Systems Security Certified Practitioner
Domain 6Objective 5
6.5 - Operate and Configure Network-Based Security Appliances and Services SSCP Practice Questions (Page 7)
Part of the Network and Communication Security domain, which accounts for 16% of the SSCP exam. ISC2 does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~8–13 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 39 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 31–35
- 31
An organization runs a web application on multiple servers. The security team wants to ensure that if one server fails, traffic is automatically redirected to the remaining healthy servers. Which feature of a load balancer provides this capability?
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A company hosts a public web application and wants to protect it from common web attacks while also improving performance for users by caching static content. Which security appliance should be deployed in front of the web servers?
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Which detection method used by IDS/IPS relies on comparing current traffic patterns to a baseline of normal behavior to identify deviations?
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What is the primary purpose of traffic shaping in a network?
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A security analyst notices that a network-based IDS has detected a new type of malware communication that does not match any known signature. The analyst wants to ensure that future instances of this traffic are automatically blocked. Which configuration should be implemented?
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