Cisco Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies Exam Practice Test
The 350-701 SCOR practice page covers security concepts used to protect network traffic, endpoints, applications, and management systems. Its question bank samples certificate validation and revocation, web application protection, website reputation controls, threat detection, IPv6 source-address protection, network segmentation, and inline intrusion prevention.
Exam overview
About the Cisco Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies Exam
Security work involves matching a control to a threat and understanding where that control acts. Certificate checks include confirming that a server certificate matches the requested hostname; a certificate revocation list identifies certificates that should no longer be trusted. Web application protection can place a filtering component in front of an origin server, while reputation-based controls help restrict access to risky sites. Detection questions distinguish fixed byte-pattern matching from approaches that can recognize threats despite changes to their exact signatures. Network scenarios also test source-address validation for IPv6, segmentation to limit endpoint-to-endpoint movement, and separation of management interfaces from production access. For inline prevention, the key operational distinction is whether a sensor can block detected traffic rather than only report it. These scenarios call for identifying the relevant security function and relating it to the exposure being reduced.
Sample Practice Questions
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A security team wants to make a web application available through a single public endpoint while hiding the origin server's address and filtering application requests. Which component is designed for this role?
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Correct answer: AA reverse proxy accepts client requests on behalf of backend servers. It can conceal origin infrastructure and provide functions such as request filtering, TLS handling, and load distribution.
A network uses a public-key infrastructure to issue certificates to devices. What is the primary function of a certificate revocation list?
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Correct answer: AA certificate revocation list (CRL) is a CA-published list of certificates revoked before their natural expiration, for example because a private key was compromised.
A company is planning a security test and wants to evaluate controls without disrupting production services. Which approach is generally safest as an initial step?
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Correct answer: AA scoped, authorized assessment in a test environment helps evaluate controls while limiting operational and legal risk. Testing should have clear permission, boundaries, and safety procedures.
A security team is reviewing a certificate presented by a server. Which check helps establish that the certificate is valid for the hostname the client intended to reach?
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Correct answer: ATLS clients validate that the requested hostname matches a name listed in the certificate, commonly in the subject alternative name extension, in addition to checking trust and validity dates.
A security team wants to reduce the risk that users can access websites known to distribute malware. Which control is designed to make access decisions based on website reputation or category?
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Correct answer: AURL filtering evaluates web destinations using categories, reputation, or policy rules and can block or allow access accordingly. The other options address network connectivity, address assignment, or clock coordination rather than web destination policy.
A security operations team wants to ensure that an alerting rule continues to identify a threat after software updates change the exact byte sequence used by the threat. Which detection approach is generally more resilient than a fixed byte-pattern match?
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Correct answer: ABehavior-based detection evaluates patterns of activity and context, so it can remain useful when a threat's exact bytes change. Fixed signatures can be effective for known patterns but may be brittle when the pattern is modified.
A security engineer is designing an IPv6 network and wants to reduce exposure to traffic with spoofed source addresses at the access layer. Which measure is most directly relevant?
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Correct answer: AIPv6 source-validation mechanisms, such as IPv6 source guard where supported and properly configured, can restrict traffic based on validated bindings and help mitigate source-address spoofing at the access edge.
How to use this practice test
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Preparation tips
- Compare certificate hostname validation with revocation checking; they address different reasons a certificate may not be accepted.
- For web security scenarios, distinguish an application-layer filtering component from website reputation or category-based access control.
- Practice explaining when signature-based detection may miss altered byte patterns and how more resilient detection approaches help.
- Map IPv6 source-address protections, endpoint segmentation, and management-plane isolation to the specific traffic each is intended to restrict.
- Differentiate passive alerting from inline intrusion prevention, which must be able to block traffic on the forwarding path.