Free 250-444 Practice Questions

Question 1

SSLV has been passively decrypting a hosted application's traffic with the server's RSA private key. After a server-side cipher change, new full TLS 1.2 handshakes negotiate ECDHE_RSA. The server certificate and key pair are unchanged, and captures contain both directions without packet loss. Why is the installed private key now insufficient to recover the plaintext?

Accepted Answer

RSA authenticates the exchange, but the session secrets depend on ephemeral key agreement.

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ECDHE_RSA requires an elliptic-curve server certificate rather than the existing RSA certificate.

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The clients must trust an SSLV inspection CA before passive recovery with the server key can work.

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Session resumption has omitted the key-exchange messages needed to recover the RSA premaster secret.

Question 2

On the same managed laptop, a browser successfully accesses an inspected HTTPS service, but an inventory client fails. Both use the same SSLV segment. The inventory client uses its own CA bundle and does not pin certificates. SSLV validates the origin successfully, but its session log records "Alert[C]: unknown CA" for the inventory connection. What change addresses the failed trust relationship?

Accepted Answer

Add the inspection CA's public certificate to the inventory client's CA bundle.

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Add the origin server's issuing CA to SSLV's upstream trust store.

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Replace SSLV's WebUI certificate with one trusted by the inventory client.

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Install the inspection CA certificate in the laptop's operating-system trust store only.

Question 3

A company wants a passive IDS to examine outbound TLS payloads without becoming a production-forwarding dependency. The IDS has no inline return interface. Managed clients trust the SSLV inspection CA. The installed SSLV supports active interception of the external servers' TLS 1.2/ECDHE connections with a decrypted copy output; those servers' private keys are unavailable. Select the arrangement that meets these constraints.

Accepted Answer

Place SSLV inline for active decryption and send a plaintext copy to the passive IDS.

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Place SSLV inline and require permitted traffic to return from the IDS.

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Place SSLV on a TAP and recover session secrets using its inspection CA signing key.

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Place SSLV inline, cut through the selected TLS flows, and copy the encrypted traffic to the IDS.

Question 4

Inbound HTTPS terminates at a load balancer, which establishes a separate TLS connection to an application server. SSLV sits on the client-facing side of the load balancer and uses a supported active inbound mode requiring the service certificate and private key. Only the application server's credentials have been imported. The two TLS endpoints use different key pairs. For this inspection point, which credentials are missing?

Accepted Answer

The load balancer's client-facing certificate and its matching private key.

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The application server's certificate and key, mapped to the load balancer's address.

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The inspection CA certificate and signing key used to re-sign certificates for managed outbound clients.

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The load balancer's public certificate and issuer chain, retaining the imported application-server private key.

Question 5

A virtual switch supports port mirroring, but the SSLV VM receives only a mirror of the host's physical uplink. North-south sessions appear normally. Two application VMs on that host exchange TLS traffic entirely through the local virtual switch, and none of their packets reaches SSLV. Mirror-drop counters remain zero. Which change supplies the missing traffic without moving the applications?

Accepted Answer

Mirror both directions of the application VMs' virtual-switch traffic to SSLV's monitoring vNIC.

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Add a second physical TAP on the upstream switch connection carrying the same uplink traffic.

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Move the SSLV management vNIC into the application port group and retain the existing uplink mirror.

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Increase the physical-uplink mirror's capacity and preserve its existing source-interface selection.

Question 6

Employees must retain access to benefits.example without decryption or plaintext recording. The host belongs to an approved private-host list and also to the Business Services inspection category. SSLV evaluates these rules by first match: the category decrypt rule currently precedes the private-host cut-through rule. Business Services hosts outside the private-host list must remain inspected. Choose the narrowest correction that satisfies all requirements.

Accepted Answer

Move the approved private-host cut-through rule above the Business Services decrypt rule.

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Replace the Business Services decrypt rule with cut through for every host in that category.

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Place a reject rule for benefits.example above both of the existing rules.

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Retain the current rule order but exclude benefits.example from the plaintext recording selection.

Question 7

During a cabling change, an optional SSLV decrypted-copy output is accidentally connected to an office VLAN. An office host can now capture readable session tokens. The production inline IPS uses separate, correctly isolated links and must remain enforcing. The copy output has no return-path or forwarding dependency, and the engineer is authorized to disconnect it immediately. Which action contains the exposure while preserving required protection?

Accepted Answer

Disconnect the mispatched copy cable from the office switch, leaving the inline IPS path intact.

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Power off SSLV so that all production decryption and the unintended copy feed stop together.

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Stop recording on the passive sensor while leaving the copy cable connected to the office VLAN.

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Restrict the SSLV management-interface ACL to administrator addresses while keeping the copy feed enabled.

Question 8

Following an approved SSLV 3.9-to-4.3 migration, platform settings, policy activation, and list references verify correctly. Inbound inspection fails for a service whose required private key is absent. A verified, compatible PKI-only backup contains that key, and its restore password is available. Recovery must retain the new management address and inspection policy, which differ from the pre-migration configuration. How should the administrator restore the missing capability?

Accepted Answer

Restore the compatible PKI-only backup and verify the service's certificate/private-key pair.

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Restore the full pre-migration configuration, including its platform settings and inspection policies.

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Restore a policy-only backup and reactivate the service's existing inbound decryption rule.

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Import the service certificate and issuer chain again without changing the private-key store.

Question 9

During a supported SSLV-ProxySG offload deployment, SSLV exposes selected outbound content and sends plaintext over the dedicated inspection link. A capture confirms that plaintext reaches ProxySG, but its receiving service still expects ordinary TLS handshakes. No matching proxy transaction completes. Client-facing and origin-facing TLS validation on SSLV both pass. Which change corrects the mismatch while retaining SSLV as the decryption offload engine?

Accepted Answer

Configure the ProxySG receiving service for the supported SSLV offload handling.

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Replace SSLV's inspection CA and redistribute the new trust certificate to managed clients.

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Reconfigure SSLV to encrypt the tool feed while leaving ProxySG's ordinary TLS processing unchanged.

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Enable an additional passive copy output to ProxySG without changing its receiving service.

Question 10

An origin-certificate validation record contains these results:
Evaluation time: July 20, 2026, 12:00 UTC; appliance clock verified correct.
Certificate validity ended: July 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC.
Hostname match and trusted issuer chain: passed.
OCSP: fresh, valid response reporting "good".
No certificate-validation exception is authorized. Which handling is appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Reject it because good revocation status does not override the expired validity period.

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Accept it because the good OCSP response and trusted issuer chain establish current validity.

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Rebuild the issuer chain and retry the unchanged origin certificate.

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Add the origin certificate as another trust anchor and retry the connection without replacing it.

Free 250-444 Practice Questions

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Domain 2: Introduction to SSLV Virtual Appliance

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Domain 3: Introducing Encrypted Traffic Management with SSL

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Domain 4: Deploying the SSL Visibility Appliance

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Domain 5: Migrating and Upgrading the SSLV

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Domain 6: Exposing Encrypted Inbound SSL Traffic

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Domain 7: Exposing Encrypted Outbound SSL Traffic

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Domain 8: Exposing Encrypted Threats for Forensic Analysis While Complying with Privacy Regulations

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Domain 9: Offloading SSL Decryption for ProxySG Efficiency

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