300-710 SNCF Integration Practice Question
An administrator is integrating Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center with Cisco ISE via pxGrid. The connection fails during the certificate validation phase because the FMC rejects the ISE pxGrid certificate. Upon inspection, the FMC certificate store lacks the intermediate CA certificate of the PKI hierarchy used by ISE. How should the administrator resolve this?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Upload the complete certificate authority chain (Root and Intermediate CA certificates) into the FMC Trusted CAs object repository.
Mutual TLS for pxGrid requires the FMC to trust the entire certificate chain presented by ISE. The administrator must upload both the Root CA and Intermediate CA certificates of the ISE PKI to the FMC's trusted certificate store under Object Management > PKI > Trusted CAs.
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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Configure an SNMPv3 community string to bridge the certificate trust gap.
Why it's wrong here
SNMPv3 has no relationship to TLS certificate chain validation.
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Upload the complete certificate authority chain (Root and Intermediate CA certificates) into the FMC Trusted CAs object repository.
Why this is correct
The FMC must have the entire CA chain trusted to validate the ISE pxGrid server certificate successfully.
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Generate a self-signed certificate on the FTD CLI and assign it as the pxGrid trust anchor.
Why it's wrong here
Trust anchors must match the PKI issuing certificates on ISE, not arbitrary self-signed FTD certs.
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Disable certificate validation in the FMC pxGrid advanced configuration menu.
Why it's wrong here
Certificate validation cannot be disabled for pxGrid connections.
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