Exam 250-215: Administration of Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.6 Practice Exam

Exam 250-215: Administration of Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.6 allows candidates to demonstrate their technical expertise and proficiency to become a Broadcom Technical Specialist (BTS) in their specific area of Symantec technology specialization. To attain this certification level, candidates are required to successfully pass the proctored BTS exam, which is structured upon a combination of Symantec training materials, widely used product documentation, and real-world job scenarios.

Who should take the exam?

This examination is designed for IT professionals utilizing the Symantec Messaging Gateway product within a Security Operations capacity. It assesses the candidate's aptitude in installing, configuring, and administering Symantec Messaging Gateway.

Recommended Experience:

Candidates should have a minimum of 3-6 months of hands-on experience with ProxySG and associated SWG products in either a production or lab setting. 

Exam Details 

• Exam Code: 250-215
• Exam Name: Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.6 Technical Specialist
• Exam Languages: English
• Exam Questions: 70-80 Questions
• Time: 90 minutes
• Passing Score: 68%

Exam Course Outline 

The Exam covers the given topics  - 

Topic 1: Introduction to the Messaging Gateway 10.6

• Understand the basic functionality, architecture, purpose, and benefits of Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.6

Topic 2: Understand Installation and Basic Configuration

• Explain design considerations (physical and/or virtual) inplanning a Messaging Gateway
• Describe prerequisites for installing Messaging Gateway 10.6.
• Describe the O/S restore, factory reset, bootstrap and site setup wizard processes.
• Describe how to test configuration of Messaging Gateway 10.6.

Topic 3: Learn how to Prevent Unwanted Email with Adaptive Reputation Management

• Describe the implementation and benefits of adaptive reputation management. 
• Describe the implementation and benefits of invalid Reputation Management recipient handling and directory harvest attack prevention.

Topic 4: Prevent Spam with Anti-Spam Policies

• Describe the implementation and benefits of sender authentication.
• Describe the implementation and benefits of bounce attack prevention.
• Describe implementation and operational considerations of spam quarantine.
• Describe how to create, test, and modify email policies.
• Describe how to obtain custom spam rules.

Topic 5: Prevent Malware with Anti-Malware Policies

• Describe how to create, test, and modify malware policies.

Topic 6: Prevent Data Leakage with Content Filtering Policies

• Describe how to create, test, and modify content filtering policies.
• Describe how to use and manage incident folders and Policies quarantines.

Topic 7: Advanced Configuration: Managing Control Center Settings

• Describe the benefits and configuration of local and remote logging levels including message audit logs.
• Describe the benefits, configuration and application of various directory data source services.
• Describe how to use and manage system and message audit logs.
• Describe how to use reporting, including creating favorites and scheduling reports.

Topic 8: Advanced Configuration: Managing User and Host Configuration

• Describe how to manage policy groups.
• Describe how to perform appliance maintenance (role based administration, backup, restore and upgrade, queue maintenance) of Messaging Gateway 10.5.

Topic 9: Introduction Symantec Network Protect for Email and Content Analysis

• Describe how to integrate Symantec Data Loss
• Prevention technology with Messaging Gateway.

Topic 10: Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.7 Technical Update (May 2019)

• Ability to describe the changes to Messaging Gateway as of the 10.7 release.