CCNA: CyberOps (Exam 200-201)

The Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Fundamentals (200-201 CBROPS) exam is a 120-minute assessment that is associated with the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate certification.

The CBROPS exam tests a candidate's knowledge and skills related to security concepts, security monitoring, host-based analysis, network intrusion analysis, and security policies and procedures. The course, Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Fundamentals, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.

This exam tests your knowledge and skills related to:

• Security concepts
• Security monitoring
• Host-based analysis
• Network intrusion analysis
• Security policies and procedures

CyberOps Associate (200-201 CBROPS) Course Outline:

CISCO has divided the syllabus into various sections. The CyberOps Associate (200-201 CBROPS) exam includes its objectives and sub-topics in it.

The detailed course outline is mentioned below:

• 1.1 Describe the CIA triad
• 1.2 Compare security deployments
• 1.3 Describe security terms
• 1.4 Compare security concepts
• 1.6 Compare access control models
• 1.7 Describe terms as defined in CVSS
• 1.8 Identify the challenges of data visibility (network, host, and cloud) in detection
• 1.9 Identify potential data loss from provided traffic profiles
• 1.10 Interpret the 5-tuple approach to isolate a compromised host in a grouped set of logs
• 1.11 Compare rule-based detection vs. behavioral and statistical detection
• 2.1 Compare attack surface and vulnerability
• 2.2 Identify the types of data provided by these technologies
• 2.3 Describe the impact of these technologies on data visibility
• 2.4 Describe the uses of these data types in security monitoring
• 2.5 Describe network attacks, such as protocol-based, denial of service, distributed denial of service, and man-in-the-middle
• 2.6 Describe web application attacks, such as SQL injection, command injections, and cross-site scripting
• 2.7 Describe social engineering attacks
• 2.8 Describe endpoint-based attacks, such as buffer overflows, command and control (C2), malware, and ransomware
• 2.9 Describe evasion and obfuscation techniques, such as tunneling, encryption, and proxies
• 2.10 Describe the impact of certificates on security (includes PKI, public/private crossing the network, asymmetric/symmetric)
• 2.11 Identify the certificate components in a given scenario
• And much more.