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HPE6-A84 Exam Overview - Aruba Certified Network Security Expert Written Exam

The HPE6-A84 exam is a comprehensive test that evaluates the candidate's knowledge and expertise in various areas related to Aruba Certified Mobility Expert (ACMX) certification. The HPE6-A84 exam tests the candidate's ability to:
- Design, deploy, integrate, and articulate a PKI solution, including when to use it and what to recommend.
- Architect an enterprise-class network design that aligns with security policies.
- Design a role-based access control scheme using ClearPass/AOS/AOS-CX.
- Architect a solution that integrates ecosystem partners, such as identity partners, MDM, firewall, and endpoint security.
- Design an enterprise-wide endpoint classification policy.
- Deploy proactive remediation.
- Use ClearPass Device Insight.

The candidate has worked in networking for four to five years, with two to three years in security-focused fields. They are a network architect responsible for auditing and/or remediating network vulnerabilities. Successful candidates should have experience designing and troubleshooting enterprise-level network solutions. Additionally, the candidate should be able to articulate key technical concepts associated with network security, such as RBAC, APT, endpoint classification, DOS, DDOS, and policy enforcement. They should also be able to compare and recommend Aruba security solutions.

Exam Details

Exam ID: HPE6-A84
Exam type: Proctored
Exam duration: 2 hours
Exam length: 60 questions
Passing score: 66%
Delivery languages: English

Exam Objectives

25%     Protect and Defend 

Task: Define security terminology
Explain and implement forensic techniques
Articulate the Aruba Zero Trust Security Strategy
Integrate Aruba solutions with ecosystem partner solutions
Explain how Aruba solutions map to local compliance
Define PKI best practices and implement certificate-based authentication
Explain the role of device profiling and risk scoring in a company's security efforts
Describe threat hunting
Explain and implement role-based access control

25%    Protect and Defend 

Task: Secure Unified Infrastructure
Design a detection strategy for rogue wireless devices and other wireless threats utilizing Aruba WIPS features
Implement Aruba Zero Trust Security for the unified infrastructure using ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) and other ClearPass solutions
Design enterprise-wide firewall policies (appRF, PEF, WIPS, WCC) for clients in a variety of wired and wireless architectures
Architect complex ACLs per wired interface and VLAN
Design and implement network analytic engine solutions for anomaly detection, correlation, auditing, and alerting
Design and implement Dynamic Segmentation
Describe Aruba CloudAuth capabilities and explain how to migrate to an Aruba CloudAuth-based solution

8%    Protect and Defend 

Task: Secure the WAN
Design and deploy secure client-to-site access using Aruba Central and Aruba gateways 
Design and deploy Gateway IDS/IPS

38%    Analyze

Task: Threat detection
Analyze logs, alerts, and other features at an expert level to detect threats
Remediate the security risk
Tune alerts
Design a workflow for Network Analytic Engine (NAE) script development
Implement endpoint classification and device profiling with CPDI (including profiling capabilities within Central Network Operations)
Interpret and respond to endpoint classification data, as well as use it to tune policies

4%   Investigate

Perform a comprehensive analysis in a set timeframe

View Online Aruba Certified Network Security Expert Written Exam HPE6-A84 Free Questions

1. You are designing an Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) solution for a customer. You learn that the customer has a Palo Alto firewall that filters traffic between clients in the campus and the data center.
Which integration can you suggest?
A. Sending Syslogs from the firewall to CPPM to signal CPPM to change the authentication status for misbehaving clients
B. Importing clients’ MAC addresses to configure known clients for MAC authentication more quickly
C. Establishing a double layer of authentication at both the campus edge and the data center DMZ
D. Importing the firewall's rules to program downloadable user roles for AOS-CX switches more quickly
Answer: A 

2. A company has Aruba gateways and wants to start implementing gateway IDS/IPS. The customer has selected Block for the Fail Strategy.
What might you recommend to help minimize unexpected outages caused by using this particular fall strategy?
A. Configuring a relatively high threshold for the gateway threat count alerts
B. Making sure that the gateways have formed a cluster and operate in default gateway mode
C. Setting the IDS or IPS policy to the least restrictive option, Lenient
D. Enabling alerts and email notifications for events related to gateway IPS engine utilization and errors
Answer: B

3. A company has Aruba gateways that are Implementing gateway IDS/IPS in IDS mode. The customer complains that admins are receiving too frequent of repeat email notifications for the same threat. The threat itself might be one that the admins should investigate, but the customer does not want the email notification to repeat as often.
Which setting should you adjust in Aruba Central?
A. Report scheduling settings
B. Alert duration and threshold settings
C. The IDS policy setting (strict, medium, or lenient)
D. The allowlist settings in the IDS policy
Answer: B 

4. You are configuring gateway IDS/IPS settings in Aruba Central.
For which reason would you set the Fail Strategy to Bypass?
A. To permit traffic if the IPS engine falls to inspect It
B. To enable the gateway to honor the allowlist settings configured in IDS/IPS policies
C. To tell gateways to stop enforcing IDS/IPS policies if they lose connectivity to the Internet
D. To avoid wasting IPS engine resources on filtering traffic for unauthenticated clients
Answer: A

5. A customer has an AOS 10 architecture, consisting of Aruba AP and AOS-CX switches, managed by Aruba Central. The customer wants to obtain information about the clients, such as their general category and OS.
What should you explain?
A. The customer must deploy Aruba gateways in order to receive any client profiling information.
B. You will need to set up Aruba Central as a secondary IP helper for client VLANs, but this will not interfere with existing operations.
C. Aruba Central will automatically derive this information using telemetry from the Aruba devices.
D. The customer should set up a dedicated switch VSX group to sniff packets and direct them to Aruba Central.
Answer: C

6. You are reviewing an endpoint entry in ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) Endpoints Repository.
What is a good sign that someone has been trying to gain unauthorized access to the network?
A. The entry shows multiple DHCP options under the fingerprints.
B. The entry shows an Unknown status.
C. The entry shows a profile conflict of having a new profile of Computer for a profiled Printer.
D. The entry lacks a hostname or includes a hostname with long seemingly random characters.
Answer: C