Exam Number
642-513

Associated Certifications
CCSP

Duration
75 minutes (65-75 questions)

Available Languages
English

Exam Topics
Describe and deploy the CSA and CSA MC products
??Explain the concept of network defense in depth
??Describe Cisco Security Agent architecture
??Describe the life cycle of an attack
??Explain how Cisco Security Agent protects against attacks
??Identify the CSA MC and CSA system requirements
??Identify the administration workstation requirements
??Install the CSA MC
??Configure basic settings on the CSA MC
??Install the CSA using a default group

Use CSA MC to configure groups, manage hosts, and build policies
??Describe various components of the menu bar and its function in the CSA MC interface
??Create, save, and delete data on the CSA MC
??Create groups to ease host management and security policy deployment
??Build Agent kits for the newly created groups
??View host status and modify host configuration
??Distribute software updates to hosts
??Discuss components of a policy
??Configure policies and rule modules

Use CSA MC to configure rules
??Describe the basics of rule construction and functionality
??Configure rules common to Windows and UNIX systems
??Configure Windows-Only rules
??Configure UNIX-Only rules
??Describe the individual rules you can add to your policies that allow CSA MC to categorize processes and correlate events across multiple systems
??Describe and configure the system API Control Rule
??Describe and configure the Network Shield Rule
??Describe and configure the Buffer Overflow Control Rule
??Describe and configure the Email Worm Protection Rule module
??Describe and configure the Installation Applications Policy
??Describe and configure Global Event Correlation

Define application classes and work with variables
??Explain the use of application classes in creating security policies
??Discuss the preconfigured application classes included in the CS AMC
??Configure a static application class
??Create a dynamic application class and an application-builder rule
??Discuss how events sets are used to ease administration of security policies
??Configure data, file and network address sets
??Create registry, COM component and network services sets
??Use the COM extraction utility to gather PROGIDs and CLSIDs for the software installed on a system
??Configure Query Settings variables to be used with Query rules

Use CSA Analysis and define and generate reports
??Understand and configure application deployment investigation
??Understand and configure product associations for application deployment investigation
??Configure and run application deployment reports
??Understand and configure application behavior investigation
??Understand and use behavior analysis reports
??Import and use behavior analysis rule modules
??Explain the features of the Event Log and Event Monitor
??Configure filtering of events for logging, reports, and alerts
??Create event-based alerts
??Generate reports on events selected by sorting criteria