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Last update: 10.2025

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This exam validates candidates’ knowledge, skills, and ability to describe common security threats and vulnerabilities. It tests a candidate's knowledge of device hardening, implementation of security at the edge with AAA, basic roles and firewall policies, dynamic segmentation, and endpoint classification. It covers basic threat detection technologies, collecting logs and alarms.

Exam ID: HPE6-A78

Exam type: Proctored

Exam duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Exam length: 60 questions

Passing score: 63%

Delivery languages: Latin American Spanish, English, Japanese

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• Successful completion of the course alone does not ensure you will pass the exam.

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Percentage of Exam Sections

Protect and Defend 70%

• Describe common security threats (MiM, DDOS, spoofing, zero day, etc.) and identify the difference between a threat and a vulnerability

• Explain common security protocols and their use cases

• Describe PKI components

• Describe firewall (PEF), dynamic segmentation, RBAC, AppRF

• Describe user roles and policy enforcement

• Explain the purpose and methods of a packet capture

• Explain social engineering and defense

• Disable insecure protocols and follow best practices for implement secure management protocols such as SSH, HTTPS, authenticated NTP, and CPsec

• Describe best practices to protect network infrastructure devices with passwords, physical security, and out-of-band management

• Use external authentication for network managers

• Compare and contrast wireless LAN methodologies

• Deploy basic WLAN security Deploy basic WLAN security

• Describe and deploy basic user roles for wireless users

• Compare and contrast wired LAN methodologies

• Define and deploy basic user roles for wired users

• Compare endpoint classifications methods

Analyze 24%

• View and acknowledge WIPS and WIDS, alarms

• Explain attack stages and kill chain

• Collect logs

• Troubleshoot with access tracker

• Collect and monitor historical network pattern data

• Identify and evaluate discovered endpoints

Investigate 6%

• Collect logs

• Identify chain of custody

• Initiate an investigation