A company have single ASA hardware box and they need to separate company departments in way that they can apply different rules on them, ACL, NAT, and so on... Which mode is needed?

The correct answer is C. multiple context mode. ASA Multiple Context Mode virtualizes a single physical ASA into multiple independent virtual firewall instances (contexts). Each context has its own interfaces, routing table, ACLs, NAT policies, and security configurations-completely isolated from other contexts. This is the…

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Arouted mode
Btransparent mode
Cmultiple context mode
Dactive failover mode

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ASA Multiple Context Mode virtualizes a single physical ASA into multiple independent virtual firewall instances (contexts). Each context has its own interfaces, routing table, ACLs, NAT policies, and security configurations-completely isolated from other contexts. This is the purpose-built feature for multi-tenant or multi-department separation on a single hardware platform. Routed mode and transparent mode describe how a context forwards traffic, not how the device is segmented. Active failover mode is for high availability, not departmental separation.

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