CCNA CyberOps is a certification offered by Cisco that focuses on entry-level cybersecurity skills required to work in a Security Operations Center (SOC). It is designed for individuals interested in starting a career in cybersecurity operations and network defense.
List of Top CCNA CyberOps Interview Questions
Q1. Explain the term Ransomware
Q2. Explain some Threat Modelling techniques?
Q3. What are Attack Vectors? Give examples of some attack vectors.
Q4. Name some web application scanners used to perform analysis of the overall attack surface of a system or application?
Q5. What is the CIA triad?
Q6. Differentiate between Tampering, Repudiation, and Spoofing.
Q7. Name some popular network and vulnerability scanners.
Q8. What techniques could be used to prevent any attacks that could impact confidentiality?
Q9. Explain about the DREAD model.
Q10. State a few examples of integrity compromise in the real world.
Q11. State examples of security mechanisms which are designed to protect information availability.
Q12. State examples of security mechanisms which are designed to protect information integrity.
Q13. What is the difference between cyber security and information security?
Q14. Explain the popular threat modelling technique ‘STRIDE’.
Q15. Describe Attack Tree model.
Q16. Describe CVSS score.
Q17. Differentiate between CVSS and CVE.
Q18. Describe the term Cybersecurity forensics.
Q19. What are the three broad categories of cybersecurity investigations?
Q20. Describe the role of attribution in cybersecurity investigation.
Q21. Explain the use of digital evidence.
Q22. Explain three types of evidence in cybersecurity investigations.
Q23. List down the most common types of files for forensic images.
Q24. Explain chain of custody in cybersecurity investigation.
Q25. List down two most popular forensic tools.
Q26. What mandatory labelling information is required in case of evidence preservation using write protected storage?
Q27. Why is Cybersecurity forensics important?
Q28. List down some important preventive steps to facilitate forensic investigation of network devices in view of security best practices.
Q29. ‘Faraday cage’ is used for what purpose?
Q30. What is Journaling?
Q31. What are common artifact elements found in security events?
Q32. Differentiate between False positives, False negatives, true positives, and true negatives?
Q33. List down some common evasion techniques used against traditional IDS and IPS devices.
Q34. What is the use of NetFlow tool?
Q35. What is Flow in NetFlow?
Q36. Explain three types of NetFlow cache.
Q37. Describe about IPFIX.
Q38. Differentiate between NetFlow and IPFIX.
Q39. List down some encoding methods.
Q40. Which malwares uses DNS to steal sensitive information from organizations?
Q41. Name some popular open source NetFlow monitoring and analysis software packages.
Q42. Differentiate between events and incidents.
Q43. Explain in detail the incident response process.
Q44.List down some IP inventory management best practices.
Q45. What are the benefits of measuring throughput across the network?
Q46. What are popular methods to identify listening ports?
Q47. Explain the term Data Normalization.
Q48. Explain Diamond Model of intrusion.
Q49. 5 tuple refers to which elements are mostly used to provide security event logs in traditional firewalls?
Q50. Differentiate between Deterministic Versus Probabilistic Analysis in security.
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