Aruba Certified Associate Network Security (ACA) Practice Exam

Aruba Certified Associate Network Security (ACA) Practice Exam

About Aruba Certified Associate Network Security (ACA) Exam

The Aruba Certified Associate Network Security (ACA) certification validates candidates' knowledge, skills, and ability to describe common security threats and vulnerabilities. It tests a candidate's understanding of device hardening, security implementation at the edge with AAA, basic roles and firewall policies, dynamic segmentation, and endpoint classification. The exam also covers basic threat detection technologies and the process of collecting logs and alarms.

Exam Details

• Exam ID: HPE6-A78
• Exam Type: Proctored
• Exam Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Exam Length: 60 questions
• Passing Score: 63%
• Delivery Languages: Japanese, English, Latin American Spanish

Who should take the exam?

The ideal candidate for this certification should be a network engineer or help desk engineer working in either a customer or partner environment. They should have six months to a year of experience in networking, encompassing both wired and wireless knowledge.

Course Outline

The Aruba Certified Associate Network Security (ACA) Exam covers the following topics - 

Domain 1 - Understanding 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 implement secure management protocols such as SSH, HTTPS, authenticated NTP, and CPsec.
• Follow 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 and deploy basic WLAN security.
• Compare and contrast wired LAN methodologies and define and deploy basic user roles for wired users.
• Compare endpoint classification methods.

Domain 2 - Understanding Analyze (24%)

• View and acknowledge WIPS and WIDS alarms.
  
• Explain attack stages and the kill chain.
• Collect logs.
• Troubleshoot with access tracker.
• Collect and monitor historical network pattern data.
• Identify and evaluate discovered endpoints.

Domain 3 - Understanding Investigate (6%)

• Collect logs.
  
• Identify chain of custody.
• Initiate an investigation.
• Why Earn this Certification?
• Enhance IT Skills: Enhance your ability to address current and future network security challenges.
• Validate Knowledge: This certification validates your ability to describe common security threats and vulnerabilities and understand:
• Device hardening
• Implementation of security at the edge with AAA
• Basic roles and firewall policies
• Dynamic segmentation
• Endpoint classification
• Basic threat detection technologies
• Collecting logs and alarms