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Exam Topics
Exam Topics
The following information provides general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.
Implement secure networks using Cisco ASA Firewall
- Perform basic firewall Initialization
- Configure device management
- Configure address translation (nat, global, static)
- Configure ACLs
- Configure IP routing
- Configure object groups
- Configure VLANs
- Configure filtering
- Configure failover
- Configure Layer 2 Transparent Firewall
- Configure security contexts (virtual firewall)
- Configure Modular Policy Framework
- Configure Application-Aware Inspection
- Configure high availability solutions
- Configure QoS policies
Implement secure networks using Cisco IOS Firewalls
- Configure CBAC
- Configure Zone-Based Firewall
- Configure Audit
- Configure Auth Proxy
- Configure PAM
- Configure access control
- Configure performance tuning
- Configure advanced IOS Firewall features
Implement secure networks using Cisco VPN solution
- Configure IPsec LAN-to-LAN (IOS/ASA)
- Configure SSL VPN (IOS/ASA)
- Configure Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
- Configure Group Encrypted Transport (GET) VPN
- Configure Easy VPN (IOS/ASA)
- Configure CA (PKI)
- Configure Remote Access VPN
- Configure Cisco Unity Client
- Configure Clientless WebVPN
- Configure AnyConnect VPN
- Configure XAuth, Split-Tunnel, RRI, NAT-T
- Configure High Availability
- Configure QoS for VPN
- Configure GRE, mGRE
- Configure L2TP
- Configure advanced Cisco VPN features
Configure Cisco IPS to mitigate network threats
- Configure IPS 4200 Series Sensor Appliance
- Initialize the Sensor Appliance
- Configure Sensor Appliance management
- Configure virtual Sensors on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure security policies
- Configure promiscuous and inline monitoring on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure and tune signatures on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure custom signatures on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure blocking on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure TCP resets on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure rate limiting on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure signature engines on the Sensor Appliance
- Use IDM to configure the Sensor Appliance
- Configure event action on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure event monitoring on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure advanced features on the Sensor Appliance
- Configure and tune Cisco IOS IPS
- Configure SPAN & RSPAN on Cisco switches
Implement Identity Management
- Configure RADIUS and TACACS+ security protocols
- Configure LDAP
- Configure Cisco Secure ACS
- Configure certificate-based authentication
- Configure proxy authentication
- Configure 802.1x
- Configure advanced identity management features
- Configure Cisco NAC Framework
Implement Control Plane and Management Plane Security
- Implement routing plane security features (protocol authentication, route filtering)
- Configure Control Plane Policing
- Configure CP protection and management protection
- Configure broadcast control and switchport security
- Configure additional CPU protection mechanisms (options drop, logging interval)
- Disable unnecessary services
- Control device access (Telnet, HTTP, SSH, Privilege levels)
- Configure SNMP, Syslog, AAA, NTP
- Configure service authentication (FTP, Telnet, HTTP, other)
- Configure RADIUS and TACACS+ security protocols
- Configure device management and security
Configure Advanced Security
- Configure mitigation techniques to respond to network attacks
- Configure packet marking techniques
- Implement security RFCs (RFC1918/3330, RFC2827/3704)
- Configure Black Hole and Sink Hole solutions
- Configure RTBH filtering (Remote Triggered Black Hole)
- Configure Traffic Filtering using Access-Lists
- Configure IOS NAT
- Configure TCP Intercept
- Configure uRPF
- Configure CAR
- Configure NBAR
- Configure NetFlow
- Configure Anti-Spoofing solutions
- Configure Policing
- Capture and utilize packet captures
- Configure Transit Traffic Control and Congestion Management
- Configure Cisco Catalyst advanced security features
Identify and Mitigate Network Attacks
- Identify and protect against fragmentation attacks
- Identify and protect against malicious IP option usage
- Identify and protect against network reconnaissance attacks
- Identify and protect against IP spoofing attacks
- Identify and protect against MAC spoofing attacks
- Identify and protect against ARP spoofing attacks
- Identify and protect against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
- Identify and protect against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
- Identify and protect against Man-in-the-Middle (MiM) attacks
- Identify and protect against port redirection attacks
- Identify and protect against DHCP attacks
- Identify and protect against DNS attacks
- Identify and protect against Smurf attacks
- Identify and protect against SYN attacks
- Identify and protect against MAC Flooding attacks
- Identify and protect against VLAN hopping attacks
- Identify and protect against various Layer2 and Layer3 attacks