Cisco ASA Mission Questions

Week 1

Date Question opens: 11/6/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

  1. SolarWinds has released another Network Insight™ feature to provide deeper insights into your network devices outside of standard SNMP. What popular network devices arethe focus of the latest release?
  2. F5® for BIG-IP® load balancers
  3. Cisco® ASA firewalls
  4. Meraki® wireless devices
  5. Cisco Nexus® switches

HINT:

Date Question opens: 11/7/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - select ALL that apply

  1. Network Insight™ for Cisco® ASA brings unprecedented visibility into the most popular firewall. Which SolarWinds product(s)include this revolutionary new feature? Select ALL that apply.
  • Network Performance Manager (NPM)
  • IP Address Manager (IPAM)
  • Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
  • VoIP and Network Quality Manager (VNQM)
  • User Device Tracker (UDT)

HINT:

Date Question opens: 11/8/2017

Question type: Fill in the blank

  1. With Network Insight™ for Cisco® ASA in SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor, you gain visibility into _ _ _ /______, failover monitoring, and connection counts.
  • VPN tunnels
  • VPNTUNNELS
  • VpnTunnels
  • VPN TUNNELS
  • Vpn Tunnels
  • vpn tunnels
  • vpntunnels

Hint:
Follow-up: Network Insight for Cisco ASA provides visibility into both site-to-site and remote access VPNs. Want to learn more? Go here.

Date Question opens: 11/9/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

  1. SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor will show user name and tunnel duration details, as well as the amount of data downloaded and uploaded, for what type of VPN?
  2. Remote access VPN
  3. Site-to-site VPN

Hint:

Date Question opens: 11/10/2017

Question type: Answer a poll question

  1. How many ASAs do you have?
  2. 1-25
  3. 26-50
  4. 51-75
  5. 75+
  6. I do not have ASAs

HINT: There is no wrong answer here!

Week 2

Date Question opens: 11/13/2017

Question type: Fill in the blank

  1. Monitoring your ASAs with SolarWinds®Network Performance Monitor will allow you to see if your site-to-site VPNs are ______, ______, or ______.

Fill-in-the-blank:

  • Up, down, inactive
  • Sideways, horizontal, vertical
  • On, off, Paused
  • Input, output, throughput

Hint:

Date Question opens: 11/14/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

  1. What is this month’s SolarWinds Lab™title (airing November 15!)?
  • Hybrid IT Diagnosis
  • Cisco ASA Firewall Special: VPN, ACL, HA, Multi-Context, and More
  • Master Your Virtualization Universe
  • Monitoring 201

Hint:

Follow-up:

Be sure to sign up to watch tomorrow! Missed one of the previous episodes? Never fear, all SolarWinds Lab episodes are archived on THWACK®. Go back and watch past episodes at any time here.

Date Question opens: 11/15/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

  1. Do you run your ASAs in multi-context or single-context mode?

Multiple choice, choose one, no wrong answer

  1. Multi-context
  2. Single-context
  3. Both
  4. I do not have ASAs

HINT: There is no wrong answer here!

  1. Date Question opens: 11/16/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

When looking at High Availability for your Cisco™ ASA, what failover service components are monitored using Network Insight™ for Cisco ASA? Select ALL that apply.

  • Standby ready
  • Config synced
  • Connection state synced

Hint: (LAB @5:17)

  1. Date Question opens: 11/17/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

In this week's Lab, Head Geek™Destiny Bertucci drills into details of an ACL with some issues. What type of issue does the alert show?

There is a Shadow Rule

There is a Redundant Rule

Hint: (LAB @ 30:12)

Week 3

Date Question opens: 11/20/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

  1. Enjoy complete visibility into the health and performance of your firewall environment with filtering, searching, and viewing of ACLs through the new ______in SolarWinds®Network Configuration Manager.
  • Firewall Rule Browser
  • Network Insight
  • High availability
  • Interface

Hint: Listen carefully to the VIDEO:

Date Question opens: 11/21/2017

Question type: Fill in the blank

  1. The latest release of SolarWinds®Network Configuration Manager (NCM) includes support for Access Control Lists, firmware upgrades, and ______on Cisco® ASA devices.

Fill-in-the-blank:

Multi-context

multi-context

multicontext

MultiContext

Multicontext

MULTI-CONTEXT

Multi-Context

Hint:

Date Question opens: 11/22/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

  1. One way to reduce security risks and ensure your Access Control Lists (ACLs) are working as intended is to detect ______and ______rules.

Fill-in-the-blank

Shadow, Redundant

Configured, Assigned

Individual, Access

Hint:

Date Question opens: 11/23/2017

Question type: Fill in the blank

  1. What future Network Insight™ is SolarWinds working on to bring to you?

Fill-in-the-blank:

Network Insight for _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _

Cisco Nexus

CiscoNexus

Cisconexus

cisconexus

CISCONEXUS

CISCO NEXUS

cisco nexus

Hints:

Date Question opens: 11/24/2017

Question type: Answer a poll question

  1. Do you run your ASAs in routed or pass-through mode?
  2. Routed
  3. Pass-through
  4. Both
  5. I do not have ASAs

HINT: There is no wrong answer here!

Week 4

  1. Date Question opens: 11/27/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

One SolarWinds customer loves using the NCM scripting engine to validate QoS policies, ______, and the configuration of all the iOS® devices across the network.

  • Automatic config backups
  • Security policies
  • Network vulnerabilities
  • Real-time config changes

Hint: close attention around 0:45)

Follow-up:SolarWinds® Network Configuration Manager (NCM) delivers powerful network automation to help organizations manage network configuration and compliance. NCM can manage network vulnerabilities, configure devices to policy, detect and prevent out-of-process changes, and audit device configurations.Download a free trial now!

Date Question opens: 11/28/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

  1. When monitoring and managing VPNs, SolarWinds Head Geek™ Destiny Bertucci believes that it’s important to have a healthy mix of ______and good tools to help you avoid issues before they happen.
  • Mad troubleshooting skills
  • Sweet SWQL skills
  • Killer code skills

Hint: (Pay close attention starting on page 8)

Date Question opens: 11/29/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - select ALL that apply

  1. Which of the following are essential for effectively monitoring and managing ASAs? Select ALLthat apply.
  • Analyzing hit counts of ACLs
  • Compare like devices for network standardization
  • Remote access VPN visibility
  • Failover monitoring
  • Automatic config backups

Hint: (Pay close attention to pages 16-17)

Date Question opens: 11/30/2017

Question type: Multiple choice - one right answer

  1. Adding in security contexts, which present multiple, separate sets of ACLs that may or may not be working together, to already-complex ASAs is like going from ______to 3-D chess.
  2. Go Fish
  3. Tic Tac Toe
  4. Backgammon
  5. Hopscotch

Hint: (page 21)