700-765 Question #185: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is A: Firepower Management Center. Firepower Management Center (FMC) is Cisco's centralized security management platform that enforces consistent policy, detects configuration drift, and extends control to the application layer across managed Firepower devices.

Question

Which management platform helps strengthen security posture by enabling uniform policy deployment, uncovering and remediating unplanned changes, and extends protection to the application layer?

Options

AFirepower Management Center
BCisco Defense Orchestrator
CFirepower Policy Manager
DFirepower Device Manager

Explanation

Firepower Management Center (FMC) is Cisco's centralized security management platform that enforces consistent policy, detects configuration drift, and extends control to the application layer across managed Firepower devices.

Common mistakes.

B. Cisco Defense Orchestrator is a cloud-based management tool focused on simplifying policy consistency across diverse Cisco devices, but it does not specifically emphasize unplanned change detection and remediation or native application-layer enforcement in the way described.
C. Firepower Policy Manager is not an actual standalone Cisco product - this is a fabricated option.
D. Firepower Device Manager is a lightweight, on-box management interface for a single Firepower device and lacks the centralized multi-device management, compliance, and change detection capabilities described in the question.

Concept tested. Firepower Management Center centralized policy and compliance management

Reference. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/firesight-management-center/index.html

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