Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance

Exam code : 300-720 SESA
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Vendor : Cisco

Exam description:
This exam tests your knowledge of Cisco Email Security Appliance, including: Administration Spam control and antispam Message filters Data loss prevention LDAP Email authentication and encryption System quarantines and delivery methods

Area : Security  
Status : Active
Exam start on : 24-02-2020 end on :
Duration (minutes): 90
Questions : min None - max None

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Cost :

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Format : Closed Book
Delivery : Testing center - Proctored

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Exam topics:

• 1.0 - Cisco Email Security Appliance Administration - 15%
  
  • 1.1. - Configure Cisco Email Security Appliance features
  • 1.1.a - Hardware performance specifications
  • 1.1.b - Initial configuration process
  • 1.1.c - Routing and delivery features
  • 1.1.d - GUI
  • 1.2. - Describe centralized services on a Cisco Content SMA
  • 1.3. - Configure mail policies
  • 1.3.a. - Incoming and outgoing messages
  • 1.3.b. - User matching
  • 1.3.c. - Message splintering
• 2.0 - Spam Control with Talos SenderBase and Antispam - 15%
  
  • 2.1 - Control spam with Talos SenderBase and Antispam
  • 2.2 - Describe graymail management solution
  • 2.3 - Configure file reputation filtering and file analysis features
  • 2.4 - Implement malicious or undesirable URLs protection
  • 2.5 - Describe the bounce verification feature
• 3.0 - Content and Message filters - 20%
  
  • 3.1 - Describe the functions and capabilities of content filters
  • 3.2 - Create text resources such as content dictionaries, disclaimers, and templates
  • 3.2.a - Dictionaries filter rules
  • 3.2.b - Text resources management
  • 3.3 - Configure message filters components, rules, processing order and attachment scanning
  • 3.4 - Configure scan behavior
  • 3.5 - Configure the Cisco ESA to scan for viruses using Sophos and McAfee scanning engines
  • 3.6 - Configure outbreak filters
  • 3.7 - Configure Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
• 4.0 - LDAP and SMTP Sessions - 15%
  
  • 4.1 - Configure and verify LDAP servers and queries (Queries and Directory Harvest Attack)
  • 4.2 - Understand spam quarantine functions
  • 4.2.a - Authentication for end-users of spam quarantine
  • 4.2.b - Utilize spam quarantine alias to consolidate queries
  • 4.3 - Understand SMTP functionality
  • 4.3.a - Email pipeline
  • 4.3.b - Sender and recipient domains
  • 4.3.c - SMTP session authentication using client certificates
  • 4.3.d - SMTP TLS authentication
  • 4.3.e - TLS email encryption
• 5.0 - Email Authentication and Encryption - 20%
  
  • 5.1 - Configure Domain Keys and DKIM signing
  • 5.2 - Configure SPF and SIDF
  • 5.3 - Configure DMARC verification
  • 5.4 - Configure forged email detection
  • 5.5 - Configure email encryption
  • 5.6 - Describe S/MIME security services and communication encryption with other MTAs
  • 5.7 - Manage certificate authorities
• 6.0 - System Quarantines and Delivery Methods - 15%
  
  • 6.1 - Configure quarantine (spam, policy, virus, and outbreak)
  • 6.2 - Utilize safelists and blocklists to control email delivery
  • 6.3 - Manage messages in local or external spam quarantines
  • 6.4 - Configure virtual gateways

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Updateted information on : 29-02-2020

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