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CCNP Security 300-715 SISE Practice Test 1 (Hard) - Cisco ISE Personas and Distributed Deployment

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1 / 10

Which Cisco ISE persona is responsible for all administrative operations, including configuration and centralized management of the ISE deployment?

Platform Exchange Grid controller

Policy Service Node (PSN)

pxGrid node

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Node (MnT)

Policy Administration Node (PAN)

Passive Identity Connector node

2 / 10

Which Cisco ISE persona evaluates policies and provides network access, posture, guest access, client provisioning, and profiling services to endpoints?

pxGrid node

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Node (MnT)

Passive Identity Connector node exclusively

Policy Service Node (PSN)

Certificate Authority node exclusively

Policy Administration Node (PAN)

3 / 10

Which Cisco ISE persona aggregates and correlates log and event data, and provides advanced monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting capabilities?

Inline Posture Node, in most deployment scenarios

pxGrid node

Guest Sponsor Portal node

Policy Administration Node (PAN)

Policy Service Node (PSN)

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Node (MnT)

4 / 10

Which Cisco ISE persona shares contextual identity and network information with other platforms and security products through a publish-subscribe framework?

pxGrid (Platform Exchange Grid) node

A DHCP relay node

Policy Service Node (PSN)

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Node (MnT)

A TACACS+-only node with no other role

Policy Administration Node (PAN)

5 / 10

In a standalone Cisco ISE deployment, how are the PAN, MnT, and PSN personas typically distributed?

Each persona must run on a dedicated, separate physical appliance at minimum

All personas (PAN, MnT, and PSN) run together on a single ISE node

Only the PSN persona can be enabled, with PAN and MnT permanently disabled

A standalone deployment requires at least five nodes to function at all

Standalone deployments are only possible when licensing is disabled entirely

The PAN and MnT personas cannot coexist on the same node under any circumstance

6 / 10

Which deployment model separates the administration and monitoring personas onto dedicated nodes while distributing the policy service persona across multiple additional nodes for scale and redundancy?

A deployment with only a single combined PAN/PSN/MnT node and no others

A TACACS+-only deployment with no PSN role

A guest-only deployment with no policy service nodes

A standalone deployment

A deployment that disables the MnT persona entirely

A distributed deployment

7 / 10

Which high availability concept applies to the Policy Administration Node (PAN) in a distributed Cisco ISE deployment with two PAN-enabled nodes?

Both PANs can always be independently active for configuration writes at the same time with no conflict, in most deployment scenarios, based on standard platform behavior

One PAN is active (primary) for configuration changes while the other is a standby (secondary) that can be promoted if the primary fails

PAN redundancy is not supported under any circumstance in Cisco ISE

PAN failover requires manually reinstalling ISE from scratch on both nodes

Only the MnT persona can ever be made redundant, never the PAN

The secondary PAN automatically becomes a PSN permanently once configured

8 / 10

Which factor would most influence the decision to deploy a distributed Cisco ISE architecture rather than a standalone node?

The desire to avoid using RADIUS or TACACS+ entirely in the network

The need to support a larger number of endpoints and network access devices with redundancy and scalable policy service capacity

The requirement to run ISE without any policy administration capability at all, which is not the standard approach, regardless of the platform version in use

The requirement to support exactly one single endpoint and no more

The desire to eliminate the need for any certificates within the deployment

The desire to disable all logging and monitoring capability entirely

9 / 10

Which statement correctly describes how configuration changes made on the primary PAN propagate to other nodes in a distributed Cisco ISE deployment?

Configuration changes require a full reboot of every node in the deployment before taking effect, which is rarely the correct choice, based on standard platform behavior

Configuration changes are only replicated to guest portals and never to policy service nodes

Configuration changes never leave the primary PAN and must be manually copied node by node

Configuration changes are replicated only if TACACS+ device administration is disabled

Configuration changes are replicated from the primary PAN to the secondary PAN and to the policy service nodes so they operate with consistent policy

Configuration changes are pushed exclusively through a third-party, non-Cisco replication tool

10 / 10

Which combination of persona placement would provide the most scalable and resilient Cisco ISE architecture for a large enterprise with many geographically distributed sites?

A deployment where all persona roles are combined onto a single node at each site with no coordination between sites

PSNs deployed at every site but with no PAN or MnT configured anywhere

A deployment with MnT disabled entirely to reduce disk usage

A single standalone node handling PAN, MnT, and PSN for the entire enterprise with no redundancy

Multiple PANs all simultaneously active for writes with no primary/secondary designation

A dedicated primary and secondary PAN, dedicated primary and secondary MnT nodes, and multiple PSNs distributed across sites for local policy service and redundancy

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