When saving a configuration file that will be reloaded into the appliance, which one of the following must be changed before saving?

Question

Options

• AUnmask the password strings
• BShut down the mail listeners
• CClustered systems must be un-clustered
• DFeature key strings must be recorded

• A
  89% (25)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  7% (2)

Explanation

Appliances like Cisco ESA store passwords in a masked/obfuscated form in memory, but when you export a configuration file intended to be reloaded, you must unmask the password strings first - otherwise the appliance will encounter placeholder values it cannot interpret, and authentication-dependent features will fail after the reload. Options B, C, and D are incorrect: mail listeners do not need to be shut down to save a config file, clustering is a deployment state unrelated to the save process, and feature keys are already embedded in the config and do not need to be separately recorded. A useful memory tip: think of it as "what you see is what gets loaded" - if passwords are hidden during the save, they'll be missing when the file is read back in, so you must expose them before saving.

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