Which NGFW appliance do you use if your customer is a small business that requires multilayered protection and task automation?

Question

Options

• AASA4100 Series
• BFirePower 3100 Series
• CCisco 4000 Series NGIPS
• DASA5500-X with FirePOWER
• ECisco 500 Series ISR

• A
  13% (5)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  8% (3)
• D
  74% (28)
• E
  3% (1)

Explanation

ASA5500-X with FirePOWER is the correct answer because this platform is specifically designed and marketed for small to medium-sized businesses, combining Cisco's ASA stateful firewall with FirePOWER Services to deliver multilayered protection (IPS, AMP malware defense, URL filtering) along with automation capabilities like policy-based management and event correlation.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (ASA4100 Series): Enterprise/data center class firewall - overkill and cost-prohibitive for small businesses.
• B (FirePower 3100 Series): Mid-to-large enterprise NGFW, not sized or priced for small business use cases.
• C (Cisco 4000 Series NGIPS): This is a dedicated intrusion prevention system for large enterprises, not a full NGFW solution for small businesses.
• E (Cisco 500 Series ISR): An Integrated Services Router - a routing device, not a next-generation firewall appliance.

Memory tip: Associate the 5500 number with "5mall business" - it's the lowest-tier ASA platform, and adding "X + FirePOWER" upgrades it to full NGFW with multilayered security and automation. If the question mentions small business + multilayer + automation, the answer is always the ASA5500-X with FirePOWER.

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