cisco 300-720 online test

Question 1 Topic 1

Topic 1
What is a benefit of enabling external SPAM quarantine on Cisco SMA?

• A. It provides access to the SPAM quarantine interface on which a user can release, duplicate, or delete.
• B. It provides the ability to scan messages by using two engines to increase a catch rate.
• C. It provides the ability to consolidate SPAM quarantine data from multiple Cisco ESAs to one central console.
• D. It provides the ability to back up SPAM quarantine from multiple Cisco ESAs to one central console.

Answer:

C

Question 2 Topic 1

Topic 1
What occurs when configuring separate incoming mail policies?

• A. message splintering
• B. message exceptions
• C. message detachment
• D. message aggregation

Answer:

A

Question 3 Topic 1

Topic 1
Which two statements about configuring message filters within the Cisco ESA are true? (Choose two.)

• A. The filters command executed from the CLI is used to configure the message filters.
• B. Message filters configuration within the web user interface is located within Incoming Content Filters.
• C. The filterconfig command executed from the CLI is used to configure message filters.
• D. Message filters can be configured only from the CLI.
• E. Message filters can be configured only from the web user interface.

Answer:

A D

Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/email-security-appliance/213940-esa-using-a-message-
filter-to-take-act.html

Question 4 Topic 1

Topic 1
A network administrator is modifying an outgoing mail policy to enable domain protection for the organization. A DNS entry is
created that has the public key.
Which two headers will be used as matching criteria in the outgoing mail policy? (Choose two.)

• A. message-ID
• B. sender
• C. URL reputation
• D. from
• E. mail-from

Answer:

B D

Question 5 Topic 1

Topic 1
To comply with a recent audit, an engineer must configure anti-virus message handling options on the incoming mail policies
to attach warnings to the subject of an email.
What should be configured to meet this requirement for known viral emails?

• A. Virus Infected Messages
• B. Unscannable Messages
• C. Encrypted Messages
• D. Positively Identified Messages

Answer:

C

Question 6 Topic 1

Topic 1
An administrator is managing multiple Cisco ESA devices and wants to view the quarantine emails from all devices in a
central location.
How is this accomplished?

• A. Disable the VOF feature before sending SPAM to the external quarantine.
• B. Configure a mail policy to determine whether the message is sent to the local or external quarantine.
• C. Disable the local quarantine before sending SPAM to the external quarantine.
• D. Configure a user policy to determine whether the message is sent to the local or external quarantine.

Answer:

B

Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/esa/esa12-
0/user_guide/b_ESA_Admin_Guide_12_0/b_ESA_Admin_Guide_12_0_chapter_0100000.html#task_1749146

Question 7 Topic 1

Topic 1
Which two features are applied to either incoming or outgoing mail policies? (Choose two.)

• A. Indication of Compromise
• B. application filtering
• C. outbreak filters
• D. sender reputation filtering
• E. antivirus

Answer:

C E

Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/esa/esa11-
1/user_guide/b_ESA_Admin_Guide_11_1/b_ESA_Admin_Guide_chapter_01001.html

Question 8 Topic 1

Topic 1
A Cisco ESA administrator has several mail policies configured. While testing policy match using a specific sender, the email
was not matching the expected policy.
What is the reason of this?

• A. The “From” header is checked against all policies in a top-down fashion.
• B. The message header with the highest priority is checked against each policy in a top-down fashion.
• C. The “To” header is checked against all policies in a top-down fashion.
• D. The message header with the highest priority is checked against the Default policy in a top-down fashion.

Answer:

D

Question 9 Topic 1

Topic 1
An administrator identifies that, over the past week, the Cisco ESA is receiving many emails from certain senders and
domains which are being consistently quarantined. The administrator wants to ensure that these senders and domain are
unable to send anymore emails.
Which feature on Cisco ESA should be used to achieve this?

• A. incoming mail policies
• B. safelist
• C. blocklist
• D. S/MIME Sending Profile

Answer:

A

Question 10 Topic 1

Topic 1
An engineer is testing mail flow on a new Cisco ESA and notices that messages for domain abc.com are stuck in the delivery
queue. Upon further investigation, the engineer notices that the messages pending delivery are destined for 192.168.1.11,
when they should instead be routed to 192.168.1.10.
What configuration change needed to address this issue?

• A. Add an address list for domain abc.com.
• B. Modify Destination Controls entry for the domain abc.com.
• C. Modify the SMTP route for the domain and change the IP address to 192.168.1.10.
• D. Modify the Routing Tables and add a route for IP address to 192.168.1.10.

Answer:

C

Explanation:
Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/email-security-appliance/118136-qanda-esa-00.html