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HP HPE7-A02 Exam Syllabus Topics:

Section	Objectives
Network Access Control	– Guest and device onboarding – Role-based access policies
Network Security Fundamentals
Secure Connectivity	– Secure remote access design – VPN concepts and secure tunneling
Identity and Access Management	– 802.1X authentication workflows – AAA concepts (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting)
Monitoring and Troubleshooting	– Security event monitoring – Network security diagnostics
Aruba Security Architecture	– Aruba ClearPass ecosystem overview – Policy enforcement and access control concepts

Q59. HPE Aruba Networking Central displays a Gateway Threat Count alert in the alert list. How can you gather more information about what caused the alert to trigger?

Use HPE Aruba Networking Central tools to run a Network Check on the gateway with which the alert is associated.

Use Live Monitoring on the gateway to download a packet capture of recent traffic flowing through the gateway.

Check the threat list for the gateway associated with the alert. Access threat details and download packet info.

Check the gateway’s Audit Trail in HPE Aruba Networking Central for more details about the threats that triggered the alert.

Q60. Refer to the Exhibit:

These packets have been captured from VLAN 10. which supports clients that receive their IP addresses with DHCP.
What can you interpret from the packets that you see here?
These packets have been captured from VLAN 10, which supports clients that receive their IP addresses with DHCP. What can you interpret from the packets that you see here?

Someone is possibly implementing a MAC spoofing attack to gain unauthorized access.

The mirroring session that captured the packets was likely misconfigured and captured duplicate traffic.

An admin has likely misconfigured two clients to use the same DHCP settings.

Someone is possibly implementing an ARP poisoning and MITM attack.

Q61. A company has AOS-CX switches managed by HPE Aruba Networking Central. The network infrastructure devices authenticate clients to HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM), which is integrated with HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Device Insight (CPDI). You have seen suspicious activity on a client connected to one of the switches. To investigate the client’s activity further, you need to know all of the IP addresses that it has used in the past two weeks.
Where can you find this information collected together?

In CPPM’s Device Profiler dashboard

In HPE Aruba Networking Central’s Audit Trail for the client’s switch

In the logs stored on the client’s switch

In CPDI’s History tab for the client

Q62. You need to set up HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) to provide certificate-based authentication of 802.1X supplicants.
How should you upload the root CA certificate for the supplicants’ certificates?

As a ClearPass Server certificate with the RADIUS/EAP usage

As a Trusted CA with the AD/LDAP usage

As a Trusted CA with the EAP usage

As a ClearPass Server certificate with the Database usage

Q63. Refer to Exhibit:

An HPE Aruba Networking 9×00 gateway is part of an HPE Aruba Networking Central group that has the settings shown in the exhibit. What would cause the gateway to drop traffic as part of its IDPS settings?

Its site-to-site VPN connections failing

Traffic matching a rule in the active ruleset

Its IDPS engine failing

Traffic showing anomalous behavior

Q64. Refer to the exhibit. You have verified that AOS-CX Switch-1 has constructed an IP-to-MAC binding table in VLANs 10-19.
Now you need to enable ARP inspection for the endpoint connected to Switch-1. What must you do first to prevent traffic disruption?

Configure ARP inspection on VLANs 10-19 on Switch-2.

Configure DHCP snooping on VLANs 10-19 on Switch-2.

Configure Switch-1 uplinks as trusted ARP inspection ports.

Create a static IP-to-MAC binding on Switch-1 for the DHCP server.

Q65. What is a typical use case for using HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Onboard to provision devices?

Enabling unmanaged devices to succeed at certificate-based 802.1X

Enabling managed Windows domain computers to succeed at certificate-based 802.1X

Enhancing security for loT devices that need to authenticate with MAC-Auth

Enforcing posture-based assessment on managed Windows domain computers

Q66.

All of the switches in the exhibit are AOS-CX switches.
What is the preferred configuration on Switch-2 for preventing rogue OSPF routers in this network?

Disable OSPF entirely on VLANs 10-19.

Configure OSPF authentication on VLANs 10-19 in password mode.

Configure OSPF authentication on Lag 1 in MD5 mode.

Configure passive-interface as the OSPF default and disable OSPF passive on Lag 1.

Q67. HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Device Insight (CPDI) could not classify some endpoints using system and user rules. Using machine learning, it did assign those endpoints to a cluster and discover a recommendation. In which of these circumstances does CPDI automatically classify the endpoints based on that recommendation?

The recommendation has 96% confidence, and it is based on 13 classified devices.

The recommendation has 98% confidence, and it is based on 5 classified devices.

The recommendation has 93% confidence, and it is based on 36 classified devices.

The recommendation has 100% confidence, and it is based on 4 classified devices.

Q68. A company has AOS-CX switches and HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM).
The company wants switches to implement 802.1X authentication to CPPM and download user roles.
What is one task that you must complete on CPPM to support this use case?

Export roles on CPPM to a file that uses XML format.

Create an admin account for the switch on CPPM with the HPE Aruba Networking User Role Download privilege level.

Configure RADIUS enforcement profiles that specify the HPE-User-Role VSA.

Upload the switch TPM certificate as a trusted CA certificate with the Others usage.

Q69. A company has HPE Aruba Networking gateways that implement gateway IDS/IPS. Admins sometimes check the Security Dashboard, but they want a faster way to discover if a gateway starts detecting threats in traffic.
What should they do?

Use Syslog to integrate the gateways with HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) event processing.

Integrate HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Device Insight (CPDI) with Central and schedule hourly reports.

Set up email notifications using HPE Aruba Networking Central’s global alert settings.

Set up Webhooks that are attached to the HPE Aruba Networking Central Threat Dashboard.

Q70. You have installed an HPE Aruba Networking Network Analytic Engine (NAE) script on an AOS-CX switch to monitor a particular function.
Which additional step must you complete to start the monitoring?

Reboot the switch.

Enable NAE, which is disabled by default.

Edit the script to define monitor parameters.

Create an agent from the script.

Q71. Which endpoint classification method requires direct device interrogation for identification?

DHCP lease duration

Passive profiling

Static VLAN tagging

Active profiling

Q72. You are setting up HPE Aruba Networking SSE to detect threats as remote users browse the internet.
What is part of this process?

Creating a non-default file security profile

Integrating HPE Aruba Networking SSE with a supported third-party antivirus provider

Deploying a connector that can reach the remote users

Creating an external web profile that enables SSL inspection

Q73. A company has AOS-CX switches and is implementing authentication to HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM). The company wants to monitor each switch’s connectivity to CPPM. If connectivity is lost, the switch should trigger an alert and collect some information with CLI commands.
What can you do to support this use case?

Enable Control Plane Policing on the switches on the VRF on which they connect to CPPM.

Use the switches’ NAE functions to monitor connectivity to CPPM.

Configure the switches to implement RADIUS accounting to CPPM and enable ClearPass Insight.

Discover the switches within HPE Aruba Networking Central and set up Aruba Central connectivity alerts in the switch group.

Q74. You are setting up user-based tunneling (UBT) between access layer AOS-CX switches and AOS-10 gateways. You have selected reserved (local) VLAN mode.
Tunneled devices include IoT devices, which should be assigned to:
* Roles: iot on the switches and iot-wired on the gateways
* VLAN: 64, for which the gateways route traffic.
IoT devices connect to the access layer switches’ edge ports, and the access layer switches reach the gateways on their uplinks.
Where must you configure VLAN 64?

In the iot-wired role and on no physical interfaces

In the iot role and the iot-wired role and on no physical interfaces

In the iot-wired role and the access switch uplinks

In the iot role and the access switch uplinks

Q75.

All of the switches in the exhibit are AOS-CX switches.
What is the preferred configuration on Switch-2 for preventing rogue OSPF routers in this network?

Disable OSPF entirely on VLANs 10-19.

Configure OSPF authentication on VLANs 10-19 in password mode.

Configure OSPF authentication on Lag 1 in MD5 mode.

Configure passive-interface as the OSPF default and disable OSPF passive on Lag 1.

Q76. You have configured an AOS-CX switch to implement 802.1X on edge ports. Assume ports operate in the default auth-mode. VoIP phones are assigned to the “voice” role and need to send traffic that is tagged for VLAN 12. Where should you configure VLAN 12?

As the trunk native VLAN on edge ports and the trunk native VLAN on the “voice” role.

As the allowed trunk VLAN in the “voice” role (and not in the edge port settings).

As a trunk allowed VLAN on edge ports and the trunk native VLAN in the “voice” role.

As the trunk native VLAN in the “voice” role (and not in the edge port settings).

Q77. A company uses HPE Aruba Networking APs running AOS-10, HPE Aruba Networking Central, and HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM). After starting to implement TEAP to authenticate wireless clients, admins notice that all clients are showing up on APs and in HPE Aruba Networking Central with the “anonymous” username. They want to see users’ actual names there.
What can they do to address this issue?

On CPPM, edit the AD authentication source and add a custom attribute that collects the username.

Configure the HPE Aruba Networking Central group settings to enable deep packet inspection and firewall visibility on all HPE Aruba Networking APs.

Have CPPM apply an additional RADIUS enforcement profile to authenticated clients, which specifies the TEAP Method 2 username.

On the APs, make sure that RADIUS proxy is disabled. Also ensure that all APs are added as network devices on CPPM.

Q78.

(Note that the HPE Aruba Networking Central interface shown here might look slightly different from what you see in your HPE Aruba Networking Central interface as versions change; however, similar concepts continue to apply.) An HPE Aruba Networking 9×00 gateway is part of an HPE Aruba Networking Central group that has the settings shown in the exhibit. What would cause the gateway to drop traffic as part of its IDPS settings?