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350-501 · Question #197

Refer to the exhibit. To protect in-band management access to CPE-R7, an engineer wants to allow only SSH management and provisioning traffic from management network 192.168.0.0/16. Which…

The correct answer is B. ip access-list extended INFRA-ACL. The infrastructure ACL must specifically permit SSH traffic from the management network to CPE-R7, explicitly deny all other traffic to CPE-R7, and then permit all other legitimate transit traffic through PE-R9.

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Question

Refer to the exhibit. To protect in-band management access to CPE-R7, an engineer wants to allow only SSH management and provisioning traffic from management network 192.168.0.0/16. Which infrastructure ACL change must be applied to router PE-R9 to complete this task?

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350-501 question #197 exhibit

Options

  • Aip access-list extended INFRA-ACL
  • Bip access-list extended INFRA-ACL
  • Cip access-list extended INFRA-ACL
  • Dip access-list extended INFRA-ACL

How the community answered

(55 responses)
  • A
    5% (3)
  • B
    71% (39)
  • C
    16% (9)
  • D
    7% (4)

Why each option

The infrastructure ACL must specifically permit SSH traffic from the management network to CPE-R7, explicitly deny all other traffic to CPE-R7, and then permit all other legitimate transit traffic through PE-R9.

Aip access-list extended INFRA-ACL

While it permits SSH and then denies other IP traffic to CPE-R7, it lacks the 'permit ip any any' at the end, which would implicitly deny all other transit traffic through PE-R9, likely disrupting other network services.

Bip access-list extended INFRA-ACLCorrect

This ACL first permits TCP SSH traffic (port 22) from the 192.168.0.0/16 management network to CPE-R7 (assumed 10.1.1.7). The subsequent 'deny ip any host 10.1.1.7 log' explicitly denies all other IP traffic to CPE-R7, fulfilling the 'allow only SSH' requirement for that device. Finally, 'permit ip any any' allows all other non-CPE-R7-bound transit traffic to flow through PE-R9, which is crucial for its role as a network router.

Cip access-list extended INFRA-ACL

This ACL starts by explicitly denying TCP SSH traffic to CPE-R7, which directly contradicts the requirement to allow it.

Dip access-list extended INFRA-ACL

This ACL permits SSH traffic from any source, not just the specified 192.168.0.0/16 management network, making the protection less granular. It also has an implicit 'deny ip any any' at the end which would block all other transit traffic.

Concept tested: Infrastructure ACL (iACL) configuration for device protection

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/security/dpa/configuration/xe-3s/sec-dpa-xe-3s-book/sec-acl-best-pract.html

Topics

#ACL#Network Security#SSH#Network Management

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