Cisco Secure Workload (Tetration). Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration) is the correct answer because it provides micro-segmentation and network policy enforcement for containerized environments like Kubernetes. It uses agent-based and agentless sensors to map all inter-pod traffic flows and enforce whitelist-based policies at the kernel level via eBPF or iptables, ensuring zero-trust between pods without requiring changes to the underlying network fabric.

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Cisco Cloudlock

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Cisco Umbrella

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Cisco Firepower NGFW

Question 6

A university is using Cisco ESA to manage email for 20,000 students and staff. They have implemented anti-spam and anti-virus policies. Recently, the IT helpdesk has been receiving complaints that legitimate emails from external senders (such as admissions notifications) are being marked as spam and quarantined. The administrators check the ESA and find that these emails are being flagged with a spam score above the threshold, but the content appears to be legitimate. The sending domains are not on any blacklist. The ESA is using default anti-spam settings. What should the administrator do to reduce false positives without compromising security?

Accepted Answer

Add the legitimate sender domains or IPs to the ESA's whitelist (SenderBase whitelist).. Adding the legitimate sender domains or IPs to the ESA's SenderBase whitelist explicitly bypasses anti-spam scanning for those trusted sources, reducing false positives while maintaining security for all other inbound email. This approach leverages the ESA's reputation-based filtering to allow known good senders without lowering the global spam threshold or disabling protection entirely.

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Create a content filter to allow any email with 'admissions' in the subject.

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Disable anti-spam scanning for all inbound email.

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Lower the spam threshold to decrease sensitivity.

Question 7

A network engineer is configuring Cisco ISE for wireless 802.1X authentication. The company wants to use certificate-based authentication for all corporate devices. Which EAP method should be configured?

Accepted Answer

EAP-TLS. EAP-TLS uses digital certificates for mutual authentication between the client and the server, providing strong security without requiring passwords.

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EAP-MD5

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PEAP-MSCHAPv2

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LEAP

Question 8

A company uses Cisco WSA to proxy web traffic. After configuring a decryption policy to inspect HTTPS traffic to a specific external site, users report they can still access the site without any warning or interruption. Which action should the administrator take to ensure HTTPS inspection is applied?

Accepted Answer

Change the policy action from 'Passthrough' to 'Decrypt'. The decryption policy must have an action of 'Decrypt' to actually perform HTTPS inspection. If the policy action is set to 'Passthrough', the WSA forwards the traffic without decrypting it, so users experience no warning or interruption. Changing the action to 'Decrypt' forces the WSA to intercept the TLS handshake, decrypt the traffic, and apply security policies.

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Add the site to the 'HTTPS Bypass' list

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Import the WSA root CA certificate into client browsers

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Move the decryption policy to the top of the list

Question 9

You are troubleshooting a Cisco ISE deployment where some endpoints are stuck in the 'Not Compliant' posture after a posture scan. ISE logs show 'Conditional NAC Agent result: Not Compliant due to missing required application.' The application is installed on the endpoint. What should you check?

Accepted Answer

The posture policy requires a specific version that is not installed.. The log indicates a missing application, but it is installed. This often occurs when the posture policy requires a specific version or patch level. Option A is incorrect because antivirus definitions are separate. Option C is incorrect because agent version would cause a different error. Option D is incorrect because firewall blocking would prevent scan results.

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The NAC Agent is running an outdated version.

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The endpoint's firewall is blocking the ISE posture probe.

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The antivirus definition file is outdated.

Question 10

A network security engineer is configuring site-to-site IPsec VPN between two Cisco ASA firewalls using IKEv2. Which of the following configuration elements is required to define the encryption and integrity algorithms for the IPsec SA?

Accepted Answer

Transform set. In IKEv2, the IPsec SA parameters (encryption, integrity, etc.) are defined in the transform set. IKEv2 uses a single transform set. ISAKMP policy is for IKEv1 phase 1. Crypto map binds the transform set to a peer and interface. VTI is a virtual interface for routing but not for algorithm definition.

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Crypto map

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Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI)

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ISAKMP policy