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HP HPE6-A84 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | HPE Aruba Networking |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Aruba Certified Network Security Expert Written Exam |
| Exam Number: | HPE6-A84 |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60 |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Exam Format: | Multiple choice, Scenario-based, Drag-and-drop |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 3 years |
| Exam Price: | $250 USD |
| Passing Score: | 66% |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Recommended Training: | Aruba Certified Network Security Expert Training |
| Exam Registration: | HPE Aruba Certification Portal Pearson VUE Registration |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored or in-person at Pearson VUE testing centers |
| Pre Condition: | No mandatory prerequisites; recommended 3–5 years of networking experience, 2+ years in security, familiarity with Aruba ClearPass, Gateways, and Central |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://certification.arubanetworks.com/certifications/network-security-expert |
HP HPE6-A84 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: ClearPass Policy Manager Implementation | 25% | - Policy enforcement and troubleshooting - Device profiling and endpoint classification - Role-based access control (RBAC) - Authentication and authorization services |
| Topic 2: Secure Connectivity and Segmentation | 20% | - Dynamic Segmentation design and deployment - Secure remote access solutions - Firewall policy design and optimization - Client-to-site and site-to-site VPN |
| Topic 3: Advanced Security Architecture and Design | 20% | - PKI and certificate management - Zero Trust security framework design - Hybrid and cloud security integration - Multi-layered security architecture |
| Topic 4: Threat Detection and Defense | 20% | - Anomaly detection and incident response - WIPS and rogue device detection - IDS/IPS deployment and configuration - IntroSpect and network analytics |
| Topic 5: Automation, Compliance and Troubleshooting | 15% | - Advanced security troubleshooting - REST API and automation workflows - Regulatory compliance and reporting - Network Analytic Engine (NAE) scripts |
HP HPE6-A84: The Questions Everyone Asks
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HP Aruba Certified Network Security Expert Written Sample Questions:
Refer to the scenario.
# Introduction to the customer
You are helping a company add Aruba ClearPass to their network, which uses Aruba network infrastructure devices.
The company currently has a Windows domain and Windows CA. The Window CA issues certificates to domain computers, domain users, and servers such as domain controllers. An example of a certificate issued by the Windows CA is shown here.
The company is in the process of adding Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) to manage its mobile clients.
The customer is maintaining the on-prem AD for now and uses Azure AD Connect to sync with Azure AD.
# Requirements for issuing certificates to mobile clients
The company wants to use ClearPass Onboard to deploy certificates automatically to mobile clients enrolled in Intune. During this process, Onboard should communicate with Azure AD to validate the clients. High availability should also be provided for this scenario; in other words, clients should be able to get certificates from Subscriber 2 if Subscriber 1 is down.
The Intune admins intend to create certificate profiles that include a UPN SAN with the UPN of the user who enrolled the device.
# Requirements for authenticating clients
The customer requires all types of clients to connect and authenticate on the same corporate SSID.
The company wants CPPM to use these authentication methods:
* EAP-TLS to authenticate users on mobile clients registered in Intune
* TEAR, with EAP-TLS as the inner method to authenticate Windows domain computers and the users on them To succeed, EAP-TLS (standalone or as a TEAP method) clients must meet these requirements:
Their certificate is valid and is not revoked, as validated by OCSP
The client's username matches an account in AD
# Requirements for assigning clients to roles
After authentication, the customer wants the CPPM to assign clients to ClearPass roles based on the following rules:
* Clients with certificates issued by Onboard are assigned the "mobile-onboarded" role
* Clients that have passed TEAP Method 1 are assigned the "domain-computer" role Clients in the AD group "Medical" are assigned the "medical-staff" role Clients in the AD group "Reception" are assigned to the "reception-staff" role The customer requires CPPM to assign authenticated clients to AOS firewall roles as follows:
* Assign medical staff on mobile-onboarded clients to the "medical-mobile" firewall role
* Assign other mobile-onboarded clients to the "mobile-other" firewall role
* Assign medical staff on domain computers to the "medical-domain" firewall role
* All reception staff on domain computers to the "reception-domain" firewall role
* All domain computers with no valid user logged in to the "computer-only" firewall role
* Deny other clients' access
# Other requirements
Communications between ClearPass servers and on-prem AD domain controllers must be encrypted.
# Network topology
For the network infrastructure, this customer has Aruba APs and Aruba gateways, which are managed by Central. APs use tunneled WLANs, which tunnel traffic to the gateway cluster. The customer also has AOS-CX switches that are not managed by Central at this point.
# ClearPass cluster IP addressing and hostnames
A customer's ClearPass cluster has these IP addresses:
* Publisher = 10.47.47.5
* Subscriber 1 = 10.47.47.6
* Subscriber 2 = 10.47.47.7
* Virtual IP with Subscriber 1 and Subscriber 2 = 10.47.47.8
The customer's DNS server has these entries
* cp.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.5
* cps1.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.6
* cps2.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.7
* radius.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.8
* onboard.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.8
You have created a role mapping policy as shown in the exhibits below.
What is one change that you need to make to this policy?
- A. Move rules 2 and 3 to the top of the list.
- B. Change the default role to 'mobile-onboarded*
- C. Change the rules evaluation mechanism to first applicable.
- D. In rule 1 change Subject-CN to Issuer-CN.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
You are working with a developer to design a custom NAE script for a customer. The NAE agent should trigger an alert when ARP inspection drops packets on a VLAN. The customer wants the admins to be able to select the correct VLAN ID for the agent to monitor when they create the agent.
What should you tell the developer to do?
- A. Define a VLAN ID parameter; reference that parameter when defining the monitor URI.
- B. Use a callback action to collect the ID of the VLAN on which admins have enabled NAE monitoring.
- C. Create multiple monitors within the script from which admins can select when they create the agent.
- D. Use this variable, %{vlan-id} when defining the monitor URI in the NAE agent script.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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Refer to the scenario.
# Introduction to the customer
You are helping a company add Aruba ClearPass to their network, which uses Aruba network infrastructure devices.
The company currently has a Windows domain and Windows CA. The Window CA issues certificates to domain computers, domain users, and servers such as domain controllers. An example of a certificate issued by the Windows CA is shown here.
The company is in the process of adding Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) to manage its mobile clients.
The customer is maintaining the on-prem AD for now and uses Azure AD Connect to sync with Azure AD.
# Requirements for issuing certificates to mobile clients
The company wants to use ClearPass Onboard to deploy certificates automatically to mobile clients enrolled in Intune. During this process, Onboard should communicate with Azure AD to validate the clients. High availability should also be provided for this scenario; in other words, clients should be able to get certificates from Subscriber 2 if Subscriber 1 is down.
The Intune admins intend to create certificate profiles that include a UPN SAN with the UPN of the user who enrolled the device.
# Requirements for authenticating clients
The customer requires all types of clients to connect and authenticate on the same corporate SSID.
The company wants CPPM to use these authentication methods:
* EAP-TLS to authenticate users on mobile clients registered in Intune
* TEAR, with EAP-TLS as the inner method to authenticate Windows domain computers and the users on them To succeed, EAP-TLS (standalone or as a TEAP method) clients must meet these requirements:
Their certificate is valid and is not revoked, as validated by OCSP
The client's username matches an account in AD
# Requirements for assigning clients to roles
After authentication, the customer wants the CPPM to assign clients to ClearPass roles based on the following rules:
* Clients with certificates issued by Onboard are assigned the "mobile-onboarded" role
* Clients that have passed TEAP Method 1 are assigned the "domain-computer" role Clients in the AD group "Medical" are assigned the "medical-staff" role Clients in the AD group "Reception" are assigned to the "reception-staff" role The customer requires CPPM to assign authenticated clients to AOS firewall roles as follows:
* Assign medical staff on mobile-onboarded clients to the "medical-mobile" firewall role
* Assign other mobile-onboarded clients to the "mobile-other" firewall role
* Assign medical staff on domain computers to the "medical-domain" firewall role
* All reception staff on domain computers to the "reception-domain" firewall role
* All domain computers with no valid user logged in to the "computer-only" firewall role
* Deny other clients access
# Other requirements
Communications between ClearPass servers and on-prem AD domain controllers must be encrypted.
# Network topology
For the network infrastructure, this customer has Aruba APs and Aruba gateways, which are managed by Central. APs use tunneled WLANs, which tunnel traffic to the gateway cluster. The customer also has AOS-CX switches that are not managed by Central at this point.
# ClearPass cluster IP addressing and hostnames
A customer's ClearPass cluster has these IP addresses:
* Publisher = 10.47.47.5
* Subscriber 1 = 10.47.47.6
* Subscriber 2 = 10.47.47.7
* Virtual IP with Subscriber 1 and Subscriber 2 = 10.47.47.8
The customer's DNS server has these entries
* cp.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.5
* cps1.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.6
* cps2.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.7
* radius.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.8
* onboard.acnsxtest.com = 10.47.47.8
The customer has now decided that it needs CPPM to assign certain mobile-onboarded devices to a
"nurse-call" AOS user role. These are mobile-onboarded devices that are communicating with IP address
10.1.18.12 using port 4343.
What are the prerequisites for fulfilling this requirement?
- A. Creating server-based role assignment rules on gateways that apply roles to clients based on traffic destinations
- B. Setting up traffic classes and role mapping rules within Central's global settings
- C. Creating a tag on Central to select the proper destination connection and integrating CPPM with Device Insight
- D. Creating server-based role assignment rules on APs that apply roles to clients based on traffic destinations
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
A company has an Aruba ClearPass server at 10.47.47.8, FQDN radius.acnsxtest.local. This exhibit shows ClearPass Policy Manager's (CPPM's) settings for an Aruba Mobility Controller (MC).
The MC is already configured with RADIUS authentication settings for CPPM, and RADIUS requests between the MC and CPPM are working. A network admin enters and commits this command to enable dynamic authorization on the MC:
aaa rfc-3576-server 10.47.47.8
But when CPPM sends CoA requests to the MC, they are not working. This exhibit shows the RFC 3576 server statistics on the MC:
How could you fix this issue?
- A. Enable RadSec on the MCs' RFC 3676 server config.
- B. Configure the MC to obtain the time from a valid NTP server.
- C. Change the UDP port in the MCs' RFC 3576 server config to 3799.
- D. Make sure that CPPM is using an ArubaOS Wireless RADIUS CoA enforcement profile.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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A customer has an Aruba ClearPass cluster. The customer has AOS-CX switches that implement 802.1X authentication to ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM).
Switches are using local port-access policies.
The customer wants to start tunneling wired clients that pass user authentication only to an Aruba gateway cluster. The gateway cluster should assign these clients to the "eth-internet" role. The gateway should also handle assigning clients to their VLAN, which is VLAN 20.
The plan for the enforcement policy and profiles is shown below:
The gateway cluster has two gateways with these IP addresses:
* Gateway 1
o VLAN 4085 (system IP) = 10.20.4.21
o VLAN 20 (users) = 10.20.20.1
o VLAN 4094 (WAN) = 198.51.100.14
* Gateway 2
o VLAN 4085 (system IP) = 10.20.4.22
o VLAN 20 (users) = 10.20.20.2
o VLAN 4094 (WAN) = 198.51.100.12
* VRRP on VLAN 20 = 10.20.20.254
The customer requires high availability for the tunnels between the switches and the gateway cluster. If one gateway falls, the other gateway should take over its tunnels. Also, the switch should be able to discover the gateway cluster regardless of whether one of the gateways is in the cluster.
What is one change that you should make to the solution?
- A. Remove VLAN assignments from role configurations on the gateways.
- B. Change the ubt-client-vlan to VLAN 13.
- C. Configure the UBT solution to use VLAN extend mode.
- D. Configure edge ports in VLAN trunk mode.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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