HPE Aruba Network Security Associate (HPE6-A78) Certification Sample Questions

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01. ClearPass profiles a group of devices as IP cameras. The security team wants every camera, wired or wireless, to reach only the video recording servers.
How should the classification be used?
a) Use the device category in role mapping so that cameras receive a restricted role.
b) Ask camera owners to register each device through the guest portal.
c) Block every device whose classification is not "Windows" or "macOS" from the network.
d) Use the classification only for reporting, and assign camera access by VLAN on each switch.

02. An analyst flags a large spike in authentication requests on the first working day of the month as a possible brute-force attack. Historical data shows the same spike on that day in every previous month, matching a scheduled company-wide password change.
What should the analyst conclude?
a) The authentication servers are faulty, because legitimate users never cause spikes.
b) The spike is probably expected behavior, but failures from unusual sources still deserve review.
c) Historical data is unreliable, so every authentication spike should be escalated as an incident.
d) The spike is a brute-force attack, because its size exceeds the daily average.

03. WIP classifies an unknown AP as a suspected rogue. There is some indication that it connects to the company's wired network, but the evidence is not conclusive. Company policy allows containment only for confirmed rogues.
What should the administrator do?
a) Confirm the AP's wired connection before deciding whether to contain it.
b) Contain the AP at once, because a suspected rogue is handled the same as a rogue.
c) Ignore the AP, because only interfering APs need any follow-up.
d) Reclassify the AP as valid so that the alert is cleared.

04. A ClearPass server is given a new certificate for EAP authentication. It was issued by the corporate CA, which the clients trust, and it names the correct server. Windows clients still refuse to complete PEAP. The certificate's extended key usage lists only client authentication.
What should the administrator do?
a) Request a certificate with a longer key so that clients accept it.
b) Add the certificate to each client's trusted root store so that the usage check is skipped.
c) Re-issue the certificate with server authentication in its extended key usage.
d) Install the certificate on the clients as well, since they authenticate with it.

05. Employees use PEAP with their directory passwords on the corporate SSID. A penetration tester sets up an AP with the same SSID and collects password challenge responses from several laptops.
Which client-side setting would have prevented this?
a) Enabling 802.11r fast roaming on the laptops
b) Disabling Protected Management Frames on the laptops
c) Turning on MAC address randomization on the laptops
d) Requiring the laptops to validate the RADIUS server certificate and name

06. A company runs AOS 8 gateways with campus APs and has Control Plane Security (CPsec) enabled, with new APs requiring approval before they are trusted. A person plugs an AP bought online into a wall port. The AP finds a gateway.
What prevents this AP from joining the network and serving SSIDs?
a) The gateway assigns the AP the guest user role, which blocks its traffic.
b) The AP's SSIDs are blocked by WebCC because the AP has no reputation score.
c) The switch port blocks the AP because its PAPI security key does not match.
d) The gateway accepts CPsec connections only from APs it has authorized.

07. The security team suspects that a wired IoT device on an AOS-CX access switch is sending unusual traffic. The switch has no packet capture built in for this case, and the team has a laptop running a protocol analyzer.
How should the team capture the device's traffic?
a) Capture on the core switch uplink, because all traffic eventually crosses the core.
b) Connect the analyzer to another access port in the same VLAN and capture there.
c) Mirror the device's port so that the analyzer laptop receives a copy.
d) Shut down the device's port and connect the device directly to the laptop.

08. An attacker embeds a malicious macro in a spreadsheet named like a supplier invoice, then emails it to the company's accounts team.
Which kill-chain stages do these two actions represent, in order?
a) Reconnaissance, then exploitation
b) Weaponization, then delivery
c) Delivery, then actions on objectives
d) Installation, then command and control

09. A building has hundreds of headless IoT sensors that support only passphrase-based WPA2-Personal. The team wants to revoke one compromised sensor without reconfiguring all the others.
Which approach meets this requirement?
a) MPSK, which gives each sensor its own passphrase on the same SSID
b) WPA3-Enterprise with EAP-TLS certificates on each sensor
c) A single strong passphrase shared by all sensors and rotated quarterly
d) Enhanced Open (OWE), with no passphrase on the sensors

10. WIDS raises an alarm that one of the company's own valid APs is advertising the corporate SSID with open authentication. Every other valid AP uses WPA3-Enterprise for that SSID.
What is the most appropriate response?
a) Reclassify the AP as interfering so that the alarm stops being raised.
b) Correct the AP's configuration, because a valid AP is breaking the security policy.
c) Ignore the alarm, because valid APs cannot create a security risk.
d) Contain the AP using wireless containment, because it is behaving like a rogue.

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Question: 01 Answer: a	Question: 02 Answer: b	Question: 03 Answer: a	Question: 04 Answer: c	Question: 05 Answer: d
Question: 06 Answer: d	Question: 07 Answer: c	Question: 08 Answer: b	Question: 09 Answer: a	Question: 10 Answer: b

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