Cisco Practice Test 200-201 CBROPS: Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Fundamentals

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The Cisco 200-201 CBROPS practice test trains you in detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats. 

Why should I take the Cisco 200-201 CBROPS exam?

The Cisco 200-201 CBROPS exam tests your knowledge and skills regarding security concepts, security monitoring, host-based analysis, network intrusion analysis, and security policies and procedures. In order to gain the CyberOps Associate (CCNA) certification, you must pass the 200-201 CBROPS.

The Cisco 200-201 CBROPS practice test includes two different modes: certification and practice mode. Certification mode allows you to assess your knowledge and discover your weak areas, with practice mode allowing you to focus on the areas that need development.

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Questions: 242
Release Date: 10/2020 (Last updated: 02/2024)
Job Role: Cybersecurity Analyst
Language: English

The Cisco 200-201 CBROPS practice test contains 242 questions and covers the following topics: 

Security Concepts – 52 questions  

Describe the CIA triad

 

Compare security deployments

  • Network, endpoint, and application security systems
  • Agentless and agent-based protections
  • Legacy antivirus and antimalware
  • SIEM, SOAR, and log management
  • Container and virtual environments
  • Cloud security deployments

 

Describe security terms  

  • Threat intelligence (TI)  
  • Threat hunting  
  • Malware analysis  
  • Threat actor  
  • Run book automation (RBA)
  • Reverse engineering
  • Sliding window anomaly detection
  • Principle of least privilege
  • Zero trust
  • Threat intelligence platform (TIP)
  • Threat modeling

 

Compare security concepts  

  • Risk (risk scoring/risk weighting, risk reduction, risk assessment)  
  • Threat  
  • Vulnerability
  • Exploit 

 

Describe the principles of the defense-in-depth strategy  

 

Compare access control models  

  • Discretionary access control
  • Mandatory access control
  • Nondiscretionary access control
  • Authentication, authorization, accounting
  • Rule-based access control
  • Time-based access control
  • Role-based access control
  • Attribute-based access control

 

Describe terms as defined in CVSS  

  • Attack vector  
  • Attack complexity
  • Privileges required
  • User interaction
  • Scope
  • Temporal metrics
  • Environmental metrics

 

Identify the challenges of data visibility (network, host, and cloud) in detection  

 

Identify potential data loss from provided traffic profiles  

 

Interpret the 5-tuple approach to isolate a compromised host in a grouped set of logs  

 

Compare rule-based detection vs. behavioral and statistical detection  

 

Security Monitoring – 61 questions  

Compare attack surface and vulnerability  

 

Identify the types of data provided by these technologies  

  • TCP dump  
  • NetFlow  
  • Next-gen firewall
  • Traditional stateful firewall
  • Application visibility and control
  • Web content filtering
  • Email content filtering  

 

Describe the impact of these technologies on data visibility  

  • Access control list  
  • NAT/PAT  
  • Tunneling  
  • TOR
  • Encryption
  • P2P
  • Encapsulation
  • Load balancing  

 

Describe the uses of these data types in security monitoring  

  • Full packet capture  
  • Session data  
  • Transaction data  
  • Statistical data
  • Metadata
  • Alert data  

 

Describe network attacks, such as protocol-based, denial of service, distributed denial of service, and man-in-the-middle  

 

Describe web application attacks, such as SQL injection, command injections, and cross-site scripting 

 

Describe social engineering attacks  

 

Describe endpoint-based attacks, such as buffer overflows, command and control (C2), malware, and ransomware  

 

Describe evasion and obfuscation techniques, such as tunneling, encryption, and proxies  

 

Describe the impact of certificates on security (includes PKI, public/private crossing the network, asymmetric/symmetric)  

 

Identify the certificate components in a given scenario  

  • Cipher-suite  
  • X.509 certificates  
  • Key exchange  
  • Protocol version  
  • PKCS  

 

Host-Based Analysis – 46 questions  

Describe the functionality of these endpoint technologies in regard to security monitoring  

  • Host-based intrusion detection  
  • Antimalware and antivirus
  • Host-based firewall
  • Application-level allow listing/block listing
  • Systems-based sandboxing (such as Chrome, Java, Adobe Reader)  

 

Identify components of an operating system (such as Windows and Linux) in a given scenario  

 

Describe the role of attribution in an investigation  

  • Assets  
  • Threat actor  
  • Indicators of compromise  
  • Indicators of attack
  • Chain of custody  

 

Identify type of evidence used based on provided logs  

  • Best evidence  
  • Corroborative evidence
  • Indirect evidence  

 

Compare tampered and untampered disk image  

 

Interpret operating system, application, or command line logs to identify an event  

 

Interpret the output report of a malware analysis tool (such as a detonation chamber or sandbox)  

  • Hashes  
  • URLs  
  • Systems, events, and networking  

 

Network Intrusion Analysis – 49 questions  

Map the provided events to source technologies  

  • IDS/IPS  
  • Firewall  
  • Network application control  
  • Proxy logs
  • Antivirus
  • Transaction data (NetFlow)  

 

Compare impact and no impact for these items  

  • False positive
  • False negative
  • True positive
  • True negative
  • Benign  

 

Compare deep packet inspection with packet filtering and stateful firewall operation  

 

Compare inline traffic interrogation and taps or traffic monitoring  

 

Compare the characteristics of data obtained from taps or traffic monitoring and transactional data (NetFlow) in the analysis of network traffic  

 

Extract files from a TCP stream when given a PCAP file and Wireshark  

 

Identify key elements in an intrusion from a given PCAP file  

  • Source address  
  • Destination address  
  • Source port  
  • Destination port  
  • Protocols
  • Payloads  

 

Interpret the fields in protocol headers as related to intrusion analysis  

  • Ethernet frame  
  • IPv4
  • IPv6
  • TCP
  • UDP
  • ICMP
  • DNS
  • SMTP/POP3/IMAP
  • HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2
  • ARP  

 

Interpret common artifact elements from an event to identify an alert  

  • IP address (source / destination)  
  • Client and server port identity  
  • Process (file or registry)  
  • System (API calls)  
  • Hashes
  • URI / URL  

 

Interpret basic regular expressions  

 

Security Policies and Procedures – 34 questions 

Describe management concepts  

  • Asset management  
  • Configuration management  
  • Mobile device management  
  • Patch management
  • Vulnerability management  

 

Describe the elements in an incident response plan as stated in NIST.SP800-61  

 

Apply the incident handling process (such as NIST.SP800-61) to an event  

 

Map elements to these steps of analysis based on the NIST.SP800-61  

  • Preparation  
  • Detection and analysis  
  • Containment, eradication, and recovery  
  • Post-incident analysis (lessons learned)  

 

Map the organization stakeholders against the NIST IR categories (CMMC, NIST.SP800- 61)  

  • Preparation  
  • Detection and analysis  
  • Containment, eradication, and recovery  
  • Post-incident analysis (lessons learned)  

 

Describe concepts as documented in NIST.SP800-86  

  • Evidence collection order  
  • Data integrity  
  • Data preservation
  • Volatile data collection  

 

Identify these elements used for network profiling  

  • Total throughput  
  • Session duration
  • Ports used
  • Critical asset address space  

 

Identify these elements used for server profiling  

  • Listening ports
  • Logged in users/service accounts
  • Running processes
  • Running tasks
  • Applications  

 

Identify protected data in a network  

  • PII  
  • PSI  
  • PHI  
  • Intellectual property  

 

Classify intrusion events into categories as defined by security models, such as Cyber Kill Chain Model and Diamond Model of Intrusion 

 

Describe the relationship of SOC metrics to scope analysis (time to detect, time to contain, time to respond, time to control) 

 

 

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What can I expect to earn if I pass the Cisco 200-201 CBROPS exam?

On passing the Cisco CBROPS 200-201 exam and obtaining a job as an entry-level Security Engineer you can expect to earn a salary in the United States of approximately $125,000.

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CISCO CBROPS PRACTICE TEST 

Why should you use our Cisco 200-201 CBROPS practice test? 

The MeasureUp 200-201 CBROPS practice test is the most realistic simulation of the actual certification exam on the market, giving you the perfect opportunity to pass the official exam on the first go. With our Test Pass Guarantee, you can be sure of success as we will issue you a full refund if you do not pass. The Cisco 200-201 CBROPS practice test has been created by leading experts in the field of responding to cyber security threats.  

 

Why should you trust Cisco 200-201 CBROPS Practice Test from MeasureUp over free learning material? 

The MeasureUp Cisco 200-201 CBROPS practice test has many benefits over free learning material, including: 

  • A larger bank of questions, so more opportunities to learn. 
  • Detailed explanations with online references of correct and incorrect answers. 
  • A total of fourteen different question types, replicating the look and feel of the real exam. 
  • Customizable based on your needs. Certification & Practice Modes. 
  • Test Pass Guarantee. 
  • Written, reviewed, and edited by experts. 

 

How to use the Cisco 200-201 CBROPS Practice Test? 

You can use the Cisco 200-201 CBROPS practice test in two different modes: certification and practice mode. The first gives you the possibility to assess your knowledge and discover your weak areas, and the second allows you to focus on these areas, ensuring you spend your time wisely. We first recommend you take the CBROPS practice test in certification mode. By studying the generated report on completing the test, you will get a helpful overview of which areas require further attention. You should then take the test in practice mode in order to develop those areas. Once you are confident you have improved your knowledge in these areas, you can re-take the test in certification mode and, on passing twice consecutively with a rate of 90%, you know you are exam ready!

 

Will the questions be the same as the actual exam? 

Although the questions will emulate those of the official exam in terms of style, content, level of difficulty, for reasons of copyright they will not be exactly the same. This will allow you to fully understand the content you are studying so that, no matter how the questions are focused, you can be confident you are covering the same material and that you will have no problem in passing the exam. 

 

CISCO 200-201 CBROPS CERTIFICATION EXAM 

What is Cisco 200-201 CBROPS?  

The Cisco 200-201 CBROPS certification exam validates the ability to detect and respond to cybersecurity threats. 

 

How can I prepare for the Cisco 200-201 CBROPS certification exam? 

  • Review the Cisco 200-201 CBROPS exam domains carefully. 
  • Create a study plan for your preparation. 
  • Enroll for the MeasureUp practice tests. Our practice tests recreate the actual exam in terms of style, format, skill sets, question structure, and level of difficulty, and can be taken in two different formats: practice mode and certification mode. 
  • Practice, practice, practice! After looking at all the questions available in the test, checking the correct answers, reviewing the explanations regarding all the different answer options, and consulting the carefully chosen references, it is now time to use the test’s Certification Mode. This is the closest experience you’ll get to the real exam. And when you pass the Certification Mode on two consecutive occasions with a score of 90% or more, you know you are… Exam ready!

 

How many questions does Cisco 200-201 CBROPS have? 

The 200-901 CBROPS certification exam has approximately 100 questions, and you will have 120 minutes to complete the exam.

 

How difficult is Cisco 200-201 CBROPS? 

This depends on your current level of knowledge and experience of cybersecurity. However, there are no pre-requisites to taking this exam and it is considered by Cisco to be suitable for an entry-level cybersecurity analyst. Despite this, and given the expenditure involved in sitting an official exam for a valuable IT certification, we always recommend that you give yourself the best possible chance of success by making your preparation as thorough as possible. 

 

Is Cisco 200-201 CBROPS worth it? 

The CCNA certifications by Cisco are viewed as very valuable in terms of increasing your level of credibility as well as your ability to attract potential employers and command higher salaries.