McAfee Certified Product Specialist McAfee epolicy Orchestrator Exam preparation guide
Table of Contents Introduction 3 Becoming McAfee Certified 3 Exam Details 3 Recommended Exam Preparation 4 Exam Objectives 4 Sample Test Questions 6 Answer Key 8
Introduction This guide has been developed as a resource for your preparation to challenge the McAfee Certified Product Specialist McAfee epolicy Orchestrator (McAfee epo ) Exam (MA0-100). The following information is provided in this guide: Learn more about the McAfee Security Certification Program Identify how to register for the exam Locate resources to help you prepare for the exam Review the objectives that the exam may cover Review examples of questions that may appear on the exam Becoming McAfee Certified To be successful in today s competitive IT landscape, you must be able to demonstrate your technology expertise and skills using the latest tools and methodologies. The McAfee Security Certification Program provides product and assessment certifications, validating your knowledge and ability in a variety of security-related categories. McAfee Product Certification is designed for candidates who administrate a specific McAfee product and have one to three years experience with that product. This certification level allows candidates to demonstrate knowledge in the following key product areas: Installation Configuration Management Basic architecture and troubleshooting To become McAfee Certified, you must pass one or more McAfee Security Certification Program exams. McAfee has partnered with Prometric, a leading global provider of comprehensive testing and assessment services, to administer our certification program. Prometric makes the certification process easy from start to finish. With more than 5,000 global locations, you can conveniently test your knowledge and become McAfee Certified. Earning a McAfee Certified Product Specialist Certification will not guarantee you a job, but it can help you stand out from other job candidates by helping to validate that you have the skills required to perform the job function covered by those certifications. Certification also helps show potential employers your commitment to continued learning and career growth. Some of the benefits of becoming McAfee Certified include: Access to the McAfee Certification Candidate Portal A PDF copy of your certificate emailed to you or your employer Provide access to your employers to verify your certifications Exam Details The Exam is a computer-based exam offered through Prometric Testing Centers. To locate the most convenient Prometric Testing Center, please visit http://www.prometric.com/mcafee. Exam details: Exam number: MA0-100 Number of test questions: 97 technical McAfee uses a rounded cut score to determine the passing mark for each exam Test duration: two hours Certification granted: The exam timer does not begin until the first technical question (post demographic) You will not be allowed to access any resources or references during the exam period 3
Recommended Exam Preparation The McAfee Security Certification Program recommends the following exam preparation strategies: Experience with the installation, deployment, and administration of McAfee epolicy Orchestrator software Attend an authorized training course (epo-101): https://mcafee.edu.netexam.com/ Review the objectives and sample questions provided in this guide Exam Objectives You can prepare yourself for the exam by reviewing all of the sections outlined. Please note that although all of these sections are represented in each exam form, all questions are presented randomly for every challenge attempt. Section one: Server configuration and maintenance Upon review of this section, you should be comfortable with the following tasks: Installation (including default settings, port information, components, protocols, encryption methods) Identify how to install the product using product default installation steps Identify how to create basic policies Identify and understand the port configurations for McAfee epo software Identify and understand port planning required before installation Web console and navigation (including recommended browser versions, user interface navigation, organizational methods) Identify and understand how to login/logoff Specific user interface navigation methods for administration Identify how to customize the user interface for your environment User accounts Identify how to create users and user roles Working with lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) and user accounts Identify how to reset passwords for user accounts and roles Permission sets Identify and understand how to assign permissions Identify and understand the different levels of permission sets Identify the differences between group and global views Creation of custom permission sets Server maintenance, utilities, and tasks Identify and understand how to enable and run default tasks Creation of custom server tasks Identify and understand master repository keys Automatic responses Identify and understand how to run default responses Creation of custom basic responses SQL maintenance Identify and understand SQL maintenance tasks 4
McAfee epo repositories (including source, fall-back, superagent, distributed, and master) Identify the default McAfee epo repositories Identify and understand how to define the repositories Check-in and deletion of product extensions Product maintenance and repositories Identify how to and when to replicate a repository Creation of distributed repositories Section two: Policy Upon review of this section, you should be comfortable with the following tasks: Managing policies (including duplication, assigning, creating, deletion, and export) Identify and understand the role of the policy catalog Identify and understand how to assign policies Identify and understand how to duplicate default policies Identify and understand how to assign polices to specific groups Change policy ownership Identify and understand inheritance SuperAgent policies Identify and understand the role of the superagent Creation of superagents Global updating Configuration of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise policies (including on-access scan, access protection, email, potentially unwanted programs, buffer overflow, interface, quarantine, and McAfee Global Threat Intelligence ) Identify and understand how to deploy McAfee VirusScan Enterprise policies Identify how to customize and export McAfee VirusScan Enterprise policies Section three: System tree Upon review of this section, you should be comfortable with the following tasks: Creating the system tree Understand the system tree hierarchy Identify and understand how to create groups Understand the function of the lost and found group Populating the system tree Identify and understand how to manually create the system tree Identify and understand how to populate the system tree through Microsoft Active Directory Tags and sorting within the system tree Identify the default tags Identify and understand how to create custom tags Identify and understand how to sort the system tree (via IP and tags) 5
System Information Identify and understand how to identify the system information Client tasks (including deploying the McAfee agent) Identify and understand how to deploy a McAfee agent Identify how to create a custom agent deployment Identify and understand how to create a client task Identify how to create a custom installation package Identify and understand update tasks Rogue system detection Identify and understand the basic concepts of rogue system detection Section four: Reporting Upon review of this section, you should be comfortable with the following tasks: Creating queries Identify and understand how to duplicate queries Identify the differences between public and private queries Identify and understand how to run a default query with filtering Generating reports Identify the report generation process Modifying report formats Modifying queries for report generation Dashboards/monitors Identify and understand how to navigate with dashboards Identify how to activate public dashboards Identify and understand how to add additional queries to a dashboard Sample Test Questions The following questions are provided for review. These questions are similar in style and content to the questions referenced in the McAfee Certified Product Specialist McAfee Policy Orchestrator Exam. The answers are provided after the questions. 1. Under the access protection policy, which of the following is classified as a user-defined rule? a. Registry blocking b. Prevent FTP communication c. Prevent McAfee Services from being stopped d. Block read and write access to all shares 2. If you specify the McAfee agent policy to collect only minimal properties, the agent only collects (select the two answers that apply): a. Installed software information b..dat file version number c. Processor speed d. Installation path e. Operating system 6
3. If it takes 90 seconds to accomplish an on-demand scan with CPU utilization set at 90 percent, if the CPU utilization is set for 30 percent, then it will take how many seconds? a. 180 b. 270 c. 360 d. 450 4. When creating a permission set, which of the following users are automatically assigned? Select the two that apply. a. Administrator b. Group administrator c. System d. Global administrator e. Global reviewer 5. Which of the following lost and found group characteristics can be modified? a. Group name b. Sorting criteria c. Sorting criteria for subgroups d. Tree location 6. Which of the following options are used to create a policy? Select the two that apply. a. Copy b. Duplicate c. Clone d. New policy e. Save as 7. Which executable is responsible for the error reporting service? a. Tbmon.exe b. VsTskMgr.exe c. Mfevtps.exe d. Mfeann.exe 8. When configuring product deployment client tasks, the enable randomization setting should be activated when managed client nodes exceed: a. 100 b. 500 c. 750 d. 1000 7
Answer Key 1. A 2. B,D 3. B 4. A,C 5. C 6. B,D 7. A 8. D McAfee, Inc. 2821 Mission College Boulevard Santa Clara, CA 95054 888 847 8766 www.mcafee.com McAfee, McAfee epolicy Orchestrator, McAfee epo, McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, and McAfee Global Threat Intelligence are trademarks or trademarks of McAfee, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other marks and brands may be claimed as the property of others. The product plans, specifications and descriptions herein are provided for information only and subject to change without notice, and are provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Copyright 2011 McAfee, Inc. 21200gde_cert-product-exam_0311_fnl_ASD