CCNP Security SNCF Practice Exams

The 300-710 SNCF exam — Securing Networks with Cisco Firepower — is one of the concentration exams that, combined with the 350-701 SCOR core exam, earns the CCNP Security certification. It is the deepest product-focused exam in the track, testing hands-on competence with Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense. The blueprint covers deployment (routed, transparent, inline, inline tap, passive and ERSPAN modes; FMC, FDM and cloud-delivered management; high availability and clustering; licensing and registration), configuration (prefilter and access control policy, NAT, intrusion and network analysis policy, malware and file policy, SSL decryption, identity policy and Security Intelligence, VPN and routing), management and troubleshooting (event analysis, health policy, backups, updates, packet-tracer and firewall-engine-debug, and Snort restart behavior), and integration (ISE and pxGrid with Rapid Threat Containment, Secure Endpoint, Secure Malware Analytics, eStreamer, Threat Intelligence Director, and the REST API). The exam runs 90 minutes.

• 1Completes CCNP Security when paired with the 350-701 SCOR core exam
• 2The most operationally practical exam in the track — it maps directly to daily Secure Firewall administration
• 3Cisco Secure Firewall is one of the most widely deployed enterprise NGFW platforms, so the skills transfer immediately
• 4Covers the full policy chain from prefilter through access control, intrusion, malware, and decryption — the knowledge that separates a firewall operator from a firewall engineer
• 5Builds the troubleshooting fluency (packet-tracer, firewall-engine-debug, Snort restart behavior) that shortens real outages

• ✓Choose and implement FTD deployment modes: routed, transparent, inline, inline tap, passive, and ERSPAN
• ✓Compare management architectures — FMC, FDM, and cloud-delivered — and register devices with NAT ID and registration keys
• ✓Implement high availability with FTD failover pairs and clustering, and understand what state is and is not replicated
• ✓Apply Smart Licensing and the Essentials, IPS, Malware Defense, URL Filtering, and Carrier entitlements
• ✓Build prefilter and access control policies, and reason correctly about rule order, actions, and inspection handoff
• ✓Configure auto NAT and manual NAT and predict evaluation order across NAT sections 1, 2, and 3
• ✓Tune intrusion and network analysis policies, including base policies, rule states, variable sets, and Snort 3 behavior
• ✓Configure file and malware policy with dispositions, dynamic analysis, and retrospective events
• ✓Implement SSL decryption policy with decrypt-resign and decrypt-known-key, and handle pinning and bypass
• ✓Analyze connection, intrusion, and malware events, build correlation rules, and produce reports
• ✓Troubleshoot with packet-tracer, capture, system support trace, firewall-engine-debug, and troubleshoot files
• ✓Integrate with ISE and pxGrid for identity and Rapid Threat Containment, and with Secure Endpoint, Secure Malware Analytics, eStreamer, and the FMC REST API