350-701 Network Security Practice Question
Which of the following is a characteristic of a stateful firewall like Cisco ASA?
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It maintains a state table of active connections.
Stateful firewalls track the state of active connections and make decisions based on the state of the session.
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It filters traffic based solely on packet headers.
Why it's wrong here
That is stateless packet filtering.
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It maintains a state table of active connections.
Why this is correct
Correct. Stateful firewalls keep track of connections.
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It can only filter based on source IP address.
Why it's wrong here
Stateful firewalls consider many criteria.
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It requires a separate proxy for each application.
Why it's wrong here
That is a proxy firewall.
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