300-725 Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance (SWSA) Practice Questions
Prepare for 300-725 with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $300 USD
- Level
- Professional
- Valid for
- 3 years
Domains covered on the exam 5
- Cisco WSA Features20%
- Configuration20%
- Web Security Policies25%
- Anti-Malware and AMP20%
- Data Loss Prevention15%
- 1
What is the primary function of the 'Auth Surrogate' setting in a Cisco WSA identification profile?
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Correct answer: D
Auth Surrogates caching (IP or Cookie) remembers the user associated with a connection so the WSA doesn't have to challenge the user for credentials on every single TCP connection.
- 2
A network engineer wants to verify if traffic from a specific client IP (192.168.10.50) is hitting the correct Access Policy on the WSA. Which CLI command or GUI tool provides the most detailed simulation of policy evaluation?
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Correct answer: D
The Policy Trace tool allows admins to input parameters (Client IP, URL, User, Time) and simulates the request through the WSA policy pipeline (Identification -> Decryption -> Access) to show which rules match.
- 3
When configuring Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) on the Cisco WSA, what is the purpose of the 'File Retrospection' feature?
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Correct answer: D
Retrospection solves the 'Patient Zero' problem. If a file passes through as 'Clean' or 'Unknown' but later threat intelligence updates mark it as 'Malicious', the system generates a retrospective alert so the security team can remediate.
- 4
Case Study:
A financial institution uses Cisco WSA for web security. They recently implemented a new Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy to block credit card numbers.
However, the support team reports that employees are unable to upload necessary spreadsheet files to a partner portal because the DLP engine is triggering false positives on rows of product serial numbers that resemble credit card formats.
Which configuration change is the MOST effective way to reduce these false positives without disabling the credit card protection?
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Correct answer: D
The Luhn algorithm is a checksum formula used to validate a variety of identification numbers, such as credit card numbers. Enabling this ensures that only valid credit card numbers trigger the rule, ignoring random serial numbers that just happen to be 16 digits long.
- 5
Which Cisco WSA feature allows administrators to control application usage (e.g., allow Facebook Login but block Facebook Games) within HTTP/HTTPS traffic?
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Correct answer: D
AVC is the engine that performs deep packet inspection to identify signatures of applications and micro-applications, allowing granular control beyond just URL filtering.
- 6
What causes authentication failures on a Cisco WSA when LDAP is used for authentication?
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Correct answer: B
- 7
Refer to the exhibit. Which statement about the transaction log is true?
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Correct answer: D
- 8
Which two features can be used with an upstream and downstream Cisco WSA web proxy to have the upstream WSA identify users by their client IP address?(Choose two.)
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Correct answer: B, E
