300-710 SNCF Deployment Practice Question
An administrator is deploying a Cisco Secure Firewall Virtual (Fv) appliance in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Which licensing model is typically supported for traffic throughput and feature activation during this cloud deployment?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Smart Licensing (BYOL) and Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) through the AWS Marketplace.
Cisco Secure Firewall Virtual supports both Bring Your Own License (BYOL) using Smart Licensing and Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) directly from cloud marketplaces.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Activation via automatic license generation from the Amazon VPC DHCP options list.
Why it's wrong here
DHCP options list does not generate or manage firewall feature licenses.
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Smart Licensing (BYOL) and Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) through the AWS Marketplace.
Why this is correct
AWS and Azure deployments support both BYOL (Smart Licensing) and PAYG billing models.
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Perpetual hardware-locked PAK files applied via the command line interface.
Why it's wrong here
Virtual firewalls use Smart Licensing rather than traditional hardware-locked Product Activation Keys (PAK).
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Activation exclusively through an on-premises Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM) satellite server without internet access.
Why it's wrong here
While CSSM satellite is supported for air-gapped environments, it is not the exclusive method.
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official Cisco exam blueprint
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