300-720: Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA)

The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance v1.0 (SESA 300-720) exam is a 90-minute exam associated with the CCNP Security, and Cisco Certified Specialist - Email Content Security certifications. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of Cisco Email Security Appliance, including administration, spam control and antispam, message filters, data loss prevention, LDAP, email authentication and encryption, and system quarantines and delivery methods. The course, Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.

This exam tests your knowledge of Cisco Email Security Appliance, including:

◉ Administration

◉ Spam control and antispam

◉ Message filters

◉ Data loss prevention

◉ LDAP

◉ Email authentication and encryption

◉ System quarantines and delivery methods

300-720: Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA)

Cisco 300-720 Exam Overview:

Exam Name	Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance
Exam Number	300-720 SESA
Exam Number	$300 USD
Duration	90 minutes
Number of Questions	55-65
Passing Score	Variable (750-850 / 1000 Approx.)
Recommended Training	Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA)
Sample Questions	Cisco 300-720 Sample Questions
Practice Exam	Cisco Certified Specialist Email Content Security Practice Test

Cisco 300-720 Exam Topics:

Section	Weight	Objectives
Cisco Email Security Appliance Administration	15%	- Configure Cisco Email Security Appliance features ◉ Hardware performance specifications ◉ Initial configuration process ◉ Routing and delivery features ◉ GUI - Describe centralized services on a Cisco Content SMA - Configure mail policies ◉ Incoming and outgoing messages ◉ User matching ◉ Message splintering
Spam Control with Talos SenderBase and Antispam	15%	- Control spam with Talos SenderBase and Antispam - Describe graymail management solution - Configure file reputation filtering and file analysis features - Implement malicious or undesirable URLs protection - Describe the bounce verification feature
Content and Message filters	20%	- Describe the functions and capabilities of content filters - Create text resources such as content dictionaries, disclaimers, and templates ◉ Dictionaries filter rules ◉ Text resources management - Configure message filters components, rules, processing order and attachment scanning - Configure scan behavior - Configure the Cisco ESA to scan for viruses using Sophos and McAfee scanning engines - Configure outbreak filters - Configure Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
LDAP and SMTP Sessions	15%	- Configure and verify LDAP servers and queries (Queries and Directory Harvest Attack) - Understand spam quarantine functions ◉ Authentication for end-users of spam quarantine ◉ Utilize spam quarantine alias to consolidate queries - Understand SMTP functionality ◉ Email pipeline ◉ Sender and recipient domains ◉ SMTP session authentication using client certificates ◉ SMTP TLS authentication ◉ TLS email encryption
Email Authentication and Encryption	20%	- Configure Domain Keys and DKIM signing - Configure SPF and SIDF - Configure DMARC verification - Configure forged email detection - Configure email encryption - Describe S/MIME security services and communication encryption with other MTAs - Manage certificate authorities
System Quarantines and Delivery Methods	15%	- Configure quarantine (spam, policy, virus, and outbreak) - Utilize safelists and blocklists to control email delivery - Manage messages in local or external spam quarantines - Configure virtual gateways