Securing Networks with Cisco Firepower (SNCF) Free Sample Questions

Case Study

A large Managed Service Provider (MSP) is deploying a multi-tenant security architecture using a Cisco Firepower 9300 chassis. The goal is to provide dedicated firewall instances to three distinct customers (Tenant A, Tenant B, and Tenant C) while maintaining strict isolation and resource guarantees.

Architecture Details:

• Chassis: Firepower 9300 with two SM-44 security modules.
• Requirement 1: Tenant A requires high throughput (40 Gbps) and must be isolated on its own hardware resources.
• Requirement 2: Tenants B and C have lower throughput needs (10 Gbps each) and can share a security module but must have separate management and data planes.
• Requirement 3: All tenants require independent upgrades and policy management.

Current Configuration:

• The administrator plans to use Native/Container instances.
• A single Firepower Management Center (FMC) 4600 will manage all instances.

Based on the requirements, which deployment strategy on the FXOS chassis is valid and optimal?

A security engineer is troubleshooting a Firepower 2100 series appliance that is not accepting new configuration deployments from the FMC. The engineer suspects a communication issue between the management plane and the data plane. Which command should be entered in the FTD CLI to verify the status of the management processes?

An administrator is configuring Security Intelligence on a Cisco FMC to block traffic from known malicious IPs. The organization subscribes to a third-party threat feed that provides a text list of IP addresses updated every 2 hours. How should this feed be integrated into the Security Intelligence policy?

A network engineer needs to configure a Firepower 4100 series appliance. The goal is to allocate specific interfaces to a Logical Device. Which CLI environment must the engineer access to perform this interface allocation?

Which of the following scenarios best describes the use of the Threat Intelligence Director (TID) in a Cisco Firepower deployment? (Select TWO)

True or False: When configuring a Network Discovery Policy, enabling 'Users' discovery requires a connection to an identity source (such as ISE or an Active Directory Agent) to map IP addresses to usernames.

While investigating a performance issue, a security administrator notices that the Snort 3 process on an FTD appliance is utilizing a high amount of memory. Unlike Snort 2, which used a process-based model, Snort 3 uses a thread-based model. What is a key advantage of this architectural change in Snort 3?

A network architect is designing a High Availability (HA) pair of FTD devices. To ensure a successful Active/Standby configuration, which of the following conditions must be met? (Select THREE)