Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) R81.20 Practice Exam

The Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) R81.20 certification equips individuals with essential skills for deploying, configuring, and overseeing the routine operations of Check Point Security Gateways and Management Software Blades operating on the Gaia operating system. Throughout the certification process, participants will gain proficiency in various tasks, including installing a Security Management Server and a Security Gateway within a distributed environment. They will also learn to configure objects, rules, and settings to establish a robust Security Policy, manage multiple concurrent administrators, and define permission profiles tailored to organizational requirements. 

Additionally, the certification program prepares individuals to execute administrative tasks aligned with specific job descriptions, ensuring comprehensive readiness for real-world security management scenarios.

Who should take the exam?

Prior to enrolling in this exam, it is highly recommended that candidates have the following prerequisites:

• Understanding of Networking Security
• Familiarity with Unix-like and/or Windows operating systems
• Basic knowledge of Networking Fundamentals
• Understanding of TCP/IP Networking
• Experience in System Administration

Benefits of the exam:

• Enhanced readiness to safeguard against network threats
• Ability to assess and refine existing security policies and rulebases
• Competence in managing user access to corporate networks
• Proficiency in monitoring suspicious network activities and analyzing attacks
• Proficient implementation of Check Point backup techniques

Exam Details

• Exam Name: Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA)
• Exam Number: R81.20
• Number of Questions: 90
• Exam Format: Multiple-choice
• Time Give: 90 minutes  
• Passing score: 70%

Exam Course Outline 

The Exam covers the given topics  - 

Topic 1: Overview of Check Point Technology

• Basic functions of the Web UI
• Create and confirm admin users for the network.
• Configure network messages.
• Confirm existing network configuration settings.
• Install and tour the GUI.

Topic 2: Understand Security Policy Management

• Create and configure network, host and gateway objects.
• Evaluate and manipulate rules in a unified Access Control security policy.
• Apply policy layers and analyze how they affect traffic inspection.
• Prepare and schedule backups for the gateway.

Topic 3: Learn about Check Point Security Solutions and Licensing

• Evaluate and manage different Check Point security solutions deployed for network access control.
• Evaluate and manage Check Point security solutions for threat protection.
• Examine how the Compliance blade monitors your Check Point security infrastructure.
• Validate existing licenses for products installed on your network.

Topic 4: Understand Traffic Visibility

• Generate network traffic and use traffic visibility tools to monitor the data.
• Compare and contrast various tools available for viewing traffic

Topic 5:  Basic Concepts of VPN

• Configure and deploy a site-to-site VPN.
• Test the VPN connection and analyze the tunnel traffic.

Topic 6: Managing User Access

• Create and define user access for a guest wireless user.
• Test Identity Awareness connection.

Topic 7: Working with ClusterXL

• Install and configure ClusterXL with a High Availability configuration.
  

Topic 8: Learn about Administrator Task Implementation Unified Gateway

• Review rule-base performance for policy control