300-710 SNCF Integration Practice Test 4 — 15 Questions

Question 1

An administrator is troubleshooting eStreamer event export from a Firepower Management Center to a third-party SIEM tool. Which TWO factors can cause eStreamer communication to fail? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

TCP port 8302 is blocked by an intermediate firewall between the FMC and the eStreamer client.. Option A is correct because eStreamer uses TCP port 8302 for communication between the Firepower Management Center and the eStreamer client, so blocking that port on any intermediate firewall prevents the connection from being established. Option B is correct because eStreamer relies on mutual TLS authentication, and if the client certificate has expired or its IP/hostname binding does not match what the FMC expects, the TLS handshake fails and event export stops. Option C is not relevant because NetFlow export rate-limiting applies to NetFlow records sent from managed devices, not to the eStreamer event stream from the FMC. Option D is incorrect because SNMPv3 authentication is used for monitoring/polling and has no bearing on eStreamer transport. Option E is incorrect because eStreamer does not use Syslog over UDP or TCP 514; that port pertains to syslog forwarding, a separate export mechanism.

Answer

NetFlow export rate-limiting has been exceeded on the data interfaces.

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The SNMPv3 authentication password does not match between the devices.

Answer

The Syslog server is configured to use UDP port 514 instead of TCP port 514.

Question 2

A security team uses Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center to manage several Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense devices. They want to send correlation events and connection events to a third-party SIEM by using the eStreamer service. The SIEM vendor requires that all events be sent over an encrypted channel and that the SIEM client can request only the event types it needs. Which eStreamer client configuration is required to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Configure the eStreamer client to connect to TCP port 8302 on the FMC and use the eStreamer protocol, then set the event types in the eStreamer client configuration on the FMC.. The eStreamer service on the FMC uses TCP port 8302 and TLS by default, providing an encrypted channel. To allow a client to request only specific event types, you must configure the eStreamer client settings on the FMC, where you can specify which event types the client is authorized to receive. This combination meets both the encryption and selective event requirements.

Answer

Configure the eStreamer client to connect to TCP port 8302 on the FMC and use the eStreamer protocol with SSLv3.

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Configure the eStreamer client to connect to TCP port 8302 on the FMC and use the eStreamer protocol with TLS.

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Configure the eStreamer client to connect to TCP port 8302 on the FMC and use the eStreamer protocol, then use the FMC web interface to select event types for each client.

Question 3

An administrator is integrating Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) with a Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) deployment for user identity and group-based policies. The administrator has configured pxGrid on ISE and added FMC as a pxGrid client. However, user identity information is not appearing in FMC. Which two actions should the administrator take to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Check that the FMC has subscribed to the session directory topic in ISE.. Troubleshooting FMC-ISE pxGrid integration often involves checking certificate trust and topic subscriptions. If certificates are not trusted or FMC is not subscribed to the session directory topic, identity data will not flow. These two actions address the most common configuration errors.

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Confirm that the FMC is configured as a RADIUS client on ISE.

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Verify that the ISE pxGrid node is enabled and operational.

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Ensure that the FMC and ISE are synchronized to the same NTP server.

Question 4

An engineer is configuring a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device to send connection and intrusion events to a remote syslog server. The syslog server is on a different subnet, and the engineer wants to ensure that the events are sent using a secure, encrypted transport. The engineer also needs to verify that the syslog server is receiving the events correctly. Which action should the engineer take?

Accepted Answer

Configure a syslog server object on the Firepower Management Center with TCP port 6514 and select the TLS option, then deploy the configuration to the Threat Defense device.. To send encrypted syslog messages from a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device, you must create a syslog server object on the Firepower Management Center with TCP as the protocol, port 6514, and enable TLS. After deploying the policy, the Threat Defense device sends events securely. This ensures confidentiality and integrity of the log data in transit.

Answer

Configure the Threat Defense device to use UDP port 514 and enable IPsec on the management interface.

Answer

Configure a syslog server object on the Firepower Management Center with UDP port 6514 and enable the 'Secure' check box.

Answer

Configure the syslog server to use TCP port 514 and enable TLS encryption on the Firepower Management Center.

Question 5

An engineer is integrating Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) using pxGrid. The engineer wants to verify that the FMC can retrieve user identity information from ISE. Which action should the engineer take to confirm the integration is working?

Accepted Answer

Navigate to FMC > Integration > Identity Sources and verify the pxGrid status is 'Connected'.. To verify pxGrid integration, you should check the Identity Sources page in the FMC. A 'Connected' status confirms that the FMC has successfully established a pxGrid session with ISE and can retrieve user identity information. This is the definitive indicator that the integration is operational.

Answer

Check the FMC's audit log for pxGrid authentication events.

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Check the FMC's System Status page for pxGrid connection status.

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Run the 'show pxgrid status' command on the FTD CLI.

Question 6

An administrator uses Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center to manage several Threat Defense devices. The team wants FMC to send health and audit events to a remote syslog server so that a monitoring platform can alert on configuration changes. Which FMC configuration accomplishes this?

Accepted Answer

Configure Syslog Alerting under System > Configuration > Audit Log and enable the events to be sent to the remote server.. FMC generates its own audit and health events, and the platform supports forwarding them to a remote syslog server through the syslog alerting configuration under System > Configuration > Audit Log. This keeps management-plane events separate from Threat Defense traffic events and gives the monitoring platform a direct feed of configuration changes without needing correlation policies or eStreamer.

Answer

Configure syslog on each Threat Defense device under Platform Settings and forward the Audit Log to the remote server.

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Enable the eStreamer service on FMC and point the monitoring platform's eStreamer client at the FMC management IP.

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Create a correlation policy on each managed device that matches audit events and sends SNMP traps to the monitoring platform.

Question 7

An engineer is deploying a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device that must apply URL filtering to outbound web traffic. The organization's policy requires that URL category decisions come from Cisco Talos intelligence without sending every URL to the cloud in real time, and the device must remain functional if the management center is unreachable. Which integration should the engineer configure on the Threat Defense device?

Accepted Answer

Enable the local URL filtering database on the Threat Defense device by installing the URL filtering package, and reference URL categories in access control rules.. The Threat Defense device supports a local URL filtering database that includes Cisco Talos URL categories. When this database is installed and kept updated, access control rules can match URL categories directly on the device, avoiding per-request cloud lookups and preserving enforcement if the management center is unreachable. This is the standard integration for URL filtering in Cisco Secure Firewall deployments that need local categorization.

Answer

Configure an external URL filtering server using the ICAP protocol and point the Threat Defense device to it.

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Configure a Cisco Umbrella DNS policy on the Threat Defense device via the management center platform settings.

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Import a third-party URL category feed into the management center as a custom Security Intelligence list and enforce it on the Threat Defense device.

Question 8

An engineer is configuring Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense to send syslog messages to a remote SIEM. The engineer wants to ensure that only intrusion events with severity level 'high' are sent to reduce noise. Which configuration should the engineer perform on the Firepower Management Center?

Accepted Answer

Create a syslog alert for intrusion events and set the severity filter to 'high' in the alert configuration.. To send only high-severity intrusion events to a syslog server, you must configure a syslog alert within the intrusion policy and set the severity filter to 'high'. This ensures that only events meeting that severity are forwarded, reducing noise and meeting the requirement.

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Modify the intrusion policy to disable all signature events except those with high severity.

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Configure an access control policy with a rule that logs only high-severity intrusion events to syslog.

Answer

Set the syslog server object to only accept messages with severity 'high' by configuring a filter on the server.

Question 9

A security team is deploying Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense and wants to integrate it with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for user identity. The team wants to use the ISE pxGrid integration to enforce identity-based policies. After configuring the integration, the team notices that user identities are not being learned by the FMC. The team verifies that the pxGrid certificate is valid and the FMC can connect to ISE. What is the most likely reason?

Accepted Answer

The FMC is not configured to subscribe to the correct pxGrid topics, such as Session Directory and User Identity.. For pxGrid integration to populate user identity information, the FMC must subscribe to the appropriate pxGrid topics, such as Session Directory and User Identity. Without these subscriptions, the FMC will not receive the data even if the connection and certificates are valid. Verifying and enabling the correct subscriptions is essential for successful integration.

Answer

The Threat Defense devices are not configured to send user identity information to the FMC.

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The FMC is using the wrong certificate for pxGrid, and the ISE rejects the connection.

Answer

The ISE pxGrid persona is not enabled on the ISE node, and the FMC cannot authenticate.

Question 10

A security team is integrating Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center with a Cisco Identity Services Engine deployment using pxGrid. The administrator has enabled pxGrid on ISE and created a pxGrid client certificate. The management center shows the ISE integration as healthy, but user identity data is not being populated in the FMC. Which two actions should the administrator take to troubleshoot the missing identity data? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Verify that the pxGrid client certificate on the FMC is signed by the same CA that ISE trusts and that the certificate has client authentication EKU.. When FMC shows a healthy pxGrid integration but no user identities appear, the most likely causes are certificate trust or extended key usage problems and pxGrid client authorization or topic permissions on ISE. The FMC client certificate must be trusted by ISE and valid for client authentication, and the client must be assigned to a pxGrid profile that permits subscriptions to identity topics. Checking these two areas directly addresses the missing data without unnecessary service restarts.

Answer

Ensure that the FMC is configured to use LDAP as the identity source instead of pxGrid, because pxGrid only provides posture data.

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Restart the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center management services to force a re-subscription to the ISE pxGrid topics.

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Verify that the ISE pxGrid node is enabled and that the FMC is pointing to the correct pxGrid node hostname or IP address and port.

Question 11

An administrator needs to send Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense connection events to a remote syslog server for long-term retention. The administrator wants to ensure that the Threat Defense device sends these events directly to the syslog server without relying on the management center. Which configuration should the administrator use?

Accepted Answer

Configure the Threat Defense device's platform settings to send syslog messages to the remote server, and enable connection event logging in the access control policy.. To send connection events directly from a Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense device to a remote syslog server, the administrator must configure syslog forwarding in the device's platform settings and ensure that connection event logging is enabled in the access control policy. This allows the device to generate and transmit the events itself, independent of the management center, which is necessary for direct retention on the syslog server.

Answer

Configure NetFlow export on the Threat Defense device to send connection events to the syslog server.

Answer

Use the management center's eStreamer service to forward connection events to the syslog server.

Answer

Configure syslog forwarding on the management center under Platform Settings and apply it to the Threat Defense device.

Question 12

A security operations team wants to correlate Cisco Secure Firewall intrusion events with endpoint data from Cisco Secure Endpoint (formerly AMP for Endpoints) in the management center. The administrator has already registered the management center with Cisco SecureX and configured the Secure Endpoint integration. Which additional step is required for the management center to display Secure Endpoint data alongside intrusion events?

Accepted Answer

Ensure that the management center has the Secure Endpoint integration enabled and that the SecureX registration is complete and healthy.. The management center integrates with Cisco Secure Endpoint through Cisco SecureX. To display endpoint data alongside intrusion events, the Secure Endpoint integration must be enabled and the SecureX registration must be complete and healthy. This allows the management center to query Secure Endpoint for endpoint context using the SecureX broker, enriching intrusion events with endpoint information. Without a valid registration or with the integration disabled, the data will not appear.

Answer

Configure the management center to use Cisco SecureX as an identity source for endpoint data.

Answer

Install a Secure Endpoint connector on the management center appliance to collect endpoint telemetry.

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Enable the Secure Endpoint module in the management center's health policy and apply it to all managed devices.

Question 13

An administrator wants to stream security events, connection events, and intrusion events from Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) to a third-party SIEM platform. Which built-in protocol and feature on the FMC should be configured to export these events in real-time?

Accepted Answer

eStreamer. eStreamer is the FMC's built-in event streaming service that pushes intrusion, connection, security, and malware events to external clients (such as third-party SIEMs) in real time over a proprietary TCP-based protocol on port 8302. It is purpose-built for high-volume event export from the FMC and is the documented integration path for SIEM platforms like Splunk, QRadar, and ArcSight.

Answer

pxGrid

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NETCONF

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RADIUS Accounting

Question 14

An administrator is integrating Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) using Platform Exchange Services (pxGrid). Which service must be enabled and running on the ISE nodes for pxGrid communication to succeed?

Accepted Answer

Cisco pxGrid Service. pxGrid must be enabled on the designated ISE nodes so that Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense can subscribe to user identity and session updates.

Answer

IPAM Synchronization Service

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RADIUS Accounting Service

Answer

TACACS+ Authentication Service

Question 15

Which menu path in the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) is used to configure the connection to Cisco Threat Response or Cisco SecureX?

Accepted Answer

System > Integration > SecureX. Integration with Cisco SecureX (Threat Response) is configured under System > Integration on the FMC interface.

Answer

Devices > Device Management > Threat Intelligence

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Objects > Object Management > Cloud Services

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Policies > Access Control > Security Intelligence