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HPE6-A78 Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your HPE6-A78 exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete HP Aruba Certified Network Security Associate Exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free HPE6-A78 questions. We also provide premium HPE6-A78 practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

HPE6-A78 Exam Objectives

Section Weight Objectives
Protect and Defend 70%
  • Describe common security threats (MiM, DDOS, spoofing, zero day, etc.) and identify the difference between a threat and a vulnerability
  • Explain common security protocols and their use cases
  • Describe PKI components
  • Describe firewall (PEF), dynamic segmentation, RBAC, AppRF
  • Describe user roles and policy enforcement
  • Explain the purpose and methods of a packet capture
  • Explain social engineering and defense
  • Disable insecure protocols and follow best practices for implement secure management protocols such as SSH, HTTPS,  authenticated NTP, and CPsec
  • Describe best practices to protect network infrastructure devices with passwords, physical security, and out-of-band management
  • Use external authentication for network managers  
  • Compare and contrast wireless LAN methodologies
  • Deploy basic WLAN security    Deploy basic WLAN security
  • Describe and deploy basic user roles for wireless users
  • Compare and contrast wired LAN methodologies
  • Define and deploy basic user roles for wired users
  • Compare endpoint classifications methods
Analyze 24%
  • View and acknowledge WIPS and WIDS, alarms
  • Explain attack stages and kill chain
  • Collect logs
  • Troubleshoot with access tracker
  • Collect and monitor historical network pattern data
  • Identify and evaluate discovered endpoints
Investigate 6%
  • Collect logs
  • Identify chain of custody
  • Initiate an investigation
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