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CCNP Security 300-710 SNCF Practice Test 9 (Hard) - Firepower Deployment Modes Comparison and Design Considerations

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Which comparison correctly distinguishes routed mode from transparent mode in terms of the firewall's role in the network topology?

Routed mode and transparent mode are functionally identical with no meaningful difference

Transparent mode always requires more physical interfaces than routed mode under all circumstances

Routed mode can only be used with a single interface, while transparent mode requires at least four, which is rarely the correct choice, which is inconsistent with expected behavior

Routed mode eliminates the need for any access control policy, while transparent mode requires one

Routed mode has the firewall act as a Layer 3 hop with its own subnets, while transparent mode has it act as a Layer 2 bridge preserving existing addressing

Transparent mode always provides higher throughput than routed mode under all circumstances

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Which comparison correctly distinguishes passive NGIPS deployment from inline NGIPS deployment in terms of blocking capability?

Passive and inline deployment provide identical blocking capability with no difference

Inline deployment can only monitor and alert, never block, while passive deployment can always block, regardless of the platform version in use

Both passive and inline deployment always require a dedicated failover link

Passive deployment can only monitor and alert, while inline deployment can actively drop malicious traffic in real time

Passive deployment can always block traffic just as effectively as inline deployment

Neither passive nor inline deployment can ever generate alerts under any circumstance

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Which comparison correctly distinguishes Active/Standby failover from clustering in terms of how traffic is processed across multiple units?

Active/Standby failover and clustering are simply two different names for the exact same feature, regardless of the platform version in use, which is inconsistent with expected behavior

Active/Standby failover keeps one unit idle in standby while the other processes traffic, whereas clustering allows all member units to actively process traffic simultaneously

Active/Standby failover and clustering both keep every unit permanently idle at all times

Active/Standby failover allows unlimited units to all actively process traffic simultaneously

Clustering eliminates the need for any Cluster Control Link entirely

Clustering only supports exactly two units, the same hard limit as failover

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Which comparison correctly distinguishes on-premises FTDv from cloud-deployed FTDv in terms of underlying infrastructure ownership?

On-premises FTDv requires no hypervisor of any kind, unlike cloud FTDv

On-premises FTDv and cloud FTDv use entirely incompatible, non-overlapping feature sets with zero commonality

On-premises FTDv and cloud FTDv always run on identical, interchangeable physical hardware owned by Cisco

Cloud FTDv is only available as a physical appliance shipped to the customer's cloud data center

On-premises FTDv runs on hypervisor infrastructure the organization owns and operates, while cloud-deployed FTDv runs on infrastructure owned and operated by the public cloud provider

Cloud FTDv can never be centrally managed by the same management platform as on-premises FTDv

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Which deployment mode combination would be most appropriate for an organization that needs to insert a firewall into an existing data center segment without any IP re-addressing, while also actively blocking known threats in real time?

Routed firewall mode combined with fully passive SPAN-based monitoring only

Routed firewall mode combined with no intrusion prevention capability enabled at all

A design with no firewall mode selected and no NGIPS deployment configured

Transparent firewall mode combined with fully passive SPAN-based monitoring only, with no blocking

Transparent firewall mode combined with inline NGIPS deployment

Passive-only deployment with the firewall physically removed from the traffic path entirely

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Which deployment mode combination would be most appropriate for a high-throughput data center requiring both maximum aggregate capacity and Layer 3 routing participation by the firewall?

Routed firewall mode combined with fully passive SPAN-based monitoring only

Routed firewall mode with all interfaces disabled

Routed firewall mode combined with clustering and Spanned EtherChannel

Transparent firewall mode combined with Active/Standby failover and no clustering

Transparent firewall mode with no bridge groups configured at all

Transparent firewall mode combined with a single standalone unit and no redundancy

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Which design tradeoff should be weighed when choosing Active/Standby failover over clustering for a mid-sized branch office deployment?

There is no tradeoff at all, since failover and clustering behave identically in every respect

Failover always provides more aggregate throughput than clustering under all circumstances

Clustering is always simpler to configure than failover for exactly two units

Failover always requires more physical units than clustering under all circumstances

Failover offers simpler configuration and operation for two units at the cost of leaving the standby unit's processing capacity unused, while clustering adds complexity but uses all units' capacity

Clustering can only be used with a single unit, making it unsuitable for any redundancy

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Which factor would most influence a decision to deploy FTDv in the cloud versus a physical Secure Firewall Threat Defense appliance on-premises for a new workload?

The preferred font used in the organization's internal documentation

Whether the workload itself is hosted in a public cloud environment versus an on-premises data center

The physical appliance's chassis color compared to the cloud provider's logo color

The time zone in which the network engineering team happens to be located

The brand of coffee machine in the network operations center break room

The number of parking spaces available at the organization's headquarters

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Which statement correctly summarizes how firewall mode (routed/transparent) and NGIPS deployment mode (passive/inline) relate to each other as design decisions?

Firewall mode and NGIPS deployment mode can never both be configured on the same device

Selecting routed firewall mode automatically forces inline NGIPS deployment with no other option

Choosing inline NGIPS deployment automatically disables all firewall mode selection entirely

Selecting transparent firewall mode automatically forces passive-only NGIPS deployment with no other option, under normal operating conditions, in most deployment scenarios

Firewall mode and NGIPS deployment mode are actually the exact same setting under a different name

They are largely independent design decisions that can be combined in different ways depending on the organization's addressing and blocking requirements

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Which combination of deployment decisions would be most appropriate for a rapidly growing e-commerce company that needs to protect both an on-premises data center and workloads recently migrated to a public cloud, with active blocking and scalable throughput in both environments?

On-premises: routed mode with clustering/Spanned EtherChannel and inline NGIPS; cloud: FTDv sized appropriately with auto-scaling and consistent policy via centralized management across both environments

On-premises: transparent mode with passive-only monitoring and no redundancy; cloud: no firewall protection deployed at all

On-premises and cloud both left completely unprotected while a plan is developed indefinitely

On-premises: routed mode with a single standalone unit and no NGIPS blocking capability; cloud: a fixed single instance with no auto-scaling, in accordance with common design practices, though this is not generally recommended

On-premises: clustering configured with no Cluster Control Link; cloud: FTDv deployed with no centralized management integration

On-premises: Active/Standby failover with no interface health monitoring; cloud: an oversized instance with no sizing review

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