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1Y0-344 Preparation Guide v01 PDF
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1Y0-344 Preparation Guide v01 PDF
1Y0-340
Optimization
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Exam Overview
Disclaimer
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Table of Contents
Exam Overview
Interpretation of Objectives 9
Sections, Objectives and References 10
Appendix: Practice 22
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Exam Overview
Number of Items Intended Audience
Exam Overview
The 1Y0-340 exam is a 62-question exam written in English. Some of the items The 1Y0-340 exam was developed for candidates who have demonstrated the minimum
on this exam will not be scored and thus will not affect your final result in any requisite knowledge and skills required for a Citrix networking professional who can
way. The unscored items are included in this exam solely for research purposes. deploy and/or manage Citrix Web App Firewall to secure application access in a Citrix
ADC 12 environment, as well as Citrix Application Delivery Management to administer a
Passing Score Citrix ADC environment or optimize Citrix ADC-managed application delivery traffic.
The passing score for this exam is 62%. The tasks tested in this exam will represent those skills, which are deemed as advanced
topics such as Security, Management, and Optimization
Time Limit
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Primary Audience:
Type of Candidate Time Limits* Notes • Network Administrators
• Network Engineers
Native English speakers 90 minutes • Network Architects
• Citrix Administrators
• Systems Engineers /Systems Administrators
Candidates must wait 24 hours from their original appointment time before they
can register to retake an exam. After a second attempt, and any attempt
Exam
thereafter, the candidate must wait 14 calendar days to retake the exam.
Breach of this policy can result in sanctions up to and including a ban from
taking Citrix exams and/or decertification.
For more information about our policies, including the Citrix Exam Retake Policy
Preparation
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Prepping for the Exam
Exam Overview
Candidates should have knowledge of the following prior to taking this exam: We recommend that candidates have at least six months of experience with the
following topics in a Citrix ADC 12 solution:
o Identify common web attacks and vulnerabilities.
o Understand how to utilize the adaptive learning engine. o Citrix Web App Firewall Overview
o Configure Citrix Web App Firewall to protect web applications. o Citrix Web App Firewall Profiles and Policies
o Utilize Citrix ADC Secure Insight to monitor, manage and report on application o Regular Expression
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o Integrated Caching
o Front-End Optimization
o Tuning and Optimizations
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Recommended Training Unauthorized Preparation Materials
Exam Overview
Citrix Education recommends that candidates have hands-on experience with Citrix Citrix Education monitors exam results to ensure that candidates are not using
NetScaler 11 and above, prior to taking this exam. One of the best ways to do this is by unauthorized materials to prepare for exams. If it is determined that a candidate
taking a formal Citrix training course. The following course provides training on Citrix used unauthorized materials to prepare for an exam, the candidate’s score will be
ADC 12 Essentials and Citrix ADC Traffic Management solutions. invalidated and his or her certification will be revoked.
• CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization When looking for materials in addition to authorized Citrix training to prepare for
certification, Citrix Education recommends that you visit
As with all Citrix exams, it is recommended that candidates get hands-on experience http://www.certguard.com to ensure that a site is indeed legitimate. This site flags
by working directly with products covered on the exam. websites that are acting as brain dumps, which have unauthorized materials.
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Contributors & Marks
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Section Titles and Weights
Section Weight
Exam Overview
the number of questions on the exam. For example, if an exam has 60 questions, and
Section 10: Citrix ADC Web Logging Section 1 is weighted at 50%, then 30 of the questions on the exam will relate to Section
3%
1 (60*50% = 30).
Section 11: Integrated Caching
6% Please be warned that section weights are NOT used to calculate your score. Scoring is far
Section 12: Front-End Optimization more complicated as exam questions may be given different weights based on their
5% overall importance. Because some questions may have different point values assigned to
Section 13: Tuning and Optimizations
them, section weights and exam scores do not always have a one-to-one correlation.
6%
TOTAL
100%
For more information on how scoring works in Citrix exams read the blog The Scoring
Secrets for Citrix Exams - Divulged.
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Interpretation of Objectives
Exam Overview
Candidates should refer to the objectives and examples listed in this guide in order Note: The examples listed in the “Sections, Objectives, Examples and References”
to determine which topics will be on the exam, as well as examples of the topics section of this guide do NOT encompass all potential topics that could be tested. The
that could be tested. examples are only provided as guidance.
For example, if the objective reads “Configure monitors” and one of the examples The objectives and examples for this exam were developed by Exam Project Managers
reads, “determine when to use which type of monitor,” exam-takers could expect to and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) based on identified tasks that related to Citrix ADC
see: 12 in enterprise environments.
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• A question that requires determining which type of monitor to configure… The number of questions written for each objective relates directly to the importance
o Which type of monitor should a Citrix Administrator configure… of that objective and is proportional to how frequently that task is performed.
• …based on given requirement(s)
o …to validate that a specific text string is returned in a web server
response?
Contributors & Marks
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Sections, Objectives and References
• Citrix Product Documentation: http://docs.citrix.com
• Citrix Support: http://www.citrix.com/support
• Citrix Blogs: http://blogs.citrix.com/
Exam Overview
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/top-level-protections.html
1.01 Identify common web application attacks.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/top-level-protections/buffer-over-flow-
check.html
Preparation
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-4)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/top-level-protections/buffer-over-flow-
check.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/top-level-protections/html-sql-injection-
check.html
1.02 Determine the Functionality of Citrix Web App Firewall, given a scenario.
Contributors & Marks
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/top-level-protections/cookie-consistency-
check.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/dataleak-prevention/creditcard-check.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/DeploymentGuide.html
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-1)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/stats-and-reports.html
1.03 Understand the audit for PCI-DSS compliance.
https://www.citrix.com/products/netscaler-appfirewall/platforms.html
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Objective Objective References
Number
Section 2: Citrix Web App Firewall Profiles and Policies
Exam Overview
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-2)
Determine how to create (or implement) Citrix Web App Firewall https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2011/11/23/netscaler-application-firewall-profiles-basic-vs-advanced-check-it-out/
2.01
profiles.
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130546
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-2)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/appexpert/policies-and-expressions/ns-pi-tut-exmp-classic-pol-wrapper-
con.html
Preparation
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/policies/firewall-policies/configuring_policies.html
2.02 Determine how to configure Citrix Web App Firewall Policies.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/policies/firewall-policies/binding_policies.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/appexpert/policies-and-expressions/ns-pi-tut-exmp-classic-pol-wrapper-
con.html
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-2)
2.03 Determine how to analyze application firewall settings.
Contributors & Marks
3.01 CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-3)
3.02 CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-3)
Determine how to apply regular expressions for Citrix ADC.
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Objective Objective References
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CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-4)
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-4)
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131488
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/11-1/application-firewall/form-protections/cross-site-request-forgery-
check.html
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-4)
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12-1/ns-gen-appsec-wrapper-10-con/appfw-wrapper-con-10/appfw-profiles-
Determine how to configure the generation of simple and
4.03 con/appfw-profiles-learning-tsk.html
generalized rules based on given requirements.
Contributors & Marks
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-4)
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX138858
4.04 Determine learned rules per security check.
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX219267
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-4)
4.05 Determine how to deploy, skip and edit learned rules. https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/10-1/ns-gen-appsec-wrapper-10-con/appfw-wrapper-con-10/appfw-profiles-
con/appfw-profiles-learning-tsk.html
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Objective Objective References
Number
Exam Overview
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/11-1/application-firewall/logs.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/11-1/security-insight.html
5.02 Determine how to Implement logging and monitoring.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/11-1/security-
insight.html#par_richtext_841a
Contributors & Marks
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall.html
5.03 Identify troubleshooting methods for Citrix Web App Firewall.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/application-firewall/debugging-
troubleshooting/miscellaneous.html
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Objective Objective References
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Exam Overview
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-6)
http://docs.citrix.com/zh-cn/netscaler/12/reputation/ip-reputation.html
6.01 Determine how to implement IP reputation.
http://docs.citrix.com/zh-cn/netscaler/12/reputation.html
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-6)
Preparation
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/appexpert/rate-limiting.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/appexpert/rate-limiting/rate-limiting-for-traffic-domains.html
6.02 Determine how to implement IP rate-limiting.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/appexpert/action-analytics/configuring-selector.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/appexpert/rate-limiting/rate-based-policies-examples.html
Contributors & Marks
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-6)
6.03 Determine how to Implement AppQoE. http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/appexpert/appqoe/appqoe-actions.html
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-6)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/appexpert/http-callout/configuring-http-callouts.html
6.04 Determine how to implement HTTP Callout.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/appexpert/http-callout/caching-http-callout-responses.html
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Objective Objective References
Number
Exam Overview
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/deploy-netscaler-mas.html
Preparation
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-6)
Contributors & Marks
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/deploy-netscaler-mas/how-to-migrate-netscaler-mas-single-server-to-
ha.html
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Objective Objective References
Number
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-1 and 2)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/instance-management/how-to-backup-and-restore-using-
Determine how to manage multiple instances in a single Citrix Application mas.html
8.01 Delivery Management deployment with Inventory Management.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/setting-up-netscaler-mas/adding-an-instance.html
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-1 and 2)
Preparation
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/authentication-how-to-articles/how-to-extract-authentication-
server-group-in-mas.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/authentication-how-to-articles/how-to-enable-fallback-local-
authentication.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/authentication-and-rbac/role-based-access-control.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/stylebooks.html
Contributors & Marks
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/analytics/HDX-Insight.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/aaa-tm/multi-factor-nfactor-authentication.html
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200342
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/multi-tenancy-in-netscaler-mas.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/authentication-and-rbac/role-based-access-control.html
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CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-1, 2 and Lab Guide)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/application-analytics-and-management.html
Exam Overview
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/analytics/mas-gateway-insight.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/analytics/HDX-Insight.html
Identify what data is captured and utilized with Analytics and
8.03
Automation. http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/analytics/ssl-insight.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/configuration-management/configuration-jobs-record-and-play.html
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/application-analytics-and-management/application-security-
analytics.html
Preparation
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-1 and 2)
Determine how to configure and install SSL Certificates on Citrix
8.04 http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/certificate-management.html
Application Delivery Management.
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-3)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/stylebooks/how-to-create-your-own-stylebooks.html
9.01 Determine how to create, manage, and configure StyleBooks.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/stylebooks.html
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CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-1)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/application-analytics-and-management.html
Exam Overview
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/authentication-how-to-articles/how-to-cascade-external-
authentication-servers.html
Determine how to utilize Citrix Application Delivery Management
9.02 http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/setting-up-netscaler-mas/add-netscaler-vpx-instances-
recommendations to assist in resource delivery. deployed-in-cloud-to-netscaler-mas.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/netscaler-mas-licensing.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler-mas/12/system-requirements.html#par_anchortitle_6496
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CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-4)
Contributors & Marks
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/system/web-server-logging.html
10.01 Determine how to install and configure Citrix ADC Web Logging.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/11/system/web-server-logging/configuring-nswl-client.html
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-4)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/system/web-server-logging/configuring-nswl-client.html
10.02 Determine how to troubleshoot issues using Citrix ADC Web Logging.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/system/web-server-logging/installing-netscaler-web-logging-
client.html
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Objective Objective References
Number
Exam Overview
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-5)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/optimization/integrated-caching/how-integrated-caching-
works.html
11.01 Determine when to use static or dynamic content requests.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/optimization/integrated-caching/configuring-selectors-basic-
content-groups/about-content-groups.html
Preparation
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-5)
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX124553
11.02 Determine how to configure cache policies.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/optimization/integrated-caching/configuring-policies-caching-
invalidation.html
Contributors & Marks
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-3 and 5)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/optimization/integrated-caching/improving-cache-
performance.html
11.03 Determine which content group settings to configure based on a given scenario.
https://developer-docs.citrix.com/projects/netscaler-command-reference/en/12.0/cache/cache-object/cache-
object/#show-cache-object
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Objective Objective References
Exam Overview
Number
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-
6)
12.01 Determine how content is currently handled by browsers based on a given environment. http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/optimization/front-end-optimization.html
Preparation
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-
6)
http://docs.citrix.com/ja-jp/netscaler/12/optimization/front-end-optimization.html
12.02 Determine how to utilize front-end optimizations based on a given scenario. http://docs.citrix.com/ko-kr/netscaler/12/optimization/front-end-optimization/front-
end-optimization-samples.html
Contributors & Marks
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Objective Objective References
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CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-7)
Determine how the Citrix ADC system uses HTTP connections based on a given
13.01
description. http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/system/http-configurations/configuring-http2.html
CNS-320 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics – Security, Management, and Optimization (Module-7)
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/security/surge-protection.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/security/priority-queuing.html
13.02 Determine how to configure Surge Protection and Priority Queuing.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/security/surge-protection/ns-sp-set-thresholdssp-tsk.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/system/tcp-configurations.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-
13.03 Determine how to Tune HTTP and TCP behaviors in Connection Profiles. us/netscaler/12/system/TCP_Congestion_Control_and_Optimization_General.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/security/http-denial-of-service-protection/ns-syn-dos-
protection-con.html
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/security/http-denial-of-service-protection/ns-httpdosp-tune-
Determine how to utilize HTTP DoS protection deployment guidelines to meet clnt-dtct-js-chlng-res-rate-con.html
13.04
the needs of a given environment.
http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12/security/http-denial-of-service-protection/ns-httpdosp-tune-
clnt-dtct-js-chlng-res-rate-con.html
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Appendix: Practice
Exam Overview
A question that requires determining how to resolve the given issue - Source: CNS-320 Course, Module-4
Contributors & Marks
The objectives for this exam were developed by Exam Project Managers and
Subject matter experts based on identified tasks that relate to installing,
configuring and/or operating Citrix ADC 12 in enterprise environments.
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Appendix: Practice
Exam Overview
Correct Answer: B Objective: Determine how to apply regular expressions for Citrix ADC.
Objective: Determine how to configure the generation of simple and generalized Source: CNS-320 Course, Module-4
rules based on given requirements.
Contributors & Marks
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Appendix: Practice
Exam Overview
Sample Question 4
Which logging does an engineer need to enable as a pre-requisite to geolocation-
based logging?
Correct Answer: A
Source:
Contributors & Marks
Citrix Docs
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/11-1/application-firewall/logs.html
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Contributors & Marks
Exam Overview
Author
Premkumar Mekara
Akhilesh Kumar Pandey Jesse Wilson Marcelo Oguma de Souza Ravindra G Hunashimarad
Aman Sharma Jo Harder Markus Heinrich Shruti V Dhamale
Anton Mayers Jorge Luis Matthew R Jones Rick Bloss
Arnd Kagelmacher Justin Weldon Parveen Kumar Sam Jacobs
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