700-760 Practice Questions
Prepare for 700-760 with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $80 USD
- Level
- Specialist
- Valid for
- No expiration - tied to partner specialization requirements
Domains covered on the exam 6
- Threat Landscape and Security Issues20%
- Selling Cisco Security15%
- Customer Conversations15%
- IoT Security15%
- Cisco Zero Trust15%
- Cisco Security Solutions Portfolio20%
- 1
A company has successfully implemented Cisco Duo for workforce access. Now, they want to extend Zero Trust principles to their on-premises network to control which devices can connect and what resources they can access. For example, a corporate laptop should have more access than a guest's smartphone. Which product is essential for implementing this 'Zero Trust for the Workplace' vision?
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Correct answer: B
Cisco ISE is the core component for 'Zero Trust for the Workplace.' It acts as the central policy decision point for network access control (NAC). ISE profiles devices connecting to the network (wired, wireless, VPN), assesses their security posture, and enforces granular access policies, including dynamic segmentation. While a Firewall is an enforcement point and Secure Network Analytics provides visibility, ISE is the brain that makes the policy decisions for network access.
- 2
An Account Manager is explaining the financial and operational impact of a fragmented security environment to a customer. Which TWO are direct negative consequences of relying on dozens of disconnected security point products? (Select TWO)
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Correct answer: C, D
- 3
A university needs to secure its sprawling campus network, which includes lecture halls, dormitories, and research labs. They are particularly concerned about unmanaged IoT devices like smart lighting and HVAC systems. The university wants to automatically identify, profile, and apply a baseline security policy to any new device that connects to the network. Which Cisco security solution is best suited for this requirement?
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Correct answer: B
Cisco ISE is the ideal solution for this use case. Its profiling capabilities can automatically identify and classify devices (including IoT devices) as they connect to the network. Based on this profile, ISE can then enforce a dynamic access policy, such as placing all smart lighting on a specific, restricted VLAN. This provides visibility and control over unmanaged devices, which is a core tenet of securing the workplace and IoT.
- 4
When a partner participates in Cisco's partner programs, they gain access to various tools and resources. Which resource is specifically designed to provide partners with sales collateral, marketing campaign kits, and go-to-market materials?
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Correct answer: B
Cisco SalesConnect is the primary portal for partners to access sales-related materials. This includes presentations, datasheets, battle cards, marketing campaign assets, and training modules. While CCW is for quoting and ordering, and dCloud is for demos, SalesConnect is the hub for sales and marketing enablement content.
- 5
A customer is concerned about ransomware attacks that encrypt files on endpoints and spread laterally across the network. They need a solution that not only prevents malware but also provides deep visibility into file activity and can isolate a compromised endpoint from the network to stop an attack from spreading. Which Cisco solution best meets all these requirements?
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Correct answer: D
Cisco Secure Endpoint (formerly AMP for Endpoints) is the correct solution. It combines endpoint protection (EPP) with endpoint detection and response (EDR). Its capabilities include blocking malware, continuously monitoring file and process activity, and providing forensic data. Crucially, its device isolation feature allows an administrator to quarantine a compromised endpoint with a single click, preventing ransomware from spreading to other systems on the network.
- 6
A customer is overwhelmed by alerts from dozens of non-integrated security tools. Their security team spends most of its time manually correlating data instead of responding to threats. Which term best describes the customer's primary challenge, which a platform-based approach like Cisco SecureX is designed to solve?
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Correct answer: D
Security fragmentation refers to the use of multiple, disconnected security point products, leading to operational complexity, visibility gaps, and slow response times. While this condition often causes alert fatigue, fragmentation is the root problem that a unified platform like Cisco SecureX aims to solve by integrating various tools. Vendor lock-in is a commercial issue, and a zero-day vulnerability is a specific type of threat, not an operational challenge.
- 7
A mid-sized e-commerce company is migrating its applications to a multi-cloud environment (AWS and Azure). They need a consistent security policy for workloads and visibility into traffic between cloud providers, but they want to avoid deploying and managing multiple native or vendor firewalls. Which Cisco solution is specifically designed to provide this unified security policy management across multiple public cloud environments?
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Correct answer: D
Cisco Multicloud Defense is a cloud-native solution designed to provide a single, consistent security policy framework across multiple public clouds like AWS, Azure, and GCP. It simplifies security operations by abstracting the underlying cloud-specific controls into one management console. Secure Firewall is a network firewall, Umbrella focuses on DNS-layer security and SWG, and ISE is for network access control.
- 8
An Account Manager is explaining the core pillars of Cisco's Zero Trust framework to a client. Which THREE components are essential to establishing a comprehensive Zero Trust architecture? (Select THREE)
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Correct answer: B, C, F
- 9
A partner is new to the Cisco ecosystem and wants to maximize their profitability on a large security deal. The Account Manager advises them to register the opportunity early in the sales cycle. What is the primary benefit for a partner who utilizes the Cisco Deal Registration program?
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Correct answer: A
The Cisco Deal Registration program, part of the Opportunity Incentive Program (OIP), is designed to reward partners for identifying and developing new business. A key benefit is providing preferential pricing (a front-end discount) and protecting the partner from being undercut by other partners on the same deal, thereby safeguarding their pre-sales investment and improving profitability.
- 10
A global manufacturing firm, is undergoing a major digital transformation. They are connecting their factory floor Operational Technology (OT) systems to their corporate IT network to enable predictive maintenance. This convergence has raised significant security concerns for the CISO, who has no visibility into the industrial protocols (e.g., Modbus, SCADA) and fears that a compromise on the IT side could halt production.
The current security stack consists of traditional IT firewalls at the enterprise perimeter, which are not designed to inspect industrial traffic. The CISO's team lacks the expertise to manually create policies for thousands of new OT devices. Their primary goals are to gain complete visibility of all OT assets, segment the OT network from the IT network without disrupting operations, and detect anomalous behavior specific to industrial processes.
As the Cisco Account Manager, which integrated solution set should you propose to address all of the CISO's primary concerns?
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Correct answer: B
This is the most comprehensive solution addressing all specific OT/IT convergence challenges. Cisco Cyber Vision is purpose-built for OT visibility, asset inventory, and industrial threat detection. Integrating it with ISE allows for dynamic micro-segmentation based on device identity and behavior, effectively isolating the OT environment. Secure Firewall then acts as the policy enforcement point. Option A lacks OT-specific visibility. Option C is incorrect as Secure Endpoint cannot be installed on most OT devices. Option D (Meraki) is too simplistic for a complex industrial OT environment.
