CSPFA exam - any tips, braindumps?

[yizhar]

HI!

I'm taking the CSPFA exam tomorrow.

Do you have any braindumps and tips?

I've looked here but it doesn't give much other then links:

http://cramsession.brainbuzz.com/

Thanks & Bye
Yizhar
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[yizhar]

Well I took the CSPFA exam today.
It is quite a nasty one, lot of questions that you have to think for yourself,
"what does they mean?", "What do they want?".
I spent some time writing comments about malicious questions that are not clear to understand or are even wrong FMHO.
Yes, I know that these exams are written that way, but I don't accept it, and after I took about 10 MS exams, and that's my second with CISCO, I think that this one is realy built badly, and for people like me which are not fluent English speakers, it's even more dificult to understand.
Are there trying to measure my English reading and my 6th sense of gessing what the question editors mean (Which I'm probably OK since I passed), or is the main thing my technical skills?

I passed with a score of 848.
Passing score is 751.
Score range is 300 - 1000
60 Question in order - you can't mark or go back to questions.
Exam time - about 100 minutes
(it is enough if you don't stare at the screen too much, and since you can't go back to questions, the time limit should not be your main considiration).
It took me a bit less then 1 hour.

Some things that I remember:
* Lots of questions that need memorising of things, like
fit protocol names to port numbers - including ports for "login" "exec" and so.
* Questions about how the WEBSENSE tabs or CSACS configuration dialogs look like.
(Yes, how do they look! What is the name of the tab that does so and so)

Some tips:
* Lots of questions (I think about 20 or more) about CBAC and IOS.
* Lots of questions about AAA, most of them as I recall were related to CSIS (IOS firewall).
* Some questions about IPSEC. some are descriptive like
"Why do we use ISAKMP?" with multiple choice,
and few like
"Type the command to show crypto map configuration"
* Some questions about CSACS and how to configure it.
* I had only one question about WEBSENSE. The questions currently refer to the old version of WEBSENSE with the configuration tabs, as described in the current CSPFA course book (and not to the interface of the newer version of WebSENSE).
* Some questions about the syntax of PIX/CBAC commands.
* Some questions like "what command is used to do this or that?" normaly reffering to the 6 basic commands but not always.
* very few questions about attack guards and fixup.
* very few questions about failover.
* No scenarion question like in MCSE exams. I found that a disadvantage since the short quesions that CISCO use are more dificult to understand.

And one quesion realy nerved me:
fit the transform set option to description.
I had these 3 - esp-des, esp-md5-hmac, ah-md5-hmac.
I had 3 descriptions to match to them.
I had 2 (!) descriptions that reffered to "encryption" were as far as I know, only esp-des (from above 3) is used for encryption.
I am almost sure that this question was simply a wrong question, and that CISCO experts don't take the time to check and debug these questions!


Anyway - good luck for other that go to do it.

Bye

Yizhar


Yizhar Hurwitz

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http://teachers.sivan.co.il/yizhar