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CCNP Security 300-740 SSCA Practice Test 18 (Hard) - Cisco Secure Workload - Vulnerability Assessment, Application Discovery, and Policy Lifecycle

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Which Cisco Secure Workload capability helps identify known software vulnerabilities present on workloads across an environment, informing risk-based prioritization of remediation efforts?

Conference room scheduling data, which is unrelated to software vulnerability assessment

DNS zone transfer configuration, which is unrelated to software vulnerability assessment

Physical hardware inventory tagging with no relationship to software vulnerability data

Print queue monitoring, which is unrelated to software vulnerability assessment

Vulnerability assessment and scoring integrated with workload inventory data

Employee badge access logs, which are unrelated to software vulnerability assessment

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Which practical benefit does combining vulnerability data with application dependency mapping provide when prioritizing remediation efforts across a large workload environment?

It guarantees that no workload will ever be found to have a vulnerability again in the future

It automatically patches every vulnerability across the entire environment with no administrator involvement required, in most deployment scenarios, under typical configuration conditions, which is rarely the correct choice

It eliminates the need for any vulnerability scanning once dependency mapping has been performed

It automatically negotiates a lower cloud hosting bill based on the number of vulnerabilities found

It helps identify vulnerable workloads that are also highly exposed or critical based on their actual communication relationships, allowing remediation to focus on the highest real-world risk first

It automatically converts every vulnerable workload into a fully isolated, disconnected system

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Which activity describes the ongoing process of observing an application's real communication flows to keep discovery data and segmentation policy accurate as the application evolves?

Physically walking through the data center once per year to visually inspect server racks

Reviewing the application vendor's marketing brochure for a general product description

Printing a static architecture diagram and distributing it to the operations team once

Continuous application discovery and dependency mapping

Reading the application's original design specification document with no live traffic observation involved

A single, one-time network diagram created manually at initial application deployment with no updates afterward

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Which policy lifecycle activity would help an organization confirm that a proposed change to an existing microsegmentation policy will not inadvertently block legitimate application traffic before it is enforced?

Assuming any proposed policy change will always work correctly with no analysis required

Waiting for a user complaint after the change is live as the sole method of validation

Disabling all traffic logging before applying the proposed policy change to reduce noise

Enforcing the proposed change immediately in production with no simulation or validation of any kind

Applying the change only to a randomly selected, unrelated application with no connection to the actual change, though this is not generally recommended

Policy validation and impact analysis (such as simulating the proposed change against recent observed traffic) prior to enforcement

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Which practice supports maintaining accurate, auditable microsegmentation policy over the long term as applications are added, changed, or decommissioned?

Allowing any team member to modify segmentation policy for any application with no review or approval process

Creating segmentation policies once and never reviewing or retiring them even after the associated application is decommissioned, in accordance with common design practices, regardless of the platform version in use

Disabling all policy change logging to simplify the lifecycle management process

Assuming decommissioned applications automatically have their associated policies removed with no administrative action

Establishing a policy lifecycle process that includes creation, validation, enforcement, periodic review, and retirement of policies tied to the application's actual lifecycle

Applying the exact same policy to every new application regardless of its actual communication requirements

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Which risk would most likely result from an organization failing to retire microsegmentation policies associated with an application that has been fully decommissioned?

Stale policy rules would automatically self-delete after a fixed period with no administrative action needed

The decommissioned application would automatically resume running without any administrative action

All other unrelated applications would automatically inherit the orphaned policy rules without any configuration, though this is not generally recommended, regardless of the platform version in use

Stale, orphaned policy rules could accumulate over time, increasing management complexity and potentially creating confusing or conflicting rules for future applications

The Secure Workload platform would automatically shut down entirely once any policy becomes orphaned

The organization's DNS infrastructure would automatically fail as a direct result of the stale policy

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Which combination of vulnerability assessment and application discovery practices would provide the most effective risk-based remediation prioritization for a large, dynamic workload environment?

Disabling vulnerability scanning entirely for any workload considered non-critical, regardless of its actual exposure

Vulnerability scanning performed once per year with no correlation to application dependency data at all, in accordance with common design practices, which is not the standard approach, which is inconsistent with expected behavior

Prioritizing remediation solely based on which vulnerability was discovered most recently, regardless of exposure or criticality

Continuous vulnerability scanning correlated with up-to-date application dependency data, so remediation efforts prioritize vulnerable workloads that are both highly exposed and business-critical

Application dependency mapping performed once with no ongoing vulnerability scanning of any kind

Ignoring vulnerability severity scores entirely and remediating vulnerabilities in alphabetical order by workload name

8 / 10

Which factor would most influence how frequently an organization re-runs application discovery and dependency mapping for a given application environment?

The average outdoor temperature at the organization's headquarters

The number of parking spaces available at the organization's headquarters, which is inconsistent with expected behavior, in most deployment scenarios, under typical configuration conditions

The color scheme configured for the Secure Workload dashboard

The rate of change in the application's architecture, deployment frequency, and the criticality of maintaining accurate segmentation policy for that environment

The font used in the organization's internal newsletter

The specific brand of coffee served in the application team's office

9 / 10

Which practice would help an organization demonstrate, during a compliance audit, that its microsegmentation policies for a regulated application have been properly validated and maintained over time?

Deleting all historical policy change records to reduce storage costs before the audit occurs

Assuming compliance auditors have no interest in microsegmentation policy history for regulated applications

Relying exclusively on an administrator's personal memory of past policy changes with no documented history at all, based on standard platform behavior

Assuming auditors will accept a verbal assurance that policies were validated with no supporting documentation

Maintaining an auditable history of policy creation, validation results, enforcement changes, and periodic reviews tied to that application

Creating policy documentation only at the moment the audit is announced, with no prior ongoing record-keeping

10 / 10

Which statement accurately summarizes how vulnerability assessment, application discovery, and policy lifecycle management work together within Cisco Secure Workload to support ongoing security posture?

These three capabilities cannot be used together within the same Secure Workload deployment

Vulnerability assessment alone is sufficient to maintain accurate segmentation policy with no discovery or lifecycle management needed

Discovery, vulnerability assessment, and policy lifecycle management are simply three different names for the exact same identical process with no distinction

Application discovery is only relevant at the moment of initial deployment and has no ongoing role afterward

Policy lifecycle management eliminates the need for any vulnerability assessment once implemented

Discovery provides an accurate map of what is running and how it communicates, vulnerability assessment highlights what needs remediation, and policy lifecycle management ensures segmentation stays aligned with both as the environment evolves

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